While Luis was being taught by Elena.
This past month has been a busy one for Noah.
With the plan of moving the Phoenix clan to the great storm, there was a lot of preparation needed. One of the main ones being relocating all the Phoenix clan members to the Xoliti clan. The more members that arrived through the portal, the more hectic it got.
There were people arriving every day. Noah had to help the Xoliti clan navigate these people to their new living situations and future plans. Elena and Noah were in charge of this because many of the strong Phoenix clan members went to the great storm, and with Elena being the daughter of the previous chief, her opinion was more easily accepted by the newly arriving clan members, and Noah's since he was her husband.
Across the continents, all of the scattered Phoenix clan members had been gathered. It was approximately 7000 members, with half of them being non-fighters. It was a small number compared to the past, before the tragedy. Noah was happy seeing all the members regathered, meeting old faces and new ones. But more than anything, he was surprised at the Xoliti clan networks, how they were able to keep track of everyone.
Today was the last day of gathering Phoenix clan members. It had taken a month to locate the location of the last members, but finally the Xoliti clan had found the Phoenix Clan Guardians locations.
Noah was currently waiting outside the city at one of the portal locations.
From what Noah remembered, twenty out of the two hundred Clan Guardians had survived from the Phoenix clan tragedy.
These were the strongest and most trusted Phoenix clan members. They had all been given the two forbidden Phoenix blessings, one of which was the reason for the Phoenix clan tragedy.
Phoenix blessing: Rebirth
Phoenix blessing: Soul Explosion
The thought of the Clan Guardians reminded Noah why everyone wanted the Phoenix clan's blessings. The rebirth blessing was as the name suggested. It allowed someone to be reborn when they died, there were many different ways they could do this. But the reason it was forbidden was that one of the ways was to reincarnate inside a new body. But that wasn't it, there was a side effect to the rebirth. Loss of emotions each rebirth took away more and more emotions.
This didn't matter to the empires, though, because many of them could find the bodies they always wanted, whether that be a tall body, a muscular one, and so on. If they got the Phoenix clan blessing, they could do it. They could get new bodies and live longer lives.
There was a time when this blessing had caused a lot of trouble to the Phoenix. Before the HI (Human Independence) universal calendar had been established. Before the Phoenix clan. The Phoenix had its servants, people, and clan members whom it had given this blessing. The more rebirths that happened at that time, the worse the members became.
The long life, fewer emotions had made them take their life and others' lives lightly. Their concept of humanity was swayed. Until a huge fallout happened and a rebellion occurred because of differences in opinions, which led to the death of many of the Phoenix's servants.
That's when the Phoenix decided to ban the Rebirth blessing. Only giving it along with the other blessing, Soul Explosion. It was more so a curse than a blessing because whenever the Phoenix wanted, it could make the souls of the people with this blessing, Soul Exposion, explode.
The Clan Guadrians all had these blessings. They were all the most loyal subjects chosen over centuries. With the leader of the Clan Guardians being someone who had been a follower of the Phoenix since before the HI Calendar.
Noah was excited to meet them after so long. The minimum strength requirement to become a clan guardian was the grandmaster tier. Noah just hoped many of them had survived in the underworld.
Staring at the portal forming Noah thought back to when it was decided that the Clan Guardians should go to the underworld. There were a lot of disagreements back then, but the Clan Guardians all had the same opinion.
They didn't want the scattered Phoenix clan members to be targeted. They decided to become the target. They never suppressed their aura, making sure that even from the underworld, it could be sensed by the other empires. Making them believe all the Phoenix clan members moved there. They bet on the future of the clan, they believed it was better to scatter and regrow in power rather than constantly be in fighting.
To stop them from finding the clan members and the Xoliti clan. There was a reason Anara said the Xoliti clan was in the underworld, it was to add to the story.
They had chosen to go there because it required strong blessings to chase them in the underworld. The underworld was an unforgiving place for the weak and the strong. It was easier to move a strong group rather than having weaker members. It also had the possibility of many safe havens for the Clan Guadrians to rest. Now that the can had regrown in strength, it was time for them to come back from the underworld.
The underworld was said to be incomparable in size. Some said it was bigger than the surface of the world. The underworld had few entrances. This would all make it harder for the empires to track them in the underworld. The empires had sent forces into the underworld after the Clan Guadrians.
Noah just hoped that right now, many of them had been able to survive the attacks.
As the portal finally fully formed. The Xoliti clan members all started making barriers. To suppress the Clan Guardians aura. There were also people holding many pendants to further suppress the Phoenix clan members' aura.
Noah watched as the Clan Guardians stepped through the portal. At one glance, he could tell all of them were strong. It had taken Noah a few seconds to realise who the first man to walk through the portal was. It had been many decades since he had seen him. The man looked like he was in his forty's not true to his age.
Seven other people stepped through the portal behind the man. They all were supposed to be people always on the run, making enemies chase them, but their appearance didn't show that. All their outfits were clean, no mud or wrinkles that showed they were fighting in a dangerous place, such as the underworld.
Because of the Phoenix clan regeneration blessings, they didn't have any injuries or scars on them either.
The man in the front stared at Noah for a few seconds before a smile appeared on his face. Addressing the seven people with him, "What did I tell you guys. I knew my son would come to greet his dad."
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Phoenix Clan Blessings
Soul Exposion
Rebirth
Phoenix Wings
Flameborn Connection
Undying Will