The Immortal that stopped in at Rae’s shop was far from the only one who was headed to the New Home compound today.
There were a surprising number of visitors in town.
Well, Karl only counted about five, but that was still more than he had expected, given that this place was abandoned only a few days ago. The word had obviously gone out from the Elders in the New Home compound that this place was occupied again, and the first ones here all appeared to be allies of the Clan.
They were familiar to the members of the Clan who had come to stay in the area, though they were mostly strangers to the Blackwoods Pack.
Not all of them, there were a few Ascended Rank Immortals who appeared to be familiar to everyone.
Those were likely Elders from the small Clans in the region, assembled for whatever the Clan Leader had planned for the day. She hadn’t bothered to inform Karl, so he didn’t know what the event was, but they were all waiting for the portal array to be ready.
With everything else that had needed to be done, Karl hadn’t found the time to make an array for the compound yet, though he had picked out the spot to put it.
He intended to put it right near the Guild House, but not in the yard, so that people would see the place, and be tempted to shop, but not close enough that a new arrival would be an immediate threat.
The Guild House was near an open area with a small grass park, which Karl thought should do just fine for the purpose.
With the Guild Store set up, and ready to be operated by the new members who were eager to see their first sale as Guild Members, Karl stepped outside to make the final upgrades to the city.
He didn’t expect that his presence would attract any attention. Even with his aura mostly unrestrained, so that everyone could feel that he was a Void Realm Immortal, he was far from the strongest presence in the city now that there were Lycan Elders around.
That didn’t stop the visitors from noticing him, either by the accents on his name in the System Interface, or because they had been informed of what he looked like and were waiting for him to appear.
"Mister Karl, it’s good to finally make your acquaintance. I was in Telheusto when your people threw a barbecue party with the berserkers.
We all saw that you took in the Blackwoods Pack, and I thought that it might be a good time to come visit their new location, and take the chance to get acquainted with some of the Elders in the New Home tomorrow for the first day of the induction ceremonies."
"Induction Ceremonies?"
The Immortal nodded. "It’s an annual holiday, of sorts. All over the region, the larger Clans pick unaligned Immortals to enter the Clan, as well as holding the graduation for senior students at their schools.
It’s more important to the Elders of the various Clans than the average person, I suppose."

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