Monarch of Darkness

Sophie didn't linger much longer. She bade farewell to Olivia and left the hall like a flustered rabbit. Before leaving, she didn't forget to sneak a glance towards Evan.

Evan couldn't understand head or tail of the situation. He didn't know why sister Sophie was acting so strange. He saw the smiling face of Olivia and quickly threw the issue of Sophie to back of his head. After eating, he accompanied his mother to tour around the Sylvia clan.

A silhouette approached them as soon as they left the palace. Both Olivia and Evan smiled after looking at it. "Whitey, are you waiting for us here?",Evan asked the guard dog with a smile. Whitney wagged his tail left and right as affirmation.

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"Do you know, this time how brave my husband was? He singlehandedly fought with two enemy experts".....

"My daughter was also brave. Although she is injured now, she still managed to kill two enemy soldiers"..

There was clamouring noises of women coming from a distance. Olivia became interested in their conversations and moved towards that direction. Evan followed after her.

"Look! why the second queen is walking towards us?, one of them noticed Olivia and exclaimed.

"Oh, there is a young man following behind her", another Sylvia clan women exclaimed. "Are you blind? That young man is our little prince",one of the women rebuked the earlier speaking women.

All of the women stopped their conversation and looked at Evan curiously. Evan felt many pair of eyes over his body.

"Our prince has grown up. He has already turned to a handsome boy", the group of women murmured among themselves.

Soon, Olivia and Evan reached near the group of women. Everyone greeted Olivia first and Olivia started to ask them questions about the war. She was mainly concerned with everyone's wellbeing.

Soon, the conversation topic changed and it came to Sophie. Earlier everyone witnessed, how Sophie was hastily leaving the palace of queen Olivia with reddened face. Then everyone looked at the handsome face of Evan and they started to giggle.

"No wonder, that girl was running like a startled bunny."

"You can't blame her. She is already a little adult after all. Moreover clan chief had already promised her hand".

"Mother, can you tell me what was wrong with sister Sophie earlier? She was acting so strange and didn't talk to me as usual", Evan asked with confusion. Although he was a intelligent boy but he still couldn't understand the talk of adults.

Olivia smiled after listening the question of Evan. "Child, do you like your sister Sophie?", she asked in return. Evan nodded his head despite his confusion. "What is going on? Why everyone is acting so mysterious?", Evan thought to himself.

"Your uncle Lucas have promised the hand of Sophie for you. When you become a adult, we will announce this fact to entire Thousand swords kingdom", Olivia said with a smile.

Evan didn't know whether laugh to cry. His first wife is already arranged in his absence. But he had nothing to complain. "Sister Sophie beats me some time but she is still a beautiful girl", Evan thought to himself.

"Little prince, quickly become an adult then. We can't wait to see your royal marraige", some women of Sylvia clan spoke with a teasing tone. "But why should you wait? I am already an adult", Evan replied.

"Hahaha~", everyone bursted in laughter after listening to Evan. Olivia also laughed untill her stomach ached. She found the little posturing of Evan rather cute.

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Night quickly descended on the White orchid valley. Evan was feeling refreshed after today's rest. He cultivated darkness energy for few hours and when it became midnight, he left his room.

The purple striped thunder tiger was waiting in a distance. A smile appeared on the face of Evan after locating it. It let out a howl to express its happiness after seeing Evan. 

He rode on it and entered the White Orchid forest.

The purple striped thunder tiger directly entered the deeper part of White orchid forest. The goal of Evan was clear this time. He was here to train in dangerous situation.

Training by directly absorbingly darkness energy was not feasible in such lower worlds. Moreover, he had opened up all the meridian of his body and needed a higher amount of energy than other meridian opening realm cultivators. So, Evan decided to cultivate using the primal method of devils.

The basic instinct of all devils was to fight. From their birth, they started their cultivation by slaughtering others. Evan was born as a royal devil. So, he was an exception in his past life. But in this life, he decided to train in the most basic method of devils. By fighting, he could squeeze out the latent potential of his body. Cultivation speed would be increased as a result.

Soon, Evan noticed a Group of Fierce stone apes. These were one of the most commonly seen magical beasts of White orchid forest. Evan leaped toward them from the back of purple striped thunder tiger.

He took out his sword and started to fiercely attack them. Thus, the fight between one devil and a group of magical beasts began.

Evan used Shadow ghost dance technique and dashed toward one of the nearby Fierce stone ape. Seeing the enemy, the Fierce stone ape swung his hand toward Evan but it's head rolled down to ground the next second.

Evan dashed toward his next target and killed it before it could respond. Within a interval of few minutes, bodies of five Fierce stone apes rolled on the ground.

Evan dashed towards another target as soon as he done with his current opponent but a sudden roar halted his movement. One roar, after another roar followed after the first roar and Evan felt a faint sense of danger.

He spread his soul consciousness and soon located three peak stage Meridian opening realm Fierce stone hawks and two early stage Profound transformation realm Fierce stone hawks. His soul consciousness spread further and his nerves tightened after noticing another group of Fierce stone hawks. The earlier roar was to inform about invaders.

The purple striped thunder tiger also sensed the danger and moved towards Evan. Earlier Evan had instructed it to not interfere unless it was a Profound transformation realm magical beast.

Soon, the group of three peak stage Meridian opening realm and two early stage Profound transformation realm Fierce stone apes, reached the location of Evan. Evan leaped to the back of purple striped thunder tiger and instructed it to retreat. The group of engaged Fierce stone apes gave a fierce chase to the purple striped thunder tiger.

After running for half an hour, they were already quite a distance away from the previous fighting location. Evan instructed the purple striped thunder tiger to stop. Within no time, the two Profound transformation realm Fierce stone apes caught up to Evan. Although the speed of purple striped thunder tiger was not bad but it couldn't outperform apes who used branches of trees for their movement. If it was a open area or a patch of land where vegetation was sparse, then Fierce stone apes couldn't match the purple striped thunder tiger. But here in the dense White orchid forest, the Fierce stone apes caught up in no time.

Evan looked at them with a glint in his eyes. This was the situation where he could practice with his life in danger. One of the Profound transformation realm Fierce stone ape launched itself toward Evan and the other one attacked the Purple striped thunder tiger.