NOVEL NEXT Chapter 975 Two Years
Chapter 975 Two Years
Time flew for those in Polaris Realm. While Vicente was experiencing the end of his first year in Anicane, the end of the second year since his departure was being revered by his people.
Back in Polaris Realm, especially the Fuller family's home, little had changed in the two years since the end of Demien Bloodthorne.
What had changed most was Annie, who was now older and gradually showing herself to be smarter and more active, as a child full of ambition should be. Now eight years old and at the start of her third year at the academy, she was used to her study routine, aware of many new things she hadn't known after her father's departure.
Of all the family, she was the one who coped best with Vicente's absence—the benefits of childhood, everyone said.
But that didn't mean she didn't miss him or that she was comfortable. Annie had learned to live with what she had at her disposal and was focused enough on her commitments not to think about her old father all the time.
Occasionally she would get together with her mother or her aunts to think about the future, which she always included Vicente and the Supreme Continent.
One day she would change everything—she said to herself—and turn her family's misfortune into an old memory, which would lose to the eternity of joys they should still have.
Optimistic, despite the problems in her world, she once again left her home, setting off alone for the academy, being in a small town to worry about being accompanied at all times.
As the girl left, Nova stood in the kitchen next to Lina, both smiling with the intensity that Annie always had at the beginning of the days.
"I feel like she'll be giving me a hard time in a few more years... I hope I don't lose my hair in her teens, Lina," Nova said to her harem sister, drawing a smile that was hard to see on Princess Seidel's lips.
"This is a cycle. It's your turn to be stressed, but one day it will be Annie's turn to have her children and go through the same," Lina said as she finished her morning tea.
"I hope that doesn't happen anytime soon." Nova wiped the smile off her face and thought of her man.
Unlike children, it was much harder to overcome loss as an adult. Especially when your loved one should still be alive, but inaccessible.
There wasn't a day that went by that Nova, Lina, and Layla didn't think about Vicente. This was particularly true for milestone dates, such as the anniversary of his departure, so close to being two years old at the moment.
Lina didn't need to hear Nova's thoughts to understand what was on the woman's mind. With a sigh, she stood up and said, "I'm afraid we'll have to deal with a lot of time before we reach the moment you want, sister. It's best that Annie has her life and her family as soon as she finds the man who is meant for her. Waiting for the future could prove negative for her.
We're already engaged, but she doesn't have to follow the same fate as us." She said, aware that reaching Vicente wouldn't be easy.
Two years had passed, and the continent had grown peaceful, with human forces advancing against the monsters, stabilizing previously unstable areas and strengthening the numbers of specialists on the human side.
However, the changes, for the better, were merely reflections of the current situation of the human alliance's strongest enemies. The 6th stage vampires were in seclusion, leaving their troops less able to maintain everything they had previously conquered.
However, it would only take one vampire to reach the level of an Intermediate Archmage for the entire current reality to change drastically and quickly!
Even if Lauren were working hard, it would be difficult to solve the continent's problems. And even when that happened, their progression to the Supreme Continent might not happen quickly!
They were still just Paragons and would probably still be Paragons when Annie became a magician in another six years.
The resources from the organs of the 6th stage vampires had helped the Cataclysm Order forces and the Fuller family a lot in those two years. But with all that these women and other important members of these forces had consumed during this period, only blood or organs from 6th stage vampires could help them in the future.
But there were few of these beings left and the chances of them, even after they took down a few more of the enemies, helping them to become stronger, were not good. In the end, even if they advanced to the 6th stage, they would need to reach the 7th stage if they wanted to go to the Supreme Continent in search of Vicente!
Being able to catch glimpses of the future, Lina was the most realistic of Vicente's women, her feet firmly on the ground, aware that she wouldn't be able to fulfill his wishes in a short time.
Of course, as long as he didn't change the status of the connection between Polaris Realm and the Supreme Continent. If he eventually managed that, they could leave long before they became Magus.
Nova couldn't help but agree with Lina's words after a moment, thinking about how far away they were from her beloved man.
Closing her eyes as she gazed at the sky through a window, she thought of Vicente's face and how he must look.
'I hope I can get to you without giving you a hard time. But if you can help us from your side, that would be good... In any case, don't worry about us, my love. We'll sort out the problems on the continent and Annie's future before we go to meet you.'
She clenched her fists and, breathing deeply, regained the energy to return her focus to what she could affect.
"Anyway, let's move on to meet Julian. It seems there's news from Nina's group."
Nina had left this city six months ago, having spent a year and a half there alongside her family, helping to turn this place into a safe and stable home. In the meantime, she had grown stronger through her hunts in the surrounding area, to the point where she had cleared a large security zone around the town.
Stronger than ever and seeking to cleanse the continent of invading monsters, Nina had set off with her husband and group to hunt down enemies and continue retaking human territories.
She had made a name for herself by rescuing humans taken by monsters as slaves or food, which helped her gain enough notoriety of her own without relying on her brother's story.
Lina was eager to hear from Nina and left alongside Nova, heading for the rendezvous point with Julian, Rory's father and Archmage member of the Sentinels of the Order.