Chapter 143: I seek...

While everyone was in the line of combat, Adam hid. This is not to say that he was a coward, only that he thought it was not worth risking his life for a conflict alien to him.

Honestly speaking, those who would have to kill each other were the sect and the clans, not the military, Adam had read several history books since he had learned to read, which practically said the same thing.

The republic and the empire lived in a vicious circle consisting of times of peace, provocation on the one hand and war on the other. This was repeated over and over again without giving a winner because their strength was equal.

In all these wars throughout history, only a few times did the disciples of the clans and the Sect participate. Adam was no fool and realized that neither side dared to bet everything on victory, both sides were very conservative.

These wars were only to control and diminish each other's strength in a battle of attrition. Success or defeat depends on who won or lost the most in the wars, causing these results to accumulate and the distance between the two forces to become visible.

The clans and sect sought to unbalance the balance over time, showing a clear winner but it was not easier to say what to do. Despite centuries of war the balance remained relatively balanced and unless one side had an uprising in superior strength, this war could last for many more centuries.

Adam was not interested in dying because of the anger and incompetence of the clans, Adam did not know much but had heard rumors that those who incited this conflict, were not punished by the sect and in fact apparently his descent is still in the sect.

Adam could only think of the incompetent clans and decided not to get involved. The republic had given him nothing so he did not feel bad about what he was going to do.

The city Pale had not made simulations so it was chaotic and no soldier knew what to do, Apart from placing themselves in their positions did nothing else. While the high command was busy giving orders without having time to count the soldiers, much less notice their absence.

This gladdened him and he went to the Treasure Warehouse at full speed while guarding the surroundings.

Soon he arrived at the Cellar and being one of the few custodians of the cellar knew the combination, The entrance and door opened, Without hesitation Adam took an empty sack and took the three hundred white gold coins, together with a few hundred silver coins.

The white gold coins were money for the long term and could not be easily displayed, so he decided to take a few silver coins that would last a few months.

Adam put his sack on his shoulder and ran at the fastest speed towards the commercial district of the city Pale, There he would look for a commercial caravan of the "Beta" chamber of commerce.

This was a giant chamber of commerce that was both in the empire and in the republic, There was a saying that said: "Businesses have no flags" and it was true, This chamber of commerce was huge and spanned hundreds of thousands of miles, Having countless experts behind their backs, no one dared offend them.

Normally every day a caravan will arrive in Pale City with merchandise for distribution to the other cities within the republic but today with the imminent attack, the chamber of commerce would clean its warehouses.

He could not let his goods be stolen in the chaos. So they emptied their warehouse and would go through the main doors and with the state of the chamber of commerce no one would dare to stop them, For when the seat of the chamber found out, their heads would roll.

Adam's plan was easy, to get into the caravan. Caravans like these would have countless carriages pulled by demonic beasts, so getting into one of the middle carriages was not difficult. They could have experts guarding the wagons but they didn't have enough manpower to place an expert per wagon.

Taking advantage of this Adam watched the carriages and got into one of them being crushed by goods but soon in his hand he felt something soft and began to play with it until he heard a faint groan: "Ahhh".

When Adam heard that, he didn't play with it anymore. He was afraid that the driver would listen to them and that it was bad manners, otherwise he felt a pain in his hand. He was being bitten by someone!

Adam could only bear the pain and whisper: "Because you bite me! Are you an animal!"

The other party only replied: "Hmph, You are the animal, Your family is of animals. Now shut up, let's hope it's night to go out, I don't want you to ruin my plans!"

Adam wrinkled his eyebrows and thought, "Your plans?"

But he did not dare to reply, so the two remained silent until night came and the carriage stopped.

Soon the sounds of celebration sounded and you could hear the merchants drinking alcohol and listening to music, It was as if war did not exist for them. Besides their identity, the people who would have the courage to steal from them were very small. So they were comfortable and off guard.

Many were waiting for Pale City to fall or survive. If it fell then they would go to the nearest branch to report and if it survived they would relocate to the city to resume their business. It's that simple.

Everything was joy until midnight when everything was quiet and two shadows came out of one of the countless carriages. A few miles from the caravan the shadows finally stopped and sighed.

At last it was all over and they were free.

Soon the two shadows examined each other, and in the moonlight they realized they were surprised. Adam was surprised because the woman in front of him was the same as General Posay's third daughter.

"It's you, Beth Posay!"

"It's you, the stalker!"

After that, the two were silent and Adam was the first to recover only to say furiously: "Who are you calling a stalker?!"

Beth in her beautiful embroidered dress said scornfully: "Whenever I arrived at the base you saw me from afar, isn't that harassing?"

Adam got stiff when he heard that and could only turn his head and said: "It's not, I just like to see beautiful things, If you weren't beautiful I wouldn't see you".

Beth gave a faint smile and approached Adam saying, "Am I really beautiful?"

Adam was furious at the girl's attitude, so he moved quickly and kissed her, making her lips meet each other.

She was just playing with this young man but never thought that this young man would steal her first kiss!

She didn't know why but when the young man touched her lips, she felt that her whole body was being electrified and lost all its strength, leaving her body at the disposal of the young man the only thing she could do was give a few small blows to the young man's chest.

"MMmmm"

So after a while, Adam left Beth's lips and said, "Now I want to see how you show that arrogant expression of yours."

But when Adam realized, Beth had an expression of pain and on the edges of her eyes wanted to shed tears, Adam could only think: "Exaggerate ..., My father always told me that the best way to silence a woman was with a kiss, until I remain silent".

But before even Adam could speak, Beth shouted: "I don't want to get pregnant! I don't want to have this commoner's child!"

