Apex Star-Chapter 25: Star Sect

Following after Grand Elder Ghall, Nova was amazed by the various structures that popped on every street they walked.

It varied from the antique Chinese era to the Victorian era and even futuristic buildings that floated or were completely made of glass.

Seeing Nova being in awe of their architecture, the four from Star Sect all had smiles on their faces, even the cold and quiet Sophie.

"Wait until you see our training facilities before being amazed. We even have a VR kind of thing that works with universal energy crystals to connect to your 'Soul World' and creates projections of enemies for every Stage you want from 1 to 9." said Denzel to Nova.

"Wow, can it create projections even above the Stages?" Nova was amazed by this.

"Yes, but for now the limit is only to World Stage, we can't create Galaxy powerhouses or above. Though technology advances every day and the projections of World Stage beings were only discovered less than one hundred thousands years ago." Denzel carefully told Nova, so the latter could understand.

"Does that mean that there are people still trying to break that limit even now?" Nova was amazed by those people's hard work that allowed them to invent this crazy thing.

"Indeed, it's only that there are only small steps made for now," Said Denzel with a weak smile.

After walking for a few minutes they arrived at what seemed like a residential area destined for grand elders. The security wasn't very tight.

Because who in their right mind would try to break into a Grand Elder house? Maybe only the sect master.

After walking into Grand Elder Ghall's house all of them took a seat before beginning the discussion with a question Nova wanted an answer to, for a long time.

"Why were those guys calling me a demon and wanting me dead so badly? I mean I understand their frustration about me destroying the guest room and disrupting their cultivation time, but it's far for calling me a demon." He was extremely confused at this moment.

"Actually, there have been several incidents like yours happening, and the culprits were all demons.

The demons at the border would once in a while infiltrate the human domain. They will stay low for a while and then go hunting.

What does hunting means? Of course it means finding prey to kill. They will kill one of our weak disciples, and using a soul-reading technique they will take their memory and assimilate it.

After that, they will use a disguise technique and completely take that disciple's life until they are found out. One couldn't spot even a difference in aura or behavior about said person.

They fooled us many times and continued to do so until a few thousand years ago when we introduced the Bloodline Tablets.

We have a bloodline tablet at every entrance or even branch of Star Sect, even as far as selling it to other powers around. The bloodline tablet can check a person's blood and tell us if said person is a human.

So the attacks we received in the last years weren't as bad, but this doesn't mean they completely stopped.

We still have a few moles even now inside and others we know about and wait for to make a move."

After Grand Elder Ghall stopped talking, Nova couldn't help but ask an obvious question for them but hard for him.

"If you know about the moles why don't you kill them and wait for them to kill more disciples?" He was genuinely confused.

"Because it's worth it to wait, the small fish will take us to a whale. Do you understand ?" Grand Elder Ria smiled as she said this.

'So basically you're baiting with people's lives. Truly a rotten world.' Thought Nova.

Perhaps feeling Nova's thoughts, Grand Elder Ria smiled at him and explained; "It's worth it, the demons already killed a disciple of our sect.

And by watching over them, we could arrive at their leader and kill the latter, before he starts killing hundreds of our disciples."

"Why are you telling me this?" asked Nova.

"Well it's not a secret among the core disciples, and you will be one of them soon. So I thought of fully answering your question." Grand Elder Ria surprised him.

"Huh, me? A core disciple?" Asked a shocked Nova.

"Indeed, because you're so talented you will be given full priority to grow faster and use more resources of the sect." Grand Elder Ghall assured Nova.

"But weren't there trials supposed to pass or anything like that before?" Asked Nova once again.

"Kid, we've already twsted your character before. Also, how many people have you seen beating people two or even three Stages above their Realm before?!" Grand Elder Ghall looked at Nova like he was an idiot.

Nova was speechless looking at everyone in the room giving him weird looks.

"That's right, Ria please give Nova a short introduction to our sect." said Grand Elder Ghall.

"Our sect is composed of outer disciples, inner disciples, core disciples, elders, grand elders, and a sect master.

As you saw before outer disciples are wearing white robes and are usually from Stage 4 to Peak Stage 6. We don't have a person lower that Stage 4 currently in the sect, not even the gardener or cook.

Inner Disciples are wearing blue robes and are usually about Stage 7 to 9, with a few cases of people having a combat prowess of Stage 7 while being in Stage 6.

Core disciples are of at least Stage 9, with the majority of them being in the Evolver Stage or even a few in World Stage. They don't have a restriction on wearing a colored robe but must necessarily have our Star Sect symbol on display.

Elders are our main combat force, they will usually be at the border battlefield protecting the human domain from danger. For one to become an elder they must at least be of Galaxy Stage to even Cosmos stage.

The Grand Elders are on Universal Stage, with the sect master and our four Star Protectors in the Transcendent Stage." Grand Elder Ria explained to Nova.

"Wait, so there is no Immortal Stage in our Sect?" asked Nova after a few seconds.

"Kid, our human domain only has 1 Immortal Stage that comes out of seclusion only in times of crisis.

In total, in the entire human domain there are 9 Transcendent Stages and 5 of them are in our sect.

Do you think Transcendent or Immortal Stages are apples growing in a tree?" berated Grand Elder Ghall.

"Then how many Immortal Stages are there in the demon domain or our other enemies?" Nova was stunned by the Grand Elders explanation.

"They have more by far, maybe 5 or 6 by what they showed us, or even more." Grand Elder Ghall's expression was cold saying this.

Nova's spine suddenly chilled at these words.

'Wait so why is the human domain still standing?'

Before Nova could ask Grand Elder Ria started talking again.

"They may have more, but in this 'Region' of the Multiverse, humans are on top. So they don't dare to wipe us out by using numbers, because the Regional Pact will be broken then."

Hearing this Nova knew there was much more than he could think of going on.