333 SHADOW WARRIOR

Not to mention that Xiao Tianyao would add Wang Yu's another dirty activity and his collaboration with the Emperor Xiao Zi all this time.

Last night was exactly a week that Utara had promised, he came to give the report about the rare plant that Wang Yu had brought from the Kingdom of Rockstone and the result made Xiao Tianyao grew alarm.

"Grandfather, there is another thing that you should know." Xiao Tianyao statement pulled the old man fully attention toward him. "The rare plant that Wang Yu had brought from the Kingdom of Rockstone is amanita mushroom."

Elder Dam shot him a questioning looked. "What is that?"

Xiao Tianyao told him everything that Doctor Lin had told Utara. The side effect of Amanita mushroom such as increased body temperature, euphoria and the most prominent was hallucination.

"Hallucination?" Elder Dam's pupil dilated in surprised. "For what Xiao Zi need that plant?"

"My people are still investigating about that." Xiao Tianyao replied solemnly. "And also, apparently Wang Yu had left M city this afternoon."

"Where is he heading?"

"Capital City."

"He will meet Xiao Zi?" Elder Dam gave a sarcastic question, as though the name of the Emperor gave a bitter taste on his mouth.

"The possibility for that is high."

The seriousness of this matter has reached the point when everything must be put into calculation. A single wrong step was all it took to bring down all of their plans.

All of the people who involved would be in dire situation if whatever Xiao Zi's plan came into fruition.

Elder Dam has been living for too long to watch bloody process of this. He had been watching how Xiao Tianyao and Xiao Jun was growing to be the man they were today and as the former advisor to the deceased Emperor and also his close people, Elder Dam was so proud of both of them. Xiao Tianyao especially, he thought of him as his own more than he thought of Wang Yu.

"Tianyao, follow me." Elder Dam looked at the young man in front of him and knew that he would make the right decision.

Both of them walked away through the dense of the forest back to the Black Sword Clan's mansion. Along the way no one talked as they were in their deep thought about the matter ahead.

Elder Dam led both of them to his storeroom near the Shadow Guard training ground. He opened the door, and even though from the distance, Xiao Tianyao could see what was inside.

It was armory. But, not the ordinary weapons were kept there, it's like an antiques exhibition.

The room wasn't very big, it consisted with two large shelves on the right and left of the wall that stored all of the small weapons. Xiao Tianyao recognized these things as confiscated goods from war.

Giving to the fact that Elder Dam had been in the battlefield even before he was born, his confiscated goods must be more than this.

However, it wasn't those things that Elder Dam wanted to show Xiao Tianyao. As they walked deeper inside the storeroom, there was a small door that looked very solid made of dark wood. He retrieved a small key under his sleeves and opened its door.

Once again, they weren't talking, only tacit understanding that made Xiao Tianyao kept going deeper into the room.

Suddenly Elder Dam halted his step and faced the brick on his left side. He dug out the brick and removed it from the wall, behind it there was a small black box that looked so obsolete.

He took it out carefully and placed it on the table nearby, afterwards he open the box.

"Tianyao I want you to have this." Elder Dam said as he retrieved a translucent token from inside the box.

Xiao Tianyao looked at the token with perplexity while reaching out the translucent token and analyzed the item in his hand. He never saw this item before or ever hear about translucent token.

"This token is a symbol of agreement between The Black Swords Clan and The Kingdom of Azura decades ago." Elder Dam explained. "This token holds immense power upon Azura. There is some short story about this, but I don't know if it is true or not, some of it more likes folklore."

Xiao Tianyao kept silent to let Elder Dam elaborated his stand point.

"This Shadow Guard from Black Sword Clan isn't merely a name, there is true power of the origin of the shadow guard. They are called Shadow Warrior. However, since the Kingdom of Azura had established their own power and there wasn't any severe threat from the other Kingdoms or any power from outside, thus the force of Shadow Warrior wasn't needed anymore. Therefore they withdrew in the dark.

And only the true heir of The Black Sword Clan that could find them and call them back the moment they are needed."