Chapter 87: Chapter 87: Next Step
Damon enter Selene’s mansion and found out no one there. He spread his spiritual sense only found Selene in her private training room focus on her training.
’Where are they?’
The grand halls of the Frostborn estate echoed with an icy stillness, her platinum-white hair and voluptuous figure nowhere in sight as he walked through the empty corridors adorned with sword motifs that reminded him of her proud, cold nature.
Damon then use his storage ring to contact them. He lingered near the entrance, his jet-black hair catching the dim light while his luminous golden eyes narrowed in thought about the women under his protection.
’Girls, where are you?’ Damon ask using his internal voice through the storage ring. His mind reached out with a mix of curiosity and subtle concern.
’Oh, Damon. We are on the way outside.’ Ariel voice can be heard inside his mind, her tone carrying that refined noble warmth that had grown bolder since her awakening in the carriage.
’Outside?’ Damon wondered, his mind flashing to scenes of potential danger outside the sect grounds.
’Yes, Elder Selene ask Ariel if she ever fight a monster... When Elder Selene know that Ariel never fight a monster ever in her life, she ask us to go with her.’
This time Mio the one how answer, her cheerful energetic voice bubbling through the link as she described the elder’s suggestion.
’Well, I raise inside my family, all the time, every time I go outside there will be always someone escorting me. Actually when we first met that was the first time that I go out without any guard.’ Ariel tell her story for Damon, her kind-hearted words painting a picture of her sheltered life before meeting him.
Damon smiled faintly, thinking how her change from a naive girl that know nothing into a beautiful lustful girl that love him.
’I see..., yeah, it will be good experience for you Ariel. Monster fight different from human, it will be good training for you.’ Damon replied encouragingly, his ambitious mind already planning how this would strengthen her cultivation and affinities for Water and Spear.
’Then, where is Neko?’ Damon asked next, his thoughts turning to the curious silver-haired girl with tiger ears and tail who loved exploring after her long imprisonment.
’Neko is with us, she said she want to go with us since she got bored.’ Mia told Damon, her shy reserved voice small.
The quiet twin with straight deep purple hair and heavy pendulum breasts probably hid her perverted thoughts while staying observant in the group.
’I see, okay then, where do you guys plan to go?’ Damon asked, visualizing their location near the eastern continent’s edges.
’We still don’t know, but Neko seem already explore whole of easter continent continent, she said she know where to hunt spiritual beast for us.’ Mio told Damon, her airheaded yet proactive tone mixing with excitement.
’Okay... Oh right, I will be going to the capital next week, if you guys can how about you guys hunt around the capital. That way we can just go back together.’ Damon proposed, his strategic side thinking ahead about combining their return with his own journey.
’The Capital? What are you going to do there?’ Mia couldn’t help but ask, her mind probing for details.
’I going to the action house with you mom and Sect Leader’s youngest direct disciple. To buy resource for us.’ Damon explained.
’Sect Leader’s youngest direct disciple? you mean senior brother Lark?’ Mio couldn’t help but ask, her energetic voice showing recognition.
’You know him?’ Damon couldn’t help but ask hearing that Mia and Mio know him, a hint of surprise in his tone as he leaned against a pillar in the mansion.
’Yes, he was famous in the sect you know. Because he was handsome, kind and talented.’ Mia told Damon about Lark, describing the young man’s reputation that contrasted with Damon’s own striking handsome features.
’But he was different kind of handsome you know. If you are a handsome man, he was more like beautiful man???’ Mio interject her sister, adding playful detail that made Damon ponder deeper.
Hearing the what Mio said Damon thought something in his mind.
’Beautiful man? A femboy? Interesting.’
Then Damon go back to their conversation.
’Anyway, I’ll meet him next week anyway, so you guys just be careful, if anything happen call me okay.’ He emphasized protectively.
’Okay!!’ three of them answer at the same time, their voices overlapping with loyalty and love.
Then Damon switch to his link with Neko.
’Neko, protect them, okay.’ His command was firm yet caring.
’Protect them from what master?’ Neko ask innocently.
’Protect them if you find someone stronger than them attack them of from someone who had bad intention.’ Damon clarified, his ruthless side against enemies surfacing briefly.
’Ohh, like those guys in the valley?’ Neko recalled with her child-like mind.
’Yes, you are correct, and keep your self in your beast form okay.’ Damon instructed, ensuring her human form should stayed hidden.
’Yes master...’ Neko replied obediently.
Then he finished his talk with Neko.
’Good, if Neko with them, there nothing will happen to them. I can relax.’ Damon felt a wave of ease wash over him.
He then thinking what his going to do next.
’Hmm... with Ariel left there nothing to do for me except training Selene. Let’s go to library, I need more Info about this world.’
Damon decided finally, turning away from the empty halls toward the sect’s vast library filled with information on cultivation, bloodlines, and the hidden lore of realms for this current era.
Damon notice after got Selene’s explanation that his knowledge that he got from buying a memories in the shop are different from the current available information and history.
Because of that he need more knowledge that fit this current era.
Then he go out of Selene’s mansion toward the library to seek more information that he needed.
But there is a problem. Damon don’t know where the library is...