Adam showed an expression of disbelief and couldn't believe that this little girl thought a simple kiss would get her pregnant. Didn't they teach her the basics at home?

"Shut up, you won't get pregnant by a simple kiss," Adam said in exasperation.

Beth calmed down a little and said, "Really, I don't want to have your child.”

This caused Adam's face to freeze but only nodded, while inside he said, "Fucking bitch, it's bad to have my son."

Adam didn't want to fight anymore so he kept his thoughts to himself. He could only ask: "What are you doing here?"

Beth before such a question hesitated a little and remained silent until after a few moments she said: "I seek holy Land".

Chapter 142: My love story beginnig (2)

Soon the doubt arises from his mind and he thought: "Why is such a beautiful girl on a military base?"

Too bad there was no one to reveal the girl's identity. So after seeing her for a few breaths, Adam took his way again.

What he didn't see was that the girl saw him with the corner of her eye thinking, "Who is this young man?"

Outside of all this, Adam advanced to the training room I think directions to other soldiers and next solutions for new cadets. Now he didn't know how to write so he would have to register for those classes but first, he would break into the first level Body Refining!

Soon he arrived at the salon and found a huge salon came with exercise machines which mainly concentrated on breaking into the first level Body Refining.

As far as Adam knew, all the soldiers of the republic were in Body Refining, the most common were from the first to the third level, the Elite was in the fourth to the sixth level and the high commanders were in the seventh to the ninth level.

As for Qi gathering, only the marshals and generals were at that level. But the first level Body refining was considered very common in the army. Since the politicians due to the threat of Empire Líos did not spare money for the army.

Adam was small but people heard that this was not a grudge between the countries themselves, but rather between the six families and the ruling sect of the Líos empire. Adam did not know what happened on that night and no one wanted to tell him, he only knew that the son of the Sect master along with other sons of Elders of the luminary sect did something sinister against daughters of the six clans.

After that event, the daughters of those clans committed suicide and the six clans formed an alliance to destroy the luminary sect forming the current Hudo Republic. The six clans were not as strong as the luminary sect individually but united they did not lose against them.

Because of this in recent centuries small and big wars have been waged between the Republic and the Empire. So neither of the two spares money in their armies.

So Adam looked for the instructor and he told him what to do. To get to the first level Body Refining one had to open the pores and expel impurities from the skin and for this one must break the boundaries of his body. So he placed himself in a machine which consisted of a few wires tied to the four extremities of the person's body while they had a few pulleys which served to have a few counterweights. The objective was clearly to run to the other side of the room with the cables tied to the body while further away one runs more weight will be released up to 100 kg per limb, this was a very barbaric way to get into the Body Refining Realm but it worked beside being cheap so the politicians were happy with this. They knew there were other more refined ways to do this but they were more expensive and needed more resources. Making more conventional techniques like fist techniques out of place.

In addition, the clans only had a couple of dozen fist techniques and could not share them with anyone. Since it was known that the price for just one fist technique was exorbitant, a few million gold minimum. So the army did not have fist techniques.

Each of these clans or the luminary sect had several millennia of existence so their techniques were either bought through their savings or invented by great geniuses born in these powers. Because of the same, the first techniques were scarce even in these powers but they were better than the secular powers that did not have any or only one of low quality.

This might sound somewhat contradictory but that was the reality for various complicated reasons of politics and power.

"AHHG

"One more step, I can almost break!"

"I can, I can. Raise the weight to 300 kg!"

So Adam saw hundreds of men with different weights running and jumping with weights, some even doing different exercises on other machines.

Adam installed the equipment on his body and realized that it wasn't four strings but five. The fifth was anchored to his chest through a vest. But he saw that only he was wearing the vest. and asked the instructor: "They don't use the vest because it's optional, This increases the difficulty but also their rewards, It's your decision whether to use it or not.

Adam didn't know why the others didn't use the machine with all the weights but he realized that some only used the hand strings or the foot strings. It seems to be the area in which they specialized, Some had their weapons in their hands like spears, Swords, and sabers. While others only used their fists and legs but all were training hard.

Adam decided to have all four strings tied to his body while doing his first training session. After all, he will use his one and only body refining pill. He didn't want to waste medical effect.

So he kept the five strings he put the pill in his mouth and began to run against the weight, for every step he took the weight on the pulleys would increase and the more difficult it would be to advance. Thus began his training for the next two years.

For the next two years. He didn't leave the training camp, because anyway if he went out, he didn't have anyone to see, his parents were dead. His sister left him without hesitation to marry someone rich, In the convent, he never had close friends so he just sent a little money for all the years they had taken care of him.

In these two years, his cultivation had increased and he was in the second level body refining almost reaching the third. Still decided to hide it and appear to stagnate in the second level. He had seen several talented young men from the army disappear overnight. Many said they were the high commanders who did not want to be replaced.

Then Adam realized that the whole army was dominated by twelve military families and that all the elite were people of these families and if one wanted to advance in the army could only do one thing: Submit.

Otherwise, he would only be killed and as a common soldier. No one mourns his loss. Adam didn't want to submit, he didn't want to be someone's dog all his life. So he could only live like a common soldier and hide his crop.

Now he had the goal of saving all his money for one day leaving the army and wandering the world. He would stay in the army but this place was very corrupt. This did not please Adam and he could not believe that politicians would turn a blind eye to this matter. Obviously, they knew, but they do nothing. So the only good thing about the army was the salary. Then there was a treasure vault with thousands of gold and jewelry.

In the last year, he had been in charge of guarding the vault with gold from the base. In this vault was the salary of the soldiers as well as part of General Posay's fortune.

