"What kind of contract did the both of you use?" my father inquired looking at both and Olivia. Since Olivia was not allowed to say anything, she simply looked at waiting for to give an answer, while also slightly curious if I am going to tell them about the Divine contract.
"It's called a soul contract. It makes a connection between two 'flas of life' while either making one side submit to the other, or to make a fair or mostly fair contract between two parties. Really easy to use" I remarked with a thumbs up.
Hearing the phrase "soul contract" had made my father tense up a little before covering my mouth and whispering to my ear "Never speak of the soul contract or the flas of life outside of our ho. Is that understood?"
Nodding lightly, he continued by asking "Who even told you about these stuff? You do know these are top secret within the country. Only those of the round table, the Grand Royal Forgers and Alchemic and high generals like know about any of this. The rest would who know about this aren't even a part of the kingdom, but they are too powerful to silence."
"Juilam" Was all that I said
"..."
'That wolf is much more powerful than I thought. To know about flas of life, either he can see it with Transcendent soul eyes or- Wait... soul eyes'
Looking into his daughters eyes, he couldn't help but shiver a little. Soul eyes were a product of high soul efficiency and a certain gene. While I was born with soul eyes, mana eyes were a product that i had gotten later on, and the combination of both created the divine eyes. If I hadn't gotten the divine eyes, in the future I would have gotten the Transcendent soul eyes which allow a person to see the components and circuits of the soul.
While most could not see the soul fla from the point they waken their soul eyes, I had been able to see it. However, when I had finally activated my divine eyes and adapted it to what my body could handle, it was like there was nothing I could not see that was in front of .
While humans, beasts, animals and basically every other race in existence has mana veins within them, every living creature also has Soul circuits which are connected to every inch of the human body as if they are neurons transmitting information from and to every single cell. Circulating that soul energy within you with battle intent, killing intent, or even bloodlust with create a battle aura, that can be further enhanced with the use of one's will, in this case being mana. Mana will allow the person to control a certain elent, consequently having better control with certain elents over others due to the rule of affinity.
The weaker your affinity to an elent, the more diverse your mana will be. However, the more powerful you beco with the elent that you have an affinity towards, the more that person will see their power with other elents diminish.
Due to the rules of affinities, one cannot beco more powerful in an elent they did not obtain an affinity over. If it does happen, their power will be crippled, making them unable to wield anything but mana without any elents, ever again. This also ans that they will not be able to use any of their elents when using their battle intents and aura's.
This also links to why most people with two affinities, especially affinities that do not coincide with each other, usually remain weak for most of their lives. While on the one hand, having two affinities ans that both affinities will always be as strong as each other, consequently also aning that a person's progress will be halved. This can be avoided if one is able to make both elent work as one, like in the case of my mother. However, my mother was able to fuse her elents from the day she was awakened, stripping her of the majority of her power over water and air and fusing it into a single elent, in my mother's case being the ice elent. On the other hand, having both water and fire as affinities just cripples your advancent, as one elent does not support the other.
'Wait, did she lie to ? Wait no. She wouldn't know that it is called the 'Flas of life', but at the sa ti, I can confirm that she can see soul energy at least.' My father thought to himself.
"Are you able to see these flas of life?" My father whispered in my ear
"Well, slightly? I kind of see an outline of a fla with so kind of energy coming out of it, disappearing in the the body and coming out again. It's kind of hard to explain" I lied through my teeth.
*sigh*
"Well, it doesn't matter anyway. Let's just get a move on to the district of waves so we can reach the academy quickly." My father said while getting up from his crouched position and walked towards the carriage which was thankfully not damaged in all that fighting due to it's passive shield.
Getting on the carriage without having to hear my brothers complain much, we had resud our journey to the district of waves, and more specifically, aqua city. The academy was just called Aqua academy, and while I might call them out for lacking imagination, having the word "Aqua" already tells you exactly where you would want to find the academy unless you are stupid beyond saving.
The academy was near a shore at the east edge of the continent, aning we would have to pass multiple kingdoms on the way. Thankfully, our town was only 1 or 2 days away from the district of waves, and the journey that would usually take around 3 days from one side of the district to the other, is only 3 gold coins per person away from an instant arrival.
Apparently since the whole district is controlled by the emperor, noble families, no matter if they are minor or large noble families, are able to spend 3 gold coins per person to use a dinsional warp to any place within the district.
Simply sitting on top of the carriage watching the sun set in the horizon, everyone within the carriage kept mostly quite. While my father had tried to ask Olivia a few questions, she only obliged by answering in short precise yet open ended answers with no definitive anings. Realising that she was being secretive, my father felt hesitant to let her go with us, however, with a single stare from he chose to not further the thought.
After around 5 hours of moving, we finally decided to find an inn for the night in one of the nearby villages. Driving the carriage into a carriage lot at the back of the inn, many people started giving us stares. I assud that it was because it was their first ti seeing a carriage that could drive without a horse, but even when the carriage was not around, and we were within the building, we were still getting the sa stares.
"Dad. Why are they looking at us like that?" I nudged my father.
Even though Olivia knew the answer and would have usually chosen to answer it, she had found no obligation to and at the sa ti, was curious as to what a noble would think was happening.
"Well, to be honest there might be multiple reasons. While so might be poor and might want to beg us for so, others might be either just curious about us or our extravagant clothes. While what we are wearing might not seem as much as what we usually wear when we go to noble parties, it is important to know that not everyone has the pleasure of having a warm ho, warm clothes, shoes to walk with and food to eat. You have to realise how lucky you are to be born into this kind of family, and whenever you feel angry at your family mbers, angry at or your mother for not getting you sothing you wanted, or even angry at so of the cards life gives you, remind yourself that you at least have a family, a roof over your head, standard warm clothes and a predictability within your life that tells you there will be food for you to eat" My father lectured the three of his children.
Hearing what my father had said, Olivia's eyes slightly widened while shortly after, a blossoming smile curled up the corner of her lips, giving off the radiance of how truly beautiful she was behind the mask of a cold hearted person she usually put on.
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