Two days later, it was finally the time, the first awakening ritual would take place in the night. The palace was bustling, since the last mission the genius didn't get another mission nor they were informed of their punishment.
Everyone was occupied by the awakening ritual, it was the comeback of an ancestral and very important ritual. Zach heard some servants talking about Kimstros state, he was still unconscious but he would survive.
For this first ritual it was planned that the first to go was a not so much important member of the genius squad to see if everything was right, after him every member of the royal familly would go. There was the King, Zoe, 4 princes and another princess, Zoe's siblings were quite older and had high position in the army.
Zach stayed by Zoe's side, he wanted to talk with her and be there because it was an event of the utmost importance, she also knew that war was coming and it troubled her.
"Zoe do you know about all the cultivation there is ?" Zach emphasized the all, he wanted to know if Zoe knew about the soul cultivation. Zoe understood the underlying meaning in Zach question, she nodded and answered in a low and serious tone.
"You also know about the Soul cultivation, there are few methods to reinforce the soul in this world and each one isn't of great quality or efficiency. I saw the one our country has, it's not as great as my father would have wanted."
Zach didn't ask this question out of the blue, her soul was becoming more and more powerful. It became more obvious as the day passed it became harder for him to observe her power with accuracy.
It could only have 2 meanings, first she trained in a technique which masked her power or second her soul was reinforcing making the difficulty to see through her harder. Zach doubted that she started a technique to mask her cultivation.
Zoe said herself that the soul cultivation Delp kingdom had was mediocre, there was only one last possibility. 'It can't be, right ? Zoe practice the core of life method and it should be making her soul cultivation advance.'
If he was right, that meant that the core of life method was far more greater than what they thought at first, maybe it had a value that was nearing his method.
She was near the verge of the rank 1 in the soul cultivation, once she had her soul cultivation at the rank 2 she would be able to observe her soul. Zach was able to do so before because his soul cultivation was special.
The sun finally set and the moon started to rise in the sky, it was time to go to place where the ritual would unfold. Zoe and Zach reached it, there was already the king, the old elf and a good part of everyone who was present at the council.
The vermilion cube was on the ground, the moon was illuminating it, with how dense the mana was everyone felt like was almost becoming liquid.
After an hour everyone who should be present arrived and the moon was fully illuminating the ritual ground. It was time, the young boy that served as a test walked forward, he put himself in the midst of spirit plants.
The old elf started to chant, the young boy who was an elf started to feel a great burden on his brain. He had the greatest headache he ever had, he felt like something was breaking, he fell on his knees.
At this moment everyone felt like it had failed and he was badly hurt. However the next instant the thing he felt breaking in his head was no more and the pain disappeared. He got up and felt greater than ever, he became more sensitive to the ambient mana and could absorb it more easily.
Everyone was dazed, the young boy who before had beatiful blonde hair, he now had a few strands of hair of a beatiful dark green color.
The next instant the cheerful voice of everyone could be heard, they had succeed, their ancestral ritual could finally be again, they could finally become whole after thousands of years.
Some had a few tears rolling down their cheeks, the old elf was in pure bliss, it was a success, he could be the witness of the retrieving and the first of their greatest pride for a long time.
Everything was going smoothly, it was time for everyone in the royal family to awaken their bloodline, the first of them would be the King himself.
Like the boy, the King went in the middle of them, he could feel that the mana's density was greatly reduced compared to before the first ritual. However he also felt that it was increasing at a fast pace, he had to wait a few minutes before it would be enough to perform the ritual.
After 10 minutes he felt that the density was good again and so he commanded to start again the ritual. Like the young boy he felt something in his brain that started to break, he also had a great headache but the King didn't fell on his knees.
After a few minutes the pain disappeared, the King had awoken his bloodline, like the young boy some of his hair became dark green, however everyone could see that he had no more white hair, each of them were of the beatiful gold color they once had.
The King had a great feeling, he felt like he came back to his prime, he felt that the energy could flow in his body with greatest ease.
The King was 204 years old, each rank one attained would give them another hundred years of lifespan. The elves were known to advance quite quickly in their young years, much more than any other races. He was one of the few to have reach the rank 5 before his 200 years old among every races.
However after breaking through he felt like it would take him a great time and much effort to advance again. This was before the awakening ritual, at this moment he felt like he would be able to attain the peak rank 5 before turning 320 years old.
He would not be able to advance for the war but considering how fast the younger generation could go he was confident in their odds to win.
After the King, Zoe's siblings went one after another to undergo the ritual, everything was the same, they each ended with some dark green hairs and a better feeling of the energy.
It was eventually Zoe's time to awaken her bloodline, like every other one she put herself in the midst of the other. The old elf chanted and the ritual began, like the other Zoe felt something in her brain which was breaking.
Like the other she felt a great pain but she managed to stand still. However, suddenly she felt on her knees and she started to scream in pain, everyone was confused, even the weakest, the boy, didn't end in this state.
She was holding her head, the pain she was suffering was the greatest she ever felt, she was starting to lose her voice from her screams.
Nobody understood and everyone was starting to worry about her state. Zach, when he looked at her, understood, he could saw thanks to his great soul cultivation and soul mastery skill that something was happening with her soul.
'Why is her awakening is making changes to her soul ? It hasn't done this to any of the one before.'
The old elf and the King had practiced a soul cultivation method and they could feel that her abnormal state was related to her soul, it started to distress them.
They were about to go calm her but she fell unconscious at this moment. No one knew why this happened and if she would be alright, when they reached her they were happy to see that she was still alive.
Her hair were slowly turning dark green, unlike the other it wasn't in one go that her hair were changing color, it was yet another difference with the other.
The King picked her and ordered. "The ritual is finished, everyone go, we won't conduct another one until we know what happened to my daugther !"
Everyone nodded and went back, the old elf was following the King who was bringing Zoe in her room.
Zach hoped that everything would be alright, he also wanted to follow the king to take a look at her but he felt that if he did that he would end in a sorry state as he felt that the King and the old elf were nervous.
Now the only thing they had to do was to wait and see how her state would evolve, her hairs still didn't stop from turning dark green, it made them think that the awakening of her bloodline was still going on.
However it was odd, the awakening process took at most only a dozen of minutes but for Zoe it was already going for an hour.