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Around 3 p.m., Julia would continue to go out to help others, while Flora would go to the workshop to make clothes for Emerald.

Meanwhile, Emeryte would usually appear quietly like a ghost in some corner of the Blue Star Dance Troupe, seizing every opportunity to savor the dancer's flavor of Sulina.

Two more days passed in this wonderful daily routine. First, Flora lived up to expectations and made two new outfits for Emerald.

One piece is predominantly beige, while the other is light yellow.

When Amelie first saw the two new outfits and tried them on, she really liked them.

She wasn't wrong; Flora did indeed have the talent to be a fashion designer. Although these two new outfits were still the typical combination of a lace top and a short skirt, many of the accessories and color schemes were very stylish and trendy, the kind of pieces that could be featured in fashion magazines.

However, after putting on her new clothes and looking in the mirror for a while, Emerald realized that something seemed a little off.

The clothes were beautiful, and she was beautiful too, but the combination of the two beauties not only doubled her charm, but also made Amelie look a little gloomy, exuding a dangerous aura.

Isn't this... isn't this... the kind of outfit that was considered "landmine-style" in my past life?

Emery finally realized what was going on.

Landmine type...

Amelie looked in the mirror again in her new clothes, a slight smile playing on her lips.

Landmine-themed girls are indeed a headache, but their outfits are actually quite stylish. Who can resist the contrast between sweetness and darkness, and how can they incorporate gothic and anime elements?

At least these two outfits are very beautiful at first glance.

As for feeling a sense of darkness and danger after looking at it for a long time... that's actually a good thing. Because being too charming can often be a nuisance, and that sense of danger can deter smaller fry and prevent them from being harassed.

Ultimately, Emerald expressed great satisfaction with Flora's clothing design and asked Flora to design and make more new clothes based on this style.

Around the same afternoon that Flora finished making the clothes, another visitor came from afar to visit Emerald.

This visitor came from Emerald's hometown and was a person of considerable status—Emerald's grandfather's personal butler and one of the Mersen family's powerful cultivators in the Fusion stage.

Amelie didn't delay; she personally had tea and chatted with the old butler, patiently listening to his purpose.

The old butler was also very kind. He first told Emeralt some good news: Emeralt's entrepreneurial trial had ended, and she would no longer be restricted. She could use all the resources that the eldest daughter of the Melson family could use.

There was also a notice: the old butler told Amelie to go home as soon as possible to see her grandfather, as there was something important to discuss.

This made it very difficult for Amelie to refuse, and it led her to make her decision.

Originally, the Vance father and son had invited Amelie to the movie theater opening ceremony, but Amelie hadn't set a specific time yet because she wanted to wait until the Dragon Crystal Wine was ready, to taste the intoxicating beauty of Julia, before returning to Sphingard.

Unfortunately, plans don't always go as expected. The old man in the family sent his personal butler to invite people over, and Amelie couldn't put on airs, so she had to go home as soon as possible... As for the Dragon Crystal Wine, she could only wait until the matter with Sphingart was settled before she could come back and feed it to Julia.

Since we're going back to Sphinx, it's best to get things done in one go.

After thinking it over, Amelie decided on her three main purposes for returning to her hometown.

First, I need to go see the old man in person and see what arrangements and plans he has for me.

Second, attend the opening ceremony of the Vance Commercial Street Cinema.

Third, report to the Lohid Club and post another bounty quest—it's also time to gather some top-tier materials to upgrade the Magical Mystic Code [Saintess].

After determining the purpose of returning home, the next step is to confirm who will be returning.

Julia will definitely have to take her along, because with Connor Holm's death, Emerald is now back to being unmarried.

Even though everyone knows that Emery is not someone to be trifled with, the allure of being the eldest daughter of the Melson family is still too great, not to mention that Emery is a Fusion stage expert... Whoever can win her over will truly rise to the top in one step.

When the benefits are great enough, people can ignore the risks. Once Amelie returns to the social circles of the capital, Sphinx, there will inevitably be fearless flies harassing her... Unless Amelie also wants to follow in Granny Ya's footsteps, she can't kill off all the annoying suitors.

At this point, it's quite necessary to officially announce a partner, as it can at least ward off a lot of trouble and provide a suitable reason to refuse invitations that are difficult to refuse.

This position naturally belongs to Yulia. The heroine of destiny is fearless and can turn anyone who wants to harm her out of jealousy into a walking experience pack, making her the most suitable shield.