Adam gained the trust by giving the impression of a weak, foolish and honest young man but what more could he do, one had to adapt to the situation and had learned that if one showed a lot of talent or cunning one was eliminated. With his thin appearance, many did not take him seriously and thought he would die in the first battle.

Soldiers like him could only take orders without asking questions, they were only chess pieces for superiors, so they didn't need to think.

During this year Adam wanted to steal the vault and had even made a plan of how to steal and escape, he was not the fool who looked. Adam knew there were more than 300 white gold coins in the vault!

This was equal to 30,000 gold coins!

With this, I could live a few decades and travel. Adam had no ties to the republic, family or patriotism, he had none, so leaving wouldn't be a problem seeing that he couldn't move freely in the republic's army.

Every third day of the second week of the month, General Posay's third daughter, Beth Posay, would come to visit her father and older siblings.

This was the girl she admired so much on the first day in the army and after that day she heard several conversations that made her aware of that girl's identity. Adam knew she had a great record because of her beauty. There was a saying that said, "No beauty is simple".

So every month on this day. Adam would hide and observe her for a couple of breaths before returning to train, Adam thought he was hiding well but the girl always noticed.

Adam knew that someone like her would never go out with someone like him, although removing impurities makes you a little prettier, the difference between their social states was too great, there would only be one way to marry her and would be advancing in the army but for that would have to become the dog of the Posay family and what Adam valued most was his freedom.

If a woman would make you lose your freedom, it wasn't worth it. Adam knew that if it wasn't her he would someday find a woman he could be with without losing his freedom.

"Gong" "Gong"

"Enemy attack! Repeat, Enemy Attack! All to their positions!"

Bells rang throughout the city and all soldiers ran to their posts. The citizens ran to their homes and the merchants kept their goods, closing their stores.

Pale City was one of the three cities closest to the border between the empire and the kingdom but nothing like that had ever happened, the empire plans to invade the Republic?

Between the borders, there were no peoples and even if there were they would not take long to be slaughtered, Nobody would be so foolish to live in those places, So there were only several fortresses on both sides. That the empire was here could only mean that the fortresses fell and the three cities were next, No one expected the fortresses to fall without the city notice.

Adam smelled a conspiracy with betrayal but he didn't care his eyes shone and he thought: "This is my chance".

Chapter 141: My love story beginnig (1)

Meanwhile, at the Royal Palace of the Alba Kingdom.




A middle-aged man stood in front of the palace gates and couldn't help but sigh: "One year, I haven't seen my Beth in a Year".




Adam could still remember the first time he saw Beth.




Adam and Beth were not originally from this region but from a distant region. From a small country called the Hudo Republic.




At that time he was a peasant with some talent in martial arts while Beth was the third daughter of a great general of the Republic. General Posay. Beth's full or former name was Beth Posay.




When Adam turned 14 he enlisted in the army because his parents had died in a plague and his older sister had abandoned him for marrying a merchant as he could not get a job anywhere other than the army in the training camp.




That was the first moment he saw his future wife. Beth.




Adam despite the years would remember that as if it were yesterday.




86 years ago, Hudo Republic. Pale City.




In the middle of the square there was a table with two men in light armor and serious expression while behind them was the word "Recruitment" while on the table there were many sheets of paper ready to be filled.




This table was not very popular among the young people and rarely did a young man enlist in the army. This was because at this time there was a war between the republic Hugo and his eternal Rival, The Líos Empire.




In times of peace the young people who enlisted in the army were thousands but in times of war they were few. Many just want a simple job but didn't want to go to war.




Because of this. Volunteer recruiting positions were empty. Many thought that politicians would have to put in a mandatory service in order for recruitment to be a success.




But soon a 14-year-old boy saw the recruiting post and after a little hesitation, he approached the men and said, "Gentlemen, is there a minimum age to enter the army?"




The men could only see the young man curiously without answering anything and examined him.




The young man did not seem to come from a wealthy family as his clothes were full of patches and discolored. Besides looking very thin, he didn't seem very well fed.




As for his facial features he certainly was not ugly but he was not handsome either. If there was a word to describe his features he would be serious, Ordinary.




The two men saw that the young man did not seem to be joking about joining the army and they were told. "14 years for the reserve, 16 to join the real army."




This made the young man's eyes light up and he continued: "How much is the salary?"




The two men could only tell him: "20 silver coins for the reserve and 40 for the real one, you will also receive a Body refining pill every year and if you die in battle your family will be rewarded with 10 gold coins distributed in twenty years.”




This made the young man no longer have doubts and said: "I want to join".




One of the two soldiers in charge was surprised and said, "Are you sure?, Join the army. Even if it's for the reserves, it's not child's play."




The young man still nodded and the soldiers could only sigh and offer recruiting papers. But the young man blushed and said, "Excuse me, you can fill them out for me, I can't read."




The soldiers met and nodded. They were not surprised that the young man could not read, in the republic only the rich and the military could read.




So a soldier took a pen and began to ask questions:




"Name"




"Adam."




"Age."




"14 years old."




"Hometown."




"Dorze Village"




"Beneficiary in case of death."




"Pale City Convent"




When I hear the young man's last words. The soldier looked up and saw Adam in disbelief, This young man was an orphan.




So I ask, "Does the convent know you want to join?"




The young man shook his head and said, "The convent is overcrowded, this morning they had to expel it in order to receive younger children. All over 14 were sent to get work but I didn't get anywhere, so I want to enlist in the army, it's sleeping on the street."




The soldier could only see the young man without saying anything, until after a few moments he finished the registration sheet and let the young man go to the training camp.




The other soldier said, "Are you sure we should leave him in the army?"




The first soldier could only sigh and said: "This young man has no skills to get another job or a strong physical for the only physical jobs, I don't think they will hire him anywhere else. If he didn't let him into the army, today he will sleep on the street and may starve to death in the future. After all, he is an orphan.”




