Lutherias Dynasty

Energy flowed throughout her body, the vigor exploded outwards shaking up the surrounding trees. Unable to contain herself, Ireya got up and began performing all of the moves of Lonely Sword, one by one.

The power crackling through the air was many times more powerful than before if she was a simple snake before then her current strength was like a python thrashing through the fields. The power within her currently was explosive yet elegant, an opposing combination.

Raya was pushed back just from the shockwaves.

"Fifth Move: Another Death!", the violet light pierced through the skies flying up dozens of meters.

Boom!

Trees were uprooted and even the ground began shaking, the shockwave flung the trees many dozen meters away forming an empty field of land around Ireya.

"Wow...", Raya watched in wonder as she witnessed Ireya's strength first hand.

'She should be strong enough to fight someone at 70% of the way into Ablution shouldn't she?', Raya herself was only at 90% of the way into Ablution now, the only thing left for her was the Heart and the Brain. Those two organs were extremely dangerous to purify and must be done once all of her preparations were complete.

Ireya finally relaxed after she vented off her excess energy, she watched as her energy slowly recovered even after she used it up. This was the biggest advantage which those at Ablution had, your energy would naturally recover, not only that the energy stored within you would be much higher than those that had yet to break into Ablution.

"I'm done, Raya!"

"I can tell.", her lips twitched at Ireya's blatant effort to show off.

"Sigh... Shall we finally meet some other people now, I'm pretty sure we're starting to go crazy with just us two.", of course, she wouldn't tell Ireya that she knew that she was already starting to go crazy, otherwise, how would she have been seduced by another female...

"Before that, I have something to ask you.", this question was something she had been putting off for the last 4 years, there had to a reason that they were doing this after all.

"What is it?"

"When will we be going back? We've already been gone for 4 years."

"Going back? Haha! So your mother didn't tell you? Understandable though considering how evil that woman is..."

"Tell me what?", Ireya was growing impatient.

"If we had turned back on the day we left to go back home we wouldn't have found Seven Swords City again."

"Huh?"

"That city is constantly moving, the only way to find it is to sense it or get lucky, it's under an illusory formation meaning even if we tried to look for it we wouldn't be able to see it. The only way is to get strong enough to see through the formation."

"So that was the last time I would be seeing my mummy...?"

Seeing that Ireya was starting to feel down she wrapped her hands around her and pulled her in for a hug, "Of course you will, you just have to get strong!"

Ireya tugged hard on Raya's red robes then after a minute of thought pushed herself away.

Raya looked into Ireya's eyes while she looked back then smiled, "Better?"

Ireya nodded, "Better, now let's go!"

She grabbed onto Ireya's wrist before she ran off again, "First of all I have to give you a long lesson on the outside world."

Sitting down on top of a rock Raya began her lecture.

"First of all this world is split into 7 continents, we're currently on Continent Six, each continent is named in a basic way, One, Two, Three, etc... And each of these continents is separated by a vast ocean, humanity's main enemy exists within the exterior oceans, the interior oceans which are in between the continents are much safer."

"Humanity's main enemy?"

"That's right, the Oceanic Beasts, they are much stronger than humans but are divided by many complicated hierarchies and so have never gotten the opportunity to beat us."

"Continent Six, the one we are in, is governed by the central Lutherias Dynasty, this Dynasty focuses on spear users and has many smaller kingdoms governed by it of which most cultivators use spears and we are in one of many. Simple so far?"

Ireya nodded, "But why has mummy not taught me any of this?

"How am I meant to know? All she has taught you is the types of beasts that exist and basics of how people live and nothing else, no history or anything. Ask her yourself when you find her again."

"Got it!", this added onto the list of reasons for Ireya to get stronger and get back home.

"And now the most important lesson, people are evil, very evil. Some men and women pretend to be nice but in the background are plotting to kill and steal from you, only trust them after truly seeing what the person is like. Don't trust most rumors either, they can be quite misleading."

After hearing this Ireya had one more question and this was something that Ireya never understood, "Why do both you and mummy say that people are evil?"

"Sigh... You'll find out soon enough, just remember, don't act on your emotions, no matter what."

