The twins and Eirwen Night spend the evening in his dimensional space. Because he didn't contact Neige all day, after accompanying the young couple for their mission to defeat a wyvern, Neige sends the things listed in their tasks. The Adventurer's Guild was quite welcoming towards the Ice Spirit King as they didn't know his real identity. The Elf named Speria from before only treated Neige with respect due to the feeling his senses are telling him. That man, Eis, Neige's name in disguise, is quite a lowkey yet strong person.
Speria the elf spoke, "You need to complete 46 more F-rank tasks to upgrade your guild card to E-rank. Either that or… Do you want to use a mana appraiser if you're a magic user but if you're a physical user you must fight someone from our guild to test your level of strength?"
Neige just nodded his head but the other man beside him who looked like he was wearing a disguise as well suddenly spoke. This man is Araysh in disguise. After learning from his lover that his Lords had descended after Eirwen Night had destroyed the boundaries between the mortal and divine realm, he immediately asks someone else to work as his substitute as Duke Damian.
He let his substitute work in the kingdom using his disguise face the royals of the kingdom knew. While he came to accompany his lover in serving the lords. Araysh knew that Lord Lucien and Lors Adrienne would most likely indulge Lord Eirwen in anything. Playing the role of a pig to play with the tigers for entertainment would most likely happen. They would do anything Eirwen Night would do.
Neige replies, "We'll talk about an upgrade when the rest are here. For now, can we have an appointment with your Guild master for tomorrow?"
"Appointment with the Guild Master? This… I don't think…" The Elf Speria currently didn't know how to answer Neige's request.
BAM!
It was at this moment that the man beside him slammed a token in front of him.
"Is it still not possible with this token?" says the man beside Eis.
Speria's eyes widened in shock when they saw the extraordinary token of twin dragons before him. This is the token used by the royalties of the empire itself. But he couldn't recognize the man in front of him, Speria knew almost all of the people who serve the Hero Lucien and the Regent, Raine.
"Allow me to borrow this token for a moment. I will directly ask the Guild Master about this!" says Speria.
"No need to call for me. I am here." a voice said.
It was at this moment that a dark elf with a muscular figure appeared before them. He was wearing a respectable robe for a magician and held a long wooden wand on his right. His skin color is dark like most dark elves but his presence shows his strength.
Speria the elf calls, "Guild Master!"
But in front of the man who had shown the token of twin dragons, this guild master was extremely respectful. After staring at the twin dragons of gold and black carved on the black token itself, this guild master was astonished. He politely returned the black token with both of his hands towards Araysh.
"Dark elf, Kirk, will arrange for everything your lord needs." says the guild master named Kirk.
Araysh took the token and responded, "Good. Prepare everything. I am not the important person you would be meeting tomorrow but the two of us would be escorting them here. Welcome them not too open as one of the lords hates crowds and noise. Be warned." he says.
"Kirk understands. Will definitely pay attention to details."
Neige spoke, "We don't know when we will come over tomorrow. It would depend on the Lords when we will come over."
The Dark elf Kirk stared at Neige in confusion at first but when he felt the strong mana full of ice essence coming from this man, he immediately recognized him.
"Y-Your high—–…"
Cough! With Araysh warning, the dark elf Guild Master paused his words and instantly lowered his head for an apology. He knew that these men's true identities aren't average. They weren't even mortals at all.
'This man is the Ice Spirit King of Ivern. It was said that his strength is close to that of a God. But he is serving someone as an attendant!?' The Guild Master's Thoughts.
"We shall take our leave." says Araysh as he held Neige's hand and said to the latter, "The lords would definitely be busy for today. Let's arrange few more things before eating dinner."
Neige nodded his head and replied, "Look for a mansion not far from the city but it must be secluded and away from the others."
"I know exactly where that place is. I'll show it to you first. But we need to meet a few people in that place just to inform them ahead of time. Shall we go?" says Araysh as he extends his hand towards Neige.
Neige stared at his hand for a few minutes before reaching out. Araysh held the ice spirit king's hand with a smile as they walked away ignoring everyone's gaze on them.
Not a while after the pair had left. The Guild Master stared at their disappearing figure from the distance before exhaling a sigh of relief.
The elf Speria asked, "Guild Master, you know who they are?" he whispered secretly to his leader.
Kirk glanced at the elf standing beside him and answered, "One is a messenger to the supreme beings and the other is the closest man to being a God."
"Then aren't they….!!!?" exclaimed Speria but didn't dare to complete his words. He had no right to call those Divinities' names.
Kirk sighed, "Prepare everything with the intention of welcoming a God. You can even take anything from your own pocket just to make sure that everything for tomorrow must be completed with perfection."
The Elf, Speria, and the other guild staff responded, "Yes! Guild Master!"
Meanwhile at the Kingdom of Hart.
The crown prince, Viktor Hart, and the future Saintess, Angela Evans had successfully returned to the Kingdom with the Wyvern King they've killed. They were openly welcomed by their people as they parade their return. The roads of the town were full of people welcoming the crown prince and the candidate saintess of the kingdom.
"Prince Viktor and Lady Evans, Welcome Back!!!"
"Wow~ look at the Wyvern the prince and my lady had to subjugate. It's so big~"
"I heard they've gone to the Nightmare Forest on their own and killed a Wyvern with just the two of them."
