[Azure Kingdom]

As the new party members followed Sato's trail, they soon found him once more confronting Michael as he really wanted to train with himself with the strongest archangel he knows. But of course naturally Michael still seemed skeptical and doesn't want to waste some time on training some mortal.

Because of this, Sato had no choice to fully release his mana wildly causing waves after waves of shockwaves to erupt, which showcased his current strength. Of course upon sensing this Michael simply took a look at him before shrugging it off.

On the otherhand the new parry members were quite shocked by Sato's power as they couldn't believe that he was this strong already after not seeing each other for such a long time. Comparing this to their progress already seemed significant. In fact they just couldn't imagine what he had gone through in order to reach such level.

"This is... how did he become so strong?" Asked by Goda.

"This is impossible! He can't improve that fast by just traveling, this can't be possible!!!" Denied by Watanabe.

"Looks like he's not all talk" said by Adachi.

"But why is he doing this? Why is he using it infront of an angel?" Asked by Inaba.

"How would we know?" Retorted by Adachi.

"The air current is so strong" muttered by Miura.

As the rest of the party members seemed overwhelmed by this, Michael simply walked away as he then said.

"Your reaching too far kid, if you want my guidance, why not try sparring against the other archangels first? If you fought me now, you would simply be overwhelmed and our sparring would be worthless... if you want to learn from me, you need to get stronger step by step"

Hearing his words, Sato suddenly retracted his mana as he asked

"What... what do you mean?"

"You heard me! Fight the others first before going to me, don't worry I'll send someone to you tomorrow, for now... you need to rest"

After Sato heard those words, he was then somewhat thankful as he saw Michael walk away.

In that moment Sato noticed the new party members approaching him, as they seemed surprised by his prowess.

"Sato are you okay?" Asked by Miura.

"You bastard! How did you get so strong?" Asked by Watanabe.

"Looks like traveling to the western continent proved to be quite fruitful for you" said by Adachi.

"I'm glad you've grown strong Sato" praised by Goda.

"Me too" agreed by Inaba.

Seeing all of them approaching him with various intent, Sato simply nodded accordingly as he said.

"Thats right! I've grown this much just by experiencing what the western continent could give to me... so I hope you guys would also go strong fast too"

"What do you mean by that?" Asked by Watanabe

"As you are now, you guys don't stand a chance of surviving the western continent... you need to grown even more stronger"

After Sato said those words, Watanabe seemed quite pissed for some unknown reason, as both Goda and Adachi held him back before he does something reckless.

Since nothing happened, Sato simply gave them a wry smile before walking away and focused on recovering from his wounds.

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A day passed, in the next morning both Anna and Llyod went towards the garden where Talia is currently located as they plan to invite her for some light snacks. However for some reason ever since she arrived in this castle, she somehow seemed hard to approach due to what happened to her parents.

Even though she learned that both of her parents had died, she can't seemed to fully understand what that meant which left her unable to process her own emotions. If they were given a chance to describe it, it's like ever since her parents died, Talia had seemed to create a space for herself in order to to seem aloof as if she is denying the reality herself.

"Hey what are you doing Talia?" Asked by Anna

"Want some cupcake?" Asked by Lloyd

"Huh? Oh Anna! Lloyd! I didn't realize you were there"

"Cupcake?" Urged by Lloyd.

"I'm fine... thank you" said by Talia

Hearing her words, Anna then somewhat tightened her grasp on her skirt as she tries to come up some words in order to interact more with Talia. After all if she leave Talia like this, she would simply end the conversation there without speaking to them any longer. As she is now, Talia is almost akin to an npc which you can only interact if you approach them first.

If that ever happened she would simply isolate herself in her own safe bubble and interact less with them.

"Hey Talia, do you play some games?"

"Games? I do play some games"

"Thats great! It's fun to play some games with friends right?" Asked by Anna

"Yeah! But are both Anna and Lloyd, Talia's friends?"

"Yes your our friend"

"My sister is right Talia! We're your friends"

"I see... then your my friends, what games do you want to play?"

The moment Talia asked those words, Anna seemed to be in a thought for a moment until she said.

"How about a game of tag? The castle is so big and spacious so we have a lot of room to run around"

"Thats a great idea, so what do you say Talia?" Asked by Lloyd

Hearing their words Talia seemed to brighten up a little as she happily agreed, with that the children then begun to play with the whole castle as their playground.

Unknown to the children, Azrael seemed to be keeping an eye on Talia as he somewhat sensed that mana of Ester mixed within the child's original mana. As of now he can't seemed to make a heads or tails whether that is a good thing or not, due to that all he can do is observe and make sure nothing ever happens to Talia for Ester's sake.

