Chapter 129: Jealousy
"Hahahaha, even if she were still alive today, no one in this world has reached Level Five yet. And if the Tree of Cradle can’t improve it, I can!"
Rios took a white brush engraved with numerous red symbols out of his Storage Space, and using his soul power, he began drawing many strange symbols on the tree trunk.
Time gradually passed, and Rios immersed himself in modifying the defensive array without any fatigue or boredom.
Elena watched him from the side with interest, without blinking even once.
After five hours, Rios finally finished modifying the array!
"Hooof! I’m finally done." Rios returned the brush to his Storage Space and immediately lay down on the ground after finishing.
He was feeling extremely exhausted at this moment, as almost all of his soul power had been depleted while modifying the array!
"It will take some time to recover my soul power and replenish my Soul Essence again." Rios sighed somewhat sadly, but when he looked at the array beside him, his smile stretched from ear to ear!
"I see you’re very happy despite being this exhausted! I wonder what modifications you made to it!" Elena approached and sat beside Rios, examining the array carefully.
"Hahahaha, let’s just say that I turned it from a mere wall into an impregnable fortress equipped with heavy cannons!" Rios laughed happily while looking at his masterpiece and said confidently and proudly, "Compared to this array, the previous defensive array was nothing but a worn-out piece of junk!"
Elena looked at Rios in surprise when she heard this and asked with some doubt, "The previous defensive array protected the City of Light for one hundred thousand years. If you call it junk, then how powerful is it now after you modified it to deserve the title of an impregnable fortress?"
"Hehehehehe, let’s just say that instead of using only the Cosmic Law of Formation like the old array, it can now use three cosmic laws together: Formation, Life, and Derivation..." He then raised his finger with a smile. "In addition to the Soul Path!"
"T... This!" Elena looked at the array in shock. It was true that she didn’t fully understand what Rios meant, but she was smart enough to know the difference between this array and the old array, and how much of a difference this array could make!
Rios carefully examined the array and said in a calm voice,
"We can’t go out to wage wars and leave our base without proper protection. This array will be a shield for our people, and a nightmare for anyone who dares to approach and harm this city!"
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Time passed again, and Rios became occupied with recovering his strength, checking on his army that was still undergoing training from time to time. From time to time, he would enter The Eternal Night Heaven to buy many things such as...
Spatial Teleportation Arrays.
Energy Explosion Pills.
Miniature Protection Arrays.
And many other things, until all his money ran out!
Since the day Rios modified the defensive array, he began having many strange dreams about the Elves dying in the City of Light, the walls falling, and many of his close companions being lost.
And worse of all, those doubts, whispers, and murmurs had returned once again.
Rios was certain that they were merely nonsensical dreams caused by all those doubts and murmurs, but because of his principle —Better to be cautious than regret it later— Rios took precautions!
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After midnight, only several hours away from the dawn of the fateful day.
Thandria walked through the corridors of the royal palace, specifically the path leading to Rios’s room.
At this moment, Thandria was wearing a purple robe covered in many feathers, resembling a wedding robe in appearance, fastened with a ribbon around the waist, concealing everything beneath it so that it wouldn’t even tempt blind, deaf rocks.
Thandria arrived at Rios’s room. But when she arrived, she heard sounds that she shouldn’t have heard, and didn’t want to hear.
After Thandria focused for a moment on who the owner of this voice was, numerous veins appeared on her forehead, sparks of lightning crackled through her hair, and she immediately headed toward the office angrily!
Thandria pushed the office door open violently, and as soon as she entered, she found her target and shouted in her face, "Why is that bitch with him at this moment and not you?!"
In the face of Thandria’s shouting, Elena remained seated on her chair beside the window, staring absentmindedly at the blue moon in the dark sky, and didn’t notice Thandria’s shouting!
When Thandria saw this, her anger intensified. She approached the desk beside Elena, slammed it, and repeated in an even angrier voice, "Why is that bitch with him at this moment and not you?!"
Elena turned around in fright and finally noticed Thandria, then wiped the traces of tears from beneath her eyes and asked in confusion, "Who do you mean by bitch?!"
"I mean that bitch Jasmine. Why is she in Rios’s room right now?" Thandria gritted her teeth, and anger and jealousy almost burned her from the inside!
"Jasmine? What’s the problem?! Didn’t I advise you to get used to it as soon as possible? Rios is a king, and naturally, women will always surround him, and him having some women is inevitable. So be smart and secure yourself an unshakable place inside his heart." Elena shrugged as if what she was saying were perfectly normal, then smiled slyly while looking toward Thandria, grabbed her collar, and looked directly into her eyes.
"Then come here. Where were you planning to go in those seductive clothes, you mischievous little cat?" She then grabbed her face and squeezed her cheeks. "To my husband’s room, weren’t you?"
"Get away from me!" Thandria pushed Elena away shyly, and her face turned red from embarrassment. She then puffed out her cheeks and looked at Elena accusingly.
"Don’t try to change the subject. I saw you crying the moment I entered. If you weren’t angry about what that bitch did as well, then why would you cry?!"
Faced with this accusation, Elena smiled sarcastically and shook her head. "I didn’t even know Jasmine was with him in the first place until you told me just now." Her expression then became completely serious, and she looked sadly toward Thandria...
"I was crying because I saw a new prophecy."