Chapter 170 - Aria

While everyone was busy dealing with the matter at hand Sir Jean was looking here and there and was searching for something.

Sen observed his behavior and asked if something was wrong? Sir Jean didn't reply and kept on acting weird. Aditya understood what was happening and began to laugh at Sir Jean's weird behavior.

Seeing him laughing, Granny Kotori too understood what was happening and she too joined him in his laughter. Seeing the two of them laughing like the rest of the family found out the reason and joined them in their laughing venture.

Only Sen and the guards were the only ones who didn't have a single clue what was happening and kept on staring at the laughing gang.

"Wait, let me call her here," said Anisa and raised her hand to emitted a telepathy signal from her hand. Aryan was pondering who will be this new character that will appear now and he found out the answer after some minutes.

Out of nowhere, a gigantic floating island appeared in the sky. Seeing the island everyone from Sen's family began to smug, while everyone from the guard's group began to tremble.

Sen looked above towards the big island on their small island and thought who could be this mysterious person to drive an island of that size.

Amidst of his thinking, some small dots appeared in the sky. Sen looked at them carefully and found out the dots were another group of guards with a higher authority among them.

One beautiful lady and two platoons of guards landed beside the other guards and bowed to Grand Elder and family.

"Chief Guard of the Sage Palace pays my respect to the Zenzeng family," said the beautiful lady with an authoritative figure.

Not only the lady, the others standing beside her did the same and paid their respect to Grand Elder and the others.

While everyone had a smile on their faces, Sen and the other guards who were trying to trouble Sen had a dumbfounded expression on their faces.

Sen was dumbfounded because the beautiful lady before him was none other than Aria. Sir Jean's wife in his previous world. And the other guards were dumbfounded because the other figures behind the beautiful lady were no simple figures.

One more thing that Sen noticed after the lady descended was the weird behavior of Sir Jean. Till some moment ago he was searching for something. But the moment the lady appeared he became stiffened and stopped his actions.

Sen moved near Aditya and asked in a low voice, "Pops, what happened to uncle Jean. He is stiffened now~~!!"

Even though Sen was trying to reduce his voice, it was clearly visible to all the people present there.

"Pfft, hahahahaha, hahahahahah," laughed Grand Elder and looked towards the beautiful lady before him.

"Aria, if you may~~~ Please explain the thing to this grandson of ours."

The beautiful lady nodded and moved near Sen on his order. When she moved too close to him, Sen got the same feeling that he had been getting from his entire family all this time.

"You are Sen right. Aditya and Anisa sensei's second child?!"

Sen "…."

"Hehehehe, let me introduce myself first. I am Aria Zenzi, and your uncle Jean's soon to become fiance."

"Fiancee~~!! You mean wife?!!"

"Yes, wife."

Hearing her reply, Sen understood why Sir Jean was acting weird earlier and why he stiffened on seeing the beautiful lady before him.

"o.O Then can I call you aunt Aria?! Though you don't look that old to me, to be called an aunt…. But relation wise~~~" Sen stopped at that and waited for her to see the reaction.

"Pffft, sure!! It's my first time being called an aunt. But it sounds good to me."

Upon getting Aria's approval, a smug appeared on Sen's face and he turned out towards Jean.

"Ahem, uncle Jean, you don't mind me calling her aunt, right?"

"Sure, why not?" Sir Jean replied and continued to look towards the sky in amazement.

"Looks like he is still in a daze," muttered Sen and looked towards Aria again.

Now back to the matter, Rikka told Aria everything about how the guards wanted to take advantage of their authority and take bribes from them to let them pass from that point and stuff. Upon hearing upon all this Aria turned towards them in rage and asked for a proper explanation for it.

But none of them opened their mouth since they were in the wrong in the first place. They would have tried to defend themselves with some bluff and lies if it was any other family.

But this time they had offended the Zenzeng and to lie on top of that~~~~

They do not want their entire family to suffer for them.

Seeing they were keeping quiet Aria understood they were guilty and asked the guard behind her to capture them and take them for punishment.

Though the people behind her looked like guards, but all of them were high ranked officers working under the sage emperor.

When Aria received the signal, she was getting ready to set out alone. But one of the higher-ranked officers noticed her and asked her where she was going in a hurry.

She told them it was the Zenzeng family, and upon hearing it all of them gathered together to depart with her.

It was well known to everyone that she was gonna be Jean Zenzeng's fiancée soon, and all they wanted was some benefit or some attention from the Zenzeng that they may get by accompanying her.

The matter solved and the big floating island took all the corrupted guards along with their small island units, leaving Aria and the entire Zenzeng family together.

Before going Grand Elder commended the higher-ranked officers behind Aria and promised them a bonus for their meticulous work. They saluted him before going and left the place with joy.

"Mission success!!" said one of the officers in a low voice and left that place with a smile on his face.

Now that the matter was solved and the sage palace was just at a noticeable distance Grand Elder moved it again and advanced towards their destination.

Some moments later they reached their destination and jumped off from the floating island to another big island where the palace was located.

Sen was of the idea that the place will look something marvelous, fantastic, an excellent piece of work and such…..

But to his dismay, his expectation was completely shattered when he saw the sage palace before his eyes.

No need to say it was marvelous, fantastic, and an excellent piece of work, but the thing that shocked Aryan was the palace itself. The place was not made up of rock, stone, and sands….. Rather it was a gigantic world tree that was hollowed from inside and being modeled as the Sage Palace.

When Aryan was seeing the view from a distance he thought it was one of those mysterious world trees existing in the folklore and legends of the old era. But little did he know at that time that the tree was hollowed out from inside and had been made into the so-called Sage Palace.

Upon seeing the palace before him Aryan became flabbergasted and didn't even budge from his place. Rest of the family members smiled at his shocked expression and gave him some time for recovery.

Some moments later Aryan snapped out of his daze and asked the others to continue further. Even though they were on the same floating island as the Sage Palace it was at very far from that place.

Aryan used his divine sense and found out they were somewhere near the outskirts of the island. They have to cross a jungle first then two cities to reach near the palace.

After pondering over something he looked towards Aditya and asked, "Pops, I don't think we can reach there by today. I just used my divine sense and found out there was a vast jungle ahead, followed by two large cities!!"

"Yes~~~" said Aditya in confusion and looked towards Grand Elder.

"Pops, you haven't told him about the trial yet?!" asked Aditya in suspicion.

Grand Elder's face darkened upon hearing the word "Trial" and he diverted his face somewhere else.

Seeing his reactions Aditya understood he hadn't told Sen about the trial and why he was totally clueless about it.

"Ara Ara~~ Hiroki Kun, weren't you the one who fought with Adi a few days ago to take the chance and tell Sen about the trial?! Then how come you forgot about this?!!"

Listening to the "Ara Ara~~" after a long Sen was taken aback for a minute. All this time he was of the idea the people before him were his ancestors, and after listening to the "Ara Ara~~" he became more confident in his deductions.

"Sigh, leave it. We don't have time to waste with you.." Said Aditya and began to explain Sen about the trial that he was about to face.