"Lawrence…"
Sky Petal sees the arrival of her husband and approaches him, "It's done."
He had sent her to assassinate that inner disciple, he couldn't allow him to live after knowing so much. Perhaps the name Serene Will hadn't been completely forgotten, and there might still be disciples who knew it, but the main responsible party is now dead. There will be no one left to confirm if Serene Will is a real name or just a nickname, and why they had to fight to the death.
As well as the only one who knew about the core of the Archaic Ruin.
"Good job."
Lawrence holds Sky Petal’s slender waist between his arms and pulls her close to kiss her. When their lips part, a Dimensional Rift appears nearby.
"Feed the corpses to that tree, then you can go play with Ryan. Once I’m free, I’ll join you."
"Oh, Ryan will be glad. You’re the only man around, you pique his curiosity."
"Yes, he always pulls my hand to follow him."
Though Ryan learned to speak much faster than any other child, he remains a child. He knows phrases related to games by heart, but for anything else… his language leaves much to be desired.
Before Sky Petal travels to the Inferior Plane, he stops her.
"Serene Will must know nothing of this. She wouldn't accept her enemies dying in this way."
She merely nods before disappearing into the Dimensional Rift.
Lawrence remains silent for a few moments and then sighs. If he had acquired the magic artifact Inconstant Dogma earlier, he would be certain that Serene Will would remain unaware of all this, but now he harbors doubts whether that woman holds a grudge for doing this.
He will soon meet her, so he decides to shift his mood before doing so.
He creates a Dimensional Rift to the Divine Plane, but he doesn't walk through it, and it disappears seconds later. He does this with the sole intention of connecting his personal dimension with the Divine Plane and activating the stationary doors of that plane.
"Coldness Divine must still be leveling up."
Midway between White Utopia City and the capital, there is a perfect hunting ground for his women to level up. To others, what they do might seem too dangerous, but this is the only way they know, it wouldn't make sense to advance if it were devoid of danger.
"Level 647… Her Way is perfecting, but it’s still not enough."
Lawrence dares not stray too far from the stationary door and watches from a distance as Coldness Divine battles a level 699 demonic beast. Her level is lower than that of Sky Petal and Serene Will, but this is because she is a dragon. Her race must work twice as hard as others to level up, but in return, her strength is incomparable to a hunter at her level.
"I won't allow them to reach level 700, not unless their Ways are perfect."
After returning to his personal dimension, he heads towards another stationary door and after crossing it, appears in the capital of the Heavenly Path Kingdom, Heaven’s Fortress City.
In the window of his house, there is a woman with a long jet-black braid looking out onto the street. She always appears so calm, as if nothing could disturb her, but Lawrence knows that despite having
"I remind you that that magic artifact only conceals your truths and lies, Lawrence."
Not even he can flatter her mentally, because this woman would still know it.
Without caring about this, he looks at her attire. "Are you going to wear that?"
Serene Will is dressed in an enchanting outfit, and the aura around her makes her look like a ranker who possesses a lot of money, her dress has a neckline that reveals a portion of her skin, whose mole on her left breast would attract the attention of any man.
"If I must leave an impression, let it be this one."
"I don’t know if it’s the image I was expecting… but I’ll respect your opinion. Let’s go, those wolf pups are waiting for us."
Both leave the house and get into the carriage parked outside, traveling through the streets of the capital until they arrive at a familiar place for Lawrence, the Violet Twilight auction house.
"Right this way."
An employee guides them to the warehouse where just 3 days ago it was filled with valuable items that would tempt even a saint. Although it's empty now, there are guards everywhere. There are many entrances that connect to important places within the auction house, they wouldn’t allow strangers to enter by chance.
"This is the key, I’ll be waiting outside the warehouse if you need me."
After the employee leaves, Lawrence removes the cloak in front of him, revealing a large cage. Inside are exactly 20 Green Wolf pups, 10 males, and 10 females.
Wan. Wan. Wan.
Different barks are heard as the wolves become aware of their presence, and Lawrence smiles. To him, these dogs are nothing more than money on paws, costing him over 4 million gold. His affection for them will disappear the moment they fail to meet his expectations.
"Miss, these are the pups I told you about. How should we proceed?
When Lawrence addresses her with such courtesy, Serene Will is amused. This man she has for a husband would have great charisma if not for his dark ambitions.
"Open the door, I’ll take care of the rest."
She acts like a noble, arrogant, and proud woman, but Lawrence says nothing about it. He simply follows her orders and opens the cage door. As soon as he does, the pups realize this is their chance to escape and they run towards the door.
"Hmph."