Only then do the couple of soldiers remain silent waiting for the next person interested in joining the army.




Training camp of the reserves of the 12th division of the army.




Adam arrived at his barracks and examined the small jar along with the 20 coins he had been given.




This was his first annual Body refining pill and his first salary. Now it was wartime so the soldiers' wages were high as an incentive for young people to join him.




He soon remembered what the soldier who received him said: "It is forbidden to leave the training camp without permission, all soldiers are allowed to leave 3 days a month to see their families in addition to having to attend a group training every morning, salaries are paid on the 3rd of each month and pills are given the sixth month of the year. This is your first pill, if you want to use it go to the training room before using it, there is specialized equipment that will help you break into the first level of Body refining".




So he put the coins in his pocket and went to the training room. After all his only physical possessions were the clothes he was wearing but as he walked around the base in the distance he could see a beautiful 12-13 year old girl finely dressed in a beautiful embroidered dress. Adam, seeing the beauty of the girl, could not help but stop and admire thinking, "I wish my wife were as beautiful as that girl...".




That was the first time she saw Beth. The beginning of her first and only love...

Chapter 140: You don't send an idiot to negotiate peace.

The spiritual trees needed the earth to grow but not to live, while there is Qi in the atmosphere the trees even if they are only branches will be able to survive and once they touch the ground they could grow again.


This was a common technique used when the tree does not bear fruit in order to multiply the trees and it also worked with fruit trees.


The branch Alexander bought was a branch of a 10-dan tree known for two factors. This tree could purify the Qi in the Atmosphere while nourishing the soil to make it more fertile.


This tree was the "Cedar Ankle".


This tree was very rare in these places and Alexander could not believe that he had found it in this area. A branch of this tree could finally be sold for a few million Fifth grade stones.


but he got it for a few gold coins. This was the business of the century.


This cedar had several limitations as for example the area it purified was corresponding to its age. That is to say, if the tree was 1 year old, it only purified and nourished the soil of one meter around it, until it reached a thousand meters.


After that, the tree will produce a fruit called "Berserk Fruit" that as its name said contained pure berserk energy, just like the core of demonic beasts.


These fruits were useless for human beings but for the beasts it was very useful and nutritious. But there was also a sure buyer for these fruits and those were the tamers of beasts.


The only bad thing is that the tree would only produce one lot every 100 years. Which made the Berserk Fruit absurdly expensive but that was good for Alexander. As he remembered a Berserk Fruit was worth 100 seventh grade stones, this was because they were useless to humans even though it was a 10-dan tree and not all people were tamers of beasts, so they only had a limited market unless high intellect beasts were traded.


Because of this for a 10-dan fruit it was cheap but for the tamers it was somewhat expensive. For a tamer did not have the same income as an Alchemist or artisan. They were different worlds.


Now what Alexander did was bury the branch in the medicinal garden and throw a few gallons of spiritual liquid at it hoping that roots would be born from the branch so that it could be treated like any common tree.


In that Alexander examined the other herbs they had in the garden and nodded with approval. The salary of these gardeners was astronomical, making it impossible for them to draw attention to the benefits offered by others, Now Alexander knew that his salary was well earned. All the plants were in excellent condition and they followed his instructions to the letter.


So Alexander left the Garden and saw a beautiful curvilinear woman waiting. This was Sophia.


Sophia when she saw Alexander came up to her and said, "Young master, you were looking for me?"


Alexander nodded and walked on and said, "I want you to tell me the details of how the men of the Brook family arrived, Attitude, movements. Everything”


Sophia nodded and followed Alexander as she said: "When they arrived they were arrogant and did not hide it, the middle-aged man did not hide his lust when he saw Miss Anna, and they did not stop demanding things. The marriage proposal was more like an order than a proposal, frankly it was unpleasant.”


Alexander remained silent for a few moments: "Ahhh it seems that someone declared war on us soon."


Sophia was surprised at such an abrupt statement and did not expect it but when she thought of the words and the latest events. She opened her eyes in disbelief.


Alexander without seeing her could feel a change in Sophia's sight and said: "You already noticed, There is a saying that says "You never send an idiot to negotiate peace", That couple of father and son were only chess pieces, Their real objective was not to ask for marriage but to die under our hands ".


Sophia then added: "Then what they wanted was to give a justification to attack the weak!"


Alexander then sighed: "It's true what they say, Even the most useless stone has its uses in the hands of the right person, Those guys were black Brook family sheep most likely only ate and slept at home causing problems for the family, doing this not only get rid of that pair of idiots but made their lives meaningful for the first time. I have to admire the person who thought of this, has a certain degree of intelligence.”



Sophia was silent because she didn't know what to say. Apparently they fell into a person's trap and could only ask, "Now what do we do?"


But Alexander's answer impacted one more: "Nothing".


Sophia saw Alexander with disbelief, but Alexander only said, "Sophia, do you think only the Brook family is behind this? They are only the spearhead against us, Things are more complicated than this, The Brook family has five experts half step elemental behind their backs while we have four acquaintances, i.e. publicly we are only outnumbered by one and among the half step experts there are weaker and stronger according to the number of acupuncture points converted, So a mere Brook family cannot afford to fight openly against us, For even if they win their losses will be great and as a family of merchants they cannot afford to have their strength weakened to such an extent that their losses will be great and as a family of merchants they cannot afford to have their strength weakened to such a point.”


Then Sophia had a revelation and realized the whole picture. What the young master said was correct, The Brook family had no absolute certainty of winning against them and if they did it would be suffering great losses, Something that a commercial family could not afford, For such families it was not uncommon to offend other commercial families for business and profit, So they would have more than one enemy in the northern states but numerous enemies lurking in the shadows.


