Estelle hummed in reply, Rex stopped massaging when he noticed her falling asleep, he smiled a little with a doting look before shouting at her "you have the nerve to sleep huh?! Get up and practice observing mana"
Estelle was scared shitless with his shouting she sat up grumbling and glared at him while sitting cross-legged she started observing the mana from her surroundings, Rex stood up when he saw Elmo coming towards him,
"She is working quite hard," Rex said to Elmo in a voice only they can hear,
"And you look like you are enjoying training her?" Elmo raised an eyebrow at him
"Well, she isn't rejecting nor she is complaining, I want to see how far she goes" smirking
"For someone who was worshiped as a god of peace you are quite evil with your thoughts," said Elmo wiping the smirk off Rex's face
"I am not that evil, I am just training her in the test of her patience and will, which are both surprisingly strong" retorted Rex with annoyance at Elmo
Elmo chuckled and said "you can't blame her that's her nature in the past life she was always said to do this and that but was not allowed to do anything on her own accord, instead of becoming an insane one she made a positive move of excelling and escaping with the path she was asked to take"
Rex nodded his head "well that old hag really tricked her neatly"
Elmo chuckled "that he sure did"
Estelle was meditating to observe her mana was perplexed when some dense particles of different colors came towards her, she tried grabbing them but they were slipping through her grasp,
frustrated Estelle concentrated on one color of particle, which she felt more in common with others, and relentlessly grabbed them after, when she felt a splitting headache, she stopped observing and laid on her back,
Evelyn who was writing something noticed her and said: "master you sat like that for four hours you know?"
Estelle widens her eyes "what?! I only felt like a few minutes though"
A familiar blue interface popped up surprising both Evelyn and Estelle
[congratulations! to the host on successfully observing mana particles of water and advancing to level-1]
[congratulations! The host has unlocked a new skill and some basic spells of water mana]
Estelle and Evelyn both were shocked seeing the interface they straightened themselves and sat side by side looking at the interface,
Rex and Elmo came towards them when they saw them sitting like that
"What are you both doing? Sitting together dazed? I don't see any stars though" said Rex while looking at the bright sky
Estelle and Evelyn whipped their heads to him and asked "don't you see anything Infront of us?"
Rex Shaked his head as no and Elmo did same, at the same time, another interface popped up in Infront of them
[Host has a message from- 'friendly handsome grandpa' read/ ignore]
Estelle said read in her mind and the message opened
[those two-tailed animals with big bodies can't see my system they only know that I provided you and Evelyn this space but I also gave you this system for you in order to understand your progression yourself better
PS: brat don't say this to them, I am warning you]
Estelle's expression was blank and helpless when she saw the message are all the bigshots supposed to be this snobby, shaking her head she gave Evelyn a look.
Evelyn nodded her head and ignored Rex who was questioning them loudly, along with Elmo they left the shouting Rex, pissing him off
The Kingdom of Dragao,
The mansion of Duke Ryker's family
Cole Ryker the present duke, the grandfather of the general Darren Ryker and the beloved friend of the former king Herald de Lecardia, is now sitting at his desk in his study while eyeing the man who was leisurely sipping the tea with great annoyance
"Your majesty, that's the fourth cup you drank now" the annoyance in his voice was so clear,
"How can you be stingy when I am patiently waiting for you to finish your work," the former king Herald said with a calm face pouring himself another cup,
"Stop drinking at this rate you drink all the tea in my house?" Duke shouted at him angrily,
"My friend don't be aggressive I came here to discuss something important with you" heralds face turned serious,
Duke Ryker sat in front of him angrily yet his serious face was quite stern "is this about the child that came as a peace treaty"
"The word has reached you huh!" herald stated calmly sipping his tea
"How the fuck won't it reaches me when you made my dear granddaughter serve that child while she is getting treatment"
Herald stopped himself from spurting the tea he lowered his cup, placing it on the table "I want to protect the child and also my daughter-in-law"
"Remind you henry's daughter can never be replaced that child knows what she was thrown into, even though she willingly fell into the trap" Cole said with an empathy
"I know, I promised my brother I will take care of her but I failed"
"What's the point of you whining now? the damage is already done" Cole said annoyed
the series of events Herald pulled will lead to certain changes in the power struggle among the kingdom, the former queen and some hot-headed individuals were laying low because of the war,
if the present king were to take their support by them that will be the start of internal conflicts and the kingdom will most likely fall into the hands of other kingdoms who were treacherously waiting for the downfall of Kingdom Dragao.
Cole's thoughts were interrupted by Herald's "Cole I want you to protect that child in your territory with that I will send Jane as the attending doctor along"
"Do you think that dumb son of yours will not oppose you? don't "