Serene Will snorts and extends her hand, and the next second a strange rift appears in front of them. The pups involuntarily enter through it.
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Wan. Wan.
The remaining pups retreat in fear.
Lawrence clicks his tongue and uses his mana to force the pups to enter. "Don't waste the lady’s time, get in."
Unable to resist, each of the Green Wolf pups disappear into the rift until the cage is empty. Serene Will moves her hand arrogantly, and the rift disappears.
The eyes of all the guards turn towards them, but they pretend to ignore it.
After handing the key back to the employee, he frowns after seeing that they are already leaving. Did they just come to see his merchandise? What is going on?
Serene Will doesn’t even look at the employee and tells Lawrence: "I have matters to attend to later. If that was all, I’ll leave you at the agreed place."
"Yes, that was all. After this, our contract will have ended."
Once again, she moves her hand and only then does the employee understand what happened. This woman has the ability to teleport, because when they entered that strange rift, both disappeared without a trace.
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Several days pass since Lawrence brought the Green Wolf pups to his personal dimension.
"They seem like ordinary animals…"
Sky Petal is in charge of the evolution of the personal dimension, so she herself volunteered to give these little Green Wolves a place.
They are still pups, playing most of the day, but among their
Using their mana, they can make weeds, fruit trees, and even spiritual herbs grow faster. This is no miracle at all, there are limits and disadvantages. Every plant they help grow is somehow connected to them, so losing it means a serious harm for them.
The only way to alleviate this disadvantage is to have many more plants related to them, so losing one won't even tickle them.
The problem arises when they move too far away from them, losing their connection means losing their power, so the only solution is to create a network and expand it, giving rise to territories. The next generation must set out in search of their own territory and continue the same cycle as their parents.
Wan. Wan. Grr. Wan.
"But these pups still don’t understand any of this, they only know about playing."
Sky Petal watches them from a distance and smiles.
There is a peculiarity in these pups, each of them has a scar behind their neck. It would be unthinkable to sell damaged goods and of course, that was not the case, rather…
All of them had a tracking mark.
Serene Will discovered it the moment she met those pups. Her innate ability not only provided a detailed description of the pups, but also of what they concealed in their necks. If she did nothing at that moment, it was because it was not even necessary to do so.
Because that mark would become useless the moment they left the Divine Plane.
Sky Petal blinks and returns to her senses, she controls her vines and plants the last plants of the day. After this, she must return to the Inferior Plane, because Lawrence has already given her the authorization to refine the medicinal pill, the cure for that poison.
"They worked hard to gather those materials, all of the highest quality. It would be a shame to dispose of them so quickly."
She does not plan to refine the medicinal pill immediately, instead she is chatting with the spiritual herbs and seeking ways to replicate them. Serene Will and Coldness Divine are helping her in this, they are doing it only because they want Sky Petal to focus on pill refinement.
The problem arises when it is not just one recipe, but dozens of them have incredibly rare spiritual herbs that she wants to replicate.
"Serene Will and Coldness Divine must be having a hard time gathering the spiritual herbs I asked for…"
As long as the conditions are met, Sky Petal is confident she can replicate even the rarest spiritual herb in the world. Everything has an origin, and she has found her passion in discovering it.
The next thing to bring her joy is the recipe for an elixir that increases the effectiveness of medicinal pills by 50 levels, because an elixir is something new to her.
"In theory, refining an elixir isn’t very different from a pill, some of the processes vary."
If the refiners of the world heard her, they would openly declare their enmity toward her for her irresponsible words.
Sky Petal, who said this without any ill intent, manifests her Way. The illusion of a waterfall appears behind her, its waters touching the ground and behaving like a real liquid, moistening the plants and providing them vitality. The silent plants for moments seemed to want to speak, but without maintaining this state for long.
This is not her real goal, rather, it's the side effect.
New plants begin to emerge, growing at a great speed. As soon as they reach a certain maturity, Sky Petal can faintly hear their whispers, but although their intent isn’t as strong as a plant from the outside, their words do not stop.
She eventually understood everything. The plants she planted will not be those that give life to this world, but the next generation.
“Hm?”
The Green Wolf pups stop playing and watch as she grows new plants. Something unusual happens next.
On their own, these pups approach her. In their eyes, their slight animosity toward her disappears. From the start, they understood that Sky Petal was different from humans, but after witnessing the growth of the plants, they lost all caution toward her.
For the first time in a long time, Sky Petal frowns.
"How strange. Demonic beasts shouldn’t behave in this way."
Even if these demonic beasts have been genetically manipulated, it’s impossible for their hatred of humans to disappear. Impossible.