355 Their Pride (1/2)

Heinrich smiled with bright eyes the moment Elizabeth entered the study room. He placed down the ink pen and strolled over with his arms open wide to embrace his wife.

”Did you find yourself a mistress while I was gone?” Elizabeth asked shortly after noticing the black luster of a ring on Heinrich's hand. Her sharp aura surged immediately.

Heinrich's arms froze awkwardly as he nearly keeled over from the shock.

”W-What are you talking about? I've been so busy with kingdom affairs, I have barely any time to cultivate. Where would I get the time to find a mistress?” Heinrich smiled ruefully.

If he did go and find himself a mistress while his wife was working hard fighting on the frontlines for the kingdom, wouldn't she break his dog legs when she finds out?

Noticing a few strands of grey hair on Heinrich's head, Elizabeth could tell that work had been stressful and not easy for Heinrich either. She would rather fight on the frontline than be stuck behind a desk drowning in paperwork.

Nevertheless, she could not relent and pressed, ”Then how do you explain the black ring on your finger?”

”The black ring on my finger?”

Heinrich did not whether to laugh or cry when he heard this. Such a precious gift from their son had been mistaken for—Haiz, forget it.

Heinrich rubbed his head ruefully and helplessly said, ”My Queen, this is priceless treasure personally forged and gifted by our dear son.”

The ring in question was precisely one of the interspatial artifacts refined by Leon. Although the ring was unrefined in design and looked like a metal nut. It was an interspatial artifact, nonetheless.

”Our son made this?”

”That's right.” Heinrich affirmed before saying, ”Speaking of this, our son has made a few items for you and the two little ladies too.”

Three sets of weapons and interspatial artifacts suddenly appeared in front of Elizabeth. Heinrich passed one set to her before he proceeded over to the two ladies, who were yet to be familiar with the king, Leon's father.

”Aria and Lynne, right? These are for you two.”

Heinrich passed the other set of rings and swords to them before quietly watching the three women inspect their gifts with interest.

Aria and Lynne accepted the gifts with willingness and anticipation. They would not reject anything from Leon, especially when it is personally passed to them by the king.

A metal nut of a ring and a sword of simple design.

”Pft. Is this supposed to be our engagement rings?” Lynne jokingly asked. Despite that, she happily wore it on her ring finger with glee.

Aria did not express an opinion, but it was clear that she was also delighted from the way she wore the ring.

Contrary to these two, Elizabeth naturally thought differently. As Leon's mother, it was too scandalous and outrageous if she thought her son was also giving her an engagement ring.

”How did you do that?” Elizabeth asked Heinrich with surprise.

Heinrich naturally knew what his wife was talking about and proceeded to explain with a nod, ”En, I was just about to explain their usage.”

”To use the interspatial ring, you need to channel Spirit Energy into them before you can sense the existence subspace and items stored inside. If you have achieved some success in the publicized breathing technique, manipulating Spirit Energy should be easy for you.”

”I have not practiced that breathing technique before,” Elizabeth said with her brows.

She believed that only by focusing on a single cultivation path would people have hopes of reaching the zenith. As such, she had never practiced the technique, not even once.

Never had she expected that because of this, it would stop her from being able to use the priceless gift her son had forged for her.

Fortunately, Leon had anticipated that this might be the case and gave his father a detailed explanation of the World Tree's importance.

”You don't need to worry too much. You might not be able to use it now, but you definitely will be able to soon enough. Our son said that the World Tree is overflowing in this so-called Spirit Energy. As long as you practice the breathing technique there, you will be able to achieve success in refining Spirit Energy very quickly.”

”The same goes for you, girls. If you haven't already—”

”Oh, this is interesting! The sword disappeared inside!” Lynne excitedly exclaimed. She grew increasingly fond of the interspatial ring.

Heinrich shook his head and wryly smiled, ”It seems my words were unnecessary.”

At the same time, Aria had also learned to use the interspatial ring freely as the gifted sword disappeared and reappeared before her repeatedly.