He had also noticed the Krienek didn't have any bad intention, or else he wouldn't have only threatened him.
"If you have nothing else to say. Can we continue with the important topic?"
Krienek nodded without uttering a word for fear to offend Yale again. Yale had already said to continue speaking about important matters before, but Krienek ended up acting like a pervert due to his careless words, and unconscious actions.
"I bet that you already have a rough idea about those who are opposing you, but probably you still don't understand the truth behind it."
At that moment, Yale started explaining everything about the True Empire to Krienek. The information was way too shocking and surpassed Krienek's expectations; he would have never thought that there was such a big plot to destroy the Revgen Empire completely.
Kermu and Serka were even more shocked than Krienek because both of them had noticed that there was something amiss lately, but their information was far lacking compared with the information obtained by Krienek.
However, the worst part for them was when they heard how Hyrk appeared in front of the Royal Palace half dead with a deadly poison hidden in his body.
Even though they also heard Yale had saved his life and dispelled the poison, they couldn't be at ease because Yale also told them that he couldn't do anything about the damage in Hyrk's soul.
They weren't too knowledgeable about souls, but Yale explained the problems that Hyrk would have to face due to that damage, so the rage of Kermu and Serka towards the Hyeran Clan was unmeasurable.
Although Krienek knew who Hyrk was and felt sorry for him, he was more worried about the fact that a whole noble clan had betrayed the Revgen Empire. That wasn't because he was heartless or didn't care for the good friend of his disciple, but because he didn't consider Hyrk's life has any importance in the stability of the empire. On the other hand, the Hyeran Clan was a noble clan, one of the pillars supporting the empire, and the fact one noble clan betrayed the empire was a serious matter.
"I understand your urgency in killing all the traitors inside our clan. It would be a tragedy if they managed to obtain the control of the clan."
After hearing Yale, Krienek already understood that the problem in his clan needed to be solved quickly.
"That is right. Moreover, we need to kill them without letting any news about this matter filter to the outside. Who knows what those traitors could do if they noticed that we are breaking their plans bit a bit."
Yale knew that it was impossible to suppress the news forever, but at least he hoped to suppress them a bit more to be able to also deal with the Tofesh Clan and the Zhan Clan.
"To shut down the clan, I will need a valid reason, or those traitors will be alarmed. Usually only if an important matter is about to happen in the clan, I can isolate the clan temporally from the outside. Sadly, there isn't anything I can do about it right now."
Krienek felt powerless due to his lack of authority; if the other noble clans knew that Krienek couldn't even close the doors of his clan when he considered that it should be done, he would become the laughingstock for the other clan heads. After all, he was the only one who was a clan head but was unable to obtain absolute authority in the clan.
"Master, if there is a need of an important matter to happen to isolate the clan, there is one. You have been rejecting it for quite a long time because you feared it."
When Kermu heard that his master didn't mention about that matter, he decided to remind it to him. In fact, Krienek hadn't forgotten about it, but he hid it for Kermu's sake.
"Kermu, tell me about that."
Yale was able to notice that Krienek was hiding something from him, so he directly asked Kermu who seemed to know about the topic.
"This is something proposed by the great elder who is always making the things hard for my master. He said that my master wasn't suitable for the clan head's position. Thus, he said that my master should participate in a competition against him to prove that he was worthy of the position. If my master loses, that great elder will become the new Clan Head. Moreover, knowing that great elder, I doubt that master would be able to survive after losing his position."
That great elder was very persuasive with his words, even those who supported Krienek felt that it was alright for Krienek to show his prowess in front of everyone and if that great elder were superior it would be good for the clan changing the Clan Head.
"That competition seems to fit our needs. What is the problem?"
Yale knew that there should be some problem in that competition to make Krienek hid it from him despite being a solution for their current situation.
"Ancestor, let me reply. I am sorry for hiding it, but Kermu is my disciple, and he is like my own child, so I can't accept the conditions of that competition."
Krienek was an ancestor of Kermu, but there were too many generations between them, so it was a great praise to Kermu that Krienek said that he saw Kermu as his own child.
"Is that competition related to Kermu in any way?"
Yale didn't plan to turn Kermu into a sacrifice for the sake of cleaning the Kurk Clan; he might not hesitate in using any random person, but he wouldn't treat his friends as pawns.
"That bastard said that more than my power in battle I should show my power in guiding others, so my disciples should battle with his disciples. However, Kermu is my only disciple, and the other party has several disciples including some at the Veteran Rank. Moreover, the competition would be an all versus all, so accepting the proposed competition is just sending Kermu to his death."
The rules of that competition were extremely unfair to Krienek and benefitted the other party which had prepared for it for years. That great elder didn't believe that he could win against Krienek in a fair battle, so he wanted to trap him with those rules. Moreover, if Krienek tried to change the rules, he would just tell anyone that he wasn't worthy of his position and that Krienek couldn't even teach a disciple well, so there was no way he could manage a clan.
Krienek was someone busy managing the clan, so he only took Kermu as his disciple to groom him as the next clan head; he wasn't someone who dedicated his life to grooming disciples.
On the other hand, his opponent since some years ago started to act as a teacher and had taught a lot of disciples since they were little. At first, Krienek thought that he had given up on stealing his position and decided to dedicate his effort to strengthen the clan, but in the end, those disciples were just the pawns to obtain his own desires.
"That man shall die. Even if for some reason he isn't a member of the True Empire, someone with this kind of personality isn't worthy of having the Space Bloodline."
Yale was enraged when he heard about the details of the competition; that was obviously a plot to kill Kermu and steal Krienek's position. Recently, Hyrk had almost died, and his soul had been damaged, and at that moment that Yale discovered that there was also someone planning to make a move to deal with Kermu.
"Is everyone in this world thinking that my friends are easily bullied? Sorry, but my friends can't be bullied."
Yale couldn't avoid thinking that after the events of the past two days. Moreover, if Kermu died, Serka would follow behind him, and if Yale hadn't acted the previous day, Nurvey would have been killed by the poison due to helping Hyrk.
Even Nacesai City was almost completely destroyed not too long ago. All his friends in the Revgen Empire had been near to death in a short span of time, and that was something that provoked his anger.
Yale hadn't been too sociable, and he didn't make too many friends after reincarnation, but all of them had become targets of plots of the True Empire.
At that moment, Yale was covered by Death Law ripples, which only Krienek was able to detect. Yale's understanding of the Death Law increased a lot due to his towering killing intent towards those who wanted to harm his friends.
"Accept that competition right now and isolate the clan from the outside. However, Kermu doesn't have any need to battle. I will battle in his place and make those bastards regret having been born in this world."