But when she saw that the focus of the young emperor was redirected to her and a smirk is visible, she glared at him and refocused on the matters at hand. If she can make the duke be distracted, maybe the spell will be stopped. But in order to do that....
...in order to distract him, she needed to hurt him a little first.
She exasperatedly sighed.
"Chadwell, stop countering him. It is clearly useless. Still, you can strengthen the hold of that formation instead of struggling yourself." after saying her opinion, she emitted another aura. It clearly means she is serious as hell rising behind her. Chadwell, not wanting to get hurt, retreated to the side and silently restrengthen the formation he casted.
"Duke Constantine. Pardon me but if I hurt you, then don't blame me for being merciful." her words were as clear as a pure water, yet full of venom injecting everyone's soul who dare to defy nor object her words. She looks like a true authority whose words were laws. But the duke didn't hear any of it and continued enchanting the spell.
Even though Chadwell's counter spell lessen the pain and the accuracy of the spell, it still has some effects to the legendary dragon, who now can barely stand.
When she felt another wave of energy will make its way to the dragon, out of pity, she relentlessly blocked the energy in its path, making the dragon whom she just had met days before, widen its eyes and feel grateful to her.
But when the dragon saw how her figure retreated at least a step, he cannot help but to kneel, asking for forgiveness and volunteering to become the spiritual beast of the Duke.
However....
When everyone saw the different entity the young lady was emitting, they took a step backwards.
Boooom!
A loud boom and then the whole arena was covered in purple smoke due to the explosion of energy.
"izchisti vyatura!" remembering that Anastasia was also in the arena, Chadwell instantly ran towards the center of the arena and mumbled the same spell he used to clear the mists.
The sight of a young lady hugging and protecting a young man from the explosion is truly a sight to behold. Moments of silence passed like centuries when the young lady released the man and turned around and faced the recuperating dragon on the other side.
She then aske the legendary dragon to make a contract with the duke while she produced a pill in her sleeve and asked the young emperor to fed it to the other two competitor. After handing it over the emperor, she glanced at the crowd,
"Brother Chadwell, these people are obviously tired, why not let them rest?" saying this, she cast a smile while hypnotising the crowd into sleeping before their body hit the ground.
Seeing what she had done, Chadwell couldn't help but to chuckle. This is another way of hers to say that her secret is an open book in front of many, thus she ordered the wind to lure them into sleeping and removing the scenes they have seen earlier. Instead, she plants another illusion that the Legendary Dragon and the young duke are fighting to death until the dragon concedes.
Tired, the simple young lady in lavender dress faced the duke and did the same to him, making him faint. She looked at Chadwell and said her goodbyes and left, leaving everything and let bygones be bygones. After that, no one saw her again. Her sudden disappearance caused a lot of fuss in the Forgotten Realms.
Nobody knew that she went back in the Ninth Mountain in the South, continuing her cultivation. Though, she didn't know that after three years in her closed door cultivation, the young duke of the north had dreams of what really happened three years ago. Therefore, he always asks the spiritual dragon in his custody, but the dragon kept his mouth shut in three years time. Because of this, he began cultivating and training, until he became the emperor of the northern kingdom, and led the kingdom into prosperity.
And after three years, the lady in lavender dress in his dreams showed in his birthday feast after he became the emperor. Her melancholic face was deeply engraved in his mind, because he always dreamt of meeting her in the past. She, who was the envoy of the Southern Kingdom after she returned fron seclusion, was tasked to find something in the Northern Kingdom. And unexpectedly, while she is on a mission, the emperor and her always fated to meet. Different day, different situations. Yet these made the two fall in love with each other.
Unfortunately...
If she didn't went to that competition...
If she didn't summoned the legendary dragon...
If she didn't saved the former young duke last three years and didn't removed his memory...
If she refused to be an envoy of her Kingdom...
If she didn't always meet him---she wouldn't have fallen in love with this kind of ending.
While he, if he wasn't the emperor, both of them would meet in different circumstances.
If he isn't the honorable emperor, would they become normal acquaintances?
If both of them aren't entitled as the Lady of the South and Emperor of the North, they could've experience normal lives.
However, that was all in the past.
Glancing at the silent mountains while remembering the past, she chuckled. The archduke with her, was startled with her sudden smile and chuckles.
"Lil Ana, what's funny?" the archduke slightly frowned. Anastasia on the other hand, stared at his features. Their features are quite the same. But his younger brother's eyes were deeper and was pretty much void of any emotion since that day. The day when her heart shattered like a broken mirror.
"Big brother, if I am not the Lady of the Southern Kingdom---I am just Anastasia Philip, will His Majesty let me go?"