Joining The Dark Guild

Mark woke up in a room with some other children who were clearly terrified. He saw a man with dark clothes and a mask covering his face looking at him.

"Now that the last of you have woken up, listen up, you kids have been recruited into the dark guild. Whatever fantasies you may have of your parents or anybody coming to rescue you, I advise you to crush them quickly. The dark guild's headquarters has not been located even by Lord Ye Mo who is the strongest in Glory City. The dark guild is a very ruthless place so I suggest you serve the dark guild diligently or else you will die very quickly. Now we will be conducting a test in order to measure your soul realm and soul force. So keep quiet and don't make trouble or else I will not hesitate to kill you."

Saying that the masked man took out an ordinary soul crystal for measuring the soul realm. It was different from the crystals the matron had. Those were high-quality soul crystals that can not only be used to measure the soul realm but also the soul attribute and soul power. The man then told the kids to stand in a line and come one after another.

Most of the kids had a red or orange soul realm which was bad for cultivation according to Glory City. A few kids had a yellow soul realm. Finally, it was Mark's turn. He was a bit nervous as his soul realm decided how his plan progressed. He had countermeasures of course but it would delay his plans for a few years.

' Ah, f**k it, my soul realm was already decided the moment I came into this world. What's the use of worrying about it now. '

Mark proceeded forward and placed his hands on the soul crystal and tried to summon his soul power. He was surprised to see a green color emerge from the crystal. It was very dark green with a hint of cyan.

The masked man was surprised as well. He did not think that the kid he had brought on a whim turned out to be a genius. Heavens, his green soul realm was almost turning cyan. He was happy as he would surely get rewarded for bringing such a genius into the guild.

The masked man did give Mark a pat on the back but didn't say anything. He then proceeded to separate the red soul realms in one corner, the orange, and yellow soul realms into another corner.

He then told Mark to stay with the orange and yellow soul realm kids. He then addressed the other kids.

" You red kids will be auctioned off as servants or slaves while some of you will stay here as servants.

The orange and yellow kids will be given a copy of the basic cultivation technique. You will practice this every day. As you grow in strength, you will be given more status in the guild and maybe one day you will even become a manager, a position just under the Demon Lord."

He was mainly looking at Mark as he said this whereas Mark rolled his eyes in his mind.

' You think I will be satisfied by a meager manager position in the Dark Guild. My ambitions are much higher than this small Tiny World.

" You will be trained by me for 3 months before accepting missions. I will teach you about demon spirits skills, ranks and anything else related to cultivation as well as some assassination techniques. You will each be allotted a room and I expect to see you kids here again tomorrow at the crack of dawn. Those who are late will get spanked 100 times with a rod. Those who do this three times consecutively will be killed. No exceptions. Got it?", said the masked man as he displayed killing intent.

Most of the kids were pissing their pants already and just nodded while crying silently. They were then given a plate with their room number on it as well as a book.

As Mark silently marched to his room, he thought about the next phase of his plan.' Phase 2 will require me to become a high ranking member of the dark guild which will take a few years. Right now, I need to focus on becoming strong.'

Mark took out a book from inside his shirt. It was an old book titled "Snow Wind Technique".This was the technique he had stolen from the matron who would have realized it by now. But there is no use. I will not be returning to Glory City for a few years and by then any investigation would have to be called off.

' It's time to start cultivating.'