Artifact

After about an hour or so, both Leah and Grace were lying on the bed naked. Their bodies were covered in sweat and both of them were panting heavily. Grace put her head on top of Leah's breasts and smiled in satisfaction.

Leah too was smiling warmly at Grace while she slowly played with the latter's hair. This continued for a few more minutes until Grace turned her head and looked at Leah as she asked, "So, how was your holiday?"

"It was so much fun the first few days, but then I got bored." Leah smiled and started to tell her about all the things she had seen and done during her holiday trip. Grace listened patiently, smiling all the while.

After she finished talking, Leah asked, "What have you been up to? Did anything interesting happen in Damascus while I was gone?"

"Yes, something in fact did happen while you were gone. A few days back someone attempted to rob Bryan in his own apartment. Bryan confronted the man and was heavily injured. But he's perfectly fine now." Grace nodded and replied.

She didn't tell Leah that this was all Jack's fault. Bryan had told her not to disclose too much about this incident to Leah as this would only make her worried. And Grace agreed with Bryan. There was no need for Leah to get too involved in it.

"What!? Bryan was robbed and assaulted? He was even heavily injured?" Leah was both shocked and worried.

Although she fooled around with him and didn't have any feelings for him, she still considered Bryan her friend and didn't want anything to happen to him.

Grace saw the look of concern in Leah's eyes and comforted her, "Relax, Bryan has recovered now. In fact, I even met him yesterday. We can go meet him later in the evening."

Leah nodded after listening to Grace. Then she thought of something and said, "Grace, what do you think of Bryan?"

Grace was puzzled at her question but she still answered truthfully, "I think of him as a good friend. Why do you ask?"

"Good friend, huh? Then how about we invite him tonight and have a threesome?" Leah asked with a playful smile.

"What!?" Grace was taken aback, and then she shook her head vehemently, "No way! Leah, you clearly know that I don't like men. There's no way I'm sleeping with another man."

Leah chuckled and replied, "But if you never try, you'll never know."

However, Grace was adamant, "No chance. Even if he's my good friend, I'll never sleep with him."

Leah didn't give in either. She came closer to Grace and bit her earlobe as she whispered, "Bryan's shaft is really big. Biggest I've ever seen. Plus he has very high stamina. I promise you won't be disappointed."

Grace's face turned red as she stuttered, "N-no, I refuse."

Seeing Grace like this, Leah was even more motivated. She slid her left hand down toward Grace's nether region and gently massaged her clitoris. While her right hand pinched Grace's nipple.

Grace couldn't help but moan as she tightly pressed her head against Leah's bosom. She heard Leah's tempting voice in her ears once again, "How about this? Let Bryan join us on the condition that he won't touch you. That should be fine, right?"

Grace struggled to think straight but in the end, she gave in to Leah and said defeatedly, "F-fine."

Leah wore a victorious smirk as she kissed Grace on the lips, "Yay! You're the best. Then let's have him come over tonight."

Grace could only nod weakly as she continued to enjoy Leah's sensual massage.

…

22 Augustus Street.

Bryan had just finished a round of meditation after studying the entire morning with Detective Watson. He was currently lying on the bed in the guest room, staring at his silver pocket watch with a complicated expression.

The last time when his mother's letter appeared out of the pocket watch, Bryan was greatly surprised. His mother had mentioned that he had to refine the pocket watch in order to take out the rest of the items his mother had kept inside it.

And now Bryan finally had an idea about what his mother meant by the term 'refine'.

That was because, a few days ago, before the incident with Johnny, Bryan was fidgeting around with his pocket watch and on a whim, he decided to check if something would happen if he applied spiritual force to it.

To his surprise, the pocket watch had actually absorbed his spiritual force! Bryan was shocked. This wasn't something that was supposed to happen with ordinary items.

He remembered Detective Watson's teachings and came to the conclusion that this seemingly ordinary pocket watch was in fact an artifact!

Artifacts were items that were made of special materials that gave the artifact many different types of abilities. Some artifacts could even display the abilities of different Paths.

However, artifacts weren't something that could be used by Apprentices, especially attack and defense-type artifacts.

Only Transcendents could use such artifacts as an abundant spiritual force was required to utilize them. If an Apprentice were to use them, they would deplete their spiritual force completely after just using it one time.

'What is my mother's background? And what exactly is the Medici Family? She never spoke to me about her family when I was young…' Bryan was in deep thought as he kept staring at the silver pocket watch.

All of a sudden, Bryan's eyes narrowed as sat up straight on the bed.

He had just made a bold assumption, 'It is very likely that mother was also a Transcendent. That could explain why I have a supreme-grade aptitude. Then, did she hide that fact from my father? Or…was my father a Transcendent as well?'

Bryan's eyebrows furrowed as he rubbed his temples with his right hand. The more he thought about it, the more confused he became. Instead of answers, all he got were even more questions.

"Fuck it! I'll just refine it for now and I'll get all the answers once I've completely refined the pocket watch anyway." Bryan sighed as he mumbled. He had already studied about artifacts, their usage, and refinement method from Detective Watson.

Although he couldn't use the artifact currently because of his lacking spiritual force. He could still slowly refine the pocket watch, although it would take him quite some time to completely refine it.

And if his speculations were correct, then this silver pocket watch was most likely a space-type storage artifact!