As he had expected, Keith was cornered by his eldest wives right after they had lunch, and now, he found himself sitting across them at the table, subject to their narrowed stares.
He found it quite amusing that both of them refused to raise any questions and waited for him to start speaking on his own accord. Then again, it was only right that he explained and clarified so things to them as he did owe it to them.
"So, how do you like the weather in this city?" He asked as he looked at his blonde wife.
"Seriously, Keith?" She glared at him and then leaned back into her chair, turning her head away, making it clear that she was in no rush and could play the ga too.
Keith waited for a good couple of minutes and then started chuckling.
"Ask."
"Yexuan." Alia imdiately said, and Keith nodded to her.
"Very well."
Seeing that he was finally willing to give them so answers, Rebecca looked at him again and smiled a little as their eyes t.
However, she soon narrowed her eyes as he created a mist of crimson light on his right hand, which shimred beautifully, and then he started shaping it in all shapes and forms.
She could feel that he was flaunting his Mana Control to her, and she was right. He was indeed teasing her but stopped as soon as she was about to open her mouth.
The crimson mist changed into a rhombohedral shape and settled into it.
"There exists a certain Divine Treasure, which holds imnse power. It's so powerful of a weapon and tool that even the Gods covet it and would be willing to take all the risks to get their hands on it." Keith started speaking, and both of them seriously listened to him. "It's called the Steele of Ti & Space." He revealed.
As soon as Rebecca and Alia heard the na, their minds started racing, and the blonde soon had a deep frown on her face.
"It's a Treasure that is very elusive, which is why it has not appeared in a very long ti. It is capable of travelling through Ti and can be present anywhere in the Past, Present, or Future, and in any existing Tiline. Therefore, it is pretty much impossible for even most Gods of Ti and Space to locate it."
The more they heard, the more pensive the two of them beca.
"How did he find it?"
Sure enough, Rebecca figured out what was going on with Yexuan.
"Perhaps by Luck?" He shrugged. "However, even though the Treasure is capable of travelling in Ti, it does not an that its wielder can travel as well with its help. At least, not without the consequences."
"It is forbidden to play with Ti." The blonde nodded her head.
"Yes. Even the Gods of Ti have to respect the Divine Law of Ti." He smiled. "Nevertheless, the Steele of Ti and Space is indeed capable of taking its wielder back in Ti if they are ready to bear the price."
"The price?"
"Death." He answered Alia and smiled. "The erasure of your existence from the Present you escape from."
"Escape?" Rebecca caught onto his choice of words and smiled. "So he ca back to fix the past and was willing to sacrifice his present for it."
"Possibly." Keith nodded. "The Steele can only help its Wielder travel back in a Ti where he lives. It is because no living being, unless they are in their Astral form, can travel with it to the Past. And once it arrives in the Past, the future soul rges with the present one."
"So travelling in the future is out of the question if you don't even exist there." The blonde nodded.
"Yes."
"It needs to recharge?"
"Yes. It requires a very long ti to be ready to travel again in Ti with its wielder." Keith nodded and watched Rebecca grin.
"So, he can not escape."
Keith kept looking into her eyes, knowing well what was going through her mind. She had her mind and eye set on her target now. And given the Inheritance of Hecate, she was well aware of the consequences of travelling back in Ti.
"He knows about our Future." Alia frowned.
"Yes. And it makes him a threat to us since it is clear that he hates Keith and fears us. Whatever future he ca from, he was not on our side and will not be on our side." The blonde smiled as she looked at her husband. "Maybe you stole Alana from him in that Tiline as well." She teased.
"How can I steal sothing that belongs to ?" He shrugged, and she giggled at his words. "But we can not know for sure that he hates because of Alana."
Rebecca nodded her head understandably and then looked into his eyes with seriousness.
"Nyx knows about the Steele of Ti & Space?" She suddenly asked, and Alia's eyes widened at her words as she had failed to take the Goddess of Night into the equation.
"She is not interested in it." Keith shook his head.
"You talked about it?" The erald-eyed girl asked.
"Yes."
His answer also answered so of their other unvoiced questions, which included how he knew so much about Yexuan. But Rebecca also knew that Keith seed to have so prophetic dreams, so she was not really too curious about it.
