"The Westle Empire... Are they that strong?" Asha muttered, not taking the enemy in her eyes.
She was already tier 8, possessing a solid foundation and a Dimensional physique.
For her, a place without an Apex Sovereign is merely a background board like any other.
"They're strong. We may even have to run and abandon the empire in hindsight..."
"Oh? So strong?" Asha was a little shocked.
Is the enemy so strong that they even have to retreat if they meet?
"It's the Amalgamation of Will, with the generation from hundreds of trillions of people the Emperor of the Westle Empire is equivalent to an inexhaustible Apex Sovereign."
Although they had limited knowledge of the Amalgamation of Will, they knew it was comparable to the essence of law.
Facing an enemy that could control an inexhaustible amount of it is really a challenge.
"Do you want help, Mother?"
"We can also help, Grandmother!" Lila volunteered taking Maya's hand.
Although Asha and Lila didn't possess much combat, using their special physique they could bring the enemy down to chaos.
Asha, manipulating luck could bring an empire to the eternal damnation of bad luck.
Lila could also quickly dismantle the enemy's military and political power by just showing her face.
"It's too dangerous!" Isabella knew what they were thinking.
However, dancing at the tip of the enemy knife is not something she would resort to.
Everything be damned, as long as her family is safe.
How could she disregard their safety just because of unrelated things?
Although the Moonlight Empire is also important and sentimental.
It's not as important as their life.
"Then what can we do? We also want to help."
Although finding Maximus was the top priority.
If there were something they could help with, they would drop their current task and assist.
Seeing their sincere eyes, Isabella pondered what they could do.
Suddenly, she thought of a solution to her earlier problem.
Initially, she had a headache at the seemingly infinite puppets and the lack of firepower.
Looking at her lucky daughter, the solution seemed to be presented in front of her.
"Do you know about Arcanite Soul Steel?"
"This material was quite expensive and in demand."
"How can I not know it?"
Arcanite Soul Steel is the main material of the Arcane Cannon and other weapons that harness the power of the masses to fight across tiers.
It's also the primary material that can convert mana into energy used in different alchemies and industries.
More importantly, it's one of the materials needed to create any artificial tier 9 items.
It's so rare and versatile that it was one of the main trading resources of those top-tier guilds.
Being a fan of money like her brother Lux, Asha basically memorized all the expensive items and resources known throughout the Etherium realm.
After all, she often came across them.
If she didn't know her stuff, she might be fooled by some merchant out of her money.
"Why do you need it, Mother? Don't we have a lot of them?" Asha asked doubtfully.
Before her father disappeared, he gave them a lot of resources to practice.
Among them, Arcanite Soul Steel should be plenty enough for them to play with for hundreds of years.
"They were used to build those cannons," Isabella muttered helplessly.
Isabella had already collected all the Arcanite Soul Steel she could find to make millions of Arcane Cannons.
As for buying them, they were not for sale.
Even Denice asked her father for some, but all she received was that it was out of stock.
After receiving some experimental materials from Maximus, her father's guild, the Lorekeeper Guild went into a frenzy of experimentation.
All kinds of rare resources that could be used were used until there were none left.
Thus, the Arcanite Soul Steel, an important material, was quickly depleted.
Even now, they were scrambling to find Maximus to buy more of it.
As for other Apex Sovereigns, they were not close enough to conduct transactions.
They could also buy Arcane Cannons directly.
Unfortunately, it was a banned weapon, and there were too few in circulation.
For many, it's a waste to use Arcanite Soul Steel to create a weapon for the weak.
They would rather use it to arm themselves.
Meanwhile, upon hearing that all the Arcanite Soul Steel was used to make the war cannons, Asha was shocked.
"The Westle Empire is so strong?!"
Those materials their father gave should be worth thousands of Moonlight Empire, yet they were used just as defensive weapons?
How strong must the enemy be to warrant such measures?
"How about it? We are barely holding on now; using these miscellaneous materials is nothing," Isabella said, not caring about the money.
