Although Crown Prince Eric managed to buy Caladius Brachium, when he returned from the auction house, he wasn’t happy because he had not been able to help Lily.
While his mood was down, his carriage had arrived in front of the Royal Palace, and he heard an arrogant voice say.
“…Call your King or someone else who can make decisions on behalf of your Royal family to talk to me. Remember to tell him, I don’t want to cause trouble, but If your Royal family doesn’t hand her over to me as soon as possible, or if she manages to escape, I’ll hold your Royal family accountable.”
As soon as he heard this, he knew the ‘her’ the voice mentioned was Lily. He immediately wanted to rush out, and order the Royal guards to chase this arrogant prick away, but managed to contain his impulsiveness.
He calmly stepped out of the carriage and flew up while saying, “It’s alright, Commander Emery. Let me talk to him.”
The lady in golden armor was one of the guard commanders of the Royal Family, and was a peak five-star mage. When she heard how Oliver was trying to ‘humiliate’ the Royal Family, which had given her everything she had today, she could barely contain her anger and was about to attack him when Crown Prince Eric arrived.
Since he had ordered her, she had no choice but to back off. She bowed her head slightly toward him, “Greetings, Crown Prince!”
“Greetings, Crown Prince!” Everyone below echoed the greetings. The guards had even knelt on one knee. Clearly, the Crown Prince of the Green Leaf Kingdom was well respected.
Seeing this, Oliver looked him up and down before indifferently saying, “Since you are the Crown Prince, I assume you can make decisions on your Royal Family’s behalf?”
Eric didn’t answer him, instead, he looked at the crowd below, and calmly said, “Everyone, you don’t have to worry too much, and you can go about your day.”
A sliver of killing intent flashed in the depths of Oliver’s eyes when he saw Eric ignore him so blatantly.
He sneered and opened his mouth to say something when Emery snorted and released her aura in his direction, “Can’t your esteemed self see the Crown Prince is talking to his citizens? Wait until he is done.”
“How dare…” Oliver shook with anger. He was someone of a noble status even in the Ice Sovereign Mountain, and had never been disrespected like this.
Who do these clowns think they are? However, before he could scold her, two powerful auras pressed down on him before two menacing looking men in black robes, Eric’s two bodyguards, appeared.
“Esteemed guest, please be patient.” They indifferently said.
Oliver swept a glance over at everyone, before taking in a deep breath. He then suddenly became extremely calm as though it wasn’t him who was about to lose his temper, and slowly nodded, “Alright. Since I’m in your esteemed kingdom, I should follow your rules.”
The two bodyguards and Emery raised their brows when they saw this, and even though he sounded calm, they felt a hidden threat in his words when he said the words ‘Esteemed Kingdom’.
Suddenly, they remembered people from the Central plains were about to come to fight off the demons. Since this guy was someone from one of the leading powers from there, could he somehow manipulate them to harm the kingdom?
As soon as the thought appeared in their minds, they immediately squashed it. No matter how influential he might be in his respective power, doing something like this, especially when the whole continent was under threat, was impossible. Even if managed to convince his power to act against them, the other powers which were not any weaker than Ice Sovereign Mountain would stop them.
Thinking this, they relaxed but their expression had turned ugly. This guy… he was too narrow minded.
Oliver ignored them and closed his eyes. He was not interested in seeing how influential Eric was.
The crowd hesitated when they heard Eric’s words, and knew he was asking them to leave and telling them that there would be no show to watch.
Although they felt disappointed, they didn’t dare to linger around anymore. In just a few moments, the crowd completely dispersed.
Seeing this, Eric turned around to face Oliver and his eyes flashed. He had noticed that even though both of them had similar level of cultivation, he was weaker than him.
This, however, didn’t surprise him because Oliver was from one of the strongest forces in the entire continent. Not only that, from what Lily told him before leaving, he was no ordinary disciple and had a high status. So, it was normal for him to be stronger than him, a small kingdom’s Crown Prince.
“You are here for Miss Lily, is that right?” He calmly asked.
Oliver’s expression faltered slightly when he heard this, and a faint smile appeared on his face. His question had confirmed he knew Lily. Now, it wouldn’t be hard to find her.
Just thinking about finally obtaining her, his blood started to boil and he hurriedly nodded, “Yes. Bring her to me immediately if you don’t want to…”
Eric didn’t let him continue and coldly interrupted, “It’s true she was in the Royal Palace, but she has already left.”
