Late at night, Mike and Daria stood on the shoulders of the queen's statue as they looked at the prosperous city.
"Were there any black magic in the powers that you've inherited from the queen?" Mike still refused to believe that Daria would ascend to the seventh stage so easily. If it were truly that easy, then that would make Theodore, Ysabelle, and the others seem like a joke! In the entire dynasty, there weren't many youngsters who could ascend to the seventh stage before they were twenty years of age, and those who succeeded usually had special opportunities or wealthy and powerful backgrounds who could provide them with the resources. He was worried that there would be unpleasant things in the powers that Daria had inherited from the queen, and that they would affect her negati
