Dastan held his curved blade, his expression grim. He had anticipated this day would come, but he hadn't expected so many surprises when it did. The feuds and resentments involving the Alchemy Workshop were bound to erupt one day; they were unavoidable and inescapable. When he saw Joela's figure in Kuren's Spirit Painting, he knew his greatest fear had become reality. As the guardian of Dawn Peak, he absolutely could not permit these scoundrels from the Alchemy Workshop to approach the Great Mentor; he had to stop these rogues. But he also hadn't anticipated how well Joela knew him. What he hadn't expected, even more so, was that the formidable opponent he had dueled with several days ago was truly his own Young Family Leader!
The wound on Dastan's body still ached slightly. Perhaps it was this battered state of his that prevented the Young Family Leader from recognizing him at the time...
