[Location: Focalor, Capital City Focaris]
[12:05 PM, February 18, 134827, AP]
[9 hours before Nepheria watched the data crystal]
"Your highness, Vortigern, you're here. Just perfect timing. Look at this—what we have found" the Noble said as he saw Crown walking through the huge door. Seeing Crown made him happy, as he just found something of great use, not just for Crown himself but also for everyone in the empire. It could save countless lives if he is successful in this endeavor. As he opened the chest in his hands, he showed the white, pristine seed inside the box to Crown.
"What is it? A sort of seed?" Crown said as she looked at the white, pristine seed inside the box that the Noble was holding. She wonders what sort of seed this is, as this is the first time she's seen such a type of seed. It was smooth on every edge. There's no roughness at all, as she looked at the Noble for confirmation that what she said just now was correct.
"Yes, a seed, your highness, but not just any seed, but a seed of Eternal Flower. From the leftover knowledge of our family, it is stated that this is the most dangerous thing yet also the most docile. If it ever existed again or got out of its said garden with this, maybe we could tame it. It's still young after all" the Noble said as he gave the name to Crown, telling her that its name is the Eternal Flower. It was all thanks to his family's ancient history that they even knew about such things, as they are well-known travelers in every world or dimension. They hold countless secrets, but a lot has gradually been lost due to the passage of time. As he also suggested taming it while also stating that it's very dangerous yet very docile when done correctly, he believed that as long as they did everything correctly, they could tame this flower.
"Are you sure I don't feel any magical fluctuation in it or any energy in it? It's equivalent to a normal seed in my eyes" Crown said, hesitant, as she just can't take the risk of it if it's called the most dangerous thing, as there's a chance it might backfire instead of becoming docile. It would endanger the empire that she currently rules over.
"I am sure of it, your highness. This is the flower that my ancestor knew of. With the use of my ancestors' knowledge, maybe we could use it to tame the flower and use it to end this war that had encroached on our people for decades" the Noble said as he believed that with the help of his ancestors knowledge, maybe they could tame it and make it help them win the war that had plagued their empire for decades.
"Are you sure about this?" Crown said as she was still hesitant about it, but she seemed to be sure of its success that it might be tamed and able to help their empire defeat their enemies and make their empire recover from the decades of non-stop fighting.
"Yes, I am sure of this. Please give me permission to tame this flower" the Noble said, as he had a lot of faith that this work would succeed in taming the seeds. Hearing what the Noble just said, Crown looked at the seed inside the box after some time of thinking he had reached a conclusion.
"Th- " Crown said as she was about to agree. She was suddenly cut off as the door opened with a bang as the figure of a large, muscular man appeared. He is the General who commanded the whole army and is currently controlling the frontline soldiers when Crown is not in the battlefield.
"Excuse me, your highness, for my rudeness, but the frontline is in need of assistance. Their ruler had also appeared. Maybe with this we have the chance to finally end this forsaken war and give peace to our people" The General said as the frontline needed reinforcement due to the ruler of the enemy kingdom just appearing in the frontlines, increasing the morale of the enemies as their number also increased, making the frontline more desperate, so the General came to Crown himself as fast as he could so he could deliver this message to her and possibly also bring some soldiers to the capital city.
"But what about the flower, your highness?" The Noble said as he asked Crown about the flower if she would give them her permission to tame the flower so that they could use the flower's power to help them at the war they are currently in.
"The flower is not needed, especially since their ruler is on the frontlines. If we could just kill him right there and now, we could have the peace we wanted in this instant as long as he died" Crown said. Just like she said, as long as their ruler dies, most of the combined forces of their enemies will falter, making the enemies unorganized and in chaos, giving them time to hunt them down one by one with ease until none of them will fight against their empire.
"General bring me my weapon and my soldiers to march into the battlefield as I too will enter the frontlines to confront their ruler" Crown said too the General as she looked at the General ordering him to find her weapon and bring it to her as she also ordered him to bring the soldiers of the capital to help in the frontlines.
"Understood," the General said as he and Crown left the room, leaving the Noble in the room, as his face contorted to that of anger due to the fact that he did not even have a chance to gain Crown's permission, making his future plans harder to maneuver.
"That asshole, I almost got her highness's approval to start and find a way to awaken it and tame it, but that asshole just got to the important part. With this, I won't get any funding from his highness himself" The Noble said as he kicked the table in front of him, making the table fly through the room, hitting the wall as it broke down. Seeing what he had done, he forcefully calmed himself down, knowing that there are many other ways to succeed in his plans, but it's still harder without the support of Crown himself.
"Never mind that I still had that cube in me. I could use it as a catalyst for waking it up" the Noble said as he snapped his hand as a maid appeared out of nowhere, as she bowed to the Noble in front of her as she looked at the broken table besides the wall, as she just sighed and looked back at the Noble.
"Is there anything you need, master?" The Maid said as she looked at the Noble, who is holding the box containing the flower itself tightly. She knew how dangerous it is, yet also how useful it is if it is controlled correctly.
"Yes, bring all of the scientists we currently have to create an item that could hold a huge amount of energy" the Noble said. As he needs an item to be a catalyst for it to grow, he does not need any form of energy as the seed already has it. As long as he puts the seed inside the catalyst, the power that the seed emanates will help the seed itself grow on its own. What he is doing is just making the process earlier, although rougher than the standard membrane that the seeds created. When it grows with the help of the catalyst, it will have a weak membrane that could hasten its growth.
"As you wish, master" the Maid said as she suddenly teleported out of her position so she could finish the job that the noble ordered her to do.
"Now that plan A failed, plan B should at least work" the Noble said as he looked at the sky and suddenly heard the papers falling on the table. He saw that the papers seemed to have fallen due to the wind.
"Hmm? Maybe just the wind" the Noble said as he got closer to the window and closed it so the wind would not enter to mess up the papers again as he reorganized the papers and left the room.
"Oh god, that was dangerous. I knocked down those papers. Luckily, I instantly made it look like the wind had passed through the papers. Well, at least I found that the seed is actually here. It seems that my book is also in this reality" Evelyn said as he suddenly appeared sitting in the chair, yet he was here to search for the seed that got out of the Eternal Garden, but he would never have thought that he actually found it so easily as he seemed to feel something familiar close by: his book, an artifact created through his existence.