"That a couple of girls bought it?"

The beautiful woman said in disbelief and frustration.

"I remember talking to you online about not selling it!"

A furious look appeared in the woman's eyes as she looked at Jack.

"It's true, but my commercial policy has always been that the first to arrive at my store is the first to be served."

Jack said with a business smile.

"Y-you!"

The woman could only clench her teeth in anger since she wasn't ignorant enough to make a fuss in front of a level six Star Master!

"Well!"

The woman reluctantly accepted that, in the end, she could not buy that antique.

Still, she didn't want to give up, since it was very important for her to have that seniority that could restore her father's strength!

Unfortunately, she and her father were at a critical moment in which her grandfather was about to die and her family was soon to choose a new head of the family!

This wouldn't be so important if her uncle, who had the highest chance of being the next head of the family, wasn't a heartless b*stard capable of colluding with a criminal organization.

The worst thing was that he caused her grandfather to be seriously injured by this organization and even used those people to hurt his brother and prevent him from getting in the way of his plans!

"At least tell me where I can find those girls."

Seeing that Jack started to look at her with cold eyes, she immediately corrected herself.

"I won't do anything dangerous to them. I'll just offer them a much higher price than they bought that antique for."

Jack looked seriously into the woman's eyes and said, "I don't have any information on where you can find those girls. Though I wouldn't give you that information even if I did."

With a professional look, Jack continued speaking.

"Protecting customer privacy is the most important thing for a business."

The worried-looking woman bit her lip as she heard Jack's reply.

"But..."

Jack, with a professional look and a smile, said, "Your grandfather did me a small favor in the past, and it would be unethical for me not to help his granddaughter."

A gleam of surprise appeared in the refined eyes of this beautiful woman.

"What I told you about me not knowing the location of those girls is real, but there is a way you can find them depending on how much effort you put in."

The beautiful woman looked expectantly at Jack, waiting for her response.

"It's really very simple. You just have to know that one of these two girls is so beautiful that there is probably no one else on Earth who matches her appearance."

"So beautiful that no one else can match her looks?" The woman was stunned at what Jack said.

"This is the only information I can give you. With this, I already paid what I owed your grandfather."

With these words, Jack returned to his usual business aura and said, "If you need to purchase an antique from the store, I am at your full service anytime while the store is open."

"No... Thank you very much."

The woman turned and ran out of the store without saying anything else.

"I wish you luck finding Miss Lanaery, Young lady of the Zelmar family."

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Lanaery told Rose that she wanted to go to that hamburger restaurant again.

To which she agreed, without thinking much about the reason. She just thought that Lanaery really liked the taste of it.

Rose thought it was just a passing fancy and that her master would be eating other things in a couple of days.

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Since Lanaery realized that these hamburgers could break the elemental chains that chain her perception, the only thing she would eat from now on would be hamburgers and nothing else.

There was also the fact that, on the way to the antique store, she bought a sandwich at another restaurant and didn't feel it had the same effect.

It was just ordinary food with nothing special.

What she really regretted was that the more elemental chains were broken, the stronger they became to the point where a single hamburger was not capable of breaking a chain.

Lanaery needed to eat more to achieve the same effect.

Although that was already better than not breaking any chains.

At Rose's mansion.

Upon arrival, they saw that the door and all the destroyed places inside had already been repaired as if nothing had ever happened.

The only word to describe this was efficiency.

Inside the mansion. In a very ample room that seemed to have been made specifically for training.

Lanaery held the antique that looked like a taper candle in her hands. She was letting the divine power within the antique enter her body.

In a blink. The mysterious antiquity turned to dust that ran through Lanaery's pretty fingers.

Inside her body, her damaged hero heart was surrounded by a thin layer of misty light.

This was the pitiful amount of divine power Lanaery had.

This amount of divine power in its misty state could at most form a drop of condensed divine power, which was nothing compared to the sea of divine power that she had before.

"?"

"This is..."

Suddenly, she felt that something inside her body was getting stronger.

Her golden eyes glowed, and she looked inside her body until she saw a blue flame emitting strange cries in an unknown language that slowly faded as she felt her soul grow stronger.

A few minutes later, this flame had completely disappeared.

Although the change was quite small, Lanaery felt her soul blend better with her body, letting her have more precise control of her movements.

