Rise of The Anti God

Lily giggled, hearing Damien's sarcasm, "Well, he is the famed crown prince of the Lancaster Empire, Maxim Lancaster. I am not surprised you don't know him. You must have been too engrossed in alchemy that you didn't care about these things, hehe. Even though he is from another empire, his achievements, feats, and prowess have even reached the ears of our empire. It is said that whoever fought against him couldn't even see him let alone his sword. He's so strikingly fast that one wouldn't even know that they lost. His attainments in ethereal cultivation especially labeled him as a one in a thousand years genius."

Damien was inwardly slack-jawed hearing Lily's words. The way she said it sounded as if the Vanishing Sword Prince had a cultivation way higher than Lily or at least stronger than her.

Damien thought that Lily was gifted for achieving such high cultivation at the young age of sixteen. He wondered then how high would be the cultivation of this so-called one in a thousand years genius.

He knew that resources can play a huge part in one's cultivation and might even have been one of the reasons for Lily's current attainments in her cultivation. In general, the imperial family would obviously have access to the most precious resources in the empire.

But considering that even Rank 5 cultivation pills were not huge in number in the Rong Empire, Damien wondered if it's because the other empires could concoct the rare Rank 6 pills in plenty and probably even a legendary Rank 7 pill!

Damien had no knowledge about any Rank 6 pills since even the books from the imperial library didn't have many mentions of them.

Also, he basically had no idea of the things happening in other empires or any idea of the empires' power distribution.

"But you are titled as the 'Celestial Princess', right? Other than your angelic beauty, I am sure there must be other extraordinary qualities you possess that make you deserving of that title." Damien said in a sincere tone.

Lily actually hated the title bestowed upon her. Still, she felt happy that Damien meant well when he complimented her beauty as 'angelic'. She had received an innumerable number of compliments, mostly about her beauty, but she felt nothing when she heard those empty compliments from their sugary and malicious mouths.

And when she heard Damien say that she might have other unique qualities and not just the beauty she was blessed with, she truly felt that Damien was the only one who could see her for who she is instead of looking at her as if she was a valuable tool.

For the past few days, she thought that the day she rescued Damien from that slave market was the best thing she had ever done in her life. She was grateful to the heavens for letting her meet Damien again and being able to rescue him from such a terrible situation.

Damien was astonished that the Ancestor had 18 Ethereal core points active naturally. In this continent, the chances of being born with such talent were even less than one in a million.

Lily heaved a wistful sigh as she said," Actually, our empire was prosperous and had equal standing with the other empires at least till a few centuries ago. Then a disaster struck our empire, destroying most of our precious lands and even killing our guardians. That's what history says anyway. But now our Ancestor is dying because of some injury which seems to shorten his lifespan."

Damien did not have much idea about the history of the empire he was in.

He only cared about knowing more about alchemy which is why he requested Lily to give him books related to alchemy and some other books explaining the social system in the Rong Empire.

'Wew, so such a thing happened in this very empire. But how did it not strike the other countries when the Rong Empire borders all the three empires?'

Damien wondered what kind of disaster it was to specifically strike only the Rong Empire.

"If the Ancestor is nearing the end of his lifespan, how will our empire survive in the future?"

Damien couldn't help but feel that the imperial family wouldn't just sit back and do nothing when they are in danger of getting annexed anytime soon, just as the Ancestor passes away.

Lily's expression became rigid just as Damien asked the question. Her eyes darted sideways as if she didn't want to answer his question.

Damien was surprised to see her expression and wondered if he asked something wrong.

'Why does it seem like she did not want to answer my question? Is it because she reveres the Ancestor too much that she got angry at me?'

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Damien wondered if she didn't want to answer his question since he basically hinted that the Ancestor would pass away soon.

But he thought it was only natural to think like that, and even Lily should have understood that.