Furthermore, since Julia is Amelite's chosen partner, she will eventually enter Amelite's high society circle, so this opportunity allows her to get used to it first.

Another person who must stay by Emerald's side is, of course, Marcy. Her position in the Melson family is Emerald's personal maid. If she isn't there to serve Emerald when she returns home, it violates the Melson maid contract, and the Melson Internal Affairs Department even has the power to punish her directly, bypassing Emerald... Although such a thing generally doesn't happen, conflicts and frictions can arise within large families, so it's best to avoid giving anyone that opportunity.

Viliana, on the other hand, won't be going to Sphingard this time, because Amelite has already arranged another secret mission for her—if the mission goes smoothly, Amelite will soon be able to acquire several more useful and fun elven mages, most of whom are Viliana's juniors in the Elven Royal Court's Royal Guard training camp.

Su Lina and her friends will be going along because they have regular jobs. They will be performing a song and dance routine at the opening ceremony of the Vance Commercial Street Cinema, which can also be considered as a form of publicity for the movie "Singing Girl" before its release.

Flora will also be going to Sphinx in the end.

Although the letter from the head of the Lohid family to Amelie was written in a cryptic manner, Amelie still understood it—the head of the Lohid family intended to make Flora the link between Amelie and the Lohid family, which, to put it bluntly, meant sending Amelie a wife or lover.

A promising and talented young magician like Flora is not someone Emerald would refuse, so she also needs to show that she has accepted Flora.

Upon returning to Sphinx, Emerald needs to find an opportunity to date Flora alone in public, as a way of responding to Lohid. Also, bringing Flora along when reporting to Lohid's club is definitely the right thing to do.

After deciding on the objectives and the accompanying personnel, Amelie gave some instructions for the work in Locke City and then announced their departure.

Regarding transportation, Amelie hesitated between the teleportation portal and the airship, but ultimately chose the Amelie private airship parked on the rooftop platform of Blue Star Film and Television.

Actually, Emerald preferred the convenient and quick teleportation portal, but Julia kept staring at Emerald with longing eyes, looking like a big puppy wanting a bone, which was very cute, so Emerald decided to spoil her one more time.

Yulia has an extraordinary love and passion for piloting airships. Ever since the Emerald was brought to Locke City, Yulia has always tried to find ways to drive it for fun.

If it were any other airship, it wouldn't matter. Even if it got damaged, Emerald wouldn't care, as long as Julia was happy. The more Julia got used to a life of luxury like a rich kid, the more she couldn't live without Emerald.

However, the Emerald is named after Emerald, and in a sense, it is one of her iconic symbols. Emerald cannot accept that Julia is piloting the Emerald, creating all sorts of strange flight paths in the air, and she cannot accept that Julia is ruining the Emerald... Therefore, Emerald has always been very strict with Julia's airship piloting.

Now that she finally had the chance to legitimately pilot the airship, Julia naturally wanted to make the most of it... To this end, while repeatedly reminding Julia of the piloting precautions, Emerald took advantage of Julia quite a bit, and Julia pretended not to notice, letting Emerald do as she pleased.

Without deliberately taking a detour or engaging in dangerous driving, Julia, unusually serious, flew the Emerald with everyone to Sphingard.

As the eldest daughter of the Melson family, her vehicle was naturally already on the whitelist of air traffic control in Sphingart. Without needing to report in advance or wait in the air outside the city, Julia piloted her airship into Sphingart as if returning home, flying directly to the Melson Sky Manor.

As soon as they entered the manor grounds, guards from the Melson family began casting light magic to signal the landing of the Emerald.

After exiting the airship, Emerald said she needed to see her grandfather, the head of her family, first, and asked Julia and the others to wait for her at her residence... Anyway, Julia and the others had been here once before and were already very familiar with Emerald's residence, so they didn't need anyone to lead the way. She could even lead the way for Sulina and Flora, who were visiting for the first time.

Julia, Marcy, and Flora had no objections to the arrangement.

Needless to say, Marcy is Emery's personal maid, so they'll definitely be living together.

Yulia is in a similar situation. She and Emerald are just one step away from officially announcing their relationship. Although she often acts tough in front of Emerald, she can hardly suppress the smile on her lips whenever others in Locke City call her the president's wife, and she is always very proud of it.

Flora didn't think too much about it. She figured Flora was just visiting a friend, so it was normal for her to stay with a friend, right?

