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Seeing that Daimon wasn’t paying attention to her words, Bell turned to see Aurora and then put on a pleading expression before saying.

“Aunt, please tell him to not ignore me, back then the old man planned to try and absorb only the poisonous emanations of that thing to reach the Maximum stage, so he kept the herb in his ring and then went out to look for a secluded place as his advance will bring a poisonous disaster to the nearby area”.

“But he didn’t even manage to leave the Elemental Sea before his ring was destroyed and he was directly radiated by the poison of that thing, even after consuming all kinds of antidotes he still died after a year”.

“That old man’s ring was a Stellar rank spatial treasure and it was still destroyed, tell him to throw his ring away, a mortal realm will die on the spot!”.

Daimon was actually surprised by Bell’s words, this is the first time he hears of a poison… no of anything that can bypass a spatial restriction in such a way.

It’s not like a storage ring is indestructible, but he has never heard of something destroying a ring from the inside, after all the inside of a storage ring is an isolated space, the way to prevent someone from accessing the contents of a storage ring is destroying the ring which is like the door to that specific space, that is one of the many things Liz taught him.

And that is why he keeps most of his valuables in the inventory, experienced knights will aim to destroy the ring of a mage all the time during battle, once destroyed there is no way to retrieve the things that were stored in that ring they’ll be gone forever.

But right now, Bell stated that the ring was destroyed by one of the things it contained, in other words the poison of that flower was strong enough to corrode and destroy an isolated space.

‘If that’s the case, then that thing must also have spatial properties and stronger ones compared to the material used to create storage rings’, concluded Daimon.

In his many tries to make Blink level up, he tried to meditate in a space filled to the brim with the special mineral that is used to make storage rings, only to discover it was useless.

In order to level up Blink he needed to experience spatial laws that were above what he could feel when he was brought by Aura or Erin through Space Shift, he thought he will be able to when he met Vincent, but that wasn’t the case.

Maybe because the Stellar ranked of Neptune were “incomplete”, which in his mind put them on a similar or maybe even lower level compared to the Half Emperors of the four galaxies, in a sense both were still restrained to the mortal realms.

There were other space oriented treasures back at Abaris’s treasury, but they were disappointing, being worse than the spear of Thea which is a rare weapon with space properties, unfortunately even when he travelled through the portals created by the Black Empress who is rather skilled in that aspect, Blink still wasn’t affected, so Daimon supposed he had already gotten all the possible benefits he could get out of mortal spatial laws.

And now he finally found something that might have stronger spatial laws, it was worth investigating it, but he could leave that for later.

“Don’t worry, my spatial treasure is far stronger than anyone you have seen or heard off, even Blackbeard’s array wasn’t even close to be able to restrain it”, he calmly said.

The inventory could even contain Disaster which basically destroyed everything it touched, so this little poisonous herb won’t be able to cause any troubles.

Aurora nodded, if it was anyone else, she would doubt it, but her granddaughter has told her about the adventures they had while in the beast hunt and she knew Daimon casually kept taking things out of his spatial treasure.

Needless to say, but Bell was surprised to hear Daimon’s affirmation, Blackbeard was one of the two best rune masters of Neptune, he even managed to infiltrate the barrier that Vincent had paid the other strongest rune master to place around the Wild Tide Reef.

Her eyes then glowed as she noticed that there were no leaks of poison indeed, meaning Daimon wasn’t bluffing, it’s not like she was personally worried about Daimon, they met a couple of minutes ago after all.

But she was worried that Jasmine would be sad if something happened to the silver haired youth, also she finally found some hope regarding curing her daughter’s curse, so she won’t let anything happen to Daimon no matter what, not to mention she and Sarah had already joined the alliance so their lives were tied to Daimon’s victory.

“Don’t think too much about it… you’ll have to get used to see impossibilities becoming a daily thing now that you have gotten to meet him”, said Aurora as she patted Bell’s shoulder.

Daimon chuckled in response, leaving that aside, they casually left the treasury of the Purple Haze sect and Aurora immediately took everyone back to the white castle, she didn’t want to drag the reunion of her remaining “daughters” even an extra second.

The girls who were chatting and relaxing in the living room of the castle, saw a portal opening in the middle of the room, the sisters and Aisha smiled knowing Daimon was returning.

Sylvie and Jasmine on the other hand were a bit confused about why Aurora told them to prepare for their return, but they got their answer the moment the portal disappeared and people stopped appearing out of it.

There were two reactions, Jasmine just looked at her grandmother confused about why she brought Sarah who she knew wasn’t in good terms with her and Cassy, unlike Sylvie she didn’t know about Bell’s “participation” in Jessica’s death, so she didn’t particularly hated Sarah, but they weren’t friends either, also Cassy who is her best friend didn’t like her, not to mention she was the cousin of Purplehaze, she always thought Sarah approached her due to the orders of her cousin as she seemed to observe her quite a bit.

The other reaction was Sylvie who directly took out her weapon, a white spear which she then pointed at Bell.

“What are you doing here!”, the atmosphere tensed up, the girls were confused, Sylvie’s reaction made them think an enemy followed Daimon and the others back, but the fact that Daimon was in the group made them discard that thought immediately.

Before things got out of hand, Aurora raised her hand and then said.

“Calm down Syl, it was me the one who brought Bell and Sarah here… you and Jasmine come with me”.

Daimon was about to leave to Aisha’s side, when Aurora placed her hand on his shoulder.

“You come too, please”, Daimon knew why she wanted him to tag along and he bitterly smiled, it will be easier for Jasmine to accept what she was about to learn about herself if Daimon was there too.

“Fine”, said Daimon, it’s not like he didn’t want lend his friend a hand, in this case Jasmine, as she was about to learn she is probably part Nethereal.

