<h4>Chapter 215: Guardian Inds</h4>


    Guardian Inds.


    Nine small-scaled inds around a singlerge ind constituted this veritable paradise on earth.


    Of course, small here meant around fifty to a hundred square miles.


    Thebined area of the inds was around 1,000 square miles. To put it into perspective, Guardian inds were as big as megacities of Old Earth.


    A small ind was dedicated to the residence of the main members of the Xander Family.


    Since Blink, Monogamy was abandoned. So, every member of the Xander member had two or three wives and thus, quite a few children.


    Fast forward a few generations since Blink and now, there were almost a thousand members in the Xander Family.


    The talented ones would get the resources and support from the family. They would go on to reach envious positions in military and civil fields.


    The less talented ones lived a well-off life by managing the vast property andworks of Xanders.


    To have a right to speak, one must be at least a high awakener or be a great genius.


    Reaching Level 4 in his first semester, Narcis was the cream of the crop and would have been the leading genius.


    Would have been…if not for Charles.


    Now, besides the Elders in Level 9, Charles had a great say in things. But he didn''t bother in the internal affairs.


    He only meditated. Practiced. Trained.


    The ce he used to visit, the person he spent time with…were now a thing of the past.


    But nostalgia was hard to kill.


    After finishing his practice, Charles Xander slowly walked towards an ind.


    At the same time…


    Vroom!


    Ghostship stopped in front of a huge barrier covering the Guardian inds.


    Inside the cabin, Varian couldn''t help but admire the beauty that seemed to be sculpted by heaven itself.


    As the light blue water of the ocean glittered under the sun like starlight, nine pristine inds surrounding arge one came into view.


    Looking down at the inds, Varian noticed the fog in some ces. A thought came to his mind and he asked cautiously.


    "Boo, is it..?"


    "Yes, master. The aura concentration here is three times that of earth. Two times that of Defense Academy." Boo''s cute voice answered.


    "Hiss!" Varian sucked in a cold breath.


    This was just the normal aura all around the inds! If they used Aura concentration formations and he was sure they had, then training in such an environment would be even better than training in Amethyst vis.


    "Master, analyzing the aura concentration, there are only fifty-six locations that have more aura concentration than the room you practiced in Sarah''s home," Boo answered the question he didn''t ask.


    "Oh." Varian calmed down a little.


    Considering the number of people on these inds, fifty-six was a low number. That meant perhaps only level 9 and some level 8 awakeners were getting that treatment.


    "Boo, scan the inds and find theb facility," Varian said, seated on a luxurious ck chair.


    "Yes, master," Boo said and invisible fluctuations spread from the ghost ship.


    Boo had limitations. It could not detect high awakeners at a distance, nor could it perform any offensive.


    Scanning the inds and breaking their internal security wasplex, but doable.


    Meanwhile, Varian squinted at the main ind.


    A dreamy white fog covered thend as floating buildings stood aloof in the air.


    Each of the buildings was made of smooth crystals of different colors. The only same thing was their quality.


    No matter the building, it could not be broken by a mid awakener.


    At the center of all the buildings floated a pce. In fact, it was a few dozen meters above them, as if it was beyond the rest.


    The pce easily outsized any building Varian saw till that point. He thought the castle of Abyss Lord he saw during the entrance test was noble…but only now did he realize the true definition of nobility.


    Built of red and white crystals, it looked impossibly noble. Just its presence stirred the aura.


    The pce was…a star treasure! Likely 9 stars!


    He found it hard to believe that a human lived in that pce. It seemed to be the abode of divine beings.


    But…


    "Divine being? Even if you are a Sovereign, prepare yourself for my revenge." Varian muttered under his breath and shifted his gaze.


    Boo maintained a safe distance from the pce lest they be found. To remain hidden from a 9-star treasure with just a few miles was the testimony to its prowess.


    Inparison, even the best stealth space shuttle could not sneak past the barrier without alerting the opponent. It would have to expend a very expensive treasure, the kind only found in ruins, to sneak in sessfully.


    Even then, it would be found by the surveince that covered every inch of thend, sea, and air.


    Thankfully, Ghost Ship''s stealth was at another level.


    "Master, the main ind contains the core training and administrative faculties. Only high awakeners and the biggest geniuses live there.


    The Xander members live on one of the small inds.


    There are three inds having low-level, mid-level, and high-level beasts respectively. They are used as training grounds.


    An ind is dedicated to logistics and travel. It is filled with teleportation formations and space shuttles.


    And one…you guessed it. It has arge aura crystal mine.


    Then the twin inds. One is dedicated to potion-making. The other is for star treasures.


    The final ind, the one closest to the main ind is dedicated to research. With more than seventybs, there are forty-nine leading researchers of Earth working in the most cutting edge technologies."


    Even though he expected it, Varian was still astonished by the scale and quality of the Guardian Inds.


    Moreover, he knew that this was not everything Xanders had. He heard of… Secret Realms they governed.


    Shaking his head, Varian said. "Boo, did you find out Roxana''sb? Who is? working there and continuing her research?"


    Almost every researcher had partners. If he could find Roxana''s research partners, then he could get a better idea of how and why she died.


    He might also get the clues as to why Roxana interfered with his mother and…Sia.


    But Boo''s answer came as a shock.


    "Master, I hacked into the internal database. Roxana worked alone all her career. She even had herb isted from the rest. Now, theb is abandoned."


    Saying so, Boo steered the ghost ship towards a small ind and passed above the futuristic architecture of thebs before descending in front of arge white dome.


    Roxana''sb.


    It was easily the size of a football field and was as tall as a ten-storied building.


    "Find a way to get us in," Varian said and rubbed his sweaty palms.


    As he got closer to the truth…he realized one thing.


    He cared a great deal about his mother''s death and wanted to kill everyone responsible for her death.


    But at the same time, a growing part of him was worried about Sia. Despite trying to control himself, he would dream of the few but vivid shbacks again and again.


    And as time passed, he got more dreams filling up some gaps between each shback.


    Even just from his memories leading to fourteen years, he spent more time with Sia than with his mother.


    The bond he developed with her through these dreams was hard to understand. But it remained the closest to his heart.


    At some point, his mother''sst wish became his own quest.


    ''Wherever you are, I''ll find you.'' Varian clenched his fist.


    The surveince around the white doom was slowly manipted by Boo. As no one found any weirdness, a door slowly opened and in an instant, Ghostship rushed in.


    The door was shut the next moment as if it was never opened.