Aiden waited in the morning for faes to show up as she was not in the cave again. he was going to ask her today where she vanishes to. he knew her hide zero ability but it cant be in use for almost whole day and night.
when he sensed faes mana reappearing in her space he prepared himself for the confrontation. faes directly came down to the kitchen like daily. they together made the breakfast always but today Aiden had already prepared it and was waiting for faes on the table.
when faes entered the kitchen she saw that Aiden had already prepared the breakfast today and frowned. 'what's wrong? why does he seem serious and angry?' faes immediately realized that Aiden was serious and angry. she greeted him like daily taking her seat in her chair.
"good morning papa"
Aiden just nodded at her and they ate their food in silence. faes began to get nervous as why was Aiden behaving like this and also sensed that something was wrong.
when they had finished their breakfast Aiden stared at faes angrily making her nervous.
"where do you always vanish to?" Aiden asked finally faes also realized what made Aiden angry. 'looks like he found out I wasn't in the cave and my space' faes calmed down when she knew what was wrong.
"I know you are not using hide zero, not for the whole day and night don't try to give me that excuse again" Aiden continued when faes opened her mouth to speak making her close it again. this time faes realized that she can't fool Aiden and sighed.
"it's another of my ability and I use it to practice my skills," faes told Aiden who didn't reply waiting for her to explain. faes pressed her lips together as she didn't want to tell Aiden about her space yet but it seemed like she had no other choice.
"What kind of ability? teleportation? space magic? time magic?" Aiden asked his anger vanishing slightly but not completely 'finally faes was opening up to him'
"well, I am not sure myself about what it is but it's kind of a space which I can enter and stay" faes sighed and told Aiden what she thought explained the space.
"space? as in space magic?" aiden asked now confused he have never heard about such kind of ability in which a person can enter and stay.
"not exactly its difficult to explain but i promise when your child is born i would take you both there and till then i would get stronger too" faes promised sincerely hoping aiden would let this topic go. she can take him now but she didn't wanted to as the whole place seems spooky except her room, library and the training area.
aiden also sensed that faes didn't wanted to talk about it anymore but he was satisfied that by her promise. his child will be born soon as the gestation time is ending and that means he would be able to see a space ability with his own eyes. he nodded and finally smiled at faes who sighed in relief.
when aiden and faes were going to go their separate ways aiden suddenly went stiff and fury along with bloodlust began rolling off him in waves alerting faes. she was sure aiden wasn't angry at her anymore but still she had decided to study today and stay out of the space. faes began trembling as aiden got angrier each passing second. as faes was in artificial environment her senses were not working at their full capacity so she didn't knew what was wrong so she decided to ask aiden about it even when she was afraid of him.
"papa? what's wrong?" faes asked tugging at aiden's shirt and holding it tightly in her small fist.
aiden who sensed what was going on outside by the spells he placed was engulfed by fury but when he heard faes he came out of his anger and calmed down. he unconsciously was emitting bloodlust scaring faes who was trembling holding his shirt.
he bent down controlling his emotions and pulled her into a tight hug, 'no matter how powerful faes is, she is still a nine years old baby' aiden thought and began to feel guilty. his instincts and protectiveness for his child and faes made him lose control for a moment.
"sorry to scare you baby it's just some insects outside trying to attack us to get my child again, probably friends of those same people who came before" aiden told faes whole truth. he can tell the cultivation of the people outside and knew they possessed no threat. its been about a year ever since last attack when he met faes and was poisoned 'they know i am poisoned and thought that i would die in a year so they came to attack when they assumed i was dead?' aiden again began to get angry.
[alert! alert! host the cave is under attack by an army of people] the system alerted along with a siren
'dont you think you are late in giving the warning?' faes asked the system making it cover
[host forgive me next time i will alert beforehand] the system promised
faes who heard aiden and system began thinking ignoring the system who seem to shed tears. 'does that mean i can fight a real battle? maybe kill a human for first time?' faes was not disgusted by the thought as she had come to terms that only strong ruled the world of lore and also she wasn't afraid of blood as faes had killed enough animals to get over it.
