Chief Dona turned to Chief Saa. He took a half-hearted long look. He was obviously surprised at her decision to support him. however, it was at the end of the day in his favour.


    In his mind, he rationed her support of him to herpetitive nature.


    It wasmon knowledge that Chief Saa had a Betting nature. He was sure that she had put in stakes on the match-up for this year''s gathering of the sword n.


    At the end of the day, no one liked losing.


    With two of the strongest ns agreeing that the gathering of the sword ns be held, they was nothing stopping the event from holding anymore.


    None of the other Chiefs wanted to speak up. After all, most of them were between the early stages and middle stages of the copper realm.


    This was how power worked. Only two people changed the entire idea of the group and implemented their own will.


    Chiron was not aware that the little risk he had taken in turning Ca to a demon within the n had nearly costed him the gathering of the sword ns that he was looking forward to.


    If not for pressure and support from Chief Saa, canceling the effect would have been impossible. But then again, where things better now?


    .....


    Meanwhile in anothernd, Dagger Father, who was the chief of the Dagger n stood in a hidden underground facility.


    This ce existed somewhere remotely close to the Chikitsa mountain.


    The moment he had heard that there was a devil invasion in the n, he had rushed over.


    However, the situation was not as severe as he had been made to believe.


    Before he got there, the cultivators within the n had already taken care of it.


    The CHikitsa n and the Dagger n were always at odds with one another.


    Even now, it remained the same thing.


    He had not rushed over because he had nned to help them.


    He hade over, thinking that an opportunity would present itself for him to steal and kill. But Everything had already been taken care of.


    However, he still did not return back his n.


    At the moment, he used at a high balcony as he watched an army of men as they trained their assassin techniques below.


    He nodded from time to time.


    These were the elite men and women that the Dagger n had put in serious effort over the years to take care of.


    They were walking, breathing death machines. True agents of the shadows.


    They were nothing like the rattling bunch that had been sent to kill Chiron before.


    As he watched their disy, a shadow suddenly materialized behind him.


    It was a tall person with a straight frame and a bold figure.


    The Dagger Father did not even have to look back before he knew who it was.


    "Long knife! I suppose that you bring with you good news?"


    Long knife took a knee and bowed.


    "Yes, Dagger Father. Things are going ording to n. The informant has informed me that the gathering of the sword ns shall continue as it was initially nned. Soon, we will be able to execute the ns we set in ce."


    Dagger Father nodded in acknowledgement.


    He couldn''t help but lick his lips in the anticipation of the Gathering of the sword n event.


    .....


    On another side of the Continent, a king stood beside a shaman as the divination was in progress.


    The shaman was an old woman with ragged clothes.


    She had a long stick that was made up of herbs, cowries and some beads by her side.


    She had many tattoos on her body. Some of them were so clear that one would think the animals were going toe to life and attack in one go.


    The king stood behind her patiently and his entourage stood behind him. All of them also waited patiently.


    Thest few months, this was the fourth time they had been here.


    However, no oneined. At least none except a particr man that stood not so far from the king.


    He was the king''s son. In most ces, he would have been considered as heir to the throne.


    However, this kingdom was a very cultured one that respected seniority to the marrow.


    He might have been the only son, but he had an elder sister. One that had gone missing for so long and was even considered dead.


    However, members of the royal family all had their spirit energy recorded in this shaman''s temple.


    Only a few months ago, his sister''s spirit energy had lit up.


    This was evidence that her soul was still in this world.


    Until physically confirmed that she was dead, she remained the heir to the throne.


    For a man that had been looking at the glory attached to that seat for many years, this was terrible news.


    "Couldn''t she have just remained dead?" He asked himself. However, he could only say those words in his heart and not out loud.


    To speak such words about an heir to the throne could make his head rest before a guillotine.<novelnext></novelnext>


    It was abominable.


    However, he had still tried other means that would interrupt the divination of her location.


    And this was what had dyed the process for a long time.


    However, the process was only dyed for so long.


    At the end of the day, the shaman discovered the reason for her failed divination and corrected the error.


    Also, the shaman might have been an old woman but her eyes, ears and sixth sense were very sharp and sensitive.


    She was also very loyal to the kingdom.


    Even bribery was not going to help him plead his case.


    She made incantations before a blue me. It burnt and shone steadily in front of her.


    And then she threw in some white dust. After she was done, she turned to the king.


    "I will be needing some royal blood, your highness." she said in her hoarse creeping voice.


    The king nodded and was about to step forward. However, the young man behind him stepped ahead of him, "Father, please! let me do it."


    The king nodded at his son.


    For a long time, he had always known that his son wanted to be king. After all, he had trained him that way. For a long time since his daughter''s spirit energy went off in the temple, he had hammered it into the young man''s head that he was to be king after him.


    This was only natural since he was thest of the bloodline alive.


    However, the new development hade without any warning.


    The king was sure that his son was heartbroken to the core. But here he was ready to even give his blood for the finding of his elder sister.


    He nodded his head in satisfaction.


    If this divination did not work, he had already solidified that he would name his son the crowned prince.


    Such an act of selflessness even before the allure of power was incredible.


    The young prince went forward and presented his hand to the shaman.


    The shaman paused. She took a long but short look at the prince.


    It almost looked as if she was trying to see into his soul.


    He swallowed a bit.


    *sh!*


    She made a quick unexpected cut on his palm, and before he could retract it in reflex, she pulled it over the blue fire.


    A few drops of blood poured into it.


    Immediately, the Blue me became green, and then it changed colours through the spectrum of the rainbow before it became blue again.


    The Shaman then put the stored littlemp that had the princesses stored spirit energy over the me.


    Immediately it shone brightly.


    The Shaman opened a map and the light from the blue me jumped unto the map. However, the map did not burn.


    The shaman had once gotten the rough location, but this was the best and most precise one yet.


    This was the map of the Almace continent.


    And the blue me had settled right on the location of a particr n.


    The Shaman handed over the map to the king.


    He took the map and then he brimmed a wide grin.


    "Finally! my daughter."


    The blue me burnt slightly on the name of the Chikitsa n.


    The king turned and spat orders, "sendmanders of at least the copper and Bronze realm to the Chikitsa n immediately. And give this to them. I want her back immediately."


    He handed the map over and the entourage immediately hurried to do as he requested.


    The king was in good mood, and he pulled his son closer as he patted his back, "Good! you did good boy."


    The Prince stopped his bleeding hand with his spirit energy as he gave a forced smile, following his father along.


    The king, the prince and the rest had already left the chambers of the Shamans temple. Leaving the old woman alone.


    She too was smiling. The Princessing back home was very good news.


    However, she suddenly heard a crackling sound behind her.


    She turned to see what had happened and to her surprise, the blue me at the altar had turned into a ck me.


    Her eyes widened in surprise. She had done this tracking method many times, and this had never happened before.


    She wanted toe closer and see what the problem was. However, the fire suddenly gave a small explosion before going off.


    She held her chest as a dangerous feeling rose in her heart. She did not know why, but she was sure that the kingdom was about to wee trouble...