The rest of the travel was rather calm compared with the mystery of the crystal coffin, while the girls trained with the help of the Elemental Conversion Array in the main residence, Daimon spent his time in the captain's cabin with Jasmine, trying to understand something about the white symbols.
Unfortunately, besides being able to see them clearly which no one besides Aurora and Jasmine can do, and the fact that they are indeed some kind of runes, Daimon could only understand one of the symbols which appeared in the three sections of the panel.
Daimon could only notice it after he used Core Synchrony, and then injected the whole amount of his mana reserves into his eyes, one of the symbols blurred a bit and then his eyes were able to interpret it in the common language, which surprisingly even at Neptune is the most spread one.
The symbol he managed to understand meant "Sky", strangely after he understood its meaning, whenever that symbol appeared, for Daimon it was automatically changed for the word "sky".
Back at the black stone hall Daimon was able to understand around five or so of those red symbols, among which he learned the name Drakolevia, but the inscriptions that appeared later in what was the true place destined from the entrance trial, he was unable to understand them, these white symbols were similar in that sense, they didn't budge no matter how much mana he injected into his infinity eyes.
It wasn't Core Synchrony what allowed him to see it, but the fact that he used Sanctuary after that to recover the mana and stamina to prevent being penalized by the skill, it was then when one of the symbols blurred and he was able to read it.
Unfortunately, even if Daimon wanted to study those whit symbols more, the travel to the largest continental zone of the Elemental Sea, only lasted one day, so he could only use Sanctuary once, he even tried to ask Jasmine to cast her buff spells on him, but nothing happened.
'Well, an advance is an advance no matter how small it is', he thought
Making memory, Daimon realized that his black Sea Emblem might have something to do with the black stone hall, because it absorbed the rune shark which he found after surpassing the trap of that skeletal creature, which he originally thought was an Skelefiend, but now was more inclined to believe, it was one of those creatures called "Nethereal", that could be why he managed to translate four or five symbols in total.
Horals wasn't present back then, but Rita was inside Daimon's shadow, so now after they had met two of those creatures, she confirmed Daimon's theory by saying that the creature that tried to trick him calling him "Drakolevia badge bearer", had a similar feeling to those Nethereal things.
Besides that, another event worth mentioning is that the Risha sisters also advanced, they have fought quite a bit during this time, and the atmosphere rich in elemental mana of the main residence, even if it was only for a day, was the last push they needed.
Surprisingly the three actually jumped to the fifth star mage realm, as if their growth had synchronized after they got their wings, since Liliana used to be on a higher realm than the Yvonne and Leslie, but no more.
But they weren't the only ones, Tessa and Femi also advanced, unlike the sisters who broke through in a short period of time all the way from the two-star mage realm to the fifth star one, they used to be three-star mages, similar to how Aisha could have been, if she wanted to, but didn't bother in advancing because she wanted to enter at the same grade as Daimon.
So, she only advanced after consuming the Thunder Nimbus Vine, and jumped two realms to become a four-star mage.
The Alfear and Dwarf princesses, became sixth star mages, which to their surprise was still one realm below Aisha, despite they being the same age, 22 years old.
Needless to say, but Mellie and the others that were natives of Neptune, were surprised to see that Daimon and the others who came from the outside world, were so strong despite not having reached the Lord rank.
Especially because during the travel, Daimon explained to them the traits of the different realms, for mages Manifestation Phenomenon and a Domain, as for knights, Will Manipulation and the Battle Avatar.
He also mentioned mana sense and the ability to use Space Shift, even Aurora and Thea were interested in the conversation, because they had no knowledge regarding the Lord rank traits, Daimon mentioned, and the ones for Archmages only appeared on those who stood on the top of the pyramid in terms of talent, and even then, they only have two of three.
For example, Annete, according to Mellie she has a Domain and she has the capacity to travel through space, but she doesn't have mana sense, her detection capacities are linked to her Analyze Resonance.
Thea is a different case, she has mana sense and the capacity to travel through space, but she doesn't have a domain, for that same reason her fighting style is similar to Aura before she became Daimon's soulmate, in other words, close combat as she lacks in the wide area spell aspects.
Even then, the Empress made up for the lack of a domain with her innate ability, which resided in her eyes.
Daimon noticed the pattern, even if the talented people of Neptune still lacked one of three traits, innate abilities related to lineages were abundant unlike at the four galaxies, it was tit for tat.
And so, after a whole day of travelling, the Flying Citadel reached the vicinity of the Elemental Continent, unlike the Clear Water kingdom which was a single mass of land, the lands of the Elemental Sea were separated for a very good reason.
"Woah, a completely green island!", exclaimed Leslie as she saw the island that belonged to the Bamboo Forest sect, the travel was coming to an end so they were all at the captain's cabin to get the best view that could be attained in the Flying Citadel at its highest point.
There was a total of seven islands, green, brown and blue at the right side, orange, purple and grey at the left.
In the middle there was the biggest mas of land, which was equally divided in white and black, naturally those were the predominant tones, mostly because the vegetation of the respective islands had them, representing the element which was more abundant in each of them.
