Chapter 221 - Breakthrough!
Grey and the others soon got to the Qilin empire's camp. There were different tents and Klaus asked if the group could get a private tent. A guard took them to a tent that wasn't far from the Overlord Plane expert's tent.
The guards felt the people from the Azure empire might still try to kill them, they even went as far as stationing three guards at the front of the tent.
"Let me take a look at the cat." The lady said gently.
She realized speaking to Grey in an authoritative way wouldn't yield any results.
"Thank you for your concern, but it isn't needed. He'll be fine." Grey spoke in the same emotionless manner.
He could tell that the way the lady was looking at Void was strange, so he didn't want to hand him over to her. Since he had the healing tonic from the Blooming Vipers, he would use one on him.
"Hmm, okay. Take this, it should help." The lady took out a tonic from the small bag she was wearing.
She felt curious about Void, but since Grey didn't even want to let anyone else take him, then there was no use in disturbing him about it.
Grey took the tonic from her and went into the tent.
"Thank you, my friend is just sad because his pet is injured. He's usually not like this." Alice thanked the lady before going in.
Klaus and Reynolds also thanked her before going in, they knew the reason Grey didn't thank her was that he was still annoyed, but mostly worried about Void.
After entering the tent.
"What are you doing?" Klaus asked when he saw Grey busying himself around the tent.
The tent wasn't that large, around fifteen square meters. There was a cotton that separated it into two. Grey was currently on the other side of the tent, moving from one spot to the other.
"Array, those old guys are snooping around in here. I think they are curious about Void." Grey spoke hurriedly.
Presently, he knew his life was in danger given his previous performance, so bringing out this as well would put him in more danger. There's also the problem of him making the healing tonic appear out of nowhere.
"Do you have some stones?" He asked looking at the trio.
He had studied Chris' array books, so he knew of an array that could block the senses of those in a higher Plane from snooping. Although, he wasn't really confident in it since he had not done it before.
They gave him the stones that they had in their bags, after placing them in the needed lines, the lines lit up before fading.
"Give me your bag." He stretched out his hand to Klaus.
There was a chance of the array not working, so he wanted to act like he took the tonic out of his bag.
Klaus passes his bag over to Grey who quickly placed his hand inside like he was taking something out. The hand he placed inside was the one the spatial ring was on.
He brought out the tonic and quickly poured it into the mouth of Void.
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"Hello."
A voice came from outside Grey's tent.
Alice and the others walked out, but Grey was currently sitting in a meditative state. He was extremely tired from the prolonged battle with Aetonth, adding this intense battle and the emotional stress, he couldn't stay awake.
On going out, Alice and the others saw the lady standing outside.
"We'll be leaving first thing in the morning, we can't afford to let you stay here any further." said the lady.
"Okay, thank you for your help." Alice bowed to show her gratitude.
Klaus and Reynolds quickly bowed, well, after being dragged by Alice.
The lady left and the trio walked back into the tent.
They were speaking of today's event when they suddenly sensed a power surge from the motionless Grey.
Boom!
The tent rippled as the energy wave spread in all directions.
Klaus and Reynolds looked at Grey, and they were surprised to actually see the elemental particles around him.
"This...this..." Klaus couldn't complete what he was saying.
Five different elemental particles were around Grey, red, silver, blue, brown, and green. This represented five elements, fire, lightning, water, earth, and wind.
"How's this possible?" Alice opened her mouth in shock.
"He's having a breakthrough." Reynolds said with surprise.
"We know that, but he only has three elements, this doesn't make any sense." Klaus said.
An Elementalist can only absorb the elements that he an affinity to, so how can Grey absorb five different elements.
"Quickly..." Alice looked at Klaus in panic.
Klaus had already made a move, creating an ice sphere that covered Grey completely. After the first shockwave that spread out, Klaus quickly sealed Grey inside his ice sphere, this stopped the aura from spreading out.
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In the Qilin empire's camp.
The guards sensed a strong energy wave that quickly disappeared.
"What's that?" One of the guards asked.
"Go over to their tent, make sure nothing happens to them." The leader ordered.
He felt it might be an assassin who wanted to kill Grey and his friends, but accidentally released some of his aura.