Prime Originator

After infusing her Sword Intent into the Tier-7 Divine Sword, each of her sword swings left afterimages of blueish-white sword rays and cascading particles like snowfall.

Despite the rapid movements brought by the Concept of her Sword Intent, Aria's sword strikes appeared graceful and elegant and attracted the dark faes' attention.

They watched her sword dance with awe and revered the beautiful scene.

"How beautiful…" a dark fae admired.

While other dark faes watched in awe, Nyfarella observed Aria's sword with a solemn and sharp look.

Others only saw its beauty but not its sheer power.

The number of concepts behind the Sword Intent within Aria's sword filled her with a deep feeling of trepidation and uneasiness.

She wasn't sure if anyone could withstand such an incredibly sharp and powerful sword with their bare body.

That sword would just cut down any Arch Demon-level beings like grass.

While the dark faes enjoyed the graceful movements and light show, all good things will eventually have to end.

Aria descended and lightly stepped on the ground.

"Congratulations. I don't know much about Sword Intent, but it seems you have successfully comprehended an especially powerful one," Leon congratulated her with a smile.

"Mm!" Aria nodded.

Shortly after storing the Tier-7 Divine Sword in her interspatial ring, she linked hands behind her back and hopped over to Leon's side with a joyful look.

"Do I deserve a reward?" she asked playfully.

"Oh?" Leon was amused by her playful behavior and returned her question with a sly smile, "What kind of reward do you want?"

"Hmm!" Aria pretended to think hard with a finger on her chin before replying, "I'll let you know when I think of a good one."

"But I haven't promised you anything yet. What if I don't agree to it?" Leon grinned sneakily.

"You—!"

Aria's expression froze at his words before she hammered his chest repeatedly with her soft hands while pouting, "Are you going to agree or not?"

"So forceful. How can I disagree, Your Majesty?" Leon replied with a soft chuckle.

"I thought so!" Aria nodded with a cute look as if she had known of his answer and pretended to be magnanimous while posing as an indifferent queen, "I'll spare you this time, but there will be no next time."

Nevertheless, she failed to keep in character and blushed with embarrassment the next instant before burrowing her face in his chest to hide her embarrassment.

A short while later, she calmed down and removed her face from his chest before she quickly noticed that the Dark Fae Clan's numbers changed again.

"The dark faes seemed to have grown in numbers again?" she voiced her doubt.

"Un," Leon admitted with a nod and explained, "The last group of dark faes arrived while you were comprehending your Sword Intent."

At that moment, all 250 members of the Dark Fae Clan had sword allegiance to him, and he had already rewarded the realm spirit 54 wisps of True Grandmist energy for the last group of dark faes.

"What about Sister Darlene?" Aria also noticed Darlene was missing.

But before Leon could answer, Darlene emerged from an earthen chamber and asked, "You called for me, Sister Aria? Ah, I ought to congratulate you on your breakthrough."

"It's just a small breakthrough, nothing worth congratulating about," Aria replied humbly with a smile.

Leon wanted to add something at that moment, but he refrained from saying it lest he gets hit for it.

Nevertheless, Aria was taken aback by Darlene's roughness and felt her physical strength and body had grown by leaps and bounds.

"I think I ought to congratulate you as well, no?" Aria said to her with a thoughtful look.

At that moment, Darlene had already achieved Rank 10 Body Tempering, but her actual fleshly defense sat at 200-thousand jin, a fifth of the way to Rank 1 Body Transformation.

Apart from the improvement in her fleshly body, her weight has also increased to 200 jin after absorbing so many wisps of True Grandmist Energy.

It wasn't a weight that anyone could tell simply by looking at her thin build.

In fact, Leon's weight was even more significant than Darlene's, for he was nearing 500 jin; it was the effect of tempering their bodies with True Grandmist Energy.

Leon feared that he would accidentally trip and fall on a person one day, crushing the said person to death with his sheer weight.

'Perhaps, this is why gods don't interact with mortals?' he thought to himself.

"Ah!" Darlene suddenly cried.

Leon's eyes immediately shot towards her with concern and asked, "What's wrong? Was there a problem with your training?"

"N-no, not that! I feel so gross right now!" Darlene exclaimed at the sweat, blood, and black impurities that covered her body.

Even in the Darkmoon Tribe, she had never been dirtied to such a degree.

Nevertheless, Leon immediately felt relief after realizing it wasn't something serious and shook his head wryly.

Shortly after, he used his various elemental abilities to make a warm bath inside the earth chamber for her to clean herself in private.

Darlene immediately darted inside without hesitation.

'You were so focused on the Godfiend Body Forging Method that you didn't realize the filth on your body until this late, huh?' Leon thought with amusement.

He could not help but smile at her reaction to cleanliness.

"I'm going to cultivate for a bit. Watch over them for me," Leon decisively said to Aria shortly after.

"Mm," Aria nodded and said compliantly, "Go and cultivate with peace of mind. It's my turn to watch over everyone."

With Aria's reassurance, Leon found a suitable spot and immediately took out his first Purple Coatl Dragon body and began refining their blood essences.

'Let's see if there will be any unexpected surprise and reward from these Purple Coatl Dragons,' he silently thought while extracting the dragon blood.

In a short moment, he completely drained the Purple Coatl Dragon body of its blood and formed an enormous blood pool above his head before he began the true blood refinement process, en masse.