Phantasia: The Princess Knight

Putting the ring away Alicia knelt down by the ashes and closed her eyes. She cupped her hands and lowered her head as she spoke softly: "Unfortunately I never got to know your name. I am sure after a long life of hardships, you had no choice but to do what you did. I could not think of how lonely it must have been to sit in this place for millions of years. But the way you went about it seems very wrong… But because you are somewhat of a teacher to me I will send you off..."

Alicia floated up from the ground, her golden wings spread out as the halo that hovered above her head began to spin. With her hands cupped as if she was praying she once again began to sing…

"Ashes of time, Ashes of time..."

"The flow of time is always short..."

"The souls of the dead will always return from once they came..."

"Sending them off to be reborn..."

"Death is never the end but a new beginning..." 

"Ashes of time, Ashes of time..."

"The flow of time is always short..."

"Guide and guard the dead until they have passed on to the next plane..." 

The ashes of the old man's body seemed to shake as a ball of golden light rose up from it. By the time Alicia finished singing the ancient song, the ball of golden light had already disappeared. Alicia floated back down towards the ground and retracted her wings. Letting out a sigh she turned and walked to the platform that had appeared in the room. 

When she appeared again she found herself outside the entrance to the tower. The fire and ice were completely gone. What replaced it was a large vast lush forest. "It seems this place was not actually a place where two god realm cultivators fought but an illusion set by that old man." 

With a wave of her hand, Alicia called out Grandpa Mu and Tang Guanting. "Do the two of you know how long it has been?" While inside the tower Alicia had lost all sense of time. So she really did not know how long she was in there for. To her, it felt like only a few days maybe a week at most but she was not too sure about this since the whole tower was encased in the law of time and space.

"Tomorrow will be two years..." Grandpa Mu answered. He wondered what had happened that would make Alicia not know how much time had passed. 

"Alright let's head back then. I have yet to try this long distance so let's hope it will work." Alicia waved her hand causing a distortion to appear in front of her. She grabbed both Grandpa Mu and Tang Guanting's hands and pulled them with her as she stepped into the distortion. 

They reappeared in the mortal realm in the sky over the southern half of the mainland. Grandpa Mu and Tang Guanting were surprised at such an instant transfer. Unlike the methods, they used this method was instantaneous. 

"This..?" Tang Guanting couldn't keep himself from asking what was going on.

"A time and space rift that folds space and time together to shorten the distance between two points making travel to a destination instant. As long as I know the general direction and distance I can basically move anywhere I want in an instant. Let's just say this was what I have gained in these two years." Alicia explained.contemporary romance

Two years had passed making Alicia twenty years of age. When she thought about the fact that she had yet to even grow one year older on Phantasia she couldn't help but find the situation a little funny. But at the same time, she couldn't wait to actually grow older. She was twenty going on twenty one but still looked thirteen. 

The next day arrived and Alicia was now standing above more cultivators than she ever thought she would be taking with her. She looked down at them and smiled. She was happy they were willing to follow her. "I will say this now… Once you make this contract with me, you will be bound to be a soldier in my army from this day forth. I will not bind you in times of peace, you may do as you see fit during those times. But in times of war, you will have no choice but to come forth and fight beside me with your life on the line." 

"You will also be restrained from harming anyone in the Alastine Kingdom. Unless ordered by me. I will make sure each of you are well taken care of and will allot each sect and clan a plot of land for you to call home. I will not restrain you all from fighting each other as long as you are not harming the citizens of Alastine or its lands. If you do harm Alastine lands, I will expect you to fix it. That should not be too hard with the law of earth and earth magic. I will also be giving each clan and sect a cultivation method that will allow you to cultivate not only spiritual qi and Magicules as well. You will be able to integrate magic into your fighting styles. 

"And lastly, when I transfer you all to my space you may set up temporary camps anywhere within the space but no one is to go near the small cottage and one hundred kilometers surrounding it. I have set up a barrier there already last night. Do not cross this barrier or you will be thrown out of the space and I will not allow you to join me back to Phantasia." Alicia had formed the barrier using time and space magic so that anyone from the outside of it who touched it will be tossed out of her space. This of course did not mean Grandpa Mu and Tang Guanting could not go in and out of it. Those from the inside were not allowed to pass through the barrier. Meaning Loeri, Frey, and Wendy could not leave the barrier at all, she only made an exception for Grandpa Mu and Tang Guanting to check up on the clans and sects. Although Grandpa Mu would not be in Alicia's space all that often since he had to show Alicia the way back home.

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