Chapter 76

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Ikem's face was filled with a smile as he saw people walking out from their new home greeting him. It seems his children had everything in control while he was away.

Making his way up to the mountain Ikem sensed most of his family members gathered in the palace, it seems they were having a serious discussion.

Walking into the palace, the animated voices of his family members engaged in a lively discussion. As he entered, the chatter quieted, and all eyes turned towards Ikem.

Seeing it was there father who came, everyone stood up before bowing " welcome back your highness"

Ikem nodded with a smile on his face as he walked towards his throne to sit down.

" Were you able to find the food, father?" Zephyr asked out loud after he saw his father sitting down.

" I did, the are coming up the mountain right now as we speak" Ikem nodded as he answered.

" Eriri, you and your people should go outside and organize the food brought back, make sure every apeling household receives a bountiful amount of food, and you know what to do with the remaining food"

" That reminds me what were the procedures on building the new storage house" Ikem asked out loud as he looked at everyone. Updated chapters on novelbin(.)com

" We all decide that building it underground is the better choice after seeing what happened this time" Eriri spoke as he looked around at everyone before looking back at his father.

" Well done, now get going. Remember to come back for Family dinner" Ikem said as he watched Eriri walk out from the place.

The whole palace was quite for a while before Ikem asked " What was it that got everyone riled up"

Hearing his questions, the clan leader's available all looked at each other before Ember sat up from his place and walked to the Center.

" It all started on our journey back to the mountain" Ember said before pausing to find the right word.

" We noticed an increase activity on the human settlement we passed along the way, at first we heard the sound of people screaming so we all went to check it out to see what was happening, on your way we noticed a lot dead human corpses lying around showing signs of being cut by a sharp weapon"

" The closer we got, the more body we found until we came across two humans each wielding weapons clearly above them and us, one of the humans had a sword covered in flames while the other human held a sword covered in golden light that enchanted it sharpness"

" Father, you now see what I said we should move against the humans, these weapons anybody with access to mana can use them, it pays no mind on whether you are compatible with it or not" Ember said with a serious expression.

" Trust me I understand son but until the humans shows any aggression towards us, we have no right to act against them" Ikem sad in a distressed tone as he was also worried.

" Son we only worry about the humans, what about our own people, do you think they won't be tempted like the humans or that many apelings now each bear untold treasure and weapons in their home, yet no one is saying anything" Ikem asked as he looked at his son seriously.

From the expression on his children's face, it seems the thought hasn't crossed their mind. " We need to focus on our people now before paying any attention to the humans"

Ember stood up from his seat as he bowed to Ikem before turning to his sister Ripple " I apologize for my blunder sister"

Ripple seeing her brother apologize smiled " It's okay brother, I agree with everything you said but there must a good reason before we show aggression towards other race"

Ember nodded hearing his sister word as he looked back at Ikem " Father, you brought up an interesting topic on how our people supposedly are hiding treasure or weapons they found, what are we to do about it"

" That is a good question son" Ikem nodded at Ember question before asking his children a question of his own " What do you all think we should be worried about, the weapon or the person wielding the weapon"

Zephyr being the first to answer said " Obviously the weapon"

Ikem showed no expression as he continued asking " Why the weapon son" " Because the weapon is the one with the ability to deal a lot of damage depending on how much power the weapon can drain from its user" Zephyr said as a matter of fact.

Ikem looked at his other children " Do you all agree with him"

Ember and Ripple shook their heads to show they disagreed, " You both agree it's the wielder of the weapon, why is that?"

Ripple spoke out this time " A weapon can be wielded without the wielder, depending on the person it can either be used in a good or bad way, so the wielder should be the one that should be worried about, as the question now stems on why you want to wield the weapon"

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