Emperor's Reckoning

Leaving them with their own worries, Lyon and Cecile traverse through the sky toward the west with ease. It didn't take long before he could see the city from his sight. There was nothing in this world that was begging the person with the people.

The West City had its landmass shifted due to his destructive power, but with the wealth that his wife owned, it was nothing but a pebble to spare.

"Ah, it looks like the inn is closed today, must be the weather," said Lyon as he shook his head in lamentation. His sad face was so believable that a stranger might think that he actually felt remorse against the state the inn was in.

Cecile couldn't help but chuckle against his actions as she looked at the devastating state of the entire island. The small city might not be as grand as the Center City but their infrastructure was nonetheless supported by Treas's family. The collateral damage could be seen far as the core of the island almost ruptured.

"The weather is quite stormy I suppose," said Cecile.

The tall beautiful woman with auburn balayage hair spoke freely as she played along. Lyon couldn't help but turn around and saw her smile as she still held his hand. The difference in their height was quite obvious and he looked more like her little brother than a husband. However, those eyes proved otherwise.

"I'm sure you must be wondering..." said Cecile.

"Wandering about what?" asked Lyon.

"What does that ring holds."

"Err..."

Cecile smiled as she shook her head, "Can't you feel it? Your meridian lines, it has changed tremendously."

Lyon actually never thought about it before. After that black sphere engulfed him, his entire meridians were once again broken and modified. The recuperation of the meridian lines had changed its original size to a bigger one. The thick lines that were running inside his body could tremble even the heaven themselves. A surge of mana was ever-flowing back and forth as he spoke. There was not a single impurity in those giant lines. The sturdiness and the thickness made it even harder to cripple his cultivation core.

"Unless a really powerful enemy exists and hits you directly against your soul, then your meridian lines would be unshaken. To cripple you, it would need at least five of those people and even then it would take more than one hit from each."

Listening to her words, he couldn't help but look at the palm that was not holding her hand still. His pupils slightly dilated as they opened wide. (This is...!).

"Can you see it? The mana inside your meridian lines. It was so thick enough that you could vaguely see it with your plain eyes."

Lyon could see it. The very thing was called the meridian, at least a part of it. He could only sense it before but now he could clearly see it plainly without possessing special ability like Kyoko's red-eye. The lines on his palm under those layers were another line with a glowing attribute but it's not the veins in his body.

"This is meridian huh," said Lyon as he put his hand up and see if the moon could make it clearer.

"Huh, that reminds me of something," muttered Lyon before he turned his glance toward his beautiful wife that could topple kingdoms both by her beauty and her own strength.

Cecile raised one of her eyebrows, "Hm?"

"How can you summon Scarlet? I thought that sentient weapons only obey the call of the master it chooses, don't tell me she acknowledged you too."

Cecile laughed, "That's not it hahaha!"

Lyon furrowed his eyebrows in confusion before Cecile showed the ring that was on her finger. The gleaming platinum ring had 'L' engraving on it.

"Ah... well. Is this one of those what's yours is mine and what's mine is still mine thing?" smiled Lyon wryly as he heard the joke many times amongst the housewife back on earth.

"Hahaha, no that's not it. You can also call my sentient weapon at will, even when I'm still using it. That's how special our wedding ring is."

"Wow that's certainly conven... wait a minute, since this ring also acted as a spatial ring, does that mean that the contents inside are also shared?"

Cecile let go of his hand before she crossed her arm while tilting her head slightly with a smirk.

Lyon's face was petrified in horror as he looked at her expression. She might not say yes, not even a word, but it was too obvious that the thing shared one another based on that alone.

"Hmm...." hummed Cecile as she put one of her fingers against her auburn lips, "I wonder whom to those belonged to, I know one of them from that fox woman, she is really got the suppleness there."

Lyon's face turned red and betrayed his nature. He never thought that his own wife could make his shameless ass embarrassed. This was probably the first time that he went full red. Not even when he showed his phallus accidentally to Luna's parents did he felt that.

"Hahaha!" Cecile laughed heartily as she looked at his husband's woe face.

"I'm just messing with you, hahaha," said Cecile as she shed one last tear on the edges of her eye away.

"Wait, so that means you just guessing that I would do such a thing?" said Lyon as his shameless button turned on.

"Oh please Lyon, I've been your wife for an entire lifetime before, I know what you like to do in your spare time, in fact, even the smallest frame of a window of time you still managed to do it. Honestly, the top thieves in the world cannot proclaim they were number one if you said you were number two. You studied by the greatest of masters, you just use it to your desire. You could have saved countless worlds with your talent but sadly you grow up not to be a hero."

Lyon smirked before he crossed his arms as his eyes turned mellow, "Is that bad?"

Cecile strongly disagreed as she shook her head, "You did not grow up to be a hero, if you did, I would not have been able to reach you and hold you. I'm glad that you grow up to be you, with the reach of my arm I can touch you. My words can reach you and so is my feelings can touch you."

She smiled a gorgeous smile that made heaven lackluster and hell froze with ice. This was the smile that had journeyed through an entire lifetime. Seconds passed on and this smile represented the wait that she had sat past behind.

"However, I need to tell you another thing," said Cecile as her eyes turned sharp.

The screech of a bird though not loud, she could pick it up with her ears. The others were clearly coming as the dragon woman with Yunesia and one other approach.

"What is it?" asked Lyon.

"You should know by now, the ring Selena gave you possessed your past magic spells and techniques, all of those that you have learned within your past life. It also contained fifty percent of pure mana stored based on your peak-self back then too."

Lyon raised his eyebrows as he remembered back then when he put a drop of blood against the ring-like as if it was naturally supposed to be done. He immediately made a harsh swallow as he looked at the other ring on his finger.

"Let me tell you."

Lyon darted his glance toward Cecile. Though he noticed Lumina and Luna with their driver coming his way, his focus was on the tall auburn-haired woman.

"It contained one item, a key."

Lyon squinted his eyes, "A key?"

"Once it recognized your soul through your blood, you will be given a key. The key is to be used to open a door. A really giant door that only you can approach and access," said Cecile without a tone of humor.

"A giant door that only I can access..." muttered Lyon.

"So... you are also the holder of the key," said Shen as he revealed himself.

"However he is not ready yet, if he opened that door now, his soul would collapse," said Sun as he sat cross-legged on top of Lyon's head.

"I know, that's why I'm telling him, I harbored perhaps the most important thing to you out of the three," said Cecile to Lyon's furrowing eyebrows.

Yunesia finally arrived at a distance that was perfect to observe the two of them as Lumina and Luna acutely listened to what they were saying.

"That's right..." smiled Cecile, "The giant door is located inside your sea of memories. It should be hovering around there... and behind that giant door."

She puckered up as Lyon trembling lips muttered, "My... past life memory..."

Lumina was not as surprised as Yunesia while Luna slightly twitched her eyebrows at the revelation.