23 Chapter 22 – 1st Stage, Sara

What surprised Aile was that each one of them had started cultivation, and were decently accomplished.

Diana and Fiona were in the 2nd stage of cultivation, and Emily was on the 3rd stage.

Emily seemed to be just as strong as Marcus. But she had suppressed her cultivation to 2nd stage intentionally.

Listening to the ladies allowed Aile to have a bit of change in mentality.

He had been in isolation in the past few days, making him regularly think about Jana this had made him furious.

During the past few days, Aile had directed his anger and inputted its energy into training. He had improved notably, but this made him burn out his body.

He had pushed his body to the maximum and forcefully maintained his consciousness, forcing his body into a terrible shape. Listening to the ladies talk had made him calmer, and he noticed his body and its terrible state.

He ultimately decided that he would rest tonight. This is because he could see that he could not continue like this for much longer.

If he continued like this, his body would not be able to handle the pressure.

After conversing a little more, Emily, Fiona and Diana left.

They had already made their schedule, and Emily had taken the first shift. Soon, she came back with a bottle of milk and watched Aile drink it.

Her unapproachable aura had retracted when she was here with Aile alone.

She patted Aile's head, and said in a soothing voice, "You have been through a lot, little-one, you need to grow up, and become strong to protect yourself. Others cannot protect you for the rest of your life."

Four and a half years passed, Aile had gotten used to the company of Diana, Fiona and Emily.

During this time, he heard the news that Jana had survived. However, she had disappeared after and had not come back. Aile had been trying to find out her whereabouts, but he had not succeeded. His covert attempts to get this information had failed him.

He can not directly ask about her, as it will raise a lot of questions about him perceiving things at a young age.

There were no further assassination attempts. The security of the estate had improved, and Aile had not gone out of the secure estate; making him a hard target.

Aile had reached the first stage at Surmounting Spirits Cultivation two years ago. After that, he no longer had to take the time to cultivate it, as it no longer required conscience effort to run the cultivation.

If one could see the energy in the environment, they would notice that everywhere Aile went, the energy would gather around him, and slowly sink into him.

During this time, he had achieved superb control of his senses, and he could focus any of them to the maximum. With the use of energy that he gathered from cultivation, he could even further amplify them.

He could amplify his sense of hearing, so he could hear everything in 2 km around him. This did not stop him from further development. He still trained on controlling his senses, and dedicated time to it every day.

Aile had understood human speech and learned how to process information since he was young. Thus, he was much more mature compared to the other kids.

He spent most of his time in his room, where he either trained his senses, his body and kept on connecting the energy channels of the body as Duke White's seal broke them. The breakdown rate had increased, and so he had to spend 6 hours daily just to reconnect with the energy channels.

This made him totally different from the other kids, as he had to spend most of his time at home training, and not talking.

Over the 5 years, Aile's personality and mindset strengthened and became more stable. He accepted the knowledge and memories from the soul link; centred around The Voice's early life. From these memories, he learned about the cultivation world's politics, risks, problems and schemes, without experiencing them personally.

He also learned that one should at least be at the 2nd stage to travel if one is at a lower stage, they would be too slow, and could not even run away from the weakest monster.

Aile will reach the 2nd stage soon, but he has no reason to go outside yet. His only goal was to find Jana, but he did not have a clue where to start.

He also noticed that people cannot seem to detect that he cultivated, he assumed that it's another miracle by the unique cultivation.

Duke White and Hunter had not visited him or Hazel in the past four and a half years.

Sara, Hazel's daughter, had become very close and friendly towards Aile. She would often visit him. She usually tried to visit and talk with him once a day.

Emily's daughter too became his friend. She would spend all her time in Aile's room when it was her mother's turn to take care of him. She like her mother did not like to talk too much, she was very smart, and Aile enjoyed her company. As she did not act like a child. She was called Sophie, and she was someone Aile adored very much.

Marcus had been taking his daughter and son since they were 3 years of age with him on his missions, and training them. They had shown decent talent in controlling the elements.

Thus, Marcus wanted them to train so that they can be ready for the world. He wanted them to have an extra edge over the others. Unfortunately, during one mission, his son was crippled, and could not walk anymore.

Diana had always hated Marcus, but this created absolute enmity against him.

Marcus had stayed at the estate for a week when he first got here and rarely visited after that. Since the accident, he had only come here 2 times.

But he still did not learn his lesson and takes his daughter Ellie with him on missions. This made Diana very sad tending to a crippled son and worried about her daughter. Aile could see a sense of melancholy on her face every time she came to Aile's room.

Fiona had found an old recipe of a healing cream. She created a small side business selling this cream. She contracted a few adventurers to collect ingredients for her from the forest and the sea.

She makes the cream and sells them in miniature jars to the people in the town. Her healing cream is extremely sought after.

Hazel and Fiona had been working together to make the products on a larger scale as the demand for the cream is remarkably high.

During this time, Aile also found out that Hazel was actually the magistrate of the town.

She had been busy with the town and its affairs.

The town showed significant development since Hazel took over.

During this time, Port Kiar became more populated. However, this brought on more troubles. This unknown town before had now attracted the eye of one bandit group and two pirate groups.

These groups had entered the town, and caused problems, and causing problems for the people outside. These groups had given Hazel a lot of trouble, but she did not have enough troops to deal with them.

Although the bandits and the pirates made life harder for the people of town and Hazel.

They were not worried as the town could easily defend against their attacks. However, the problem lied in the fact that they could not go on the offensive with their limited troops. Thus each group had accepted the other's existence.

The Pirates and the Bandits reduced the town's appeal and made the missions around it dangerous. This raised the mission costs.

The town's economy had suffered. Hazel had received a letter with the pirates' and bandits' collective demands.

They wanted to establish a base in this town, and they wanted the guards to not interfere with their business.

In return, they will not find problems with the town and its people.

This sounded like a peaceful solution, but the crux of the matter was that they would establish a base in town which could weaken the town defence against them.

Not to even mention the repercussions it will bring if the empire found out about the deal.

Thus, Hazel rejected the proposal resolutely.

The tensions in town arose.

A week passed, and Aile was cultivating in his room.

The door opened, and a beautiful 5-year-old with beautiful purple eyes and black curly hair shoulder length came to his room.

"Hello, Aile!!!" She cheerily said to Aile and jumped for a hug.

She hugged him tightly.

"Hello, Sara!" Aile replied with a smile.

Then he pretended to be choked from the tight hug.

Sara released her hug and laughed, then turned into her serious voice, "hahaha, Aile, you are so weak. You should eat tiger meat to grow stronger."

"OK, you just wait, I will eat "Proct" meat, and becomes stronger, and... and.... hug you so hard next time!" Said Aile with a serious face, they both looked at each seriously.

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