"—at?" the mont he finished speaking, his eyes went wide and he imdiately looked around him.
"What? Where are we?" he started getting a little scared of what had just happened. "What just happened?"
"I teleported us," Ning said. "It's one of the things I can do. Don't mind it."
"Tele…port?" Reever was still confused. "Aether users can do that?"
"Yes," Ning said, not bothering to explain so more. "Co on. The village is just over there."
"Huh?" Reever looked around. "Oh, we're in the desert?" It took him so ti to realize that.
Ning started walking and Reever followed. He slowly touched his ring and got a little confused. "Did you really use Aether?" he asked.
"Of course," Ning said.
"Hmm, then why didn't my Aether glow?" Reever asked. "It didn't even vibrate."
"Oh, that's because it doesn't register when I'm using Aether of course," Ning said. He picked up a bunch of sand from the desert and made it move around him fabulously.
Reever was left staring at the amazing control Ning had co to learn in just a matter of weeks.
"Co on. We still need to go there, you know," Ning said and they walked to the village.
The villagers were beyond stoked to see Reever finally return after so many days.
Reever smiled and imdiately started putting on a performance for them.
Ning watched from beside him. This ti, the performance was much grander than the first ti. 'He's really improving quite well as an Aether user huh?' Ning thought.
As he was watching the show that Reever had put on, Ning got a ssage directly onto his mind. It was a ssage from Sam, the assassin and it said 'Master, I have reached the Ordain Empire just now.'
'Oh, he returned already? This bastard, he didn't even apologize for shooting and just left,' Ning thought.
Ning shook his head and sent a ssage back. "Next ti, try not to shoot in the chest, okay? You nearly caused quite so trouble," he said.
Ning stopped talking and focused on the show in front of him with a smile on his face when a ssage ca again.
'What do you an, master? Why would I shoot you?' it said.
Ning's face changed a little because of the confusion. "What are you saying? You shot today right?" he asked.
He waited for a while and another ssage ca again.
'Shoot you, master? I didn't do anything like that. After I visited the pub today and saw no one, I told the Pavillion about what had happened.'
'After learning that I didn't need to stick around any longer, I took the first train back in the morning.'
'That's why I reached the capital of Ordain so fast, master.'
Ning's eyes narrowed. 'He didn't shoot ?' he thought. His slacking body straightened as he got serious.
"Brother Reever, I need to go sowhere. If I don't return back in ti, just go to the City of Beginnings and wait for there, okay?" Ning said.
"You're leaving, Brother Ning?" Reever asked.
"Yes. Sothing urgent ca up," Ning said and ran away from the group. When he was out of sight, he imdiately disappeared and appeared back in the slums.
"System, who shot today?" he asked.
Suddenly, a few pieces of information were sent directly to his brain. He got the na of the shooter, his information as well as the affiliation he worked for.
"The Great Raiders group?" Ning was surprised. "Weren't they the terrorists from back then in the zoo?"
"First they ca to kill the Eldest prince, now they ca to disturb the princess' event?" Ning thought.
He asked the system and located the person who had shot him. "What the hell?" Ning read the information in surprise.
The person that shot him was hiding in a duke's mansion. 'A duke is responsible for this?' Ning thought in shock. 'Why was a duke trying to kill a princess.'
He wasted no ti and imdiately teleported out of slums and inside the duke's manor.
"Where am I?" he didn't know the layout of the Duke's mansion so he was a little confused.
The mansion belonged to Duke Tren. One of the only 3 dukes of the Empire. The other two dukes stayed outside of the capital, so he was also the only duke of the capital.
A duke trying to kill a prince and princess… was a serious cri. If the Emperor found out about this, all of the Duke's family being hanged to death would be a very likely outco.
'Where do I go now?' Ning looked at the information on the map he had just asked for from the system and walked.
He walked through the mansion, extra careful so that no one saw him. He sneaked past the servants, flew past them, and sotis even teleported past them.
Finally, just as he was about to reach the terrorist, he turned a corner and crashed into soone that was trying to turn the corner towards him.
'Shit!' he thought and tried to scramble away from the place. But before he could do so, the other person stood up and looked at him in surprise.
"Master!" the figure called out to him.
"Huh?" Ning stopped right as he was about to run away. "Master?" he turned around slowly to look at the person's face.
In front of him was a girl in her late teens. She was wearing a very pompous looking dress and had a lot of make-up on her.
It didn't take very long for him to recognize the girl at all.
"It's you," he said with surprise clear in his voice. "You… what was it, Camie. Right? You're Camie."
"Yes, master," the girl said. "Why are you in my house, master?"
Ning looked around. "You are the duke's daughter?" he asked in surprise.
"Yes," Camie said. "I am Camie Tren. The sole daughter of Duke Tren."
"Ah…shit!"
He had accidentally made a Duke's daughter his servant.
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