"Out of my way, miscreant." Desalogia bellowed at the male who broke his mighty sword. His merciless icy blue eyes gleamed more than the ocean beneath them, and there was not a spark of kindness behind them. Ares was in front of him, cold and unforgiving. He was not going to allow the prince to kill the beast.
"Make me," Ares replied in a dead tone.
Desalogia grabs a dagger from his boot and dashes toward Ares. He swung his sharp weapon repeatedly trying to graze the male but Ares was too good at evading his attacks. Ares could feel Desalogia's mighty blows getting into him. He could tell that the prince was a veteran.
Ares kept on dodging. He couldn't do anything else. If he ever struck him back, he would surely bleed and that would make him disqualified for the next Game.
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There are no gods nor deities living amongst humans.Only demons.Eurydice strode across the long corridor right after the end of the First Game. She did not bother congratulating the rest of the participants and only left with a big scowl on her once-dainty face. The maids whom the Queen passed by turned into stone when she suddenly appeared out of nowhere like a ghost roaming the halls.She was looking for someone. No, it wasn't Ares.She continued walking until she found the person she was looking for. There, Prince Desalogia was hunched over in a corner, eyes staring blankly at the empty wall with his lips pursed in a line. His palm was placed near his bleeding forehead which he was trying to heal with the magic he learned. He shifted his head to the side. Golden sunset rays punctured the towers of the soaring Palace. The breeze of the concluding afternoon gently blew past Ares and Eurydice as they meandered in the empty streets. Everyone was busy cleaning up the stadium, therefore, not a single maid could be seen running around errands. Only a few guards were stationed in the key points of the Palace for security.Ares followed the Queen from behind, gazing at her airy, bouncing azure locks. He noticed something sticking out of her head and decided to break the silence. "I didn't notice you had a horn."Eurydice turned around. The moment her sharp eyelashes fluttered and her crimson irises fixated on him- made his chest skip a beat. Eurydice brings her finger near to her head and slowly hides her horns with her hair."I thought I had hidden it all too welDraconic Ascendance: The King Selection A Walk
"She told me something unusual."Kagome and Daelan stopped munching their bread upon seeing the worry on the male's face. Since the First Game, the three have been inseparable, always looking out for each other's well-being and couldn't care less about others. However, just as their friendship had bloomed, Ares had been showing signs of uneasiness, which the two couldn't seem to ignore.Ares refused to tell them about it the past couple of weeks during their stay in the Palace, so you could imagine how shocked they were when Ares opened up."The Queen told you something unusual?" Daelan asked again while putting his bread back on his plate."What? She rejected you or something?" Kagome raised an eyebrow."No
The Enchanted Forest, a specific chain of mountains that surround the terrain of Fontana, protecting it from hurricanes and making it harder for enemies to attack the kingdom. The Enchanted Forest is a haven for mysterious beings that reside in Fontana and beasts that no one would dare challenge. These said beasts are the very reason why most enemies do not engage in fights or infiltrate Fontana.Legends tell that once you get lost in the Enchanted Forest, you'll never leave without a story. You'll be sure to meet faes, dwarves, and tree nymphs along the way. Many treasures lie in the deep jungle areas of the Enchanted Forest. There rest thousands of invaluable trinkets that offer great power to those who wield them and faunas that may be used as herbs that could heal any sort of injury.This part of Fontana is in the care of the Queen's childhood friend,
The Queen's whining brought different creatures to peek. As she continued hitting Ares with her small fists in the back, the male ventured deeper into the jungle where he would see a smoke rising above. Ares paced his eyes around and found the dwellers of the Enchanted Forest peeking from behind the tree trunks or bushes, just looking.Faeries giggled as they concealed themselves behind leaves. Eurydice narrowed her crimson eyes to them and they immediately stopped laughing. They knew who Eurydice was but they didn't recognize her as Queen. The Faeries have their own leader, and they belong to the Fae's court. Therefore, Eurydice had no control over them.However, despite their lack of social relationship, the faeries still fear the Queen of Fontana, for she was a wyvern. A creature so powerful it deserved to be feared. The treehouse was the largest tree in the Enchanted Forest. It was the possession of the Faerie King before he handed it over to the Moon Witch for purification after he found discrepancies in the tree's purity. The Faerie King told her to keep it as her reward and she has since lived in the tree and cultivated it to be her very own safe spot.The young prince was with Ares on a small river while Siv treated the poison on Eurydice's wound. The Queen did not feel any of it which made her condition even worse than it is. How would she know there was poison if no one told her?"You look horrible. Have you not slept?" Eurydice saw the dark circles appearing in the Witch's eyes."I was worried that you took the other entrance," the Witch told her. "I was wondering what took you so long. Turns out you were jusDraconic Ascendance: The King Selection Historia of Von Kranels
While the girls were having their heart-to-heart conversation, Ares spent his time with the young prince in a nearby river. The two sat on a boulder while holding an odd, grimy creature that the prince had somehow caught. Ares inspected what it was, but he couldn't really tell its race. The only thing he realized about the prince's pet was that it was adorable."Here!" Erron stretched his arms to him. "Hold her for me!" Ares offered his huge palms and carried the creature, which almost slipped from his fingers. The creature closed its eyes, savoring the male's warm palms, and slept."Hehe!" the young prince giggled. "She likes you!" "It's just sleeping," Ares replied while looking at it."Not this one," The prince goofily grinned at the commoner. "My big sister, I mean."Ares lowered his eyes, a little embarrassed, "She would be upset if she heard you say that." "Eh?" Erron pouted. "My big sister never gets mad at me. The only time I saw her get mad was..." the prince closed his mo
When Ares discovered the Queen's illness, he was left with many questions that he knew would never find answers to in the near future. The male played with the young prince despite being distracted. While the two were splashing water in the river, Ares pretended to smile and laugh, but deep inside, he felt rather melancholic about Eurydice's hidden illness. Shortly during their playtime, Eurydice joins them on the river in her bare feet. Eurydice is used to being barefoot. After all, she hates wearing shoes and prefers feeling the roughness of stone on her soles. She likes how it feels. For her, it is the closest thing to pain. "Yay!" the young prince ran towards her sister. "You're here! Are you finally playing with us?""Siv told me to wash my ankles with the water," she told him with a gentle smile and poked the young prince's nose. "Are you having fun with Rockman?"Ares looked away, blushing. Why did he have to adapt to that silly nickname? "Yes, yes! Rockman agreed to train m