"Flor"
"~Yes, Master?~"
"Undress"
Upon hearing what I said, without any hesitation or doubt on her face, the little girl started to undress inside the carriage.
Before anyone gets the wrong idea, let me clear it up: 'I'm not a pedophile'. There is a real reason for this situation.
From my observations of the runes and the answers from the little girl, I gradually uncovered the real identity of the runes on the twins' bodies. They are the projection of the twins' martial spirits. Even for someone like me who has lived for more than two centuries It's hard to take in that something like this could exist.
But of course there is a catch, the runes on the twins' body can be considered only as an illusionary projection of their real martial projection. They aren't made from the aura stored in the body so they need to create their martial spirits like any aura practitioner. and to further add it up, the twins have no control over it at present nor they will have it in the future until the day they reach Lord realm.
Because of it's virtual nature, I dubbed it as the 'virtual martial spirit'. A simple yet 'straight to the point' name. And the reason I felt a familiar energy from the twins is because of the virtual martial spirit's close similarity to the martial spirit of a Lord realm practitioner.
Unlike the real martial spirit, the virtual martial spirit doesn't have the ability to store the aura generated from the soul. Thus when the minuscule amount of aura generated from their soul gets released to the atmosphere and make contact with the runes on their bodies, it generates random effects not in the control of the host. This is the true mystery behind the twins' random generation of fortunes and misfortunes. Even though they are uncontrollable, they are strong enough to affect heaven realm expert. After all even if it is a fake it's still a martial spirit in the end.
When you think of the disadvantages the little girl is facing because of it, it may not sound enticing, but they do have their advantages. As per the books left by the Wanderer, after advancing to the Lord realm, the next step for a practitioner is to combine all the martial spirits they have into one. For that it takes a lot of talent in comprehension and time. And the one thing the Lord realm practitioner has is time. But in the case of the twins, they can comprehend and combine their virtual spirit in to one entity before entering the Lord realm and at the time of creation of their martial spirit they can directly create the one single martial spirit rather the fragmented spirits like mine.
Anyway back to the reason of undressing, since the little girl can't control the effect the of the runes, I thought of sealing it up and for that she needs to undress.
While I was in my thought, the little girl completely undressed apart from the underwear.
"Flor"
"~yes, master?~"
"How much runes are there are on your body?" I asked as I looked at the runes on her body. There are a lot of them on her body for me to take count.
"~49~" She said in her usual tiny voice. But the answer hit me like lightning.
3 of mine vs 49 of the litte girl's? It's not even funny. It's like comparing the attributes of a mob monster to a boss monster in an rpg. And who even does that? Idiots, I suppose.
In the first place the martial spirits of someone like me who entered the Lord realm by chance is not even supposed to be compared with normal geniuses much less a super talent like the twins.
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In the end it doesn't matter to me that much as all I wished for was eternal life and I have gotten it.
"And how much does your sister has?" I asked waiting for the next impact.
"~49~"
Okay, let's stop it there, I may not care about it in limelight, but it does hurt my pride in there.
I unsheathed the sword placed beside me from it's sheathe until it's blade is shown, and scratched my finger against it allowing my blood to flow.
The only way I can think of to suppress the runes is by painting the runes with my blood mixed with the aura of my soul. And to do that I will need to bleed a lot. And the accumulated aura that I'm using now can be considered as a future investment in her.
I started to paint the runes on her body with my blood mixed with aura. Haa.. that's one, 48 more to go.
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Two people, one woman and one man are waiting outside the White tiger village for someone. They are dressed in red and and white robes respectively with matching plain mask on their faces.
"Did you find who took the twins?" The woman in red mask asked as she saw a man in black clothing come out of the village.
"Yes, the child of fortune was taken by the sect master of Ancient blade sect." The man in black clothing said in a neutral voice as he pulled his human mask out of his face revealing the face of a expressionless woman before placing a plain black mask on her face.
"Should we follow?" The man in white clothing asked.
"No, the old man left early early expecting people like us and by now he must have already entered the territory of the Ancient blade sect. We three alone cannot content with a power like the blade sect."
"Then what about the second one?" The woman with the red mask asked.
"Since no one was able to control the misfortune emitted by the girl, she got taken by a child."
"A child, you say? What about the child's aura level?"
"At earth realm as per the the witnesses."
"We should start now before the Falcon empire's and the kingdom of Caelum's spies reach here."
"Red, trace the location." The woman in black ordered as he passed a single strand of black hair.
"On it" Red said as she took a compass out of her sleeve before inserting the strand of hair in to a small compartment on it.
The needle in the compass started to rotate before pointing to west.
"Judging by the movement, the target must be moving towards the capital city of Opheus." Red said as she observed at the compass.
"Are you positive Red?"
"Yes, I'm positive."
"Then lead the way."
Red nodded her head before taking off in the west direction with the other two behind her. They started to move without slowing down, But after a few hours Red started to slow down with continuously peeking at the compass until she completely stopped moving.
"Red?" White asked seeing Red's confused state.
"We lost the target's location." Red said as she pointed to the compass.
The needle which has been pointing towards the west, suddenly started rotating as if it lost it's target.
"What is it, Red? Is the target dead?" White asked in anxiety.
"Maybe, or the aura emitting from the child must be sealed up." Red said as she squinted her eyes under the mask.
"Hmm, the child of misfortune doesn't possess such ability as per the event. It's most likely the kid who took in the child of misfortune."
"Should we still continue moving towards the capital city of Opheus?" White asked.
"No, white find the identity of the kid, if the child can seal up someone like the child of misfortune then there must be a large organization behind her."
"What if it is something far beyond out reach?" white asked.
"Judging by the target's last location. The kid who took the child of misfortune must be probably associated with the kingdom of Opheus, and with the current state of Opheus we have no need to fear them but in case it is not Opheus and something far above us, we will withdraw."
"And if the target is actually dead ?" Red asked in a worried voice.
"The Guild master's command is to bring in the target, she didn't specify whether the target should be brought in alive or dead, do you understand?" Black said in a cold voice.
""Affirmative""
With that Red and Black started to move towards the west while White simply disappeared.
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"There! Finally completed." I said in a tired voice.
Now I don't need to bleed. My current body doesn't have that much blood in it as compared to my old body.
"Well with this, the random misfortune will stop popping out. Flor you can dress up." I said as I watched the cut on my index finger heal for the 49th time.
Even thought my current body is small, it is somewhat an upgraded version of my previous body. The strength, agility, flexibility, natural regeneration, range of the sensory organs and many things has gone far beyond my previous body.
I don't know why, but after sealing the last rune on the little girl's body I felt like I evaded something. And my intuition refined throughout my life is rarely wrong.