Gacha Sovereign

"I see. You are the woman who came and attacked him yesterday." Aria nodded her head with a calm expression.

"…" This time, it was Silvia's turn to be dumbfounded as she subconsciously released Alex's hand. She never expected Aria to talk to her like that after seeing her yesterday.

"Pfft." Alex looked away and laughed. The one that had been in control since yesterday was her, so it felt a bit satisfying to see her like that.

"Alright. Joke aside, nice to meet you. I am Aria Cypress. May I know what the situation is?" She asked politely, knowing that the one in front of her was a God Rank Expert who was even stronger than Alex.

"Come inside. I will explain the situation and clear up a few things."

With Alex's invitation, she went inside as they sat while facing each other.

"For now, she is going to do many things with us, so I want to make up her identity first. Her name is Mya. Why is she with us…" Alex thought for a moment. "Just say she is your friend that has become a disciple of this sect not long ago."

"We need to have another reason why you let her come here." Aria looked at Alex. Since Alex's desire to stay alone was known to a few people, he needed to justify that reason.

"How about I am your friend that you've known since many years ago? I came here one or two decades ago because I wanted to see the world, leaving you alone there. After knowing that you are here, I decided to visit you. We can throw a childhood sweetheart as a bonus. That's a more convincing reason…Like you come here because you are searching for me." She smiled.

Alex was speechless on how every plan was connected to him and her being a lovey-dovey couple.

"Anyway, we can make her my long-lost friend who became a jerk and left me in the past just to pursue her cultivation. And now she wants to get back like this." Alex nodded as if he thought this excuse was perfect.

"Oi!" Silvia pouted.

"I understand. That's the base of our story then." Aria nodded in agreement, pouring even more salt on her wound.

"Why am I the one who gets bullied here." She sighed. "Normally, no one dares to make fun of me."

"That's that, this is different. Unless you do me good or respect me, I won't respect you. If you make things difficult for me or do something ridiculous, then don't expect me to treat you well." Alex shrugged.

"Fine, fine. Take it as my mistake. I pay the price with this kind of stupid background story, alright?" She looked down, admitting defeat. This Alex really didn't pull his punch.

"Anyway, I have an agreement with her while I am here. As for when I come back? I don't know yet. At least, I will stay until I have completed the Sword Pavilion trial." Alex nodded.

"I understand. I will do my best during the time you are here." Aria then looked at Silvia. "May I know what will Senior do here?"

"Enough with this senior. Just treat me like I am your friend, so call me Mya." She thought for a moment and glanced at Alex. "I should be working on your cover first."

"Ah, yes. Please."

She then rose while smiling, taking off his mask. A few needles appeared on her hand as she started poking the needles one by one around his face.

"What are you doing?"

"You have seen the burn marks, right? That's fake."

"The burn marks? Oh, I see."

"Hehe…" Silvia interjected proudly. "I can see it through in a single glance. So, I am doing him a favor to make a perfect one for him."

"By the way, you can find a medicinal herb called Paniuoma. It's a Rank 8 medicinal herb that can nurture your eyes, considering it has never been used for a long time. And I can see that you are training a certain Eyes Technique, yes?"

"Yes."

"You can use the Eyes Technique during the process, and you will find it will become stronger and stronger. However, if you want the biggest effect, you can search for a Divine Herb called Sun Ganoderma. It can revive your dead eyes and nurture them as if they are reborn. Your choice."

"I understand. I will try to ask my family to search for it."

Alex thought for a moment and searched for the two herbs in his Inventory, but he didn't find any. It seemed, even the garden that his previous life left him didn't have an herb like this."

"Anyway, the nurturing period will last a few months. If I happen to leave this world first before you can do it, you can search for me when you reach God Rank. I will treat you as a friend." She smiled.

"Thank you." Aria smiled and bowed her head.

"It's fine. You have beautiful eyes, so it's a shame that the world doesn't know it."

"For now, I will be training with you since I am curious what kind of training that this guy gives you to the point there are many bruises on your body. The bruises are not external, but it's internal. In fact, I should heal you first. This guy also has it, but he had reset it when he reached God Rank and attained the Divine Body. But you? You need treatment. Let's go to your room first. I will give you a message. I am sure you will feel relaxed, and the flow of your Spiritual Energy becomes even stronger."

Aria hesitated for a second and saw Alex nodding his head. "I will be in your care."

"Good. Since we don't have anything to do, let's finish this." She rose from her seat and helped Aria up before dragging her to her room.

Meanwhile, Alex decided to clean up the mess in his room before he found a sweet voice coming from Aria's room.

