33 Risen#re

As much as Edith wanted to follow in Lirian's footsteps she knew that she couldn't, and if Lirian returned from his trial successfully the gap between them would only grow, she looked at Lirian with unwillingness in her eyes, but she was afraid that she wouldn't be able to change his mind.

The Emperor looked at Lirian with a hopeful gaze, he'd be lying if he said he wasn't slightly happy to hear what Lirian said.

He knew Lirian's talents better than anyone else, so he didn't doubt Lirian's ability to complete the trial through a harder method, what excited him though was the idea of Taliyah returning.

It had been 14 years since Taliyah left to raise Lirian on Xelia and in all that time they weren't able to meet even once, the emperor had his own duties and experiments that occupied his time and whenever both he and Taliyah had an opening in their schedules they would call each other.

For cultivators who were several thousand years old, to be separated for 14 years could be called a blink of the eye, yet it was still 14 years of being unable to spend any time with ones beloved.

"Can I take it that you mean to undergo the test at the celebration?" the Emperor asked knowingly.

"Yes," Lirian replied with a nod of his head.

"Are you sure you want to do it now, the test can only be taken once, if you fail you can't try again," the Emperor checked to see if Lirian thought his plan through.

"Whether now or later it doesn't make a difference to me," Lirian replied indifferently.

"Very well, I'll get everything arranged," the Emperor said with a curt nod of his head before ending the call.

A few seconds after the call ended, Lirian turned around suddenly facing the battlefield, "Somethings wrong," he muttered softly, but his words still carried to the sharp ears of the elite's that were with him.

They all turned in the direction Lirian was facing and they could sense a few strangely powerful auras' that weren't there previously.

"Those auras' definitely belong to second accord cultivators," Mallark remarked with a frown as the auras' were extremely powerful, and he also looked at Lirian with a hint of surprise, as he was the first one to detect the change.

The elements in the area started to change rapidly, one minute the world was filled with ice and snow then it became a flaming purgatory from hell, and soon gigantic tornados began twisting on the earth sucking and grinding everything into dust.

In seconds the entire world had changed drastically, and Edith was struck in disbelief at the constantly changing landscapes, she knew that even the ripples that were breaking apart the air could easily kill her, and the only reason she was still alive was due to the protection of her mother and the elites around her.

The elites looked at Edith with amused smiles, for someone so young such a battle was probably beyond her wildest dreams, yet as they looked at Lirian the contrast was unbelievable, to him the battle's seemed like a passing storm that he had witness a million times before.

It brought no awe or sense of wonder to Lirian, 'It must be because he's blind and can't see the drastic changes,' Mallark reasoned with himself.

"Mallark take Lirian and Edith and get them to somewhere safe while the rest of us go to take care of the trouble," Milan ordered with a serious expression, in truth the aura's she felt were troubling her, the opponents were stronger than she expected them to be.

"Mother," Edith called out, "Everything is going to be okay right?" she asked with concern as she saw the troubled look on her mother's face.

Milan turned back to Edith with an amused smile on her face, it was a rare sight for Milan to smile and one could see just how beautiful she was when she showed her smile.

"Your mother is no push over!" she told Edith and then she disappeared with the rest of the elites, leaving only Mallark, Edith and Lirian together.

Mallark waved his hand and a mirror like gate appeared in front of him, "The two of you head inside, it's a spatial world that's linked to me as long as you're inside no one will be able to touch you," he reassured them and quickly ushered them in.

When looking at the fatty in front of her who was half bald on the top his head while the rest of his hair fell half way to his back, Edith didn't feel to safe she would have much rather had her mother stay and watch over her, but seeing the spatial gate she understood why her mother choose the fatty to protect them.

Lirian walked towards the gate but before stepping through it he turned to Mallark, "Make a bee-line for the main base on this planet, you should run into my protector Anya on the way," after saying that Lirian stepped into the gate with Edith following closely behind him.

The first thing that Edith noticed after entering the spatial world was that it was extremely luxurious and filled with delicacies, after 16 days of eating nothing but rations and the rare treat of meat that was grilled and butchered by a bunch of students that never did such a thing in their lives, she was ecstatic to see real food and wine.

Without wasting a second, she began to dig into the food like a starved beast she lost all her eating etiquette as she stuffed mouthfuls of food in her mouth and then washed it down by gulping on exquisite wine.

It was a full half hour before she realised that she was the only one eating and when she looked at Lirian she felt pained in her heart as she rushed to his side.

Lirian was resting against a wall that he slid against, with his eyes tightly shut, and his breathing was laboured as if every breath was putting him through scrutinizing pain.

Edith felt guilty for not realising Lirian's condition sooner, "I'm sorry," she sniffled as she grabbed a goblet and filled it with some spiced wine, and then she grabbed some food and started to feed Lirian in small bits, she hoped that it would help him recover a little but as time passed on his condition remained the same.

"Your excellency Mallark," Edith cried out, "Lirian's in trouble, he needs medical attention," she cried loudly as Lirian's breathing started to slow, since this was Mallark's world she assumed that he could hear what ever was going on inside.

Edith had thought correctly because Mallark suddenly appeared besides her, she didn't even realise that he arrived but she didn't disturb him when she saw that his eyes were fixed on Lirian.

Mallark released a wave of energy onto Lirian and began to move it about through his entire body, and the sight of his face was a wonder to Edith because she could see Mallark's fat face warp from surprise to shock, to complete disbelief as he moved his energy through Lirian.

But in the end a tight from formed on Mallark's face, while analysing Lirian's body, Mallark discovered that what Lirian said about his body being tempered was absolutely true, which caused him just a little surprise.

There were two things that he discovered that completely threw his mind into a mess, the first thing he discovered was that Lirian had a special body, it was the secret to Lirian's great amount of strength despite the fact that he wasn't a cultivator, at first he assumed that Lirian had a royal or emperor body, but the make up of Lirian's body was completely different from what he knew.

In truth it didn't even match up with his knowledge of heavenly bodies, so he assumed that Lirian had the mythical body that only existed in the immortal realm a divine body.

The second discovery that shocked him even further was the energy points in Lirian, with his detailed scan Mallark was able to discover that all 108 energy points were activated, "It's no wonder the empress has been so tight lipped about Lirian's pod data," he remarked softly.

But after that he discovered the problem with Lirian and it wasn't looking good at all, the cells inside his body were breaking down it was brought about by the strain that Lirian put on his body as well as using his mortal body to channel a destruction law.

If Lirian had only used the destructive law he would have just needed a bit of medical attention to recover completely, but his body was already in a terrible condition when he used the destruction laws, and it was constantly causing damage to his internal organs.

Mallark quickly used his energy to extract the remnant destructive energies from Lirian's body, but that only stopped Lirian's body from deteriorating it didn't do anything to heal Lirian.