‘Shit!’ Everyone in the Viset arena thought when they heard that powerful voice.
The power contained in those few words made people’s bodies heavy. They felt like they had to kneel to the owner of that voice.
Lanzo and Rein have a frightening aura around them because they are very strong and scary men. But people kneeled for them because they knew they were dangerous and liked the feeling of being feared by people.
But the woman behind those words was different. People did not want to kneel for her out of fear but out of respect. If they could answer which feeling was most abundant in that voice, it was not power, but pride.
It didn’t seem like a kingdom queen’s pride, not even the queen of the whole world, but it was so incredible that it made people think that an ancient goddess had descended into their insignificant world, which was not worthy of her majestic presence.
That was the power of the demonic energy considered the purest and most powerful among the sins.
And of course, that could only mean that Pride herself was there.
While the simplest and weakest people could not stop looking at the floor while kneeling, the most powerful people looked in the direction from which the mysterious voice came.
Lanzo flapped his mighty manticore wings, creating a gust of wind as he went up to the sky to see who the mysterious person was.
“AH!” He saw an incredible white light approaching the arena from the air. The light hurt his eyes, and he quickly returned to the floor.
Before Rein could ask Lanzo what he saw, the while light reached above the arena, hurting the eyes of everyone who looked up at the sky.
“WHO?!” Rein roared words like a wolf howling.
“Kneel before your queen!” As the white light began to fade, everyone heard a melodic voice. But it was not the mysterious voice, but a voice known to many people.
“Queen?” Many people concluded who the person speaking those words was when they heard the word queen.
The fox-clan matriarch was the first to see a beautiful woman on top of a floating rock in the sky. The woman has long emerald hair and pointed ears, which added to her incredible beauty made her unique, or rather, only when not compared to her daughter.
“What does that mean, Ghalenna?” Luise, the fox-clan matriarch, asked when she saw the elven queen.
As the white light faded, many people looked at Ghalenna , but then they also realized that the light seemed to be focused on the people next to the elven Queen.
People had to rethink their concepts of beauty when they saw the woman sitting on a throne beside Ghalenna.
With skin as fair and perfect as that incredible white light, the woman gave everyone an indescribable feeling of purity.
Her long pink hair gave a feeling of kindness and affection. It made that women look like a gentle person, but without any sign of weakness.
The delicate features of her pink lips, small nose, and ears that seemed perfectly sculpted in the most precious marble made it clear that she is not a beauty among the beauties, but THE beauty that could reign alone above all others.
Her body is not very curvy but perfectly slender. She doesn’t look very sexy, but rather beautiful as a goddess. Her beauty didn’t need a big ass or big breasts because it is already perfect with medium-sized ones.
Still, that woman’s most striking feature is her eyes. Those beautiful cyan eyes are like endless seas, and anyone could get lost in them with just one look.
The woman’s eyes gave various feelings, such as pride, purity, confidence, responsibility, but only a few people could see that it also contained hate, sadness, despair, and a lot of loneliness.
Although people, especially men, did not want to take their eyes off the beautiful goddess, they could not look at her for more than a few seconds before their heads instinctively looked down.
Lanzo used all his willpower to look into her cyan eyes, and a terrible feeling of fear grew in his heart, and he quickly looked away.
Ghalenna clicked her tongue as she gazed at Rein and Lanzo. “Aren’t you, unworthy bastards, going to kneel for your new queen?”
“But… I don’t even know her…” Rein would never kneel for anyone else, especially while he was the general leader of the Alliance.
The beautiful elf bowed to the pink-haired woman on the throne. “My Queen, may I?”
The woman on the throne moved her head just an inch, making her approval clear.
Ghalenna smiled and let her body fall from the floating rock. They were almost two hundred meters from the ground, so the fall would do serious damage to anyone below the Mortal Realm.
The elven Queen was at the beginning of SS-rank two months ago and was already one of the most powerful people in the Alliance because only Rein and Lenzo are SSS-rank, that is, the first layer of the Mortal Realm.
But now, in addition to her almost being in the Mortal Realm in her normal state, Ghalenna’s body shone with white light as her power rose to the fifth layer of the Mortal Realm in a second.
*BOOOM*
Ghalenna landed in Rein’s box, punching the floor and creating an explosion of force that sent rocks and debris flying in every direction.
The difference in strength and speed between someone from the first and the fifth layer of the Mortal Realm is very significant. Before Rein could wipe the dust from his face, he felt Ghalenna’s firm and mighty grip from her delicate hand on his neck.
“Oh, Rein… I can’t deny that I love this. Still, the goal here is to teach a lesson; otherwise, you would be dead already.” Ghalenna spoke as Rein groaned and tried to escape her grip.
“Arr-gh… Gha- Plea-” Rein tried everything to punch, kick, and bite Ghalenna, but nothing worked, so he tried to beg.
*Woosh*
But she threw him like a rock, making him fly towards Lenzo, who was getting up after being thrown at the wall from the power of the previous force wave.
*BAM*
Rein’s body hit Lanzo’s, and they were both knocked to the floor. The other people who watched the fight, couldn’t even follow Ghalenna’s super-fast movements with their eyes.
