Summoning the Holy Sword

It was three days later when Rhode and Anne returned to Deep Stone City.

Indeed, the self-recovery ability of Rhode’s bloodline was clearly powerful. His body was full of mortal wounds when he first left the ruins. When he woke up the second day, more than half had recovered. And by the third day, they were totally unnoticeable. Rhode decided not to delay any longer and hurried his way back with Anne. Back to Deep Stone City, of course, he warned Anne not to mention about this incident. It was still a mystery regarding the ambush on Rhode at the Black Pine Ruins. And he was sure he wasn’t the only unlucky one because after leaving the ruins, he risked returning to the main entrance of the ruins. The mercenaries corpses were nowhere to be seen. But from the remnant energies, he managed to deduce that their corpses were eliminated by the same type of energy that was launched at him.

But up till now, Rhode still wasn’t sure if it was due to luck that he was able to survive.

When he was recuperating, Rhode used to time and analyzed the Ball of Mystery. With the help of the system, he quickly identified how to use it. To put it simply, it could re-enact the user’s memories, and create a space to materialize them. The people within the space would be stripped of their differences in equipment levels and dropped to the same level. Engaging in training within this space could quickly improve the levels and familiarities of abilities. Obviously, this was a tool used during ancient times for training and was useful for Rhode. Initially, before he traveled to the Black Pine Ruins, he had planned to complete his base missions in order to build a training facility for his group so that they had the needed practice for the festival competition in two months time. And now with the Sphere of Mystery, he can accomplish his goals even quicker.

Although he was still rather doubtful about this, after returning to Deep Stone City, Rhode immediately put this thought away for now.

“Leader?”

Noticing Rhode’s return, Shauna immediately ran forward. She looked at Rhode with slight surprise and revealed a welcoming smile.

“Welcome back Leader, Miss Anne.”

“Thank you, Shauna. I brought something great for all of you.”

Everyone around felt glad as Christie sounded cheerful. This little girl seemed to have a very unusual charm. She could convey her feelings to anyone very directly and everyone would be infected by them, revealing their smiles from the bottom of their hearts. However, some of them didn’t limit to only smiles…

“Ayah… Anne is back too, Christie!”

Anne ran and jumped to the little girl and gave her a huge hug.

“Anne brought some presents back too. Some really really cute presents~ I’m sure it will suit you a lot.”

Rhode shrugged while looking at the playful duo. Later, he turned his head to the front and saw Marlene and Lize walking over towards him.

“You’re finally back, Mr. Rhode. Got anything good?”

“Of course.”

Rhode answered firmly to Marlene’s question. He then gestured to both of them.

“And I also brought a gift for the two of you… come to the basement with Anne later on. Oh yes, get Joey and Randolf too.”

“Eh?”

The two maidens looked at each other curiously, not knowing what was Rhode up to…