16 months passed since the Star meteoric iron! Much happened since then! The trio are now 16 years old! They have broken through to 4 star peak!

Eric Had gave up on making force increasing medecine! And doubled his efforts into making new medecine! He indeed succeeded! But they have not yet tried them! He made 2 new medecines, Force purifying paste which helps one purify his Inner force making it much more durable and forceful! The second medecine was for mages! This was the real invention! A mana increasing potion! It helps mages increase their mana! This made the difference between talented mages and normal mages shrink by quite a lot! But if talented mages use the potion as well they progress even faster! Before they only relied on meditation!

For the purifying paste he used herbs that had pure white essence but they were not enough so he added the ones with blue essence , after many combinations he finally found success and started developping that formula!

For the Potion, he first meditated and Trained his Essence Eyes! 1 month ! he did nothing but that! And he indeed grasped something , he could now see some floating energy with different colors! each belonging to an element! This was mana! He started studying its nature and how it ressembled essence from certain herbs. As such he decided that each potion would be different relying on which element the mage needed!

Aria had gained some insights during the procedure of processing and concocting this potion! She advanced to 6 star peak and is on the verge of breaking through to the transcendence realm! one step closer to getting her revenge!

Her relationship with Eric got a lot closer as she now knew of his essence eyes! The shock this brought her was huge! she was working with him everyday, the tea she now prepared is pretty good and food is now edible! They always started working after noon!

One time Eric came back and had a woman scent on him! She did not let him conduct any expirements on that day! He got interrogated so hard he gave up his ancestor's information!

He said a brothel woman wanted to seduce him and he eventually ran away! Aria Ignored him for 2 days! No matter how he apologised or teased her she still ignored him! he Then Bought a sapphire and wrote her name on it like he did to Aurora , she then smiled and talked to him normally! He had to admit that now Aria was quite important to him as well! being with a person everyday for a long time you would start to care about them if they treated you nicely!

Actually Aria was jealous! She didn't bare the idea of another woman getting close to him so she got so mad and ignored him!

The source of the scent was Aurora!! That day was the day where he hugged Aurora as they laid back on the tree! Their relationship was now confirmed! They hang out everyday and enjoyed each other's company!

Eric had a new habit! He showered before coming back to the mansion so that Aria would not get mad! He was having a headache about how to handle the situation! He feared the moment the two met!

If Aurora with her fiery personality knew he took a shower after hugging her and called her a brothel seductress she would tear his ears off their place! Eric now got used to getting scolded for no reason! One time they were going out! she always wore a robe that hid her figure and a veil! Eric saw a woman coming out of a store and her breasts were off the charts! She noticed him goggling them and she chased him down and started casting spells! She was a rare dual attribute wind fire mage! a 6 star one!

Eric on the other hand pranked her many times! One time he wrote her a letter as he hid with his stealth! The letter said he was going to check on his daughter! Aurora freaked out and beat him silly when he broke out laughing! Another time, he brought the assassin slave he had bought and said she was his fiance ! Aurora then wanted to kill them both! She was a jealous person as well !

He trained Also Joshua in the night and early morning! This helped joshua have better night vision and upgrade his precision! he gave him pointers on ambushes , different angles of attack the most common things between ranged fighters!

Joshua would have to develop his own skills regarding this new path he tread! but The trio had high hopes up for him!

Author note: God Help Azure throne kingdom when Aria and Aurora clash!

Cross was training hard! He knew that the opening of the ruins was coming soon! and they would need to be as strong as they could! OverDrive now can exert 150% easily and he created a new ability by combining the gravitational force of the sky crushing axe which was now a top 1 star weapon! like all the other soul bound weapons! and the skin strengthening he got from the twin headed snake! As the axe had Earth element he could infuse his inner force into the axe and the gravitational force would react and anything within 2 meters of the axe would have his gravity Doubled! Gravity field with the axe as core!

His clone was a good way to multi-task! the other two could do it as well but not as effective as Cross who had a doppelganger! his achievements in this one year are unbelievable! He can now make 1 star normal weapon!!! In Just 1 year 4 months!! Usually blacksmiths would spend years before being able to do so! But he was an exception , he had Ariel's journey to blacksmithing!

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Blacksmiths required more power to make more powerful weapons! That's why only Transcendent realm blacksmiths can make 2 star weapons! and it goes as such! No one knew Ariel's true realm!

