After yesterday, Lord Ice Moon, the Sect Master of the Ice Moon Sect, received some news.

Apparently, a group of Ice Giants that came from far away, who said to belong to the Winter Dragon Sect had made an alliance with them.

Of course, he had given such power to the Elders to do this, so he wasn ’t angered over them not asking him beforehand, but he was surprised, it has been several years since another Sect has appeared. Especially because this area of the Region was usually not as populated, so Sects were rare….

”Interesting, this Sects seems to have an Elder named Drake… And he was Rank 3, apparently… Although the Elder did say that he emanated a stronger presence than just Rank 3, he speculated it could be a second Mana Core… But is that the case? ” wondered the Sect Master.

The Elder assessed several papers, as he glanced at the files. This new and mysterious sect seemed friendly, and there were even some kids with them. They all just wanted to use the dungeons, so a contract with them where they would pay 50% of what they earned in the dungeon was made.

”Only 50% though? That Elder was way too generous… I would have asked for 80% at the very least… Oh well, I suppose he intended to keep friendly relationships with them. If we can ultimately assimilate a whole sect of geniuses and powerful warriors, we could boost our strength a lot, and we could even begin plans and projects to expand our influence as a sect… There ’s another Dungeon a few dozens of kilometers from here, if we could use resources and finally build an outpost there, then a village, and then a city, we could expand our forces and multiply our resources… But for that, we need more capable people, ” thought the Sect Master.

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”Though… Drake… That name is odd, I have never heard of someone named Drake before. It sounds like the name of a dragon ’s species, those ones without wings… Hm… Nah, it should be just coincidence, it can ’t possibly be that one Ice Dragon that Greenwood spoke me about because this man was clearly an Ice Giant, ” thought the Sect Master, thinking of all of this as mere coincidences, he had yet to see any Dragon-type monster being able to turn into a humanoid form, in fact, he had never seen nor heard of such occurrences even with other non-humanoid monster species.

As the Sect Master drank some warm herbal tea and relaxed for a bit, someone suddenly and hurriedly knocked on the door.

”S-Sect Master! ”