"A-A favor...?" Princess Sophia bit her lip, fearing the worst.
Still, she bowed her head lightly in reverence toward Axel and replied, "Please... ask away."
Of course, she had no choice but to agree; she wasn't in a position to refuse.
"Don't worry, it's nothing much," Axel said with a smile as he leaned against his throne, crossing his leg into a figure four. "I just want you to take this with you."
In the next moment, a small item appeared in his hand—a black bead, roughly the size of a thumb.
Without much care, he tossed it to Sophia, allowing it to slide across the floor like a pebble.
"T-This is...?" she stammered.
Even after examining it up close, she had no idea what the item was. All she could sense was that it contained an immense amount of mana.
"That's an artifact," Axel explained. "It's called a Transmission Stone. It transmits sound from the emitter to its paired receiver. The one you have is the emitter, and this one is the paired receiver."
