The Rise Of Calamity

Chapter 288 First Glance

As we dashed through the air like shooting star, June looked towards me and asked me the question that Olivia had been asking me for the last hour.

"Are you okay?"

"I am fine" I waved her question off with a chuckled before looking at her with a teasing smile that was visible due to my mask not being on.

"You should worry about yourself. I am young and have more than a decade left, but in your case, you have less than a decade before you become 30 and you still don't have a boyfriend? Tsk Tsk Tsk" I chuckled causing June's expression to become sour.

"I-I-I don't need you to tell me that! For all you know, I might have a secret boyfriend that you don't know about! I have lots of experience with men, it's just that I choose to stay single!" June threw insults and excuses to justify her singularity within this world, yet all her words hit deaf ears as I had simply been laughing the whole time as I dodged the simple magic attacks they threw at me in a fit of anger.

Olivia on the other had simply watched the two of us with an expression that detailed every single feeling that was running through her mind at the moment, and in the end, none of them would be complimentary to either of us.

'Are they children?' was her last thought before she looked away and boosted herself to go faster than us, not wanting someone to look up and think that she was acquainted with any of us.

After continuing to move through the skies whether that would be through fire charges behind our feet or through using wind magic to move across skies, several hours passed by without any of us realizing it. allowing us to finally land in front of Lagua city while being greeted by all the guards at the gate.

"By the way, why did you give them the Pheonix guild's info instead of the discarded devil's," I asked Olivia after turning towards her.

"Oh that, well, if I told them about Rose's guild, they would be able to narrow where you are down pretty quickly while the Pheonix guild is more widespread than the Discarded Devils." Olivia shrugged.

"Hmm. Pretty clever of you" June complimented.

Talking for a few more minutes, we finally parted ways with June after being halfway within the city before Olivia left me to go back to our apartment while I went to Rose's office to get the reward for the mission.

When I finally got there, I looked inside just to see 2 women and 3 men sitting on the chairs opposite her. While all of them were mediocrely powerful, none of them radiated the same magical or battle aura as Rose, as she herself was way beyond human capabilities, as if she held power like mine that would make her more powerful than her cultivation might suggest.

After seeing that she might have been in a meeting, I chose to stay outside and wait for them to come out.

Only after 49 minutes did they actually finally open the door, making me feel a little agitated at the lost time that I could have been cultivating in if I did not know they could literally come out at any time.

"Finally" I muttered under my breath and moved toward her office, yet, just when I was about to question why no one was coming out, I heard something that left me with widened eyes.

"This is the last time we will be asking you... We need your strongest of those who are still in the gaseous stage, and we will not tolerate it any further if you choose to not comply, You might be the daughter of the head of the crimson family, but even you aren't beyond the law." The man spoke coldly before the 5 came out, just to be greeted by my slightly confused and aloof expression.

"You didn't hear anything" The man muttered before a surge of mana went towards his ring and shot towards where my mana heart would have been if I did not combine my biological heart and mana heart into a bio-mana heart.

Even then, the notification that came next did not surprise me, but at the same time, it confirmed to me something that I was slightly curious of

[Mind altering arcane spell had been detected]

[Arcane spell had been naturalized by the natural divine aura]

The man who shot the spell at me did not even look back, as if he thought that there would be no way of me breaking out of the spell.

'Cocky moron' I smirked inwardly while keeping a blank expression on the outside until they were finally out of my sight.

At the same time, Rose walked out of her office with a worried expression on her face, quickly taking out a potion that I concluded would have released me from the state of mind numbness that I was supposed to be in when the beam hit.

"Ah. Don't worry about that" I waved my hand at her while dropping my act, making Rose take a step back in surprise before looking at me weirdly.

"What?" I tilted my head to the right.

"Nothing"

After finally walking into her room, I sat down on one of the chairs the people who had come inside the room had sat on, but I did not think about it much and cut to the chase.

"I've done the mission"

"Well, that was fast" Rose chuckled, something no one other than me, Olivia, June, and Yuri got the privilege of seeing. At the same time, however, I knew that I was the only reason she was expressing so many emotions as even though she had known Yuri for the longest time, Yuri distinctly mentions how Rose had changed so much and how she was no longer the cold-blooded princess that everyone had thought she was and instead, was a person who was a lot warmer than one would think at first glance.

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