Monarch of Darkness

Evan felt refreshed after swimming for a while. Today, he lied on his back and let the stream took him wherever it wanted. This type of swimming helped to calm his mind.

He swam back to the river bank and when he was just going to put back his robe on his body, he became astounded by a scene. "You, where have you been untill now? And why are you flying? How can you fly!", Evan shouted as if he saw a ghost.

Infront of him, there was a little girl who was wearing a purple princess dress. Her round face was extremely cute and with her two big eyes, she was looking very adorable. The most peculiar thing about her was she was hovering on mid-air. Listening to the shouting of Evan, the girl became startled. Her eyes reddened immediately, as if someone bullied her. Evan felt a headache after seeing her look. "Who am I yelling at? She is only a child", Evan thought to himself.

"Little girl, I am sorry", Evan apologized to her. After a little bit coaxing, he managed to appese the little girl. Then he asked about her name and the whereabout of her parents. After a bout of interaction, he managed to learn some basic things about her.

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Time was like fluttering cloud. Day went past and it was the time of night. Evan was sitting cross-legged on his room. He looked at his bed and a smile appeared on his face. A little girl was sleeping on his bed peacefully. Saliva was dripping from her face and she was murmuring something while sleeping.

"This little girl is a miracle. She can fly without any cultivation. From where she came from? The name of the places she was speaking, I never heard about them", Evan thought to himself.

He shook his head and calmed his mind. He knew he could not do much about her. If one day, her parents came, he would hand her over.

Evan sat cross legged and started his cultivation. After two hours, he opened his eyes. Then he took a glance at the sleeping girl before dashing outside through the window.

In these past few days, his routine was same. He was madly fighting everywhere in the White Orchid forest. Sometimes, he was fighting barehanded similar to the primitive method of devils and sometimes he was fighting while using his sword techniques.

His familarity with the Heavenly art of Magical beasts grew in this period. Earlier he could use the Majestic pouncing of earth bear technique and the Meandering movement of green python technique but he was not familiar with the soaring wings of sky eagle technique. These period of life and death fighting allowed him to learn the Soaring wings of sky eagle technique but he was still inconsistent while using this technique.

Evan choose an extremely difficult opponent to practice this time. It was a winged leopard who could easily fly in air for sometime. Evan choose it because he wanted to perfect his Soaring wings of sky eagle technique.

He hold a longsword in his right hand and pounced towards the winged leopard. The winged leopard became enraged due to his provocation but it was extremely intelligent. It swiftly dodged his strike and launched its own claw strike towards Evan.

A fierce fight started and Evan gradually pushed the winged leopard to use its wings. Winged leopard was not a genuine sky beast. It could use its wings only for a period of time. Evan was waiting for this chance to test his own technique.

Two pairs of transparent wings appeared behind Evan and he used it to chase behind the winged leopard. After flying for a short period, he felt his essence energy was drying up in a very faster pace and after sometime the wings disappeared.

Evan didn't feel discouraged because he knew these types of techniques were very difficult to master.

"Let's try again", he roared inside his mind and

conjured another pair of wings. His gaze locked on to the distant winged leopard and he started to chase behind it again. The winged leopard was not a genuine sky beast. So, it couldn't go far with the help of its wings. In notime, Evan managed to catch up again.

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Moon was faintly visible on the sky above Sylvia clan. It was already past midnight. A group of Sylvia clan warriors were patrolling as usual. They were pretty much relaxed and chatting with each other.

"Hey, Don't you think that little girl is strange?", one of the warrior in the group asked.

"What is there to think about. It is obvious that she is a strange girl", one of them voiced his opinion.

"I also admit that little girl is strange but what is more strange is the ability of our prince", one of the guard said in a mysterious manner. Everyone who was present there, perked up their ears to listen more because it was related to their prince.

Seeing his companions attention on him, the said warrior became secretly pleased but he didn't show it on his face. Instead, he posed as a knowledgeable person. "Ahem", he cleared his throat first. Then started his speech. "Have you guys noticed one thing. How our prince managed to know that the little girl is in danger? We are patrolling at the border but we couldn't notice this".

Everyone pondered a bit and nodded their heads in unison. They felt curious towards the mysterious abilities of their little prince. "Do you know, how our prince managed to do this?", they looked at the speaking warrior with hope.

"You fools, you couldn't even deduce this. It is obviously the beast taming ability of our prince", the voice of their leader came from a distance.

Everyone felt excited after knowing the answer and they started to discuss about Evan with great enthusiasm. Suddenly the leader felt something amiss. "Watch out every...", he managed to let out a incomplete sentence before his voice died down.

Before anyone could react, a group of Shadows appeared Infront of them. The Sylvia clan warriors brought out their weapons hurriedly but it didn't produce any result. Their lifeless bodies rolled on the ground within few seconds.

The group of Shadows didn't stop for a second. They directly flew towards the Sylvia clan while using the darkness as the cover. Within the silent night, their movement was like wicked ghosts.