"Young master, they've moved again." An old man informed the young man, who wore white robes beside him.
"Oh? Good thing we brought several detection compasses," the young man replied, a sly smile curling his lips. "Otherwise, we wouldn't be able to detect their movements after their strongest member activated their bloodline power and shattered the initial compass."
"What shall we do next?" The old man asked.
The young man thought for a while before giving the answer. "It's time to act. Notify the others to join us. They should've brought at least one or two more people."
"Understood." The old man nodded before taking out a small black dragon scale from his space ring and communicating with the others to gather at the designated place.
…
After more than an hour on their way to the place he was heading to, Cain finally had a response in his beast space as Anya had done with absorbing her blessing.
[Name: Anya Akane]
[Age: 22]
[Race: Half-Human, Half-Kitsune]
[Bloodline: 9-Tailed Heavenly Demon Fox (4-Tailed)]
[Awakener Rank: Peak-level King Rank]
[Attribute: Ascendant-level Fire Element (1 rank above Perfect-level)]
[Talent: Transformation (S Rank), Illusion Manipulation (S+ Rank)]
[Skills: 9-Tailed Heavenly Demon Fox skills (4-Tailed)]
[Strength]: 75 million + 15 mil = 90 million
[Agility]: 100 mil + 20 mil = 120 million
[Health]: 60 mil + 12 mil = 72 million
[Sense]: 70 mil + 14 mil = 84 million
[Energy]: 180 mil + 12 mil = 192 million
When Cain checked Anya's stats, he raised an eyebrow in surprise. "Peak-level King Awakener already? I didn't expect the remaining energy to push her this far in one go."
'It seems that I still underestimate my own bloodline and the effect that it could bring to others.' Cain shook his head as he was happy and helpless at the same time.
He was happy that it had much better benefits than he had expected, but he was also helpless since he still didn't know much about it as the system wouldn't tell him even after pestering it for a long time.
When Anya started to call him out, he made a projection in front of her and asked with a smile. "How do you feel, Anya?"
"I feel incredible!" Anya said, flexing her hands as though testing her newfound strength.
Cain smiled as he knew the feeling Anya felt and was about to say something but stopped when he heard Anya's next words that made him surprised.
"But… I also feel like something stopped me from fully refining the energy. It's strange—I can sense more energy left, but I can't absorb it yet." Anya explained while looking at Cain curiously as if waiting for an answer.
"System, is that true? Does it mean that Anya still needs to gain her experience again to be able to receive more blessings that haven't been absorbed?"
Cain asked the system immediately when he heard it, as he was surprised himself since he hadn't expected that there was still more that needed to be absorbed.
"It's true… However, since it's just from King to Conqueror Rank, the difficulty to obtain experience will be lower and shouldn't take much time." The little creature's voice rang in his mind as it didn't show itself this time.
After getting the answer, Cain looked at Anya and ruffled her hair softly. "The situation is the same as before. Which one will you choose this time?"
When she heard it, Anya immediately answered without hesitation. "Of course, I will choose the same as before." Your journey continues with My Virtual Library Empire
"Good! However, we will do it after going to a place since I want to buy some wines there." Cain said with a smile.
"It's okay, I'm not in a hurry anyway." Anya responded as she waved her hand.
"Let's go out and greet the others then. The little girls have been asking me for a while regarding where you will go out of the beast space."
Cain chuckled as he sometimes couldn't hold himself back with the pestering from the little girls, but after thinking about their pitiful fate, he held himself as much as he could.
The moment Anya came out of the beast space and appeared on Nix's back, Sylvia noticed her presence and immediately came to her side. "Big Sis Anya, you're finally out. Have you become stronger again?"
When Sylvia exclaimed with a loud voice, it directly attracted Ayla, who was in Fenix's back while listening to his explanation since she was eager to become stronger and had asked him countless questions that came to her mind.
"Huh?" Ayla's attention immediately shifted to Anya as she hadn't noticed that Anya had appeared 2 meters in front of her since she was still focused on listening to Fenix's explanation.
She then climbed onto Fenix's head and jumped at Anya while stepping on his head, using it as a stepping stone. "Big Sis Anya!"
"This little girl is such a menace." Fenix could only grit his teeth as he looked at the little girl who was already in Anya's arms and bombard her with questions.
"Well… At least I wouldn't be bothered by that little girl anymore."
…
When they were about to arrive in one of the strongest kingdoms in this world, Cain was surprised as he detected probably around more than a dozen people that had reached the Peak-level Conqueror Ranks, which was strange in his opinion.
Because even when they checked their information for a glance, he knew that they were from different forces and their stats were definitely better than normal Peak-level Conqueror Ranks.
However, considering their locations, they looked like they were being gathered in the same place. Cain thought that there must be something there, and he would know it too when he got there.
That's why he didn't worry too much about it and continued their journey swiftly to Xylarion City, the Capital City of the Thalvaris Kingdom.
After they went inside the city and headed towards the place where the strong people gathered, Cain finally realized who and why these people gathered here as he arrived in front of a huge, towering pavilion.