Alice said nothing even though she noticed the heavy atmosphere lingering around; she was not good with emotional stuff; therefore, she turned blind eyes at the situation and continued her report.
''The identity of the goddess of the new guild is the Holy Saintess.''
''Huh?" Sera exclaimed; she got up from the bed, strolled to the window, and looked outside. Gazing at the beautiful scenery before touching the window, she took a deep breath to calm down her beating her.
''You don't mean to say that it's Lu-"
Before she could finish, Alice beat her to it by announcing the name of the Saintess.
''Yes, it's Lady Luna!"
It was a name both knew well. Sera nodded with a calm face; however, unlike her calm exterior, inwardly she was quite shaken up, feeling immense joy, with Luna's appearance, things would become easier as they were about to absorb the two guilds underneath them, by adding Luna's guild whose notoriety almost rivaled the third guild they would become a force to be reckoned with and even Incursio, God's hand would think twice before making a move.
''Immediately contact her asking for merging, knowing how much she cared about Alex she would not refuse. We are doing all these things because we wished to have something to give him at his arrival.''
Upon hearing Sera's words, Alice nodded, it was unknown when it began, but recently she found herself yearning more and more for her master's presence. She couldn't wait to see him, although she had nothing to say upon seeing him, just with his presence, she would be contented.
''Well, is there anything about the others, I mean the princesses, Maria, and others, especially Gracier?" Sera suddenly asked.
Alice immediately shook her head to indicate that no news about them had been found. Just as she was about to leave to carry Sera's previous order, she froze.
Sera immediately saw this, curious she asked.
''What is it?"
Unfortunately, Alice said nothing; she quietly shook her head while wearing a thin smile which was extremely rare; this made Sera more surprised, her confusion deepened as she wanted to know what could make the always stoic Alice show such emotion, however, before she could further question the white-haired girl she disappeared without saying any word.
''This girl, Ah! Forget it. You have started to become more and more human, showing human emotions. I guess that becoming bound to Alex can be said to be your greatest blessing. Ayï! Let's head to make some preparations before their arrival; who knows when he would come.''
Sera immediately get dressed after taking a shower before heading out.
What she did not know was that Alex and Sakuya and even Maria, Kuina and Eri had arrived in the capital; the reason behind Alice's mysterious smile was because she felt Alex's presence closer, it was because the two souls were bound through contract, and this contract comes with some advantages such as knowing the other party location, well only when Alex wished for this to happen.
Because he was hoping for Alice or Pandora (Meera) to contact him if they were close, Alex let his position be known by those with whom he had a contract; hopefully, this would work, and indeed it did work as Alice noticed it, she switched her priority, she must first go welcome Alex before contacting Luna. As for informing Sera's she chose not to as she had no obligation to tell her everything; no the real reason should be because she was impatient of seeing her master after a long time; therefore, she chose not to say anything, maybe she felt like her time with Alex would have been impeded if she were to inform Sera, either way, must welcome her master, everything else was secondary, Alice thought while heading toward Alex's location.
•••••
In another location, in the middle of magma, stood a girl; she had a beautiful figure, red hair, heterochromia eyes.
Alexandra chuckled and looked at her surrounding, no calling it the ruin she had created should be accurate. A few minutes ago, this plain was still intact, but because a certain someone decided to test her full strength, she ultimately went overboard, and the result, the whole plain was turned into flame hell, a magma.
As if proud of herself once more, she let out another chuckle, then the illusionary image of the dragon behind Gracier vanished; as she recently learned the dragon tongue, she had become proficient in them, so she started using the dragon tongue to cast her spell, this made them exhibit twice their strength, but as a consequence more mana was consumed. Still, to Gracier, this doesn't matter as Ignia had said that once she became proficient in wielding this language, less mana and the more strong her skills would become.
''I guess it's time to head to the capital, but first, let check my status first.''
Immediately after saying this, she summoned her status; unsurprisingly she her level rose to level 100.
『[Red Queen Alexandra]
Level 10
Class: Mage
Age: 15
Female
Race: High Half-Elf
Experience Value: 6600/121200
HP: 3500/3500
MP: 3600 (+10) ➤ 3610/3610
STA: 2800
Magic: Fire
ATK: 1425 ➤ 1435
DEF: 815 ➤ 825
AGI: 1015 ➤ 1025
INT: 1015 ➤ 1025
LUK: 815 ➤ 825
BP: 50
SP: 40
Fame: 2500
Gift: Ignia's Bracelet
Skills: [Cooking Level 4] [Sewing Level 3] [Fireball Level 5] [Fire Arrows Level 4] [Meteor Level 1] [Fire Snake Level 4] [Flame Shield Level 5] [Presence Detection Level 5] [Chantless Magic Level 8] [Fire Lotus Level 5] [Archery Level Max] [Blaze Steps Level 5] [Golden Arrows Level 1]
Special Abilities: [Dragon Eye Level 10 Max] [Flame Wings Level 3] [Dragon's Breath Level Level 2] [Lord of Hundred Flames] {Dark Mode (Sealed due to its instability)} [Dragon Tongue Level 3] (New)
Titles: [Avenger] [Child of Fire] [The Awakened] [The Diligent] [Lord of Flames]
''Wow! Not bad; if it weren't because I couldn't use my skill points on my dragon tongue ability, I would have done it. Well, slowly learning it is more fun than blindly raising its level through skill points; that's would have been easy. Well, let leave.''
She left for the capital shortly after.