"Stop looking at me with those beautiful blue eyes," Klaus said, still in bed. Hanna stood there, watching him for a few seconds before gesturing toward the bathroom.
"Bathe and come. Everyone wants to spar with you," she said before walking toward the door.
"I'm not feeling like it, so tell Lucy to come bathe me," Klaus said, turning his head to get some more sleep.
The next second, however, something took hold of his legs and began pulling him off the bed. Hanna, who was supposed to be leaving the room, was now dragging him to the bathroom.
Klaus just smirked and went along. Of course, Hanna had become much bolder now, but there was some redness on her cheeks during the process.
Klaus was obviously naked...
It took just a few minutes, but Klaus was now clean and ready to go out. Hanna made sure he was looking his best, for which he was grateful.
"You know, next time you want to see me naked, you can just ask," Klaus said, taking her hand as they moved out of the room.
Though it was just a matter of time, Hanna was slowly getting into the life she and Klaus had lived in their past lives.
They were the best pals for a short period of time, but now, they have a long time ahead of them...and Klaus is now an adult.
"How is Kathy?" Klaus asked as they walked toward a certain pavilion where Klaus's ladies, friends, and girlfriends were having breakfast.
"She's still not awake. Now, she's covered in some kind of cocoon. What's happening to her?" Hanna asked.
After Klaus gave her his blood, she entered a kind of comatose state. Hanna had been worried, but since it was Klaus who gave her his blood, she knew Kathy wasn't in any danger.
"She's fine. I just gave her my blood, which has the effect of bringing out her true bloodline," Klaus said.
"I don't understand. She hasn't awakened her bloodline yet," Hanna said, puzzled.
"Yes, she hasn't awakened her bloodline yet, but she is a Thunderwing. So, I just gave her a little something that will awaken the purest form of her bloodline," Klaus said with a smile.
His Star Monarch bloodline was something even the heavens envied.
"How do you know she's a Thunderwing? I never told you," Hanna asked, and Klaus stopped in his tracks.
"Now that you mention it," Klaus said, scratching his head.
"How did I know that... Paragon never told me I had something like that," Klaus muttered, making Hanna look at him with concern written all over her face.
Klaus was talking to himself...
She walked closer to him and touched the back of her hand against his forehead.
"You—what are you doing?" Klaus asked.
"You don't look like someone who is sick. Maybe you should just rest for a while. Talking to yourself can be a sign of overworking yourself," Hanna said thoughtfully, but Klaus knew she was just messing with him.
He shrugged off her comment, but he was still puzzled by how he knew Kathy was a Thunderwing. Of course, he would find out how later, but it still puzzled him.
"Don't worry about Kathy. The next time she awakens, even the heavens will envy her... After all, she drank my blood, and in case you are not aware, the heavens are my rivals—"
"Don't think I will let her become your beast companion," Hanna shrugged.
"She has already become my Beast companion since she drank my blood. You would have to get a new bird," Klaus said, trying to run from her.
Still, Hanna quickly grabbed his ear and dragged him toward the pavilion, leaving his pals watching this, wondering if this was the same Klaus who single-handedly destroyed an entire alliance.
"When did you become this aggressive?" Klaus asked, now sitting beside his mother. His ear was red now, but he didn't mind the pain.
Hanna just shrugged off his question and chose to fill their plates. Klaus's mom smiled at the sight and then turned toward Nia, sitting in the middle, surrounded by Klaus's women.
Obviously, she wasn't thinking of anything moral...
Even Queenie was there. His friend's ladies are also there...
Klaus's male friends had already briefed them on the long list of powerful women their friend had, so they looked shocked at first but were okay now.
Queenie was so down-to-earth that they all started calling her "big sister." This, of course, made her very happy.
She and Ohema had a couple of seconds—or perhaps minutes—between them, but Ohema always treated her like a baby sister, which irritated her sometimes, considering she was way stronger than her.
But now that she was getting the "big sister" treatment, she could only hold her shoulders high.
"You guys didn't bring my best friend, Miguel," Klaus said, looking toward Danny and the others.
"Miguel is on a solo mission in some forbidden zone," Danny replied. "He's training like his head is messed up."
"And you guys are here," Klaus said, looking at him with disdain. Since Miguel, his very 'best friend', was training, he would make their lives miserable, too.
"Don't worry; after we go back to the academy, you all will be spending 90% of your time-fighting opponents three realms above you," Klaus said, making his pals frown.
"No need to frown. At your age, you should be able to kill Transcendents like you drink water," Klaus added.
"What does age have to do with anything?" Mark wondered out loud.
"It has everything to do with everything," Klaus smirked and took a bite of his bread. "Also, what happened to you, Kilian? Even I'm scared of you," Klaus asked.
"I got stronger, I guess," Kilian said with a shrug, making Klaus smile.
"At least one of you impressed me. Aside from Kilian, all of you—and I mean both boys and girls—will be going to a Tier 8 forbidden zone with me, where the weakest monster or beast is at the Sovereign level.
Until you all manage to kill 30 Sovereigns and 10 Transcendent-level beasts and monsters, you won't be coming out, nor will you be allowed to break through to the next level."
Klaus snapped his fingers, and runes appeared in the air. He waved his hand, and the runes moved, merging with their foreheads.
The next second, they all widened their eyes in horror.
Their cultivation bases had been locked.