Chapter 306: Lights, Camera, Action
Benton had never seen a more nervous group than the actors he’d summoned to meet with him. With all the bowing and “this lowly one” and kowtowing, they behaved like he might strike them down at any second.
He scanned the leader.
Name:Wen DuyiAffiliation:Golden Heavenly Third Core Acting TroupeAge:21Cultivation:NoneTechniques:NoneSpiritual Roots:F+Qi Aspect:Embrace of deception, willingness to bend
The kid’s spiritual roots were nothing to get excited about, but wow, Deception was an interesting aspect. Benton would have been darn skeptical about the kid’s scruples if he wasn’t an actor. As it was, though, the aspect and the profession couldn’t have been more closely aligned.
The other members of the troupe, three women and four more men all in their late teens to early twenties, were all exactly what Benton expected, possessing roots mostly in the F range. The highest was an E-.
Their aspects were more interesting. While four of them possessed simple variations of common elements, two had Illusion and one Disguise. So, out of eight people, half had aspects featuring uncommon sub-elements or ones that Benton hadn’t previously seen.
If he’d happened on a random group the same size as the troupe, he would have expected, at most, one of them to have an unusual aspect, and he wouldn’t have been at all surprised if none of them did. Two would have gone against the odds. Four was just crazy.
Back on Earth, certain types of people were drawn to acting as a profession, and Benton doubted tendencies in that regard were any different on his new planet. He took the result as more confirmation that aspects affected personality.
With all the kowtowing, the troupe barely had time to introduce themselves before Sun Hua came in to serve tea.
Once everyone was seated with a cup, Benton spoke. “Welcome to the Rising Tide Sect. I am Sect Leader Chao Su.”
The actors kowtowed to him yet again, and he had to wait for them to rise before continuing.
He cupped his hands. “First of all, gratitude for coming all this way. The trip was long, and I’m sure it wasn’t easy.”