Chapter 1213: Snow and mist
Once the matter of the Mist Lord was taken care of, they returned to the Laver Empire.
Even if they didn’t want to return, they had no choice but to return.
That was because the situation with the Kalos Empire had changed.
Everyone thought that it would take a while longer before the situation in the Kalos Empire developed any further, but that didn’t seem to be the case. That was because there was news that one of the six factions had already fallen.
However, this wasn’t the only news.
It wasn’t just that one of the six factions had fallen, there were two other factions that were close to falling.
It was the second prince’s faction that had fallen to the forces of the three dukes’ faction. At the same time, they put enough pressure that the factions of the two other princes couldn’t do anything against them.
Though it wasn’t strange that this was the case.
After all, the power of the royals had been weakening for a while now.
If it hadn’t been weakening, Emperor Kalos would have never been put in this position by the six factions. It was only because the power of the royals had weakened that the nobles were even able to come this far.
Or else it would have just been three factions instead of six factions.
The three princes splitting the power even more weakened it even more, which allowed the nobles to grow even stronger.
So that was how the three dukes had been able to rise up against the three royal factions.
Now that things had reached a point, Haku had to come back to plan what the Laver Empire would do.
Since this was a matter for the higher ups of the Laver Empire, it meant that there was nothing left for Lin Fan to get involved with.
He would be called when the matters with the Kalos Empire were settled since Lin Fan would receive compensation for everything that he did. But right now, it was a matter for the Laver Empire alone to deal with.
That was why Lin Fan was able to head back to the dungeon town with Rokuko.
Though Lin Fan didn’t show himself to the people of the dungeon town as he went to the dungeon directly. After entering the dungeon, he locked himself up with the excuse that he was going to do a bit of training after gaining inspiration from the Mist Lord.
But in reality, Lin Fan went right into the Pet Storage Space.
After giving him this drop of blood, Weiss had also told him where it would be best for him to use it.
Lin Fan didn’t think that Weiss would lead him wrong since he still saw him as useful right now. At the same time, it wasn’t as if he would consider using the younger Mist Lord’s bloodline for himself.
The younger Mist Lord hadn’t reached the level of a god, so it wasn’t as if this bloodline would actually have a trace of divine energy in it. It wasn’t as if he could use this drop of blood to level up the system.
Once he was in the Pet Storage Space, Lin Fan just called all of the pets to come over.
When they gathered, he raised his hand with the drop of blood in it and asked, "Which one of you wants this?"
All of the pets had confused looks when they heard this before looking closely at the drop of blood that was in his hand. When they looked closely at it, they could tell that there was something special about this drop of blood.
It was just that most of the pets lost interest right away.
Even if they could tell that there was something special about this drop of blood, they also knew from their beast instincts that this drop of blood wasn’t compatible with them.
After all, they were from the cultivation continent and this drop of blood was from a beast of the magic continent. They had different roots and different methods of becoming stronger, mixing them wouldn’t be a good thing.
For these spirit beasts from the cultivation continent, it would even clash with their current method of cultivation and would hurt them rather than help them.
That was why none of them were interested in absorbing this drop of blood.
The only ones that were left were those that came from the magic continent in the first place.
It was Shiro and Hayase that were still looking at this drop of blood.
After a moment of silence, Hayase said, "This bloodline doesn’t suit me, so there’s no point in me absorbing it. It should go to her."
Shiro didn’t seem happy that Hayase was deciding this for her.
Though they had become a bit closer after spending all this time together, Hayase still hadn’t been able to get that close to her. In the end, Shiro still looked like she didn’t like Hayase that much.
But the reason that she was unhappy this time was because it almost seemed like he was deciding this for her.
In the end, she chose to accept the drop of blood since she knew that he was right.
So she just ignored Hayase as she took this drop of blood from me and began absorbing it.
While she was absorbing it, Hayase seemed to want to stick around to make sure that she was fine. But before he could do that, Lin Fan grabbed him and pulled him away since there was nothing for him to gain from this.
"She’s already in the Pet Storage Space, do you think that something will happen to her here?" Then in a softer voice, Lin Fan added, "If you keep sticking to her like this, all you’ll do is annoy her and be labelled as a suffocating man. You have to give her space if you want her to like you."
Hayase looked at Lin Fan as if he had some doubts, but he still followed him in the end.
Though he didn’t move that far away.
Lin Fan didn’t say anything as he just let Hayase do what he wanted.
Instead, Lin Fan turned his attention to the other pets and looked over their status.
It had been a while since he had taken the chance to observe them.
That was all because Lin Fan had outgrown them. Even if he were to summon them, it wasn’t as if they would be able to help him in battle at his current cultivation level.
Though it wasn’t the fault of his pets, it was more that Lin Fan had grown faster than them.
This was all because of Ye Qing Huan and now the Heavenly Demon Sect, they gave Lin Fan the things that made him much stronger than he had been before. If it wasn’t for them, he never would have finished his physique that had pushed his cultivation level up that high.
Now that he had this chance, he found that they had gotten much stronger than he had expected.
It was all the effect of the Pet Storage Space.
Even though he hadn’t upgraded the Pet Storage Space any further, the upgrades that came from the things that he brought into the Pet Storage Space were actually enough to fill this place with spiritual energy.
It created a perfect place for all of his pets to train.
While Lin Fan was looking over his pets, he felt something coming from behind him.
When he turned around to look, he found that Shiro had finished absorbing the drop of blood that he gave her.
Lin Fan didn’t say anything as he watched Shiro, but he could tell that there was something that had changed about her.
If he wanted, he could have easily opened up the status screen to see what had changed, but he didn’t want to do that. He wanted to see what she would have to show him after absorbing that drop of blood.
When Shiro was finally done, she suddenly let out a breath before filling the area around her with mist. This mist spread out, but the Pet Storage Space was just too large for her to fill it up with this mist.
Still, this mist wasn’t just normal mist.
After the mist appeared, it seemed that there was something that filled up the space that the mist was in.
After looking at it closely, they could see that it was ice crystals that were forming in this space.
The power that Shiro had was the power to control ice and snow.
So it only made sense that she created ice crystals in the mist after creating this mist.
Lin Fan walked over to one of the ice crystals, but before he could touch it, Shiro warned him about it.
Lin Fan just told her that it was fine before reaching a hand out to tap it.
Once he tapped it, the ice immediately spread across his hand, but Lin Fan wasn’t afraid at all.
With just a single thought, the ice shattered.
Shiro looked a bit unhappy seeing this, but she was also glad that her ice didn’t hurt Lin Fan.
Lin Fan gave a nod before asking, "How many of these ice crystals can you form?"
Shiro thought about it before suddenly releasing another layer of mist.
This time, the mist completely surrounded Hayase who was on the side before surrounding him in ice crystals.
A bitter smile appeared on Hayase’s face, but he didn’t say anything about this.
Lin Fan gave a nod before saying, "This is definitely a useful ability."