Chapter 99 Crushing circles
The hands higher members all sat around talking about the sudden changes to their group. After years of effort and recruitment, dozens of people trained for positions higher up in the organization were wiped out in less than a day. Bakuto slammed his hand on the table as he spoke. “We must kill him!”
Most of the others in the meeting room nodded in agreement before one of the people who could rub two brain cells together finally spoke up. “That’s what we’re trying to do. We’re failing at it miserably though. Why didn’t we just try to talk to him first?”
Bakuto looked at the newcomer with a glint of malice in his eyes. He knew he would need to bide his time and wait for the perfect chance to get his revenge for her speaking out of turn. With a mocking tone, he spoke. “Oh and what would you have us do Miranda Tate? Sit back and let this man who can make miracle chi pills just give them out to everyone. We’d be done as a corporation if that was possible. No, even then we might have had the blade turned against us when more people learned cultivation outside of the right circles.”
He looked down on her because she was white but she wasn’t. She was mostly Arabic and had more Chinese blood in her than he did in him. Just stupid racism and elitism for being one of the first American members and the head of the American branch of the hand. He looked down on anyone who came after him. Talia wasn’t so different as she had also made plans to kill everyone in the room already if she so desired to.
Miranda Tate(Aka Talia Al Ghul) sneered at him as she spoke words of venom. “Yes because that’s worked out so well hasn’t it? How many circles has he crushed so far? Four, maybe five? How soon is he knocking on our door to finish the job? No, this mistake was on you and you have to deal with it.”
Talia stood up and left the room, along with three other members representing her side of the faction. With the league members departing it only left the original four and the four Snakeroot clan members left. Bakuto offhandedly commented. “We’ll deal with her traitorous attitude after this mess. I think I’ve come up with a plan.”
The four heads of the hand were three other females and Bakuto. Lady Shiva, Madam Gao, and Alexandra Reid. The true leader didn’t deem this necessary for him to take part in so he was missing like usual. Spending most of his time meditating in front of the demon gate to absorb all the demonic chi he possibly could. Gorgon had become more than a man in the past years and it drew fear from most who laid eyes upon him.
The four members of the Snakeroot clan were a mix of both. Viper(Hydra connection) Typhoid Mary, Stone(chaste spy), and the leader Tegaki. They were deemed a smaller part as they were separate but they were also more ruthless. It was a swift death to anyone who would cross the Snakeroot clan and many of their members were already killed by the man.
One of them speaks up. “Maybe we should just hire assassins and hide until he’s dealt with…” All seven of the remaining heads agree with the plan but secretly make plans to get rid of the speaker for speaking before them.
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“And that’s the fourth circle done.” I was slowly becoming aware of how terrible this group was. None of them were strong yet, I was still killing basic humans. In the second circle were the actual elites' family and friends. Bakuto’s younger cousin, maybe a Madam Gao great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, granddaughter. Insanely weak with pretty much no potential to rise through the ranks.
The third circle was young fighters full of potential, most were being groomed to be someone's partner. I mean that in a very demeaning way where “partner” is closer to slave than actual relationship. They were taught to try and make their circles as much and often as possible which… Was malicious crippling of someone's actual potential than anything.
The fourth was even more attractive and where I met my first villains. They weren’t all grouped up but I knew enough of their locations to hunt them down. Killing most of the men I learned something pretty important for fully defeating the hand. One was a well-read person on the rules of the warring clans and had devised strategies to get women under him. It turned out he didn’t need to plan anything because he later found out about the rights of conquest.
The rights of conquest were that the victor could take anything from the loser up to and including a woman's body. Now, that sounds awfully close to the R-word to me but every one of the higher rank members knows about the rights and it is advantageous for women. Most of the higher-ranking members were women because they would climb until they couldn’t and get beaten, serve a man for a few years then kill him after being protected by him, or assassinate him if they deemed their honor too besmirched by being claimed.
These people were all cultivator nutjobs and they only cared about one thing, getting more power. Well… Except for Colleen Wing who I beat. She and Danny Rand had a love-hate relationship and unlike the TV show, it would still take her a few more comics until she betrays the hand for him.
She had a tiny misshapen core and it wouldn’t improve her strength more than that to slightly above that of a man. She didn’t want to have sex but knew the rules but I knew she didn’t want to so didn’t. Instead, I broke her leg because she kept trying to attack me and flipped her over on her back. I destroyed her disgusting chi core and remade it for her correctly.
If she had made it correctly she would have been able to absorb liquid chi. Her body was capped at gas until I fixed it. It was still full of enough gas chi that I could also strengthen her mana veins and unlock most of her chakra points. She wouldn’t be able to strengthen her legs but everything else was possible now. She made no indication of pain even with a snapped leg but the look of confusion followed by wailing sobs as she felt herself grow stronger let me know I did good… That still left the other two in the room though.
I portaled her to the front of Danny Rand’s building and turned to the two remaining villains.
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