Chương 95: NAVI & SELFIM (NIGHT TIME CHECK IN'S)

***On Planet Gieă, In the Outskirts of the Continent 'Eclipse of the Oceans', Chingford's Academy's Dormitory: Navi's Dorm-room..

*CREAK*.. *DOOR CLOSES.*.

Kenzo slowly and boldly steps into the room and Navi looks on with indifference in his eyes. The cold silence fills the dark room for a few seconds but soon, Kenzo takes his gaze off Navi as he calmly walks towards his cabinet before opening it up.

Half expecting some type of confrontation, Navi cannot help but be mildly disappointed yet indifferently relieved. No matter how distant, Navi knows for a fact that the late Troy and his other two room-mates had atleast a friendship level of relationship. Considering this factor, Navi has always been half-expected to be confronted by either one or both of them especially since the news of Troy being killed by him(Navi) has gotten out.

Though to Navi's surprise, despite his two roomies knowing what had happened and losing a friend, no sorts of confrontation no matter how mild has happened. From Navi's point of view, it is almost as if the rest of his room-mates couldn't even be bothered with putting up an act of caring about the loss of a so called 'friend'.

Peeling his calm gaze off Kenzo, Navi turns his face as he continues staring at the night stars through his small window. He doesn't have the energy to be curious about other people's relations or actions plus being confronted would have been a bother either way so.. why should he waste energy on caring?. If somewhere along the line, he finally get confronted by either one of the two roomies then he would deal with it as it happens. For now, he cannot bring himself to care any less.

Soon, Kenzo seems to have picked up all he needs from his cabinet and with slow steps, he calmly exits the room while firmly closing the door behind him. Unbothered, Navi turns attention back to the book on his paps. He neatly folds the tip of the page he has last read and then he flips the book cover closed.

Using the bunk ladder, Navi gets to the ground before storing his book back into his cabinet. After this, Navi walks forward as he finds the door befire exiting while leaving the room empty, silent and cold.

Stepping into it, the hallways isn't as dark as the insides of the dorm room as it is gently illuminated by a few dim lanterns that are hanging in the walls. Walking at a Casual pace, Navi is quick to find the stairs and he slowly desends through flights while going all the way to the ground floor.

A couple more quick turns and Navi finds himself being bathed directly by moonlight. He has exited the Dormitory's building and with hie eyes up and his back straight, he starts a night trek through the Academy's grounds.

The campus is still buzzing with activities though unlike during the day, Navi is only getting glanced at occasionally. The night seems to conceal his presence a lot more and Navi doesn't feel spied on.

Keeping with his slow pace, It takes about seven minutes but soon Navi arrives at his pre-planned destination. A below ground level stadium structure lays before him with circular stairs around it like rings.

This structure looks awfully identical to the swordsmanship training grounds though looking as a distant banner, it says: SPEARMANSHIP TRAINING GROUNDS..

A couple of disciple can still be seen training below though they were without the supervision of a master. The disciples sparred gently with wooden spears, some of them practice throwing spears as they release wooden spears towards a wide and flat part of the circular walls and others practiced their Battle postures or sudden forward spears strikes.

Observing all of this, Navi indifferently descends down the rings of the training ground's circular stairs. He finds a dark and shadowy spot and makes himself comfortable as he sits on the stairs.

With his breaths calm and his figure ignored as just one amongst many others, Navi observes. Time ticks by slowly as Navi silently takes several mental notes of their spearmanship techniques whlie thinking of multiple battle plans and counters.

Soon, the Spear-manship Disciples began to leave training and hours later, Navi makes a completely noiseless exit.

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***Three days Later..

***On Planet Gieă.. In the Western regions of Continent Eclipse of the Oceans: Territory of one of the arms of the Imperial Court; The Coastal Clan's Territory..

***Within Consort Tamara's Imperial Carriages..

Imperial Consort Tamara's Carriages are currently riding over fifteen miles high in the air with multiple Crystal Dragon-horses pulling each Carriage at a stable yet astonishing speed that almost borders over the speed of sound.

The Carriages were so high in the air that they would be completely invisible to a mortal's eyes. As for cultivators, the Imperial Carriages has enough anti-probe arrays to escape the senses of high Rank cultivators who aren't paying attention. Even the high Rank cultivators who are paying attention would find their senses completely blurred.

It's been a long thirty-two days since the beginning of Seflim's journey to finding her shadow and along the way, they have made visits to four major powerhouses that resides within the Coastal Clan's territory.

