Noah was really mad and could not stop thinking how he should kill those people that made such things. He had thought that maybe they forced the children to work or similar, but this was much crueler.
Noah could not sleep this night and he was thinking about various methods to stop this activities, but he was alone against a whole organization with all kinds of powers behind it.
"This city needs to be cleaned, and I will do it." Noah said to himself decisively without thinking twice.
He returned to the academy and he had a meet with all the clones. Then even if they were clones, they had a high mana stone as energy core and that was enough to make them as real as the real ones. And they had the same intelligence as the originals too, so they could help them more than anyone else in this place.
As they gathered together, they did not know what was happening.
"What do you need us for?" asked David.
"Do you have a problem with your cultivation?" asked Principal Black.
Max and Sabrina did not ask anything, but they were waiting to hear what Noah wanted to say.
They all knew that Noah would not call them to gather if it were not important. They were connected emotionally and intellectually with the original ones, so they knew exactly what type of person Noah was.
"I need help about an issue. I will tell you about it, but you should stay clear and calm, it can be sensible."
"Tell us, I think we can stand everything." Said David quickly. But the others were looking solemnly because they knew that what they will hear now from Noah would not be something good and that it would affect them heavily.
Noah nodded and then he began to tell them what he found out these days. He told every detail and everything slowly and did not let any part of the story out.
"I need you to think with about solution, as you know this is very critical and sensible and if we do not handle this issue in the right way, then we would lose any opportunity. The people where are facing are intelligent and cruel, they would not care to kill anyone of us."
Sabrina, Principal Black, David and Max were shocked and angered at the same time. But the one with the strongest reaction was the usually calm Principal Black.
"Who dares to touch the children in my city? Did they think that as a woman I will not find out or what? Noah show me the way tight now!" Principal Black was really mad, her aura of an 7th Star knight was rising, and the room was shaking. But this phenomenon did not last for a long time, because the high mana stone was used too much, and she began to feel weak.
"Principal, please do not blame yourself. You are only the principal of the academy and you do not have a direct control about the city." Sabrina comforted her and tried to calm her.
Noah saw this and took an extra high mana stone from his bag and gave it to the clone.
"Take this and recuperate your strength. You cannot let your aura and man out so wildly. Even if we have a lot of high mana stones, we cannot use them like this."
Principal Black took the stone and absorbed it in her chest. Right after that, she looked normal again and her strength were back.
"You cannot understand it, even if I left my post as the empire princess, I am still the princess and the daughter of the empire. It is part of my duty to protect the weakest and help them, if not everything would be in chaos. Can you imagine a world without rulers that protects the weak, and a lot of bloodthirsty cultivators? It would be the total chaos and the weak would be slaughtered like animals. As I reached the age of 18 years, I swear in the name of the empire to protect the weak, but.."
She stopped and took a long breath, then she continued:
"But the city I am supposed to protect, something like this was the whole time happening and I did not know. How do you think I would react? Yes, I am not a princess anymore, but I am still a protector of the empire and his people."
Everyone was silent and did not know what to say, they knew how serious the problem was for her and they could not console her with words. They knew exactly what a Protector and was and they knew it was very important.
Only the most trustful cultivators in an empire could become protectors, their duty was to protect the normal people from the everything that could do harm to them. As a part of the royal family, all the members have to be protectors and even if they lose their position in the royal family or leave it, the title of a protector cannot be revoked. Only if the Protector did something against the codex of a protector, then they could lose the title.
"Do not worry, we have time to make everything good again. I know many families were destroyed because of this, but we can still save more, if we work together. This is not the time to think about the past. We should learn from the past, but not blame us for what we did in the past or what we ignored in the past. And I think you should be clear about it, so do not blame yourself now and let us solve this problem and make those criminals regret for what they did." Noah said after a long time of silence.