"I shouted after noticing that she was being affected. She's clearly just a normal human."

As Molan bent down beside her and said these words, Sister Xuan nodded before making a chain appear on her chest.

At the place where the pendant was supposed to be, there was a heart-shaped gla.s.s vial which she unstoppered without any hesitation.

"But Sister, the Matron gave you that to use it in dire situations! Forgive me if I'm being insensitive, but we can't was-"

"It is not a waste, Molan. If this woman dies because I wasn't able to control my emotions, I will never be able to live with myself. Besides, she did nothing wrong. Unlike what others in the Big 4 may think, we have no right to go where we wish and kill whomever we want. Now, step aside."

Hearing the strong tone of Sister Xuan, Molan hesitantly nodded before standing and moving away.

After she did so, Sister Xuan carefully extracted a drop of the golden liquid that was present inside and fed it into Eloise's mouth.

A human body was simply incapable of handling a sudden change in temperature. Her breathing which had been shallow had slowly been becoming even slower. Even if Sister Xuan cast a recovery spell, it wouldn't have been enough to save her life.

Instead, it would only have wasted precious time.

Taking a deep breath, she watched as the golden drop slid into Eloise's mouth from her lips.

"Haaaaah!"

With a loud gasp, her eyes flew open as she started to breathe rapidly. Her skin glowed a faint golden color, and a transformation seemed to be occurring under her skin.

Raising her with a levitation spell, Sister Xuan said to Molan, "Let's get to our room. She needs proper care. Can you decipher the way?"

As Molan nodded, Sister Xuan glanced at Eloise to make sure that she was doing all right before walking forward.

Never had she expected that she would end up using a sect-saving treasure to save a mortal with no potential.

And never had she expected that something so silly would be the reason behind this situation occurring in the first place.

Wondering about how she would explain this to King Daneel who was currently still in the Black Raven Kingdom, she followed Molan while her brows furrowed with an expression of deep concentration.

...

Meanwhile, in the Black Raven Kingdom.

Daneel, disguised as Master Novrain, was currently standing looking out of a window while holding a communication trinket in his hand.

Through it, he was receiving the news from the various spies that Lanthanor had placed around the continent.

Throughout the history of Angaria, no matter which Kingdom tried to annex the forces of the Central Continent to form an Empire, they would be ruined without any doubt.

Either by internal struggle or due to the other forces ganging up on them, they would be destroyed and their a.s.sets would be swallowed up by the other forces.

Hence, for centuries, none of the forces had even tried to ally too strongly with another with the fear that it might be a step towards their doom.

Right now, Daneel was in a very precarious situation.

It was known to everyone in the continent that he was the closest friend of Faxul, who had just ascended the throne of the Black Raven Kingdom. Although he had said that he had severed ties with Daneel, there was no way that anyone would believe that.

Just as he had thought, none of the forces had believed it even for a second.

Yet, what was puzzling was that none of them had taken any decisions to curb the possibility of the Black Raven Kingdom and the Lanthanor Kingdom uniting.

After all, it was quite possible that everything was a plan by Daneel to obtain control of both Kingdoms(which was actually true). This meant that such a target would be ripe for picking if the others all united together to attack them.

Of course, this was already out of the question because Eldinor was also in his hands. Still, Daneel had no intention of leaving everything to luck.

Hence, he had kept his eyes peeled for information about the other forces reaction.

If they really did have hostile intentions, the only option he had was to stage some sort of falling out between them.

Yet, to make it believable, many sacrifices might have to be made which Daneel did not wish to do if there was any other way.

Now, seeing that the reaction was much lesser than he had imagined, he realized that it might be because the information of the Church's incoming attack might be known at least by the rulers.

Of course, if there was a possibility of being raided by a large organization soon, then no force would choose to wound their own strength by going to war.

Hence, Daneel found that he was in possession of an unprecedented opportunity. One where he might be able to accomplish something that hadn't been seen in centuries.

He needed to increase the Kingdom Statistics and obtain EXP as quickly as possible. And for this, he needed development.

The best sort of development came from collaboration. If everyone knew that they were united anyway, why not make it public and take the chance that the others might stay subdued?

After all, if he stayed as a puppeteer behind the scenes, there were only a few ways in which he could hasten Lanthanor's development.

Hence, walking back to his bed, he sat down before starting to think about how he could make this happen.

The two Kingdoms had to unite, but there had to be no hostilities between the people. So, the fact that the soldiers of the Black Raven Kingdom had died on Lanthanor's soil had to be resolved somehow.

As an idea came into Daneel's mind, his face lighted up into a brilliant smile as he quickly made his way to Faxul's chamber.