Chapter 254: Appearance
254 Appearance
"Fire Phoenix Art, First Stage. Phoenix Summoning."
Alex didn"t stop there. He immediately used his Tortoise Sh.e.l.l Array to cover the clash. After all, he didn"t want to ruin the botanical garden. It was beneficial if he plucked all of them and used them. He used his Array out of reflex, thinking it was alright as long as the high ranking herbs were fine even though it was not.
An ice phoenix was flying toward him, but it met a fire phoenix. Surprisingly, both of them destroyed each other. The ice phoenix froze the fire phoenix while the fire phoenix evaporated the ice phoenix.
Alex and the woman were surprised. They never thought that their power was equal. Both of them never found such a case. It was like their element was equal. The only element that can be equal to his Pure Fire Element was another Pure Element.
"You... you are a Pure Element user!" Both of them recognized each other"s power.
"I... I apologize, I don"t mean to attack you. After finding those many ants" corpses, I thought you were an enemy, so I attacked without thinking. I am Letizia La Scola from Rainbow Flower Sect. May I have the pleasure of knowing your name?"
After calming down, she realized that Alex might be the human in front of them. In other words, he was the one who killed those numerous ants. If she fought against him, she wouldn"t be able to win.
Unfortunately, her friend was a fool. She shouted, "She is the daughter of the current sect master of Rainbow Flower Sect. Whatever you got in here, you should bring it to her."
She dared to shout that because she only saw Alex and Putri. Alex was only a 5-Star Martial Grandmaster while Putri was an 8-Star Martial Grandmaster. While both of them were 10-Star Martial Grandmasters.
"Mina!" Letizia shouted her name.
"But we..."
"Stop!" Alex suddenly shouted.
Letizia and Mina were shocked. But that shout wasn"t targeted at them. Sadly, Mina had misunderstood that shout as a provocation. "You! I will ki-!"
"Mina, Stop! Do you not understand our situation?" Letizia shouted.
"My lady?"
"Cling*" The sound of metal was heard.
"What do you want to say, little girl? Let me hear it fully! I will show you the way to the next world!" Another female voice was present.
Letizia had realized this a bit earlier than Mina. Sadly it was too late. Fabio"s sword had been pointing at her neck while Anna"s scythe had been surrounding Mina"s neck, ready to kill her. Anna released her killing intent.
That"s right, Alex"s shout was for Anna and Fabio. If Alex didn"t stop them, Letizia and Mina might already die.
Both of them finally realized, there were two 1-Star Martial Lords here.
"Why don"t you say it again, little girl? Let me see if you can escape from here alive?" Anna spoke again. She really wanted to kill them... Saying she wanted to kill Alex was out of question.
"We... we are from Rainbow Flower Sect, and she is the only daughter of the sect master. If you killed us, the sect master wouldn"t let you off!" Mina was stubborn.
"Hmph, Martial Kings from Zhou Kingdom won"t be able to stop Alex from killing their second prince. Let alone you," Anna skillfully manipulated the course of conversation.
"Martial Kings? None of the four kingdoms have a Martial King, let alone more than one Martial King," Letizia was confused.
"Hmph, that"s why you little girls are too innocent. Your sect can"t even be compared to us. To think you couldn"t even get that kind of information. Rainbow Flower Sect is mediocre."
"You!"
Alex was communicating with Anna this entire time. "Good, make sure they believe that the Zhou Kingdom has Martial Kings. Then they might investigate it. Senior Sister Putri will also inform the sect so with these two sects acted together. Zhou Kingdom couldn"t act recklessly.
"Since they wanted to kill me, then I will also make trouble for them."
"But Young Master, I want to kill these two girls. One of them dared to attack you while the other one was bad-mouthing you!"
"They are more useful in this way. If she is really the daughter of the sect master of Rainbow Flower Sect, then, she might be able to convince the sect master and make them move."
"But, they also know your power."
"Just spare them with a condition. The condition is a Heavenly Oath about my power."
"... Alright," Anna wanted to kill it, but indeed, they will be more useful this way.
"There must be a misunderstanding around here. I apologize if you were angry because of my attack. If you could spare us, I won"t forget this debt."
"And do you think we will let you go after you know about his power," Anna pressed them again.
"I... I can make a Heavenly Oath for that. I won"t tell anyone about this place too. If it is not enough, I could trade my Sacrificial Ice. Sadly I"m not awakened yet."
"Hmph, you are not useful even if we keep you alive. Oh, you might, but I don"t know if a girl with your appearance is enough to crawl on our Master"s bed."
"I would rather die than do that!" Letizia gritted her teeth after she heard that. Of course, Anna wasn"t serious in that request as she was just pressing her.
"It"s enough. Just have them make a Heavenly Oath about my power, ident.i.ty, and this place," Alex said as he gave them mercy.
"But..." Anna acted as planned.
"I have decided."
"... Fine. Starting from you!" Anna chose Letizia first.
"I... With Heaven and Earth as my witness, I, Letizia La Scola, promised not to disclose any information about what happened in this place, including your power, ident.i.ty, and this place. I promised not to go against you because of this accident as a favor for this incident."
"Good! Next!"
After Mina also made the same oath with her. Anna and Fabio released their weapon from their neck.
"May I know your name?"
Before Alex answered her question whether to say his name or not, Alex turned around.