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[Adventurer's Guild]

Located on another area in the kingdom, the adventurers guild is currently bustling with business as adventurers are here in order to take down the dungeon that was found in the Azure Kingdom. Because of this dungeon that was found on the kingdom's rocky mountains, the prospect for profits increased as the adventurers were excited to reach its lowest level and retrieve the treasure for themselves.

Unknown to the adventurers present, this was simply a business scheme made by Gabriel and Ariel themselves. Truth be told the dungeon itself was once an ordinary cave. After all the monster inside were exterminated, both of them turned the cave into a dungeon by using their respective authority.

Using the space authority, Gabriel reconstructed the cave to have multiple layers of level with  all floors having spatial distortion to make the inside look huge in comparison to its outside appearance. As for transmigration, such power is used to endlessly revive the monsters inside the dungeon in order to to prove a challenge for any adventurers.

Lastly to attract adventurers themselves, they used a type of healing artifact to bait some adventurers into coming to their kingdom itself. Once that was all done, all they need was to spread the rumor about the all healing treasure can be found inside the dungeon that they had created. Due to that many adventurers visited their kingdom in order to tackle the said dungeon.

All of this was done due to the Kingdom needing some financial prowess to function as a proper society. After all they just can't rely on simply agriculture to run the kingdom themselves, so they had no choice but to branch out to other areas in order to support the finances of the kingdom.

All of these was done under the approval of Asagi before she left for the western continent. Due to that the adventurers guild is packing with visitors everyday.

Even in broad daylight, many adventurers were drinking some beer as they all get acquainted with each other. Apparently all of them came from different kingdom's in the central continent, but despite being in different  countries, all of them treat each other as if they are long lost friends.

Alongside it on another area, there are also group of adventurers who are busy forming parties and forming meetings on how to handle the dungeon, while on another area are adventurers who just goof around.

It was such a booming business that even Darius is having a hard time keeping up in managing the adventurers guild, because of that he hired a lot of personnel to help him manage the guild and make the guild itself as welcoming as it can be, he was on the road of success.

In fact his business simply reached new heights when tribal barbarians and mages from the northern continent visited the guild and became its force.

As if that news wasn't enough, even David and Leila, the couple that came from the northern continent extended their invitation to him on their wedding day that will happen about some month from now. Of course he was also sure that her majesty also received some invitation, nevertheless it was a happy day for him.

Of course it was also somewhat nervous day for him too since Asagi wrote him a letter informing that someone who is strong enough to be acknowledged by her and Azrael will be arriving in the guild soon and she hoped that Darius would offer him the utmost of his hospitality.

Reading through the contents of the letter, Darius realized just how important this person is and how highly he is regarded by her majesty herself. From there he was then became quite curious on who this mystery person is.

In that very moment, a cloaked figure entered the guild which immediately changed the atmosphere. The moment this person entered the building, everyone inside immediately noticed his presence, as they all turned silent and glanced towards the cloaked figures direction.

The adventurers from the central continent who were hailed to be strong suddenly turned silent as they examined the cloaked figure, the mages from the northern continent felt pressures from the aura that the cloaked figure was exuding, and the barbarians of the north seemed excited after smelling the scent of a strong person from the cloaked figure.

Without anyone ever saying a word, all of them knew that the cloak person infront of them is so strong that it silenced the whole building by just entering the guild alone. In fact even Darius couldn't help but be amazed by this cloaked person, he figured that if the cloaked person ever fought everyone in the guild all on his own, he was confident that the cloaked figure would come out as the Victor. That's just how strong that cloaked figure is.

In that moment the cloaked figure approached him and asked.

"This is the Adventurer's Guild right?"

Hearing his deep tone of voice, Darius nodded accordingly.

"Yes... this is the adventurers guild"

With that the cloaked figure finally felt relieved as he pulled down his hood while happily introducing himself.

"Thats great! Thank God! You have no idea how long I've been searching this place, by the way my name is Zaheer, I believe her majesty already informed you about me?"

"Huh? Oh! Are you the person whom her majesty introduced to me, that's great to hear, my name is Darius the guild leader of this guild, welcome to the Adventurer's guild"

"The pleasures all mine! By the way this place... its almost identical to the mercenary guild in the western continent except its much more cleaner and proper, plus I can feel multiple strong people inside the building"

"Wait! Your from the western continent?" Asked by Darius in surprise

"Um yes? Why? Didn't her majesty tell that to you on the letter?"

"Not at all, in fact your the very first westerner that arrived on this place, welcome! Welcome!"

Upon hearing that Zaheer came from the western continent, Darius and everyone in the guild became even more curious of him as this was the first time that they will interact with a person that came from the western continent.

As adventurers their curiosity was naturally pricked as all of them were curious on what kind of continent was the western lands. From that moment on as people rushed towards Zaheer with questions, the person himself became quite famous to the point that his name rang all over the northern continent and central continent.

What's more due to his presence, he was titled as 'strong person from the west', that was the start of Zaheer's popular era or so they say.

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