Crown Prince Lail slowly closed his eyes, his hands tightly clenched into fists.
"Wife, wait for me a little longer. I will find you!" He solemnly vowed in his heart.
Opening his cold eyes, he moved forward, grasping the floating blue-black spear in his hands.
The spirit in the spear had referred to him as master and changed on his command, wiping away all hesitation from his heart.
He had magic and he had a spiritual weapon.
Which parts of the seven realms could he not travel? Which place could he not enter?
Overflowing with vigor and confidence, Crown Prince Lail turned on his heels, moving away from the wandering mist.
He had set out on a death mission, but was returning with hope and excitement for the future.
**
The Speaking Ink Tree looked at the Crown Prince in front of him, its green eyes flashing with gold as it scrutinized the man.
Of course, it had expected the Crown Prince's return. It had also expected him to return a changed man.
As an old acquaintance of his ancestor, it knew the kind of blood flowing through his veins. If it did not, it would not have sent him into the land where any human's death was certain.
It just did not expect him to return so soon, that too, unscathed and with a spiritual weapon.
The heart of a land was a place where any human without magic was certain to die. However, it was also a place where any human with magic in their blood, could awaken their magical abilities.
In the olden days, when the world of man and beast were still one, humans freely entered the heart of a realm to awaken their magic bloodline with the supervision of the beasts occupying the place.
However, now that humans and beasts no longer interacted, and were enemies, the heart of a realm became a place reserved for the beasts while any human that entered met with a terrible end.
As such, magicians became rare in the seven realms, the few existing belonging to the Seven Order council.
'I seem to have still underestimated the kid's bloodline. To gain the acknowledgment of the Black Serpent, he must have an extraordinarily high concentration of magic in his blood.'
Just standing there, he could already feel his overwhelming and formidable aura.
"Well, are you not back too fast?" It lazily drawled with squinted eyes.
"Yes. I may be. I entered the Heart of Mistland as you requested. May I know where my wife is now?" Although he asked politely, Crown Prince Lail's nerves were strung tight with tension.
He has been separated from his wife for more than a whole week!
He did not know what she was doing. Whether she was safe, eating well, or sleeping soundly.
And most importantly, he did not know if she thought about him as much as he thought about her
He did not know anything and that scared him.
That was why, he had to meet her as soon as possible. They had only gotten married and were still complete strangers. They needed to spend time together to get to know each other.
To build feelings and form a strong bond. To build a future together.
And to do that, he needed to find and protect her.
With firm and determined eyes, Crown Prince Lail intensely watched the Speaking Ink Tree's, waiting for its reply.
"Seeing that you fulfilled the request, I will tell you where your wife is." The ancient tree was satisfied with the Crown Prince's performance.
Not only was he able to awaken his bloodline, making it possible for him to find his wife. He also gained a spiritual weapon that had the ability to guide and protect him.
It felt like it had already gone above and beyond in safe guarding his old acquittance's progeny.
As such, he saw no problem in giving him the information he needed. Closing its eyes, it sent its spirit into the Eastwind forest.
Crown Prince Lail nervously watched the ancient tree, his fists tightly clenching his spear.
As an ancient magical tree connected with the whole black forest that housed the Amaya realm's heart land, it had the ability to glimpse into the heart lands of other realms through that link.
This was something that no Seer or Oracle could ever hope to achieve.
Because the heart land was a place where only those that had physical and spiritual connection to it could peek into.
Therefore, where the Old Oracle and Old Seer failed, it faced no obstructions.
Immediately, an image of a black hair, purple eyes girl with a white tiger in her arms, appeared in its mind. Above the girl's hair, there was a blue-green dome covering a land of sea.
'Southern Black Sea's heart land. What a strange couple. The husband is the master of a Black Serpent and the wife is cuddling the legendary winged-white tiger. Hmmm? Is that a golden sword? Could it be the 'golden bird?' Yes, definitely strange couple! '
The ancient tree could not help exclaiming the moment it saw the golden sword in Princess Qamari's hand.
Just as it was about to withdraw its spirit, the girl suddenly looked up, her violet eyes directly colliding with its green orbs.
Shocked, the Speaking Ink Tree's spirit forcefully bounced back into its body, like a kite with its string cut.
'Did she...did she sense me? No! That is impossible. How could a little girl who has not even learned how to track an aura sense my presence when I was one with the land?'
The ancient tree was not just astonished but shocked speechless. In its thousands years of life, it had never encountered such a situation.
So did she sense it or not?
It was so caught up in its own thoughts, that it completely forgot about the anxious Crown Prince staring at it with his fiery eyes.