It had been 2 days since the tournament, the votes were piling up and the tsumond clan were spreading propaganda. Meanwhile I was lazing around at home and relaxing, probably watching Fez work her butt off in the distance. Due to the showcase of strength in the tournament, it wouldn't be surprising if nobody attempted to assassinate her. Surprisingly, there were quite a few instances, possibly led by monetary motives.
It wasn't as if she was a frail maiden, afterall she could put up the most decent fight for me, compared to the others. The only realistic way of killing her was to have someone as strong as the king to come and fight in a frontal battle. Sneak attacks wouldn't work from the counter skills of her class and her firepower wasn't lacking either.
As seen in the tournament, the scale of my power is so high, the things I summoned would just get obliterated by the shockwaves. This made the [summon undead] and [summon demon] skills useless. In the one year of laying low, I accumulated more and more fighting experience in the dungeon, this leveled up and also gained me some new skills.
There were only 5 days left, until they decided to choose a king. Did it get postponed? Well it didn't matter much, at this point I could confidently call Fez a rival, if she were to win the throne it wouldn't matter. The only thing that mattered to me was winning the tournament,it represented me and Fez's progress in our road of growing stronger. For the time being, I think I'll try to learn more skills instead.
I wasn't particularly bothered by my surroundings, so I wore my usual outside attire and strode out the door. Arriving at the main road, I had just started heading for my destination when someone called me out. Gradually a strange crowd had surrounded me as if I was some sort of street performer. But all I did was walk... Due to the ending of the tournament causing a lot of damage, there were a few days of school off and I wanted to spend them lazing around.
A certain silver haired beauty came around the corner of the street, noticing the crowd around me and my confused expression, she roughly guessed out the circumstances.
"It's the tournament. You're the winner remember? I don't think its normal for a 8 year old to pull that off" (Fez)
"Oh screw off, you're only 2 years older, what difference does that make?"
" Well you still won, obviously you will get quite a bit of attention. Defeating the heirs of the great families that had ruled for centuries isn't exactly a normal feat." (Fez)
Using [illusion-tier 4] ,we slipped out of the crowd with ease as we headed for a nearby facility to fill our needs. Reading each other's minds, we made a beeline for a medium sized cafe that had a pink signboard. On the right of the signboard was a giant cutout cupcake, followed by it's name 'just desserts'. Looking at the colour choice of the shop, you could understand we had similar taste. Or maybe Fez just wanted treats after working hard to promote herself.
Releasing [illusion], we signaled to the staff for 2 seats and made ourselves comfy. Was this shop unexpectedly popular? On the walls to the right of the entrance were pictures of some celebrities, coupled with the fact they were completely calm when they saw us, they had a high quality of service and did not let status affect their work.
We weren't able to stop drawing attention from the other seats, but I couldn't care less, I was only there for my Tiramisu cake. It had thin layers of coffee powder over layers of thick cream in a striped manner, the aroma would entice you before you take a bite. Fez had a chocolate truffle, apparently it was her favourite as she comes to this shop quite frequently just to grab a taste of it.
We talked about the events of the 2 days after the tournament, well she did, I didn't as I just lazed at home. Nothing else eventful happened until the new ruler was revealed. Apparently relaxing at a library and various restaurants could get you votes. It didn't raise it that much, but it still pushed the number of my votes just above Fez.
*boom!* Without warning, half the venue was evaporated. Using [wrath] on a wide area to turn back time and revive the victims, an array of lights representing the 7 elements swarmed over into the direction of the explosion. It must have been a retaliation against our attackers, it sure was an interesting magic from an unknown ally... But the worst part was that it dissipated into nothing. Usually something on that scale had enough destructive power to destroy the city, but it was negated as if it was like cutting paper. Tch! And I was about to be crowned too.
"Fez, if I don't get out of this alive, you'll be the new queen. Maybe you can't feel it, but these people are as strong as the previous king."
"What! Then you should let me fight to!" (Fez)
"I'm going to be real with you, if not for the fragile barrier at the tournament, you wouldn't survive a second if we were to fight."
I had a ridiculous amount of speed after all. Enough to break the world system and cause a blackhole. But I have a feeling that I will need it in this battle. Lunging with all my strength, I observed that there was a middle aged brown hair male, a young looking man with black and white stripes in his hair, a young adult female with brown hair and lastly a young adult male with black bair. All of them were wearing casual clothes, the terrorist of this world have no fashion.
Lining the sky with explosions, the enemy used unknown methods of attack that couldn't be detected. All I could do was predict and dodge until I closed in on the distance. Releasing a rain of [void beam]s from all directions, only the black and white striped hair and the middle aged guy survived. At least that was what I thought... Standing back up as if nothing had happened, the two other perpetrators lifelessly gazed back. Are you sure they aren't dead? They look like zombies to me.
As if answering my thoughts, they barely balanced the weight of their own body before being showered in a blue glow by the middle aged guy. He looked well fed and his attire doesn't look like much at first, but it had so many enchantments that it could be a noble's formal suit. His hair looked well groomed as well giving him the aura of a rich person. The striped haired person on the other hand was like a menacing bean sprout. He had a scary face that didn't match with his build.
Now that those other 2 were reduced to zombies, I could just dodge their attacks and focused on the other 2. From what I've seen, one of them has soul manipulation and mana negation. Perhaps he had complete control over mana, but the other still had an unrevealed power. Fighting 2 opponents that are as strong... If not stronger than the king... Is exciting!