CHAPTER 67

Arata and Rachel headed back to the Alvarez Empire and reached there on the next day's afternoon. As Arata and Rachel were very successful with the mission, there was no need for the soldiers they had just prepared, but they had a big tragedy that was coming their way, which they didn't know about. Rousseau was already dead, and Arata calculated that he would need to kill his family in 2 months 4 days time. That was plenty for him.

"We are back !", Arata and Rachel said when they saw their comrades from Zipang in the city to receive them. It had been long since they had met Wakatoshi and Igsem and of course, Solork.

"Oh you guys are also Gold rank now !", Arata immediately said to Wakatoshi and Igsem by sensing their cultivation. Arata had come back to give his regards to Anna Andre and Alphonse Mahler. It seemed they had developed a relationship when Arata and Rachel were gone.

"Hey !", Alphonse and Anna said as they came out of their guild's building. The cultivators had reduced in great amounts because of the fight between the families, and betrayal. Due to the information leakage, Tsukishima had become powerful and god knows how many other people were there who were cultivators now. Arata also had to really search for her mother, so he could not stay in one place for so long.

"I have also been gathering information. It seems that there are cultivator organisations in the Western part of Western Spade kingdom, which is very far from here. Alos, the lowest of the ranking in them are of Legend Rank. It seems there are ranks above it also !", Solork said.

"What !? I can't believe you ! How did you even get information about that place ?", Arata asked Solork. He was also curious what was after this. He wanted more clues to ascend to the fourth dimension. He was already reading papers from famous mathematicians and their speeches to formulate a solid foundation for his research.

"This, actually, was said by people from the leader of the Rouyun clan. He is in the torture chamber because he was colluding with the betrayers and he spilled this to invoke fear in us.", Solork said. "I am also now interested. I have to see what kind of place that is !", he said.

"Ok. What happened to the Prokofievs", Rachel suddenly asked. They were the strongest opponents left. Of course, there were opponents which they didn't know about also, like Milana.

"There was a great fight between the members of Prokofiev and Alphonse, even Igsem and Wakatoshi took part in it. We overpowered them by numbers, and they were the last boss. But we talked to Sierg and decided to tell you an important piece of information.", Anna said.

"What is it ?", Rachel asked in anticipation.

"It is about the beast that lay underground and the reason this country was formed. It is actually known to only the members of the S rank squads and those 8 specialists who you probably met.", Alphonse continued.

"Yeah, it did seem they didn't not want to talk about it. We also didn't force them to talk about it, we just wanted to complete the mission.", Arata said.

"Yes, actually even those guys were just subordinates of the All mighty. Only All Mighty had gathered us up and told us this reason.", Alphonse said.

Solork and all were dumbfounded at that time. The beast that lay underground and the secrets of the Alvarez Empire were things that everyone wanted to know about.

"Tell us about the beast you just spoke about.", Arata said.

"Yes, it seemed that All mighty had defeated and buried it underground. But he had to put a seal and wanted to protect this seal. So, he just decided to get all the land under his control.", Alphonse said.