"They are really strong. With the two of them in our kingdom, those demons and fallen would never be able to enter our kingdom!"
"Doesn't that make them seem to be the Hero and the Saintess in the legend!?"
"That seems right~"
"Talking about the future Saintess, have you heard Lady Laurel decline to join this Wyvern Expedition saying that it would fail. She even declared its failure. See how the results are. The Crown Prince and Lady Evans completed with flying colors."
"Snort! I'm sure she was just scared. Rumors say her level is even lower than the Young Lady Evans. She locks herself in the palace playing with those useless nobles who only know how to bully and use commoners!"
"Is she even really a Saintess Candidate? Why does she not look like one? I've seen her before, she flaunts her body like a prostitute."
"No way! Aren't the candidates for the Saintess must be pure!?"
"That's why I told you that it's weird that she became a saintess candidate!?"
"Woa~ that seems quite right. Anyway, we have Lady Evans with us. Lord Night had chosen her as the Saintess instead of Lady Laurel. As the God of winter which protects our kingdom, Lord Night's words are right."
"That's right. With the Crown prince as the future hero and Lady Evans as the Saintess plus the blessing from Lord Night. Our kingdom would remain safe at all times."
In the castle, at the King's throne room. The Crown Prince, Viktor Hart, and Lady Evans had formally greeted King Argus upon their return. Seated on the golden throne King Argus had a huge smile on his handsome face. He was truly delighted that his eldest son and Lady Evans had completed their mission without any problems.
The third prince, Elliot Hart, and Lady Laurel had failed their mission. Unlike the first pair's mission of subjugating a wyvern, their mission is to kill the earth dragon. A huge monster-like lizard with a bit of dragon bloodline. Unlike the Wyvern which governs the sky, the earth dragon governs the land instead.
These two missions are personally given by King Argus. He gave trials to the future king candidates for the throne. The first trial is Subjugation which Viktor and Angela completed while Elliot and Bela failed.
In front of the King, the two princes and the two ladies bow in front of him. Beside him stood the strongest mage in the kingdom, Archmage Alexis.
King Argus, "You may stand."
The four in front of him stood as they were told. One is that the pair were smiling proudly while the other pair had a gloomy expressions on their faces. The first pair is Viktor and Angela who completed the first trial while the other pair is Elliot and Bela, expressions who lost many men during the subjugation. Third Prince Elliot even broke an arm during the mission.
Since Bela Laurel's level is too low her ability to use light magic is weak as well. Her cure magic could only close up open wounds, but internal injuries cannot be restored. This is why even if the third prince had uninjured skin his broken bone arm remains. Moreover, they were summoned to the castle directly and weren't able to drop by the chapel to have his hand cured.
On the other hand, Viktor and Angela healed themselves flawlessly thanks to their blessing from the God of Light being maxed. Not only Angela herself had a huge level up, she has a light fairy and a holy dragon by her side. It is only expected that they could fully heal themselves to perfection.
King Argus spoke, "You've all returned. The results were out. The third prince and Lady Laurel had failed their first trial of subjugating the Earth-Dragon. While the crown prince, Viktor Hart, and Lady Evans had successfully defeated the Wyvern.
For this first trial, I announced that the winner is the Crown Prince!"
The nobles who supported the crown prince were delighted by such an event. After all, King Argus had announced that he would be giving the rightful princes trials for the throne and only the winner would be able to sit on the position of the king.
The first trial was Subjugation. One was allowed to choose whether it would be the king of the sky or the land. The first one who chooses is the third prince, Elliot Hart. With Bela Laurel's memories of her previous life, she already knew that this trial was a bust. In short, no one would be able to complete it. So, she whispered to the third prince to choose a weaker opponent which is the land. Lady Laurel cheated and told the third prince the monsters under the two categories.
The king of the sky, the Wyverns. After the dragons had secluded themselves from the other races, Wyverns had become active and secured the throne of the sky. On the other hand, the king of the land, the Earth Dragon, rules the forest due to their quarter bloodline as dragons even though they were just lizards whose size was larger than normal.
Between the Wyvern and the Earth Dragon, fighting something that doesn't fly would be easier to target. The third prince understood this as well and chose the land category. But what they didn't expect is that the Earth Dragon in the Nightmare Forest had awakened its dragon bloodline. Now its strength can be considered as half-dragon. This is the real reason why Elliot Hart and Lady Laurel lost lots of men. Except for Heroes, it is almost impossible for the others to slay a dragon.
On the other hand, Viktor Hart and Lady Evans were able to successfully bring down the Wyvern because of the help of Adasha, the golden dragon. As a pureblood dragon, even if Adasha is a young dragon, her presence itself is considered divine. She is a divine beast most beasts and monsters revered and feared her. As soon as she released her aura, the Wyvern had quivered and fell from the sky.
As long as the wyvern fell to the land, it would be easy for Viktor and Angela to defeat it. These two were currently the strongest warrior and youngest genius mage from Kingdom Hart. With Neige watching at the sideline, their lives were secured to safety as the Ice Spirit King would never allow them to die in his presence lest his lord, Eirwen Night, get angry.
With the Ice Spirit King's presence and Adasha's support, Viktor and Angela defeated the Wyvern. It took long hours to do so but in the end, they were still successful. At the end of the first trial for the throne, the Crown Prince, Viktor Hart earned the points.
