Although Masao knew logically that Shigure Tendo was powerful, he found it difficult to admit it emotionally. The more Masao Yanagi looked at Shigure Tendo, the angrier he felt.
Negative emotions such as unwillingness, jealousy, and anger surged in the heart of the Yagyuu family disciple. If this wasn't a public place, he probably wouldn't have been able to control himself.
After everyone introduced themselves, Nobuhiko Kurosaki got down to business.
"There's an organization that calls itself the 'Messengers'. They're a new organization that split from the original Soul World Organization. They're very dangerous."
"Our basic information indicates that this organization plans to create a Spirit World during the Bloodwine Ritual!"
Create a Spirit World!?
His words caused everyone's expressions to change.
"The general procedure is like this: The Messengers' members will first rely on the ritual contract and barrier to cast a special spell. Then, a sacrifice will appear during the ritual, thereby upgrading the spell. Finally, they will use the highly developed Challenger's Bloodwine to create a Spirit World."
"One of the ways to make sacrifices appear in the ritual is to incite and manipulate the participants of the lower forces to kill the participants of the upper forces — we, who are sitting here now, are their top priority targets."
"In short, this organization wants to kill everyone here to achieve their goal, and they're using us as sacrifices."
The scene fell into silence.
The Seven Great Families of Yin Yang Masters, the Three Great Samurai Families, the Two Great Ninja Sects, and the Himiki Tribe as sacrifices?
What audacity!!!
Almost everyone present was shocked. They couldn't believe that there was such a crazy organization.
If it hadn't been someone from the Kurosaki Family who said this, they would have definitely treated it as a terrible joke.
"Like everyone else, I think this organization is crazy." Xin Yan sighed.
"However, it's a pity that we can't eradicate these lunatics at the moment."
"What's even more regrettable is that the Bloodwine Ritual still has to be held 'normally' despite knowing all this information."
"That's because everyone's family or faction wants to see the creation of the Spiritual Realm …"
Suddenly, the air became heavy, and almost everyone felt a chill.
Some were in disbelief, some had grim expressions, and some showed anger … Only Shigure remained calm and collected.
"I feel the same way as everyone else, but there's nothing we can do about it. As a member of the family, we have to follow the family's decision," Nobuhiko said.
"I believe everyone is well aware of the value of the Spirit Realm. This huge benefit is worth risking our lives."
"Our families or factions aren't sending us to our deaths. They're just testing us."
"Someone needs to be sacrificed to create the Spirit World, and it's not limited to us. In other words, we just have to kill all the attackers and turn them into sacrifices. "
"During this time, you can make use of all the participants you can. However, you have to be aware that any participant can be controlled by the Messengers."
"As long as we pass this test, we will definitely receive the corresponding rewards!"
"For this, we must unite and fight together."
"The purpose of this gathering is to form a 'Survival Alliance'," Li Yao said.
The scene fell silent again.
"I don't like the name 'Survival Alliance,'" Natsuki Shuurin, a beautiful girl with dark red hair and heavy makeup, spoke up.
"Me too. It sounds like the name of a group made up of weaklings," said Tokugawa Shogi, a muscular young man in a black vest.
"What do you guys think is a good name?"
"Must it have a name?"
"Giving a name is good for forming a contract."
"How about we call it the Blood War Alliance?" Shinichiro Hyakume, a handsome young man with long hair who was dressed in a bathrobe, suggested.
The name conformed to the norm and was acceptable for the time being.
Nobody wanted to waste time on something as minor as a temporary group name, so everyone agreed.
During the group battle phase, the Blood War Alliance members wouldn't fight against each other. This was something everyone agreed to.
Killing the attackers wasn't a problem either. Nobody would want to show mercy to someone who wanted to kill them.
But when it came to fighting together, there was a difference of opinion.
Nobuhiko Kurosaki advocated for everyone to work together and fight together.
