Rise of the Malactric Heir

After Alix went to meet the princess, the others chatted with each other along with the king and queen.

"Adora," Alix called out upon arriving at her room.

"It's open, come in," she said as he walked into her room and shut the door behind him.

"What did you want to talk about, Alix?" she inquired as she sat on the bed and approached the girl.

"Are you okay?" he asked, and she smiled.

"It's just a training bruise; I'll be fine; I just need some fresh air, I guess,' she replied, lowering her head.

'It's true, we are similar in a few ways, as I've noticed a lot more recently,' Alix thought.

"I had a dream about the crystal last night," he said, immediately capturing her attention.

"I'm listening," she replied and he smirked.

"I saw the same woman, as usual, calling out to me and saying I have grown, that was a bit different, the crystal released a dark energy that wanted to possibly kill me, I am not sure about that part and I think I might have found the location of it," he said as he raised his right hand up, thinking of the map and it appeared in his hand as she stared at him.

"What is it?" he asked, and she chuckled.

"I think I know a little bit more about your dream, it's amazing how much control you have over your current amount of power," she replied, and he smiled, then showed her the marking on the map, and she scoffed.

"This makes sense, Kyris's brother narrowed it down, the locations, this is the last and is the one, we couldn't find it due to a mirage, probably," she said as Alix's brows narrowed with both of them wondering.

"Are you going to tell them?" he inquired as she rose to her feet.

"In my way, yes, besides soon everyone is going to find out about you along with my truth, the time is nearing, don't worry, I am not going to lie, I will just tell them about this in my own way, in the coming future, they will know everything, come on," she responded and was about to leave her room when she turned around to face Alix.

"What?" he asked.

"Before we leave, I'm going to open the second gate, then four more to go, you'll have a lot more to handle," she replied before leaving, and he followed her back to the living room, where the others looked at them and Adora smiled as Alix sat down.

"Are you going to eat now?" asked the queen.

"I'll eat in a few minutes, but first I have to tell you all about the location of the red crystal," she replied, and they all looked at her.

"Did you find it?" inquired the mage.

"Yes, you narrowed it down, it was more like a mirage blocking us, that's what I think, something found the location for us," she replied, opening the map and showing them the location of the monstrous crystal, and they all smiled.

"Nice, now this is kind of good news," Aerav said, and Ayden nodded.

"If that's the location, then the person who gave you these hints really wanted to help, but we have no idea who it is," the mage said, drawing Adora's attention to him.

"I think it's one of the enemies we met," Adora replied, and they all looked at her and she sighed, knowing it wouldn't be easy to figure out who it was and none of them were sure whether the person meant them good or bad.

"I think we can get to this place by normal transportation, whether it's a plane or a ship, but I don't think we should," Misran said.

"I agree with Misran on this, I have a bad feeling about going with those, the enemy has a better chance of knowing when we will be there if they are spying as well, so we should go with something different," Kyris added, and Adora sat down beside Alix, grabbed a pastry from the table, and ate it while gazing at the map.

"We could take the ship," Adora suggested.

"I'm still not sure about it, but I suppose it's our best option; what's the name of the place? I'll conduct some research," Yan said.

"Sovika," Alix replied, and Yan began scrolling through his phone.

"Sovika is a small nation, it's like an island, it's surrounded by water, and the people there are nice; the place is also surrounded by spiritual magic, I've heard about it a few times; it's ideal for hiding a crystal like that," the king said.

Adora replied, "Nice, thank you father," and the king smiled.

"So, when do you intend to leave?" Ifrit inquired, and Adora lowered her head, knowing she didn't want to rush in the face of danger, but they didn't have much of a choice.

"We don't have much of a choice but to leave as soon as we can so, when do you guys think we should leave?" Adora asked.

"Whenever you feel like it, we can leave any time, it's not like we have anything else to do though we will train a bit together this afternoon," Alix replied, and the others agreed. She sighed and looked at Ifrit, who smiled.

"All right, I want us to leave tomorrow, but I have to talk to the captain of the ship, we're going by air, not by plane, but by royal airship, my father built an extra fancy one a while back and it's hardly in use, I think we should make use of it," Adora said, and the queen smiled.

"That's a good choice, it's a triple-decker ship, it has 15 rooms with their own baths and so on, it has a kitchen, it had a living room and even a bar, to be honest, it's huge, but it can go really high, your father had it built for family and friends or it wouldn't have had that many rooms, you never run out of fresh air up there so you guys can relax on your way there," the queen replied, and Adora smiled.