"The Sea Soul, Bamboo Forest and Rock Mountain sects are under the management of my light Palace, the territory from north to southeast, then the Sky Flare, Purple Haze and Grey Workshop sects which are under the management of the Black Fortress which my husband leads, controlling the territory from the south to the northwest", said Aurora as she explained the major divisions of the Elemental Sea.
That didn't mean there weren't any other territories, there were a lot of islands here and there, where people lived, these seven masses of land were the biggest and acted as the head quarters of the eight sects.
The Flying Citadel flew towards the island in the center, more accurately to the white right side of it, which was the territory of the Light Palace, though only Jasmine and Aurora were the royal family of the Light Palace, there were other people living in the island, it was a paradise for light and its related elements, mages, like lightning, so when a family had a talented son or daughter with light or lightning affinities, they were send there to learn.
Besides Aurora there were a lot of instructors who worked under her, giving public lessons to all the people that lived in the island, it was slightly similar to the system of academies stablished by the Magus Kings back at the four galaxies, in the sense that the people separated from others based on their affinities.
Naturally there was also way more normal people than back at the galaxies, apparently in the Elemental Sea, it was normal for mages or knights to not appear in a family for many generations, a strange occurrence at the galaxies where even if low ranked, even the commoners and poor people were eighter mages or knights.
'In a direct confrontation between this Elemental Sea and Lykos, Lykos will have the advantage, the only variant is that I don't know how does the conversion between the Stellar rank of this place and the Half Emperor of the White Fang galaxy work', thought Daimon.
Thea is a middle stage Stellar rank strong enough to fight with high stage ones, and in a rough calculation, Daimon estimates that Aura should be at the same level as her.
'Guess, I'll have to ask Calvin how strong is his grandfather ', he thought.
Normally is rare to get to see any of the Half Emperors on action, in her two hundred years of life, Aisha who is the only soulmate that was accompanying Daimon, never heard of Solomon or any of the other who were in a similar level as him, fighting or even appearing outside of their respective native planets.
Daimon woke up from his daze as he saw the Flying Citadel descending from the sky onto a large open space area, there were mages acting as guides while Aurora controlled the descend.
Naturally thanks to the barrier there was no impact, despite the insanely heavy weight of the citadel.
"Let's go, I'll take you to Twilight city for the welcome party… I need to take care of some things and then we can to the treasury together", said Aurora to Daimon.
She used more mana crystals than what she expected for the Flying Citadel since she had to activate the Elemental Conversion Array, so she needed to take out more from her treasury, because she has promised to take Daimon to the Bone Sea and the Maelstrom Sea.
Only after that they will return to check on the restricted area where the legacy of the hero is supposedly located, luckily with the Flying Citadel and the guide of natives of the other two seas, in other words Thea and Shirel, one day will be enough to go to their destinations, the Citadel was that fast and the private routes of those two will help avoid the most dangerous territories preventing fights with magic beasts that otherwise would have delayed them down.
Daimon nodded and they then descended from the captain's cabin, after leaving the inner ring Thea just transported them all to the center of the outer ring where the four patriarchs and the other people from the sects were already waiting, since the platform that could detach from the citadel was that.
Naturally their arrival drew the attention of the others, Underwood approached to talk with his daughter, followed by the other girls who were his wife's disciples and Cassy's original teammates.
Heartstream and Stoneheart slightly bowed towards Aurora, since they are her direct subordinates, Skyfire on the other hand just nodded before he glared at Daimon, unlike the other present patriarchs, he isn't her subordinate as he forms part of the faction of the Black Fortress and only responds to the Shaman.
Previously he showed respect and all, because he wanted to keep his "good uncle" image on Jasmine, but apparently that didn't work, so now it was time to take a more direct approach and for that he had to ask for audience with the Shaman, so he had no time to entertain these outsiders.
Aurora snapped her fingers and the platform floated and then descended from the citadel to the ground, the group was received by the people who earlier acted as guides for the landing, which were actually the "Hall Masters" of the Light Palace, in other words the highest ranked instructors that were subordinated to Aurora.
"Welcome back Lady Aurora, the carriage you asked for has been prepared, the party will be ready at the requested time, also Lord Shaman has come out of his seclusion and is waiting for your return", said a tall man with a white armor.
Daimon was surprised of the rare sight of a Stellar ranked knight, and a light affinity one on top of that, not only that but it was actually at the middle stage realm, being on par with the important people of the Clear Water kingdom, like the neo noble general Dominic or the Blackfin Duke.
Aurora already explained there are no high stage Stellar ranked under her command, since they are pretty rare, but she has two middle stage ones and two early-stage ones as her instructors, and that is enough to equal most of the totality of the power of the White family at least on the public side.
"Thanks Sid, everyone here is invited to Twilight City", said Aurora as she walked towards a white carriage which was being driven by a woman wearing white robes.
On the way to the carriage Daimon could feel the hatred gaze of not only Skyfire but his son as well, the others also were gossiping since they saw Jasmine walking at his side, but he didn't care, he didn't come here to play.