However, Natsuki Shuurin didn't believe that the members of the Messengers would be able to cooperate with each other. Even without considering the grudges between the Messengers, a group that was forcefully formed without any preparation would be nothing more than a motley crew.
More importantly, there might be traitors among them!
"Didn't I say that it's possible for any participant to be controlled by the Messengers? Perhaps some of us have already been controlled or won over, and we're just waiting to betray the others so that we can survive and obtain the final victory, obtaining tremendous benefits, "Natsuki Shuurin spoke in a cold tone as she looked over everyone present.
This was indeed a possibility.
The relationships between the various factions were complicated. Even if they were on friendly terms … there would still be betrayals within the same faction for the sake of personal benefits, not to mention between different factions.
Not to mention, everyone here didn't have a particularly good situation in their own families or factions. Otherwise, they wouldn't have jumped into this trap. Winning, obtaining benefits, and changing their own fates was something they desired more than anything!
How much of a psychological burden would they feel to betray a group of strangers from another faction for their own sake?
As for the consequences? They wouldn't be the ones to kill anyone. That was more than enough of an excuse.
Although it was possible to use contracts to restrict the actions of the Blood War Alliance members, contracts wouldn't be enough to guarantee everything. The Messengers were a high-level faction that had the astonishing ability to create Spirit Worlds using the Bloodwine Ritual tournament! Who could be certain that their members didn't have methods to bypass or break the contracts? It would be strange if they didn't.
That was why working together would be risky and dangerous.
Most people agreed with Natsuki Shuurin's reasoning. They felt that forcefully forming a group was unreliable.
However, if they didn't form a group and split up, it was possible that they would be killed off individually.
Everyone started arguing about what they should do.
The argument soon escalated into an argument.
Behind the noise was actually everyone's uneasiness.
Participating in the Bloodwine Ritual tournament wouldn't truly be life-threatening — that was what everyone here originally believed.
Although it was possible that someone would die, it definitely wouldn't be them who came from a top-level faction — that was what everyone thought.
They didn't have the resolution to face death. They only had the "resolution" that they absolutely wouldn't die.
But now, this "resolution" received a cruel blow.
Although nobody retreated due to various reasons, it was inevitable that they would feel anxious.
Only Shigure Tendo's expression didn't change at all from the very beginning.
After arguing for a long while, Nobuhiko Kurosaki finally sighed.
"Let's vote. Moving together or splitting up isn't a good choice, but we have to choose … I choose to move together. Although this choice isn't good enough, it's better than splitting up and getting killed one by one."
The possibility of a traitor is indeed a difficult problem. I can only advise everyone to trust each other a little more, and then keep an eye on each other … "
There were no good choices. If there were only bad choices and even worse choices, then everyone could only choose the bad choice. That was the logic.
After arguing, the young masters and ladies thought things through and calmed down a bit, and they all chose to act together as well.
Then, there was the problem of who would be the leader … who would be the team leader?
Nobuhiko Kurosaki directly tossed out two suggestions when faced with this question that was more than enough to cause the team that had just come to an agreement to collapse. First, the team leader would only have the right to make suggestions, but not the right to give orders. Second, the team leader would be decided by drawing lots!
And then, there was another lively argument.
In the end, everyone could only go with the host's suggestion. Otherwise, if they continued arguing, they would end up fighting.
Everyone drew lots fairly. The result was that Shigure Tendo's lot was Shigure Tendo.
Everyone was rendered speechless.
Shigure looked at his lot, thought about it, and then handed it to Nobuhiko.
"I'll give it to you," he stated lightly.
Everyone was rendered speechless.
At this moment, Keimi Umetani thought of something and whispered something into Shigure's ear.
Shigure nodded after hearing Keimi's words. He then spoke to everyone, "In exchange for giving up the position of team leader, I have a personal matter that I hope that everyone can help me with."
"What is it?" Nobuhiko asked.
"During the ritual, I need to kill someone … this person is the younger brother of the person who killed my older brother. My father wants me to kill him to take revenge for my older brother." Shigure paused for a moment.
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