Vince stayed longer than expected but he was now both satisfied and sad. He went back into the city and passed the smithining book to Cross as well as the sky crushing axe! The double handed axe was now black with a little yellow! Bigger than before by quite a lot! It had 2 cores which now became gems embeded on both sides of it! Cross immediately bound it by blood and its innate ability was revolving gravity around it to increase the attack damage! gravitationnal force!

"Cross, now You have to learn smithing with diligence! and live up to adopted father's name!"

"Definitely, I won't let Master Ariel down! his smithing techniques were tailored for me simply! He was a good man with an unfortunate destiny! But we shall make his name resound thoroughtout this continent! And I shall imprison that damn Viscount shall for the rest of his life! playing with lives as he pleases!"

" Yes! Now that I think about it, let's ask Eric about this damn viscount!"

" Hey! little bastard! stop strolling with the princess ! Do you know about Viscount Nathan Fendall?" Cross then sent a thought to Eric

"Fuck you! jealous pig! No there is no viscount with that nmae in this kingdom!"

"Could he have died?"

" Probably not! but there is one thing you need to know!"

"what is it ?"

" Azure throne kingdom is but 1 of 30 kingdoms belonging to an empire!"

"What the fuck! cmon!"

"It seems this world is bigger than we thought!"

" Revenge is for later! now we get stronger!"

" Eric how's the medecine plan working on?"

" ahh.. I haven't started yet!"

" dude! Your little future lover won't run away! start now!"

" OK! will do! Vince bring me the weapons along the way!"

Vince then dropped off the two other weapons and left! Eric immediately bound it and its ability was similar to Metallic burst! It was a power infused into it causing it to camouflage into its surrounding and gain more penetration power! This was void power! but he can only use this shot once a day!

The Heavon piercer bow was gray with many inscriptions onto it! It had no string! but when he put the arrow the string was formed from inner force! and the best use for it for was to release an all out attack!

Eric then headed towards the auction house and golden gate pavilion and bought a ton of herbs for 15000 amethyst coins! This surprised Anthony and Julian quite a lot!

But this should be enough herbs for a year, thought Eric! He then called Aria who came in a lazy manner.

" Close your eyes!" said Eric

" why?" asked Aria

" just do it and open your arms!"

"Ok" Aria looked at him in a strange manner but did as told

Eric then took out the staff and put inside her hands! Aria oppened her eyes the moment she felt something in her hands! She was shocked silly! The staff was extremely beautiful, it was quite tall and had 2 metals intertwined gray and blue! they sparkled and at the top of the staff an extremely big and big Aquamarine ( aquatic jewel like sapphire!) was there!

" what sta-staff is this?" asked Aria trembling trying to keep herself in check!

" This is called Tsunami staff! It's an aquatic mage weapon! A soul bound weapon! It evolves along side its master! You have to bind it by blood and it awakens an innate ability! probably related to water element! Once it recognizes you! it shall not recognize another master again! It has 2 high grade Water magical core melded into one as well! what do you think?" Asked Eric with a smug face!

Aria was dumbfounded and her head stopped working! IT was blank! She has never seen this kind of weapon before! but one can realize that a weapon that can recognize its master was a BIG DEAL! It evolves as well???!! 2 high grade magical water element cores! she did not of course forget the starlight essence and metallic lotus!

How can he spend so much precious Items on her! She would bet her life the king did not have this kind of weapon! and indeed he did not! She looked at his smug face with mask off! and her eyes teared up! She jumped and hugged him! Then started crying!

Eric was surprised, but he could not push her away! this meant that she now trusted him so he slowly patted her back and said :" It's okay to cry! let all out!"

A while passed before Aria calmed down! she pushed him away and blushed ! She had stayed had calmed down a while before but stayed in his embrace a bit longer, she thought that after the 2 years contract ended! And she was not a slave she would then pursue him with dignity resolutely! he was good to her and honest about it with no other intentions. He teased once in a while but in a harmless manner.

What she did not know, was that with Vince's help they managed to break the contract without her realising. The core members of the vanishing rise mercenaries were not slaves!

" haha! it's ok I hope you feel better now! when you're ready you can tell me about what happened to you and I'll see how we can help!"

Aria nodded shyly. Eric then added seriously :

" Listen to me! I need your help! You will work as an assistant for me in an extremely important matter! no one can know about it! it shall be done in secrecy! The building next to the mansion is a lab where we'll work and conduct expirements making medecine! you'll understand the stakes then!"

" The only one who can do this here is you! This means I put more trust in you! and I reveal more of my secrets to you! DO NOT BETRAY ME!" said Eric gravely

Aria nodded solemnly as well, she did not see him this serious in like ever!

" Come now follow me!" Eric advance to a seperate building, All the other slaves from that batch worked like servants here maintaining The mansion in a good state while working as guards at the same time! They are bound by contract not to defy their master, their life and death are at nothing but a whim from him!

Aria entered the lab and found huge amounts of herbs! She was at ease when speaking to Eric so she then asked:

" what are you planing to concoct?"

" Force increasing medecine!"

"what! how do you have the recipe?"

"secret!" grinned Eric

"hmph!" snorted Aria

" first, I'll write you a list , so that you seperate these herbs in batches!" The list he wrote consisted of herbs with different essences but she had no way to know, the second type of batches was the one he experimented on! He tried gathering the most compatibles essences together in order to create a new medecine! a new force increasing medecine!

" huh, so much miscallenous work!" grumbled Aria

"why so much complaining! if you do not shut up and work! no mana gathering pellets for you!"

"what!"

Mana gathering pellets were pills Magician used to recover their mana faster, they were rare as Mages did not have inner force but mana they can gather from surrounding elements!

She was now confused as to how he got his hands on 2 strictly managed recipe formulas! But she did not ask! He would tell her later when he's ready! he already trusted her enough by telling her and showing her these facts let alone , she now works beside him and can see all he does! aslo the fact that she now can spend more time with him and get to know him better!