[Shiro: Just going to blow some dust off this chat. How is my favourite party doing?]

  [Lyrica: Shiro! It’s been good, have you finished with the anchors?]

  [Shiro: Yup. Got some bonuses during my little trip too. I’ve mastered some of the powers that come with me becoming a demi god.]

  [Aarim: I’ve noticed. This energy is quite helpful in empowering my spells.]

  [Yin: There’s better conversion between food intake and energy output.]

  [Lisandra: Mum, Yin’s managed to make a spell where she can eat during a battlefield and launch spells proportionate to how much she eats. The rift is full of food and it’s disgusting whenever we enter. We might accidentally step in one if we’re not careful.]

  [Yin: That’s because you girls don’t know where to stand. I’m still upset that you stood in the pie that I was saving!]

  Reading the chat, Shiro’s smile twitched furiously hearing that Yin is storing food in the rift.

  The life saving skill that had protected her was actually used as a secondary fridge.

  [Shiro: Yin, the rift is supposed to save your life, not store food.]

  [Yin: But food is my life so technically it’s still saving my life.]

  [Shiro: Setting that aside, I’ve heard a few good rumours about you lot. You seem to be making a name for yourself.]

  [Chen Yu: We did try to be low key but a few events unfolded and we were forced to fight.]

  [Shiro: Oh? What happened?]

  [Madison: We might have pissed off one of the government officials and started a war against them. In our defence, his son was very perverted and tried to lay a hand on us, in retaliation, we cut off his head.]

  [Shiro: I see…… Shame I couldn’t be there otherwise I would have just given his soul to my warden so that he could torture it.]

  [Madison: I hate the fact that you’re not even kidding when you say that either.]

  [Shiro: Well it’s the truth so no need to joke no?]

  [Madison: I know. That’s the worst part.]

  [Silvia: Speaking of rumours, I seemed to have heard something about a goddess saving New York with a large scale healing spell which gave them EXP and stats for a week long.]

  [Shiro: Ahhh yeah I was responsible for that. Basically, I wanted to help my parent’s a bit and merged a world class spell with Grace. It would be creepy to imagine souls that heal so I used angels instead. The results were quite nice. It wasn’t another world class spell but I did get a powerful city scale support skill instead. While it might not be like Grace’s potential since I could mass heal so long as there are more than 100 people in the party, its unconditional healing towards all I determine as an ally.]

  [Silvia; And this is why I’m considering changing class hais. Forget it, at least you can’t continuously buff. Once you can, I might literally just reset and start again.]

  [Shiro: Ah don’t worry about it. The heal spell has a long cool down so I can’t use it often. It does revive the dead so naturally the requirements are stringent.]

  [Silvia: Oh? What kind of requirements are they?]

  [Shiro: Basically it takes all my mana, the full charge of True Spirit Nature and the cooldown of this spell is two weeks. True Spirit Nature is very handy since it grants me better control over ice and souls. And the recharge rate is slow so using this spell is quite costly.]

  [Silvia: That is rather costly. But with your mana regen, wouldn’t that mana come back quite quickly?]

  [Shiro: Mana isn’t the problem, it’s the fact that I lose True Spirit Nature for a while.

  [Lyrica; So in essence, your new skill is like an emergency one that can only be used if you don’t use True Spirit Nature.]

  [Shiro: And I use True Spirit Nature quite often so it’s going to be hard to use this skill with a two week cooldown and high requirements.]

  [Madison: So is there any reason you’re messaging in this chat? You don’t message often unless you need something.]

  [Shiro: You’re not wrong. I’m basically looking to regroup the party for a bit and deal with Madison’s Heritage since we have the time now. I have also found a way for multiple queens to stay alive at the end of the age so we don’t need to worry about the fact that both me and madison are both Queen’s.]

  [Lyrica: ReallY?! That’s good news!]

  [Shiro: Yep. I also have a guest with me that I want you to meet Lyrica.]

  [Lyrica: Oh? Who is it?]

  [Shiro: I’ll tell you later. But for now, where should we meet up?]

  [Madison: Do you know the border city Rahiu that connects the front lines to the Demon Continent? We’ll meet up there since we can start the journey to the Demon Continent immediately.]

  [Shiro: Mn sure I’ll have to hire someone to take me to Rahiu then. I don’t have a checkpoint.]

  [Lyrica; How long do you think it’ll take then?]

  [Shiro: One or two days at most. Three if I have to manually fly there.]

  [Lyrica: Alright see you in two or three days I suppose.]

  [Shiro: Mn, see you.]

  Closing her phone, Shiro glanced at Isilia.

  "We’ve got around two to three days to get to a place called Rahiu, there we’ll find the party and you can meet Lyrica there too. The last time I saw her she was already an Apprentice Sword Saintess. Maybe she would have reached tier 5 by now." Shiro chuckled.

  "Mn, she’s already almost at tier 5 stage huh?" Isilia smiled softly since not many could break past the boundary between tier 4 and 5 since it requires the adventurer to rely on themselves more so than ever.

  Teleporting away from the resort island for now, Shiro and Isilia arrived in Shanghai and sought out the Guild. Posting requests for Rahiu, they weren’t surprised to see that there were quite a few people at the checkpoint since it was a front line city where many could earn quite a bit of money.

  Teleporting to Rahiu, Shiro and Isilia rested at a hotel for now since they were waiting for the rest of the party to arrive.

  Sitting on the hotel bed, Isilia was shuffling around in nervousness.

  "Are you sure Lyrica won’t hate me?" Isilia asked as Shiro chuckled and rolled her eyes.

  "I’m sure it’ll be fine, you worry too much. Do you want me to hug you to sleep like old times?" Shiro grinned and opened her arms.

  "Whatever." Isilia rolled her eyes before standing up. Since Shiro had already showered and washed up, it was her turn.

  Laying in her bed, Shiro closed her eyes and slept soundlessly.

  Once Isilia had finished washing up, she saw this and sighed softly while still feeling nervous in her heart.

  Just as she laid down on the bed, she felt Shiro hug her from behind.

  "Just relax for now. I want to be the big spoon this time since the last time I was the little spoon." Shiro said as the last time they had camped together, she was being hugged by Isilia rather than the other way around.

  "You still remember that? It’s been a while. Though I suppose with your memory, it’s only natural.".

  "As if I’d forget the night before what happened." Shiro rolled her eyes as the two slept soundlessly.

  The next morning, Shiro received a text saying that they had arrived.

  Waking up properly, she turned to Isilia.

  "They’ve arrived. Let’s set off now."

  "Uggg…… Why are they so fast. I thought I had to wait another day or so." Isilia sighed since she didn’t have enough time to prepare herself.

  "IEither you come or I just teleport you next to me when I meet them." Shiro shrugged.

  *Cough!

  "Fine fine I’ll come." If Shiro had teleported her while she was on the toilet, it would be rather embarrassing.

  Waiting for Isilia to get changed, the two made their way towards the teleport shrine.

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  "Shiro said that she’ll be here with the guest soon. Who do you think she is?" Lyrica asked as she glanced back at the party.

  "Well if it’s Shiro, we know that the person must be pretty important for her to bring them to meet us. You think it’s someone to do with the spirits?" Madison asked curiously.

  "Who knows." Lyrica shrugged.

  Just as they were about to leave the teleport shrine, they saw Shiro flicker near them.

  "Yo. It’s been a while." Shiro smiled.

  But when she saw their level, her smile widened since they have all succeeded in achieving tier 5. They were now amongst the strongest within the world in the short span of a single year if one did not include the time in the dungeons.