"if your friends are joining the i hope you dont mind her royal highness friends to join the fun either"
a voice echoed in the cell making both the scar faced man and nia to turn towards its origin.
they noticed two figures standing at the cell's gate. one boy around twenty years old wearing a golden silver armour holding a battle axe in his hands. brown hair, azure eyes and muscular he looked intimidating enough even without his cultivation. but gray was an elemental strenthening stage 2 cultivator similarly to the scar faced bandit.
while gray was standing protectively in front of a young girl. nia and the bandit couldnt sense any cultivation from her neither could they tell her race like they noticed the boy to be a dragon.
black hair, pale skin and gray eyes the girl looked breathtaking even though her face was covered with a mask. the leather armour she was wearing was also of high quality as a faint red mist surrounded it.
"who are you? how did you get in here without any noise?" the scar faced bandit asked as he hurriedly went to his armour and weapons putting them on.
"is that important to know?" faes grinned as she entered the enchanted cell instantly feeling the mana in her body being supressed. she ignored the bandit and walked directly towards nia.
"you stay away from her" the bandit tried to attack faes but gray intersepted him easily pushing the man back.
nia watched the boy easily handle the bandit acting as a guard to the girl who was currently in front of her. nia felt some kind of connection to the girl instantly as if she knew her for a long time but couldnt recall her at all.
one have to know that she havent contacted faes for the past three to four years directly and even before they barely met each other. after undergoing the training and trials faes have changed hence nia couldnt easily recognize her.
faes also noticed that nia havent recognized her yet but she only smiled. faes expected something like this happening but it wasnt bad either.
"your highness princess nia monesterio von altai, can we join in the game? i assumed my friend would like to fight a similarly strong opponent hence directly came in here" faes spoke taking a seat near nia where she was chained on the ground with no intention of freeing her.
everyone who saw her actions and heard her were shocked except gray who was used to it.
nia wasn't sure who the girl was but when she introduced herself first she said they were her friends. hearing that nia assumed that her family sent a rescue team for her but now that the girl was just taking a seat near her without any intention to get her out of these chains, nia wasn't sure if she was a friend or foe. nia only hoped that the girl and her friend were here for her help.
"who the fu** are you?" "where are the guards?" the bandit immediately began shouting angrily while contacting his friends only to receive nothing in return.
"they won't be coming here anytime soon, you see they are busy with our other friends" faes grinned before turning to gray.
"don't kill him, i want him alive at the end"
gray nodded before attacking the scar-faced bandit.
it was quite clear that gray was stronger than the bandit from the one-sided beating as neither could use magic while inside the cell.
nia was silently watching the fight in fear and shock then she turned towards the girl sitting near her only to get shocked again.
the girl was actually eating snacks! she looked carefree as she ate and then a mug of hot chocolate appeared in her hand from somewhere.
if that wasnt enough the girl noticed her stunned expression and smiled "do you want some? they are not bad"
nia was speechless at the girl and could not think anything for some time.
"your highness relax! i assure you we are here as friends." faes spoke smiling as she extended her hand offering snacks again.
well, she was worried but she also believed in her friend's strength. after noticing that gray was fine in the fight she decided to make nia relax and forget about the experience, which seem to work.
"but your friend" nia frowned in worry but when she saw faes relaxing she felt calm as if everything will turn out fine now.
"he will be fine, so do you want to eat it or i finish it myself?" faes asked again. when nia noticed faes was trying to relax her she calmed herself down and ate the chip faes fed her.
nia had been starving as she refused to eat the food bandits gave her, now that she began trusting the younger girl she could finally calm her hunger down.
faes also relaxed feeding nia. she was angry in reality but after she saw nia tied up she wasn't sure she could control herself. but thanks to gray noticing that they arrived just in time faes relaxed slightly.
she knew exactly what nia was currently feeling as she had been in a similar situation in her past life, but was rescued in time by the police.
now that nia was eating snacks relaxing and trusting her faes felt better. she contacted kai and slowly changed the snacks into a healthy meal helping nia replenish her energy.
'boom'
faes and nia glanced towards the cell gate where the scar-faced bandit crashed after Grayson threw him off.
the bandit wasn't in a good shape but after getting himself up he grinned at gray. he was now out of the cell and was free from the restrictions. he could now use magic while his enemy couldn't.
just as the scar-faced man was preparing his spell another explosion sounded out before a body crashed to the ground in front of him. ground sunk down forming a crater around the unconscious body and a figure holding a trident appeared in the dust.