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Chapter 31 - Order 31: The strongest

In the city of Libertatis, there is a building what people called as the Flying Building. It was claimed as so because it was literally floating in air, standing on nothing but air. Two giants orbs connected to each other via mana radiation were set up, one next to the building and other in the main city.

A Pegaluve with face covered in chains and rest of the body with armor, he made his way to the giant orb. Its armor was not something one could turn a blind eye to; it was embedded with elemental stones of top quality on its each limb, water stones on his left, fire stones on right, thunder stones on his left leg and earth stones on his right. All these stones surrounded but one stone, a yellow stone embedded on his chest, a time stone. The only part visible to the civilians was its metal coated wings that shined in the broad daylight. 

Its weapon floating next his chained arm was long staff with blades on both ends, commonly known as a Swallow. The only eye catching thing about its weapon was the words that embedded on the weapon "Life Binder". 

Upon touching it, he got teleported to other giant orb that was next to the building. 

"Dop dop sisi longet" he said and went inside the building. 

The building's interior was quite plain and bland, nothing much to notice in its interior design. One thing that went unnoticed was how crowded the building was, the interior which had nothing much to it was colored by the different Pegaluves working and conversing with their beautiful colored wings. 

One of receptionists noticed the man upon and realized "The chained one has returned!" everyone turned their attention to him. 

"Longet longet sisi dop" he yelled as he took a whole dragon out of his bag making everyone amazed by his efforts. But that was not end, "You took down a whole dragon-!?" he continued to take out two more. 

"As expected from him" the crowd whispered and talked about his achievements and quests. 

"sisi" he raised his arm and asked for his payment. The receptionist at once nodded and got back to her job.

A while later, after waiting for some time he got paid and left the building making his way to his home. On his way to his house, he heard some footsteps approaching and all of a sudden someone bumped into him. 

"I am so sorry! Are you alright?" The young man extended his hand for help. 

The chained one looked up and saw a young man with long black hair and green emerald eyes. He noticed that the young man's scabbard had no blade in it. 

He accepted his help and took his hand. "do-..."

"oh sorry, I am in a hurry here." The young man picked up his bag and gave it to him. He came like a wind and left like one. 

The chained one noticed the Pegaluves chasing the young man and in return for his kindness and apology, he helped him and attacked one of the Pegaluves with energy slash. 

The Pegaluve got cut in half. "dop dop sisi longet." 

Other noticed the perpetrator was the chained one. "That loser is still alive? Hope that thing just dies somewhere in the marshes in the human realm." 

"Yeah, we'll at least not see that ugly cursed face." 

....

Cryo flew between the buildings, roof tiles flying off in the chase after the Pegaluve.

"Ice surge!" multiple pillars of ice came out of the ground and blocked the path of the Pegaluve, stopping him from flying freely.

"Try better, Phoenix!" the Pegaluve mocked Cryo for not able to hit at least ones. 

Cryo smirked as he said "Ice spread". All of a sudden, numerous spikes grew out of the pillars along with many that came out of the ground. This sudden attack caught the Pegaluve off-guard and he got stabbed while trying to get away. 

"I'll fucking kill you" the Pegaluve screamed in pain. 

"Try better next time." Cryo copied his words in a mocking accent

The Pegaluve wore an evil smile. "Keh! Keh! Keh! This is not enough to kill me" he tried to get up "The moment I get all healed up, I am gonna torture you so bad along with that human over there! Keh! Keh! It's gonna be so much fun!" 

The last statement was enough to piss Cryo off, he snapped his finger blowing all the spikes that stabbed his body off and shattering them to pieces.

Some of the spectators screamed in fear while others ran away. "Murderer!" a small child shrieked while pointing a wooden stick to Cryo. 

"..." Cryo spotting the source of the voice looked at the child and walked away.

...

In the inner city, Lecia chased after Crevial as she ran off with Achlys sword.

"Return my husband's sword, bitch!" 

"Oh my, you are quite scary." Crevial felt shivers run down her spine. She ran in an alley where somehow, she threw the bars when they got stuck in the wall while she was making her escape. These bars hit Lecia in her face, scarring her nose. 

"Now you have done it." Lecia's anger knew no bounds. "Sword...husband...love...love...LOVE!" She drooled all over the place, her eyes shined red like ruby in the dark alleyway. 

Crevial looked back for a second and saw that terrifying expression Lecia made. She closed her eyes and ran as fast as she could, hoping someone could just save her from this terrifying lusty bitch. 

Suddenly, a bonk sound could be heard...it was a hit on the head.

"You should stop that, horny angel." 

Lecia rubbed her head turned around while uttering, "You dare hit my head, mortal-!" she saw someone familiar and suddenly became all quiet. 

"What did you call me?" 

Lecia bowed down to him. Crevial curious about the situation, stood next to Lecia when she suddenly got pulled down by her and got her head smashed in the ground. "Bow down, idiot!" 

"Ouch! My beautiful face!" 

Lecia hit her again. "I am sorry, master Achlys for this unpleasant drama you saw!" 

Crevial looked up and saw a young black haired boy standing infront of her with a firm expression.

"Who is this woman, Lecia?"