"So the Treasure is ours to take after we kill Yexuan." The blonde happily smiled.
Alia frowned at her words but understood the reason why Rebecca announced a death sentence to Yexuan and did not even consider the hurt Alana would suffer in this matter.
Soone who was hostile to them and possessed the knowledge of the Future could not be allowed to exist and develop into a threat that could prove harmful to them. It was unwise to bet against it.
"Rebecca believes that he is no longer an Ashaya." She looked at Keith and said. "Is that a consequence of coming back in Ti or sothing else?"
"It is not a consequence." He shook his head. "He got his hands on a very powerful drop of Blood, and since he had saved it in the Steele of Ti & Space, it returned with him."
"Which blood?"
"One of the Divine Dragons."
Only Rebecca understood the gravity of his words and she furrowed her brows.
"Beast?"
Keith smiled at her, not answering her question.
"So, he will beco part Monster." She understood what his silence ant.
"33%." He nodded again, but only if he managed to create a Bloodline from it.
Rebecca knew it was more than enough and was capable of granting a person unimaginable power. It could also beco the deciding factor of an Immortal ascending into Godhood.
"However, he shouldn't be able to assimilate it completely into his body so soon. Even with the Ti Dilation of The Steele of Ti & Space, it should take him dozens of years. And he can't do it if he stays in the Mortal Realms."
"Ti Dilation?"
"Yes, once inside its personal Space, the Ti Dilates relative to the world the user lives in. Several hours inside the Steele of Ti and Space could equal a few days of this world."
"What?" Alia amazedly asked, and Rebecca too seed shocked. But then the blonde smiled as it was all the more reason for her to kill Yexuan and get that treasure for themselves.
"When did he return in Ti?" Rebecca asked.
"Three years ago."
There was a brief silence before Alia furrowed her brows.
"Keith."
"Yes, Amy?"
"Is it possible that he holds so weapons or Artefacts as well that the Steele of Ti & Space brought from the future?"
Since a drop of Blood ca with him, there was a high chance that he possessed a lot more things that could be very dangerous.
"Possibly." He seriously nodded to her.
"He won't be easy to deal with." She frowned. "We don't even know how powerful he was before he returned in ti and how many tricks he has up his sleeves."
"That's true." Keith nodded to her words again. "He does not possess the sa strength, but he rembers his life and holds onto his experience."
"There is sothing else." She raised her head and t his eyes.
"Yes?"
"I saw Runic Shields on his body," Alia revealed, taking Rebecca by surprise. "Strength and Speed Runes as well. My designs."
Silence reigned in the room for several minutes, and Rebecca aningfully looked into Keith's eyes, gauging his expression.
"I am afraid I don't have an answer for it." He shook his head. "Only Yexuan knows why and how he has them. Maybe you taught him those Runes, maybe he learned them from soplace else or stole them. There are a lot of possibilities, and only he can answer the truth."
"Are we going to deal with him now?"
"Not yet." He shook his head at Rebecca's question.
"Keith, every passing day increases his threat." She seriously said, and he shook his head again.
"There is sothing else in play. We can not deal with him just yet."
"What?" She asked, but he shook his head once again, refusing to answer her. "You have a plan?"
"I will deal with him when the ti is right." He nodded to her.
Neither Alia nor Rebecca was comfortable with the thought of Yexuan growing stronger over ti and becoming a bigger threat, but they both decided to trust in Keith.
They understood that he was not oblivious to the danger Yexuan posed, which only ant that he knew so more things that he was not telling them.
"Now tell about Kiara." Rebecca imdiately changed the subject and excitedly asked.
She giggled when she watched him sigh but shook her head when he was about to shake it.
"You must answer my couple of questions." She adamantly said.
"Ask." He looked into her eyes and permitted her.
"She's your daughter now?"
"Yes."
"Half-Blood or Pure-Blood?"
Keith narrowed his eyes at her question as he knew that the answer to it was an answer to a lot of questions on her mind.
She had already figured out what was going on, at least the gist of it, but wanted to ascertain the key factors of it now.
"Pure-Blood." He answered her and watched a beautiful smile bloom on her face.
"Daddy~!" She playfully called out to him, making her intentions clear, and Keith, despite trying hard, failed to hold back his laughter.
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