He made 1 star gun for joshua as Little Joshua did not have the strength to hammer the metals! But this was a variant 1 star since it had metallic lotus and some starlight essence.

Cross spent his days in the city lord's mansion rather comfortably! he was really close to his uncle Carter who he always hang out with! Old man dylan also checked on his progress once in a while and had upgraded his rank to a second rank member of the special regiment and gets first rank treatment! He planned for him to join this trip to the ruins.

Cross's relationship with Harmony was rather strange! she always liked to sit on his shoulder! even though they had 1 to 2 years difference Cross look older than he really is! Harmony on the other hand looked younger than she really is! 14 year old young lady looking like a 10 year old child! Cross did not have any thoughts towards her! he just let it be! he was not a lolicon!

The first time she climbed onto his shoulder she was fast and when he wanted to get her down! she immediately moved like a cat and instantly ended up on his other shoulder! no matter how he tried he couldn't do it ! so he gave up! Harmony laughed and enjoyed playing with him. she was now much more open to him and not shy in the slightest

Michael looked up to Cross as his Idol but he did not train the axe! He liked fighting with fists and claws style! He could easily smash stones and leave dents on hard metal with just his fists, They had developped their powers as they had started training and they were rather strange and talented!

In a few days would be their coming of age ceremony!

Vince progress could be the biggest as he focused and battle only with no blacksmithing nor alchemy!

He observed lightning that comes from his sword! and saw its movements and grasped the pattern! He also asked Eric to explain to him the lightning essence as much as he could! As such he made a new technique!

He called it lightning dash! as lightning was not straight this movement was also like that! But it was unbelievably fast! The only thing that allowed him to create this technique was that basic sidestep at full speed. And now with his breakthrough to 4 stars peak, his body could handle a couple more switches at full speed! This was the movement it left multiple after images left and right confusing the opponent! but this was only its basic start!

When Amelia saw the after Images, she screamed :" Many big brothers!"

Vince laughed at this. He also noticed that her ability was getting better since she absorbed The soul power at the mansion! there was quite a lot but no one knew where it came from! She can now see Auras about most people more clearly and sense their life force, and some kind of images! Vince had a winged wolf on him! This surprised him a lot! the only ones who knew this were Eric and Cross! So he asked her to look at Coss and she said : " Big Tattooed triple eyed tiger" They remembered the First strange beast they ate but it did not have a third eye! what they did not know was that the tiger was only an infant! Cross had eaten the head! It seems it indeed was no simple tiger!

Eric had a blurred figure of some wierd bird, she could not see well!

She had the ability to recognize bloodlines! She had spent every night beside Vince! in this world now! only he existed in her eyes! without him she did not know what to do! At first she did not want to die and wanted to see her unknown father! But now she thought she only needed Vince, he took care of her, bought her anything she liked , took her out to play! Even stopping his training but later she waited for him to finish! until now she never heard him say "no" to her! and she also thought

that if he asked her for something she would not say "no", but she was only a little kid! waht could he want of her?

Vince also asked Fiona to lend him books about swordsman ship! she let him see all the books as he pleased! Emilia Brought the books and continued to pester him , but he was a little different to her now since even a bad person can have honest feelings! She had noticed the subtle change and this motivated her! But Vince was not moved, he just treated her a little better!

Eventually Vince created a new sword style after engrossing him self in those books for a long of time, he had an epiphany! " One sword! a million lives! One strike! one life!"

He made an extremely simple move, it was unsheathing the sword! This was his fastest strike! By the moment his hand touches the handle! it looks like he just touched it and recalled his hand back but then a tree would fall or stone would be sliced in half!

He now had hope to develop dual wielding in the future! as he continued to think about ! he knew it was now time to let the Barzotti family and the others of the ruins! Another upheaval is gonna make the city tremble! But then the now 8 year old Amelia told him:

"Big brother, my awakening is close!"

"what! you are only 8 years old!"

" spiritual beings awaken at birth! I am a half breed so I am different ! "

"Ah why didn't you tell me earlier! Come I'll leave you in the mansion with the other 3 kids! I and Cross shall go and hunt you the beasts you need!"

He knew about the awakening of Harmony and michael but now plans changed! He picked her up and dashed towards the mansion unnoticed!