"can i fight too?" faes asked excited stopping aiden to go berserk again. aiden sensing faes excitement suddenly chuckled. the ones outside are only knight establishment and they are also only two of them others are not even core formation stage so faes can practice with them. 'they wont even know what came over them before they died' aiden thought and smiled brightly at faes. if she were to be in any danger he was still powerful enough to kill a few king establishment some knight establishment don't even stand a chance.
"you want to fight? but you have to make a strategy before fighting a battle" aiden decided that he would let her fight but also teach her how to use the strategies he had taught her before at the same time.
"but if i want a strategy i will need to know who am i fighting and their powers and cultivation" faes replied frowning. she didn't knew anything about the people outside.
'hey system can you tell me what is going on outside anything?' faes asked in her mind
[sorry host but that ability is locked and you need to level up for it to be unlocked] the system replied
"for how much time you can use hide zero?" aiden asked smiling making faes smile too. she knew what aiden was thinking and agreed with him instantly
"then i will be right back getting the information i need" faes said while aiden just smiled and opened the door of the cave for her. he also secreatly placed a protective spell on her in case she gets detected.
faes activated her hide zero and vanished from aiden's sight completely along with her mana and smell. now no one can detect her unless they are of high cultivation than aiden. aiden had let her go without any questions means that the attackers outside are someone she can handle and hence of low cultivation. faes also got a notification about the protection spell aiden casted on her and felt warm and secure taking away the slight hesitation she had before 'until i attack or undo hide zero i should be fine for two hours' faes thought as she braced herself for the light that always hurts her eyes when she leaves the cave but it didn't affect her that much now as she had learnt how to control light and darkness around her.
when faes came out she used her void steps and went to a hiding spot near the cave entrance. 'its better to take precautions in case' she thought as her eyes scanned the surrounding.
there seemed to be a whole force of cultivators. faes waited patiently and observed the army. most of them was treating two people with respect.
'system use inspect on all of them and give me a detailed report of their cultivation and powers' faes said
[yes host scanning...]
after minutes a notification was heard and a list appeared in front of faes
[scanning complete]
[no. of knight establishment- 2
name:- john
cultivation:- knight establishment stage 3
power:- fire summoner
name:- shawn
cultivation:- knight establishment stage 1
power:- beast tamer and cultivator
owned beast- fire lion (tier 2)
no. of soul and body merging stage- 40
powers - various elements and qi cultivation]
'hmmm' faes glanced at the two again they seem to be in their early twenties both males. they don't look bad but not as good as aiden or blake. they both had red hair and red eyes probably brothers. faes had an advantage of surprise but also a disadvantage of age and height along with cultivation.
faes had grown but she was still only 4'6 and the two red head were about 6 feet.
when faes knew about their cultivation and powers she didn't left but waited moving closer to listen to their talk while they sat drinking something, from its smell faes knew it was just herbal tea.
"what do you think is king aiden dead yet?" john asked
"the last group that came here was powerful and our informer told us that they managed to poison king aiden and he should die in an year so he probably is dead but if he is still alive he might be weaken to the state that he will die soon" shawn replied
"i don't like those higher ups they sent us here to do such a job even if its king aiden he is so weak that he probably can be killed by a tier 1 beast. its an insult for us that they sent us here to retrieve those eggs" john slammed the cup of tea on nearby tree.
"but weren't those eggs poisoned too? the baby dragons should be long dead why would they send us to do such a task?"
"the two eggs of three were destroyed but one was left unscathed its all thanks to that little girl who died to save that egg now that it is about to hatch we need to get it after killing king aiden if he isn't dead already"
"if we get that little dragon for ourselves and train it we might be invisible among the cult" they both began to laugh.
faes who was listening grew angrier every second of their talk and unconsciously began to develop bloodlust. 'they want to kill papa and my future sibling who the previous faes saved by giving her life?' faes wanted to kill them right there and her bloodlust began to leak out of her body which sent shiver's down the brothers spine and many of the army soldiers wet their pants in fear.