THE GUARDIAN'S FINAL QUEST- Adams journey to six worlds

Chapter 9

“Mooother, how can she? How can she do that? The son of a baronet for that matter, the princess is not elegant dancing with a commoner? What could he have possibly done to make her fall in love with him?” Charles slams the table angrily. A woman with blonde hair matching her eyes rose from a bathtub. Maid quickly assembled royal clothes on her and she walked towards Charles and said.

“Charles, Charles my dear little son, what have I always said to you?” Charles scared begins to take steps back away from his mother who seems to appear intimidatingly bigger than him.

“I have always told you that it does not matter what happened yesterday. Yesterday his past, an hour in the bathtub bathing was history but what you do with the present is what matters to me now. Do you get it” Charles staring at his mother nodded. She walked into the available places and then stared out the corner of her eye.

“I roused up to become the Duke of Westminster not by shell luck but I did everything and anything for those nobles from the house of Mercia to rise. Now I am one step away from becoming in-laws to the future queen of

Lukedonia. You must marry Princess Elena at all cost to rise to power and I mean at all cost, I am talking about terminating any opponent that stands in our way. Do you get what I mean? The house of Westminster must rise to power above all lords and houses”

“Yes Mother, I agree and I have quite a warning message planned for Hero. “ Charles smiled walking away from his mother’s presence.”

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The birds were chirping. The winds rustled the trees and Elena woke up with the sunlight dappled as it passed through the canopy of forest reflecting into her castle window. The castle was made with fine marble but the walls and columns look like they were made from silver. The ceiling was fifteen meters above her and the room was massive, her thoughts danced to the moment of the previous day. She was dancing with Hero. As memories play in her head, she remembers she was drunk a bit when Hero escorted her to the castle. She pecks Hero on the lips bidding him good night.

“What have I done? How can I be so stupid” She begins to fight with her rebellious hair and fight with her bed sheet as if it was the bed that caused her trouble. The door opens and a clap from maid Tina watching the spectacle displayed by Elena on her bed clears her throat.

“It seems to me someone slept on the wrong side of the bed last night. It is customary to sleep like a princess” Elena rolled her eyes grumbling on the bed. She grabs a pillow and covers her head.

“Elena, it is customary to be up…on….time… for breakfast this morning. You have a crowning of age ceremony in two days and your sixteen birthday four days later. It going to be a very busy week and you don’t have much time to grumble in bed. Now get up princess” Elena eyed Tina with the corners of her eye that seemed very serious.

She got up from the bed and followed after the maid and Elena thought to herself. ‘It seems I won’t be able to sneak out of the palace at night anymore as I used to during the busy week. Then I must make plans for the night parade to go without me this week.’ The maid puts on the princess school Tunis on her and she steps out from the castle walls.

Charles walked into the crowded hall of Mage Academy and said to himself “If I must get rid of a rat. I must make deals with a cat, the son of the Duke of Northridge, Jefferson Velrick is the so-called gang lord. Every bully and gang in school both from the mage academy and the adventurer academy who deals with illegal substances that even lead to drugs pays a certain percentage of money to him. I will need to pay him to end Hero and his gang men watching Hero Two 4 Seven to ensure he does not get close to the princess. I must cut their ties.’ Charles pulled down the handle of a brown door and walked into a large classroom with sunlight filtering through the window into the classroom.

“Jefferson’s legs on the table and three boys who bullied Hero bow their heads before Jeff before delivering a large coins in a bag to him.

“Just who I am looking for, Jefferson Velrick” Jefferson stared at him. Charles drops a bag filled with coins in gold.

“ I want your boys to break the legs and hands of a young lad called Hero Reynold and watch him, if he ever gets close to Princess Elena then beat him up to pop” Jefferson who had his two legs on the table remembers his father’s words.

‘You must gain the princess's trust and when it is time for the coup the king out of the throne. You shall be king when you finally kill the princess’ Jefferson put his two legs off the table and stared more seriously as he thought ‘maybe I can kill the princess and this commoner would be the pawn to take the fall for it. “Interesting tell me more about it” Jefferson said to Charles and the duo began to discuss.

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“ Now stretch your hand this way and let your mana flow from your core into your veins and ……….”Hero stands in front of the river and Elena helps Hero adjust his body to allow his mana to flow from his core onto his hand. The duo is alone in a quiet serene environment with their bodies coming close in proximity. Hero felt uncomfortable as Elena’s body was close while adjusting his body stand, her face was ever closer to him. As he stared at her face down to her lips, he suddenly remembered the peck on his lips, he blushed and his heart beat furiously.

“tsk! I must have been quite stupid to kiss him on his lips. How can I let him know that it was because I was drunk? Stupid me’ Elena shrugged internally but on the outside, she displayed a calm pose while talking. While adjusting his body, her eyes roam from his seductive chest to the hero’s face. At that very moment, they stared closely at each other's eyes and their mind telling them to eat the forbidden fruit from the garden however Betty clears her throat folding her arms.

“I can see you two are having fun instead of training” Quickly the duo readjusted their positions.

Eliot and Samson walked shortly behind Betty.

“Something must have happened between those two that night. What did you think it was? Eliot, Samson whispered into Betty’s ears’

“A wise man once said not gossips other people” Eliot cuts in with a whispers

“Shush, which wise man said it? That’s common sense” the trio begins to argue in a whisper.

“I can hear you whispering you know that” Elena finally breaks the whispering conversation.

Betty and the others clear their throat. Elena raised an eyebrow, frowned her face, and said.

“Reports”

“Yes, right. We finally confirm the information given by the gang lord on Boris and we are going to handle him today” Eliot explained.

“As for Hero’s seal, I got the items ready to break it” Betty points at a bag.

“Are you ready for this Hero?” Elena looks at Hero

“Yes I am”

“ ok, then let’s begin” Betty dropped the bag with the items on the floor as they gathered around her and she assembled them. After some minutes of assimilation of magic components, her hands begin to bring out cold magical mist. Hero turns his back and Betty slams the magic on his back. The ice solidified on his back but went back to normal.

“Do you feel anything” questioned Betty.

“Not really, I do feel numb though” Hero stood up on his feet and manipulated the river and it worked but he did the same with his hand by bending blood, it did work as mana seemed to flow into his blood, and the blood about to move when it suddenly stopped.

“I guess it's only Sabrina that can unlock my blood mage” Hero looked at Betty.

“I am sorry it did not work”

“Well, let’s plan for now. My crowning ceremony is in two days and my birthday is in four days. I won’t be able to sneak out because of the guards. So any information must be passed through wise the tortoise. I am also inviting you guys to my birthday party and coming of age.” Princess gives each of them a Tunis and badge “This is the royal outfit for the crowning of age and I want each of you to wear them as we may expect unwanted guests. Betty and Eliot will pay a visit to Boris and then let me know what you find out from your investigation. As for Hero, Samson, and I, we still have matters to attend to and so they won’t be going” They nodded and walked out. After Princess and Samson were gone, Hero walked into the adventurer academy from the lone bushy path way, suddenly a group of guys surrounded him, and before Hero was Jefferson, Charles, and three boys laughing devilishly.