Chương 52: A GLITCH IN HER REALITY.

***In Consort Tamara's Palace within the Imperial Dynasty, In a Cultivation chamber.

Princess Seflim currently has her legs crossed in a meditation position at the centre of the circular room as well as in the middle of a Cultivation array.

The ring her father gave her at birth contains extremely high level Cultivation technique for every pathways so she only needed a little help from masters who combined the Cultivation method for her tri pathways(Swords Battle-maiden:- Swords-woman, Warrior, Mage) into one elite one.

There is not too much these master could really do in term of combination because everyone only has a set of mana veins after all. They could only try their best to shape the techniques to be more compatible with her own set and try to prevent them from clashing with each other while leaving the rest to her hands.

It's her body and her Cultivation journey. If she manages to find balance then she would climb higher on the very cold mountain with a firm grip, if she loses control of one method then she might completely burn out one pathways choice or burn herself down in the process and if she's not in control of the balance she finds for herself then her Cultivation would become stagnated and she would remain wherever she is on the cold mountain.

Too many things could go wrong with having more than one pathways but the gains always stood out for those who made it to the top of the mountain.

Princess Seflim feels as her ring glows a bit with a small amount of heat scorching her finger pale skin but still she keeps her eyes closed and her breath steady as her cells drink up the abundant energy in the cultivation room and her mana veins becomes clearer and tougher.

The Rank One of Cultivation isn't called the beginners Rank for no reason as it is the Rank that shows a bit of the potential you have with different or a single pathways. It is the Rank that activates your bloodline and special attributes and helps you gain a deep understanding about your mana veins pathways so that you would be able to use your Cultivation methods better and smoothly in the future.

Some Cultivators don't have access to enough information to know that the truth about the Rank One is foundation setting and and these people end up making mistakes right from the start. They would just focus on moving to Rank two instead of setting a tougher and clearer foundation.

With one final deep exhale that send her cells into celebration, Princess Seflim slowly raise her eyelids open to reveal sharp gem-like blue eyes as she finally receives the message from her ring.

'It's time..'.

The message says into her ears like a close whisper. It's finally time for her to find the part that is said to complete her, someone who is one with her in mind body and spirit and would walk by her side for eons to pass,.. Her shadow.

Seflim stands up and walks through the wall and directly into a portal that leads her to the closest segment to her mother's Palace main doors. Chin up, spine straight and mind sharp, Seflim walks out of the massive and powerful main doors and arrives outside her mother's Palace where she sees an elegant row of seven Crystal Dragon-horse Carriages with Imperial guards making a spread out formation of four man on each angle of each Carriages.

The carriage positioned at the centre of the line of Carriages is much outstanding than the rest with a bigger and more polished frame in dull red, gold and black as well as Rank Five Crystal Dragon-horses which have gained a shade if pink in their normally aqua Crystal looking bodies.

Flags with neatly shredded ends hangs boldly off the centre top of each Carriages roof while rolling over themselves without the need for wind. This flags carried the ultimate symbol of royalty in its noble yet dark art that comes in form of a powerful dark eclipse image over a river of darkness.

From the Carriages to the powerful Crystal-horses to the guards and their imposing aura, to the powerful atmosphere and finally, the dark flags.

The sight of all of this put together shows and leaves a deep impression of only two words,-Imperial Royalty-.

Seflim had to pause her steps and take on the 'Imperial' sight as she watched the guards turn towards her uniformly with their wine shaded capes slapping the very air around them into submission for her sake as they offered their bows with a fist over their heart and their eyes looking to the ground.

It is a powerful show, but Seflim feels right at home. Seflim has always been aware that she was born with a diamond spoon factory in her mouth but still she couldn't help but be blown away whenever she experiences the benefits of this for the first times.

This time is no different from other firsts but she is trained enough to keep her up Imperial composure as she walks forward to her mother's Carriage which is at the centre of the group.

A Golden armoured knight with blue cape humbly matches her pace before offering her his right fore-arm coated by Gold metal Gauntlet as he walks on her pace while keeping to her left side. Knowing exactly what to do, Princess Seflim puts her hand over his cold metal as she climbs up the three stair flight and into her mother's Carriage door that's held open by another still bowing Knight.

Only after the Carriage door closed gently behind her did Seflim calm down a little as she looks around. As expected, the Carriage has spatial properties as what greeted her is a small sitting room with her nanny already waiting for her.

She sees doors to rooms and open spaces to other places just like a shall house so she can immediately guess that the inside of this Carriage is hundreds of times bigger than its outside. This time, she's not much surprised.

With a calm face, Seflim asks her Nanny, "..Where is my mother?".

"Waiting for you upstairs..", Nanny Nora responds but Princess Seflim lifts her brows a little surprised this time that there's an upstairs.

"Bring me to her..", Seflim orders but politely to her Nanny who immediately points the way through.

A couple of stairs upwards, past a bit of doors and then into another a smaller but more luxurious ancient Western styled open sitting room with her mom reading through a report scroll with a pair of thin oval glasses held up on her ear.

As a Rank 6 Swords-woman, her mother obviously have blood issues with her eye-sight so the only explanation is that the scroll had hidden messages written with aura or mana and the glasses provides assistance in reading through the scroll.

"You're finally here..", Tamara says as she looked up at her daughter with a small smile which Seflim lazily returns as she walks her way across the room.

Seflim sensed the exit of her Nanny from the space as she approaches a comfy chair close to the fireplace that's burning in ash-white flames while giving off pure energies and mana instead of heat.

As soon she sits down and feels her pore open to the energies, her mother sends a bracelet over to her through the air and she takes it into her grasp.

"What is this for?..", Seflim asks while at the same time putting the bracket on her fair wrist without any hesitation or distrust.

"That my dear is a High Grade Rank five artifact. Very expensive, very rare, very hard to make and even harder considering that one on your wrist is fashioned specifically for you in order to help you sense your shadow better and recognise whoever it is faster", Tamara explains to her daughter who only raised her brow in even more confusion.

Learning about artifact and arrays and how to use them much more effectively and channel more power without using too much mana is one of the courses Seflim has just picked up when she broke into Rank One and though she isn't deep in it yet but she knows enough from the basics to realise that there's no way in Gieă she can activate a high level artifact as a Rank One cultivator talk-less of a Rank Five artifact.

"I can't use it.. ", Seflim calmly says as she only feels the prick of cold coming from metal gem bracelet against her skin. She knows her mother isn't stupid so she just waits for an explanation on the way around.

"I got a favour from your father and by some over the top powers play he didn't bother much to explain on, you should be able to use it. The fact that you can even touch it as a high level artifact is proof so don't worry much and put a bit of mana into it..", Tamara says while Seflim nods a bit in understanding.

It's been barely two weeks since her break through and she haven't mastered even five percent of her mana veins for channelling but she's confident enough in her ability to network the Mana she has through the veins she's mastered to bring some in contact with the bracelet.

It took six seconds before the bracelet gives a soft glow as Seflim's shadow becomes deeper and heavier. Her breath becomes a bit deeper as slight confusion surfaces on her face.

For the first seconds that the bracelet glows up, she didn't feel shadow connection not in one direction but in two different directions but that split focus soon disappears as Seflim shrugs it off as a glitch that comes naturally with the bracelets activation.