It was none other than Aria's sweet moans. With just listening for a second, everyone would know she felt pleasure from the massage.

Alex simply ignored her sweet voice and continued his training. However, he was shocked by another thing. It was Aria's breakthrough after a whole night of massage.

"What in the world is that massage?" Alex couldn't help but comment, wondering if it was this easy to advance to another stage. If that was the case, he wanted the same massage to reach Rank 8 God.

After another few hours, Alex came out of his room since it was his usual time to get his own training.

When he came out, he found Silvia doing something in the kitchen.

"Oh, you are out? This is your breakfast. It's just a Rank 8 herb that can circulate your Spiritual Energy faster." She smiled.

"Hmm?!" Alex widened his eyes, never expecting to have breakfast.

Cultivators don't need to eat. This is a general rule because they can absorb the Spiritual Energy and turn it to fulfill their hunger.

"You have never had breakfast?" She tilted her head. "Well, I want to apologize as well because I am not a cook. If I can cook better, I can cook medicinal herbs and monster meat into something nutritious that can supply Spiritual Energy for morning training. I have found a world in my journey that uses such a method instead of pills, so I know it's possible. It's amazing to see many kinds of jobs that we think are useless actually have a powerful strength if they're used in the right way."

"Indeed." Alex nodded in agreement.

"Here, eat this salad first and finish the tea. I will fix your hands and any other broken "gears" in your body." She grabbed Alex's right hand and began massaging it.

Alex was startled at first because the massage didn't hurt. He thought to fix the problems would require strength like how he used to watch. He used his left hand to eat breakfast while glancing at her from time to time, finding her very different when she treated someone.

All the playfulness disappeared. He could only feel her gentleness and care of his body.

Not long after, his nose picked up a weird smell, so he took another glimpse at his hand, realizing it came from there.

"It only needs another two minutes before everything is expelled. I will do your other hand after that before moving to your entire body." She smiled. "Still, I am wondering what kind of training do you have this whole time?"

"Why?" Alex asked.

"Your body is breaking and recovering again and again. This doesn't really have any effect if you keep cultivating, but it will wear your body out when you are old." She sighed. "I can fix this because you are not too old, but if you have passed five hundred years old, this type of thing can't be repaired anymore. Can I observe your training, so I can give input from a doctor's perspective?"

Alex thought for a moment and nodded. "It's not like I am doing something special, so I guess you can. The training is like breaking your limit again and again every single day to increase your cultivation speed and body strength."

"What do you mean by that?"

"I mean, if I ask you to run and you can only run five laps, I will ask you to run six laps. If you can continue, I will ask you to do another lap and so on until you collapse. I found this when I was training like a crazy cultivator and felt the effect."

"That is hard and painful to train. Not many people know the side effect, but if they know, they will start thinking. Luckily, you meet me before the worst happens. By the way, who else has been training like this?"

"Ehm…My Disciple, maid, and someone under my tutelage."

"I need to fix their bodies too. There are many dead cells accumulated in your body, so I need to expel them with my massage. If you pass five hundred years old, I don't suggest you keep this training, you hear me?"

"I understand." Alex nodded with a serious expression. The agreement was only there a few days ago, and she had become this caring, so how could Alex ignore this good warning?

After finishing his right hand, she moved to his left hand.

"You are not tired?" Alex asked with a concerned face. The massage required Spiritual Energy, so it must be tiring to keep it up for a whole night for Aria. And she even served him breakfast and did all this.

"Nope. I am good. I understand now why you are only this young but reach this step. I don't know if I should call you a genius or reckless, but either way, you are the youngest one I have ever known to reach Rank 9 God before fifty years old." She sighed.

"I have many things that push my back to advance forward, so this is the result. I have no regret." Alex shrugged.

"Still, to think I am holding a man's hand like this. When everyone tried to know about me, they would always meet my father's iron palm. I was told that I served only to marry the Spirit God's reincarnation. I indeed idolize him, but when I found you, truth to be told, I feel a bit empty." She felt a bit down.

"Empty?"

"Yes. There is nothing special when I first met you in person. Even when I negotiated everything with you, I didn't know how I felt at that time. Since my father had raised me up like that, I chose to continue this. I used yesterday to handle all the business with this sect while thinking about this seriously.

"Unfortunately, I simply had no clue about this. Only when I tried this and knew you a bit better with the conversations yesterday and talked to you like this, I feel this is not bad. It just makes me relaxed. Well, I just want you to know that." She smiled before rising from the seat and pushed Alex from behind, so he sat a bit forward, giving her space to start her massage. "I have finished with your hands, so I will start giving you a massage."