"What are you guys getting tense for? She is SSS-ranked, you know? It's quite normal that you guys won't be able to see her."
Alex spoke as he shook his head with a smile.
He could tell what made the girls alert, and what had the girls worried.
"But we are stronger than an SSS-ranker, you said it yourself," Alice interjected.
"Yes, you guys are, but there are always exceptions," Alex explained.
"Exceptions?" Ann asked curiously.
Alex nodded at Ann before he replied.
"She has a bloodline that is ranked higher than you guys, and the ability she is using to hide herself is a bloodline ability."
Alice and Ann's eyes widened.
'Bloodline...'
"Bloodline is really important, isn't it?" Alice asked after a while.
"It is, that's why I upgraded your bloodlines," Alex nodded his head.
Bloodlines are important, or you will never be able to break your body's limit.
There are some other things as well, like physique, race, etc. but let's leave them for later to be discovered.
"So, it's just like my Soul attack skill?" Ann asked curiously.
Now that Alex had told them why Aurora was invisible to them, they were much more at ease, though they were still on alert, but not as much as before.
"Yes, just like your soul attacks and Alice's partial elemental transformation."
Alex nodded in agreement as he replied to Ann.
But then he continued.
"It's just that her bloodline ability is much more into hiding, rather than attacking, that's why it is so hard to detect her."
"Ohh..." X2
Alice and Ann nodded their heads with an expression of realization.
"By the way, what is Argon's rank, right now?" Suddenly Ann asked as she just realized that they didn't know how strong Argon was, right now.
"He is an SSS ranker, right now," Alex replied as he looked at Argon who happened to look his way.
Both of them looked into each other's eyes for a while, and Alex could see many emotions in Argon's eyes, but after 2 or 3 seconds Argon looked away and shouted an order.
"Let's go, we need to clear the gate and come back fast!"
"Tch," Argon who saw that his plan had failed just clicked his tongue.
Just as Alex had expected, Argon wanted them to cause a scene as it would've helped him cover up for what he was going to do, but now he needed to think of an alternate plan.
However, the one who was disappointed was not just Argon as the reporters outside the gate were also disappointed.
The reporters wanted something spicy, so they hoped that Alice would do something or say something to the Blue Empire's raiders for going on ahead.
But to their surprise, they saw Alice, Ann, and Alex just waiting for the raiders from the Blue Empire to enter.
The reporters sighed as they didn't get what they wanted.
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The raiders from the Blue Empire entered cautiously with the stronger ones up front while the weaker ones hid behind the group.
They walked straight in.
"HAAAAAA!" The first raiders that jumped out of the portal quickly slashed his sword in every direction, intending to cut any enemy that could be waiting outside but all he cut was green leaves of plants.
That guy had an ability called wind blade but unlike Alex's wind blade, it needed one to have a sharp weapon in their hand to shoot it, so he was used as a path clearer in every gate they raided.
"Good job, Liodus."
Just then a voice was heard from behind and Argon came out of the portal.
"Thank you for your praise, Your Majesty," Liodus bowed his head to Argon.
Argon nodded his head before he looked back at the portal.
"Wait for everyone to gather and then head toward that direction, I will be going ahead," Argon spoke and walked away.
"Your Majesty, you shouldn't...." A guy tried to stop him but all he saw was Argon's back growing smaller until it disappeared in the forest.
"Hey guys, wasn't this gate supposed to be in a coastal territory?" A girl that came out of the portal just after Argon asked as she looked at the surroundings.
"Now that you mention it...." Slowly, they all started to notice that instead of being on a coast or near the sea, they were in an area that seemed like a forest.
"We will just ask, his majesty about it, he seemed to know something from the way he walked in that direction," Liodus spoke as he looked in the direction Argon had walked away.
"Yeah, let's do that, we can't roam around in an SS rank gate without our leader after all...."
The girl from before added.
Every one of them nodded their head and waited for all the raiders to assemble.
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