Chapter 410 - Aeden's Clan Compounds

The place that they eventually made their way to was the place that the husband and wife were staying and enjoying their married life for the time being.

The thing that surprised Alec was that his father, Aeden, was also part of a clan.

The place Annalise and Aeden lived were part of the clan compounds in the city.

Different from the Neil Clan, Aeden's clan didn't have much solidarity. The clan compounds were mostly made out of individual buildings that each contained their own personality. They weren't cookie cutter houses that made one feel that the people inside had no personality of their own.

In this way, it was quite interesting looking at it all as a whole.

The houses were arranged block by block, with various intersections.

Aeden pointed out where the clan compounds started and where they began.

There was a discreet segregation where the houses started to look more uniform a few blocks down. Alec silently raised a brow.

The rest of the houses were those people who lived in the town but weren't part of Aeden's clan.

Aeden explained that while people in the clan could own buildings that weren't part of the clan compounds, those who weren't part of the clan couldn't buy houses near them.

So, really, even those houses that were relatively near all belonged to the clan as well even though it was outside of the 'boundary' so to speak.

When the sun shone lightly on the place, it appeared very picturesque and lively.

The people that they met along the way also greeted Aeden and Annalise. While Aeden just looked at them coolly, Annalise smiled and greeted them back. 

These people gave the rest of them curious looks. They were all noticeably surprised when their faces landed on Alec's face.

With the way that his father was greeted by every person, he could see that he was considerably well respected.

It seemed like the people here were all Sins, and from a distance, they usually had a slightly cool expression. But when they looked at Aeden, their expressions all changed immediately. His father was respected indeed.

But it just served to make Alec more and more confused. If Aeden was so respected here, then why had he and his mother been apart for so long?

He put it aside for the moment.

The one thing that he noticed about Aeden's clan that was similar to the Neil Clan was that they all had dominant genes of jet-black hair and red eyes like his father.

It made Alec briefly speechless when he thought about how the two clan's dominant genes had mixed together and produced himself, who took one of each side's set.

The jet-black hair from Aeden's clan, and the crystalline blue eyes from the Neil Clan.

They eventually came to a house that was three storeys high, which had the most storeys in the area. Most of the houses were only two storeys high.

Alec looked at it with scrutiny. It was a house that was relatively modern. There was a rather large usage of glass that wasn't so apparent in other houses. The house looked open, but when one stared closely, they still couldn't tell what was happening inside it.

But the thing that really blinded Alec was the usage of the seals and arrays on this building.

Other buildings had rudimentary arrays or no arrays at all, but his parents' house nearly blinded him with its radiance.

Aeden assigned Ye Sha and his two followers to a room upstairs while he pointed at a door on the third floor. 

"That's the room that your mother prepared for you."

Alec nodded at him and brought his familiars into the room.

The room was prepared simply, but there were a lot of books that he hadn't seen before, which pleased him.

Alec nodded at Aeden, who nodded back, then closed the door.

Aeden looked hesitantly at the door, a little disappointed that he hadn't been able to have a conversation with the son that he never cared about before now.

While he never thought that he would be able to get close to him right away…

Annalise saw her husband's subtly disappointed face and put a hand on his shoulder, then hugged him from behind.

"Silly fool. It's not like you didn't spend years away from your son while you tried to handle everything by yourself. I told you to let me help you, but you insisted otherwise."

Aeden was silent.

Sensing her husband's upset mood, Annalise squeezed him harder. "You have to try and understand him. His father suddenly popped out of nowhere."

Aeden nodded.

Annalise continued to advise him. "Take it slow…"

On the other side of the door, Alec was sitting speechlessly on the bed that still had a fresh laundry scent to it.

Did his mother and his father have to carry out an entire conversation right outside his door? He could hear everything!

Even though the room was soundproofed, it didn't work too well against his ears…

He really could hear everything.

He even had a sneaking suspicion that his mother had done it on purpose. His mother was sneaky like that.

But it worked a little because he didn't feel the strong alienation from before…

So, yes, Annalise was indeed sneaky.

After a while, the couple left, and Alec breathed a sigh of relief.

If they'd ended up showing their affection right outside his door, he would have… he would have… probably tried to drown himself in the attached bathroom.

He never needed to know that his mother and father had a more than healthy relationship.

Alec looked at his sleeping familiars. They'd only woken briefly while they confirmed that it was Alec who was carrying them around before falling back asleep. They didn't feel any danger, and they were sleepy…

The System went upstairs to the bedroom that Ye Sha was staying and found his friend with his hands out, flying across a virtual screen and keyboard.

Ye Sha waved at Alec. "Hey. Sit down wherever."

"What have you found out?"

"There's a lot of things. This realm is mostly the same, like what Aeden said, but the air here is a lot more concentrated with magic, and it's also easier for the people here to cultivate and get stronger. But that's not the most damning thing."

Alec raised a brow.

"The most damning thing is that in this realm, Grand Meister isn't the limit. Those people are called Transcendents."

"What?" Alec instantly frowned.

While it might sound like a good thing, it really wasn't.

In their realm, Grand Meister was a limit, and there was a sort of force that suppressed them from overcoming that limit.

That was the realm's suppression that prevented them from overcoming that bottleneck and growing stronger.

If a person came here and overcame that suppression, then went back to their realm, it was very likely that they would cause the realm to fracture and collapse.

While Alec was thinking hard, Ye Sha spoke again.

"You know… in the other realm, we're going to face a calamity soon. You probably noticed how your half-dragon girlfriend had been feeling uneasy lately, right? That's part of the reason."

"…How soon?"

Alec originally thought that the calamity of the realm was referring to the company, which had grown increasingly big as of late, but after he took care of one side of the company in the Kaoriht continent, he knew that it couldn't be the company.

Yet, Ye Sha said that there was still a calamity coming.

"It should be relatively soon. In that time, the limitation from the realm should weaken, allowing those Grand Meisters who are stuck at the bottleneck to breakthrough immediately."

Both their faces were serious.