Chapter 141:


    “Interspatial storage rings!” Jean cried out. What precious items!


    “Yes. The devil found them for me.” ire handed over the one ring to each person. “Master,” she said to Cliff. “Does your storage ring have as much space as this one?”


    “The devil gave them to you?” Cliff’s mouth was wide open. He could not believe it, it was inconceivable.


    When Cliff sensed the amount of space inside the ring, he practically blushed with shame. “Such arge amount of space! It’s twenty timesrger than my ring’s.”


    “Great! Let’s switch. Give me your old one.” ire started to calcte what to do with the other storage rings.


    “Miss, why did the devil treat you so well?” Jean muttered, staring at the storage ring in his palm.


    “She was just bored. And these are just trash in her eyes. She was merely giving them to me as a way of throwing them away,” ire shrugged. She materialized the corroded sword, but as soon as it fully materialized, it ttered to the ground, too heavy.


    Trash? Interspatial storage rings were trash?! Such priceless, nearly nonexistent treasure was trash to the devil?!


    Just when Cliff was moving items from his old storage ring to the new one, he noticed the corroded sword on the ground.


    “The sword was also given to me by the devil. But besides being exceptionally heavy, I have not discovered anything else special about it.” ire stared at the sword, befuddled. “But she specially told me to take this sword, so it must be special.”


    Cliff crouched down and examined the sword carefully. Gradually, his expression turned astonished.


    “This... this sword is the legendary Sword of Death?!” Cliff’s voice started trembling.


    “What Sword of Death?” ire frowned. She had never heard of any treasured sword with that name.


    “The Sword of Death is a magic sword. Legends say the continent was once one entire empire instead of five such as now and the founding emperor used the Sword of Death to carve out the path of the empire,” Jean said, solemn. “The Sword of Death does not have any specific elemental attribute, but has a much more terrifying effect. Anybody attacked by this sword will hallucinate, be paralyzed, andpletely lose their ability to fight.”


    ire’s eyes widened, recalling the underground pce the young master had brought her to. Was the ruins of the once magnificent pce that of the founding emperor’s? But why would the pce be there? And what about the white bones?


    “In any case, you’ve found a treasure.” Cliff eyed the sword, a grin forming. “I never expected this! What a strange situation, a devil helping a human.”


    “Master!” ire’s temper red and she red. “You ran into Devil Field so rashly. If something happened to you, what would I do? Even if you made a breakthrough, there’s no guarantee you would have been able to exit.”


    “Haha, don’t be like that... Isn’t everybody just fine? I just knew my darling disciple was no ordinary person, even devils help you. Haha, I’m a sorcerer now, hahaha...” ireughed heartily towards the sky, delighted.


    ire’s mouth twitched. The old man before her with such immature behavior had actually be a sorcerer, but... Acting like this, he didn’t seem powerful at all!


    “Miss...” Jean’s voice came quietly, full of conflicting emotion.


    ire turned to look at Jean. “This sword is for you,” she said softly.


    “It’s... too valuable*.” Jean stared at the sword, his expressionplex. It was the legendary Sword of Death! Every warrior’s dream!


    “Right, it’s too heavy*, I can’t even lift it. You take it. If you don’t want it, I’m throwing it back into Devil Field,” ire shrugged and said heedlessly.


    *Pun because valuable also means heavy


    Jean was speechless. He slowly picked up the Sword of Death.


    “Master, you need to disguise the sword. If someone recognizes it, there will be trouble. And can you do something about this rust?” ire asked Cliff, who was in the middle of moving his belongings to the new ring.


    “Mhmm, no problem, leave it to me. Ahaha, the storage ring space is so big...” Cliff wasughing heartily, not sparing so much as a nce.


    “Miss, thank you...” Jean felt a surge of warmth.


    ire didn’t think much of it. She turned to watch Cliff move his belongings. She was trying to see if there was anything valuable she could exploit.


    Jean stared at the sword in his hand, his emotions surging for a while. Sword of Death, I will use you to guard mydy until the end of time, Jean swore in his heart, swearing on his life.


    “Ahaha, ire, let’s go back to the capital, hurry. I need to find Lawrence, that old fox, and unt. I’m going to chase him through the streets until he’s sorry!” Cliff had his hands on his hips,ughing wildly. He had already forgotten the danger of almost failing his breakthrough.


