Time passed, only three months this time. Ludwig, Xing Cheng Ye and Lin Wei stood together in front of Ye's residence. The two custodians that accompanied Ludwig last time were with him once again, while a single person clothed fully in black stood behind Wei and three people looking like elders stood behind Ye.
From the fluctuations, Ludwig knew that two of Ye's guardians were on the same rank as his custodians, while the third as well as the single guardian of Wei were on a higher rank. 'Interesting, although the clan never shows it, there are still many experts they can dispatch. These are only the ones in the open, who knows how many are hidden.'
Then Ludwig looked at his own custodians 'Somewhat weak, but at least their status is low enough to be commanded around freely.'
He waved his hand towards them, and they pulled a huge carriage from their spatial bags. Ludwig stepped forward and into the carriage, his two young companions followed. Ye and Wei's subordinates also followed while Ludwig's took the rein of the mysterious cloud-carried carriage.
This was a carriage of a very high grade, Ye gave it to Ludwig. Inside, one was able to see that this seemed exactly like its very own residence. A yard and garden, a large building with many different rooms and the space is very spacious.
Ludwig knew where his room was, there were many and he got one of the larger ones, though most of them have a similar size. He only sat on his bed and began to meditate as well as absorb the spiritual power. Interesting enough, this carriage is able to pull the spiritual power from outside and compress it inside the carriage.
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The carriage flew and just a month later, Ludwig and the rest arrived at the so-called Dark Blood Wasteland, which looked truly like a wasteland. Alone from what Ludwig was able to see, it as if the whole ground were bloody red, barely any grass grew. From his knowledge, he knew that this place was supposed to be a heaven for blood-attribute plants. He could only imagine that after so many years, most of them were taken and only the hidden ones would be growing wildly somewhere.
He looked around and searched for a place. They were still in the sky; the three young people were only looking around outside. As Ludwig looked around, he saw a small black figure moving abound.
This made him curious and hopeful, because the figure indeed moved towards him, but the figure wasn't alone, he could feel a very slight bloodlust coming from behind the figure. 'Hmmm, it seems I, or at least our group, is very lucky.'
He looked at his custodians, but he felt they were somewhat unsuitable, so he looked at Wei. Although Ye had more power, they were very likely respected people in the clan and shouldn't be moved at will, as for Wei's guardian... well, the alliance was an alliance of clans, this person was very likely a servant of the clan or something else, anyways, their system was different and so were their values.
Wei seemed to understand and looked at the guardian besides here. No words were exchanged, at least verbally, but soon something interesting happened.
A piece of cloth extended from the full-black clothed man. It was the same black as his own clothes, but it extended infinitely with no break. When looking at it, it seemed to stretch and barely move a bit, but Ludwig knew that the cloth moved dozens of meters each second.
The moving black object was only a few hundred meters away, so soon the cloth reached it but went behind it, in the shadow of the ground, it was difficult to see them, but now that the cloth wrapped around them, Ludwig saw two red objects moving forward.
It was difficult for him to see, after all, even if his soul perception advanced with his ethereal awakening and he was able to somewhat see figures better, it was still different from really seeing.
But what he saw was that the black clothed man actually struggled when he wrapped around them. He seemed helpless for a moment before he used a great amount of spiritual power, and the cloth turned very solid, pulling the two red forms closer.
Then another piece of cloth spread below the black figure, the black figure hopped on the cloth was pulled back to the black clothed man. The three young people stood there with their servants, looking at the movement of the cloth.
When the figures were close enough, Ludwig was able to see their ethereal figures, one was darker than darkness, even if he used no perception at all and only relied on his empty eye sockets, it wouldn't be so dark, but in the core of that darkness was a weird light, it seemed as if it was fully part of the darkness and didn't brighten the atmosphere, like a herd of black sheep with one white sheep in between, but it didn't feel wrong at all.
Just as Ludwig was wondering, the ethereal figure seemed to look at him. Only a single glance was needed for him to actually see something very shocking. He didn't react physically, but his ethereal figure shook crazy, the same was for the black cat.
Only the two stronger people were able to see the movement that lasted less than a second, but they didn't understand it and didn't deign to ask. It wasn't their position to do so, no matter their rank, at least in a theoretical sense, Ludwig was on a higher position that theirs. Even strength might not make you worthy of the rank of an elder, since they were sent out, they were naturally not at that rank, the same can't be said about Ludwig's position of envoy.
When Ludwig saw the two figures behind, he felt the immense bloodlust of the figures. They were so extremely bloody, but at the same time, extremely ferocious as if they would instantly jump at him make a mess of his body. The bloodlust wasn't a kind of hunger, it was a superfluous desire, one much worse than hunger.