GODDESS OF THE EMPIRE

Aella held her phone to her ear as she stood outside the mansion.

"Miss Aella, when I registered you at Oasis I only put your first name on one of the documents, I didn't put your last name or nickname because it would be dangerous as we still don't have any idea of Zei's true purpose."

" Ok, I'll hang up now"

"All right, have a good night"

After hanging up the phone, Aella walked into the mansion.

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Maisie walked up to the maid who was trying to catch her breath, "What did you say, she's here already? Aah, Aella's going to kill me."

"What's all the fuss about, she's not that important," Aspen said unfriendly as he stood with his arms crossed and looked at them all with disinterest.

"Why so much fuss over this girl, I don't understand.

"Are we finally about to meet the famous missing daughter?" Aspen's older brother, Hyacinth Pearls, asked with no interest.

They both felt a chill run down their backs as they looked up and saw Glacier glaring at them coldly.

Gulp!

They swallowed nervously. The one person they feared the most was their uncle, Glacier.

He was the strongest and most powerful member of the Pearl family. He was the only A-class member of the Pearl Family, along with Grandpa Skyrio.

" Madam," another servant said to Maisie. "Miss Aella went straight to her room as soon as she came in."

"Okay, thank you..." Maisie sighed in relief, while Glacier was in a state of disappointment.

"Hm?!" Ainsley Pearls stopped abruptly. She looked around the manor in shock, as if in search of something.

"What is it Ainsley?" Skyrio looked at her in surprise. He was sure his granddaughter could sense the strange energy he felt as well.

Ainsley wasn't quite sure what she was feeling, so she just answered: "It's nothing.

Skyrio was really surprised. In the family, Maisie and Ainsley were the only ones not involved in mana cultivation. How could Ainsley feel this energy? Could it be? Could it be that she saw Master Zylo's calligraphy and decided to cultivate?

It's true that at first, most of the citizens refused to believe that Mana and magic could exist.

But that all changed six years ago, thanks to little Aella. She turned the Eclipse Kingdom to ashes and left a lasting impression on the citizens of Gaia, Kirsi, Willow, the Skyland Kingdoms and Sion City.

They began to visit the deserted and abandoned area, where they found mana stones that could be used to enhance and increase the strength and martial arts skills of humans.

However, unlike the people who focused on the collection of mana stones, others were more concerned with the exploration of the area.

They found an eerie, mysterious cave in an opening at the base of a cliff; the cave was wider than it was deep. When they explored it, they found many treasures hidden in the ground, as well as a piece of calligraphy.

It turned out to be a diary.

It was written in a mysterious kind of calligraphy:

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~Day 1

To the people of this world

I am a former member of the 'Azua Mystic Empire' known as 'Zylo', I know none of you have a clue what the 'Azua Empire' or the planet Juptier is, nor do you know of the existence of the other four races, but I hope one day someone will find my calligraphy and inform the common humans of the dangers that may come in the future.

~Day 2

To help you understand where I come from, I will tell you a little about the Azua Mystic Empire.

Those of us who live on the planet Juptier and in the Azua Empire are all humans. However, we are a little different because of our powers.

~Day 7

The story begins with a group of eleven friends who decide to go on an adventure. They left their countries and families to travel the world. They wanted to learn and practice new forms of martial arts and become more powerful.

One day, on their travels, they came across a large tower. It was over 700 metres high.

Out of curiosity, the group of friends approached the tower, and when they got close enough to it, they saw a myriad of golden lights surrounding them.

Then a transparent panel appeared directly in front of them, with a strange text message on it that read: "You can achieve and obtain whatever you want.

If you wish to enter the tower, press the blue button that says 'YES', and if you do not wish to enter the tower, press the red button that says 'NO'.

Everyone chose to press YES. When they had made their choice, they felt their whole selves begin to change, an immense pain invading their bodies. For three days they were in agony in front of the tower, fighting the pain.

When it was finally over, the pain was gone. They rose from the ground, feeling a refreshing sensation, as if something was welling up inside their bodies.

It was Mana.

It is a supernatural spiritual base, which is also the energetic core of the world.

Then the group entered the Tower. It took many years for the group to emerge from the Tower.

Once outside, everyone had changed. They had become different, possessed strange and powerful powers and had become stronger.

They had become so strong that they decided that it would be best for them not to go back to their lands and their families.

Many of them had the feeling that the human world wasn't good and powerful enough for them, so they created their own isolated kingdom, far away from the humans.

Years went by and one day six of them went their separate ways, they didn't want to stay on Earth anymore, so they moved to a planet called Juptier, while the other five stayed on Earth and built their own empire.

~Day 10

The elders of the empire refused to tell me anything more about what happened after the eleven friends parted ways, so I decided to investigate, but I didn't find anything.

One day, however, I came to know that the current Emperor of Azua was planning to invade the ordinary humans.

~Day 17

I was so shocked and angry that I had a confrontation with the emperor, who was also my best friend. But he put me in prison.

~Day 22

I escaped.

~Day 26

Right now I'm hiding in an ancient ruin so the guards can't find me, 'I didn't say anything that wasn't true... stupid emperor, I have no regrets about what I said... ..... .'

~Day 30

I will warn all humans, it's the only thing I can do to help.

~Day 57

Now that I'm on the run, the whole of the Azua Empire is after me. I have no idea if I'll be able to make it to the land of Sion.

~Day 110

I managed to escape from Azua!!.... This is it!

~Day 114

In the eyes of all the other races, the human race is known to be the weakest of all living creatures.

Just because they were stronger than normal humans, these people considered themselves invincible. They hated and were ashamed to be associated to human, and they longed to change their human nature, so they detached themselves from normal humans and looked at them in a condescending, contemptuous and arrogant manner.

Hmph! I hope one day someone will kick their asses.

~Day 127

I wonder... Was it a good decision to leave Azua?

~Day 530

I have finally arrived at the land called Eclipse, and I have received a report that the people of Sion City are martial artists, I hope that my cultivation methods can help them to become stronger.

~Day 1000

Humans aren't weak, they just don't know how to cultivate mana, I hope they just concentrate on cultivation and follow my training guide, only then will they level up and unleash the dormant power within.

~Zylo

It was the Pearl Family, along with six other families, that found the calligraphy on that day.

There was an agreement that no one else would have any knowledge of its existence. Under the guidance of Zylo, the Pearls and these families began cultivating mana.

In the world of martial arts, a person's rank determines their strength and ability.

Those who cultivate mana in order to gain power from the elements are referred to as rankers.

The ranks of the classes refer to a ranking system from F rank to SS rank.

A Ranker is a person who possesses magical abilities and who radiates mana from his or her body.

The lower ranks are as follows

-Rank F-: Those in this rank are considered the weakest. They are shunned by other ranks.

- Rank D-: These people always had to work with other rankers of a higher rank to level up.

-Rank C-: They use a defensive style of fighting rather than an offensive one.

The upper ranks are

-Ranks A and B: These are the rankers who have both offensive and defensive abilities, and they can also contract beasts.

-SS rank: Rankers who have the SS rank are those who are much more powerful than the A and B ranks, but so far there are only 10 of them out of the entire human population.

And then there is

ROYAL SUPREME (SR): Rankers of this class are characterised by the fact that their levels of mana and power are so high that it is impossible to measure them. SR Rankers are very rare among humans, this type of Ranker is only found among other races.