What happened during gym class spread far and wide in the academy and Ember became an instant celebrity.
But this came and went without the knowledge of the main character.
At this moment, Ember was in her room resting and wishing for more action.
What happened earlier was just a child's play for her, and she still needed to kill people to upgrade her system.
She thought she would at least encounter some more assassination mission but was disappointed on how strictly guarded was the academy.
Days passed and Ember felt like withering until she felt a vibration from her wrist.
It was from the tracker she placed on Prince Darian.
The alarm this time meant that he is getting outside of her range.
Ember excitedly got up and changed her outfit.
She tapped her foot twice and her pj's were replaced with a full black body suit.
It will allow her to blend through the night.
She sneaked out from the dormitory and followed the tracker.
Ember ended up at the entrance of the Academy's forbidden forest.
The surroundings was eerily silent. Not a trace of living thing can be seen. And the whole forest appears darker than dark.
Ember suddenly got curious why the prince would go to such a place.
Of course, such a horrible place will not stop her from getting her adventure.
Ember managed to catch up to Darian. She can see from a safe distance that he is following a map.
Could there a treasure hidden here? Ohh that could be fun, but based on her analysis on Darian's attitude, a measly treasure wouldn't be enough for him to brave this kind of place and in the middle of the night .
So what could be the mystery that is hidden in this forest?
Ember saw Darian stopped at the front of a vine curtain. Usually what lies underneath would be a hidden cave, but this time when Darian lifted it up but all they can see is a stone wall.
But it looks like the prince was expecting such a scene and continued to feel through the walls. Ember could feel that there should be a hidden mechanism that would activate once found.
And so she watched as the prince searched through the entire night but sadly, nothing was found.
Before the break of dawn, Darian reluctantly left the place.
But Ember stayed, she didn't think it was necessary to follow Darian back since they didn't encounter any danger along the way.
For some reason, Ember could felt intimate about the place. Could she find clues about herself if she unravel its mystery.
Just as the first sunlight shone through the forest, a dim pattern at the corner of the wall can be vaguely seen. It was like a transparent marking but the outline can somehow still be recognized.
Darian would surely regret leaving early if he knew about the event.
On Ember's side, she could feel the shoes emitting a warm light from the bottom sole.
When she lifted up one of her shoe, she saw that it produced the same pattern as the one on the wall.
Who would've expect that she really has a connection to this place that the prince was searching for. Was it just a coincidence that she stumbled onto this place or maybe, it was fate?
Ember tried matching her pattern to the pattern on the wall but nothing happened. She also tried pushing it, applying force, trace it, but it continued to ignore her efforts.
She tried to think of other possible action, then she had the ridiculous thought.
In one of the anime her brother White Panda had shown her, the mc dripped his blood in order to unlock a seal.
So, should she try it?
In just a second, Ember took a knife and made a small incision on her finger, squeezed out drop of blood, and have it drip over the pattern on the wall.
Almost in an instant, her blood magically traced the pattern and the stone wall caved in.
This event triggered a chain of incidents that Ember will encounter in the future.
In a remote villa in the suburbs, the owner of the house was starring at the same pattern Ember has.
That pattern was made from unknown material and is sitting in a crystal box . It was passed down from one generation to another.
It has been so long since it last made a reaction that the current guardian almost forgot about its existence, until today, for some reason, he felt like he needed to check on it.
Not long after, in front of his very eyes, the pattern lit up.
The guardian took the pattern out of the box and walked through a series of corridor. At the end of the corridor, he inserted the pattern to an engraved portion of the wall, it served as a key to open that certain room.