Raya then continued to teach Ireya all of the basics and what she should do after they left. Once she was done she stood up and said, "Now let's go."

Ireya drilled all of those words into her mind as Raya stood up to leave.

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Ireya had changed into clean black robes which hid most of her curves making it harder for people to tell how good she looked, this way she had fewer problems. Raya, on the other hand, wore noble clothes which only helped to accentuate her curves.

After finally making it out of Hades Ring they were greeted by vast green fields leading into an endless plain littered with villages and roads, many carriages rolled past them as they walked into a road the moment they left the forest.

"People!", this was the first time Ireya had seen so many people, even back in Seven Swords City she had rarely left her house and trained most of the time in their back garden.

"Remember what I said.", Raya pulled Ireya and whispered into her ear.

She continued to step in front of a slow carriage and stood before it pulling out her noble badge, "Excuse me, can we have a ride on your carriage?"

Ney!

The horses stopped moving as a lash whipped at them, the middle-aged man sat at the front turned around in a hurry and whispered into the carriage after seeing the badge.

After a minute a voice left the interior of the carriage, "Of course you can come in, we'd be glad to cater a noble."

Raya motioned at Ireya and walked up towards the steps of the carriage and walked in after Ireya pulled the curtains open gesturing for Raya to walk in.

Walking in Raya saw a well built middle-aged man sat in the middle with a younger lady with blonde hair sat to his left and a little boy with black hair to his right. Raya smiled at them then sat down in front of them with elegance, Ireya on the other side bowed down like a servant and then sat down.

Smack!

A palm hit directly at Ireya's face causing her cheek to swell, she stared blankly at the little boy that had just smacked her and then back at Raya.

"Don't you dare sit down servant, go out front and sit with that old bastard."

No one in the carriage had any reaction as if it was normal, Raya then began speaking, "Don't worry about it, she's quite inexperienced, go sit out front.", with that last few words she gave her a stern look.

Ireya nodded then slowly got off the carriage, looking back she saw the disdain within their eyes staring her down.

She made it to the front of the carriage and sat next to the fat middle-aged man at the front, "Name?", he asked her.

"Ireya."

"Nathan, get used to it, this is how people who are either poor or cannot cultivate get treated, like trash. If your master didn't have a noble badge he would have just told me to run you two over.", he then continued with his job like it was a normal occurrence.

Now she understood why Raya and her mummy said that people are evil, this was why.

"But how would they know if we are cultivators or not?"

He glanced at her disdainfully then reluctantly answered her, "If you were cultivators you would simply ride savage beasts and wouldn't have to have us take you there, plus there'a cultivators badge too."

After he answered her question she went quiet and watched as they slowly traveled.

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Their journey continued for 6 hours before the carriage stopped on the side of the road for a short break.

Ireya followed all of Nathan's orders and prepared the campfire and helped prepare the food, she wasn't a chef but was able to easily pick up the basic skills. After it was all ready she stood before the door and opened it up to let them all out, Raya was the last to leave.

Once the four of them had eaten Ireya and Nathan finally gained the chance to eat. After they were finished and packed it all up Raya took Ireya and told the group that she had to teach her servant a few manners before they left again.

Behind a few trees and shrubbery Raya looked at Ireya's cheek and made sure that there was nothing wrong, bowing down she apologized, "I'm so sorry, the noble badge is bound to my blood if it wasn't I would have given it to you."

She was ashamed to have had to watch all of that happen, Ireya knew that she truly felt sorry and stopped her from bowing down any further.

Smiling she responded, "I know Raya don't worry, it's not like it hurt anyways hehe..."

Ireya's expression shifted after a sudden thought, "But I do have a question, Raya, why don't we just beat them up and steal the carriage?"

Raya's lip began twitching profusely, she worried that it would be slanted forever with how ridiculous her question was. "Did my lesson go completely over your head or something?!"

Bang!

She smacked her palm onto Ireya's head, "Ow..."

"If we did that we wouldn't live to see another day, we'd be chased by the Imperial Guard to the ends of the continent and have to live in the mountains like bandits."

"Oh..."

Looking at Ireya's clueless face she suddenly had the urge to smack it again.