Chapter 143: Sky festival
"Marquee James,"
"Marquee Reek"
"Marquee Fyran"
"Cane"
In an open area, on a platform, several of the most prominent people in Duan city right now could be seen mixing up. This included not only the nobles like the Marquees. But also some high ranking members of the royalty.
This was a rare sight as the royalty would usually operate in secret.
They couldn’t today though, because coupled with the presence of the envoys from the sky temple. The most prominent person in eldoria would be here today.
Duan Yunas.
The current king of eldoria.
"When do you think the king will arrive?" One of the marquees asked while looking at the throne placed at the very top of the platform.
The king was elusive and would rarely show his face leaving his subordinates to take care of matter. This was especially the case after the whole incident with the warlocks.
He had disappeared from sight and was rumored to be trying to break through to level 5 too, even though that sounded absurd.
"Take your seats" and old man with braided white hair and an air of dignity said to the crowd from atop the throne area.
The kingdom of eldoria had, 4 marquees, 2 protectors, 2 great elders and 1 King.
This man with the braided hair was one of the great elders of the kingdom and would take charge of the events of today.
Soon enough, the marquees, protectors and great elders took their seats on their designated thrones.
"Open the gates" the great elder with braided hair said out Loud and all of a sudden.
"Yaaayyy"
"Yeahhhh"
"Out of the way"
"Don’t push"
The citizens of duan city rushed into the outter Palace gates. It was a sight to behold as the festive atmosphere filled the air.
The sheer amount of people not only chocked up the surrounding area, there were so much that they took over the areas surrounding the Palace. It was like every citizen wad here at this time.
"Welcome my beloved citizens to our festival of joy and light, the sky festival. I know we’ve been through quite alot this past few months, but I want all of you to enjoy what we have prepared for you today....eat, drink and watch. Today is your day. Forget the troubles and enjoy yourselves!!!" The great elder spoke in a joyful tone that made the citizens rile up intensely.
"Yeahhhhh!!!"
"Let’s get wasted!!!"
"Bring on the games!!!!"
The citizens went wild.
"Now" Noticing the riled up citizens, the great elder gave a signal to one of the Elders below the platform.
"Hm!!" Seeing the great elders signal, the elder pulled a lever and all of a sudden.
—Clang
The platform where the marquees and elders were on sudden started rising up and spreading apart creating a fighting platform and elevating them from the crowd.
"Let the joyful occasions begin" the great elder announced
"Hurayyyy"
The crowd went wild.
Meanwhile, deeper into the outter Palace region, a fairly tall man with golden robes adorned with a furry and fluffy mass around the neck
"There’s nothing to be worried about your majesty, the warlocks are under close surveillance...if they make a move we will know before hand....as for the other matter, we can only leave it be for now....we can just tighten the security around." Next to the man in golden robes, an servant girl spoke in a calm tone.
She was currently cleaning the foot of the old man with a soapy liquid that shone with a particularly resplendent glow.
"What do you know about politics? You’re just a little servant girl who doesn’t even know here left and right" the man replied to the girl with a cool and carefree tone.
Actually, this was how he was most of the time so few people really knew when he was worried. However, this young lady here could see through his facade quite easily.
In actual fact, he was terrified. He had always seen the old bastard from the golden Griffin clan as a sort of rival and would frequently battle with him in a friendly manner.
Never in a thousand years did he belive that someday, they would actually be at loggerheads like this. What If the old man truly breaks through? What If he gains the ability of a level 5 existence?
Could he defend against the old man? Losing would be the worst thing to ever happen, his family and everyone who sided with him might just die in the face of a level 5 being.
It was just too much to think about and he was genuinely scared.
",hey!!!, I’m not a little girl, I’m 14!!!" From everything the king had said, she could only pick the age part from it.
But he was right, she was but a child maid.
"Hmm, you can stop now....I have to go do something" after completely ignoring the kids complaints, the king looked up at the sky and noticed something forcing him to shoo her away.
"Hope you’re enjoying your stay sky envoy" the King looked to his left fingernails and said causally.
Right above him was the master of the young sky Palace talent Leon had fought in the Palace a while ago.
Even though she was young, she carried alot of weight because of her status in the sky temple....she was actually a force to be reckoned with.
" gouge his eye out!!!"
"Yeahhh"
At the front of the outter Palace, two individuals could be scene fighting it out on the platform prepared for them not too far away.
"The Quinn family does have very special talents here and there"
Amongst the royals, an aged man commented mockingly as he watched the match unfold In front of him.
This member of the quinn family, fought dirty, so much so that he was currently stained by blood from head to toe. It was a goreish scene to behold.
The kid fought like an animal.
"Winner!!! Rein Quinn"
Seeing that this fight was not going anywhere, the great elder announced that this Rein quinn had won the match and had qualified to fight for a rank in the top 50 sky talents.
The people competing here, all wanted a shot at the top 30. A chance for glory and fame, but most of all a chance to be recognised.
The top 30 sky talents would usually be fawned over by members of mage society and powers there off. Few people actually knew of the sky Palace so their hope and dreams were limited to what they knew.
For those already in the top 30 sky talents. They didn’t care for this little fame. What they really wanted was to dazzle one of the envoys from the sky Palace so they could futher their power and see the larger world.
"Next match, Carlson waterway vs Kang The Jackle?"
The great elder couldn’t help but chuckle at this strange name. It seemed like they were letting just anybody to participate in the battles this time around.
"Kang the jackle!!!"
"Yeah....take his heart"
"Eat his d*ck!!!"
Surprisingly, this kang character had a little bit of a following in the crowd down below though they seemed to be more of thug and hooligan than anything else.
"Go big brother carlson"
"Mess him up captain!!!"
"You got this young master!!"
Carlson, also had his little following from not only the waterway family, but the faceless mercenary company and the City guards whom he had worked with before.
It was pretty normal to say that Carlson was very popular too.
"Begin!!"
The great elder announced for the match to begin. However, he couldn’t predict what would happen next.
"Water work: Lance of light"
With a simple move, Carlson downed his opponent stunning the crowd for a brief second.
They didn’t see it coming, Carlson used just one attack to defeat his opponent. It seemed like the truly powerful ones had begun to rare their heads.
"That’s the boy?" From a boconey looking down at the match, a Man in a light blue robe asked while watching the match before them unfold.
"Yes, that’s the one" right next to him another replied. But the difference in status between these two was clear as one was sitting while the other was standing.
"Okay, I’ll put his name in the list" hearing the these words, the man whom had asked the question nodded and began writing down Carlson’s real name on a list.
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While all this was going on a young man fully cloaked in black made his way into a dusty creepy hallways that seemed like an old decrepit grand hallway.
"I need to work fast or else all this will be for nothing"
In the eyes of the young man was a clear determination that couldn’t be faltered by any circumstance. He was dead set on accomplishing what he set out to do.
This was none other than Leon.
He was back inside the Palace of eldoria.