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Rhys left the inheritance vault, appearing near the exit of the trial grounds, where he had once been months back. The Cerulean Phoenix egg was in his spatial ring, he had frozen the time of the phoenix in the egg. He was planning on hatching it back in the Moon Palace.
'Now, let us surprise the arrogant first empress.' Rhys thought teasingly, his multiple ear piercings, spatial rings, bracelets, and headpiece all vanished into the Jade ring. His robes changed to the ones he went in the inheritance ground with. But even then, he could not hide the holes in his ears where the piercings were.
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The first empress sat inside her bed on her shack like always, cultivating and waiting for Rhys's return, but it was then when she heard.
"Oi, arrogant woman, I am back!" Rhys screamed, standing outside of the first empress's room.
The first empress opened her eyes and stood up with a smile, she was waiting for this day. 'He came back, that means he succeeded!' She was so excited she had no time to think about why she did not sense Rhys coming.
Her shack vanished, leaving only herself standing still. Her blue robes and black hair fluttered, contrasting and making for a beautiful sight that would have bewitched the past Rhys, but now, he had spent over 7 years with Eternal Paragon. Someone whose beauty is balance-shattering.
"So I take it you succeded?" The first empress spoke, her excitement could not be hidden, her eyes shone with expectations.
"Yes, I have gotten the inheritance and Oathbreaker." Rhys made a slight smile.
The eyes of the first empress shone as she put her hand out, "Hand it over then. I need it!"
'She wants it that badly... too bad it's mine.'
"Why?" Rhys acted innocent, completely different from how he acted all prideful when they first met.
"Don't ask questions boy, don't get on my nerves either. I am stronger than you." She spoke, her aura starting to leak.
Rhys smiled and thought inwardly, 'Bah, we are in the same stage and I am still stronger than you. Perks of my physique and conversion.'
Rhys knew he was thinking very arrogantly, like an Emperor. Thinking everything was below him, but that was his pride now that he was the strongest in his world. He was pretty much unbeatable because of the advantages that come from his bloodline.
"Here." Rhys extended his hand and the Oathbreaker appeared, being bound to Rhys, it naturally followed his commands.
The first empress calmed down and went to grab the sword, yet when she got close to it, it acted wildly. Sending its pressure forward which made her feel suffocated, unlike Rhys, Moonsky, the first empress was certainly not able to match the pride of the blade.
"What is the meaning of this?" The first empress asked, a frown on her face.
Rhys shrugged and replied, "The sword is bound to me, the moment I took the inheritance the blade became mine. Why wouldn't I bound it to myself? Could it be you want to take what belongs to me? Shameless!"
The first empress gritted her teeth in anger and stared daggers at Rhys.
"Boy... you would have not discovered this place if not for me so give it up!"
"Wrong, my Aurora would have found out on her own, she is the current empress, so she has access to such information." Rhys spoke naturally.
The first empress was about to lose her cool, and in the end, she did. Her aura flared and she moved forward to take the blade from Rhys by force, but Rhys smirked. Fwoosh! Oathbreaker vanished and he appeared behind the first empress. He raised his arm and swung it down.
Pah! Pah!
Two slaps landed on the first empress's ass, making them shake and the first empress erupt in anger, "You dare!"
Rhys ignored the fierce killing intent directed at him and tilted his head like he did not know what she meant.
"You touched me in such a way, I was trying to be nice. You will die!" Her killing intent surged even more and focused on the location Rhys was, yet before she could do that. A large, thick, and horrendous aura erupted from Rhys, destruction.
He was summoning the aura of destruction. Which immediately destroyed her killing intent and made her feel like she was being choked.
"I merely disciplined you, an arrogant and prideful woman who dragged me around ever since we met." Rhys spoke naturally.
He walked closer to the barely standing the first empress and looked at her straight in the eye, "I am not evil, nor wicked. But you have managed to get on my nerves time after time. I get you are prideful, so am I. I get you are tired of waiting. But to drag me around like some animal hurts my pride, not as a man but as a dragon." His pupils turned into vertical slits.
He was being honest, Rhys felt his pride break every time he was dragged around by the first empress.
"I'll keep the side of my promise. Now stop being such a rude woman and behave!" Rhys slapped her butt once more, making her go red with shame and hate, yet before she could say anything, Rhys took out Oathbreaker and slashed her body.
For a moment, the first empress thought dead was coming, but the sword did not make any physical wound, only a wound in her soul Where the oath was located, she found the very oath that bound her for so long had been shattered and was gone.
She felt a weight leave her body as she felt the path ahead becoming clear, she was about to break down, but first, she at least wanted to thank Rhys. Yet when she turned towards him she saw he had left.
'He probably returned to his woman.' She fell to her knees, looking vulnerable at this moment. 'How cruel, he touches me like that and then leaves... what am I suppose to do now that I feel like I have been defiled.'
The first empress knew Rhys did nothing like that, yet she could not help but feel like this. She looked back and then up to the sky, her eyes shone as she vanished.
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Author's Note: One more chapter, I am trying to end it with the next chapter so I can go on a little break and then start a new volume...