Corrupt Creations

Before Seth could ask anything, Arwen looked at him and continued: "And we certainly don't want to destroy that barrier, just to enter their territory by force."

Seth swallowed his incoming words back and decided to keep hearing her. He was about to say they could forcefully break that barrier up and enter their frontal gates by kicking them open, but he felt Arwen apparently knew some things that he didn't. However, their team would be composed of three very powerful individuals and he felt that they had an enormous advantage over the enemy already. An advantage big enough that they could pretty much do whatever they wanted; however, things were not so simple.

Arwen turned to look at everyone present in that room and after analyzing the "players", she quickly formed a small plan with what they had.

"First of all... No one below the Mana Sovereign Realm of power can participate on this operation." With a simple phrase, she generated an expression of dissatisfactions on at least three people.

Rina, Serene and even Elyra were taken out of her plans. Elyra felt she could be very helpful, but since the one who decided it all, was the Elf Queen, she instantly gave up trying to argue back and accepted her decision.

Serene knew her weaknesses. She was the weakest one among that group of talented individuals and she knew that not going, would be more helpful than going. However, that bitter taste of being useless, suddenly struck hard at her. Inside of her head, she was already committing on putting her diligent efforts on developing her future "secret plans".

As for Rina, she was the only one who tried to stand up against her mother. But before she could even form a proper argument, Arwen completely ruled her out.

"Mom, I..."

"You're staying behind. I won't allow you to go in a Mana Sovereign battlefield. It's beyond "too risky"."

However, Rina was getting smarter and more experienced, so she had another card up her sleeves.

"What about Elyra? She is super strong and reliable, but you're completely ignoring her!" In an attempt to reopen the case, she even put Elyra's name on the table.

Elyra didn't know how to properly react to that, since she wanted to go as well, but didn't want to disobey the queen. So instead of saying anything, she remained quiet.

"Rina... You're going to take my role as the queen while I'm out and I guess you will need someone to help you with anything, right?" Arwen abruptly dropped the bomb, stunning Rina and everyone else.

"I..."

"The reason Elyra is not coming, is that she won't be able to help an inexperienced queen, while staying out in a dangerous mission. However, I don't mind letting her come, if you tell me that you're ready to be the queen your people deserve."

'Oh my god.' Even Lexi felt shocked by how decisive and harsh Arwen was dealing with things. She had always been watching everything she could, through Seth's eyes and she felt that Arwen was one of the women that had the best qualities and a really good character, among the ones that were able to enter her eyes. Her abilities as a leader were something Lexi admired and if not for the "fatal" mistake of liking someone like Seth, the "Beast King", she would have been close to perfection, in her "humble" spirit eyes.

Rina was out of words, but before she could reply, Elyra suddenly said: "I'll do everything I can to help her, my queen."

Arwen nodded and said: "Good. Elyra, please take care of the girls while we are out. Now... Come with me upstairs. Before we leave, I will tell you what we need to do in order to succeed."

Seth and Lan Xue quickly understood Arwen was talking with them and the trio quickly went upstairs to an office room.

Rina, Serene and Elyra couldn't do anything else, so they decided to focus on their things.

While inside that room, Arwen seemed trouble with something, but after some time, she shook her head and decided on going with another strategy.

"Since we have no way of entering the sanctuary without alerting the enemy, we will have to create a pathway, by using force. However, we need to bait them into the outside, so you could secretly enter their territory, while we fight them, Seth."

Seth was starting to understand what she implied with that, but before he could confirm his theory, Lan Xue decided to talk.

"Wait. I have something to say."

Arwen looked at her, waiting for the information that she wanted to share with them.

Seth had this feeling, that whatever she was going to say, was something that could really change their journey and that it was something that he knew. But due to the abrupt and forceful nature of the events, his mind wasn't really focused onto thinking wisely at that moment, so it was only natural that he would forget some of the important things.

Lan Xue firmly said: "There is no need for a bait. I already knew about the barrier that protects the sanctuary, but it won't be our real hurdle while dealing with the Illusive Ethereal Sanctuary, since it won't stop us from proceeding with our plans."

"Oh?" Arwen's eyebrows raised in confusion, but before she could ask what Lan Xue meant by that, she heard a very shocking piece of information.

"With me here, we can enter and leave their territory whenever we wish. My father was someone from that sect and I was part of the reason the Glazed Lake Sect was attacked a few days ago. The Illusive Ethereal bloodline runs through my veins."

Something inside Seth's mind clicked and Arwen's face changed to an unbelieving expression. She made eye contact with Seth for a few seconds, but through his countenance, she realized Lan Xue was most likely, telling the truth.

As an intelligent woman, Arwen didn't need to know what were the circumstances that surrounded the lady that stood in front of her. She just needed the crucial information that would lead them to a safe trip back home, after doing what they needed to do, of course. And that information was just perfect.