Marcia would be visiting the dragon field in the afternoon. As soon as Mia got this news, the entire dragon field, which had always been quite in the morning became lively.

Many ministers, aristocrats, high officials, even members of nobility and royalty came rushing towards the dragon field after hearing the news.

‘ Ana said as she amusedly looked at the scene.

She then left to return to her room.

The news of Marcia 's arrival had already spread among the trainees in the area. They all went completely crazy.

‘ It will be excellent if Marcia would take me as an apprentice ’,

‘ I'm even willing to be her slave!’

‘ You're both so unambitious. I will make her break that stupid engagement. Then make her my girlfriend and marry her, and then I will be rich for the rest of my life’

Ana heard several of the trainees daydreaming and fantasizing as she walked towards the door of her room.

She then saw Fiona quietly cultivating with her legs crossed as she entered the room.

‘ You're not going to train today?’ Ana asked.

‘ Don't you know? They said we can take a rest this morning’, Fiona answered her as she opened her eyes.

‘ Is it because Marcia is visiting us that they gave us a half day off? I didn't expect that Mia would make an exception for anyone’, Ana was slowly coming to understand that this society, people also rated power and authority as important. They were willing to break rules when it came to pleasing the powerful people.

‘ Ofcourse, she would make an exception for Marcia. Oh! And this will be the first time you both will see each other too!’ Fiona said

‘ What? I mean I didn't see her during the engagement?’ Ana asked shocked.

‘ Dude... Everyone knows you were always so sick that you didn't even came out of your room. So both of you signed the paper seperately. And Marcia was also really pissed that time. But how can you not know this?’ Fiona asked curiously.

‘ Well... I was so sick that i don't remember properly’ Ana made a quick bluff.

‘ By the way, what is level of

Marcia 's cultivation?’ Ana quickly changed the topic.

‘ What I know is that she is at the Divine stage right now.’ Fiona said.

‘ She's at the Divine stage!? Damn she must be really powerful’, Ana murmured.

Since they had a half day off, Ana leisurely had her breakfast. But she still did not want to waste time, so she took Ananta with her back to the bamboo grove and continued to practice spiritual martial arts.

Time flew by quickly and the next thing they knew, it was already afternoon.

Because Ana was so concentrated on her cultivation, she did not notice that everyone else had gone until she heard a loud noise that came from the direction of the dragon field.

Ana then immediately left the yard and rushed towards the dragon field with Ananta. She saw numerous people crowded in the centre of the dragon field as she passed through the gate.

A fancy carriage surrounded by hundreds of beautiful guards in silver armour soon showed up at the entrance of the dragon field.

The crowd grew even more giddy.

(A/n: just like you kiddos (◠‿◕))

Every one craned thier necks, trying to seek a peek at the beautiful general through the gauze curtain.

Ana was close to the crowd when the fancy carriage stopped. She did not want to squeeze between the people in the crowd, so she just stood behind them.

A stunning figure then raised the gauze curtain and walked down from the carriage. Every one finally saw the Breathtaking beautiful face of the general.

Every one on the dragon field immediately went crazy, exclaiming excitedly at Marcia 's beauty.

‘ Don't tell me that she's Marcia. No way ... You got to be fucking kidding me! Shit!’ Ana muttered to herself in shock. She pinched herself to feel if everything was really real,‘ ah! It is real!’

‘ We personally wanted to welcome you on your visit here, General Marcia’, Mia and the other ministers who had been waiting for a long time came up to the general to greet her.

‘ There's no need for ceremony. I planned to visit secretly, to patrol. How did the news of my visit spread so quickly?’ Marcia sternly said, unimpressed by the ceremony. The attention everyone gave her and the inappropriate gazes that she was receiving made her uncomfortable.

Marcia 's displeased expression began to make all the ministers feel nervous, thier stomachs tightening in fright.

‘ It is our great honour to welcome you here, General Marcia. That is why we did our best to prepare an extravagant ceremony. It is our responsibility to do so’, a hurried reply came from a minister, a big smile plastered on his face.

‘ I don't care for the ceremony. I've been used to it by now. It's just the same everytime’ the general coldly stated.

She then turned to Mia and said, ‘Master Mia, please call out all the royal spirit manipulators’.

‘ General Marcia, why don't you take a rest first?’ Mia insisted. She did not expect that Marcia would actually do it, let alone do it right away just a few minutes after her arrival.

