Ruler's Awakening: Inheritor of the SSS-Rank Dimensional Talent

Eloise turned to the side. She smiled broadly and nodded gently, welcoming Aaron to the Dimension Justice arena. Aaron sighed lightly.

He told Lewis and the others to take a seat in the audience soon, Aaron would go over to Eloise to talk to her about something.

Lewis saw Eloise's figure, then understood Aaron's intention. He and the other Shadow Ruler members left the place to the stands where they usually sat from yesterday, unlike Aaron and Aerith who stepped up to Eloise and Emily.

"Good morning, Aaron," greeted Eloise, smiling as she looked ahead.

Aaron and Aerith arrived before Eloise, returning her greeting with the same. Eloise invited the two to sit beside her, they didn't mind.

"I heard Lewis and Karen had a big win yesterday. I would like to congratulate you," Eloise expressed, turning her head to the side.

"Thank you."

"So, the reason you're here is to confirm about the curse on Emily. Is that right?" asked Aaron, able to speculate because of Eloise's arrival with Emily to the Dimension Justice arena, moreover Emily had returned to her 12-year-old girl form.

"Emily told me that her curse wasn't removed, but deactivated. I don't understand anything about the curse that happened to her, nor how to remove or deactivate it," explained Eloise, downcast.

Eloise recounted the beginning of Emily's incident until she was cursed to the current condition. At that time, they were on a general mission in the area outside Lilith City.

Unfortunately, there was a mysterious group that looted Emily's team's kills. Emily's team and the group fought.

In the end, Emily was able to defeat them with the captain of their group implanting a curse by sacrificing his soul and all individual levels to Emily.

After completing the mission, Emily returned to the Sky Sword 25th HQ as a young, 10-year-old girl.

"So, it's been 2 years since Emily suffered from this curse since she first received it?" Aaron asked, Eloise nodded.

"That means there's only 8 years left of her life if the curse can't be lifted," Aerith replied.

"What? 8 years left of her life?" asked Eloise, shocked.

Emily didn't say anything about it. All she said was that her body had returned to child form and the curse was off.

Hearing Aerith's words shocked Eloise, causing her to rise from her seat as a reflex.

"How could you predict that?" asked Eloise, pointing at Aerith.

"Her curse has characteristics I know of. There's a 95% chance it's similar to a curse I'm familiar with," Aerith explained, looking at Eloise seriously.

"If you knew, why didn't you try to remove it?!" insisted Eloise.

Her voice raised to the point of attracting the attention of many people in the place. Emily tried to calm her sister down, she asked Eloise to listen to Aerith's explanation as Emily fully trusted her.

"I can't remove the curse if I don't have the materials," Aerith replied.

Now, it was Aaron's turn to explain in detail to Eloise about the materials needed to remove the curse on Emily. Eloise listened to Aaron's words while sitting back in the stands, starting to calm down.

One by one, the material names were mentioned by Aaron. Eloise gaped, her eyes did not blink when she heard the material names, materials that were difficult or even impossible to obtain.

"Do those materials really exist?" asked Eloise.

"I believe in it. They must exist."

Of the four materials, the most likely according to Eloise was the soul essence of a fifth tier level mage.

Many fifth-tier mages could be found on the 60-70th floor, but it would be difficult to kill them if they did not have high and diverse abilities.

As for the Volcano Essence Gem, Eloise doubted that it existed even though there was a volcano on the 45th floor of the Dark Pillar Tower.

Eloise said so to Aaron and Aerith, but whether or not they planned to help her to remove the curse on Emily.

As for the falling star essence gem and the blood vial of the primordial level monster, Eloise had never heard of them. In fact, she doubted that they even existed.

"The Dark Pillar Tower is limited. To freely search for these items, one must either search for them on Earth or outside the planet," Aerith replied.

"Outside the planet?" asked Eloise.

"That's a possibility. The curse on Emily is rare, so to remove it requires the proper materials," Aerith replied.

Eloise fell silent, blaming Emily's condition on her failure as her sister to detect the curse. Eloise looked down sluggishly, her eyes closed, then tears flowed down the slits of her cheeks, making Emily sad.

"I'm sorry, Emily. I failed to protect you," Eloise replied, bursting into tears.

"Never mind, sis. I know what my condition is now. I'm okay with what's happening right now," Emily stated, trying to calm Eloise down.

The woman turned to Aaron with both eyes puffy and red. She got up from her seat and stepped closer to Aaron, the woman knelt down while holding both of the man's hands, pleading desperately.

"Please! Help my sister to get rid of the curse. I'll do anything," Eloise replied.

Aaron felt awkward. He glanced to the side, Aerith did not give a clear response as if her decision was based on Aaron's decision. Explore more at My Virtual Library Empire

As long as Eloise's wish didn't interfere with Aaron's ambitions, perhaps Aerith wouldn't have a problem with it.

Slowly, Aaron felt uncomfortable with Eloise's response. He held both of Eloise's hands and invited her to talk outside. Eloise nodded, willing to have a long chat for their agreement.

In a flash, Aaron left with Eloise and Aerith, leaving Emily still in the stands sitting alone. Outside the Dimension Justice arena, Aaron released Eloise and said that he was willing to help Emily.

"Let's make a deal, again," Aaron explained.

"Sure. Deal! Let's make a deal," expressed Eloise, her eyes still puffy.

"I'll take Emily on my raid mission upstairs and get her out of Dark Pillar Tower. In exchange, I want you to focus on developing the abilities of the Shadow Ruler."

"I want, within a year, the Shadow Ruler to be in the ranks of the High rank group," Aaron said, raising one finger before his face.

"Making a Low rank group into a High rank group in one year is impossible. Everyone knows that," Eloise replied.

"I don't care. If you refuse, I will let Emily stay with you until the end of her life at a young age."

Eloise squinted, pointing forward harshly at Aaron. Yet, Eloise was helpless. Aaron's words might be right, they might be wrong. Her best option was to try her best to remove Emily's curse.

"Alright. I'll try," Eloise explained, her hand stretching forward and shaking hands with Aaron.

The deal was done. Now, Shadow Ruler would be completely under the care and protection of Sky Sword 25th. It was not impossible that they would provide their group's resources to help the Shadow Ruler.

After finishing talking about the agreement between them, Aaron returned to invite Eloise into the Dimension Justice arena.

They arrived and Emily approached Eloise immediately, like a 12-year-old girl who was reluctant to be left by her family.

"How is it?" asked Emily.

"You're going on a raid with Aaron and Aerith. They're gonna help you get rid of the curse," Eloise replied, running a hand through Emily's head of hair.

"Does it mean I can't be around you anymore, sis?"

"This is what's best for you. Be a good girl and always obey Aaron's words," Eloise explained, smiling sadly as she rubbed Emily's cheek.

Emily looked to the side, seeing Aaron and Aerith who were staring at her with a slight smile. The anxiety in Emily's heart was indeed there, but if Aaron and Aerith were there, perhaps the chance to break the curse did exist.

"I understand."

"I love you, sis." Emily clung to Eloise's body, unable to hold back the sadness of having to temporarily part with her sister. Eloise was the same, she held Emily tightly as if it was their last hug.

"Me too, my Emily. I will always love you, Love Always."