XXII Shattered Region

A few days after they left Galdirth City, Elijah continued to prepare for his breakthrough, as for Aina, he realized that she was nothing like the one from his dream. Maybe this was because the Aina from his dream was older o maybe it was for other reasons, but after some time he felt that at least this one did not seem so bad as the one from his dream.

When their group were already hundred miles away from Galdirth City and had arrived in a region called Shattered Region they thought everything would be easy, but what some of them did't noticed was that although they tried to keep a low profile, with Aina's beauty and the numbers of people in their group had caused the opposite effect. The ones who lived in the region couldn't help but talk about the elegant girl who had just arrived. How she was dressed like someone important, and about the several young people with high cultivation who was traveling with them.

Feeling with his spiritual force that some of those people were following them, Elijah walked towards Keith who was the one with the highest cultivation here and shared his concerns with him. "There's a lot of people here. It looks like they know this region very well and i can fell five people following us i don't think they are part of one an faction, but one of them seems to be on the same level as you and there is other eight with him, what we should do in the case they tried to do something?"

"Don't worry, just leave this matter to me. i have also felt that we're being followed, the only reason they are following us is to investigate about our group, so we just have to not give them any chance to attack us and if some powerful beasts come to us we can use them as baits and escape." Keith patted on Elijah's shoulders and walked to the front as he informed the people on the expedition group about they being followed.

"Oh? fifteen people? And all of them seem to be rich kids?" in an few moments, everyone in the region had receive a report about the outsiders. "A blue-skinned boy, another with a magical artifact being used as his hand and a black-haired girl wearing fancy clothes?" at the same time, this report was concealed by many others who already had the expedition group in their eyes. For some strange reason, Elijah Keith and Aina were the ones who called the most attention.

One of the people who was hidden on the crowd walked enthusiastically towards Keith: "Brother Keith, it seems your group was the one to arrive late this time."After greeting Keith, he looked at someone he didn't recognized from Galdirth's expedition group and he figured this person could only be an new-comer on this type of expedition.

"It's his first time here?" Polan asked Keith with a smile on his face after briefly looking them over.

"Yeah, his name is Elijah, Aina's friend that had received one of Cosmos places to come here. Polan do you know where everyone is setting up their camps?"

"There are already seventy-six disciples from other factions where i set up my camp and we decided to form an temporary group until the ruin opens. Seventeen of them are Third Realm Spirit Fighters, Twenty are Second Realm Divine Magicians, thirty four Third Realm Mortal Swordsmen, Three alchemists and two Divine Healers on the Fourth Realm, would you two be interested in joining us? News about this ruin had spread around so much that even the people on the south region know about it, if not for the age restriction which only permitted cultivators before 25 years this place would be even more full. So have you decided if you will come with me?."

Keith turned to the others to ask for their opinion, and seeing everyone nodding, he said in a calm tone: "Okay, you can lead us to your camp."

"There around four hundred people here waiting at the ruin's gate; some are alone while others would prefer to be in groups. My group are actually one of the stronger groups here. Some of the others are pretty hopeless actually, like those guys over there. I cant even imagine the point of them trying!" Polan pointed to a group of seven aggressive looking youngsters and chuckled as they walked toward the camping grounds: "I heard the strongest of them is only a Spirit Controller at the first realm, how can someone on their level be capable of gaining something from this expedition? if there was at least a divine cultivator, they could use help from their Patron God to escape but those people?"

Elijah found this groups very interesting. Although he was also on the first realm, he was someone who practiced on the Supreme origin art, an complete cultivation manual with twelve realms of cultivation, something people from small planets like his would never be able to know.

"Elijah, take this!" While no one was looking at them, Aina discreetly handed Elijah a cloth bag.

He opened it and peeked inside. He discovered that there were three bottles of pills and a six defensive magical scrolls within, Elijah couldn't help but be shocked.

After buying his new hand, he had nearly spend all his money and all he have only with him was 15 mid-tier Magical Crystals he brought from the Academy which the value would be around 1.500.000 gold coins or 150.000 diamond coins and each of the scrolls was worth three mid-tier Magical Crystals and just the six Aina had given him was more that everything he had with him.

He even wanted to decline at first, but Aina held his hand down, and signaled for him to be discreet and not let anyone see it. In the end, the scrolls were guarded on his phone's spatial storage.

"Look at them and remember their faces!" Aina pointed at a group of fourteen girls and one boy in a distance. They were all wearing pink colored uniforms and each of them had an golden staff on their backs. they seemed very intimidating just by looking at them.

"They are all from the Magical Girl Academy in Pink Moon City. Everyone of them is at the Third Realm Divine Mage and above. Their leader is the fourth Realm Divine Mage, Yail, She may have born as an man but he prefers to be seen as a woman. She is the most talented student at his academy, and there is a saying that he even defeated a someone at the fifth realm using with a low level magical artifact. i never thought we would be seeing someone like him here."

Them Elijah felt someone looking at him, and she saw three youngsters dressed in silver armors about three hundred meters away from him.

One of them was significantly taller than the other two. He was wearing the same armor as the others, but his tall build set him apart.

Kaikai was sat down and meditating, but even them he stood out from the others around him.While he quietly cultivated, Elijah could feel an intense amount of yellow spiritual force surrounding him.

'I can even feel his spiritual force from here… how powerful is he?' Elijah was slightly scared from what he was seeing but he was also even more excited.