<strong>A couple of hours ago;</strong>
Azzy, Sapphire, and the others were setting up a tent on her insistence while Vogio, the teenager-looking adult guard the unconscious prince.
As for why they didn't wake up the fatty prince to finish the matter right away, it's because they tried and failed. By a coincidence of 0.01% probability, Gyllan's consciousness was disconnected from his soul and was trapped in his own mindscape.
And it usually takes time to recover since his Arcana was a gold-grade one. Of course, with outer interference from an Exalt or higher realm expert, he could recover completely but currently, everyone's soul power was restricted.
The only one that could help him is the Reaper but he doesn't want to bother with it. After all, he wanted Azzy to develop connections with this princess of powerful background.
Soon, the tent was set up completely. From the outside, the tent looked like a 100sq.ft place but when they got inside, there was a whole mansion, inside.
Glenn and Flora pinched their cheeks, opening their mouths in amazement. There were portraits, paintings, a hanging chandelier, a staircase that splits into two sides as it leads to the first floor, there's even a kitchen with modern equipment.
Azzy looked around and thought, "The mechanism seemed to be similar to a pocket dimension."
Claire was naturally, unimpressed. This obsessive girlfriend gets jealous very easily whenever a girl approaches Azzy and talks in a sweet manner.
Pointing at a random direction with her hand, "this is a portable mansion, created by my great-great-great-great grandfather and it was a birthday present to me when I turned 18, last year. I hope this compensation will satisfy you. I will personally make him kneel before you later but for now, we need to leave."
"It's good and luxurious. It would be a lie if I say, I'm not impressed." Azzy nodded and praised it. In an instant, a satisfactory smile appeared on Sapphire. She hoped that Azzy will now forget about the unconscious prince.
However, in the next second, her facial expression changed as Azzy continued to say, "But, it is also true that the riches cannot erase enmity. However, since you are willing to throw away something that is kind of sentiment to you, I'll be willing to put this matter for now but only if my girlfriend intends to forgive him."
"Girlfriend?" Sapphire blinked her eyes twice before realization hit her. She looked at Claire in surprise.
A chibi Claire appeared in Claire's imagination and it is dancing in happiness. For an obsessive girlfriend like her, a proclamation from Azzy is indeed precious.
Sapphire said to her, "Look, Princess Lefeuvre, we are on an important mission here and cannot waste too much time. Can we let this go by, for now?"
"Is it the Ruby-Blossom flower?" Claire asked her curiously. It was the only thing that's valuable in a level-1 region. They must have come for it or else, why would these Upper Elite realm experts come here.
"Yeah, you can say so." Sapphire didn't expect these kids to also come here for that flower but at the same time, she felt like Azzy and Claire don't know the whole story. So, she kept that way.
"But, it's not that worth that high profile people like you come." Flora voiced her suspicions.
Sapphire quickly thought of an excuse and replied, "It's more like punishment. That's a whole another story."
"Alright, fine. Let's do a quick punishment." Claire closed her eyes and switched places with her Arcana spirit, Agatha.
When Claire who was now possessed by Agatha opened her eyes, Sapphire saw Claire's eyes were glowing in golden color.
A frown appeared on her as she fell into thoughts, "Arcana Possession. But, how? Isn't her Arcana, a gold grade?"
Meanwhile, Agatha looked at everyone around her. When she saw Sapphire, the latter felt naked as if her secrets were being exposed. "So you are this era's griffin user, huh. Not bad, you have a huge potential. However, that half-breed animal needed more training. It lacked the spine and was too submissive."
The Griffin inside Sapphire's mindscape was screeching in anger as if she wants to fight.
Agatha's eyes then fell on the fatty prince. She displayed an expression of disgust on her face, "Ugh, this human has neither good personality nor had any potential. On the other hand..."
Agatha let out a wide smile as she looked at Vogio. The latter was alarmed when his eyes met with her.
"You are an interesting, breed." She let out a comment, making Vogio's heart spike up suddenly.
"Are you trying to insult me?" Vogio displayed a frown on his face to hide his real panic.
Agatha didn't answer him and started to make a seal.
Azzy didn't intervene in the process and let this Arcana do what she wants, as it is now Claire's decision.
The seal struck the unconscious prince and she said, "I sealed his soul orb for good. Magnolis family is reputed to possess more than one Supreme Realm expert in every era. If this era's Supreme Realm experts in your family had any profound knowledge, they can break the seal. Until then, he will be nothing more than a civilian. This is his punishment for behaving inappropriately towards my host.
Sapphire and Vogio's expressions were darkened but little they were smart enough to know that they couldn't do anything, right now.
The Princess of Everon didn't waste too much time and bade farewell to Azzy and others, leaving the place in shame. Vogio swore in his heart that someday, he will rip them apart for sure. More than Azzy, he felt like he needed to focus on Claire for he suspected that Agatha found out his secret. So, for the sake of his tribe, he cannot let her live.
Once the three of them were out of sight, Claire returned to reality, and Azzy and the others roamed the 12-room mansion.
"That sister is really nice, isn't she?" Flora looked around in a daze and complimented Sapphire to which, Claire retorted, "It's just an act. As if she was the only one with money. Hmpf."
Everyone decided to enjoy the space for 15-20 minutes before they resume hiking the mountain once again.
Unfortunately, they didn't get such a chance.
They didn't even complete the tour and they saw a blinding flash of light suddenly enter the tent and fill the entire mansion for three seconds before it dimmed, then, disappeared.
"Glenn, Flora, stay inside." Azzy rushed outside in hurry. Claire followed the suit.
"What the hell was that?" He raised his head.
A few kilometers away, there's a beam of light descending from the heavens. Azzy instantly activated his aura sensing.
After concentrating for a whole 23 seconds, eliminating the auras of humans, beasts, and trees, he finally saw the aura of the source. Meanwhile, the beam of light disappeared.
"It's a lotus?" Azzy saw the outline of a lotus-shaped object, which is as big as himself. "Ruby-Blossom?" He wondered.
"It's more like a Ruby crystal Blossom, Azrael," informed the Reaper and then explained, "A Ruby-Blossom usually matures every decade but once every millennium, the guardian of this realm blesses the flower, turning it into a Ruby Crystal Blossom.
Once the flower matures, the petals transform into a crystal. Absorbing the energies from those crystals will mutate one's Arcana spirit no matter their rank and age. Of course, it only works for a gold grade or lesser spirits.
For those who had a mutated gold grade, they need at least 15 of its 20 petals to evolve into a platinum grade Arcana.
This is known to a few societies.
However, the story doesn't end here."
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