At night, inside the villa...
Elena was leaning against the headboard in her bedroom deep in thought, when Alvin crawled onto the bed and sat near her leaning on her shoulder.
"Mom, why did you run away from home?" he asked softly after a while.
"Mom was stupid back then," Elena said with guilt in her tone.
"Then how did you become a servant at the palace?" Alvin asked again.
Elena looked at little Alvin and asked, "Do you really want to know?"
Alvin nodded; of course he wanted to know.
Upon seeing Alvin nod his head vigorously, Elena started telling her story with a smile , "I am the youngest daughter of Haile Everhart. Like your father, he is the ruling emperor of a country called Eldoria. When I was around your age, I was abducted by the people of the New Gate Alliance, and they extracted my divine bone through some unknown methods, leaving me unable to cultivate and crippled for life."
Alvin had heard about New Gate before , it is a villainous organization that is spread across the entire world.
Simply put, they are a bunch of lunatics who believe in creating powerful humans through different types of inhuman experiments, which are completely opposite to human morals.
"Back then, Your grandfather saved me from the people of the New Gate Alliance. But he was not able to recover my divine bone, thus I became a cripple who can't cultivate from that day on."
Alvin looked at Elena, who had a faint smile on her face, and hugged her tightly.
Elena patted his head and continued, "Growing up among my sisters and brothers who are cultivators, although they always protected me, I felt useless and inferior in my heart."
"Thus, I always sought to find ways to recover my divine bone, but all of them were pretty much useless in the end. But I did find something useful one day. "
"From one of the ancient books in the palace library, I came to know about two ancient cultivation methods that don't require any divine bone to cultivate."
"I shared this news with Father, but he rejected me outright, saying that it is not a practical cultivation technique and it's useless to even try."
"But I was too stubborn to give up on it, so I searched for its whereabouts secretly. At last, I came to know that the two books were stored in the palace library of NyxBorn Palace. So I sneaked out of the palace and joined the NyxBorn family as a maid."
"But things didn't go as I planned. Your father took an interest in me, and despite my refusal, he married me. In the end, I did get those two techniques in my possession after becoming the empress of Nyxvaris," Elena said with a chuckle.
Alvin remained silent for some time and asked, "Why don't you cultivate those two techniques if you got them?"
Elena shook her head. "My father always used to say that I am an idiot. It seemed to be true now that I think about it. One of those techniques is a devil cultivation technique, which has a high risk of losing control, and the second one was a technique that requires a lot of time to cultivate, which is also useless. "
"According to the palace librarian elder, it will take at least 300 years even to reach the beginner level if I have to cultivate this technique."
Alvin looked at Elena strangely. "But, even though you didn't have any cultivation, you do have a divine bone, right? If your divine bone is damaged when you are little, where did this divine bone come from?"
Elena smiled. "Your father came to know about me asking for information on these cultivation techniques from the library elder. "
"So , he directly traded some top-level resources with the president of the Celestial Alliance in return for a Panacea fruit for me, which is said to cure all diseases."
"After eating it, my lost divine bone was recovered, but during that time, you were also born, and so I didn't cultivate after that."
"Then why didn't Grandpa buy you a Panacea fruit?" Alvin asked curiously.
Elena sighed after hearing Alvin's question. "Panacea is a fruit that takes more than 1000 years to mature. On top of that, it is extremely rare and cannot be cultivated artificially."
"My father did ask for a Panacea fruit from them, but he was rejected back then, as the people of the Celestial Alliance were not willing to sell it, which is also understandable, as it is a legendary medicine that is said to even bring dead people back to life."
"On top of that, there is a legend that once a person consumes a Panacea fruit, its medicinal effect will remain forever in their body, and if proper treatment is given, they could even come back to life even from near-death encounters, which normal people won't survive."
"If they rejected Grandpa, why did they sell it to Father?" Alvin asked in confusion after hearing the miraculous effects of the Panacea fruit.
Elena's mouth twitched upon hearing this question. "My father went to ask for this fruit by himself like a gentleman, but your father went to the headquarters of the Celestial Alliance with more than 40 True God-level ancestor protectors of Nyxvaris, and his many True God-level subordinates and palace elders."
"Even an idiot can understand that he was not there to request the Panacea fruit, but to forcefully take it if they dared to reject him."
"After all, the ancestor protectors of Nyxvaris are all former emperors and empresses who dominated their era. Even the presence of one of them is enough to intimidate the Celestial Alliance, let alone more than 40."
"Hahaha..." Alvin laughed upon hearing this. "As expected of Father. Even though I don't want to say this, he truly is dominating as hell."
Elena also laughed, "Do you want to see those two techniques I came to Nyxvaris for?"
Alvin's eyes lit up upon hearing this. "Do you have them with you, Mom?"
Elena smiled. She took out two ancient books made of animal hide from her storage ring. Both of the books had the thickness of a dictionary, and by looking at them, it was easy to say the age of the books was clearly very old.
The first book was red in color, and on the cover page, there was a picture of a man with long hair reaching his waist, with a bare upper body and only animal hide around his waist. The man had a ferocious look on his face, and just by staring at his face, Alvin could feel a hair-raising chill in his spine.
The second book was black in color and had the picture of a tree on its cover. It gave people a rather comfortable vibe.
"This red one is a devil path cultivation technique, so don't try to practice it at any cost. Return it back to me after looking at it. As for the black one, you can keep it if you want," Elena said as she handed the two books to Alvin.
As they were chatting, some muffled noise of something falling on the floor was heard from outside the room.
"Stay here, baby. Mom will go and check what happened," Elena said to Alvin and walked out of the room.
...
"Who are you? Who allowed you inside? Guards... guards..." As Alvin was lying on the bed, he heard Elena's panicked voice from outside.
He hurriedly put the two books inside his storage ring and rushed outside the room.