As the shuttle from the royal family landed, everyone held their breath. The atmosphere was thick with anticipation and reverence, the air humming with the unspoken weight of their arrival.
The door at the entrance soon opened, revealing three silhouettes stepping down from the stairs leading down to the ground.
However, as they saw a lady of about 18 years old among them making their way into the crowd, they trembled in excitement.
"That-that's Princess Luma!"
"She is also here!"
"That means we have two of the Three Blossoms here."
"How often do we get to see two of the Three Blossoms together? This is a rare opportunity."
"Thank God, I decided to come here."
The crowd began to buzz with excitement as they spotted Princess Luma. It was a rare occasion for them to see one of the Three Blossoms, but seeing two at the same time was almost unheard of. Especially in the case of Princess Luma—she was the princess of the entire Magus Kingdom but one could rarely see her.
Hearing the murmurs of the crowd, the man walking beside Princess Luma smiled wryly.
"Little Sis, haven't I said before coming here that they will ignore me as if I don't exist if I come with you? See, this is exactly what happened." He said this, shaking his head.
His little sister, Princess Luma, giggled cutely. She had long golden hair, eyes as blue as the ocean, and a cute little face. Though she was short in height, she reached just up to her brother's shoulder.
As for her brother, his name was Erick Maximus, the crown prince of the Magus Kingdom. One reason he was surprised was that, even though he was the crown prince, people generally forgot about him when he was with his little sister.
He had neatly combed golden hair just like her sister and a quite handsome face just slightly below his big brother—Kane Maximus, the Sword Sage.
Orion stared at both of them and he could tell both of them were at the peak of the gold rank. This made him note something.
'Almost all the geniuses of the Magus Kingdom are in the gold rank.'
He could guess the reason behind that. Since he had difficulty increasing his talent mastery at only the iron rank, he could imagine what they must be facing at the gold rank. The higher the rank, the more difficult it became to master one's talent.
Erick frowned as he heard him. "We are only discussing the rules of how one would get those fruits; as for how many one could get, that totally depends on individual strength. You all can choose to participate in that if you want to but we only need one individual who could represent you in the meeting."
"You mean all of us can participate when we are collecting the fruits?" One of the men in the crowd asked.
"Sure," Erick replied.
He then further said to everyone, "If you have any more questions, ask them."
"Are the fruits real?" Someone in the crowd asked.
"That's why we are holding the meeting. We ourselves aren't sure of." Erick said.
After he replied to that, no one asked him any questions. Seeing that, he continued, "It's decided then. We will hold the meeting in an hour and every group I mentioned should have two people max representing the group."
With that, he stepped back, and the crowd once again began murmuring to each other. This time, they were in a hurry to find someone to represent them, so they started talking in large numbers.
Meanwhile, Orion turned his attention to his group.
Looking at them, he said, "Since we will be talking about the cursed tree and many things related to it, I think it might be better if General Khan came with me to the meeting. Do you guys have any problems with that?"
"It's the best choice." Lucy nodded, agreeing with him.
Dustin and Tray also nodded.
Seeing that they didn't have any problem with that, Orion turned to look at General Khan.
"Prince, you can count on me." General Khan said, beating his chest with his fist.
Orion nodded to him and looked at others when he noticed once again that Elyn was looking at him and he could tell it wasn't just a coincidence; she was staring at him intently.
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