Letizia and Mina followed his line of sight and saw a red haired man walking toward them.
"Well... what do we have here... Two people also came too? It seems this year has a bit more decent young generation. But, it seems you two came from the same entrance as him. Because you didn"t come together, that means you come after him.
"I can feel the entrance gate from here, and the only gate that has been opened is the same gate as the one he opened. I also want to reward you, but you are a bit reckless in your action, so I couldn"t reward you fully.
"I feel inside your body has the aura of a Pure Ice Element but has yet to awaken, and made it easier to be spotted. I wanted to awaken your Pure Ice Element, but I won"t do that because you attacked him."
"Senior... there must be a misunderstanding," Letizia tried to explain the current situation. After he managed to discover her Pure Ice Element with just a glance, she knew this man must be the original owner.
"Yes, Senior, there must be a misunderstanding. My senior sister is-!" Mina also wanted to explain the situation.
"Did I let you speak?" Zwaka immediately shut her up. He released a killing intent from his eyes. Mina immediately got scared. As expected from an Old Ghost, even though he was only a ghost, he could still exert such killing intent.
"Senior. I apologize for her rude action. We are-"
"First, your reckless attack might ruin this garden that I have planted for a long time. Second, you are not an Alchemist, and you are not an Array Master either. This is the biggest reason why you can"t get my inheritance.
"What? Are you expecting me to give my inheritance to you when I know you are not compatible with it? For what? For your sect? Nah, if your sect wants it, they should grab it by themself.
"If you are an Alchemist, then you might get this garden as part of my inheritance, but you are not. Looking at your action just now, if you fought in this place, many of my medicinal herbs would be ruined.
"If you can"t even discern the rank of my medicinal herbs, then you shouldn"t expect me to give it to you. Anyway, most of my possession had been given to those people who completed my quest outside.
"Even so, you managed to reach this place even though you just followed the path he had cleared. I will give you two Mid Heaven Tier Ice Element Arts and a Rank 5 Sword to you. As for this rude girl, I will just give her one High Earth Wind Element Art and a rank 4 sword. Is there any problem with my decision?"
"We don"t dare." Letizia just accepted it. If she didn"t attack Alex or Mina wasn"t rude. She might get more than this. Sadly, it was too late to regret. She could only accept it or from the killing intent that Zwaka"s released. They might stay forever in this place.
Zwaka made an array, and the rewards he had said were there. "This is your reward."
Zwaka purposely said that he couldn"t give his inheritance because his inheritance was his Garden and Array. He wanted to make her think that he didn"t have anything other than those. She wouldn"t think about the huge amount of Spirit Stones and high ranking weapons.
Letizia and Mina immediately stored their reward inside their s.p.a.ce ring. For Letizia, two Mid Heaven Tier Element Arts were insane. Like Heavenly Sword Sect, they didn"t have a Heaven Tier Martial Arts. Of course, on the premise, Alex hadn"t restored Heavenly Sword Sect"s Seven Stars Cut back to Heaven Tier Sword Art.
And another thing was a rank 5 Sword. That sword alone could easily get her a few million Spirit Stones.
Of course, no one was fool enough to sell a rare rank 5 weapon in the continent.
"Anyway, since you have gotten your reward. It"s time to send you back," Zwaka said. He then clapped his hands once.
An array appeared on Letizia"s and Mina"s feet. They suddenly got teleported to the outside world, not the outside of the building. They literally got teleported outside the realm.
"Sigh..." Letizia was disappointed.
"Se-senior Sister... I..."
Letizia shook her head. "Remember their face and search for their information. It seems that he will get the inheritance of that "Senior". I will convince my mother to maintain a good relations.h.i.+p with him... Medicinal Herbs Garden... Array...
"He seems to be a disciple from a sect. But, considering the inheritance, he most likely came from Mount Hua Sect. We will make a good relations.h.i.+p with Mount Hua Sect first while searching for his information.
"I am also the fault here from attacking him first. If I met him next time, I would formally apologize again. You also remember not to be rude to others.
"But It"s truly surprising that he wasn"t well-known. It seems another Genius will arise from Mount Hua Sect."
"Then, Senior Sister, should we go inside again?" Mina asked while looking at the gate. It hadn"t been closed because there was still a time limit.
Letizia pondered for a moment. Before she came up with an answer, an abrupt event took place. The gate suddenly got closed, and not long after, people started appearing in the surroundings.
"What? What happens?"
"I almost completed the quest."
"There should be around one or two days left."
"The gate is closed."
Letizia immediately came up with an answer after looking at this sudden appearance. They were forced to go out like them. And judging from the number, it must be the entire people that came inside the realm, except those people.
"We will regroup with the others first and go back to the sect."
...
One minute ago,
"Hmm... Well, I will close this realm first before any other people enter this place," Zwaka said casually as he clapped his hands once again.
It immediately confused the entire realm. Arrays suddenly appeared beneath the people"s feet.
Even the Southern Kingdom"s group, they were shocked by the sudden appearance of this Array. They were teleported outside before they knew it.
"What happened?" Eric asked with a dumbfounded face.
"We don"t know... or don"t tell me, Putri had received the inheritance, and because of that, we are bailed out here?" The princess immediately came up with a possibility.
"F*ck. She and that brat must have planned this. I will demand it from them after this!"
They just came into the pa.s.sage before they suddenly got teleported outside along with all the people inside.