Only Sulina voiced her objection—she was fine with living with Amelie alone, but not with her friends. She couldn't stand by and watch them walk into a trap. She firmly opposed her friends living under the same roof as Amelie, not even for two days.

The girls all pouted, seemingly quite disappointed, but they also knew that their leader was doing it for their own good, not wanting them to be bullied by those mean girls, so they didn't say much.

To maintain her word, Amelie has never made a move against the innocent and lovely girls around Sulina, and she certainly won't now.

The Melson Sky Manor can be considered one of the most spectacular architectural wonders in the Allen Federation. The manor even has a rather magical punk-style alloy castle, and naturally there is also the Melson Grand Hotel, which is specially used to entertain guests. Amelie arranged for the girls to stay there, two to a room.

"correct."

Having arranged everything, and as she was about to turn and leave, Emery suddenly seemed to remember something. She took out a pocket watch, checked the time, and instructed Marcy:

"It's almost time for Bobo and Lulu to get out of school. I didn't tell the family before I came back, so they don't know yet. Xixi, could you go to their school to let them know and pick them up to stay at our house for a couple of days?"

"Yes, Miss~~"

Marcy readily accepted the order, but since she didn't know where Bobo and Lulu's school was, she asked one of the manor's maids, Melson, to accompany her.

After standing there for a moment to think, and confirming that there was nothing else, Emery waved her hand to dismiss Julia and the others, and then walked towards the tallest castle in the manor.

This castle is the main building of Melson Estate, the residence of successive heads of the family, and the place where core family members meet to discuss important family matters. Therefore, the atmosphere is always very serious, and the waiters and maids working in the castle are all steady and capable old gentlemen and old maids.

Emerald has never liked this place since she was a child, and she still doesn't.

If one day Amelie becomes the owner of this castle, she will first repaint the castle's dreary gray exterior into a vibrant and adorable pink, and then replace all the servants inside with hot and beautiful anime-style maids.

Imagining herself throwing a party in the family's most important meeting room, Amelie greeted the maid at the castle gate and handed over several offensive magical artifacts she carried for safekeeping before entering the castle.

This castle also serves as the administrative center of the Melson family. Every day, pink-haired girls from all over the Federation come and go. They are all relatives of Emerald, and most of them are the highest-ranking officials of a branch of the Melson family. Theoretically, their status within the family is no lower than that of Emerald, the eldest daughter of the direct line.

So when Emerald had to come to the castle before, although her relatives would greet her kindly, it was always the kind of greeting elders give to younger ones. They just regarded Emerald as an ordinary child in the family.

But this time it was different. Many of the relatives who had known Emerald before no longer acted like elders and called Emerald "Little Ellie." Instead, they called her "Young Lady" with great respect, and their eyes were filled with deep fear when they looked at her.

This was all due to the effects of Emerald's deliberate exposure of her strength. The Melson branch members were shocked by Emerald's true talent, and even more shocked that Emerald could be so patient and restrained at the age when she should have been young and impetuous.

If other young people possessed Emerald's talent and strength, they would have boasted about it to the whole world. But Emerald pretended to have only average talent, waiting until the most opportune moment to decisively unleash her power and shock the world.

Coupled with Connor Holm's tragic end... many people naturally labeled Emerald as someone not to be trifled with, and thus began to respect her.

Emery didn't care about this; it was all within her expectations.

As someone destined to shape the world order, Emery had already figured out how to establish her persona.

In the eyes of ordinary people, she wanted to become a beautiful and kind-hearted saint, so that everyone would like her.

In the eyes of the powerful and wealthy who control a large amount of social resources, Amelie must also establish the image of a ruthless and powerful witch, so that people fear her and find it difficult to resist her domination.

After greeting several pink-haired relatives she encountered along the way, Emerald finally arrived at the head of the household's study on the top floor of the castle, where her grandfather was located.

The old butler who had once gone to Locke City to deliver a message to Amelie stood at the study door. When he saw Amelie approaching, he didn't say much, but silently made way for her and gestured for her to come in.

No matter how humble the old butler was, he was still a powerful cultivator in the Fusion stage. Amelie didn't show any arrogance as a young lady towards him, but instead nodded politely in greeting before pushing open the study door and going in.

A sprightly old man sat behind his desk, flipping through a travelogue of the Northern Snowfields written by a well-known powerful figure in the Federation. He was none other than Baphomet Melson, Amelie's grandfather.

Although she hadn't seen her grandfather for almost two years, Amelie was still very familiar with him. She only glanced at him twice before her gaze was drawn to a small box on the desk.

