For a moment, Orion was bbergasted to see such a scene. He had never seen so many void shuttles flying together in a cluster like that. Even the shuttles at the Starforge couldn''tpare to this number.


    ''The allure of having one''s curse removed is crazy, I guess.''


    He thought, looking at the dots, whose size continued to increase as more time passed.


    At that moment, he heard a shout from them but this time it was from thedy who was beside the man.


    "Orion? I remember you!" She said this, pointing at him. "You are the same person who is responsible for the failure of our mission in Aethelgard City."


    Orion smiled widely as he saw them recognise him. "Yes, that''s me at your service."


    "You know why we took away the mana essence pool from your ce?" Evans suddenly asked this time.


    Orion thought for a moment before he came to the realisation, "Don''t tell me, it was all revenge against what I did in the Aethelgard city."


    "You are half right," Evans said. "We did want revenge so we destroyed your little hideout there. As for the real purpose of stealing your mana pool, you wille to know soon."


    Orion had some guesses as to why they needed the mana essence pool, but he would have to see what their real n was.


    "Why spread the rumors?" He asked, facing Evans. "Why do you want to attract people here?"


    Evans''s eyes narrowed as Orion asked this question. They made ample preparations and made sure that nobody could track the source of the rumours to them but here a kid directly asked him this question so casually as if it were known that it was their family who had leaked the information about the curse tree.


    "You got the wrong people." He replied before he headed back to his group with the girl.


    Orion smiled, seeing his reaction, and said, "But why does it look like you guys are waiting for everyone here?"


    Evans flinched a little as he was walking back to his group when he heard Orion but he didn''t look back and ignored himpletely.


    ''What are they nning?''


    He still didn''t understand their full n but he felt that it wouldn''t be any good if it was rted to the cursed tree.


    At that moment, winds suddenly raged in all directions as those hundreds of void shuttlesnded near the cursed tree.


    A momentter, the curse tree was surrounded by void shuttles from all around it.


    Soon, many people exited the shuttles, and the once barren ce became bustling with activity and all kinds of people.


    Among the various void shuttles thatnded just now, Orion could discern five of them that appeared remarkably different from the usual ones.


    They were from the five other Magi families, aside from the Darkwood and Valen families, who were already here.


    As Orion was observing them, his eyes caught the attention of one individual whom he had seen recently.


    It was Elyn Ravenw and surprisingly, she was looking at him too.


    ''Am I that handsome? Maybe Big Sister Emily might have said some good words for me during the assessment.''


    Orion thought, looking at her.


    He also saw two guys from the elite raking whom he had met with in the Starforge during the attack of the demon race. They were in the group of the Grimwolf and Silverme families.


    At that moment, a man with blue hair, about 19 years old, flew into the air, drawing everyone''s attention. His hair was neatlybed and well-kept, and his face had a blend of youthful cuteness and some maturity.


    "Everyone, I am Astral Voidwalker. I request a meetingposed of the seven Magi families and some of you guys representing the other folks."


    His announcement was like a wildfire spreading to everyone in the barrennd.


    The crowd began to murmur in anticipation of the meeting. The meeting between seven Magi families and other likewise strong organisations could be a huge event they would be able to witness if it were to really happen.


    And chances of happening the meeting were above 90% considering the one requesting the meeting was none other than the 1st rank in the elite ranking—Astral Voidwalker—he could also be one of the strongest individuals here, if not the strongest.


    Also, his being from the strongest Magi family was the icing on the cake.


    The Voidwalker Family stood at the pinnacle of the Magus Kingdom, just below the royal family. Their strength was on a whole other levelpared to the other six Magi families. To the point that when people from other domains talked about magi families, they only thought of the Voidwalker family.


    Seeing the excitement among the crowd after the meeting was requested by Astral, a frown appeared on Orion''s face.


    He wasn''t worried about the meeting but he felt that there was a need for a third party to organise the meeting and since the royal family was sending a tinum-ranking expert, he thought they should wait for them to arrive before starting the meeting.


    There wasn''t a particr reason behind it; he just thought that the Voidwalker family would be too overwhelming in the meeting. If there was a royal family to counter them, then the meeting would be more bnced.


    Thinking of that, he was about to voice his opinion when he noticed Elyn also flew in the air.


    "The royal family is alsoing. We should wait for them before starting the meeting." She stated.


    Astral nodded, saying, "That''s also fair."


    He then headed back to his group and so did Elyn.


    Looking at them, Orion wondered something and turned to Tray, Lucy, and Dustin.


    "Do you guys know what rank the two are at?" He asked. For some reason, he couldn''t gauge their strength as he did with others by sensing their aura. Their auras were too calm to be used to determine their strength.


    "As far as I know, no one in the elite ranking has reached the tinum rank. So, they should be at the peak of the gold rank if they hadn''t upgraded themselves recently." Dustin said.


    "No one in the tinum rank?" Orion found this very surprising. He had previously thought that Elyn and Astral would surely be at the tinum rank considering their strength but it seemed he was wrong.


    "Also, if someone in the elite ranking enters the tinum rank, that person is automatically listed out of the rank. The elite ranking only consists of gold-ranking experts and only those who are below 20 or 20 years old; if it is any higher either in rank or age, one would be out of the list." Lucy said this time.


    Orion nodded in understanding and looked into the sky.


    But at that moment, his eyes caught sight of a dot that was bingrger andrger the more he looked at it.


    "They are here."


    He muttered to himself, seeing the dot.


    Lucy, Tray, and Dustin also saw the dot and realised that the royal family was here.


    "By the way, aside from the tinum rank expert who couldn''t take part in all of this and is only responsible for maintenance, who else could being from the royal family?" Orion asked curiously.


    "I don''t know, maybe some prince or princess." Lucy shrugged.


    "Maybe Princess Luma would being." Dustin said it excitedly.


    "Tch, why are so many people in this world obsessed with her and Elyn?" Lucy said, pouting.


    "Maybe they are more beautiful than anyone." Orion replied. At least that was what he thought of Elyn. As for this Princess Luma, he hadn''t seen her yet.


    "Everyone is beautiful; one just needs eyes to see the beauty in others." Lucy said, looking in the sky.


    As they talked, they saw the void shuttle of the royal familynd before everyone in the barrennd.


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