Hearing Clara's name, especially her surname Grazer, the various people that knew about her family instantly had their face agape in surprised.
They couldn't believe that they were looking at someone from the Grazer family. The ones that knew about the assassination attempts were ever more so surprised to see that the person they were supposed to have found and killed was actually a woman and not a man.
Ning stepped to the side, letting Clara take the focus of everyone there.
"How do we know that you are from the Grazer family," one of them asked quickly.
"Yeah! Do you think we will accept your words just beca—"
A thick spike made out of shadow appeared right next to man from the shadow beneath him. It went right past his ears, leaving a dreadful sensation behind that had she intended for it, he would have died.
"Shadow Essence," one person said.
Hearing him, the others realized as well. The Grazer family's signature Essence was the Shadow Essence and with the Essence crystal cave that was in their family house completely mined, there was no one else in this country that could have that Essence.
"Your family head tried to kill me," Clara said. "Sending assassins my way, even going so far as to kill the people I worked with."
"And I'm sure that it wasn't just his decision. There were many of you who egged him on with this decision, wanting to make your family the official ruler of this region."
"Had you left me alone, you would've gotten what you wanted," she said. "But you got greedy, you went out of your way to bring your own destruction. Now you have brought me back, and I will be the ruler of this place as it is my right."
"I will let you live for now, but within the next 3 years, I need everyone with a Foreman family name to leave this city and go elsewhere. If you don't, I will come after you all," Clara said. "And you do not want me coming after you."
"I killed the Emperor with my own hands; you guys will be easier to deal with than him."
Her words caused a stir that sent the members of the Foreman family in disarray. Not only had they lost their leader, were they going to lose their family home too?
"We refuse!" someone shouted. "There is no way we believe you."
"Then come," Clara said. "Let's duel it out and see if you believe me or not."
The man stepped back in fear. He wasn't the strongest amongst them, so there was no way he was going to do anything of that sort.
"I will fight you," someone said. A muscular man with a strong Essence realm came up to Clara.
"Good," Clara said and smirked. The black spider appeared behind her, towering over every single person in the area. The spider looked down with its 8 glaring eyes, instilling fear into anyone who looked at its eyes.
The man who had stepped forward looked at the spider and then at the lack of its humanoid features. Then, he sensed the Essence. He couldn't.
"Stellar… Harmony…" the man said slowly as his body started shaking out of fear. He stuttered as he spoke again. "N-n- No way!"
"Are we fighting or not?" Clara asked.
The man violently shook his head and moved back through the crowd, even going so far as to run away from the place.
Clara took away her Essence soul and looked at the group. "Anyone else?" she asked.
No one had a single thing they wanted to contend against. As they understood, the reign of Foreman in the Whiteowl region had come to an end before it even got a chance to be official.
The people dispersed out of fear leaving only Tenn who too feared Clara.
"Don't worry," Ning said. "She won't do anything to you guys."
Tenn said nothing. "Did… did you really kill our family leader?" he asked.
Ning nodded. "I did," he said. "He tried to kill me."
"I…" Tenn didn't know what to say. "Please… please leave."
Ning was a little surprised to hear Tenn say that, but when he gave it some thought, he realized that he was in the right if he wanted to hate him for killing his family head.
It wasn't a good feeling being said to leave by someone he came to say goodbye to, but it was understandable.
"Take care Tenn," he said and turned around. "I hope you will welcome me the next time we meet."
Ning walked away, with Clara quickly following behind him.
They walked out of the Foreman house and walked down the road.
"Are you sad?" Clara asked. "That probably wasn't the farewell you wanted."
"No, it wasn't," Ning said. "But I'm not sad. I'm sure he will be more accepting of what I did after he has some time to think."
Clara nodded. "Where to now?" she asked.
"Next up is… to Damien and the rest. Do you want to come?" Ning asked.
"To… Damien?" Clara asked for a moment, hesitating.
"You don't have to if you don't want to," Ning said.
"No, I'll come," Clara said. "I have something to talk to him as well."
"I see," Ning said. "Then let's go."
Ning grabbed her hands and they teleported away.
They arrived in the air, with Ning holding onto Clara to keep her afloat.
Clara panicked a little when she saw that she was in the air with no foothold, but realizing that she wasn't falling, she felt a little more relieved.
"What… where are we?" she asked.
"In the air above the Black mountain range, on the way to the Blackhawk city," he said. "We're waiting for them to come by."
Ning pointed at the distance and Clara followed his gaze.
There, she saw that a few different aerial beasts were pulling a massive carriage through the air.
The aerial beasts were the Essence beasts known as Blackhawk that the entire dominion was named after, and the carriage behind them held the Royal family members who were going back to the royal palace.
