Harper tried to look for traces using her spiritual power, which she used to make the incantations work, and the half of the Sacred Seal she still had. It had already been seven years, and she wasn't confident at all that she would be able discover as to where it was. She then decided that it wouldn't be bad to look for clues first.
'I've been very lucky, but not lucky enough,' she thought herself. Yes, there had been clues that kept her search going, but she still saw some incomplete images. It was a man who destroyed the incantations with his blood. She was very familiar with his face.
Suddenly, Harper's eyes flew open. The incantations around her broke into a million pieces, like they did in the dream. Upon seeing this, Kile immediately went to her side to help her up. "Harper, are you all right?" he asked with great concern.
With her hands on her chest and heaving somewhat heavily, Harper waved her hand and responded, "I'm fine, Kile. I'm just having a little trouble breathing."
"Did you find any clues?" Kile asked cautiously. Harper looked a little pale, and by the looks of it, either because she was too tired or because she was so frightened.
After a minute of silence, Harper took a deep breath and answered, "Rolando."
Kile's father, the emperor of the Wonder Kingdom, gasped in surprised. "How could that be possible? Rolando was only sixteen years old seven years ago! How was he able to break into our Imperial Palace to steal the Sacred Seal?" he asked in disbelief.
"Blood," Harper said slowly. "Rolando's blood destroyed the incantations!"
"That's impossible! How could his blood destroy them?" What the emperor was hearing from Harper wasn't making any lick of sense. For him, even seven years ago, no sixteen-year-old teenage would be able to sneak into his palace, let alone steal the Sacred Seal! But if what Harper was saying was true, Rolando, even at that age, must have been incredibly powerful already. Now, that begged the question: how powerful was Rolando now?
Only Harper knew how powerful Rolando really was: a match for Matthew, although his right hand had been crippled after saving her life. What was bothering her at that moment, however, was the fact that Rolando was able to use his blood to break the incantations. 'That only means he is very special, like me!"
"I need to go back to Dragon Pass right away," Harper said at once. "Your Majesty, thank you for taking me here."
The emperor just stared at Harper, wanting to find out more from her. "You..." he started. But after pausing for a while, he let her go. "Forget it. Go, and make sure you take care of yourself."
"Thank you very much, Your Majesty. I'm going now," Harper said, leaving.
"Father, I'll walk her out." Kile followed her out of the palace. It never occurred to him that the Sacred Seal of the Wonder Kingdom was stolen by Rolando. 'He truly is incredibly powerful,' he thought.
"Harper, how powerful is Rolando?"
"Very. The only way to describe it that he is a match for Matthew," Harper said slowly. "I know that they had dueled once, but at that time, none of them gave it their best. If they did, nobody knows what's going to happen."
"If he's that powerful, how will you be able to take the Sacred Seal from him?" Kile asked with a worried face. Rolando certainly wouldn't fall into the same trap again. Moreover, he had already taken advantage of Harper once by using the Heavenly Book. If she wanted the half of the Sacred Seal that was with Rolando, he definitely would also want to have the half in her hands.
"It's not easy to get anything from him," Harper replied calmly. She didn't mind giving the Heavenly Books to Rolando since she already had the contents of the books, but with the Sacred Seal, she knew she had to pay bigger price for it.
"I don't want it," she said at once, responding to the thought she had in her mind rather than Kile, who was with her.
"What?" Kile responded back, looking at Harper in confusion. "You don't want what?"
"I don't need the Sacred Seal," Harper said calmly. "If getting the Sacred Seal means I'm going against my initial wish, I'd rather give it up."
"But you need that, don't you?" Kile was puzzled. During all these years, she had been looking for the Sacred Seal and the Heavenly Book. But it was not easy to get either of them. Now, she had known all the contents in the Heavenly Book There was only half Sacred Seal left. Why did she give up at this time?
"Rolando wouldn't allow me to take the Sacred Seal away," Harper said in a low voice. She didn't feel anything abnormal when she released her spiritual power in the Great Jade Kingdom. It only meant Rolando gave her the Heavenly Book because knew how to seal the power in the Sacred Seal. He would never give her the other half seal, and if she wanted it, the cost she needed to pay would be out of her imagination.
Kile never believed that Harper would give up so easily. So, he blurted out, "As far as I am concerned, you won't give up easily."
Harper smiled and said, "Kile, I might not have admitted defeat before and would try every means to get what I want from Rolando. But now, I won't do that, because I know what I want the most."
"What is it?" Kile asked curiously. What she wanted most was the freedom of the Qin Clan, right?
"Man!" said Harper jokingly. "Of course, what I want most is man."
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