Chapter 211 - Prince in Control (2)

The prince saw Xinyi and Lifen in his room. Both were greatly annoyed with him. Mostly when he didn't show up, multiplying their irritation tenfold.

"Show yourself, you bastard. What are you scheming now? Why are making us your prisoners? How dare you treat us this way?" Lifen yelled with clenched fists. She had enough of his domineering attitude and schemes, believing it was the prince who called for her first abduction.

For Lifen to accuse him of imprisoning them was harder to swallow for the prince. Because for him, he was merely keeping them safe from what he was about to do and, for the sake of his world.

"I'm sorry, my dear niece and my beloved Lifen. Please bear with it for now." he said in silence, saddened to see them hating him.

Earlier, after Ming left her, Xinyi was chatting with Lifen and An when suddenly she found herself in the middle of a small an empty room. She called everyone name's out, trying to find anyone and to understand where she was until Lifen came.

They saw the room had nothing walls. Lifen had no doubts were they were. 

"Do you have any idea how to get out from here, Ma? Was this the same place that you went to yesterday?" Xinyi moved around and looked up, trying to figure out the place's exit.

"It was not exactly the same scenery, but I bet we're in his domain." Then Lifen recalled the room and what happened between the prince and her, and looked away, ashamed. "He actually brought me out in the condition that I'll stay by his side." 

She looked around too, but unhappy to see there's nothing for them to use to threaten him with their lives, aside from banging their heads to the wall. But a thought came. "I think you can do something about it. If he's really your blood-uncle, then the same blood and powers run through your veins. Why not try to search inside you for that hidden power?"

"Hmm, okay." Xinyi sat on the floor and looked inside her. Yet, what she saw were the same essences she had: two types of seeds, fire, water, air, rock, a ball of light, a spear, a shield, and a multi-colored whirring circle. Then her attention went to the red spear. Out of the powers she used, she hadn't tried to use this one. Its external appearance wasn't worth a second look, but as she stared longer, she felt a pulse from it, as if it was alive. She tried to grasp it, but she couldn't hold it. She ventured on summoning it through her mind, but it didn't move.

What was this for? She tried to remember what she read before in the First Sorceress' diary, but the memory didn't come as she wished. 

"Alva, can you hand me the diary of the first Sorceress?" She said through telepathy but the other spirit guardians could hear them. In that way, they would know her plans and would act accordingly.

"No, I can't," Alva complained.

"Why?"

"Because it's not in your domain. It's in your ring." Alva said with a shrug, thinking she was absent-minded after spending a passionate night with her husband.

"Ah, haha, sorry. I forgot…" Then Xinyi realized something and jumped into her domain with just a thought. And indeed, she was in her room, and went back out again to where Lifen were in the same way.

Her disappearance frightened Lifen, but to see her back in seconds relieved her. For a brief moment, she thought the prince separated them. She never wanted to be alone with the prince again.

"Where have you been?" Lifen asked.

Xinyi gave her Lifen Ma an assuring smile. "I went to my domain, Ma." 

As a non-Chiangda, this was really something for Lifen and thankful that Xinyi had reliable powers too. "Wow, you also have a domain? So, you and the prince are real blood-relatives?"

With that remark, the young lady's eyes dazzled as an idea sprang in her partly dormant brain. "Wait here for a while, Ma. I'm going to experiment with something but I'll be back." Then in her mind. "Alva, I think I can bring Ma in my domain. You see, I believe it was impossible for me to bring Nianshi and Meirga since they were both gigantic dragons. They are more than I can handle. But Ma is an ordinary human. What do you think? Possible?"

"Your predecessors haven't tried that before, but who knows? They brought people in when they already got the crown. But there will be no precedence if you won't try. Go ahead."

This encouraged Xinyi and faced Lifen. "Ma, I think I can bring us out of her." She said a pitch higher, filled with excitement.Find authorized novels in , faster updates, better experience, Please click /book/the-sorceress-blossoming-power_14314881306034205/prince-in-control-(2)_51116529483305911 for visiting.

Unknowingly, the prince could hear their conversations and appeared before them as soon as Xinyi told Lifen her plan. "No, you won't. Or I say you can't. No one can escape the powers of the royal family." 

"Oh? Then who can escape then? Only the royal family?" Lifen asked, coaxing the prince to spill out an information that could give them a hint for the escape route, and Xinyi was attentively waiting for his response. This matters much to her.

"Yes, of course." Right after speaking, the prince gasped. Too late to realize his mistake. He had exposed his domain's weakness to his own niece, who shared the same thick and red blood as his.

"Thank you for telling us and see you later, Uncle." Xinyi said, though unsure if this experiment would work, but... they were still inside his domain after trying to transport themselves out. 

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The prince was alarmed there for seconds but when they hadn't left, his chest lightened. For a while, he thought he'd lost them. "What happened, my niece? You messed up? You need my guidance in that case but I will do that later." He said with a chuckle.

While Xinyi was on edge, trying to figure out with Alva the transport from here to her domain, she didn't forget what she had learned in the past weeks, to never panic. She breathed deep and whispered with a less tense voice. "Uncle, don't forget, I'm not only your niece, but I'm also the Chief Guardian here. And among other things, I came from the Zeirean's strongest bloodline of Sorceress. So, just sit and relax while we go. Thata."

With that last word of farewell, Xinyi was able to pull it off. Both of them appeared in her own room, in her own domain. She slightly exhausted and let her body fall on her bed after that intense effort to bring them both out from the prince's grip. The two laughed as they lay on the bed. 

"Is this your place?" Lifen said. They stayed there for awhile before appearing to Cuxin Estate, but Xinyi sent Lengshui to tell Ming they had escaped.

After learning they were safe, Ming gathered Xian Lang, Lofey and the rest for a very important meeting, a war meeting.

The prince was frantic to see them get away. Xinyi jeopardized his plan, big time. They were his bargaining chip to get the mines, and she ruined it just like that. He didn't wait a second and left his domain. He also gathered his generals for an excellent strategy to counter Ming's attack while putting up a shield around them. He had expected the two important women to him were back with Ming and surely were planning too after his show of might in front of Ming.

And he was right. This time, it was the prime minister who led the strategic meeting inside Ming's study. The new Fengfu City map lay on Ming's table while he called for a city lockdown. They allowed no one to enter and exit the city. They advised those outside to go back to where they came from or to be transported to the next city, while those inside had to remain in their homes, or if possible to stay back in the mountains at the back portion of the city. 

Lofey and his men prepared a strong defensive line at the city gate, but they kept an excellent combination of power stones on their bodies, under Xinyi's guidance.

The Chiangdas surrounded the prince's camp but stayed at a suitable distance, assuming His Highness' kidnapping powers had limitations. Based on their analysis, the prince were able to send Nianshi and the rest when they came nearer. He was also in Cuxin Estate when he took Xinyi and Lifen away. The prince was approximately fifty meters away from them. However, these were their mere hypothesis, but hopeful that they guessed it right.

Everything in the city and in the prince's camp were tense. The people were not told what really happened but informed them to keep themselves scarce from the city streets because the government had an important drill that day. 

Yet, some citizens had seen the fight against the Bernavoles' camp yesterday and understood that there would be another bout and a fiercer one. Some of these were wary of another Mafan and brought their families out the gate to flee the city than to become liabilities or prisoners of war. 

Far from the city, the other five hundred strong Chiangdas moved out from their lair and marched their way to join the prime minister and the rest in the city.

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