"The king agreed," Old Man La Roche said when he walked inside the tent where Cassandra was occupying. To the outside world, she was still unconscious, battered, and might not even wake up. This was because she exhausted her ability while helping the other heirs escape. Even the royal doctors that checked her earlier said that she had exhausted her ability to the point of it affecting her vitality.

Of course, this was all bullshit. Something that Cassandra created to fool everyone.

One thing that Cassandra learned in the outside world was the fact that the human body doesn\'t really have any limitations. This was something that she realized after she had studied anatomy, dissected countless corpses in the name of research, almost drowned herself while free diving, and almost died after jumping out of a flying plane. Everything she did was in the name of her novel — officially.

However, this was something that she did to test her capabilities, her limitations.

One thing she discovered is the fact that there is no limit to everyone\'s ability. There was no limit to elemental power. However, you cannot just achieve anything without hard work and practice. Everything about their abilities required these two important requirements.

Still, these two aren\'t enough. There was always the concept of more somewhere. And it was a part of human nature to crave for something more, to be greedy.

And she was just one of those people.

While she was outside of this continent, she realized another thing. There is a state, another state that could enhance your control in your abilities and that is… a zone.

This is something very popular in history books. It was said that the Saintess Rhea herself started it and knight Mo was the person who taught this to his knight. However, this state is not something that one could achieve just by practicing.

Over the years, the descendants that practiced this state slowly vanished, as they couldn\'t understand how to trigger it. Many people have said that you needed to exhaust your elements to enter this state. And as the proper way of achieving this wasn\'t stated in any history books or journals, people started experimenting.

Soon, many people started doubting these stories of unlimited control of your abilities. After tens of years, the people who were researching it dwindled. Until they just stopped teaching these things at the academy.

To be honest, she too thought that this was useless. She had read a lot of books, hoping that she could find anything about Sybill and their abilities. Because of this, she discovered that there were certain patterns that other people missed.

Inside the journals of those people who saw other Elementalist enter this particular state, it was stated the all the people involve exhausted their abilities before they were able to awaken in that state.

But they mentioned nothing about dying.

That\'s right.

The key to this mysterious state is \'death\'.

For some reason, the people who were able to awaken this state didn\'t have any journals available in the libraries. Maybe someone deliberately hid the information away or didn\'t want the public to know about it. Until now, she didn\'t know the true reason behind the disappearance of this technique.

However, while she was outside, she was lucky enough to awaken this state when she… drowned.

To be fair, she honestly wanted to test her limits by free diving. She did it without proper training or anyone with any scuba gears accompanying her. It was a crazy plan, a really dangerous one. At that time, she used fire to sustain herself until she felt like her brain was about to explode. She thought she overestimated herself; she thought that was her end. At that time, she was about four hundred meters underwater. She thought she was going to die.

But when she opened her eyes again, she was already in the hospital. They said that her colleagues saved her. But she knew that would be hard to do, considering the surrounding water was hot from the fire that she used.

And that was when she noticed it.

The changes inside her, the changes in her control and precision.

"Alright… that should be enough to threaten that crown prince." She spoke after a few minutes of silence. "Thank you, grandfather. I know… showing them your ability wasn\'t something that you planned. It was risky. But I believe that this is the only way for them to panic and make a mistake." Once the other nobles know the ability of the four great clans, they would surely doubt their loyalty to the crown.

This is going to shake the position of the Crown on this continent.

And once that happens, the king would not move carelessly anymore. He wouldn\'t want to expose his ambition and cruelty to the people who supported him.

Right now, the power inside this kingdom is not balanced. Many people thought that the King is already more powerful than the four great families. And of course, weaker people wanted to cling to the more powerful ones. They would do it to survive.

This is why Cassandra wanted to use these hunting games to display their power. This time, it wasn\'t just by simply winning the hunt. It was by showing them that the King cannot move in front of absolute power.

"The four great clans… didn\'t want to shake the kingdom. We are guarding the gates, and that is our job. Leading the people isn\'t something that we are good at."

\'Protecting the people\'

That is the only thing that the four great families cared about. This is why they didn\'t do anything, even when the King was openly challenging them by changing the rules. The Clan Lords let the King oppressed them simply because they have no ambition to rule. Without the King, another King would just replace him. What was the use of fighting now?

Moreover, they also thought that they were helpless because of the nobles that the King controlled. All these clans think about was guarding the gates and protecting the people. They are traditional warriors who knew nothing but fighting demons. It was embedded in them the moment they have established hundreds of years ago.

"I know. This is why… we are going to change everyone\'s opinion. Let\'s show them… what would happen if they push us out of this country."

"You mean… you are planning to let the demons hurt the people?"

Cassandra smiled. "No grandfather. I am not that harsh. However, let\'s expect that the King is going to secretly attack us from now on. Meaning, he would probably frame us and even banish us." This isn\'t just a possibility, as she already saw all this happening from her vision. The King is going to frame the La Roche Family and use this to cause chaos between the four great families. He wanted everyone to think that the four great clans wanted to become the most powerful clan. So, they sent assassins to eliminate the heirs.

However, Cassandra decided to use his plan against him. First, he would pressure the king to let them investigate the matter that almost killed her and the heirs.

Then, they are going to show the people how powerful they are.

Next is searching the noble\'s tents— using the pretense of searching for assassins.