431 Cheat 1 (1/2)

”Ajaar.” Queen Acacia quickly looked up to her brother in law who was still standing respectfully to the side. She couldn't blame Uncle Acacia, after all, Edrym hadn't told his younger brother anything about his disappearance. But, she was too worried to be rational right now. ”How long has it been since Little Alex awakened her bestial bloodline?”

Uncle Acacia was stunned by the question, he didn't expect this to be so surprising. After all, Ri was half Kitsune. What was the problem with her awakening her bloodline?

”About 3 months prior to the start of this year's campaign.” He quickly remembered how Dyon had been in a coma for 4 months, causing them to be about a month late to the campaign. So working backward, it should have been 3 months prior. ”So, just a few months from a year now.”

Time had flown by. Since the incident at Focus Academy, practically two years and a half had passed.

A small sigh of relief escaped Queen Acacia's lips. Less than a year gave them a lot of time to work with. And, if their plan to send the children into the Epistemic Tower worked, even the Kitsune wouldn't have an ability to infiltrate such a thing. By the time Ri was ready to come out, it would be solely to campaign from gate to gate and universe to universe to conquer and earn the right to enter higher levels of the tower. With so much movement and how difficult it was to move from universe to universe, it would be near impossible for the Kitsune to find Ri.

If their plan worked as they wanted it to, the children of this universe would grow into an empire that exceeded even the Kitsune. By that time, would they dare offend her Little Alex?

In the grand scheme of things, it took King Acacia little more than 5-8 years to find and bring back Kawa. However, that wasn't because it was a simple task.

If one were to think about it, in the life of a cultivator, what was 5-8 years? It was the equivalent of the blink of an eye. Nothing more.

That said, it had taken the Kitsune hundreds of years to come for Kawa. The amount of resources necessary to find and track a member of their clan, even one with a faith seed, was a heavy investment. Kawa went on a mission that should have only taken a few decades, yet never attempted to return. By the time the Kitsune realized and actively attempted to find and bring her back – eventually succeeding – centuries had passed.

So, one may wonder, why was there such a disparity? It was simple. As King Acacia had mentioned in his recounting of the Dragon King's story, he had his soul bound his wife. He never needed to spend any time searching for her whereabouts at all, he could feel where she was. In the end, it was only a matter time because when it came to a bound soul, distance meant nothing as long as you were in the same plane of existence.

That final caveat is also of utmost importance. To be in the same plane of existence simply meant to be in the same dimension. This meant that searching for someone became near impossible when you crossed dimensional barriers. This was why Little Black was able to sneak into the gate with Dyon's knowledge – he had entered the storage ring, therefore entering an entirely new dimension. And this was also why Ri would be safe if she entered the Epistemic Tower or if she spent time campaigning in the gates, they were also completely different planes of existence.