After presenting this absurd present, they all said happily and simultaneously, "Young miss happy-."
Tatyana snatched the present away and said. "Ten life-saving treasures!? That is too much! Do you want to make her immortal or something!?"
The maids pouted, and Anna said, "Lady Tatyana! At least let us give her one!"
Tatyana shook her head, "No, a pill or something similar isn't bad, but there is no way I will let you give her something so precious."
After hearing that a pill was okay, Anna and Eve smiled widely and took out a transcendent level pill, each with an aura that gave the surroundings an ancient vibe. Tatyana and the rest looked stupefied at those pills.
"Happy birth-"
Tatyana directly snatched them away again. "Do you want fate to go to hell!? Also, where the hell did you get these pills!?"
Dr. Ava looked at them and frowned. Then, realization hit her, and she exclaimed. "Oy, aren't those pills mine!?"
Anna and Eve froze for a second and said simultaneously, "O-Of course not, master. How could you think we stole these pills to give them to our young miss four months ago!? It is impossible we would disrespect you for our young miss!"
Dr. Ava felt some veins pop in her forehead out of anger and her aura turned turbulent, making Anna and Eve sweat nervously. However, suddenly everything calmed down, and Dr. Ava smiled at them. "We will talk later, dear disciples."
A chill ran up their spines. The angrier Dr. Ava got, the calmer and more gentle she looked. 'W-We are going to suffer...'
But, Yasenia interrupted with a smile and came to their rescue. "Don't be so angry, Aunt Avalonia. They did it out of goodwill, so could you reduce the punishment?"
Dr. Ava sighed and said, "Fine, you two are lucky that I like little Yasenia a lot."
Anna and Eve jumped into Yasenia's embrace with tears in their eyes. "We love you, young miss!"
They totally did this out of gratefulness and not to take advantage of the situation and have more skin-ship with their young miss, absolutely not.
Yasenia patted the pair of sisters and said, "Do not do this again; I know you want to give me things, but stealing from people we know is not good."
'So stealing from people we don't know is good.' Were the collective thoughts of all the maids.
Yasenia continued speaking after she looked at the other maids, "Also, don't worry about the life-saving treasures; I already have a lot of them! Thanks a lot anyway. The intention is more than enough."
But, the maids were thinking, 'A chance to give young miss good things, how could we not bury her with treasures?'
Therefore, Anna and the rest gave her even more healing pills, beast repelling pills, and similar pills of not a very high grade until Tatyana had to intervene again. The maids tsked and stopped giving her things, leaving Yasenia with arms full of pill jars. Yasenia and the rest of the present people were looking at the pile of pill jars stupidly. 'Isn't that still a little too much!?'
How could they know that the "small present" meaning was also a little skewered inside Tatyana's mind? Yasenia wouldn't be lacking low-level pills for a long time!
After Yasenia put away all the pills, Angel was next. Yasenia saw her little girl coming forward with a sweet smile and a formation rock on her palm. "Yasenia, here, this is an instant formation with my [Laser Prison Formation] inscribed in it! You can use it up to five times! Moreover, it will gain the strength of the attribute you use it with!"
Yasenia's eyes opened wide, 'That formation is extremely complex; to be able to ingrain it in something that can use it instantly, you need an extremely precious material and a ton of months of perfecting the energy circuits. This object is similar to a mid-grade earth rank treasure only because of its limited uses. If it wasn't limited, reaching the low-level heaven rank wouldn't be impossible!'
The reason Tatyana didn't take these presents over was that they were gained by people of a similar level to Yasenia, so they won't affect fate even if they give her a transcendent ranked treasure. And for those curious, no amount of "smart" cheating will make it possible to deliver these kinds of presents through low-level cultivators without altering the recipient's fate.
Yasenia looked at the nervous Angel and hugged her close, burying her in her softness and filled with gratefulness. "Thanks a lot, baby. I like it a lot. I love you."
Angel became extremely happy and rubbed her little head between Yasenia's breasts. 'Yay! She liked my present~.'
Yasenia kissed her and then let her return. Angel retreated with a sweet smile and blushing cheeks from the joy she was feeling.
Evelyn and Andrea came up next.
Yasenia looked curiously at the two of them. 'Hoh~ is it a shared present? I'm eager to know what it is~.'
Andrea smirked and said, "Since Evelyn entered the tailoring profession, we've decided to make a present together for you."
Yasenia became excited. 'It truly is a shared present~, is lovely to see my dears getting along together~.'
Evelyn said, scratching her head. "Well, Andrea is exaggerating. She almost finished it completely by herself; I just helped her here and there..."
Evelyn straightened and said proudly. "But, although I've dragged Andrea back with my low skill, at least we managed to make a nice pair of gloves."
Andrea chuckled and patted Evelyn's electric blue hair. "She has put a ton of effort into this. It is clear that she has a lot of potential in tailoring, much more than she had in alchemy. The learning pace was almost visual during these months. I'm actually quite eager to work with Evelyn together in the future." Evelyn smiled happily, receiving Andrea's praise.
Yasenia went forward and hugged Evelyn while nestling inside Andrea's embrace. "Thanks a lot, dear, darling. I will treasure these gloves."
Evelyn's smile grew uncontrollably, and she scolded jokingly. "You haven't even seen them, and you are already saying this! You are still a stupidly lovable dragoness."
