Rise of the Legendary Emperor

Chapter 178: Arrora’s transformation

"Are you ready?"

Don, Knight, Amaryll, and Arrora were standing in Arrora's room. 

Arrora didn't understand why Don had given a bedsheet to Amaryll and made her stand beside her.

"I'm ready"

Arrora sighed and said as Don nodded

"Drink it"

Arrora took a glance at the potion and opened it as the smell of jasmine put a smile on her face but when she noticed the grin on Knight's face, her smile disappeared.

"Come on Arrora, drink it"

Amaryll was curious to know what the potion could do.

"Here goes nothing"

Arrora drank the potion in one gulp and waited to see the potion's effect.

"One"

Knight started to count with an evil grin on his face

"Two and three"

The moment Knight said three, Arrora clenched her stomach and fell on the ground while Amaryll rushed at her

"Are you alright? What's happening?"

While Amaryll was shaking her, Arrora looked at her hands to see them getting bigger and hairs starting to grow.

"What the!?"

Arrora saw Amaryll crawling back in shock but she quickly came back and covered her body with the bedsheet in her hand.

"What happened?"

Arrora said but when she heard her own voice, she clenched her throat because her voice sounded like a man's.

And when she moved her hand down to her chest from the throat, her muscles went rigid. She moved her hand around her chest region tensely yet she couldn't find her breasts as her chest was nothing but a flat board.

"You, you're a man"

Amaryll cupped Arrora's face with her hands and after a few seconds, Amaryll couldn't hold her laughter as she realized what had the potion done to her.

"What have you done to me?"

She touched her ears to realize that even her pointy ears were gone and turned into human ears.

"Relax, the potion effects will disappear in a day or two"

Knight chuckled and said

She was irritated seeing Knight's and Amaryll's faces as she walked towards the mirror to see the transformation.

When she came before the mirror, she saw a youth with brown eyes and a short beard staring back at her. The youth had shoulder-length brown hair and a broad shoulder

Even though she realized what had just happened, she was still in shock as she waved at the mirror to see the youth waving right back at her.

"Here, put this on"

Don retrieved a new set of armors from his space ring and sent it floating towards her and left the room with Knight leaving Amaryll behind.

After a few minutes, Don and Knight saw Arrora and Amaryll coming out of the room as by looking at Arrora's awkward gait, they understood that she's still getting used to her new body. 

"How are you feeling?"

"Why didn't you say that the potion would turn me into a man?"

Arrora asked Don as Knight chuckled

"Then we would have missed the fun of seeing your shocked face?"

Amaryll laughed with Knight

"That's true, you should have seen your face"

"Haha, I've seen you crawl back terrified, Amaryll"

Amaryll's laugh froze on her face as Elrond came to see Arrora with Ken and Stodemar.

"Me king, be that?"

Stodemar asked with wide eyes as Arrora realized that Ken had already revealed the effects of the potion to everyone else except her.

"So, do I have to call her brother Arrora now?"

Elrond squinted his eyes and walked around Arrora 

"Nae bad, you're looking better than 'afore"

Stodemar came before Arrora and laughed but before he could close his mouth, Arrora lifted him by his collar

"Do not test me, shorty"

Stodemar wiggled in the air as Elrond and Ken burst into laughter.

"Put him down, we have to leave soon"

Arrora nodded at Don as she let go of Stodemar and followed DOn to the throne hall.

When they entered the throne hall, Don saw Nikalas, and the others were waiting for him. Except for Reghys, everyone stared at her with a surprised look on their faces.

"How do you like being a man?"

Catalie giggled as Arrora rolled her eyes

"Not you too, Catalie"

Hearing her manly voice, Catalie couldn't control her laughter

"Take this"

Don threw a sword at her.

"Don't use your sword, use this one while we inside the dungeon" 

The sword in her hands had the same weight and balance as her dragon hilt sword.

"Knight, are you ready?"

"I hate this"

Knight sighed and closed his eyes as everyone saw him turn into a ball of light and disappear into Don's space ring.

