Whilst Rebecca and Avriel headed towards the restaurant with the pair of siblings, Keith exited the city from the Western Gate, heading into the territory of the Empire of Sylvania.
He could not just bring people out of Aerzar in the City of Sin. There were simply too many eyes watching them. Therefore, he had to play around a little.
After rushing a safe distance away into the forest, where the trees were hundreds of tres tall and covered the sky with their crowns, he made sure that no one else was in the vicinity and slipped inside Aerzar.
Everyone seed to be waiting for him, and seeing him suddenly appear in the lounge, they all stood up and rushed over.
"Take us out!" Kiara imdiately demanded, and he chuckled at her excitent before nodding to her.
"Wait here." He told her, and then grabbed Qingyue's arm before disappearing with her.
The two of them arrived inside the hall where the Agaurum was still being refined, and guessing his intentions, his dear wife grew a little excited.
"You will have to stay here for a few days." He gently said to her, and she understandingly nodded her head.
"It's okay. This will be fun!"
He smiled at her enthusiasm, knowing well how much she loved Alchemy, and then he started taking out the ingredients that he had gotten from the Cirian Gallery.
Keith had deliberately masked the ingredients he needed for Agaurum by mixing them in with dicinal herbs, other materials, and the Spirit Fruit.
And now, finally, after a decade of refinent, things had co down to the last few days.
Keith guided Qingyue as they started mixing the ingredients in hundreds of cauldrons. And after making sure that she was comfortably in charge of the refinent, he kissed her on her lips before teleporting back to the lounge.
"So, who's in the Adventure Squad?"
"Hey! That's not fair!" Helena imdiately called him out, and both Amira and Reina folded their arms and accusingly pouted at him.
"We want to go out as well!" the twins made it clear.
"Don't worry. Your turn will co. We can't attract too much attention by going into the city in large numbers." He gently said to them, and though they acted aggrieved, there were hints of smiles on their lips.
Kiara, who was amused by watching their interaction, turned to look at Keith.
"Except for the four of us," she glanced at Ingrid, Ingvild, and Alana, "Roo and Sebastian will be coming with us, as well as all the 124 Blood Guards."
The announcent caught everyone by surprise, and even Alia aningfully looked at her sister-wife.
"Rebecca said that she would only take Marianne, Amira, Reina, Julian, and Naomi with her to the Aventine Academy. So, the Blood Guards will remain with us for a while." She inford them of the plan she had discussed with her sister.
After hearing her explanation, everyone was a little relieved.
All of them, except for Kiara's group, were heading to relatively safe places, but she wanted to form a Guild and roam the world freely. Her plans were quite fun, but they were just as risky. Now that she had revealed that she was taking all the Blood Guards with her to form their guild, their safety was less of an issue.
"Harud will go with you." Kashish suddenly said, catching so by surprise. "He expressed his desire to beco an Adventurer when I told him about your plans."
"Didn't he want to go to a Magical Academy?" Alana curiously looked at her.
"He does, but he said that he could go there later."
"Good!" Kiara was more than happy to hear those words, and the Carmilla Princesses were glad too.
The bigger their guild, the more fun it would be. And they had reservations about taking strangers into their guild. Harud was part of the family, so it was fine.
Kiara was hoping that Victor would co with them as well, but since Keith had given him to Qingyue, she could not do anything about it.
"Alright. I will take the four of you out first." He said. "The first thing you will do is turn off the Realm Sealing Artifact and accept the First Martial Tribulation. Once you have all stepped into the First Martial Realm, I will take you to the City of Sin and introduce you to a pair of interesting siblings."
"Okay!" Ingvild happily nodded her head as she rushed over and grabbed his arm. "Let's go!"
The next mont she blinked, she found herself standing in the middle of the woods in an unfamiliar place, and a second later, her sisters joined her.
Keith had not co out yet, but since they knew what they had to do, all four of them turned off their Realm Sealing Artifacts at the sa ti.
The sky above the forest suddenly darkened, and dark clouds appeared out of nowhere, swirling ominously, catching the attention of Aurors who looked in their direction.
Before the girls even got used to the strange tingling feeling in their Aura Hub, which was followed by a greedy intake of surrounding Aura and Mana, they were suddenly hit by the Bolts of Judgent that fell from the sky.