Boom!
Oliver’s face turned dark when he heard this and he completely released his aura field and killing intent.
“I don’t want to cause trouble doesn’t mean I’m afraid to do so. I’ll give you two minutes, and two minutes only. If you don’t bring her in front of me within this time, you’ll have to suffer the consequences.”
He had already decided he would teach this tiny kingdom a lesson when the time came, after all, he wasn’t benevolent enough to pretend that he was not insulted by these ants. However, seeing how this so-called Crown Prince was lying to him, it seemed he had to show them he wasn’t someone who could be casually offended. That was why he didn’t hesitate to release his killing intent at full force.
If even now he didn’t understand the gravity of the situation, he would really start a massacre here, and would forcefully take Lily away.
Eric and others were shocked. Although they knew Oliver was stronger than them, they hadn’t expected he could suppress them to some degree with just his aura.
After the brief shock, the four of them released their aura field at full force.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
The air in their surroundings exploded when their aura fields clashed. Although Oliver was strong enough to defeat any one or even two of them easily, he couldn’t last for long against them, and his aura field started cracking.
Seeing this, a decisive glint flashed in his eyes and he released his [Ice God Halo].
Thump!
Eric, Emery and the two bodyguards felt their hearts skip a beat, and felt as though they weren’t facing a strong five-star mage but a superior being. Fortunately, apart from giving this slight sense of inferiority, it wasn’t a threat for them.
Oliver sneered, Underestimating a sovereign’s technique, heh, how stupid!
He concentrated, and slowly, the faint white halo merged into his cracking aura field. Immediately, his aura field became whole and became several folds stronger.
Eric was first to notice this. His expression changed drastically, and he hurriedly shouted, “Retreat!”
Bang! Bang! Bang!
Cough!
However, he was still a little late. Before they could withdraw their aura fields, they exploded into pieces, and the backlash caused all four of them to cough out a mouthful of blood while their faces turned deathly pale.
‘How strong!’ They thought in their hearts, and their expressions turned grim as they took out their defensive weapons or cast their defensive spells to defend against the incoming wave of attacks.
However, to their surprise, Oliver frowned and withdrew his aura field and killing intent. But a moment later, when they felt a wave of powerful aura swept past them, they understood why he had stopped. It turned out that a king rank mage was alerted and had decided to put a stop to the fight.
Swoosh!
As soon as they sensed the aura, it vanished and a figure flew out from the depths of the Royal Palace and arrived in front of them in a few moments.
…
Some distance away from the Royal Palace, Shasha and Ray exchanged a look in the crowd, and nodded. Shasha then took out her communication crystal and said, “Be ready to escape at a moment’s notice.”
On the other side, Emily stowed her communication crystal away and said, “It seems he is about to find out the truth. Get ready to use that high grade escape talisman.”
Lily looked in the direction Oliver was and a cold glint flashed in her eyes.
Emily, seeing Lily not respond, frowned and raised her brows, “Lily?”
Lily returned to her senses, and nodded, “Understood.” Then, the two of them took out the escape talismans they had just purchased.
…
A man in robes similar to, but more luxurious than Eric’s, appeared in front of them.
At first glance, he seemed like a weak scholar, but when one looked carefully, one would notice how overbearing and noble he was.
He was even more handsome than Eric and even Oliver seemed pale in comparison by a little bit. He had shoulder length green hair, a pair of thick green eyebrows above his deep black, abyss like eyes. He had a high nose, and thin lips. His mustache and his well groomed beard gave him mature vibes. In short, he was so handsome and his looks were so exotic that he was irresistible to ladies.
Even Emery’s heart skipped a beat when she saw him, but she quickly lowered her gaze, and knelt on one knee with a hand on her chest. Eric’s bodyguard did the same while Eric gave him a deep bow.
“Greetings, your majesty!”
“Greetings, Lord Father!”
The king of the Green Leaf Kingdom, Azaroth Williams, had arrived.
Hello guys! How was the chapter? I hope you enjoyed it.
I have a bad news. I seem to have caught a cold, since morning, I’m suffering from an intense fever. Because of that, writing this chapter was too difficult for me, and if I don’t recover by tomorrow, I may not be able to provide you the daily chapter. So… let’s hope I recover because I don’t want to break my current rythm.
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