Chapter 153: Maxwell Family Meeting Part 2

In the conference room, Adam counted over 500 people and that went to show the size of the large open area of the conference room. Adam also noticed that each person would have one or two people with them that seemed to be their guards and protectors, but none of them seemed to be on Wayde's level.

The Maxwell Family would designate guardians, that they would raise and nurture from the orphanages that were owned by them, and would distribute them based on the talent grading of the family member.

They had no way to know how the baby would grow up and most felt that it was unfair that because Angela had the highest talent grading, she got the best guardian, as she wasn't the most powerful out of them.

The guardians were to devote their lives to their masters, while the masters would have a guardian that was completely loyal to them and would do almost anything that they told them to do.

Angela had been the most talented to be born in the Maxwell Family for decades, so was naturally given the most talented and powerful guardian. 

However, she wasn't the most powerful, because of her complacent nature, which made it so that most of the other members of the family had a bad image and some jealousy towards her, especially the females that also coveted her looks.

Wealth was obvious in all of those within the room, but Adam was yet to find anybody that he thought was the head of the family.

"Angela, it is nice to see you again" greeted a young female that seemed to be of a similar age to her.

The smile on the other girl from the Maxwell Family's face was clearly fake as she looked Angela up and down, then looked at the two figures behind her.

"You are still so weak, no wonder you had to hire another guard even with the Fire Master guarding you" mocked the girl.

That was Martha Maxwell and she was one of the cultivators in the Maxwell Family that held the most hate towards Angela. They were of similar age to each other and from a young age, they were always being compared to each other.

Despite Martha being able to surpass Angela in terms of cultivation level and power, she was always overshadowed by Angela's talent, beauty and her guardian.

The current head of the Maxwell Family had dozens of children in the past with multiple different partners that were all cultivators that were talented and powerful. Those partners had all passed away or on the verge of death, as since they weren't as powerful as the family head, their life spans were shorter.

The higher the cultivation level one reached, the longer they could live for, which went to show just how powerful Adam's master once was.

All of those children that the family had, were currently in their 30s, 40s and 50s, and the ones that were powerful and talented enough, became elders.

Other Maxwell Family members could become elders, but the requirements were that one had to be a direct descendant of the Maxwell Family and they needed to be a capable, respected and recognised Advanced Cultivator.

If they weren't capable of becoming elders, they would be given a different role in the family such as looking after their real estate or businesses and there were many things that they could do to assist the family even if they weren't cultivators.

All of those elders also had many children and all of them would compete with each other, especially since the head of the family was getting old and was looking for his successor.

They needed a young, talented, respected and powerful cultivator to be the next young master of their family and all the Maxwell youths were competing for that position.

Angela in terms of talent, beauty and because of her guardian seemed to be most suitable, but most felt that Damian Maxwell was most suitable for that position.

Damian was 21 years old and was a peak Novice Cultivator, and although only had E:4 rank talent, was very hardworking, powerful and respected in the family. Damian didn't have an elemental affinity, but was still one of the most powerful fighters in the younger generation of cultivators.

He was also engaged to Martha and both of them were the most skilled fighters of the young generation of the Maxwell Family, but yet they couldn't overshadow and surpass Angela.

It was clear to Adam that there was conflict between them, but nobody would dare to act in the middle of a family meeting, especially since all of the Maxwell Family members in high positions were there.

One thing that interested Adam was that most seemed to be Internal Cultivators but also had cultivated externally. Their Internal Cultivation surpassed that of their own, but it made sense that most Internal Cultivators would need to train their bodies first, so that they wouldn't be disadvantaged in any way.

"And it seems you are as ugly as ever" retorted Angela, who also disliked Martha.

Martha had always been trying to take her down and would never miss a chance to attempt to embarrass or hurt Angela. She would have succeeded most times if it wasn't for the protection of Wayde.

Just as Martha and Angela were about to begin bickering like they usually would, everybody suddenly froze as an old man entered the enormous conference room.

Adam had tried using the Status Peering Feature a few times, as unlike when he used his spiritual sense, it seemed to be undetectable by others.

However, he found that most in the conference room were Advanced Cultivators and the few that weren't, either were young or weren't cultivators at all. While observing everybody and everything around him, Adam also stood frozen when an old man entered the room.

The old man's aura enveloped the entire room and most could barely breathe under such pressure.

"The Family Meeting will begin immediately" announced the old man.