'oops! looks like they had a reality check and that too is due to a ten-year-old girl! how interesting' faes grinned internally while on the outside she had an indifferent look.
"who are you to dare speak like that to this young lord? do you not know your place? want me to teach you a lesson?" sir nickolas hissed but in his anger he held rosaline's hand tighter making faes narrow her eyes when she saw rosaline wince
"i know my place and yours too!" faes replied coldly with an eriee smile
"you are just a little brat! you probably cant even run properly much less change into your dragon form swiftly like our young lord! who are you to talk like that to a noble?" one of nickolas friends said but faes just grinned in response and didn't spoke anything.
her grin was like she was looking down on them but in real faes was just amused. if only they knew she wasn't a dragon, yet their princess, a royal human! 'their expressions would be interesting to see' faes wanted to laugh.
blake who was boiling in rage suddenly thought of something and turned to faes having a bewildered expression. from what he know faes was a human that uncle aiden adopted then why was she currently of dragon race? just how did faes turn into a dragon? blake wanted to know that but didn't ask as faes turned to him with a smile.
"don't worry it's just a trick sky and i came up with. now's your chance to be the knight in shining armour and save miss rosaline" faes whispered.
"huh?" blake heard faes and watched as she turned to grin at others again.
"Just who in the world are you? who are your parents? hey you! are you this little brat's guardian? is this how she is supposed to talk to nobles? doesn't have even the slightest hint of manners in her" nickolas shouted at faes and blake making blake angry again forgetting about faes race in the meantime.
this shout just made faes grin widen and blake to get angrier. blake finally understood what faes was saying and stood up.
"yes I am her guardian and she knows her manners quite nicely! it's precise because of that she spoke nicely to you, 'sir nickolas'" blake said but faes clearly sensed the sarcasm at the end of his sentence making her amused as she picked her glass of water and began taking sips slowly enjoying the show even when her head ached from all the noise faes knew she have to get used to it.
"now i know why she speaks that way, even you don't have manners i have to teach you both a lesson so that you learn how to talk to us nobles" nickolas left rosaline's hand and she ran to hide behind her father. then nickolas turned to blake completely ready to attack.
faes felt sky stir in her arms and looked down to find sky blinking clearly disturbed by the commotion so she patted sky lightly on the head
"dont worry baby just some nobles, you go back to sleep big brother and i will handle them" faes said and sky nodded going back to sleep.
what faes said was not slowly so everyone heard her but it just made the noble boys face darken with anger. they clearly sensed that she looked down on them even after she knew they were nobles.
"you brat! just let me take care of this boy before i come for you. you will know what just nobles means" nickolas glared at faes before turning back to blake who was now grinning. blake wanted to praise faes to piss the noble boy off! it felt way too good to put him in place. nobles who abuse their power are supposed to be treated this way.
nickolas raised his hand and the temperature in the room dropped by several degrees making faes raise a brow. 'he is an ice dragon? is that why the reward is ice magic?' faes somehow began to understand how the quest works but still she didn't know how to trigger one.
ice began to form around nickolas hand and then took the form of icicles but faes just sighed. the process was too slow! the time he took to gather the ice was enough for faes to kill him!
on the side blake frowned 'is it just him or nobles nowadays this weak?' blake was alarmed. nobles are supposed to be powerful and intelligent so that they can help the citizens but the one in front of him was way too weak and slow. even when the ice he gathered was a powerful attack anyone can dodge or block it if they knew how to.
the icicles shot out from nickolas towards blake but blake just sighed not even dodging. he just watched nickolas with a disappointed look which made nickolas uncomfortable.
nickolas watched as the icicles flew towards blake but on the way their speed reduced and they melted away even before hitting blake. blake had used his fire magic and increased the temperature melting the icicles hence nullifying the attack.
"if you want to kill this seat you will have to try better than that sir nickolas" blake said still having that disappointed look. he was really looking forward to a nice fight but he probably wasn't going to get it anytime soon, not with the person in front of him. 'faes was better than him' blake thought remembering the move faes used to kill the spider.
angry about not being able to succeed nickolas used his ice magic again and again but in the end he only created a pool of water on the floor and was not able to hit blake. faes watched this whole thing but somehow got bored after all this time and blake too looked bored as he was yawning covering his mouth with his hand.
"lets finish it i am getting bored" blake said glaring at nickolas who was now panting hard from continuously using his mana. angry nickolas used all his remaining mana in his next move making lots more icicles than before and shot them towards blake who just sighed.
next nickolas saw blake vanished from where he was standing and then a cold sensation on his neck making him freeze in fright. he didn't saw how blake moved at all! blake now holding a table knife on nickolas neck glared at him when he heard rosaline shout
"careful miss faes!" rosaline shouted making blake turn towards his sisters. because he was standing in front of faes and the icicles were shot towards him he didn't think about this before as he was just melting them and they didn't pose any threat to him or his sisters. but now that he dodged the aim of the icicles became faes who was right behind him. blake widened his eyes in fear that his sisters would get hurt but he only saw faes smile at him.
everyone watched as faes continued sitting with sky in her lap ignoring the icicles but even before the icicles came near her a purple firewall appeared around the table faes was occupying. when the icicles hit the firewall they didn't melt but directly vaporized into steam creating a fog around faes. the water pool blake and nickolas made a while ago were also vapourised due to the heat when done with the icicles the wall vanished leaving faes who was surrounded by steam.
the scene gave everyone an impression that a fairy was sitting serenely in between mist enjoying the peace with a smile.
everyone was now silent giving faes a chance to relax from the noise and that brought a smile on her face. she had used her firewall but she didn't think that it was anything special.
when nickolas and his gang saw that they cant even deal little damage to any of the people they realized something and broke in cold sweat.
"can i know who your respected self is?" nickolas asked as blake sighed in relief when he saw that faes and sky were safe.
"who do you think i am?" blake asked moving away from him removing the knife from his neck and grinning "i can kill you easily even without any weapon if you are that slow!" blake commented as he arrived in front of faes again
"a higher noble from capital city?" nickolas replied watching blake who smiled in return.
"try again maybe i should give you a hint. this seat is called blake" blake said but nickolas only frowned not recognizing blake.
"brother blake he still didn't recognize you are you that unpopular?" faes asked wanting to tease blake and nickolas at the same time. actually, faes was having fun hence she was getting involved in this otherwise she would have ignored them and let blake handle the situation completing her quest. as for the insults sir nickolas gave her, she didn't mind them because in her previous life she had heard worse! this much was nothing in comparison.
blake turned to faes as he heard her and pouted
"i am popular its just that people who dont pay attention to their work and study wont recognize me when met, and also we are currently not dressed in proper clothes" blake replied but faes just grinned making him sigh and glare at nickolas, looks like his sister liked teasing him or was just having fun but he actually didn't know that faes was holding back because she didnt wanted blake to get upset with her. they barely knew each other!
"milord can you give more hints?" nickolas asked shivering from fear as he heard blake and faes talk. he realized that he messed up!
"fine i will introduce myself properly, no playing around anymore" blake said and gave faes a look before taking out his royal identity ring and wearing it.