Chapter 62
After talking with the Archduke, Michelle was relieved to hear that as long as he was still in the Land of Exile, the Soul Seeking Pendants wouldn’t be able to harm him as the power restriction between realms suppressed his power just below the Spirit rank, so she went to her room to rest, but she was wondering where Cold Flame went. He didn’t tell her where he was going when he was leaving.
At first, she didn’t worry too much, but when Cold Flame didn’t return for a few days, she got a bit concerned. Even Nyxaroth, Snow and Mare had returned from the middle realm, but Cold Flame was still nowhere to be seen.
Michelle wanted to use the contract to pull him back to her, but he sent her a message that he was fine and that she shouldn’t worry about him, so she didn’t pull him back, but she was still worried.
What Michelle didn’t know was that Cold Flame was going through David’s library in the auction house, looking for a way to control the pitch-black soul energy, which was, as Alexander Terce described, like void. And void was unpredictable and dangerous, so Cold Flame wasn’t willing to leave it up to fate.
Alexander was lazily sitting in the window, looking at Cold Flame. "How many times do I have to tell you to stop? She will naturally learn to control the void. Just give her time." He spoke carelessly, clearly relaxed. Just the few times he had seen Michelle was enough for him to know that her soul energy wouldn’t be able to harm her. "Not to mention, you won’t be able to find anything here. The library here only has books about things once could get to know in the lower realm, and in the lower realm, people don’t even know about the existence of soul energy."
Hearing that, Cold Flame stopped and turned to look at Alexander. "And you couldn’t have said that from the start?" he asked with a frown.
But Alexander just shrugged. "I just remembered," he didn’t even bother to hide that he was lying.
Rage raised within Cold Flame, but he knew he stood no chance against Alexander, so he just turned into a small bird and flew away. After a while, he reached the Archduchy and flew into Michelle’s room through the window. When he saw that Michelle wasn’t there, he flew out and went towards the training grounds, and indeed found her there. She was sparring with Nyxaroth, at the moment in his human form, while Snow and Mare sparred together.
As Cold Flame landed nearby, Michelle noticed him, and instead of countering Nyxaroth’s next attack like she was planning, she dodged. Nyxaroth understood that something happened and stopped attacking. He turned around only to see Cold Flame transforming from a small blue bird into a young man with blue eyes, with pupils in the shape of flames, and long blue hair with streaks of white on them. "Cold Flame has finally matured?" Nyxaroth raised a brow as his black eyes raked over Cold Flame.