‘ I believe I have made it clear that I am here to see thier exercises’, Marcia emphasized. However, inside her mind, observing the exercises was just an excuse for her to find the girl who had cheated her.

Marcia ordered her soldiers to find Ana. They looked for her every where, including the dragon field. But unknown to them, they had already ran into Ana. They were not able to recognise her because her appearance has changed quite drastically since she last met Marcia.

Perhaps it was destined that they would meet again.

‘ Y- yes! Ofcourse, General!’ Mia stammered, reacting at once. She did not dare to say anything else, she just bowed to Marcia and then turned back around to order every young candidates to assemble at the field immediately.

All the young royal spirit manipulators then instantly marched up to Marcia and respectfully greeted her.

Marcia looked at each of them, but soon shook her head in disappointment,and turned to Mia and asked,‘ Are these all the young candidates?’

‘ Yes, that's all of...’ Mia stopped abruptly as she tried to remember something.

She turned her gaze towards the group of young candidates. As she initially thought, Ana was not among them.

‘ Where's Amelia long?’ Mia hissed.

They all looked at eachother, also clueless as to where Ana was.

Ana said from behind the crowd.

(A/n: finally (*´ω｀*))

If she did not appear before Mia at once, she would most certainly get punished for it. Therefore, she reluctantly joined up with the rest of the young candidates. She unflinchingly looked at Marcia and smiled, not an ounce of terror on her face.

Marcia was not able to recognise Ana at first glance, but she was a bit suspicious that she looked somewhat familiar. After carefully watching Ana for a while, she stared at her and pointed out,‘

Every one was shocked at what had just happened. They had no idea what Marcia meant.

Ana was also left shocked at seeing Marcia point at her. She anticipated that Marcia would pretend that she did not know her. However, Marcia did infact went there to find her. Ana did not realise it until she saw the spiteful look on Marcia 's face. It was too late, she did not have the time to conceal herself.

In addition to the hatred that Marcia felt towards Ana at that moment, she also felt very confused . Ana had changed so much since the last time they saw eachother that she was not able to recognise her at first glance.

It was absolutely clear what she would do now.

‘ Mia shot Marcia a puzzled look. Because everyone knew that they have never seen eachother.

‘ Marcia 's brows furrowed in concentration. The name was very familiar. Moreover, her surname was long, the royal surname.

‘ Mia started to explain, but was cut off by the general.

‘ Marcia exclaimed and then continued to ask,‘ she finally remembered why the name sounded familiar.

‘ Mia confirmed, nodding her head.

Marcia stared at the young girl infront of her. She had no idea that she was Amelia long, the one she was engaged with. Her hatred towards Ana suddenly disappeared. Every one's eyes were fixated on every move as she approached Ana. She scanned Ana up and down and said,‘

She then started to leave with Ana. Every one looked at each other in a mix of shock and confusion. Thier curiosity was aroused.

‘ Why did she ask Amelia to show her around?’ was what everyone thought.

Ana had a bad feeling about the whole situation. However, once she saw the envious looks on every one's faces, she felt quite smug,‘ All of them are probably thinking that there's something going on between us’, she thought.

Mia was terribly confused when she suddenly remembered that Marcia had once asked about a girl called Ana. But she was even more confuse now,‘ How did they meet each other?’ she thought.

‘ All right! General Marcia!’ Ana raised up the corner of her lips into a smile and openly cuddled Marcia around the waist, showing that they were indeed very close to each other.

Everyone's jaws dropped to the floor at Ana's action. Thier envious eyes that were as sharp as knives were fixed on her hand holding Marcia 's waist. They all thought that Ana would definitely receive dangerous consequences from

what she did because they had never seen anyone touch Marcia, not even her hands. The way they saw it, if anyone dared to try even just a tiny bit flirting with Marcia, they would most definitely be beaten to death by her incredible strength.

‘ Mia gasped.

However, to everyone's surprise, Marcia did not start violently beating Ana. Instead, she brought her lips close to Ana's ear. ‘ she said in a low voice, almost growling.

Ana found it extremely hot,‘ Ana brazenly teased .

Marcia was taken aback by what Ana said, she was at a loss for words.

However, things had become different in every one's eyes. What they saw was Marcia and Ana talking intimately and cuddling with eachother. It made them even more curious about many things. Five versions of the story quickly spread among the crowd.

‘ Marcia urgently said as she calmly turned around and got rid of Ana's hand on her waist. She then proceeded to directly walk forward.

A/n: So did you like this chapter?