My Soul card is a Reaper

Leaving the Crescent Clan in absolute chaos, Azzy went straight to the Night Clan, without even informing them in advance.

While it seemed like a sudden visit, he received a warm welcome from the Night Clan, for they had already anticipated his visit. After all, the clan of assassins had their eyes everywhere in the village. The Night Clan elders knew what transpired in the Crescent Clan a while ago and they were fully prepared to be inspected, with nothing to hide.

His former teacher and now subordinate, Avia Night, was there with Yashna Night and other elders as they escorted him on a tour of the village.

Unlike the Crescent Clan compound, where there is a clear, stark gap between the wealthy and the poor, the Night Clan compound almost has similarly-looking wooden houses, although the environment feels a bit eerie here. There's mist everywhere, making the houses partially visible to the naked eye. The residences also looked quite similar to each other, making one confused about whose house was whose.

Avia Night also personally explained on what basis their clan compound is divided into different sectors and all.

The Night Clan is one of the lowly populated clans in the village, with about 5668 overall population, out of which more than 1800 were currently stationed in the outside world, spread all over the continent and doing their missions.

Of the remaining, three thousand were normal citizens, with their respective spouses or parents working for the clan.

Those with strength work as laborers, blacksmiths, carpenters, and butchers and do all kinds of odd jobs required in the village, and those who are too old, too young, or too weak, can only help out with housework and depend on the breadwinners of the family.

The ones with no families or no one to depend on were funded by the main family's trust department, which impressed Azzy more than anything. But then again, it is the clan of assassins. They are in the line of work when they can lose their life or, worse, their limbs at any time. So, the main family has been looking after its clansmen for several millennia. Moreover, assassins get paid handsomely. They don't just do the job posted in the mission hall. They do private jobs too. Azzy had no issues with that either.

However, Azzy was still not happy with their code of conduct and strict punishments for the ones that broke the clan rules.

It was the primary reason for his visit. Once he toured the houses and finally reached the main family residence, he brought up the topic right away.

And Yashna was swift to react before he could make any suggestion.

"I apologize, Your Majesty, but the clan rules have been in place since the foundation. We can't just change the rules. Once we change one rule, the others will be broken one after another. Moreover, you have already announced a new clan for the forsaken. Even if we expel them from our clans, they will still have their home at the village, which I object but respect your wishes."

Azzy didn't act the same with them as he did with the Crescent Clan. While she came out hard on him as soon as he brought up the topic of loosening certain rules a little bit, Azzy still maintained a soft tone as he explained himself to Yashna, "Lady Night, I'm not here to change your clan rules that have been there for hundred thousand years. Whether you follow only Matriarchy and are not willing to give males a chance to serve the clan as permanent positions or follow a strict rule that a descendant awakened the Night Clan's bloodline can only marry someone with a weaker bloodline, nothing matters to me.

I'm merely suggesting you loosen up the restrictions for those with lesser potential to learn elite techniques, too. Restricting them from learning techniques that might hurt their body because they are weak, can be understandable.

But, allowing only those who have awakened a purple-grade Arcana or Gold-grade Arcana to learn the techniques of the main family feels like you are hindering their potential even more. The Night Clan has the highest mortality rates in the entire village.

In fact, the rate of deaths is actually more than births. Your population is declining at a terrifying pace that you will find your bloodline become extinct in a thousand years.

If they were dying because of some diseases, it is understandable, too. However, the majority of deaths occur during the missions. So, I think you should really think about it."

Avia stayed silent and pondered on what her former student was trying to tell them.

However, the stubborn former clan lord, Yashna Night, didn't hesitate to object to his suggestion, "I'm thankful for your suggestion but we cannot accept the changes."

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Azzy's face was hardened by her firm rejection, "Fine, but you won't say no if I ask you to send the copies of all of your Night Clan techniques to the palace, right? Not just your clan. I intend to collect the techniques from all the clans and intend to give them to the forsaken clan individuals on a merit basis."

Azzy's reply, this time, surprised them instead. Yashna was about to reject once again, but Avia beat her to it and said, "The Night Clan is the subject of Your Majesty. Whatever we had is for yours to take. But, can we get a promise from His Majesty that the contents of our clan techniques will not be revealed to the outsiders?"

"No, I cannot promise that," Azzy shook his head, bringing a frown to both the ladies. But then, after a brief pause, he added, "However, I can promise you that you can put a restriction on a couple of your secret techniques that require the consent of your clan Matriarch before I can share them with others."

"Well, I suppose, it will be our choice to select which secret techniques to put the restrictions on, Your Majesty?"

Azzy raised his thumb, index, and middle finger in response, "Not more than three. And you can withhold the most important technique of your clan for yourselves. I cannot compromise more than this."

Meanwhile, in the Blood Clan compound;

Francis Blood and the elders were once again gathered for a meeting, discussing the events that occurred since the waking hours.

In the end, Francis made the decision, announcing it to the elders, "Alright. It's better to leave rather than lower ourselves to be mixed with outsiders. I'll go and have a chat with the young clan head to secure our future."