Lecia slowly glanced at Crevial and asked her to give him sword. 

Even without many words, Crevial could tell that she would die if she didn't. "H-here you go, M-master Ac-chlys." 

Achlys sighed and took the sword from her. He hit Lecia again in the head and told them both to stand up.

"Honey~ what did I do to deserve this punishment?" Achlys clenched his fist and glared at Lecia. He sighed again. "First off, I am not master, call me by my name. Secondly! Why are you hurting that woman?" 

"Well..." Lecia gulped.

...

"Come in." The pink haired ordered from his underground throne. 

"Lord Qyioza...H-humans have en-entered our flying c-city." The poor Pegaluve was shaking to his boots. 

"Don't be scared, one knows that death is follow if one leaves this room." 

The Pegaluve gulped and smiled while bawling through his eyes. "Dying is not scary, right?" 

Qyioza nodded and suddenly vanished from his throne. Then all of a sudden, he appeared behind the weeping Pegaluve and grabs him lightly by his neck. "You know what? I can make an exception for you...how about it?" 

The poor Pegaluve gulped and said in a soft voice. "W-what ex-c-cept-ti-tion?" 

"Nothing much, just..." his voice becomes more soft and terrifying. "Be my servant" 

"W-what?" 

"Yes, just be my servant and I swear to my name...I will protect you and you will not die." 

The Pegaluve without a second thought agreed and nodded intensely. 

"Excellent!" His grip tightened as he dug his nails into the Pegaluves soft flesh and formed contract sign that looked like a circle with 'Q' in it.

"You know what do now." Qyioza released him and got back to throne. 

The Pegaluve tried to leave as soon as he got freed. 

"Before you go, state your name." 

"Lopo ver Pius, at you service, my lord." He left in a hurry. 

"Things are going to get interesting now..." Qyioza leaned on his arm, his eyes shined bright pink.

An evil smile emerged on his face.

....

The voice of clashing swords echoed in the demon forest. Tiabishi and the princess exchanged blows after blows without even breaking a sweat. 

A giant icicle was created above the princess, covering at least one-fourth of the demon forest. "Take this!" Tiabishi launched that piece of mountain on the princess. 

"Fragile, sloppy and weak!" she shattered the whole icicle with a single blow.

Tiabishi breathed heavily, her body was full of cuts and bruises. Her left hand was practically immobilized because of the extensive use of ice magic. "What...do you want to achieve by...training me?"

The princess stabbed the ground with her sword and went closer to Tiabishi. "It's simple, so that I can beat someone a bit stronger." 

Tiabishi instinctively stepped back.

"Are you out of your mind, bitch?" 

"Oh my, such vulgar words...well I was just joking." 

"Yeah so, why?" Tiabishi got curious by her sudden change of tone.

"Well, partially because of your own existence...you are the last of your species, the only brown haired elf left on this land." 

"What!?"

"Yes and secondly because I was curious..." 

"Curious about what?" Tiabishi couldn't stand any longer and sat down on the ground. 

"Well, it's going to be long tale...do you really want to hear it?"

"Yeah, sure" Her sudden change in attitude was quite noticeable. It was like she had turned into a well-mannered noble maiden. 

"Actually...Since my birth, I have nothing but destroyed everything and killed countless beings. All I have known was this feeling of hatred towards everyone. I, the princess of the demon kind was born for nothing more than killing people. That is what the ancient scripts talk about; I am nothing but a killing machine." She continued with her story and sat next to Tiabishi. 

There was time when everyone feared the demon princess for her ruthless and merciless killing. She was known was her undiscriminating slaughters but that changed, during the recent years. The killing had gone to almost none. This all happened due to the sudden change in the Demon Princess's attitude towards her slaughtering. 

"When I saw you in Loipetras, there was something that snapped in my heart...your act of defending your partners name changed something inside me." 

"In Loipetras?" 

"Yes, you told me that you'd do anything to protect him?"

"Yes! I would do anything to protect my beloved." 

"I don't know why, but this statement made me feel jealous of you. I was annoyed by it and only thing I knew to get away from this annoying feeling was to beat people up. But nothing changed." 

Tiabishi patted her head. "It's alright, you just wanted to loved and love someone with all your heart." She took her hand and said. "What you are feeling compassion and love towards everyone. What you want is just the warmth of the person's heart and soul. Good job, fighting this fight alone...you won against your greatest enemy hat-..." Tiabishi fainted because of her loss of blood.

Princess caught her in her arms and laid her down on the ground. "An elf showing kindness to demons, she is weird one." 

"Father, brother...I have a request." 

"What is it, my daughter?" Both Dobrota and his father came outside of shadows of the woods. 

"Can I bring her with me to the castle? I want to train her." 

"Let me think...hmmmm" the demon king tried acting as he was thinking hard about this.

"Please..." 

Her cute expression captivated the demon king. "How can I not agree to a request from my lovely daughter!??"

"Thank you father...and Dobrota..."

"Eek! Yes!?"

"Can you help me train her...?"

"..." this sudden change in attitude made Dobrota question his existence. 

"Y-yeah sure...." 

"Thanks a lot both of you!" 

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