"Ken, I hope they won't find out about my space ring"

"Yes, your majesty, your ring needs battle energy or bound energy to work, so they won't and can't find General Knight"

Since the space rings, Don brought from the divine continent need battle energy or bound energy to access it, for the outsiders, it would just be a normal metal ring, nothing more.

"Alright people, listen up, I don't know how long I have to stay in the dungeon, while we're away, do what you are assigned to do, avoid getting into trouble at all cost and if you get into trouble, contact Arwen or Amaryll asap and return to Everlight"

Don didn't think he could use the teleporter while he's in the dungeon so if they get into trouble, only Arwen and Catalie could save them. And by the trouble, he meant a grandmaster or higher-level threat as his army now had ten new great masters and they could handle the enemy great masters.

Don couldn't depend on Reghys this time as she's leaving the castle to venture into the deep woods to find a secluded place and cultivate.

After injecting herself with the purest of the life energy created by the Apex, she was so close to breaking into the heavenly realm.

So if his men in Emir and Agoria had met a grandmaster or a heavenly level cultivator in a battle, the only thing they could do is run and hide.

Although the chance of them meeting a grandmaster or a heavenly realm was low, Don didn't want to ignore the possibility.

"Never reveal your identity while working outside of here, and wear the masks at all times"

"Do nae worry aboot us, me king, we'll be fine, ye go an' give them hell"

Dhursir said as Don looked at Nikalas and Riya.

"If the dungeon has the elixir, I will bring it back to you"

Nikalas was too agitated to speak as he couldn't wait for Don to return but at the same time, he was concerned about his safety inside the dungeon.

"Joel, the things I've asked"

Joel stepped forward and handed another space ring over to him as Don put the ring in his space ring.

"Arrora, we should leave now"

Arrora nodded and stepped forward but she was stopped by Amaryll.

"Be careful, out there, that place will be dangerous"

Amaryll said while hugging her.

"I'll be careful, Amaryll"

Arrora gently patted Amaryll's back and stepped back 

"Don't get ye self killed, half-elf"

They knew the dangers of the dungeon from the stories they have heard from their ancestors and it made them worried about the safety of Don, Knight, and Arrora.

"You too, Don"

Amaryll said with a smile to hide her concerns from showing on her face.

"We'll be waiting for your return, brother"

Everyone waved at Don and Arrora before they were teleported to the Zenith kingdom.

"Ken, Reghys, they will be fine right?"

The smile on her face vanished the moment DOn and Arrora disappeared.

"His majesty and General Knight will be fine, but it's Arrora I'm worried about"

Ken said with a concerned look on his face because, in the future, there was no record of Arrora accompanying Don and Knight into the dungeon as he realized that his existence in this time period has already started to alter the events.

"Why?"

"His majesty and General Knight had faced far worse than the dungeon in their life, but she had not"

"Nae, she'll be fine, that half-elf be tough as nails an' feisty as any dwarf"

Although Stodemar and the dwarves would act like they hate the elves in Everlight, they had grown to like them and see them as their comrades.

"Stodemar is right, have you seen her training with brother? She would take hundreds of hit from him and she never fails to stand up, besides she's with my brother, he won't let anything happen to her"

Catalie would sometimes ask Don to stop or give her a break but Arrora would ask her to let her be and continue her training. And even when Don was not around, Arrora would never fail to train and cultivate.

"And she's also not a feeble girl anymore, she's a grandmaster, she can take care of herself"

Reghys said as everyone agreed with her.

"If anyone should be worried, it's the people going into the dungeon with those two"

Reghys remembered the time when Don took all of her treasure with one single sweep and even though she was different from the other dragons who would love to hoard treasures, she still couldn't forget what happened to her possessions.

"And by the way, what did he ask you to buy?"

The list Don had given to him was a weird one and he had to teleport back and forth to buy the items on the list. Joel didn't know that many of the items were even new to Don and it was Ken who suggested many items to him.

Some of the items made his hairs stand up when he bought them and he had no idea what's Don going to do with those inside the dungeon.

"Nordic centipedes, "