A whole crowd of people awaited her."Welcome back!"
The sound of unified voice reverberated through the air and made her smile. How cute!
In her eyes, they were all cute. Her parents, the cultivators and cutest was Isaa that stared at her with red-rimmed eyes that had rivers of water flowing out of them.
Of course, her first words were sent towards her. "Isaa, my little one."
With a blink of an eye, Isaa appeared right in front of her and gave her a big hug. "Big sister, I missed you so much. So, so, so much."
"I know, I know. I missed you as well as crazily. I couldn"t wait up come out and see you, see everyone. Mother, father... My siblings?"
Mela patted her belly and smiled. "They are calmly waiting that you finally come back. I will stay here only as ling you are here and then go back. The timeline is different."
Kendra nodded and walked towards them but Isaa stopped and looked at the man behind Kendra that had similar features.
"Sister, is there something you want to tell us?" But saw Kendra shaking her head.
"I"ll explain everything at home. Bit now, the most important question. How did you all know that I will be arriving now?" She smiled at cultivators and then at her family with questions written all over her face.
"That... Ask Marcus. He told us." Marcus had the ability to enter and leave her world as he wanted.
"But, how did he know that?" But they couldn"t answer as they didn"t know as well.
Suddenly a man came towards her with a big smile and opened his arms. "Kendra, finally."
Kendra suddenly smiled brightly and jumped into the hug. "Marcus..."
But as he was about to hug him, she flew out his hug, as an angry-looking Cethin held her in his arms and growled at him. "She is mine."
Marcus just rolled his eyes and shrugged. "She is never just yours. Kir, you might be a higher being, but she is her own. She doesn"t belong to no one. I know you love her, so do I. She will be my greatest love for eternity." He just said what he wanted to be smiled at her warmly and disappeared.
Everyone saw Cethin"s flabbergasted expression and started laughing. They all knew about both men looking after Kendra. Behind people stood a woman and with dark eyes stated at hugging pair. "She dares... she... dares taking what supposed to be mine."
Kendra laughingly hugged Cethin while her eyes flashed. It seems some nasty flies are buzzing around her head again. But then smiled. It"s his problem. If he can"t handle this himself, she will step in later on. Let"s see how he plans to take care of her.
Cethin hugged her tighter. He had no power to read mind or feelings but could feel strange darkness creeping towards them two. Intuitively he looked at thousands of cultivators coldly but couldn"t find who it was that sent such hatred towards them.
Kendra just ignored it. She had no time to spend on small minds. Her and Isaa"s time was ticking in the mid realm. Soon they will go to ninth worlds and it will take them even longer to come out.
A huge celebration was prepared with food and many of her old friends arrived to see her.
She found out that everyone in mid real knew about her task and most of the cultivators already were more re than grateful.
Most of them came from the lower realms and knew about the new threat. Those few dozen that came from tenth world realms were overwhelmed as they found out their worlds to have new protection. But, of course, there are those that held grudges against her doings.
"She is now here in the mid realm?" An old man sat on a high chair and tapped with a finger on the table in front of him.
"Yes Elder. By the information we got, no one can enter lower realms now, not even G.o.d"s or higher beings, without her permission." A young woman kneeled in front of the table with a lowered head.
"It seems she got too full of her self. Maybe we should find someone from inside that can work with us. Find weak spots." He waved his hand and stood up.
He opened a secret door and went down to the dungeon. There stood a s.h.i.+ny wall and a deep voice could be heard from the other side.
"Why are you bothering my rest again? I hope its something important." A yawn could be heard and a small child stretched and looked at him with big eyes. "Speak."
The old man kneeled in front of the child and bowed yo the floor. When he rose his head a sign of fanatic reverence could be seen on his wrinkled face.
"In my whole life, I called you just two times. Once when I was a child, to help survive. Once when I wanted to become Elder of my clan and now as I am old and wrinkled I ask your help for the last time." He looked at the child that seemingly didn"t age even a second.
"Speak. I can see on your face it must be something bigger than the other things." The child looked around ten years and he was never sure was it a boy or a girl.
"There is a strong female cultivator that closed all tenth level worlds, so we can"t gather the energy anymore there." He sighed and lowered his head. "Our powers are quite strong, but in this case, not good enough."
The child rushed towards him with wonder written all over its tiny face. "She did what? How?"
The old man shook his head. "We don"t know. She is just cultivator, just left me any other. Someone told me she uses the lost knowledge of the arrays."
"The arrays..." The boy suddenly paled and rushed back into the s.h.i.+ny opening.
Seeing him gone, the old man patted his hands and clothes from dust and smirked. All he will do now is to wait...