The sound of leather boots tapping against a hard work floor echoed in a long and empty hallway. Xasha kept looking at the walls that were covered in expensive-looking weapons, artifacts, and paintings. The King by his side introduced him to the more important pieces and ignored the rest. None of these were particularly powerful, but they were symbolic and had powerful histories. Epaulets worn by generals into war, Swords used to exterminate powerful energy beast tribes. The materials they were made of interested Xasha, but he could buy those anywhere on the continent, no point in taking them from here.
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For the past two months, Xasha and Megan had been living in the imperial courtyard. The courtyard was not a palace, far from it actually. It was just a collection of what amounts to a few hundred mansions. The king's mansion was not even the biggest among those in the courtyard. There were energy chambers, labs, workshops, training arenas, hospitals, parks, a warehouse district, etc.It was a small city spanning hundreds of Mile's built solely for the descendants of the Devos family to live and train. Nobody was allowed inside
Thousands of Luxurious carriages decorated with priceless jewels and rare mana crystals being pulled by all kinds of domesticated energy beasts came to a stop outside the courtyard. Well-dressed men and women descended those carriages and made their way inside the courtyard. These were all important guests from all over the continent, rich, powerful people, all putting on their most expensive clothes and riding in the most expensive carriages. Having the most beautiful date on their arm, this was a competition. There were even carriages on the backs of Giant Birds. They flew in and landed in style.
Ash and Meg spent their honeymoon on a private beach, reserved for the Devos family on the coast of the Devos Province. There was a lone mansion on the secludedbeach, surrounded by steep cliffs. It was just the two of themin the mansion and this gave them licenseto become professional nudists for two weeks. They would swim in the sea, dive underwater to look at the coral reefs and the interesting aquatic energy beasts. They hunted down these energy beasts for food. Xasha had a secret love for cooking, when he was younger someone told him cooking was the same as alchemy, he began learning theskill as he thought of it as alchemy practice.
Even though everyone was looking at Verra, Xasha was the one who answered the question, "We are not strong enough to found our own province. If a bunch of Gold Realm kids can go off making provinces willi nilli, why hasn't there been a new province in Lithuania in over 300 years?""Moving now would be a waste, it is peaceful here and in other places, we will have to fight for resources with guilds much stronger than us. We are the big dogs here and can run around as we please, I think we should use this peaceful time to get stronger." He paused for a few seconds to arrange his thoughts.
The most popular magic device created by the Falling Stardust was a communication device, this device uses sound energy particles to help one's voice travel long distances, from one end of the continent to the next. The device fits into one's ear; it had the mana core of an Ecko Bat. This bat uses sound energy particles to communicate with other Ecko bats across the continent. Mages used them as alarm systems in ancient times. Xasha and his team studied their vocal cords and ear canals. After a while, they created a magic circlethat did the same thing. However, the magic device was not a copy of the EckoBat, Xasha gave it a few extra features.
"When we return from this journey, we will have made history. Every member of our guild is at the Diamond Realm, even you Xasha, the slowpoke has made it to the peak of the Diamond Realm," Verra chuckled as she spoke, the mood today was great and everyone was confident as they had spent the last 2 years preparing for this day."Too bad we don't have the method to advanced to the platinum realm or I would have already advanced," Fredrick lamented.
Xasha was on the deck of the airship, standing by the rails with his hand behind his back. As he looked at the ground moving underneath his feet. He could see forests, lakes, towns, and cities flying by. The airship had been traveling for over 10 days, but they still had another 5 days to go. Nobody was slacking off, they were still training and sharpening their skills for the upcoming fight. Xasha's worry was that they had a lot of strength but not much practical experience, so this trip would also act as training.Roar!
Ari ran around the courtyard of the Von Crieg manor. She laughed with the maids that spent their free time playing with her. This was the new normal. She had captured the hearts of all the staff, especially the women. Xara's apprentices were no exception. They would use every minute of their free time to play with Ari and hear her regale them with stories and ask them questions. She was curious, just like her father. Xara stood by the side watching her beloved granddaughter and thought of her parents."You should have already reached the Lightless Air Temple, I will wait for news of you making history my son.""James! Behind you."Boom!!!James couldn't dodge in time and got hit in the eye with an ice shard and fell to the ground unmoving, " Shit!, retreat," Lucy shouted. Everyone moved back towards the camp they had set up beforehand. The Camp was in the main lobby of the underground palace near the entrance. This palace had stone walls and high ce