The small box was very exquisite. The lid was open, and the inside was lined with red silk cloth, on which was placed a dark gold ring.

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The dark gold ring has a simple design without any fancy decorations. It is thick and wide, and should more accurately be called a ring.

The ring looked ordinary, but Emery took it very seriously. She looked at it intently for a few moments, and a hint of surprise flashed in her eyes... This was indeed a bit unexpected for her.

The dark gold ring itself doesn't have many functions, mainly positioning and communication, roughly equivalent to a high-end satellite phone on Earth. But the ring's value lies not in its functions, but in its symbolic meaning.

The ring is called the Mearson Ring, a symbol of status that only core members of the Mearson family can possess in each generation. At any given time, there are generally no more than 10 ring owners in the family, and each ring owner wields considerable power within the family.

Despite her prestigious title as the eldest daughter of the royal family, Emerald is actually similar to a princess in a feudal dynasty. She holds a high position but has little real power and cannot attend court or participate in the country's military and political affairs.

The owner of the Merson Ring is equivalent to the Minister of the Six Ministries and the Prime Minister of the Three Provinces. They wield considerable power within the Merson family and can participate in the decision-making of major family affairs. In some important matters, even the head of the family cannot make decisions directly and must first obtain the consent of the majority of ring owners.

Currently, most of the owners of the Merson Ring in the Merson family are of the same generation as Emerald's grandfather, Baphomet. There are only three ring owners among the second generation: Emerald's father, her third uncle, and her cousin who is the director of the FBI.

Needless to say, the third generation members are also included. In fact, there has never been a precedent in the history of Merson of issuing rings to family members under the age of 30.

...Is this ring for me? I think so.

Amélie muttered to herself, but quickly and discreetly looked away. She first stood before the desk, adjusting the hem of her skirt, and gave a very ladylike bow.

"Grandpa, I'm here."

Without waiting for Baphomet's reply, Emerald walked directly behind him and pretended to massage his shoulders a couple of times.

"I know you're busy as the head of the family, Grandpa, but please remember to balance work and rest!"

"……snort."

Baphomet then put down his travelogue, letting out a playful snort and giving Emerald a sidelong glance.

"The youngest Fusion Stage mage in human history is personally massaging my shoulders? I, an old guy with mediocre talent who's still only in the Awakening Stage, can't possibly accept that."

Clearly, Baphomet was somewhat dissatisfied with Amelie's continued concealment of her strength and her decision to go out and embark on her entrepreneurial trials.

Amelie knew this too, but it didn't matter.

One of the biggest advantages of being a girl is that no matter how big or strong you become, you can still act cute and spoiled with your elders without anyone laughing at you.

Emerald didn't care at all about the demeanor of a fusion-stage mage, and just like an ordinary little girl, she grabbed Baphomet's arm and shook it:

"Oh dear~~ I'm just being cautious, Grandpa... There's an old saying in the Tianyun Empire east of the White Sea: 'The tallest tree in the forest is bound to be felled by the wind'... Before I have the ability to withstand strong winds, of course I, this delicate little sapling, must protect myself~~"

"You have the most words."

Baphomet waved his hand, stopping Emery from grabbing his arm any longer:

"Alright, stop being so cute. I called you here today for something important... First, tell me how you managed to break through at such a young age. Don't tell me you only relied on talent. The strength of the meridians in the human body simply cannot withstand the powerful flow of magic when organs are transformed into magic at your age. This is a common conclusion reached by many experts, and it should be correct."

"The experts' conclusions weren't wrong after all."

Emery nodded, chuckled, and retreated to Baphomet's desk. She hooked a small stool over with her foot and sat down opposite him.

“Normally speaking, human meridians cannot withstand the flow of magic when organs are transformed into magic at such a young age, and I am no exception… So I actually reached the peak of a master mage very early on, but I was blocked by this limitation until I went to do an entrepreneurial trial, which gave me the opportunity to break through.”

"...You only got this opportunity in Locke City? I thought it was from that lord..."

A quick glint flashed in Baphomet's eyes:

"Could you explain in more detail? Is this method replicable? Could it also be an opportunity you obtained from the magic workshop left behind by that Miss Uri?"

“Of course not… Miss Uri’s legacy is entirely with Yulia. I haven’t been to that magic workshop yet… Yulia would like to take me there, but the magic workshop has strict identity verification, so I can’t get in.”