Yasenia chuckled and said softly, "Even if there are mortal ranked, this dragoness will wear them!"
Andrea lowered her head, and Evelyn tiptoed to kiss Yasenia's cheeks simultaneously, making the dragoness smile. Evelyn then commented, "If they were mortal ranked, we wouldn't let you wear them out of fear they hurt you!"
Then, without letting the dragoness wait anymore, Evelyn took out a pair of white and golden fingerless leather gloves. Andrea said with pride, "After our efforts, we managed to create a high-level Earth-rank pair of gloves. Their effect is simple and effective, doubling the strength of the bearer's punches. Although the gloves that come with your battle dress are sturdy and can act as a nice defense, I think being on the offense is more fitting for you. Moreover, we made these gloves with yours in mind so that you can put them both. They should fit quite well together."
Evelyn nodded, "With your absurd body strength, these pair of gloves are very fitting. You would be able to punch things into oblivion!"
Yasenia was more than delighted.
It was already a happy event to our dragoness, no matter what they gave her. So them giving her something so useful, as Angel did, made our dragoness wash them with kisses and love.
The people around looked at the attacking dragoness and her laughing victims and chuckled.
Andrea and Evelyn went down with kiss marks all over their face and smiles that couldn't leave their faces.
Next, it was Cecile's turn to go up. Yasenia looked at her, and her tail wagged. "Even sweetheart is giving me something?"
Cecile smiled gently, highlighting her peerlessly beautiful face, and nodded. Her face didn't have her normally cold features but a constant gentle smile on it, bewitching a lot of people present. Her voice was clear, like always. "I was troubled for a long time since I'm not an expert in any profession... I didn't know what to give you for your birthday for a long time."
Yasenia embraced her and said, "It doesn't matter; anything you give me is something I will cherish my whole life."
Cecile embraced her with her arms and wings and said, "I know. That is why I tried to find something useful. So... I went to the library and found something that may be useful to you. However, it was extremely rare, and there wasn't any place that sold it."
Cecile took out a fist-sized pearl. It was gold, silver, and white. Those colors swam around the pearl in mesmerizing waves. The aura around it was mysterious and profound. At a single glance, every person present could sense that it was a natural treasure from the Heavens and Earth.
Treasures were divided into natural and artificial. The meaning was quite literal.
Natural treasures were created after countless years passed and because of environmental factors.
Cultivators created artificial treasures with different techniques in a much faster way.
The main difference was that Natural treasures grew with the bearer if they managed to link together. This was because they had that ability to evolve after so many years of tempering themselves in nature. On the other hand, artificial treasures did not have this quality.
So this extremely beautiful pearl was actually something very precious.
Tatyana and the seniors around raised an eyebrow, impressed. Even themselves wouldn't be able to get their hands on something like this easily.
'How did she get her hands on this?' Were the thoughts of many people around.
Cecile said, "This is a [Celestial Pearl]. From what I read about, it will be able to aid you with cultivation and comprehension of your elements and grow with you."
Yasenia glanced at that pearl and was instantly mesmerized; she felt like it was made for her. Entranced, she slowly moved her hand forward, grabbing the fist size pearl.
When her skin touched the pearl, Yasenia felt her thoughts become clearer, and she was able to gain an understanding of the world she didn't have before. Her eyes unfocused, and in the next instant, she had a single vision of herself.
Yasenia was floating in the sky, wearing royal robes that made her beauty become Empyreal, and her golden slit eyes glowed beautifully radiating imperial might.
A gaze so bewitching that could captivate even the most apathetic of Gods and Goddesses.
With innate elegance, she commanded the firmament as if she were a supreme being, moving stars, planets, or any celestial being as if they were an extension of her own body. And behind her, a dragon so immense that it could dwarf those celestial bodies was flapping its wings majestically.
Its body seemed to be made with a piece of the starry night sky, with one half governed by the Sun and another by the Moon. Around them, the stars rotated, making Yasenia and that dragon that represented herself seem to be the center of the universe.
Everything and Everyone trembled beneath her absolute might! Or fell for her unmatched beauty!
Then, the vision shifted, and she felt herself floating in space, surrounded by the countless stars of the firmament, with the moon to her right and the sun to her left. Everywhere she looked, only the infiniteness of the universe welcomed her sight. Everywhere but before herself.
In this mysterious space, before Yasenia was a flame that carried the same attributes as everything she governed, dark blue with white glitters. It was moving in a mesmerizing way, making Yasenia unable to look away from it once she spotted it. When Yasenia looked at that flame, she felt that thing that was about to awaken extremely clear.
It was a kind of energy that was hidden inside of her, energy so chaotic, yet beautiful; so powerful, yet mysterious; so ancient, yet it seemed everywhere in the world, creating new life and destroying it at will.
It was clear in Yasenia's mind what it was.
The Celestial Attribute.
An attribute that governs everything in the sky.
An attribute that defines the firmament.
An attribute as old as the universe itself.
An attribute that came even before the concept of life and death.
Its color was a dark blue, but it was filled with white glitter as if the attribute itself was a night sky. She extended her hand toward it, and when she was about to touch into it, something pulled her back to reality, and she came back into herself without being able to peer into it.