Aurora then guided them to the guest room, the other girls were curious about what was happening, but they were sensible enough to not ask, as for Aisha, she knew her darling will tell her everything so she wasn’t particularly interested about it.

The door of the room closed behind of them and Aurora then released Sylvie from the restraining spell she casted on her.

“Have you finally calmed down?”, she asked.

“But, aunt, she is in part guilty of…”, Sylvie who for the first time since Jasmine has know her, raised her voice at her grandmother, was interrupted by Aurora.

“Before you say that, listen to what Bell has to say, little Jas, I honestly didn’t want you to know more regarding this matter so soon… but now that is has come to this, I want you to know the truth, also remember that I love you and that won’t change no matter what”, she said as she placed her hands on Jasmine’s shoulders.

“Mm”, Jasmine felt a bit strange but she still nodded.

The following was as Daimon expected, Bell told everything to Sylvie and Jasmine, including the thing regarding the Nethereal, her relationship with Jessica and the fact that Sarah and Jasmine are part Nethereal.

Of course, the reaction was rather violent, Sylvie was furious after learning it was Byron and Reed the ones who killed her friend and naturally that anger extended towards Bell too, luckily Aurora was here to restrain her or she would have started fighting with Bell on the spot.

As for Jasmine she was shocked, not only her father participated in the assassination of her mother, but he was one of those monsters who she has seen Daimon deal with, and that also meant she was like that too, it will be a lie to say she was okay after listening to that, the thought of ever being like the one who killed her mother made her heart clench.

Her little body which was trembling, felt a calming sensation when a big warm hand was placed on her shoulder.

Jasmine’s teary eyes turned to see the origin of the calming sensation which she has experienced one before, and naturally she saw Daimon, who has taken off his mask to show his real face, which Bell and Sarah hadn’t seen previous to this.

“My words might not mean much, but what defines who you are isn’t your race, but your actions, the Jasmine I know will never be like that”.

Little diamond-like tears fell from Jasmine’s pretty eyes, she suddenly turned around and leaned her head on Daimon’s shoulder, he positive influence Daimon had on Jasmine wasn’t mind control like Adam’s tricks, she still cried on Daimon’s shoulder.

But it indeed helped the girl recover her composure in an easier way, realizing she had gotten Daimon’s shoulder all wet with her tears, Jasmine blushed but Daimon just took out a handkerchief from his jacket and handed it to her.

‘I knew it was a good idea to bring him… damn you Byron, I will rip your head off for this!’, Aurora first let out a sigh of relief, happy that Daimon helped Jasmine calm down, then her mind was assaulted by murderous thoughts.

But right now, it wasn’t the time for that, Jasmine let go of Daimon and then looked at Sarah, if what the purple haired woman who turned out to be Sarah’s mother was true, then she has been helping her from the shadows while being treated bad by Cassy and her.

“She fought with Adam the day before you left to the Mermen Sea, I don’t know how things were back then, but I’m pretty sure that made the bastard feel wary which hindered his plans”, said Daimon.

He wasn’t purposely helping Sarah, with what he knew about Adam thanks to the clashes they have had, he was 100% sure he would have tried to make a move on Jasmine once he felt safe about whatever he used to cloud other people’s eyes, it was thanks to Aurora who didn’t fully fall for his tricks and Sarah who directly confronted him, that he didn’t get to lay his dirty claws on Jasmine.

Jasmine’s expression changed once again, if there is someone she hated as much as she hated Byron now, that was Adam, she slowly walked towards Sarah, her sister with a different mother and she hugged her.

“Thanks”, she didn’t say much, but Sarah’s genuine smile made it obvious that she was really happy right now, for once the gaze she gave to Daimon wasn’t a desire crazed one, but a thankful… unfortunately it didn’t last long before she licked her lips at him.

‘Crazy woman’, thought Daimon.

Bell was also happy from the bottom of her heart, it might be late for her generation to be like before, but she was happy that her daughter could have the chance, she then turned to see Sylvie who still had a slightly hostile expression and then sighed, but Aurora spoke before she had the chance to.

“Syl, I can’t force you to do anything, but I know Jessica wouldn’t have wanted her two sisters to fight each other over something like this, she would have instead asked you two to take care of little Jas in her stead”.

“And I’m the same… I don’t want to see the ones who I regard as my daughters aim a weapon at the other, if she knew about it, she wouldn’t be able to rest in peace”.

Sylvie’s body trembled, her angry expression broke and she actually started crying, to Bell’s surprise she was the one who took the initiative to hug her.

Bell was the oldest of the three so she was the one who acted as the big sister, it would be a lie to say that Sylvie’s heart didn’t break every time she felt angry towards Bell, but at the same time she couldn’t just forgive her.

But seeing how Jasmine treated Sarah and listening to Aurora’s words, the strong front she built collapsed, and now she vented all the negative emotions she bottled up in her heart for so many years.

Daimon left the room in silence, now it was time for them to catch up and they needed some space for that.

‘Who would have thought you will have a sensitive bone in your body’, said Evangeline.

‘I don’t care about what happens to strangers, but she is my friend, why wouldn’t I care about her?’, he asked in response.

‘…’

‘You… have changed, but I like this Daimon more than the one whose eyes were ash dead, like the first time we met’, after a moment of silence, Evangeline said one last thing before she returned to silence.

Daimon raised an eyebrow, the first time they met she made fun of him, not to mention that more than ash dead, he was raging back then due to Aisha’s death.

Ultimately Daimon shrugged and then he returned with the others, they will be leaving early in the morning so he wanted to spend some time with Aisha and the sisters, for some reason he felt in an especially good mood right now.