"Well, well, our Young Clan Leader has returned victorious?"
After walking for nearly several hours, Lanaia and her group finally reached the center of the island, where the family's inner hall was located...
Yet just after returning home, a familiar voice dripping with sarcasm rang out...
Lanaia looked up. Apart from the two remaining elders seated in the center of the hall, most of the people present were disciples from her generation or the two generations below. On the left stood a group of black-robed disciples radiating a heavy killing aura, while on the right stood disciples dressed in Shadow Veils like her, their auras ethereal and elusive!
Gou Dan hid behind Lanaia, cautiously poking out her head to look at the people in the hall...
An instinctive biological warning told her that these people were extremely dangerous. Any one of them could easily pin her to the ground and grind her into the dirt...
Gou Dan curiously sized them up, recalling the two factions within the family that her master Lanaia had told her about.
The first was the Shadow Stream, the main faction that outsiders most strongly associated with the Sanctuary Family. Its secret arts allowed practitioners to skillfully wield Shadow Power. Not only could they use Shadow Shuttle like other assassins, they could also use Shadow Power to twist and fold physical space. This was the Sanctuary Family's legendary signature skill: Refraction!
An assassin capable of distorting elements, matter, and even space—just imagining it made one's scalp tingle. That was why mages throughout the universe were extremely wary of assassins from the Sanctuary Family.
The other was the Nightshade Stream. As Shadow Elves who also possessed a unique talent for Shadow Power, practitioners of this faction had techniques that were somewhat simpler and more brutal. They liked