Chapter 241 - 007 – Lirian Departs

The portal snapped shut as Lirian walked out behind his mother and the emperor and onto the creaky floors of the house.

It was just the three of them, the rest of the group were using the standard route with his mothers' personal fleet to return to the home world, it was a double diversionary tactic just in case they encountered trouble along the away.

Lirian still remembered the last time he was here, he was accompanied by Anya, Belinda and one of the emperor's aides Cain, Lirian still hated that guy for pulling on his cheeks until they were rosy, it was a painful experience.

Lirian followed them down the stairs of the attic and onto the floorboards that creaked loudly with even the slightest of movements, and soon he found himself outside a shabby looking house on a beach, not that he could see it.

The sandy beach was not to Lirian's taste however, the soft sand made it difficult to feel the vibrations through the ground and his walking cane kept sinking.

"Lets get him to the portal first," the emperor said, "I'd rather we deal with the council after we get Lirian to his destination," he grumbled, he knew that he was going to get an earful, once they found him.

The trip was rather quick to get to the great pyramid, Lirian lamented that he was unable to take in the beautiful sceneries and the exquisite craftsmanship that went into building the pyramids.

The last time he was here he was kept in a single chamber; he only saw a little when he just landed and when Anya and the others were taking him to the secret portal route.

So, he didn't get to see much, but he did read plenty about the exquisite architecture of the Clovis main world and wanted to see it for himself.

Lirian could have used the system, but that would be a waste of fate particles, the structures were built from extremely high graded item, and currently Lirian's fate particles reached a all time high of 6 quadrillion, after he personally defeated a lord it soared up, and as word spread of his deeds it was rapidly climbing.

Even with the current amount of fate particles, Lirian was not completely certain if it would be enough for his plans so he decided not to waste any thing unless it was necessary, and so they continued through the city, that had streets made from a special metal.

The metal didn't conduct heat at all or reflect light, it absorbed the light that hit it and used the light to power it's magnetic properties that carried vehicles across it, it was a perfectly self-sufficient mechanism.

The emperor didn't dare to use his spells to teleport them into the pyramids, it had many defences set in place, even if an immortal got in, they weren't likely to leave alive.

Under the emperor's concealment techniques they quickly reached the great pyramid and that's when they received a message from Taliyah's fleet, they had just reached the home-world them selves and were sending a signal to the planet.

The emperor had to reveal his identity to get in the pyramid so they set up a diversion, when the fleet arrived they would draw the attention of the council, giving the emperor time to reveal his identity while the council were distracted so that they could send Lirian away quickly.

Even if Lirian was going to Nebula-6 the less people that knew the better, it was also a way to ensure that the other empires were distracted and would waste resources looking for Lirian, it was a certainty that they would so why not make them waste more resources in vain.

The other empires would undoubtedly send their elites to scour the 39 trial worlds, and it was possible that they would lose a few in the process, even if they could gather intel from those worlds it was still dangerous.

Things went as planned, and a short while later they arrived in a room that sat very deep beneath the surface of the world, it was a very large area that was filled with thousands upon thousands of portal devices.

They rushed to the secret room that only the emperor and empress could enter, and inside it were 46 portal devices each one linked to one of the 46 worlds.

As the emperor started to prep the portal, Taliyah pulled Lirian to the side, and gently cupped his face while staring at him with reluctance and unwillingness to see him leave.

It was six years too soon, and even then she felt like six years wasn't enough time, there was so much more that she wished to speak to him about and learn more about him, but now those six years were stolen from her.

Lirian could feel the unspoken words of his mother, and felt the same way, she was a beacon in his heart, that represented things he had never thought he'd have before, with how long he had lived, 14 years didn't even qualify as the blink of an eye, just as quickly as he got something good he was being forced away by circumstance.

He'd never felt a sense of belonging or a sense of home until Taliyah became his mother, as the unspoken words were being passed on between the two of them the portal opened and the emperor turned to them.

"It's time," he said feeling a little complicated at seeing how intimately his wife was being with Lirian, but he just figured it was how any mortal parent would act if they were going to be saying good-bye to their child and possibly sending them to their death.

Lirian soon broke of the hug and stepped towards the emperor, as he got to the emperor the emperor pulled out a few items and handed them to Lirian.

The first item was a spatial ring, it was very ugly in appearance and looked extremely ordinary, the ring would break down as soon as the item inside it was released, 'They don't make anything easy on the candidate,' Lirian thought, they wouldn't even grant him a mediocre ring that could be used to store some small items.

Inside the ring was a one time use portal device that would relay him directly back to the portal he left from, and it would allow him to bring four extras.

If he ever lost the ring, he'd be stranded and if someone else got their hands on the ring and came back it would mean that he lost all rights to call himself a candidate.

The other thing the emperor told him was the secrets of the second accord as well as what conditions to look out for if he were to search for Amatesh spindles, it was his reward for completing the talent steps and the emperor gave him a saint cultivation technique.

Lirian was supposed to choose his own, but the emperor said that the technique he chose for Lirian could help him restore his eyes, which is why he granted it to Lirian, with a set of perfect first accord techniques which were granted to all candidates before they left, because ultimately it was very unlikely that Lirian would pick up Amatesh spindles before he started cultivating and even after that it would be difficult for him to obtain any.

And lastly he was given a set of clothes that were very normal, Lirian's clothes had always been of the highest quality even as a baby, the fabrics were smooth on his skin and were practically weightless, yet they were extremely durable.

The clothes that he was given could be called rags in comparison, that not even the poorest class in the empire would wear.

Lirian figured that it was to make him stick out less, but with his silver hair and beauty, the odds of that being enough to dim him down was unlikely.

He quickly strung the ring onto a thin rope and hung it on his neck and stripped down to put on his new outfit, a simple white tunic with a pair of brown pants, and simple leather shoes, and lastly even his blind fold needed to be changed to something of low quality.

When he was finally done he took a breath and stepped towards the portal, but he suddenly felt a pair of hands wrap around him holding him firmly as if afraid to let go, he could get his mothers scent rushing into his nose as her lose hair fell all over his face.

"You are mine!" she declared firmly, almost as if she was issuing a royal decree as she crushed him with her hug, "So you better come back home to me or I'll never forgive you for leaving me," she said in a pained voice as fresh tears fell from her eyes.

"I promise," Lirian muttered with firm conviction, he pulled himself away from his mother and dashed into the portal without looking back or hesitation.

Taliyah watched with trembling shoulders as he vanished through the portal, she desired so much to be able to run through it with him, but ultimately she knew how foolish it was.

It was just her fears taking hold of her, the fear that she'd lose yet another child.