"Then do you want me to look for some Arcanite Soul Steel?" Asha asked, contemplating the meaning of her mother's words.
"Yes, we need them fast, maybe a week or even a few days..."
Although Isabella knew that it was impossible for Asha to find them in such a short amount of time, she still hoped for a miracle.
"A week? A few days?" Asha was somehow speechless, thinking her mother thought she was a god.
With luck on her side, Asha was sure to find even the rarest material once she put her mind to it.
However, such a small time frame?
It's not something luck can create out of thin air.
"How about I look for it, Grandmother?" Lila said, causing silence in the room.
"What? Will you seduce an Apex Sovereign to give you a piece?" Asha said jokingly.
Although it's indeed a possibility, she knew Lila was such a pure witch and would never do such a thing.
"What are you saying? Don't joke like that!" Isabella knocked Asha's head.
Although they were already desperate, it hadn't come to the point where her granddaughter needed to sell her body to get by.
"Then how are you going to find it?"
"I have an Apex Sovereign friend; she should have some."
"You? An apex sovereign friend? Why didn't I know?" Asha asked doubtfully.
She had been with Lila almost all the time, yet she didn't even know she had a connection with some apex sovereign.
"It was when I was still a baby, so you didn't know!"
"Sister Lilith took me out to meet her sister, and from time to time, I took my time to play with them."
"Sister Lilith? So it's them!" Isabella muttered.
Although Lilith was still busy with training, she still came to them from time to time.
They had just returned recently from the abyss, and the war immediately started, so they didn't have time to reminisce.
Although they didn't know much about Lilith's sister, Freya, looking at her granddaughter.
Lila should be able to buy some Arcanite Soul Steel.
"Alright, then I'll leave the acquisition of the material to you."
"Leave it to me, Grandmother!"
In the Arcane Continent, Spirit Domain:
Mesmerizing flowers, undulating mountains, crisscrossing rivers, perfect weather.
Looking at the beautiful land filled with a fairy atmosphere, Lila, Asha, and Maya, who had just arrived in the Spirit Domain, couldn't help but be stunned for a while.
Everything in this domain seemed handcrafted to embody the world's beauty.
Even the birds and animals were so tame and beautiful that they couldn't help but indulge for a while.
"I heard that any ugliness is forbidden here, is it true?" Asha couldn't help but ask.
"Yes, Sister Freya wanted everything to be perfect. Thus, you can be weak but never be ugly," Lila said confidently.
She was able to befriend Freya not only because of Lilith, who had an ambiguous relationship with her grandfather.
It was also because of her otherworldly beauty—the perfect embodiment of what everyone perceived as beautiful.
As long as they had some mind, all beings would regard her as a perfect being regardless of gender and race.
This is also why no one would blame her even if she were naughty, causing chaos wherever she went.
Even the enemies' hatred could disappear with just a look at her.
This worsened after she awakened her physique.
Now, no one even treated her as a human anymore.
Whenever she appeared, as long as she didn't hold herself in disguise, some passerby, without enough strength, would kneel at her, worshipping her like a goddess.
Emotions such as love, lust and such also disappeared, replaced with pure adoration and admiration.
Freya saw her as an ideal model—a beauty that could transcend the spirit and the soul, a hope for advancement that could breach the limits of dimensions.
"So, ugliness is really banned here..." Asha grew speechless. She thought it was some rumour, bashing the Spirit domain.
Who knew it was the truth?
After all, beauty is relative, and for someone to arbitrarily rate them as such was challenging the world.
Fortunately, the one who set such a rule was a strong Apex sovereign.
Otherwise, this beautiful place would have long been raided.
"Let's go, I already contacted Sister Lilith."
"Sister Freya should be free to meet us."
An Apex sovereign is not someone you can see whenever you want.
Even if they were close, Lila needed to notify them in advance if they could meet each other.
Fortunately, it seemed that her auntie's luck was in play, coinciding with Sister Freya having nothing to do.
"Then what are you waiting for? Let's go!"