Chapter 45 "Master, you made me wait for so long"

Everyone settled in the living room after breakfast…

Damiano took out something from his pocket and handed it to grandfather Einar "Here… father…"

Da-eun and Noah saw Damiano give something round in shape, to their grandfather… they looked at it curiously.. the base was of navy blue with golden and silver colour spread all over it like aurora lights of the North pole… the only difference was the colours… that thing was only around an inch in size..

Both of them could feel the strong waves of power surging out of the thing and made them feel awestruck with amazement… Da-eun mumbled "This small thing has so much power force stored inside.. it's like a volcano about to erupt.. Did you see that Noah? The power inside is boiling like it wants to break out of that small cage.."

Noah had already recognized the sacred divine artifact.. it was the concealment pearl that was kept inside their treasury in a separate safe.. he knew the repercussions of taking it out... he looked at his father and grandfather in an attempt to find something out with their expressions... but after a few seconds he dropped the idea.. 'they'll tell us on their anyway..'

Noah then heard what Da-eun said and narrowed his eyes.. it was normal to feel the power of the sacred divine artifact but to see inside it was a totally different matter, which, he was not able to do.. he thought about it and finally realized that this was the power of her bloodline, and her eyes.. but because she was only one from her bloodline, it was hard to say that it was all because of that… it'd only be clarified after they find her grandfather and ask him about it..

Noah decided to not say anything about it for the time being and wait for the right time to arrive… he didn't want to make her conscious about her powers and scare her.. he wanted to leave it for the future.. "Right.."

Grandfather Einar took the artifact in his hand and felt a strong force inside.. the force was too impatient and wanted to break free… he turned his head sideways to look at Da-eun to only realize that she was staring at the artifact as if she was hypnotized by it.. "Girl… come here.."

Damiano saw his father calling Da-eun and a bad premonition arose in his heart.. he thought in his heart 'Is father trying to do what I think he is? If that's true then I have to stop him.. it's not the right thing to do.. don't tell me he forgot what happened the last time we tried to do this?'

Damiano felt conflicted and wanted to stop his father… he spoke with hesitation in his voice.. "Father.. I don't think this is the right thing to do.. please.. don't do this.. I feel that something bad will happen if we did this.."

Grandfather Einar heard his son and smiled softly before saying "I know what you are thinking about… but, that doesn't mean that we stop thinking about the possibilities.. what if we succeed this time?"

Damiano heard this and felt his heart tighten.. he turned his head to take a look at Da-eun.. "But, father… what if we fail just like the last time… look at her.. she's only a little girl.. how'd she be able to handle all of that?"

Grandfather Einar' eyes became sharp as he kept looking at her.. "It's because she's a girl with a unique constitution that no one had before... I have a feeling that this time it'll be a success.. even if you don't believe in it, you have to anyways.. we have no other options left.."

Grandfather Einar said with an authoritative voice that left no space for further negotiation.. he was the clan leader after all.. and everyone had to comply with what he said.. even if you were his son, the rules were same..

Damiano felt reluctant but still nodded his head in front of his father that was also the clan leader and he had to show respect to him.. "I understand.. clan leader.."

Da-eun had already walked in front of Grandfather Einar by the time their small conversation ended… she was so immersed in the power that attracted her towards the artifact that she was not able to hear anything around her.. their was a soft and a very low voice was calling her.. "Come here.. I've been waiting for this moment for a Manse.."1.

Da-eun reached out and grabbed the sacred divine artifice called the concealment pearl in her hand and instantly felt a strong wave of power surge through her body with great force.. she felt like there was a tsunami of power inside her power source that had just met with the foreign power for the first time..

Her body shook from the great force that was channelling through the pearl… it was a chaos inside her body.. the power from the pearl wanted to take over her power source and swallow it whole as it surrounded the power source inside her stomach… she had her eyes closed but felt like she could see what was going on inside her body..

Two forces clashing against each other.. each wanted to swallow the other.. she could only see the hurricane of silver and golden surrounding the power source that had kept quite all this time and made it feel restless.. she could feel the fear surging through it's round body..

The fight kept on going for a long time.. it was not sure how much time passed but Da-eun felt like a whole year passed when she could finally see something… there were cracks forming on the surface of her power source… the power force that had it surrounded saw the opportunity and rushed inside through the cracks with violent force and speed..

Within a few minutes all the force that was surrounding the power source disappeared… leaving only the power source that was still full of cracks, to heal itself… but the next moment something happened that made Da-eun open her eyes wide with shock and surprise..

The force that had just entered the power source was helping with filling in the cracks… soon the cracks were filled and it looked exactly like the sacred divine artifact that she was holding in her hand… only then did she notice that the power source inside her stomach was the same colour as the concealment pearl, but without the golden and silver colours.. but now it looked just like that.. it was like they were not different but the same..

After the power source transformed, a white light immerged from within and appeared in front of Da-eun in the form of a small toddler… it looked like a soft and cute boy with his chubby small body.. he looked at Da-eun with his round and watery eyes, the long black hair falling on his shoulders… tears streamed out of his eyes as he said "Master.. you made me wait for so long.."

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1. "Manse" means "ten thousand years" in Korean.