Hidden Dragons and Crouching Tigers

While all these events were taking place a discussion was happening between the old man and the waiter at the Celestial River in a room that resembled an extravagant office with beautiful decor and items that bring a kind of flow to the place .

The Old man then looked at the waiter with a relaxed gaze and sighed.

" So can you explain in full detail what happened." The Old man finally spoke but with a tired tone.

The waiter responded nervously very quickly and said " I served the young man and his party to their room before things escalated"

" It all happened due to the second floor being too full, then the young man must have came out of his room for some reason and was immediately targeted".

" During that because the young man did not surrender his room to the Blood Claw Sect group it caused further escalation then the group leader insulted the young man and was insulted back"

" I heard during the fight though that the young man was using an artifact maybe blac-iron or bronze possibly"

"And I'm sure you can guest the rest"

The waiter finished speaking, finally taking in air from his long speech.

The old man then let out a chuckle and spoke with a bland monotonous tone.

" You can stop pretending to be like that now, we're behind closed doors"

" I don't know what you're talking about Sir " The waiter talked nervously then let out a pulse of energy while looking around the room as if checking if anybody is nearby the same room.

The waiter's face then took a drastic change from a seemingly nice and nervous fellow to a stone cold face and eyes that looked calculating, calm and cautious.

" If that's what you want but shouldn't you also drop the act young master"

The waiter went over to a chair and sat down with a relaxed manner with an aloof gaze at the old man.

In response to this the old man smiled and then tapped the ring on his finger causing his body to glow as you could see the wrinkles on his face were disappearing at a rapid pace until finally what was seen in the chair sitting around the desk was a young man about 18 years old.

" I like this disguise though it makes me look like I have character" The young man who transformed from the old man spoke with a playful tone and smile.

" I even thought you liked it as well as Silencer Sern" He spoke again in the same town as previously with a squint.

" You shouldn't be saying my name, young master, what if my cover is blown just call me Sern I don't like the addition to my name" The waiter said to the young man with a calm tone thinking nothing much about the action done.

The young man ignored the sentence, looked at Sern and asked " I thought you loved being called Silencer Sern, the unknown assassin and the hidden demon, you need to be more narcissistic if you want to be famous ."

Sern looked at the young man and sighed thinking

' Ahhh why did I take this protection mission if it wasn't for the large amounts of gold I wouldn't be dealing with this, well this is the last time as it's better to do assisination missions.'

" Yeah, I put my name on a giant sign, Young Master 'River' for everyone to know me" You could hear the sarcasm in Sern's voice.

" Okay, Okay I know it was a bit much but I was drunk at the time you can't blame me" River said with slight embarrassment remembering how he named his restaurant.

" But enough about that how was the fight though it must have been boring watching low ranked secks fight" River asked Sern on his take on the fight

" It was alright even though the Blood Claw Sect is an 9th ranked martial sect it still lost to an lower sect"

" It was funny though how the kid talked and played with the idiot as he's giving martial artist a bad name"

Sern said all this without discretion with a slight thought about the fight when mentioned after all he's a Low stage advanced Martial Artist at the age of 25 so he was disinterested in a fight of lower powers.

" Oh a lower sect what's its name you kind of seem to have some interest in it right" River jeered on hoping for more information.

" It wasn't that interesting afterall it was just weird how the kid fought"

" Before people enter the restaurant I always check their bones for their age and if they had any training"

" But the group now they were all younger than you and had some training but I didn't feel any Aura or anything trying to stop me from checking meaning they were unaware"

" So they aren't in any cultivation system based on how they act and what I've seen before"

River then interrupted the conversation and spoke " They were novices then if that's what you're saying right, seemingly they are new or just have gotten started so I'm kind of confused"

Sern then continued " I don't know if its like that but when he was using the artifact his attacks became stronger even when he was attacked the kid moved like he was fueled by something"

" Even the swing he did with the yoyo got more powerful as if he was using his opponent as a wooden training scarecrow"

" And that unnatural calm made me feel weird like he had some sort of backup if it didn't work"

" What made me feel more interested is that the entire group felt strange and most likely he was the leader of the group"

" Very interesting This has piqued my interest a bit so what's the group's name?" River had a glint of interest in his eyes as he said this.

Sern then answered monotonously " The name on the token was Eclipse academy and markings on it showed that it was very new meaning it is a ranked 10 sect"