"Now… Do tell me more, I can't seem to know what the real reason for your Prince Azen to start a coup, I couldn't care less about how he's going to use my wife. But I am curious as to why he would want to start one, maybe because… He's jealous of his brother for taking the throne… No, that's not enough of a reason now, is it?" Yuki asked with a light smile on her face as she looked at Artemis and Leona with clear amusement on her face.
"I have been hearing rumors… I wonder if they are real, so maybe the people around us can tell if what I have heard is all correct. Don't worry, Astral Epsilon Sect, you're safe here with me. So do tell me… Is the rumor about Prince Azen being infertile correct, hence why his wife left him, and that wife is actually the current Empress of the Melvis Kingdom? In shorter terms, is the rumor about him getting cucked for being infertile? Is that rumor real?" Yuki laughed as soon as Artemis and Leona flew into a rage as they flew towards her with clear murderous intent, but with a simple nod from Damien and the rest, the two got quickly subdued.
"What the fuck are all of you doing! Are all of you really going to betray Emperor Azen like this? All of you are going to pay for this betrayal, I promise you that! Release us now, and you won't suffer the wrath of Emperor Azen!" Artemis yelled angrily as she was restrained by them, who simply had smirks on their faces.
All of them simply looked at each other before laughing to themselves as if mocking Leona and Artemis, further angering them even more, but even as they try their hardest, they simply can't get away from their restraint because each one of them is at most equal or just weaker than them, and since there are four of them here, they will simply get overpowered by them.
"Lady Artemis… Lady Leona, are you forgetting that even though we're members of the Aerox Sect, our loyalty remains solely to the Sect Master, and not to your dog of a wannabe Emperor? We simply agreed to do this mission because you paid us a lot of money and contribution points for this. If not for that, we won't even be coming in here." Mana said with a cold grin as her smirk faded before stomping on Leona's back, cracking a few bones.
At this sudden attack, Leaona coughed up blood at the force as she suddenly felt out of breath because of the attack. But instead of feeling pain or fear of the coming death, she gritted her teeth as she felt nothing but anger coursing through her body; it was the same with Artemis.
"You two still haven't answered me… But then again, seeing you two so angry right now, I'm sure you wouldn't say anything and would rather die than reveal anything from your so-called Emperor's plan… All of you can leave you can handle the rest to me… and here is your payment. There's an extra 1 million purple gold for your troubles and how badly I beat you all up." Yuki just continued as she gave a spatial ring to all of them before restraining the two herself.
"It's a pleasure working with you, Lady Yuki. I hope we can work together as well in the future. You have my talisman, and I'm sure the real Aerox Sect would be glad to work with you." They said as they checked the payment, just to be sure. After that, they all left while giving a silent nod at the Astral Epsilon Sect.
This confused the Astral Epsilon Sect about why the core disciples of the Aerox Sect just nodded at them, even though they were close rivals, but at the end of the day, they simply ignored it as they thought that it was just them provoking them, because even if the two are affiliated with Yuki, they are still rivals to the core.
"Don't mind them, those are the real deals of the Aerox Sect. I've done some investigating and found out that almost half of the Sect is corrupt; they are the ones that are the most honest and loyal, even if they're doing such a dirty job like this." Yuki simply shrugged it off before completely turning her attention back to the women who were looking, staring daggers at her. If a look could kill, Yuki would have died over a thousand times already just by how the two are glaring at her.
"But back to the point, I am curious. Do you happen to know the Dukedom family, where a woman by the name of Leah? Because I'm pretty sure that the person he's serving is a Duke that's also a servant of the Trash prince that you're talking about. I'm just curious because they recently hunted a Legendary Phoenix that shouldn't exist…" Yuki asked curiously as she looked down at both of them with bored eyes.
The reason she's only asking this is that she wants to know the reason why the Prince wants to take Yaoyao from her, as it would serve him any good, because she's still a baby Phoenix, and no matter what, it would be useless in the end because she's also fairly weak. If Yaoyao had been an adult Phoenix, she would have understood it.
The reason is simple: the Prince won't have enough time to cultivate and grow Yaoyao with the limited time that they have, because from what she can guess, the Prince is already going to start his Coup to dethrone the Emperor. Especially when the power and influence of the current Emperor grow each passing day, if he waits for another century, there would be no chance for him to win now. And considering the fact that Yuki is a major factor also in the Emperor gaining strength by lending them money, it would be nearly impossible to break the influence because most of the Ducal Families will just join forces with the Emperor.
"You think we're going to tell you anything? Well, you can dream about it, you bitch! You won't get any information from us because, unlike other people, we are loyal and would rather die than betray the Prince! Don't even try to act like you don't know that Phoenix, we already know that it has some connections with you, and judging from how you asked us, I guess we're right." Leona smirked as she tried to stand up, only for her head to get smashed back on the ground.
"Well, is that so? Not that it really matters, you won't go back to that Prince anyway. The Phoenix is mine, because she's my pet… and let me tell you this… Because I know that there's a crystal ball that's live transmitting this conversation back to him. Just try to kidnap Yaoyao again… I'll personally kill you, so that even the Emperor wouldn't be able to save you." Yuki said coldly as she knocked the two cold before letting Ciel take their bodies.
"Well… I'll leave now, you can go ahead and do whatever you want in this place, I don't really care. My time here is done." Yuki said back to the Astral Eclipse Sect before flying away without a care anymore since she got more than she wanted here.
Since she just went here out of curiosity and the fact that she wanted to cool off her head, she'll leave. But after flying towards where she came from, she found out that the exit was still not open. Upon asking other people inside, she learned that it'll only open after a month has passed.
"This is going to be boring then… I'll have to wait for less than a month since it's not even a week since I came inside… What the fuck can I do then…" Yuki mumbled after lying down on a hill with a towel on her back as protection from dirt provided by Chitose.
"Then why don't Master practice creating pills or elixirs? You did say that you want to be better at it, as the last time you concocted pills, you weren't too happy about it, right?" Chitose said with a light smile on her face as she knelt beside her.
"Conducting pills… Interesting, but I don't have any ingredients with me right now. Plus, I don't have a cauldron or Fire element to control it." Yuki just sighed as she browsed through the System Shop for any Cauldron that she could possibly buy, but all of them were extremely overpriced, just as she expected them to be.
"What should I do with this problem…" Yuki sighed as she closed her eyes, trying to relax and get some sleep, even though she didn't necessarily need it.