The Elemental Sword Demon King
Episode 105: The successor of the Demon King
Meanwhile, Eve was surrounded and encompassed by a crowd of junior knights. His reddish-brown eyes were impressive. Her blue twintail hair swayed in the breeze.
Apparently, Eve was going to the Sword Style Festival by wearing her knight armor as well. It was probably an expression of his determination to become a representative of the academy as well as a Hybrid Knight at the same time.
"Captain, please fight for us too!"
"We support you!"
"Yes, I will definitely claim victory!" Eve nods at the words of Rin and Misha, her two former teammates.
They had entrusted Eve with their dream for the Sword Style Festival championship. And then, one more person. Kaizo knew that there was a girl who had entrusted him with a dream.
Kaizo whispered to Eve, who had returned after saying goodbye to her junior, "Eve, that ribbon looks good on you."
"Me-You think so?" Eve blushed and fidgeted with her fingers.
Her twintail hair tie is a white ribbon. It was something that Eve's foster sister had entrusted to her before leaving the academy.
"Now that I'm wearing this, I feel like brother is watching me." Eve suddenly smiled.
Looking at his helpless face from the side, Kaizo spontaneously felt his heart pound again.
"The time has come. Everyone, get inside the stone circle."
Master Emilia traced the stone pillar with her fingertips, and a ray of blue light emanated from the ground surface. A Gate connecting this world and Astral Spirit appeared.
Kaizo and his group nodded at each other and stepped into a shining stone circle.
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A dazzling flash of light covered his field of vision, and then a fleeting intoxicating sensation as if heaven and earth were upside down.
"Hm..."
Opening their eyes, what first appeared in their field of vision were all kinds of trees in the dense forest, and a large lake occupied a large area within it.
A lake that looked like the surface of a polished mirror, which only existed in Astral Spirit. At the edge of the lake where the aquatic plants grew bushy, countless faint light balls floated up and created an astonishing scene.
"I've come to this lake before during the academy's training camp."
Victoria firmly descended to the muddy ground. Other team members are also sent to the site one after another.
"By the way, where's the ship?" Kaizo looked around the surface of the lake. A ship-like object was not found anywhere.
"Where are you looking? Look, over there." Victoria shrugged her shoulders and pointed to the sky peering through the crevices of the trees.
"Hm?"
As Kaizo raised his head, the outline of a ship was floating in the sky with its huge shadow on the lake.
"That's, the Ariel-class flying boat from the Divine Ritual Obsession?" Kaizo opened his eyes and groaned.
An advanced flying ship named after the Elemental Lord of Wind. He had heard it in rumors, but this was the first time he had seen anything real.
It had a slender whale-like shape. Apparently the source of power was the spirit machines made in the Holy Kingdom of Nilhm, and they used over 6000 years old sacred trees as materials for the exterior.
It was the ship that would lead the elementalists, who would dedicate their sword style to the Elemental Lords on the stage of the Sword Style Festival.
"Kaizo, we will definitely win the grand prize."
"Yes." Yeah." Kaizo nodded, and tightly clenched his left hand.
(We have crawled up little by little to gain qualification to board that ship.)
Victoria, for the sake of knowing the truth about the incident caused by her older sister. Kaizo, in order to get back the contracted spirit that has been lost.
Then Eve, Tiana, and Aura, everyone there joined the Sword Style Festival with their respective desires. The flying ship caused a flashy spark as it landed on the lake.
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Princess Sizuan Academy, office space. Aidenwyth Miel Kais faced the wall of the room and spoke, "It looks like the boy is already heading there."
There was no response. However, immediately from within the wall, a person's shadow appeared as if it was seeping out.
"Yes Mom. A moment ago."
It was the teacher Emilia Gaia, the shadow elementalist. He approached Aidenwyth's office desk, and then spoke without hesitation, "Stay, Principal, I don't understand why you got that far to support the child?"
"What do you mean?"
"His fighting skills were indeed outstanding, but the Sword Style Festival was not something soft to let someone win with just that. You should be the one who knows that the most."
"Yes, as you say. That child was still unable to win against the Strongest Sword Style Holder like him right now. At least, I want him to wake up before the real war starts, but...."
"What do you mean?"
"No, just random shit." Aidenwyth shook his head as if to avoid that question.
"More importantly, is the investigation into the matter over?"
"Yes. I want you to be moderate and stop using me to spy on soldiers."
"I've been feeling sorry about that, you know." Aidenwyth shrugged her shoulders, then Emilia rudely threw away the report.
“That's the data about the incident four years ago. After the collapse of the concerned institution, the Instructional School, there were 14 orphans brought into protection by the imperial knights."
Frowning, Emilia continued, "Rumors say that five of them have been accepted into the special school of the knight order troops. The remaining nine died a few years later under the influence of the Cursed Armament Seal given to them by the institution, or so they said."
"Stay, that means the numbers don't match. That goes against the data found at the institution."
"His clan was not all orphans protected by the order of knights. Noah Alnest, who entered our academy the other day, is also one of the orphaned institutions that has very little information about the knight order. It's not strange if there's another unconfirmed orphan besides him out there."
"I understand."
What came to Aidenwyth's mind were the eyes of the boy he met four years ago.
In the eyes of the boy, who declared nonchalantly on that day, that he had come to kill the Blue Palace Witch, there was no hatred, nor was there anger, nor was there any anger, only an unexpected void.
(The same boy as the boy back then, yes)
Little children whose hearts were plundered and raised as weapons of war. Although they were also elementalists, they were basically different from the noble girls who grew up in the academy.
"School Head?"
"It's nothing. You did a good job. Please continue your investigation as it is."
"Seriously, my main job is not a spy but a teacher, you know." Emilia once again disappeared into the wall while complaining.
Aidenwyth stared out the window, then suddenly took a heavy breath, "Military spirit and orphan from the Instructional School. Was he really planning to incite war or something?"
The Blue Palace Witch succumbed to impatience. The holder of the strongest sword style had yet to awaken. He must be strong. Even in the academy where first-rate elementalists gathered, his strength was incredible.
However, it was, at its best, just a story in a mini-park called the academy. Like him now, he really could not win against him. Rei Assar from three years ago also could not do that.
"Please, the successor of the Demon King. Because even I don't have much time now." Aidenwyth pressed down on her pounding heart as she pursed her lips ironically.
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*Connected.....
*Note: This story is fictitious. If there is a similarity in the name of the character, the scene, or the story, it is a mere coincidence and there is no element of intentionality.