"Sir there's a strange group outside claiming to be Saviour. But he doesn't sound like it look like him, but he did seem friendly. There's is one thing to say though... he somehow disabled our abilities."
"... First the sunlight disappearing now this, hopefully nothing happened to Saviour...you say he's lucid and rational?" A large man with a monsters arm looked at the guards dubiously.
"Yes sir, he talked and he wanted you, said you'd be able to tell."
"Bring me to him, I'll see what he means." The man say up, a sense of authority exuding from his posture.
As he walked through Sacrarium he was met with amazed looks and gratitude from all. He walked over the gate of the settlement.
The walls were made of stone and the gate was a large metal and wood construction, as heavy as a mountain. Usually to open it one would need a while group of men, but Arm instead used just his strength to open it without breaking a sweat.
"Arm... It is good to see you" The man Arm did not recognise started to slightly tear up.
"Nice..to see you, may I ask who you are?" Arm took a polite tone in consideration for him being able to disable abilities.
"I mean no harm, just let me do this one thing, I assure you if I meant harm you would be dead."
Arm felt the sincerity and nodded. The man, Hou, then held out his hand onto Arm's forehead and closed his eyes.
Hou accessed a stored memory packet he made with help from Araxis that he used to explain everything.
Instantly, Arm's mind was filled with memories and knowledge. Instead of being overwhelming it perfectly melded with his mind, it was like he always knew this.
Inside the memory packet it explained cultivators, qi, what happened to Hou, and basic information about everyone. However, Hou kept the secret of the world with him, Araxis and Yue. If he told everyone that they were created by a person as an experiment out would probably cause some panic. He would tell everyone, just when they're ready.
Arm stepped forward and held out his arms,
"Bring it in buddy, you did well" Arm was already tearing up.
Hou brought Arm in an embrace, patting his shoulder.
A few minutes later, they both calmed down and Arm brought him in.
"This man is fine, I'll tell you all later, don't worry about the sunlight, as you can see the air is safe." Arm informed the guards while he was facing Hou and his group.
"Arm, so this is your descendant, Armen" Hou started to formally introduce everybody. They had all known about eachother through Hou but never known first hand.
They moved into Arm and Hou's old place while they talked. They all introduced eachother to Arm before they started their proper conversation.
"Let's take a while, let's say a few years or something similar, and train. I'll be going for an elite force. Just a couple members with extreme strength will come with me and fight a cultivator with strength possibly on par with me. I'll take back all the abilities from everyone else, they won't need them. With my abilities I can protect everyone perfectly."
"Really, just as simple as that!" Arm was extremely shocked, he had not yet seen Hou's power.
"Yeah, come outside I'll show you"
Hou flicked his wrist and a false spirit will entered Arm, leaving a small red tattoo.
"Come follow me, you can fly." Hou took off, flying into the sky.
Arm despite confusion followed and activated the ability, flying into air. Everyone else also followed, all using flight abilities except Hamar who used aura to stand on.
The group stood high above Sacrarium, looking down at the corrupted lands below. Hou held out his hand and started to activate one of his spirit wills.
He already spread his inner world throughout Sacrarium and so he sent blood qi into the spirit will, activating it's ability. Suddenly the ground shook and mountains rose from the ground.
All around Sacrarium, the ground had rose into mauve mountain ranges that would take even the most powerful monsters a long time to scale.
Not only rock, Hou activated another spirit he had gained, causing plants to flourish. Greenery grew from nothing, fields of green grass covered the mountain scale and all over Sacrarium crops grew from the dusty infertile soil.
Finally Hou used a new spirit will he got from the sun's inner world. He activated it into the sky, a large ball of light grew from a pin prick to the size of a mountain, it rise high up into the sky illuminating all of Sacrarium.
Suddenly it felt like Sacrarium had become a whole new world. Before it was somewhat light from Saviour's gateway but still it was relatively dark and had a dusty purple soil. Now it was a luscious landscape, the air crisp and the soil had become fertile. The whole land has become green in an instant. Whole mountains rose from the ground in the matter of minutes!
But the most miraculous however was the sun. Like in the legends everyone had been told, a second sun had risen, with it the other miraculous changes occurred. To all in Sacrarium, this was clearly the rise of a new god!
Arm looked at the changes Hou created in awe,
"So this is your power, I'd say this is the power of some sort of god. You've really grown Saviour.l, no I should say Hou."
"Thanks but this is just the beginning, we still have a lot more to do. But if it's alright with you, let this be the start of something new. The start of the heaven-defying Hou sect!"
Hou basked in the light, he had created the Hou sect again. He still had a lot to do though, namely telling all the civilians and seeing a system.
Then Hou just needed to get used to his new powers, train an elite force and fight the other cultivator, freeing his people and starting his dominion in this world and eventually the next!
[Volume 1 end]