So to attack them must be more than one power and not just the Brook family.


But then Sophia exclaimed: "But then the danger is much greater than we expect".


Alexander could only say: "It's not as severe as you think, This group of powers are most likely just from the northern states and send a few dozen experts half a step to deal with us, At most they'll send a person at Realm Elementary someone I'm not afraid of. For now due to the tournament there will be no movement but after the tournament will come a light drizzle, Nothing to bother about. Even if we don't go to the drizzle, the drizzle will come to us. Because of this there is no need to do anything.


Sophia was impressed by this child's reasoning. She had not interacted much with Alexander but had heard from Anna's other two housewives that Alexander was very clever and overprotective with Anna. Alexander always examined things in depth and thanks to him, Anna had not fallen into various schemes.


Sophia treated it as a joke because she didn't think a child was so wise but now the image she had of Alexander was that of a wise Elder who had seen the immensity of the world and experienced the cruelty of the world first hand.

Sophia could not help but sigh inside and think: "If only I had known this pair of mother and son before... I wouldn't be in this situation".


Sophia only saw Heaven and thought, "Someday I'll go back to Mainland and get my revenge!"


Alexander on his side felt a slight thirst for blood, not directed at him but he knew that the person behind him wanted to kill Someone and thought: "Interesting, Interesting!"

Chapter 139: Money.

Anna and Audrey couldn't believe that this was the same tower as the region's famous martial tower. This was the basis for the creation of the martial city as well as the reason for its strength.




Stealing this tower would be the same as amputating an arm for the martial city!




Anna could not help but say: "Why did you steal this?, The martial city has done nothing to us. We could share the treasure".




Alexander expected that answer from his mother. For his mother was good at defending herself but not at attacking.




Alexander said calmly: "Tomorrow is not the same as today, Things change with time. I saw the tower collecting dust and I couldn't leave it like this. If the Martial City knew its uses it would be more powerful than the Uri Republic but those fools do not know the treasure they had. Nor do they know how to open the doors of this tower except for its use. That is not my fault and there was no reason to leave it there when I could take it with me. I'm not going to give away a treasure like that when the family needs it. If you want to give something, give something you don't need."




Anna was silent as she looked at her son in astonishment and found no way to refute, as her words were right. If I need something, how can I give it away?




If you want to give a gift it has to be something you're not ashamed to give away and this tower was very useful for your family. many say that gratitude and hatred last for three generations but after that, they are forgotten.




If the Alba family helps the martial city to get stronger it could be good but only if the Alba family got stronger at the same speed as the martial city, something impossible due to many factors.




So, in the end, he could only sigh and agree with Alexander. Alexander chose to change the subject and guided the women through the growing chambers. Anna and Audrey were shocked to see the chambers and felt the dense spiritual Qi realizing the real value of this tower.




With this tower, their strength could be increased quickly but at the same time they felt some sorrow for the Martial City, which made Alexander promise to give benefits to the Martial City as compensation for stealing the tower.




This calmed the women. Making them feel more comfortable. Anna and Audrey decided to move into the tower and took a room each. So during the night they cultivated while during the day they would do their normal chores.




In addition to the fact that Anna was already close to being able to make her way to the Elemental Realm and being in the tower could accelerate progress.




Alexander did not object to the decisions of these women and only focused on examining the tower and making a plan of it. In his previous life he knew of its existence and was even in seclusion in several of them but never examined any closely or learned to make one.




The cultivation towers were very valuable and the manpower needed to make a huge era in addition to time and materials so Alexander knew the creation of a cultivation tower could take decades to centuries depending on the complexity of the project.




Because of this only the great powers could afford one. For a great power a century was not much, so they could afford to wait but for a small power a hundred years was a great period of time.




Alexander knew that in the holy lands the gems of convergence were more common reason why there were powers that made to order the towers and adapt them to the needs of the continental powers.




This was a way of making money but it was also more expensive than doing it yourself with your resources. Besides, one had to be careful because the powers that could afford to give that service were not small.




For them to give that tower of cultivation was like giving bread to a beggar for an iron coin. Alexander understood that it was not the masters who did things like this, but rather the disciples as a form of training and experience.




And why did they do it?




The answer was simple. Money.




A tower with a first grade convergence gem could be worth 7 million seventh grade stones but a tower with a second grade convergence gem could be worth 10 to 15 million fourth grade stones. Plus the value of labor.




The craftsmen always needed raw materials in order to raise their level, it was the same as the alchemists needing medicinal herbs to practice, but all this was expensive. So it was normal for them to make cultivation towers, Aircrafts, ships among other works to earn money in order to maintain their practice.




It was similar to blacksmiths who sold weapons or alchemists who sold pills and potions. Of course there were artisans who worked alone but never in monumental jobs and if they did it was because they were experts who made top quality products.




So did the artisans. There were only projects in which one artisan was not enough. It was similar to the mass production of pills by alchemists. A human being has only two hands and limited capacities.




Alexander for the repair of the tower Arrays would not need help but it would take him several years to repair them alone. These towers were complex pieces that had countless arrays of all sizes in it adding that it did not have a plan of it. The repair would take time.




Alexander tried to see where the inscription was which said in which workshop the tower was made but only after a few hours he saw the inscription at the base of the tower hidden under a table. The table only said: "Blueprint Workshop" Next to it was a small serial number: "120-B" and at the end it said addressee: "Saks Family, mortal Continent Auphera".




Alexander didn't know who the hell the Saks family was, but he did know that it had to be at least one power in a mortal country of the first grade, otherwise he couldn't afford the purchase of such a tower.