She seemed to turn into a blur as she disappeared and reappeared next to Rein and Lanzo.
*BAM*
Ghalanna stepped on Rein’s head, making his face hit Lanzo’s face. The powerful blow caused their tough heads to make cracking sounds as she pressed their heads into the floor of the arena’s top floor.
*Crack*
*BOOM*
Luckily for Lanzo and Rein, the floor broke before their skulls could. They both felt a lot of pain all over their bodies while feeling several of their bones break.
Ghalenna jumped to the floor below, grabbed Lanzo and Rein by the hair, and threw them into the middle of the arena. Both flew like rag dolls as they created a trail of blood on their way there.
People became increasingly shocked by Ghalenna’s incredible power. Lanzo and Rein are two of the most powerful people in the whole history of Argerim. Many believed that there was no one who could defeat the incredible werewolf-patriarch in single combat.
Still, they were seeing not only Rein but also Lanzo being easily beaten like children by the delicate elven Queen.
Of course, many people from the werewolf and manticore clans wanted to help them. But what everyone in the Alliance respected most is power, and Ghalenna is beating both big men with her own hands.
In addition to being very scared, the people who supported Rein and Lanzo would not interfere in the fight because they already respected Ghalenna like no one before.
Besides them, the most powerful people in the arena are the patriarchs of the Bear and Cat clans, in addition to the fox-clan matriarch. But they would not interfere in the fight as they were finding it very fun to see Rein and Lanzo in a humiliating and deplorable state.
Ghalenna jumped in the middle of the arena and kicked Rein in the belly while talking to him and everyone in the arena. “Queen Eve. You must all kneel before her, your new Queen.”
At that moment, the people of the werewolf and manticore clan realized their clans would never again be powerful if they bowed their heads now. That would be the end of their glorious era, and they would become servants like the fox and cat clans.
The fear of living as weak servants was greater than facing Ghalenna; after all, she was alone.
“Kill that woman.” Lanzo’s favorite son ordered while entering the arena with a group of powerful werewolf warriors.
Those mighty SS-rank warriors are the elite of the werewolf clan. They ran towards Ghalenna.
Behind Eve’s throne, there were a few women that people don’t notice because she and Ghalenna attracted all of their attention.
But those women are also very powerful, or rather, greatly boosted by Pride’s aura.
One is a mage who keeps the big rock floating in the sky. Beside her, another earth mage moved her hands while in sync with a fire mage also beside her.
Ghalenna did not move while the werewolf warriors who ran towards her were impaled by earth thorns that appeared from the ground at an incredible speed.
“AAAHH!!!” The warriors screamed as the incredibly powerful thorns pierced their tough werewolf skin.
But of course, despite seriously injuring them, most of the werewolf warriors did not die from the earth thorns, but from the fire that came out of them, burning them to death in agonizing pain.
Seeing that incredibly brutal scene, everyone becomes even more afraid of Ghalenna and the woman she called Queen Eve.
But along with the growing fear, respect and admiration also grew. The fox-clan matriarch couldn’t help but smile as she had a feeling that they were about to enter the new era she always dreamed of, an era where violent men like Rein and Lanzo would have to bow their heads to amazing women like Eve, Ghalenna, and maybe her too.
Luise, the fox-clan matriarch, quickly signaled her people to kneel with her. Following her example, the people of the Bear and Cat clan, as well as other clans started kneeling to Eve.
Rein and Lanzo were badly injured, but they knew they would die if they did not kneel.
The fear of death was normal for anyone, especially those who enjoyed their lives so much. So Rein and Lanzo used all of their remaining willpower to kneel.
They are barely able to move because they are so badly hurt, but they managed to kneel while looking down in fear of Ghalenne and even more of the person she calls Queen.
Ghalenna smiled when she saw everyone kneeling. “Good, good. Now all repeat with me: Long live Queen Eve.”
“Long live Queen Eve!” Everyone spoke with a mixture of fear and respect.
As that was happening below the floating rock, while seated on her throne, Eve looked calmly at Rein and Lanzo. She couldn’t help but see many similarities between them and her father.
And she hates her father more than anyone. He is an arrogant person who steps on those weaker than himself, treats his children as weapons, sells them to demons, and the worst… he was unable to protect them…
Eve motioned with her hand to the mages behind her, and then the rock began to descend toward the center of the arena.
“Death would be merciful to you. You guys are really impressive for reaching the Mortal Realm in an inferior world like this, so I’m going to let you be my dogs, and spend the rest of your life seeing how disgusting and inferior creatures like you are.” Eve spoke calmly.
Lanzo had a bad feeling when he heard Eve’s words. He imagined himself being humiliated by her for the rest of his life, and for a second, death seemed like a good option.
But before his sharp claws could reach his neck, Ghalenna kicked him and pressed his body to the ground. “Stupid dog. Didn’t you hear the Queen? Death is not a gift you can have.”
Eve moved her hand in the air, and a black haze came out of her fingers towards Rein and Lenzo. When it touched their heads, it burned their skin, creating black symbols on their faces.
Eve looked at them with an expression of disgust. “This is a life mark. From now on, you don’t even have the right to die. Your life belongs to me, and I will make it a true hell while you help me take over this world.”
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