Lind started a cascade of events that led to him having several Heaven and Sky Realm phoenixes currently sitting in a room with a simple chalkboard behind him.
It was a classroom used to educate the recently intelligent beasts to read and write the basics. It also was where they held math classes too.
The group sullenly sitting had all their cultivation sealed not by collars but a weaving shimring over the area.
It was tied to their bloodline so any phoenix that entered suffered the sa effect. Lind just wanted the way out but sadly none of them knew.
The only ones that would know were not due to arrive anyti soon but they would be aware of his actions already.
He was under sothing called the Nightfla Clan's Resource Procurent Forces. It was a weak attempt to cover for the slavery but they did have so knowledge for him.
The lack of humans and demons was due to treaties the various powers lived by. No beast race was allowed to enslave humans or demons.
They already did not enslave aether children or Elentals. The suffering at the hands of other races were bad enough.
Fiends were slaughtered for obvious reasons.
Yet the reason so many avian races were there was due to simple proximity. The Throne of Living Fire was ruled by the phoenix race and that drew the lower bloodlines. No one expected to be enslaved for it!
Lind learned the issue was a matter of betrayal of course. Foolish bastards that wanted to grasp power they did not deserve or earn. It resulted in several coup attempts and predictable results in failure.
The aftermath, however, led to the current system. The phoenix clans had no desire to endure constant uprisings.
The cat people were actually an accident. Humans had helped their dosticated pets cultivate but then lost all control. Rather than war, it would be better to call it natural selection.
The humans were killed and a new power was born.
Unfortunately, that power was at the cost of a Heaven Realm trading partner with the Throne of Living Fire.
It was one thing for those actually guilty of the cris to be enslaved but that was all ancient history. The current generation was at least several million years removed!
All in all, they just made the excuse of paying for their ancestors' cris. It was the most idiotic thing he ever heard.
Ignoring history was one thing. Denying that nothing ever happened in the past was not sothing to be done either after all.
Yet, continuing to persecute all the generations that followed was just insane. One past mistake by generations cannot be applied to the newer ones that never existed at the ti!
Lind found it more annoying they did not even hide what they were doing.
"Mister! Look! I got it to glow!" A very young boy was dancing around him for attention. He had partial humanoid features mixed with 2 fluffy ears on top of his head and a long tail with soft orange fur. His hands only had 4 fingers with very sharp nails at the end.
His feet were still paws!
So beasts were naturals in the Celestial Fields. They not only gained sentience but like Ethry long ago, they could transform far earlier. Unlike her, theirs were incomplete.
He smiled as the simple artifact was used to train the external channeling of elental Qi.
"Well done. Now, try to focus on a specific color like you saw in your mind. Hold it as long as you can." Lind wanted to go but he had to wait.
He needed a guide to get him out.
Forcing his way out would only lead to unacceptable delays. The sealed phoenixes sneered at the child behind his back but Lind only glanced at them to make them flinch.
Now that they were free, and their parents too, their learning had exploded forward. It was remarkable what raising the spirit could do for soone.
Still, only the children showed such drastic changes. The adults were still reeling from the change in their freedom.
He was about to focus on a new lesson when his eyes narrowed. He felt a change in the air not only in the flow of it but the power of the Qi that ca with it. The quality was much higher.
His wards actually improved instantly but he did not move. They would co to him no doubt and he wanted it on his terms even if he was in the wrong for infiltrating their Throne.
A short while later, the small children began to gather around him whimpering. Fear was thick in their actions. He did not like seeing that.
The adults ca swiftly after with so of the younger children still just animals.
So n were weeping in fear while the won tried to comfort them.
Lind smiled at them and his fingers glowed before more sigils began to appear.
"Stay behind these, you will be safe." They nodded and the ward sprang into existence. He then turned and saw a regint marching swiftly toward them. The were covered in armor of indigo, black, and blue.
As they moved, it was like a mighty fla moved with them but his eyes narrowed at their necks. Each soldier had a dallion that was like a bright star. It was of a vibrant orange that seed to glow like it was alive.
He felt sothing damned familiar at those dallions. Their shapes varied but the material did not.
[Chosen.] Haro suddenly spoke in his mind but did not elaborate. Yet, the fact he recognized them enough to be shocked spoke volus.
At the head of the soldiers was an old woman who looked at him like he was the filth under a boot.
He sighed as he recognized that particular look but was surprised none of the soldiers looked at him that way.
They did, however, seem to instantly notice the forr slaves huddling behind his wards and their fellow phoenixes sealed in the classroom.
Lind noticed they did not stop when they reached his sealing barrier. The old woman marched right in and then stumbled as its effects took hold. Shock crossed her face as she was a peak Sovereign Tier but his weavings were strong enough to affect her.
"You are quite rude, True Lord Frey. Yet, you are lucky as well. You are free to leave this place for the Sovereign Lands. Your wife's location is likely known to you but here is the freshest map we have. Keep in mind, so lands shift day to day here." The jade stone was not bad.
Lind even confird everything was there and more, but he frowned. It was too easy and she seed to realize that.
"Our leadership realizes you are under extenuating circumstances. In return for a future favor, you are free to leave and we will make no ntion of this–incident." His erald eyes flared and for just a mont, all heard the Heavens rumble.
"If you know , senior, then you know how I feel about those that use people as tools. Especially raising them to be tools." There was no Authority in his voice but a shiver washed over the soldiers.
A power they knew was far stronger than any Law had co from his harmony at that mont. If there was any ti the Dao of Defiance would react, it would be now.
The old woman sneered at him as she was hardly affected.
"You are impressive, True Lord or not, to have grasped the Dao. Yet, you are naive." Pressure suddenly appeared and his wards trembled. He felt it!
At least 3 or 4 Dao! She was also wielding them far easier than he ever could. Yet, the price was just as steep for her as it was for him.
Even so, he grasped her aning but he did not move.
"I refuse to leave things as they are. You want my favor, fine, but I have a condition. Let them go. The ones who wronged you are long dead. If you worry about retribution, I have a solution for that as well." She paused and retracted her Dao.
"Oh, and just what can you offer that will replace all that labor that we need doing." Lind summoned all 18 small Seeds he carried with him.
The spheres were constantly improving inside his ring with the arrangent he made. Now, he revealed sothing only rumored to exist.
Crystals, herbs, ores, and anything one could dream of being artificially grown! Greed flashed in the old woman's eyes but Lind only sneered. She only saw the surface treasures.
At the heart of each Seed he carried was a harmonic crystal. Before she realized, 18 Dao washed over them all. Lind bled from his orifices but his wards held.
The soldiers were no better and even the old woman stumbled. Horror was on her face as she looked at him.
"You release them to the Frey Clan, and I will teach you how to create these. They take ti and nourishnt but anyone can make them." The Seeds then vanished back into his ring.
The old woman looked contemplative but then shook her head.
"I refuse. We may see future benefits but we cannot lose face in front of our enemies. You are a dragon. Only your current status and situation allow you to leave here unhar–" A new aura suddenly pressed on them all and Lind finally felt his wards snap.
He also felt sothing he had never felt before. His Authority was restricted!
Another True Lord had co!
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