The gateway was not an issue in the slightest. The guards stationed there were of course, in awe to see the princess suddenly return with her entourage of people, especially who some of them were, but with her status of a royalty and their status of nobility, they only needed a few moments to enter into the city.
“P-Princess Elyenora! And so many other figures…!” one of the guards nearly gurgled on his own saliva.
“Hello,” she simply said with a smile. “May you open the gate for our entry?”
“Y-Yes of course!” the other guard stuttered as he started opening the gate.
“I… Uh… Welcome back your highness!” unsure of how to act, the other guard attempted to sound upright and straightened himself out.
She smiled at his little attempt at courtesy, then said. “Why, thank you!”
Upon welcoming her and the others, the other one of the guards stationed at the ga
Guided by Finn, the royal knight captain, the party members all made their way through the castle without any further issues or awkward meet ups. Though, it was eerily quiet in every hallway that they passed through, and there was a total lack of knights and guards patrolling them which became peculiar to everyone, even Mon’Ter thought it weird since he’d seen people patrolling these places in the memories of Samuel and Elyenora.“I trust you’re not taking us to something as boorish as a trap?” Randus raised a brow at Finn, voicing out what most of the party members were thinking up until then.“No, of course not,” Finn turned around to face Randus. “That would be stupid! If we’re gonna do a battle between our two groups later I want to get a chance to fight you guys fair and square!”“You are so upfront about it and without a semblance of tact either…” Randus sighed, once more voicin
Within the instant after Aydian’s clap of the hands, Elyenora opened her eyes to find herself and her companions in the midst of a large encirclement of knights. For as far as the eye could see, the terrain was made up of plains and nothing as much as a bump in the ground. As for the sky, it had a strange cubicle look with a few deformities here and there, though aside from that it was as clear as can be.“Where are we…?” Elyenora felt her heart rate go up, she started turning left and right, front and back but no matter where she looked there didn’t seem to be a single gap in the formation of these knights. The party hadn’t expected something like this to occur at all.“Looks like now we know where all those knights and guards had gone off to,” Samuel grimaced, pointing his shield ahead of him and attempting to enter a formation alongside the others.“Who was the genius that said Finn wouldn’t take us
“We kill all of them to get to him,” Mon’Ter’s voice reverberated throughout the entire space, being heard by everyone that surrounder him and his comrades.It caused several laughs to erupt, which then continued into multiple more and more until the entire enemy legion made a laughing stock out of Mon’Ter’s words.“Bold words from someone bound to die,” Gandar, the royal court mage, snickered at his words. “Who even are you, boy? Another knight? Not with that get up you’re not. Perhaps a mage? Shall I teach you some proper manners in speech?”“I’d actually like that,” Mon’Ter said truthfully. “But it’s not the time to be learning manners.”His hand extended and his fingers grew as his nails elongated into sharp swords capable of piercing the thickest of hides and slashing the hardest of steels. The strange development caused many to put their guard
Alinesia glared at Elyenora with her fiery blade burning at her side. “It’s sure been a while, hasn’t it?”“You again?!” Elyenora clicked her tongue, she had been forced to stop right in her tracks by her once again, for the second time. “Why are you here!?”“Why?” Alinesia grit her teeth. “Did you seriously ask me why, you blond bimbo?!”“What?” The princess felt a little taken aback by the assassin’s words. “Don’t you understand what you’re working towards right now? Do you even know what my brother is trying to do!? It’s all foolish! Why would you work for him? You’re smarter than that!” Elyenora tried to change her mind if she could, though, it didn’t seem like Alinesia was here for money or anything of the sort by the look on her face.“You think I’m here just because that prince twat brother of yours asked t
Cazimir fell, cut in half and in a completely stupefied state. Someone meant to have been on his side, an ally, had just taken him down. His bloodied eyes shone with a bright light and created shadow soldiers that tried to hold him back together, barely, even as his own blood and organs left his body to splatter down on the ground. “W–wh–y…?” Cazimir asked as only one of his eyes barely managed to move and look at Finn. “Because you interfered where it was not your place, stupid assassin,” Finn said, his eyes wider than an open door and staring the vampire down with intense pressure behind his every word. “Couldn’t you follow simple instructions? I told you. Don’t interfere with my fight. Leonidas is mine to do battle with.” “Bast–ard…” Cazimir barely mumbled out, and with another glow of his eyes he forced the soldiers to move him about ten meters away from the now enemy. With yet another glow, he summoned out a potion that fell from a litt
Back to the princess’ side of the field, where she was facing off against a previous foe. Elyenora could feel that things weren’t going her way at all, she knew it in her heart with every strike she sent towards Alinesia and every second she wasted on fighting against her. But what could she do while everyone was being held back like this? There was one and only thing she could really do to try and help out.Ending the fight swiftly.Alinesia had certainly grown significantly since their last fight, she was more than the princess’ match even after Elyenora had gotten her significant growth spurt after releasing the spiritual cultivation shard from her body. However, it didn’t seem like the Lioness would be able to keep up with Elyenora if she just made a simple action and unleashed her newly acquired artifacts.“I’m sorry, but I’ll be ending our little rematch early,” the princess said as she pushed back on the fla
Alinesia had completed her transformation, however, she wasn’t the only one making moves during that last minute of action. There were still many people on the battlefield, and the ones who made the biggest change aside from her, were definitely Randus, Samuel and Sereia who all made good use of the previous minute or so of time.On their side of the field, just as Elyenora and Alinesia were having their clash of wills, Samuel and Sereia both found themselves pushing against their respective spectral opponents. It had gotten to the point where they were chasing after these Low ranking Arch Lord Class entities as if they were hunting rabbits.It was at this time that both Gandar, the court mage of the Royal palace and the elderly master of the assassin’s guild intervened on their little chase. Gandar shot through the sky atop a conjuration of wind and flew near enough to be within his range of Samuel, he weaved his staff and made a spiraling motion with it b
With Alinesia’s light blinding everyone, Randus was able to easily move about by practicing a simple spell to allow his eyes to perceive past the blinding shine of her. He had basically created pseudo shades on his face which he used to escape from Lerroy’s immediate reach.During the course of the battle so far, the two of them had been flying high up in the air and blasting each other with all manner of magical spells, it had gotten to the point that most of the soldiers down below were getting nervous just by standing underneath them. However, Randus hadn’t just been mindlessly flying about and chucking explosions at his old master, no, of course not, he wouldn’t be where he is at today if he did something so basic.The whole time they were moving around the air space, Randus had been leaving small sigils in specific locations high above the ground and laying out a layer filled circle of magic large enough to encompass most of the existing su