“So what happened after running into Linley?” Ace asked, bringing the focus back to the story.

  “After realising the danger Linley was in, Cesar took a and forced the saint to leave,” Mira expined.

  “As the so-called king of killers, I’m surprised he didn’t kill her,”

  “We were as well, until Cesar expihat unless he aid, he always made a point to avoid killing saints from the Radiant Churd the Cult of Darkness.

  Although he’s not scared of them, killing them always brings more trouble than it’s worth,” Mira shrugged before tinuing. “But anyway, after saving Linley, he expined how, after parting with us and awakening his bloodline, he went on to graduate early so that he and his father could focus on slowly rebuilding their ’s strength.

  In doing so, they finally gathered all the ingredients to coct the potion to restore the purity of Lina’s soul.

  After leaving the forest of Darkness, they had prepared to meet up with Linley’s brother and mother when they got word back from the Dawson glomerate that the ones who had tried to kidnap Lina was Cyde. As a result, they decided to head back to the Kingdom of Feni to kill him first before meeting back up with the rest of their family.

  But before they could, the beast tide erupted. It was, ironically, the chaos of the beast tide that ended up proteg Cyde.”

  “Makes sense,” Aodded. “But that ’t be the end of the story. That would of, at most, slowed you guys down by an hour.”

  A guilt-filled sigh escaped Mira’s trembling lips before she expined, “When Cesar stopped the saint from the church, unfortunately, it attracted the attention of a few of the saints of the magical beasts.

  By the time Linley had finished his story, they had already nearly caught up to us. It would’ve been easy enough to escape had it just been the four of us, but I foolishly suggested we bring Linley and his group with us, to which Cesar readily agreed.

  Unfortunately, in a sario like that, you’re only as fast as your slowest person. In the end, we were surrounded by five saint-level magical beasts.”

  Hearing that, Ace could uand why Mira felt guilty, not that he bmed her. How could she know what was happening in the O’Brien Empire? Plus, in the end, everything worked out for the best.

  “Still, with the strength of Cesar and Uncle Aiden, we quickly mao sughter a path out of the encirclement, but things took a drastic turn for the worst when I mao break through to the sixth rank,” Mira said, the guilt in her voily getting thicker, much to Ace’s fusion.

  “Why do you make your breakthrough sound like a bad thing?” Ace asked. “If anything, shouldn’t that have made things easier for you guys?”

  “Yeah, it would have, only it turns out that, like you, Alissa, and Linley, I also have a unique bloodline which decided to awaken the moment I reached the sixth rank,” Amira sighed as she calmly activated her bloodline right there and then.

  Ace’s eyes widened in surprise when he saw a literal angel ma from the void behind Mira.

  The angel was a carbon copy of Mira; only this angel had six wings and a golden halo that radiated pure light.

  It was then that he noticed the actual ges to Mira as he subsciously sed her with his [Observation].

  Not only did she experience a whole rank increase as both a mage and a warrior, but her spiritual essence seemed to jump from the te stages of the eighth rank – which, sidering she was naturally only at the te stages of the sixth rank, was already incredibly impressive – all the way to the peak of the ninth rank.

  “Simir to when the barrier around your soul broke, or when Aunt Millie’s soul healed itself when my bloodline awoke for the first time, it created a huge disturbatrag the attention of all the powerhouses in the area,” Mira sighed.

  “The results were that remaining saint-level magical beasts all verged on our position,” Mira expined. “Uncle Aiden and Cesar stopped g about the presence of Linley and his group and tried to take Alissa a, but by then, it was too te.

  The three prime saints – all of which were Six-Eyed Golden Ni-Lions – were the first to catch up with us, causing Cesar to explode with all his strength.

  His strength was incredible; he quickly suppressed all three of them on his own, but before he could kill the first one, a terrifying suppressive force surrounded all of us, causing the spa the area to freeze.”

  “Godrealm…” Ace sighed when he remembered the feeling of being trapped in O’Brien’s.

  “Exactly,” Mira expined with a hint of unwillingness. “With that Full God, Dyliering the fray, esg became all but impossible, especially as the three identical lions were apparently Dylin’s children.

