Chapter 1264 - Timing
"She said that she would be able to forgive you three as long as we let her remain for a while on the Dark Thunder Island."
Davis smiled as he turned his head to look at Mival Silverwind.
"The Dark Thunder Island..." Mival Silverwind narrowed his brows before he nodded his head, "Works for me. It’s... She’s yours anyway. You decide what to do with her, but I prefer if you make her grudge dissolve."
"That settles it..." Davis nodded as well, reaching a conclusion to this difficult situation.
Perhaps, he was more than selfish in not giving Eldia her rightful revenge, but he could only act as a mediator if he was allied with both parties. Now that that one problem was resolved, he couldn’t help but turn to look at Nero Alstreim.
"You’ve been rather awfully silent for a while... Mhm?"
"Just be silent for a while." Nero Alstreim rolled his eyes, "You and your actions are rather too enigmatic for me to understand..."
"Ahaha..." Davis couldn’t help but laugh towards his answer, but he could understand, considering that his cultivation in accordance to his age was way overpowered, way outside the realm of common sense, even for the people belonging to the hegemons of small Territories and mid-sized Territories as far as he knew. It also seemed like his cautiousness had already dropped by a wide degree.
After this short conversation, it became silent again before they all finally left the distorted space in a few hours.
The sea breeze struck Nero Alstreim’s face causing him to take a deep breath as if it was his lifeline. His eyes widened as deep emotions became apparent on his face.
Davis stopped glancing at him before he looked towards Eldia. He waved his hand, and a condensed form of soul force touched Eldia’s spherical body, but instead of harming her, it simply sank and stuck to her Will.
"Master, this is...?" Eldia couldn’t help but release a doubtful echo while she didn’t even resist.
"I have placed a simple soul mark on you that will let me know where you are. Interact with it if you need me for anything, or if you erase it, I’ll take it as you defecting from me. Stay safe, okay?"
"I understand, Master..."
Davis watched her leave as he felt complex emotions towards her.
He uttered with care as his thought process was quite simple. Since she was his, it was his responsibility to take care of her. The fact that she wanted to remain for a while in her home alone told him that she had feelings, and he had already confirmed that every spirit, regardless of being an armament spirit or Wills, all had emotions within them.
Besides, he also knew that Wills was capable of deceit as he saw from the Poison-Attributed Spirit Attributed Sources that Evelynn had absorbed. Nevertheless, he believed that Eldia wasn’t such a Will who would deceive him because Lightning Elementals basically had a proud character. It was unlikely that they would go against their own words, and he believed that she would return to him naturally once he went to pick her up.
That said, during half the journey, he had given her plenty of his lightning that was filled with Blazing Thunderlight Kirin’s Lightning to feed on, spending fifty percent of his soul sense to make sure that she remembered his taste. He felt that it would be good for their bond later on when they meet again.
Once Eldia left and gained a huge distance from them, becoming a dot in the skies, Davis uttered.
"Alright, let’s go..."
Davis simply headed towards the direction where he sensed his Solitary Soul Avatar, and considering that Evelynn had his soul mark, she probably already knew that he was on his way, pretty excited, to say the least. He was also filled with expectation in his heart, feeling like he could no longer wait.
However, he glanced at the Silverwinds’ before continuing the voyage.
However, the moment he heard that he was husband and wife with the Falling Snow Sect’s Ancestor, his jaw dropped along with the Silverwinds’.
Davis knew that telling this fact was disadvantageous, but he also knew that this fact would be brought up by Ancestor Dian Alstreim himself since a protector needs to know what kind of enemy they would be facing before they settle the deal. Therefore, he made it a point to make it a ’joyous’ fact instead of a ’negative’ fact that would affect their living.
He glanced at them and saw that they were already finding this amusing.
’There’s a timing for almost everything... huh...’ Davis returned his gaze as he possessed a sly smile on his face.
If they had known it during the negotiation, it would only become a negative point and not a joyous fact in their perspective. In the same way, Davis felt that he had to wait for the right timing to tell Evelynn and Natalya about Nadia and Niera. They already knew that he had decided to make Sophie his woman.
His heart couldn’t help but feel a bit nervous as he just thought of it.
Imagine him leaving his wives to not involve himself in anything s.e.x.u.a.l so as to focus on training, but he precisely could not do that and ended up having feelings from three women from the training session?
He practically had no face left to see those two, including Isabella.
In a few seconds, they arrived at the island as the flying boat below them disappeared. Nadia returned to her human form as she became a beauty even more than Ancestor Tirea Snow as she stood beside Davis and the Silverwinds’ stayed on another end as if forming a triangle of powers.
However, there was a single person who stood in the center, having a wry expression on his face, while Ancestor Dian Alstreim’s expression looked stiff as if he had seen a ghost.
Ancestor Tirea Snow noticed the anomaly of why an Alstreim Family Elder would be here along with them, but she had no recollection of this particular Elder. Her eyes suddenly noticed Dian Alstreim’s expression as she couldn’t help but send him a soul transmission.
"What’s wrong...?"
"He... That’s a dead person!" Ancestor Dian Alstreim blurted out as he pointed towards Nero Alstreim before he looked at Davis.
"What is the meaning of this? You didn’t say anything about ’that’ to me?" His expression was stiff, and his pupils were shaking.
Davis’s cheeks puffed up as he suppressed his laughter.
’That’? Did his father-in-law was just designated as ’that’ by the Ancestor?
"Yes, we must kill ’that’ before it turns into something hideous..." Davis couldn’t help but keep his face straight as he solemnly uttered.
"You... Shut up!!!" Nero Alstreim pointed at Davis as his expression blushed in shame before he pointed at himself, "Ancestor, it’s me! Nero Alstreim! Nora Alstreim’s Father! I’m still alive! Not dead! This brat is playing with us!"
Ancestor Dian Alstreim’s stiff expression relaxed before he blinked, feeling utter disbelief as he looked at Nero Alstreim’s convincing expression and aura. He had thought that Nero Alstreim was an impostor and played that he saw a ’ghost’, but to think that Nero Alstreim was really alive.
He couldn’t help but heave a heavy sigh of alleviation because he was told that he could’ve saved them if he had moved as they had sent a distress signal to one of their Grand Elders, but it was too bad that he was unable to come out as he had secluded himself in cultivation seclusion, unable to be disturbed for a period of time.
When he had learned and stepped out, their life tablets had shattered. He felt bad because of it, but what’s happened had happened, but to see him remain alive lessened a burden from his shoulders.
He couldn’t help but possess a wide smile on his face, "Glad to have you back, Nero."
Nero Alstreim’s lips quivered as his face was filled with various emotions.
"Ancestor, I..."