"Is this her?" Madam Lara asked with widened eyes.
"Indeed, she is the Family Head of the Water Charles family and the daughter of the second Meditation Master—Maxine Water Charles," Mr. White confirmed.
The names and appearances of the past nine legendary Meditation Masters were not told to lower ranks and were kept hidden, because Lumenia had suffered from this a long time ago.
"It is because when a lower-rank Aura user reads the name of the first nine Meditation Masters or imagines their appearances, they immediately lose control. It is only when one reaches the Hypernova rank that they can comprehend this. I am a Hypernova of the Mind pathway, so I was able to tell you about the name and appearance of the second Meditation Master. But you must not think of her. Must means must," Salvia answered her friend, who was beside her and had asked this.
Her friend was a great expert among the Lysi Nova rank and was very curious about the world. Salvia had always been lonely due to being talented and reaching Hypernova at a young age. Meeting her friend was a great anchor for her to keep her sanity.
"So, it was like that." Her friend understood.
An Aura user naturally gains lifespan the more they advance, but they can never live as long as she does, even if they exhaust all the methods available to them.
But then why was she able to live for so long?
That was because of the arrangements of the second Meditation Master. She had used a special method to extend her lifespan so much.
No one knows what the side effects of those arrangements on her body are, except for some theories.
Living from the start of the peaceful era to the middle of the cataclysm era, she had truly lived a long life.
However, despite this, she had never been able to advance to True Supernova due to the arrangements of her mother.
Some say that it is the side effect of the arrangements for her long life, or that it was specifically chosen by Maxine back in the day to make sure that Lumenia does not stay in the hands of one person for a long time.
As time passes, everything should change and improve—be it the laws, the infrastructure, the citizens, and even the leaders and rulers.
If something stays stagnant without change, it will eventually be destroyed. Fearing this, she made sure not to let her daughter advance to True Supernova and become its ruler for eternity with no other leader being able to take the torch.
Obviously, this is just one of the theories.
Seeing her, Sasaki remembered his fight with her.
"A strong, terrifying, and ambitious woman. She is old and filled with wisdom. She also has terrifying strength and many top-tier techniques that show her talent. I lost to her two times, tied the third, and finally won in the fourth time by a small margin."
She was the opponent that Sasaki had the most problems defeating.
Seeing her walk up the white stairs, Sasaki did a bow according to the customs of the Water Charles family as Mylah also returned the greeting by bowing in a Lumenian manner.
A small smile appeared on her beautiful face as she looked up at Sasaki's face and said,
"I congratulate the young talent on his important day."
"I am also grateful and greatly welcome Madam to enjoy herself."
After their greetings, Mylah Water Charles took out two charms of the Knowledge Pathway which looked like thick dictionaries.
One of which appeared secretly in his domain of emotions. Sasaki let it enter his domain of emotions as she had already transmitted the information to him about it.
Sasaki took the left one in his domain of emotions as he opened the second one and saw that it was the info and papers of a large resource point of the Water Charles family.
A large resource point in Lumenia meant a small planet or 1/2 of a large flourishing planet with lots of resources.
Every family has their own territory and people assigned to protect these points.
These resource points play a huge part in the foundation and strength of a family, and every single family had always fought for the other families' resource points and territory in order to expand themselves.
And now, Mylah was giving him—or the Blackbell family indirectly—an entire large resource point as a wedding gift.
"Isn't this the Atom Stability Profound Stones resource point? It is very important to the Water Charles family and they are giving me this as a wedding gift?" Sasaki thought. He didn't need to ask her anything as all the information was in the charm already.
But Sasaki still said out loud for everyone to hear,
"The Water Charles family truly has a robust foundation while the head has a kind soul. Gifting me the Atom Stability Profound Stones resource point. How can I ever thank you?"
Hearing this, all the guests were shocked and gasped.
They were shocked at the foundation displayed by the Water Charles family.
"I have heard that the Atom Stability Profound Stones are used to create the Atom Stability Charm which is very important to maintain the formations and store atoms and molecules created by the Water Charles family, and they gifted such an important resource point to Sasaki Alberich on his wedding? This is definitely a scheme."
Malefic's father was an experienced man. He could feel that there was a huge scheme, but he didn't know what it was about.
Of course, no one said anything about the Blackbell family, Heisenberg family, and the Karma family.
The Blackbell family was basically now Sasaki in everything but name.
The Heisenberg family had helped a lot with the wedding preparations while the Karma family had gifted many things before this. Everyone was clear about this.
Sasaki continued praising a little more before stopping and taking a look at the other charm that was in his domain of emotions.
After he read the contents, he finally figured out what this was about.
"So this is the matter. She wants to buy the information of the second one from me?"
The family heads have known that the 'ones' have started to appear and would be very important figures in the future—just take Sasaki for an example.
Knowing this, why would they not try to get information on them and bring them to their side?
The Heisenberg family, the Blackbell family, and the Blackknight family had all along been fighting over this during the Paris operation. How could the other family heads not know?
They definitely knew, but it was just that they were unable to divine and prophesize about them as long as the 'ones' stayed in Paris.
"The objective in Paris is to gain 'it'. 'It' has anti-divination and anti-prophecy properties which have spread to the entire Paris. Even though divination inside Paris has no problems and even matters of the outside can be divined from the inside."
"No one can do anything about it right now and it has become a forbidden area for Supernovas and True Supernovas."
Sasaki had been lucky and realized the schemes of the Heisenberg family beforehand and gained information on the 'ones' before this. Now that no one could divine about them, it was natural that the family heads would want to trade with the other three families for information.
Information is highly valued in this world, because without information, everything becomes a risk and can cause major setbacks.
"She is using this 'gift' to show her prestige and her family's foundation while getting reputation, and using this 'gift' as a price for information on the second one too. Haha, she is as scheming as before."
"What if I just ignore her and take this 'gift'? That would be very funny."
Sasaki thought a lot before saying with a smile,
"I am looking forward to our future transactions."
Mylah had a small smile on her face as she walked past him as three Hypernovas and three great experts of the Lysi Nova rank came to take her to her assigned room.
Just as she entered her room,
Meditation Aura with white particles started to rush in and rained down as dandelions formed and spread across the entire mansion, making everyone smell the royal scent and feel at ease.
In the middle of the garden, an old woman with white hair and white eyes, with a dominating aura and furrowed brows, appeared.
Looking at this woman, Alia smashed the wine glass in her hands, turned around, and left with an angry snort.
This woman was the head of the Hoshina family, the wife of Alexander Blackbell, and also her mother—the person she hated the most.