Daniel slowly opened his eyes and looked around. Naturally, he was in his bedroom. He moved his muscles a bit and got up from bed.
After three weeks, being back home had become normal to him. He picked up his phone and checked it. The first thing he saw, naturally, was Lana’s messages.
Almost all of them were warnings telling him not to go to the Gulf of Sumer. Of course, all of those messages were from three weeks ago, from the time he had told Lana that he was going to the Gulf.
Now that he thought about it, back then the guild leader had told him that he should not go to the Gulf until he reached Rank S. However, at that time, he had completely forgotten about it.
He let out a sigh, and after sending Lana a message telling her that he was back, he put his phone aside. Using his spiritual senses, he checked the house and realized that no one was home. It was almost afternoon.
"Where could they be?" he muttered to himself. His sisters and his mother were always home at this hour.
He did not think too much about it. He took off his clothes and went to the bathroom. He had not washed his body for three weeks, and even he himself felt dirty and uncomfortable.
He spent nearly an hour in the shower. After coming out, he put on clean clothes and sat down on his bed. Then he waved his hand, and the next moment, a Fallen appeared in front of him.
"Tell me what happened during the three weeks I was gone," he said in a calm voice.
This Fallen was one of several Fallen he had placed to protect his family, but it also acted as his intelligence agent.
The Fallen nodded and began explaining everything that his family had gone through during those three weeks.
His mother was the same as always. She spent her days walking, doing yoga, watching movies, and reading books. It could be said that she had a completely calm and uneventful life.
However, the same could not be said for his sisters. It seemed that their lives had gone through many ups and downs during those three weeks.
"Alice and Tiana reached the peak of Rank E?" Daniel muttered in surprise.
Three weeks ago, his sisters were only Rank F, but now they had reached the peak of Rank E. It should be noted that rank advancement was not possible through normal dungeons.
Only in the Tower or in the Celestial Domain could one gain EXP and increase their rank. And until they cleared the first floor of the Tower, they could not enter the Celestial Domain.
Unless a special type of treasure was used, one that could open a portal between two worlds. However, this method had an extremely high cost, and only top guilds possessed such resources.
"So the Fallen Sun Guild decided to fully invest in those two," Daniel thought to himself. According to his reasoning, the guild’s board of directors most likely saw them as the future core of the guild.
"That’s good. They had reached the peak of what they could achieve, and without ranking up, they couldn’t make further progress."
Continuing based on the Fallen’s report, it seemed that the Dragon and Phoenix Gathering had been held two weeks ago, and both Alice and Tiana had participated in it.
The Dragon and Phoenix Gathering was a series of competitions among the younger generation and had clear group divisions.
Participants had to be under the age of 22, and the highest rank allowed to participate was Rank B. Anyone above that was no longer considered part of the younger generation and was already at the level of a powerhouse.
Participants of each rank were placed into specific groups and competed against each other. For example, Rank E against Rank E, Rank C against Rank C, and so on.
Since his sisters were at the peak of Rank E, they were naturally supposed to participate in the Rank E group.
However, by showing their strength, they entered the Rank C group and managed to defeat everyone. As a result, their titles, the Princesses of the Moon and the Sun, had now reached national and even regional fame.
Tiana took first place in the Rank C group, and Alice took second place. Their battle was evenly matched, and they themselves chose for Tiana to be the winner, since Alice already had the gathering’s reward.
In fact, he himself had once planned to participate in the Dragon and Phoenix Gathering. At that time, he intended to win and become the top genius of the country.
However, who could have imagined that with the speed of his growth, before he even realized it, he would reach the level of the strongest in the world?
Along this path, many people whom he once thought it was impossible to ever reach were either dead, or no longer any different from ants in his eyes.
The flow of fate was something strange and unpredictable.
Anyway the reward for the Rank B and Rank C groups was permission to enter the Lapis Dragon Domain.
Alice had already obtained the right to enter after winning the Awakened Academy exam in the city of Santcis.
And now Tiana had obtained it as well.
This domain was an ancient dungeon that, despite having been cleared, had not disappeared for unknown reasons.
Both Alice and Tiana had entered this domain at the beginning of this week and would remain there for four more days.
The most valuable treasure in that domain is the Tears of the Phoenix. He hoped that the two of them would be able to obtain those tears.
As for his mother, it seemed that she had recently joined a circle of friends and spent her time with them while her children were away. Apparently, she had recently become addicted to exercising and was attending various classes with her friends.
"I didn’t expect this kind of situation from Alice and Tiana, but what can I say, they’re my sisters, so it’s normal," Daniel laughed happily.
Fortunately, there was no longer any need to worry about the two of them. It seemed they had matured enough to not only protect themselves, but were now recognized across the country as top geniuses.
Daniel also asked whether anything special had happened in the country. However, the Fallen looked at him with a clueless expression, making him let out a sigh.
He then ordered it to return and watch over his mother from the shadows.
"If I remember correctly, a school gathering was supposed to be held," he muttered to himself, picked up his phone again, and checked his messages.
Joe was the second person who had sent him the most messages during this time. Most of them were about how the school gathering was approaching and that Daniel should not miss it.
"That’s right, the gathering is tomorrow," Daniel remembered the timing and showed a cold smile. He had completely forgotten about this as well and had only remembered it by chance.
However, before he could think about it any further, his phone started ringing. He looked at it.
Naturally, it was no one other than Lana.