For Imperial Consort Tamara, the journey has been an all round event of convenience. She has been able to make solid connections with some of the powerhouses in the formerly unfamiliar Coastal Clan's Territory and the information she has gathered from her branched men tells her that her appearance to public eye is very well received.

Throughout the population of the Coastal territory, news has spread far and wide about the pure aura of nobility she possesses. She has become a deep topic of conversation both to the cultivators and to mortals.

The appearance of the Infamous Gold Radiant Knight by her side has also increased the weight of Imperial Consort Tamara name and therefore, the weight of her daughter's name. Normally, an Imperial Consort shouldn't be able to travel alongside a figure as grand as a Gold Radiant Knight but with the Emperor will, Tamara has gotten the privilege of being an exception.

Tamara is no longer uncomfortable with being within the Coastal Clan's territory but if asked, she likes the Comfort of her Imperial Palace by so much more. Maybe she's a bit spoiled in this regard.

As for True Imperial Princess Seflim, if asked, Seflim would most likely say that she has found this journey to be mostly monotonous. Apart from their one or two days visits to some powerhouses, most days are mostly indistinguishable from the rest.

Every of her actions have been awfully repetitive -Cultivate, study, Get tutored, Read Manuals, Eat rich food, get nagged by her nanny.. throw a bit of sleep into the mix and then repeat.

Although boring and lonesome, the passing of time slowly becomes irrelevant as Seflim slowly gets addicted to the feeling of getting stronger and smarter from cultivating. Addiction to power/knowledge is a common trait amongst geniuses but Seflim has more than this one factor fuelling her thirst for strenght.

Currently, Princess Seflim can be seen sitting elegantly on a small couch in a corner of her room. She has a book in her arms and a pair of crystalline reading glasses over her eyes as she looks completely calm yet immersed in what she's reading.

She had just recently come out of another cultivation session where she finally crossed the fifteen percent mark!. Seflim has finally sensed a good fifteen percent of her primary mana-veins and she has firm control over the usage of a good eleven percent of these primary veins.

Due to having such a vastly tyrannical bloodline (Eclipse Flood dragon bloodline), Princess Seflim can be said to have up to six hundred percent more primary mana veins than the Average beginner rank Cultivator!. Not only this but it wouldn't be called an exxergeration to say that and each of her mana veins is atleast three times more effective than those of an average cultivator.

Without talent, it would have taken the princess six to eight times more than the usual amount of time to sense her veins(Due to having six times more veins) but due to Seflim's monstrous talent, she is progressing at a pace that's much faster than those who have the normal amount of mana veins.

In a little less than two months since her breakthrough, Seflim has already sensed up to fifteen percent of her mana veins. It would usually take a mildly talented beginner Rank Cultivator about six months to achieve a similar feat!. Despite having six times more the normal amount of mana veins in her, Seflim is still somehow three times faster at cultivation than the Averages. Talk about talent!, Ramble about fortune!..

*Flutter..*. Flipping over another page of the book in her arms, Seflim lightly adjusts her seating position as she keeps on reading but then, a very soft bubbly sound echoes through her room with a low hum.

It's her alarm, one she has specifically set for this day and time.

Without hesitation, Seflim lightly dims her eyes as the book resting in her left hand dissappear into thin air. Shifting her position, Seflim controls her mana with familiarity as she draws on it with a purpose written in her mind.

Mana lightly rocks through the True princess's veins before pouring into the bracelet on her wrist. The bracelet produces a soft purple glow and as a result of the interaction and Seflim closes her eyes a bit firmer in order to boost concentration on the feed back she's receiving.

Under the lighting of the room, the princess's shadow visibly darkens and once again, she feels her attention slightly torn to two distant areas no but that quickly fades away as she gets focused to a particular direction.

They are much closer than they were before, she can feel it. Princess Seflim can only faintly approximate but she is completely sure that her shadow is within the Coastal Clan's territory,.. North-West area to be more specific.

Slowly opening her eyes, Seflim breaks her concentration. They are already heading towards the right direction so there's no point in informing anybody about her routine check-ins.

About to re-summon her book to continue reading, three light knocks resounds from Seflim's door.

*KNOCK*..*KNOCK*..*KNOCK*..

Pausing for a moment, Princess Seflim looks towards the door before responding with a plain yet noble tone..

".. Enter".