Lanaery opened her beautiful eyes and looked at Rose, who had been sitting respectfully in front of her for a while now.

A small smile forming on her lips, Lanaery said, "I explained to you before that the source of my power has nothing to do with the mental energy that you in this world use."

Rose silently nodded, implying that she was aware of the existence of elemental power and divine power.

This was to be expected, as Lanaery had already taken a moment to explain these things to her before they had left the Mansion.

"Where I come from, all heroes were born with the ability to use the elements. But that just means they could control them, they didn't store them in their bodies."

"So the first hero created something called a hero heart. My race's greatest treasure and achievement..."

Lanaery's voice cracked a little, but she forced herself to calm down and concentrate on continuing to explain to Rose what she needed to know about the hero heart.

"The hero heart can be created within the body of other races. But its efficiency is quite low compared to when a hero has it."

"This happens because the hero heart was created primarily to exist within a hero's body. Even for another race to have a hero heart, a hero needs to use their blood for this to be possible."

Lanaery made a small blade of light appear on the tip of her index finger and made a small cut in the center of her palm.

"!?"

Rose was surprised and worried to see this, but seeing Lanaery so calm, she fell silent.

A small drop of golden blood floated on Lanaery's hand.

"A hero heart is perfect only when the bones, flesh, blood, and everything in its host's body is that of a hero."

All of Rose's last doubts about Lanaery disappeared when she saw that the blood was golden. She now firmly believed Lanaery that she wasn't human.

"The moment this drop of blood enters your body and uses my race's method to create a hero's heart within you. It will be the moment when it will be revealed what kind of hero heart you have and what is the inactive element in your body."

"The form your hero heart takes will greatly influence how I train you from now on."

"You understood everything?"

Lanaery asked, seeing Rose lost in thought.

"I understood perfectly, master Suries! Believe it or not, when it comes to studies. I am among the best in my academy."

Rose said with her head held high. Suddenly, she lowered her little head sadly and said, "But I'm also among the worst students when it comes to controlling my meager mental energy."

Lanaery could only cheer her up seeing her so depressed.

"Don't worry. I promise you will become so strong that no one will be your equal."

It all depends on what kind of hero heart you have, Lanaery thought.

Since if for some reason, Rose formed a hero heart that only allowed her to use healing abilities, it would be a real shame.

"I will do my best to meet your expectations!"

Rose responded with her mood refreshed upon hearing what Lanaery had said.

"Okay, come a little closer," Lanaery said.

Rose got so close that the approach was already at the level of invading personal space.

She could only gaze in admiration at Lanaery's incomparable appearance. Even up close, Rose couldn't see the slightest flaw in her exquisite face.

"Auch!"

Suddenly, Lanaery used the tiny blade of divine power and slashed Rose's forehead.

Before blood could flow from the wound, Lanaery moved her golden blood to Rose's wound.

Her golden blood entered the wound, and then her skin healed in an instant, as if she never existed! Inside Rose's body, inside her head, Lanaery's drop of blood glowed brightly.

The drop of golden blood split into two connected by a thread of light. One of these drops moved in an instant towards Rose's heart, and the other stayed in her forehead.

Outside of Rose's body. Lanaery was completely focused with her eyes closed, controlling these drops of blood.

Unlike Lanaery, who was only focused on creating the hero heart, Rose was covered in sweat, and her body wouldn't stop shaking.

The two drops of blood, which were linked by a thread of light, combined with her body; more precisely, one drop merged with her heart, and the other stuck to her skin.

After a long ten minutes, the drop of golden blood in her heart had already disappeared, as well as the drop on her forehead.

"!"

Suddenly, in the center of Rose's heart, a small yellow flame appeared, changing shape, until it formed a miniature spear of fire that pierced through a star!

An emblem with the same shape as the flame of her heart appeared on her forehead.

Bang!

A powerful yellow flame appeared above Rose's head.

This flame slowly transformed into a beautiful winged fire woman who used a spear to destroy hundreds of stars like they were nothing!

Lanaery took a deep breath in shock at seeing this.

She immediately remembered an extremely proud crimson-haired woman who had been by her side for many years.

"How can it be that it is also a fire spear?"

Although Lanaery was left with many questions, she could only put them deep in her mind.