So Alexander could only sigh and think about how to get the plans of that workshop.




The only good thing was that the tower for now could meet the needs of the family. So now he would only concentrate on verifying the plans of the tower plus he had other more immediate matters.




The Brook family.




Today's issues were very rare and he couldn't understand them well, so he decided to call Sophia to talk to her. She wanted to know how the members of the Brook family behaved.




After ordering some servants to call Sophia, Alexander decided to go to a medicinal garden to see the peach tree. More than a year had already passed so the Tree must have given several lots of Ocuri pink peaches.




So he saw a tree with pink petals about 8 meters high and its branches could see some small peaches which had just been born. The tree seemed to be more than a thousand years old and was full of vitality. Only so Alexander nodded and greeted the caretakers of the garden.




He looked for a piece of land about 400 meters from the peach tree and decided to remove the branch to place it in the ground.




The spiritual trees needed many things and one of them was earth. In the gardening, it was known that a spiritual tree needed at least 400 meters of another spiritual tree. Otherwise, the two trees would fight for the nutrients of the soil causing the death of the soil and the trees.




Alexander knew this and therefore chose a perfect area.

Chapter 137: Unique.

In ancient times it was known that regardless of the living being, there was an immovable rule. "Every body is unique" under this premise innumerable different techniques were created for innumerable races.




In the world it was not known exactly how many techniques existed but it was known that every day more and more are created. but this also created a problem.




Finding the right technique for the right person, doing this was very difficult and in history there had been countless antecedents of people who chose techniques unsuitable for them and ended up very badly.




At least that was the traditional techniques but Alexander came up with a very ambitious idea for cultivation techniques and that was to use the subconscious of the individual.




Traditional techniques gave punctual indications like those of a teacher to a student, indicating step by step how the technique is performed. These techniques have limitations and were very inflexible.




But Alexander realized two things on which he based his new idea for cultivation techniques




First, the power of the mind over the flesh was not to be underestimated.




Second, No one knew the body of the individual better than the individual himself.




Because of this Alexander created a synthesis which contained his martial understanding called: "Mantra".




This idea of cultivation technique was based simply on the individual's meditation and understanding of the mantra, causing the body to resonate with the technique, creating a gentle and specific cultivation for the body. This would make the same technique have innumerable different paths making these techniques more like the great Dao.




On the basis of this technique innumerable techniques could be derived according to the understanding of the individual person and martial techniques could also be derived specially created for the cultivator himself.




These techniques were flexible and without limits, all depending on how refined the mantra was and the truths it has.




Audrey did not know anything about cultivation techniques so she did not know that she was being used as a guinea pig by Alexander but Alexander was not doing anything wrong in fact was going to be the first experts trained with this new methods.




What Audrey also didn't know is that those techniques don't have a classification because they wouldn't fall into the same classification as the traditional techniques.




In addition Audrey's speed would be considered very fast. There were people who due to certain limitations move from the first level to the second level would take 5 to 7 years and she complained for one year.




If she knew that there are people who only manage to enter the Elemental Realm to die in it without advancing a single level and die in the first level elemental. Since the Realm Elemental everything was different.




In the fundamental levels one could pass as long as one has sufficient resources. Even the stupidest person could pass these Realm but the following Realms needed resources, innate Ability, among other things. Because people exhausted all potential to advance it would be very difficult for them and they could get stuck at one level for the rest of their lives.




Alexander wanted to reprimand Audrey at that time but could not because of his mother's presence. So he just swallowed his anger and took everyone to an area away from the village near the medical fields where he had Arrays of perfect illusion to place the tower.




Alexander took his grandfather's ring and placed the tower on a plain within Anna's property.




Anna and Audrey had never been to the Martial City so they had never seen the tower but when they saw the imposing 800 metre tower they could not frown.




This tower on the outside was very neglected making it look like a worthless old tower. In fact if not because the tower seemed to alter the flow of Qi in the martial city area it would have been demolished a long time ago.




But Alexander didn't say a word and started making seals with his hands and the tower started to sound softly and as the shell of an egg started to sound like a shell breaking, the noises became louder and louder making them sound like thousands of shells breaking them.




Until soon a "Boom" sounded creating a slight undulation of the air while the Tower made a buzz. and all the dirt from the tower was removed showing an imposing tower.




In front of this tower Anna and Audrey's eyes were shocked and they thought: "Is it the same tower?"




Seeing the beautiful Alexander tower he just sighed and said: "Too bad that this tower is too neglected is not the shadow nor what it was".




The cultivation towers were very difficult tools to make but also to maintain and all the towers needed periodic maintenance. Since these towers could not be repaired alone or have spirituality. So everything in the tower was worn out and needed to be repaired or replaced like any other object except the convergence gem everything needed maintenance, the only difference with a common object was that these materials wear out at a very slow speed and could last hundreds or thousands of years without the need for repairs. the same thing happened with the Arrays in the tower.




Now the tower needed repairs and replacement of materials but Alexander did not have the necessary materials now nor was he an expert in Craftsmanship to replace them himself. So all he could do was repair the Array in what he was an expert. Although he would not be able to repair all the Arrays due to cultivation limitations, he would be able to repair the simplest ones.




This should make the tower recover a part of its true capacity but that was its limit after all even if it looked for the materials in this desolate land, it would not find them. If you want those materials you will have to go to higher ground.




Anna and Audrey were examining the tower from top to bottom and without hesitation entered it to see their surroundings, while Anna had a pair of bright eyes if what her son said was true spending 1 day here was the same as spending 20 days outdoors and with this treasure certainly their cultivation would advance by leaps and bounds.




