"Your highness! We need you in the King's Chamber!"
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(Archeron Kingdom - King's Chamber)
Leila quietly approached her father, who was lying down peacefully on his bed. Kneeling beside the bed, and cried her heart out as she hugged her father's lifeless body.
The Five Clans were quiet as they gazed at the Old King but not because of its death. But they were afraid of the young man who just came leaning on the door of the Chamber with his arms crossed, observing at their way.
Since they were curious after the guard hindered their meeting and summoning the Princess.
They thought his majesty might have already recovered and wanted her presence there. But when they saw the king, they somehow expected its lifeless body because of the intel about the curse of the Omen Tree, but still, they did not expect the curse of the tree to be true.
After a while of mourning, Leila stood up and faced the people, not caring how messy she looked, and said.
"Can you all leave?"
"Child, our clan and Zhuges' are all here for you to command, we might not bear the same blood, but your father is like our brother to us. Don't hesitate to knock on our doors just like we supported your father. We will continue on you from here onwards."
The trio clan expressed their condolences and was the first to leave, followed by the duo after saying those words.
"Stop." Adam turned and was about to leave but ceased when he heard Leila's voice. He turned around, and she buried herself in his chest tightly.
"I thought you were mad at me?" Said Adam teasingly.
Adam discerned that Leila didn't want to speak, so he just touched her hair and gently stroked it.
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"Master, i want to go home..."
"Why? Do you miss being a mount? Don't you enjoy being free from the tigress?"
"Master, why are we even doing this?"
"What?"
"Don't you get tired from fishing all day? The creatures here are so small, and we don't even eat them. What are you going to do with all the fish that you caught?"
Sam went quiet. He leaned over to his side and looked at the different kinds of fishes floating in the air that he had caught in the river.
"What will the villagers eat now in this place if you bankrupted their lake?"
Thinking for a while, Sam thought of something.
"No worry, bear. The villagers will thank me later after this." Sam put on a heroic look on his while saying this to Pao.
"Oh right. You said you want to go home, right?" Sam added.
"No." When Sam said half of those words, Pao immediately rejected them. Pao knows him too well. If he said just 'okay' he believed it. But when his master tried to confirm it to him or his answers were long, then that's his ticket to goodbye home for a while.
The next day.
Sam and Pao were standing at a broken door of a broken wooden house.
Pao was dumbfounded at this sight and asked.
"Our home?"
"Yes! Isn't, amusing that they can create an easily destroyable house out of mortal wood. If I sneeze accidentally, this might broke our house." Sam replied, feeling amused at the house even though he had already been here.
Pao was speechless. He rotates the door know gently, but it results from the knob coming off.
"Don't use your power to open the door, you dumb?." Sam said, clicking his tongue.
Pao, without saying anything, just looked at his master, who was about to open the door, but he had not even touched it yet when the door suddenly collapsed.
The two looked at each other for a while before entering the house like a stranger.
"Breaking News: A civilian took a video of an unexplained phenomenon that occurred in a village that seems to be raining thousands of fish. Take a look!"
Pao, sitting on the floor almost choked by the food he was eating when he heard the news.
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Flying in the sky, Adam sat behind blackie as they followed the king's death parade circling the kingdom.
While floating in the sky, Adam noticed a strange aura of a person in a dark hooded cloak watching within the crowd.
"*Who is this? Another god? No, the aura is strange, but he does not have any divinity on it.*"
Adams eyes glimmer, and in that particular surrounding where the cloaked man was blending, several crows emerge on different areas of that place, from tallest structures to street lights.
After a few hours of watching, when it could no longer see the King's death marched, the cloaked person began to squirm away from the people.
Ever since the statue told him many mysteries in this realm, he felt excited to discover what this world has to offer.
Adam, never leaving his sight on this one because he felt curious about this strange energy that the cloaked person was emitting inside his soul. The man sped up the pace and went through various alleys in the capital city of the kingdom.
He stopped and stared at a particular bird also, looking at him on a roof not far from where he was standing. He noticed that on every alley he passed by, there would always be a crow perched on something. But the doubt only lasts for a sec when he found, that there is no Qi in these crow's life force.
He resumed his journey.
"*No one in this kingdom can rival me. I must be losing my sharpness from hiding for too long. But why am i suddenly feeling strange?... I better hurry.*" The man thought as he accelerated his speed.
Sitting cross-legged on top of the roof where the cloaked person saw the crow, Adam gazed at the fleeing person.
"Elves." Said Adam grinning.