    “Let’s go, Jean.” ire strutted ahead, acting as if she didn’t know Cliff.


    Jean smiled and followed from behind.


    “Jean,e on. Let me disguise your sword, haha...” Cliff was stillughing as he followed them, so gleeful he was.


    Things seemed perfect, but... Little did ire know the cruel ordeal awaiting her.


    The pope was waiting for ire’s return.


    Having exited Devil Field safely, ire’s heart had finally settled. The three journeyed back to Amparnd leisurely.


    Once Cliff tested ire’s magic power, he was shocked. ire was already at the level of a grand wizard!


    “Haha, ire, you’re only fourteen, but you’re already a grand wizard!” Cliff shouted to the sky. “My goodness, you will be the youngest sorcerer in history, haha, worthy of being my disciple.” He shook his rump delightfully. “Now I can teach you high level incantations.”


    “Master, what about forbidden incantations? I want to learn forbidden incantations!” Of course ire wouldn’t be satisfied with only high level incantations.


    “Learn with your head! You can’t use forbidden incantations yet. They will deplete too much of your energy, endangering your life, understand?” Cliff rejected her immediately.


    “I want to learn. It’s not like I said I will use them yet,” ire persisted.


    “No, no. Only high level incantations.” Cliff shook his head, not willing to give in.


    “Give me back the ring!” ire humphed, arms crossed, nose raised. She pulled out a few ninth grade magic cores and sighed in a regretful tone. “I was going to give these to you, Master, but... Forget about it. And these...” ire took out the precious ores from the underground pce and waved them before Cliff’s eyes, then put them all back.


    “Ah! So many ninth grade magic cores! And Reedle ore and Cyndler ores! ire, where did you get so much precious stuff, ahhhhhh, lemme see...” Cliff howled ecstatically.


    “Gimme forbidden incantations then.” ire walked forward, ignoring Cliff’s howl.


    Cliff caught up to ire hurriedly and fawned, “Ok, ok, I give. What kinds of incantations do you want?”


    Jean watched the two, a smile forming on his lips. He also sped up.


    When they returned to the capital, people of the Temple of Light were already there at the gates to cut them off before they could return to Hill manor.


    “Reverend,” a believer of the Temple addressed ire respectfully. “His holiness has already been waiting for some time.”


    “How did you know I was returning today?” ire frowned, somewhat annoyed.


    “We have been waiting here on his holiness’s orders ever since you left.”


    They had waited here the entire time?!


    “Reverend, please return to the Temple. His holiness is awaiting you,” he said, indicating towards a pure white carriage not far away.


    “Jean, you return first,” re instructed. “Tell Grandfather I have returned. I will be back soon.”


    “Miss...” But before Jean could finish, Cliff interrupted him.


    “Jean, you should go. I will apany ire. I was going to go find Lawrence anyways.” Cliff grinned at Jean. His words were clear: he was going to protect ire. Naturally, Cliff understood what Jean was thinking.


    “Yes.” Jean nodded, finally relenting to return to Hill manor.


    ire and Cliff got on the carriage together and went directly to the Temple of Light.


    As they passed through the main entrance, believers bowed to ire along the way. A priest was second only to the Diving Prince and Divine Princess, so naturally, she was respected.


    “Hoho, disciple, from now on, Master shall rely on you.” Cliff smiled vulgarly, his eyes slits.


    ire rolled her eyes. “Go and find sir Lawrence. Don’t act like you know me.”


    Cliff snickered and followed a servant girl, turning past a corner, to find Lawrence.


    ire continued forward towards the main temple.


    A servant girl led ire through the main temple and past a side corridor, all the way in.


    “Reverend, his holiness is just inside. Your servant shall take her leave now.”


    ire knocked on the door lightly. A low voice came from within. “Come in.”


    Slowly pushing the door open, ire saw the pope standing at the windowsill, his hands behind his back.


    Slowly, the pope turned around. He broke into a smile. “Our Reverend is finally willing to return?”


    ire remained silent, watching the seemingly benevolent old man. The pope was, as usual, dressed in white with his air of authority.