After arriving at my office, I stopped thinking about the past 4 years. I invited captain Mareona saying " Welcome to my office, Captain Mareona. What brought you all the way to see me?"

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Liam's POV:

I looked at captain Mareona and noticed she looked familiar. After thinking for a while, Captain Ela's picture came into my mind. Captain Ela was the captain of the 400 soldiers sent by my grandmother for my protection. She is a nice person and useful for keeping peace and training regular city guards.

I said: " You look similar to Captain Ela. What is your connection with her? Are you her mother? You look too old maybe her grandma!"

The worried and scared captain Mareona face changed to an angry one with several vines popping her. She said with fire in her eyes: "I am her younger sister!!!! I am not old!!! I am just 35 years old!!"

I couldn't hold my laugh looking at her: " Hahahaa…. You are funny. You are her sister indeed. Does your whole family get angry easily? Ela always get angry over silly things. hahahaa…Jokes aside. Why are you here? What invitation are you carrying?"

Mareona calmed down and hold here anger, she said: " Empress Dowager sends her greetings and invites you to her birthday party next week. She fears she won't be able to hold anymore and wishes to see you before it's too late. Here is a letter from her and the invitation card."

After taking the letter from Mareona, I opened the letter. Then started to read Empress Dowager's message:

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" Dear Liam,

It's been 6 years since we last met. During the 6 years, I have been receiving good news from little Ela about you and your achievements in Secluded State. I am proud of what you are doing. You are a good grandson and a wonderful ruler just like your grandfather. You might not know, but there is a lot in common between you and your grandfather. If he was alive, he would be glad and happy to have a grandson like you.

Please forgive me for not being able to stand by your side while you grow up. You can't imagine how much I hoped to come and be with you. But, I am old and sick, and I can't leave my palace. Also, I don't want others to hurt you because you are close to me.

I didn't want you to come back to the capital because it might be dangerous for you. But, I don't think I will last long, so could you accept the invitation and come to let me see you before my death? This is my only wish before my death! "

After reading the letter, I can feel her sadness and grieve. She is a poor old lady forced to accept the fact that her husband and children's murderer is her remaining son the current emperor. With illnesses and poison that hold her from taking revenge, all she could do was watch in silence. She has ways to kill the emperor but he is her only remaining son and killing him would affect the empire's future.

The reason she is so interested in me is that I look similar to the past emperor which is one of the reasons why my father hates me.

I looked at Mareona and said: " I will come to the Birthday Party next week to fulfill her wish. Who else is coming to the party?"

Mareona smiled happily when she heard me accepting: " You agreed? The empress dowager thought you hated her, the imperial family, and the empire!! Since you have accepted, that's good. I will inform her when I go back, she will be glad to hear you will come…. I must warn you. There are many important guests that will arrive from high rank empires and sects. So, be careful when you are there. You can't offend those people."

The Empress Dowager thought I hated her? Why would she think so? I like her, she always sends money and food. She is right about one thing though, I want to destroy this imperial family and this empire. Hmmm, she is a smart woman, it is good that I didn't make a move and waited for her invitation.

Remembering she mentioned high-rank empire and sects, I said: " Was it her father who invited them? He is looking for a way to heal her right? I never thought that the old man will come and meet her."

Empress Dowager is the daughter of the sect master of a high-rank sect called Five Sky Swords Sect. She fell in love with a disciple from the sect and became his wife and the empress of Vermilion Empire. Her father cut all contact with her after she disobeyed his order and got married to the man she loved. That old man hates the Vermilion family to the bone. After all, they had some responsibility for his daughter's current health problem.

He appeared later in the novel when the main character killed the empress dowager and destroyed the Vermilion Empire. He fought and hunted the main character for several months. Eventually, he was killed by the main character's new master. In the novel, the old man was merely an introduction to the power of the main character 's new master.

The people who were invited to the party were only able to lengthen her life span for several years. But, n.o.body was able to find a cure for her illness and poison.

Mareona looked surprised, she said: "How did you know that the Great Master is the one who invited them? How do you even know about him?"

I smiled mysteriously and said: " Mareona, you can leave now! Tell grandma I love her and will bring the cure for her illness with me."

Mareona looked confused, she said: " The cure? Stop joking, How are you…" Before she ask anything more, 2 shadow guards appeared next to her with daggers pointed at her nick. They said: "Lord said leave!"

After Mareona took her leave, I summoned Veldora. He came and said: "Yes, my lord."

I said to him: " Go to the valley I told you about. There is a pearl inside the valley. Be Careful the valley has a poisonous fog that can kill you. The mud outside the valley can help with keeping the poison away from your body, so cover yourself with mud. Then look for a black flower and eat it because it will give you immunity against poison for 24 hours. Once you did that go inside and get me a white pearl with red dots all over it. Remember, only bring the one I told you about and leave the others. Because the others are fake and deadly. "

This pearl is called life pearl. A rare treasure that can heal all types of wounds and cure all types of poisons. The conditions to use it is harsh because it requires tons of spiritual stones to activate it. This pearl is the only chance to heal Empress Dowager.

Veldora kneeled while saying: "Yes, my lord" then disappeared into the skies.