The sun rose, as it rays shown through the room's massive windows, a figure groggily woke up by the doing of a ringing alarm.
Following a light knocking sound, the room's door soundlessly opened as Charlotte entered with her usual soundless light steps, " Good morning, your highness, your shower is ready!, would you like to have your breakfast in your room or at the hall ".
" Mhm, Morning, Bring it .....hahhh... to my room in 40 minutes " came the reply between yawns, Allen moved groggily to the bath just as he opened the door " Ah, also double the egg's food, I checked on it yesterday with father and he said it should hatch in a couple of days ".
" As you wish " was Charlotte's as she bowed then left the room.
Around 30 minutes later, Allen came out of the bath wearing white shorts and with a towel on his shoulder and steam emitting from his head, with a relaxed sigh Allen stretched his body among popping noises, " Such a good sleep, i feel like just going back ".
Moments later Allen sat in a reclining chair browsing the news while sipping on tea a that Charlotte brought with the meal.
While scrolling the news, Allen tilted his head towards Charlotte as he asked " Where is the report from the scouting team? is it here yet ".
On the side was Charlotte, replacing the old crystal balls around the egg with new ones, the formerly glowing crystal balls that reflected a multi-colored light now was of a dim gray color, once replaced a weak discernible pulse of energy was exuded from the egg.
Following it was the visually noticeable dimming of the crystal balls.
Hearing Allen's voice Charlotte replied " We received a report about the ruins, would you like to read it now? ", As she replied Charlotte moved to a desk picking up a folder.
Seeing the file on Charlotte's hands Allen tilted his head, looking at the folder " read it for me ".
" As you wish!,..... " Moments later~ Charlotte retrieved a report of few pages long, and with a quick scanning look she summarized it.
" According to report the ruins is of an ancient kingdom's royal capital that was sunk below the surface due to the collapse of the undergrounds structure below the city, we found traces of battle around the ruins, from the information we have the underground structure seem to be a minor subsidiary city of the infamous Dark City were the dark races used to gather, to the day we found traces of the treants, blood races, beast-men and demon-kins. ".
Suddenly Allen interjected in a buzzled tone " Beast-men and Treants with Blood races in the same space? haha that's recipe for chaos, but from our words this Dark city doesn't seem to be a small influence, right? " a weird look on his face.
Following a soft chuckle " They were once, before angering a certain person ".
Allen's eyebrows lifted slightly, curious but not caring so much as to ask about it, since they were a " was " then they are nothing but history.
" Our finding from the level of artifacts and remains we found are not much but we are assuming the highest cultivation realm in the kingdom to lay around the late stages of the Emperor realm, additionally we figured that they used a ruling structure of a royal council were there no sole ruler but a group sharing that authority, we yet to know the details as the rest of the records still need to be recovered & translated ".
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" Sounds interesting, well... " Nodding in understanding, as Allen replied his eyes squinted slightly
" Let us have the next journey in...a week, I want to see what's that buried city has to hide. ",
" Submit a request for an additional elite team of guard and a team of Archaeologist, Formation masters, Trap experts, a week should be more than enough for everything to be perfectly organized ".
" As you wish, I will inform butler Quinn right now " was Charlotte's reply as she left the room.
Sometime after Charlotte left Allen sat in a meditative position with the spiritual energy in the room revolving around him, a circle of absorption, refinement began,
The world's natural spiritual energy was absorbed then refined by Allen's lightening cultivation art that led the refined energy to contain a concept of lightening elemental energy, faint lightning arches flashed around his figure, with his eyes closed Allen was engrossed in cultivating as time passed by.
Like this, among the silence Allen's cultivation continued and the energy stored within his dantian increased, after each major circulation of energy Allen's spiritual energy would reach a level of purity.
Afterall the purer the energy the higher a cultivator's prowess.
The door opened soundlessly as Charlotte entered, once she saw Allen engrossed in cultivation she soundlessly closed the door and went to stand on the side, her aura concealed.
Three days later.
Four jeeps drove through the dry endless desert, with its golden sand, burning sun and oven-like heat, the scenery from the distance looked like a reeling waves of liquid gold.
A while later the four cars stopped near what seemed to be a remains of an ancient city, its building half buried in the sand, some other where completely buried and can not be seen,
Peoples got out of the cars as some took some bags and started building a make-shift tents while the others started looking around.
Inside the houses, and on the streets lay the different broken parts walls, roofs and doors.
on the distance leaning on a half broken wall was a skeletal remain of what seemed to be a human surrounded by a group of giant beastly skeletons, some had horns and tails while others had wings.
However once Allen walked nearer to the skeleton, he a small horns on the side of the humanoid skeleton's head.
Suddenly came a soft voice from beside Allen " For a skeleton to survive to the present date, it must've belonged to a fairly powerful cultivator, Maybe a King realm. ".
Turning his head Allen looked at Charlotte who inspecting the surrounding with a curious glint.
In the far distance where the Centre of the sand buried city should have been a massive dark hole could be seen,
Suddenly an old man jumped from the moving group and levitated himself mid-air, turning left and right a moment later he shot to a higher altitude, turning his head left and right, seemingly inspecting the terrain.
Moments later he took out a report and started comparing while switching places, 15 minutes later, that seemed like an eternity for Allen who couldn't wait to enter the ruins and maybe get himself a nice collectable all that in addition for the excitement.
A while later the old man waved his hand so vigorously you would be worried his old bones might just fly off, supported by Charlotte, Allen flew beside the old man.
-- Normally for a cultivator to gain the ability to float in the air they must have a cultivation above the Great Origin realm for short distances, and for freely flying a higher cultivation is needed --
Handing the report in his hand to Allen the old man started talking " Your highness!, As you can see, this abyss-like hole is of an irregular shape, according to my assumption this hole seems to be the result of an unimaginable attack with the shape of a palm, if you compare the edges with a human palm you can find similarities on some of the edges, with some having collapsed from time which resulted in its current shape."
Allen had a contemplative expression while Charlotte looked like she couldn't care less about such a fact.
" From the earlier report, to think such damage could be done by the attack of a late stage Emperor, when considering the defensive array and protection formations in a city of this size. ".
" You're right your highness, the battle that caused the destruction seemed to have included a number of Emperors realm powerhouses ".
At that moment two figure joined the Allen's group, their auras while contained, "Your highness, there is lingering imperial might scattered in the area, you have to be careful ".
Hearing this, Allen's face twitched " That's a bit dangerous isn't ? I might just turn to dust if I get attacked by it ".