After thinking this through, he was also able to deduce why their families felt the need to engage them...they already knew about their awakening.
As Lysara's mother said, she is quite curious but also shy...she wouldn't just leave for no reason, and so sending someone to look after her was only natural.
So, in the end, they all already knew about their awakening but didn't mention it. He had a strong inclination about who would have done that.
What a shitty day indeed. Well, if it is true, then his mother would definitely talk to him later about it, he sighed.
Now everything at least made sense.. in fact, he should have known this the moment his brother stopped him previously.
That idiot had never done it before, but this time he just did, not to mention all those questions he asked.
"What are you thinking?"
He was surprised as Lysara was looking at him again with that curious, childlike look she had shown at the start.
Now, he found it more funny than annoying; she really had a knack for changing her personality or something.
"Nothing, just how easily we got played into the hands of our families."
"Hmm… what do you mean?"
She was really confused now. Was their engagement really some tool to make their family connections stronger? No way her parents would allow it.
"Well, you will find out shortly. Forget it, and stop asking questions, would you?"
"Nope, I am your guest; you have to entertain me."
Vaelen was speechless; now she was abusing basic guest rights. Should he ask if she had some switch to change to her mature personality?
He shook his head internally. Forget it, he had really not treated her well before, so he could answer some questions as a form of apology. She would be gone in a few hours anyway.
"Hey, I wasn't able to eat that fish."
"Yeah, neither did I."
"How about you make one more?"
"Didn't you just eat?"
"Well, that doesn't mean I can't eat anything more. I am craving it."
Vaelen looked at her for a second and went back to bring his fishing rod.
She had used a similar sentence he had used before.
He came back, and instead of fishing himself, he gave her the rod, and as expected, she caught a fish in under a minute.
He looked at the fish and sighed.. it was bigger than before and it was the same kind.
He roasted it while thinking how long he would be able to eat these fish. After the second layer is broken, even smaller animals would be able to rank up.
No one knew how monsters rank up because there definitely isn't any trial for them, or maybe there is one, but they don't know.
Let's see what happens...after all, the chance of awakening is also low, not everyone gets awakened, so maybe some of these fish would be left too.
Either way, monsters are edible too...by that time, he would be strong enough to catch one.
After roasting the fish, he handed her half and took the other half.
He waited for her to take the first bite, as it was also a privilege of guests.
When she did, only then he began eating it.
"It's good…"
He looked at her speechlessly. Should he tell her that since she is a princess, she should live like one, and manners are counted in that? Never speak while you have food in your mouth.
He shook his head and enjoyed his fish.
He didn't know how long the discussion would go.
"Vaelen…"
Vaelen was surprised...this might be the first time she had called him, and the way it sounded felt like her mature self.
"What is it?"
"Umhh.. forget it, Nothing"
What hell, just say it if you want to say something would you.
Lyriana thought for a second and asked spoke again.
"By the way we will be able to use parallel world right?"
"Technically, yes, because the only requirement is to have essence in our bodies."
"Then you will join immediately?"
"Yeah, I have been thinking of making an account now."
"I see, then what name are you going to choose?"
Vaelen looked at her with a raised eyebrow.
"You do know that if a username is taken, you can't choose it, right?"
Looking at her shifty eyes, he figured that she didn't know. He rolled his eyes at her.
For communication in this world, they have communication devices that run on essence, but both of them definitely didn't have those. Their families definitely had them, but if his brother found out the reason… no, he couldn't even think about it.
"Let's go back... I think they would have been done by now."
"Hm."
…
Both of them entered the house from the front side, and as expected, both of their families seemed to be only talking casually now.
"You guys came at the right time...we are about to leave," Lysara's mother commented and smiled at them.
All nine lineage houses existed in the same city, but this city was quite big...it is exactly at the center of the area controlled by humans.
It is said that the size of the city from one end to another is three hundred kilometers.
It might sound like a big city, but most of the human population was concentrated in this city, so it wasn't empty at all.
All nine houses are on the outer parts of the city in a circle..it was to prevent any kind of beast invasion, just in case they broke through the outer protection layer.
After two hundred years, all the lineages have grown far beyond their original main family.
Every lineage has a branch set up to train their respective elements.
All humans are awakened in these nine elements, so they have a choice if they want to join these lineages after their academic years to learn more about their elements.
Because these lineages have developed a set of battle styles that match their element perfectly from the main battle style they inherited from the meteor itself, it consists mainly of movement styles and fighting styles without a weapon.
After that, it is up to every person's own decision if they want to include any weapon or not in their style.
But there is a condition.. you have to have sixty-five percent or above elemental affinity to be part of a lineage, or else there is no point in learning how to control your elements when you can't even control them easily because of your lower affinity.
These lineage branches have bases in both worlds, in the real world as well as the parallel world.
So, you can even join in the parallel world to learn techniques.
But it is also true that it won't be their main techniques but only the altered ones.
The parallel world is very famous in current human civilization.
It is a place where you create a virtual clone of yourself, but you can't create a fake clone..your whole body structure will be similar, your rank will be similar, and lastly, your affinity will be similar.
Yes, it will be the first place where he would actually know what his real affinity is.
The reason why the parallel world is able to do this is because the main controller of the parallel world isn't something that humans have made but something that is made by the slate.
The slate has a name... it is called the Wisdom Slate, and till now, one thing is clear... it has its own consciousness.
When humans were struggling to practice their skills, as directly going to battle was disastrous, the slate understood their plight and created a domain. Whoever was near that domain was pulled inside that domain.
This was the parallel world..nowadays, it is available everywhere as humans have found a way to connect everyone using virtual pods that use essence to connect everyone from anywhere directly to the Wisdom Slate.
The reason why no one can fake their affinities and elements is also because of this, as it is the Wisdom Slate that evaluates them, not something that humans have created.
Lysara and her family came outside and moved toward the location where the real road begins.. their vehicles are standing there.
They all began sitting one by one, and when it was Lysara's turn, she turned around and looked at him for a fleeting moment before dashing in.
Everyone understood her intentions, so no one reacted to it as it would just embarrass Vaelen and Lysara.
But Vaelen knew that there was one guy who was definitely not going to leave any stone unturned...his damned brother.
The car flew and left.
"Ah, finally, little brother, let's go.. we have to start preparing for the wedding, you know," Zareth made his way toward Vaelen and put his hand on his shoulder.
"That joke isn't funny, and remove your hand from me."
Vaelen wasn't having any of this nonsense.
"Okay, you two stop. Vaelen, come with me."
"Yes, Mom."
Vaelen was happy to leave right now.
They came back to his room.
"You have something to talk about?"
Vaelen rolled his eyes at his mother's acting, which didn't go unnoticed by her.