Spirit Soul

Everything was extremely because there were a total of four Krysal stage Cultivators, who guarded the cavern entrance.

They changed shifts every two hours, which Kyle and the others concluded in a matter of eight hours.

When it was already deep at night, most Cultivators were focused on cultivating, and only a few were fully awake.

Selene entered the shadows and she knocked out the two guards, who were the furthest for everyone to reach.

Simultaneously, Beatrice knocked out another guard using her blood affinity, while Kyle and Arashi worked together to silence the last guard.

Yasmine's affinity would have caused too much of a commotion, which was what they had wanted to prevent. Thus, she had been the WatchGuard for the short time they required to knock everyone out.

Afterward, Kyle acted swiftly. He opened the vials with the poison inside. With a smooth motion he nourished the devouring tree seedling with his Nurture ability.

When it released the spores, both Kyle and Arashi used their wind affinity to control the spores and the liquid which they merged together.

It was much easier to control everything with the use of their wind affinity, and with Aurora's help, things got even less straining for both the Spirit Soul and Kyle.

"Knock them out, all of them!" Selene exclaimed before both Beatrice and Yasmine appeared next to her, covering her mouth with their hands.

Kyle just smiled, glad that the two women acted so quickly before he released the spores that carried the poison with them.

Strong winds blasted through the cavern tunnel. They entered the cavern hall within seconds before spreading out rapidly. In a matter of minutes, every nook and cranny was filled with the poisonous spores.

Kyle's nurture ability was activated and he could see the outlines of the guards. Some collapsed within seconds, while the stronger ones required several minutes until they collapsed. Everything went smoothly and once Kyle knew that everyone had collapsed on the ground, he began to smile brightly.

He enveloped his body in a small sphere of wind to prevent any spores to reach him as he entered the cave to get his hands on the chubby merchant.

The chubby merchant was close to the center of the entire secret base. He was still wearing the spatial ring where all the mana stones were inside.

Kyle reached him in a matter of minutes bypassing dozens of unconscious and temporarily paralyzed Aldras.

"I would kill them if it was not that troublesome to have another kingdom pursuing me. The other princes should take care of them, and now me," Kyle mumbled as he reached out for the merchant's unconscious body.

Until now, everything had gone by much smoother than expected. The situation was basically perfect, and there was not the slightest sign of trouble. Kyle was especially careful and removed all of the merchant's spatial rings from his finger. He even removed his other accessories, making clear that he didn't want to rob anyone but that he wanted the chubby merchant!

Cleaning the chubby merchant of the spores that had attached to his clothes, Kyle used his wind affinity. He picked him up after he created a sphere around the two of them, and once everything was safe, Kyle smiled devilishly.

"Now you're mine!" He said coldly before leaving with the heavy merchant thrown over his shoulder.

With fast steps, Kyle left the cave. He went over to the others and they left with quick steps, leaving behind the secret cave forever.

They didn't care what the seventh prince was planning, what would happen to the Thunderclaw kingdom, how much the Razgra kingdom was involved in all the mess, except the murder of the Thunderclaw kingdom's king, of course, and many more things that were simply unimportant for Kyle and the others.

They disappeared and took care of the only person in the Thunderclaw kingdom, who was truly interesting to them; the chubby merchant!

Meanwhile, several hours passed without anyone waking up. Nearly an entire day passed before the first Acerta stage Cultivators woke up. Their head brimmed and they couldn't remember to have gone to sleep.

"What happened?" One of them asked, evidently confused.

However, the others weren't sure either. They could only tell that the Krysal stage cultivator, and their subordinates, were still knocked out. Nobody had been killed, but it was obvious that something big had happened.

"The Mana stones!!" Another Acerta stage Cultivator exclaimed, his eyes widened in shock. He disappeared from the eyes of everyone else and the others followed. They knew where they had to head.

In a moment, all of the awake guards appeared in the hut of the chubby merchant. They couldn't sense his mana fluctuations and they expected the worst.

The first Acerta stage Cultivator to arise frowned deeply as he revealed what everyone else was also able to see, "He is not here!!"

"Let's search for–" Another guard got carried away, his desperation clearly visible in his eyes. He knew how bad the temper of the seventh prince could be.

However, he was interrupted by another Cultivator, pointed in the direction next to the chubby merchant's bad. "There are all the spatial rings. If we can access them, we can make sure that everything is inside…and that he is dead."

"Why would anyone knock out over a thousand Cultivators at the Krysla and Acerta stage, just to get his hands on the chubby merchant? He wasn't special in any way, right?" The voice of a woman could suddenly be heard.

She had appeared behind everyone, picking up the spatial rings that had been lying on the ground before anyone else could move.

"I can open his spatial rings, he is already dead," She said nonchalantly, before throwing the spatial rings aside. The woman ignored the hostile gazes from the people around her as she accessed the spatial ring where all the mana stones were inside.

Nobody knew where the woman came from, and everyone was certain that they had never seen this woman before. However, it was obvious that she was powerful, much stronger than them! They were not able to gauge her cultivation in the slightest.

"Yep, here is everything inside. But these mana stones are truly of bad quality. The Shalivra valley is really not as great as I hoped for. I wonder, why the Oracle send me here. The planet may be big, the biggest one I've ever been on, but the people around her are truly weak…" The woman spoke in disappointment. She had been ordered around so that she could finally repay a favor, but she had still hoped to have some more fun.

"W-Who are you, bit–" One of the younger Acerta stage Cultivators was about to curse at the woman. But the moment she lifted her finger it was as if the young man's mouth had been sealed shut.

"Don't you know that you have to behave while dealing with a lady? Show some respect," The woman spoke in a light tone. However, her actions were radical as she moved her finger to the ground. At that moment the Acerta stage Cultivator smashed to the ground.

The ground beneath him gave in, his legs and hands were pushed into the ground before his head bashed on the ground as well. It looked like he was kneeling in front of the woman, whose vibrant golden eyes gleamed brightly.

"That's much better," She merely said, brushing through her silky black hair. Being in the presence of these lowly ants was disgusting, so she could only sigh.

Having read the memories of a few knocked out Cultivators explained the situation in this region of the Shalivra valley.

However, it didn't tell her why the Oracle would want her to be here.

'This fucking bitch. Did she just unseal me to throw me in this annoying Universe to have some fun!?' She cursed inwardly, and her fingers were itching for some destruction, but in the end, she calmed herself.

Huge magic circles manifested around her the moment she disappeared from everyone's sight. She appeared more than a thousand meters above her earlier location and looked north, where the remnants of energy she picked up before were located at.

Only she could sense them but that was already more than enough.

"Are you the reason why the Oracle send me here?" she wondered before her head perked to the right,

"If so, then this annoying pal in this direction is probably the reason for his death."

-Idun, you need to prevent someone's death, by all means! In return, I will remove the seal on your Eternal Imprisonment.-