Since she entered the Elemental Half Step her cultivation has been very slow only managing to convert 20 of the 108 points into spiritual Qi but now with the tower this would save her a lot of time.




The two women entered the tower and climbed the stairs only to go to the last level seeing the great gem of convergence at the top and the Qi coming towards it. Anna had several doubts but Alexander answered everything and explained the uses of this tower.




Seeing the tower and listening to its benefits, Audrey is also happy but soon remembered something: "Young master, where did you get this tower, I heard that in the martial city is a tower called martial tower and according to the descriptions is very similar to this ..." but without Audrey finished speaking a blonde girl began to laugh softly "Pffft, Young master did not you tell them?”




Alexander only showed a relaxed expression and said: "As you want me to tell them, I haven't talked much with them".




Anna listens to the conversation of these two children and couldn't help but ask, "Tell me what?"




Alexander calmly said: "This tower and the martial tower are the same tower. A few days ago I stole it together with my grandfather".




"What?!" When they heard what Alexander had just said, only that question came to mind and they thought they had heard wrong.

Chapter 136: Trash!

The old man felt suffocated by the murderous attempt on the other side and could not even lift his head to the floor of Anna's property.

Out of nowhere he began to sweat and was on the verge of collapse. He didn't know what was going on or who caused it, he just felt that he was in an illusion and had called the attention of a bloodthirsty demon who was about to enjoy a massacre just to satisfy his desires.

Soon a childish voice was heard again: "Boring".

Next to her was Sophia with her pale skin and not knowing what to do but if she had a doubt. As a child could have that killer instinct.

The killer instinct as its name said was obtained through killing and for every life taken the killer intent would be strengthened but one main thing was that someone who has never killed could not manifest a killer intent was impossible.

But from what Sophia saw Alexander has the killer instinct of a veteran killer who has gone through countless massacres, but this was a eleven year old boy!

This was not possible. Sophia wanted to believe that. So she could only take a breath of cold air and ask, "Young master , what's boring?"

Alexander only looked coldly at the old man and said: "That trash died of fright, nor did it give me a chance to torture him before dying, That death was very soft" he squinted and saw the middle-aged man lying on the unconscious floor and said: "It seems that in this life, The Brook family and I cannot exist. Kill that bastard, if you don't want to do it personally, have someone else do it.

Sophia only nodded quickly when footsteps were heard outside the office where a beautiful confused young woman came out.

After throwing this couple out of her office only a couple of breaths had passed but all she could see was an old man standing without saying anything, like a statue and a man lying on the floor.

Maybe they were cursing her for a few moments. What happened?

Anna approached the old man and saw him in his sweat-soaked clothes, while his face showed pure and true horror.

This made Anna's eyebrows furrow, and she looked at the old man in more detail.

The old man's body seemed to be intact and only a few breaths had passed since they left his office, what happened?

As he was meditating on this situation a childish voice reached his ears: "Mother".

Anna totally forgot about the body of the elders and changed her eyesight to where the voice came from and said emotionally: "Alexander!"

So without waiting any longer, Anna ran at full speed hugging her son. It had been a year since her little one had left and now he finally came back.

Anna showed a beautiful smile on her face as she hugged her son and led him to the office to tell him about her journey. In his letter he only said that they had found an amazing treasure in the martial city so they would stay in the city for a year.

Meanwhile Sophia and Helena stayed to clean up the mess caused by the old man who began to stink.

Alexander quickly told him everything that had happened. How they found the cultivation tower and how he trained hard for a year.

Anna was first dubious about Alexander's story. So Alexander told her to come to her house to show her the cultivation tower.

Anna quickly agreed, if there was a treasure with the capabilities her son had indicated, it would be very surprising. Anna did not think that her son was lying to her but rather that he was exaggerating things by making the capacity of the tower much smaller than what her son said and left a few caregivers in her shop.

So Alexander, Anna and Helena went to the Villa on the outskirts of the city.

Alexander could not wait to see his mother's reaction. This cultivation tower was relatively common in high level mortal countries and it was even possible to commercialize the time inside the cultivation room but for the people of the desolate lands it was something unthinkable and rare.

Alexander knew full well that the difference between a Fifth Grade mortal country and desolate land was enormous. Everything was better. Environment, Resources, Lifestyle. Everything was better and there were much stronger people. As well as better alchemists, Blacksmiths, Artisans.

The same thing happened with the countries of Fifth and Fourth grade or Fourth and Third grade, many said that the differences were so strong that they were as if they were different worlds in spite of being in the same continent.

And Alexander knew it was true.

On the continent there were border points, these were not the borders between countries but rather it was a line that differentiated countries to different grades. These points were pieces of land that did not belong to any country or had a hegemonic power and there are countless cities, clans, powers. All of them being very powerful.

The border points had several peculiar things in addition to this, as well as several rare resources appearing in the area due to anomalies in the density of Qi, In these areas he was chaotic and unstable which made appear rare natural treasures, unique and even legendary.

Because of this, the powerful powers in these lands were abundant. The first border point is the one that divides the mortal countries of the fifth grade with those of the fourth grade. The only bad thing is that this border point is too far away for them at this time.

On the continent it was enormous and limitless, Many underestimated its enormity but Alexander as a vagabond knew it very well.

In his previous life, as he cultivated more and more he entered the continent and after 2000 years of crossing he only managed to reach a mortal Country of second grade and was one of the weakest countries among his equals. The distance between the border points was not to be underestimated.

Alexander could only sigh inside. In his previous life he never reached the finish line but he had made a great run and reached a distance that many dreamed of but now everything had begun again and his starting line was worse than the first time.

So as Alexander wandered in his head, they came home.

Soon they were received by Audrey who in this year had managed to stabilize her crop and now she was a grower at the peak of the first elementary level, very close to breaking to the second level.