  The first thing he did was attack Cesar leaving him with a hair’s breadth away from death. Just as it looked like Cesar would die, Uncle Aidehe power of his soul to withdraw a single golden drop of liquid from his ste ring.”

  As she thought back to that drop, a look of awe and even reverence appeared on Mira’s face. “I only found out after, but that drop of liquid was actually a drop of sn’s might. Apparently, it blesses anyone who absorbs it with the power of a sn.

  When he saw it, Dylin’s brows furrowed slightly, but still, no fear could be seen on his face. Presumably, because he was fident that even if Uncle Aiden absorbed it, he still wouldn’t be able to threaten him, but when Uncle sent a message to Dylially, Dylin’s face dropped.

  I don’t know what was said, but whatever it was, it genuinely appeared to put the fear of death in him.

  Ultimately, things ended with Uncle Aideing Dylin to agree to let us go by making a trade. We got to leave without being attacked; iurn, Uncle Aiden gave Dylin that drop of light element Sn’s Might.

  Still, even though we were allowed to escape with our lives, Cesar was still badly injured, causing the speed of roup to drop substantially, whi tured us from being able to be there for you when you needed us most.

  I’m so sorry!”

  “Silly girl!” Ace gently chided. “You have absolutely nothing to apologise for – I’m just gd you’re all okay, and your bloodline…

  It’s incredible!”

  Ever since finding out about what happened with Ace, she had spent every day riddled with guilt. It was only after hearing the siy in Ace’s voice that Amira’s mind was finally put at ease.

  “I know, acc to my mother, mine is the bloodline of the Viz – a powerful from one of the higher worlds.

  It allows us to jure something called a ‘Spiritual Maion’ into reality. The Maion of each member of my varies from person to person. The Maion could take the form of a on, a magical beast, or potentially even a Divi; the variations are limitless.

  Still, the only hard and fast rule is that the earlier it is one awakens their bloodlihe more powerful it is.

  Apparently, the average desdant of the Viz awakens their bloodli the deity rank, simir to a Divi.

  Not even my mother has awakened hers yet, but she said that since mine awake the sixth rank, it makes it one of the purest bloodlines she had ever heard of in the ’s history.” Amira said, her face radiating pure unadulterated pride. “As you imagine, after hearing all of this from her, I desperately wao learn more about our Viz , but she refused to tell me. She said that if I really want to know the truth, she will tell me everything when I bee a deity.”

  “Deity?!” Ace asked wide-eyed. “That’s a bit harsh, isn’t it?”

  “That’s what I thought,” Mira sighed. “But apparently, with my talent, she’d be surprised if I wasn’t able to bee a deity in 100 years.”

  “That’s true,” Aodded, uanding that if not for his reinated memories, even with his bloodli’d be arguable whether or not he’d still be strohan Amira.

  “It’s still a long time to wait,” Mira pouted adorably. “But for now, I’m just happy that I’ve finally closed the gap with you – well, almost closed.”

  Ace merely smiled but didn’t say anything.

  “What, you don’t believe me?” Amira snorted, her battle i surging forth like a rushing tide. “Why don’t we have a little spar for old time’s sake, Mr “Son of Heaven”.”

  “Son of heaven?” Ace asked, his head tilting in fusion.

  “It’s the epithet you got given after everything that happened in the O’Brien Empire,” Amira snorted with an exaggerated eye-roll. “After the events of st year, most think of this as the start of a new era, and you, ‘Mr Son of Heaven’, are seen as the young poster boy of this new era.”

  “I see,” Ace sighed helplessly.

  “Don’t you dare sigh like that!” Amira snorted, gring threateningly. “Are you gonna accept my challenge or what? That first-ranked core disciple spot has been yours for a bit too long now!”

  “I would love to,” Ace said as his eyes drifted out the window, as a knowing smile suffused his lips. “But before that, it appears we have some guests to see.”

  Before Amira could voice her fusion, the sound of aed roar threateo blow her eardrums!

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