All their faces contorted in discomfort at the sudden unpleasant feeling, but they were utterly helpless against what was happening now. They had no ti to breathe as each one of them was continuously hit by nine consecutive bolts.
After the Tribulation ended, they opened their eyes and saw that their surroundings had turned into ruins. The trees had either been charred or turned into ash and dust, and there was this scorched scent of wood that now filled the air.
The sky was finally visible to them, and just when they were worried that they had attracted a lot of attention, Keith appeared next to them and sent them back inside Aerzar.
He could sense dozens of people approaching the place, and he imdiately teleported away.
Nearly an hour later, he went back inside Aerzar and brought Harud, Sebastian, Julian, Naomi, and Roo out.
"Your turn."
The young Mir nodded his head, and together with the rest of them, he turned off the Realm Sealing Artifact.
Another series of Martial Tribulations fell from the sky, but whereas Harud, Sebastian, Julian, and Naomi had to face nine bolts each, Roo only had to face six.
It was because of the difference in their potential, and because Roo belonged to a lesser race compared to the rest of them.
Keith imdiately sent them back inside Aerzar, and once again, he rushed in a different direction, heading further away from the City of Sin.
This ti, he brought out Helena, Amira, and Reina, but since they had promised not to play around and strictly follow his instructions, they did not pay much attention to their surroundings, bore the intense gravity, and turned off their Realm Sealing Artifacts.
For the next several hours, Keith played the sa trick, and only after everyone, except for Venessa, had passed the First Martial Tribulation, did he take a detour and head towards the City of Sin.
There were hundreds of people in the forest now, trying to find the source of the strange phenonon.
At first, everyone was certain that people were breaking through their Martial Realms, but as the phenonon kept occurring over and over again, doubts began to arise in their hearts.
It had to be kept in mind that an average person, at best, only faced one or two Tribulations, but every ti they saw the sky darken, dozens of bolts fell one after another.
How many ridiculously talented people could there be inside the forest? And how could they all be breaking through their Realms at the sa ti?
Even the notion of it sounded laughable to them, but then other possibilities arose in their minds.
Had so group gotten hold of Realm Breaking Pills?
Had so special Treasure been born in the forest? Perhaps a Special Beast?
Was it a colony of so Magical Beasts breaking through their Realms?
Was a new Secret Realm discovered by soone?
No matter which possibility they thought of, everything had to be investigated, and this was the reason why, on his way back, Keith sensed hundreds of people rushing into the forest.
Kiara, Alana, Ingrid, and Ingvild were by his side.
Since they were in a group and he was giving off the pressure of a Peak Stage Martial Tyrant, no one stopped them.
All four of the girls were in the First Martial Realm, and so, no matter how hard anyone tried to doubt them, they could not link them to what was happening in the forest.
The numbers simply did not add up.
Nearing the Gate, despite knowing that there were eyes on him, Keith masked his cultivation down to the Peak Stage of Martial Master.
Seeing him return from the forest with four girls, the guards were indeed curious, but no one asked him anything.
All four girls had to register themselves and get their bands, and Keith could not help but chuckle once they entered the city.
"Lunastasia? Seriously?" He asked Kiara, who had used the alias, and she grinned at him.
"I can't use Iris since it is Iseul's codena." She shrugged and told him why she hadn't used her middle na like he had done.
"Fair enough." He still chuckled so more and then looked at the Carmilla Princesses, who were curiously looking around the place.
"Wow..." Alana too was stunned when she beheld the charm of the place.
Kiara, however, was more interested in the people than the buildings, and she pouted a little when she saw that they were all barely of the average height here.
Yes, six feet for ladies was barely average here, but when she heard Keith's next words, she felt better.
"You are only sixteen and a half years old here."
"Yup!" She brightly smiled.
Ingrid and Alana were both seventeen, and Ingvild was almost sixteen years old.
Though they were all adults by Amaya's standards, they were still quite young as well.
For Aurors, the stronger and older you beca, the taller you grew, and it was not like the four of them had stopped growing.
"Who was the tallest girl you have seen here?" Ingvild curiously asked.
"Enid." He replied. "She's a Skyian, and she is taller than ."
"How tall?"
"Over seven feet tall." He smiled. "She's also the strongest girl I have seen here so far. She's a Peak Stage Martial Princess."
"Let's go to the bank first!" the girls imdiately insisted, and he nodded to them and took them to Central Square where Edithmont was located.
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