Now she was excited but felt that her cultivation was very slow, so Alexander could only show a dark expression and his cheek showed slight spasms.

Chapter 135: What did you say about my mother?

So the next morning they left Marcial City. They went to look for the driver and left in the carriage.

Adam didn't know how his grandson was going to get the tokens but thought he was related to his master. So he dropped the matter.

Leaving the City about 500 miles from the City. Adam, Helena, and Alexander got out of the carriage and let the coachman return alone, as it would take more than a month for them to return but if Adam carried them with his speed they could return in two days.

Normally a half step Elemental expert would take ten days from the Alba Kingdom to the Martial City (Full speed and no rest) and now Adam was an expert on the second level Elemental so returning in two days as possible.

Quickly two days passed and many people were left in doubt as the third prince did not even make the slightest act of presence as if the tournament did not exist. In fact, no one from the Alba royal family showed up in the martial city ignoring the tournament and the only one from that family was the second exiled prince of the family.

This shocked people and under the level of expectation of the tournament, in fact, many doubted if it was worth the tournament. Since six of the seven seats were already occupied.

Among them were people with somber faces and they couldn't help but think: "We should have sent an invitation..." but now it was too late for this and the tournament was just around the corner.

Meanwhile, there was a gray-haired man traveling with a couple of children on his back at an impressive speed and the man asked the boy: "Alexander, didn't you say the Qi in the region increased, why didn't you?"

Alexander only said: "That change does not happen in a day, During the next six months the density will not stop increasing until it reaches its peak and then this density will be maintained for two to three years or so before descending".

Adam nodded and I look forward to the next few years in hopes that the region will be able to create several hundred new experts and even reach the ranks of mortal countries. That tower might have been a curse but in a way, it would also be a blessing that could create a miracle.

Entering the capital city Adam finally relaxed and could not believe that he was so long without Beth and out of his home but had finally returned, could not wait to see the expression of his wife when he told her that her husband was a True Cultivator.

Today his appearance remained the same only that his white hair turned gray due to increased longevity upon entering the Elemental Realm, so he could now be described as a middle-aged man.

Alexander asked Alexander for his space ring so that his master could repair it a little and Adam quickly accepted hoping for the day that this tower would return to its best day.

So Adam went to see Beth while Alexander and Helena went to Anna's shop to see his mother.

The shop was the same and there seemed to be no change except that in these years Anna's customers only increased and there were contracts with other great merchants in the region making Anna's business only prosper.

Alexander And Helena went directly to the fourth floor where his mother had her office and saw one of the three housekeepers other than Audrey who had his mother.

This was Sophia, she was twenty years old and single. Her facial features were beautiful and she had a small waist while her tail and front were as wide as melons. Anna took her as a housekeeper two years ago and was the third housekeeper in the family but the situation in which she took her was a bit suspicious and adding her physical appearance, Alexander thought that Sophia has a somewhat noisy story.

Alexander didn't care and Sophia didn't say anything but there was something strange about Sophia's body and that was that she had half of her meridians mutilated and lacked a Dantian, Alexander knew that it was impossible to be born without Dantian there was only one explanation, Someone had stolen it and in the process mutilated Sophia's meridians. Because of this, he thought Sophia's story would be interesting but he did not ask.

The only process that required removing the Dantian from a person was to steal his crop and transfer it to another person but that situation was difficult to reach unless...

Sophia when she saw Alexander recognized him immediately and approached him saying: "Young master, Little Helena you are back, Miss Anna will be very happy!".

Helena smiled at Sophia's greeting, Alexander nodded and said, "Sophia, it's good to see you. Can I see my mother?"

Sophia showed an ugly expression and said, "Currently the lady is in a meeting with a merchant who..."

Alexander seeing Sophia's expression knew what she meant and ended: "You want to have a marriage with my mother, don't you?"

Sophia knew how intelligent her Young Master was so she just nodded and Alexander showed a cold expression on her face, Do you think my mother or I am fools?

It was obvious what that merchant wanted and it was Anna's small fortune. That merchant wanted to make a marriage covenant in the way that Anna's assets would slowly pass into her family's name by eating Anna's business and when that happens Anna will have an accident or die of a disease.

In these years many merchants have wanted to intimidate Anna to take over her business but eventually realized that Anna's strength was not that of a small merchant she should have so she had opted for the second option, Stealing her business fairly.

That method was harder and longer as it could take decades but they did it anyway.

Seeing Alexander's gloomy expression. Sophia could only sigh and say: "These merchants are different from a family from the Northern states and are quite famous there having five Elemental half-step powerhouse protecting them, The Brook family".

Sophia obviously showed a weak disdain for those powers but quickly the occult and Alexander showed an indifferent expression. Those merchants think that they can force my mother into a second marriage are very mistaken, Since my own mother was a half step Elemental and not to mention Audrey who was a true Elemental Power. So today they ran into an iron wall.

Before they could even go on talking they were a "Boom" from Anna's office and a drowned scream while a female voice shouted: "Beware of those who threaten, our conversation is over before you are killed".

Without giving them a chance to speak the office door causing two pale bodies to fly out the door, the two people were a middle-aged man and an old man who came to propose but did not expect this woman's strength to be so powerful.

In the end the old man who was a ninth level power Gathering Qi stood up and saw Anna with resentment saying: "Damn bitch, the Brook family is giving the opportunity to an impure woman like you to be part of our family, You should be honored but all you do is seal your death and if you are an Elemental half step power, The Brook family has five powers equal to or stronger than you!"

The old man awaited Anna's answer but soon a childish voice with a strong murderous intent came to the old man saying, "What did you say about my mother?"