The hours passed by as we converse further into more topics about this world. Base from the cold, mild and mystifying light that can be seen from the entrance of the cave, it was already night.
Even my siblings was now sleeping. Kaisa and Kai was the most interested fellows among my siblings and sit closed on Elissia's knees while the rest was on beside me. Now, they were all sleeping leaving me and the strayed princess.
"Not only the Kraveron empire, but every big kingdoms and alliance are hostile towards the Vraler empire. But non could not engaged in a war towards the demonic empire because of the dense forest surrounding it."
"It was said too that the beasts in the demonic regions are stronger than any other beasts of every region."
We have finished about the magic and common knowledges of this world and was now engaging the political and war affairs of kingdoms and empires around this world called Etherion."
"What did the demonic beings have done to be treated like this anyway?" I asked.
Elissia's fell into a deep thought, remembering any information that would help her to answer my incredulous question. "It was said before the 2 saints descended back when they refuse to ascend in the celestial plane, the demonic beings asked for a request to them but two of the four saints refuse while the other two neither gave an answer. The demonic beings was enraged for some reason and attack the two saints who refused them and it caused a war between the demonic beings and the two saints."
"After decades of never ending war between the two force, leaving devastation on the wakes of their battles, the demonic beings withdraw to recover their force and the two saints didn't pursue them any longer. Those two saints build their own Kingdom which was known as the most powerful empires now. The doctrines they created must have stated that demonic empire was evils thats why they were treated as a threat and deemed enemy by the other kingdoms."
Hmm. I wonder what happened back then. Why did the other two saints didn't help or choose sides and where are they know?
"Thank you Elissia. I have learned a lot today. This world's history can wait. But now, we need to rest."
The girl release a faint laugh as she looks with me weirdly. "It's really amazing and weird to see someone of the insect races to be so interested in the history of this world."
I can't blame her, I'm just a greater insect after all. Edona said that my intelligence as a few days old creature is very weird. Only I know why though.
"Yes, yes, you have already expressed how weird I am a lot of times already. Now I need to rest. You need to rest too. Can a princess even take a nap in this kind of setting though?"
"Hahaha! I'm not an ordinary princess you know? I take battles and missions instead of tea lessons and demeanour to be convincing and attracting noble person." She said then laid her body on the layers of dried leaves with his back facing me.
She did mention that she's been into more rough and uncomfortable situation than this back when she's still undergoing a training with his father as her tutor.
I though it was weird because the royal families I know are the ones whose always above the others and would puke just imagining being under such dirty and uncomfortable situation. But she cleared my though as she said that her clan was a clan of warriors who has an orthodox of training every members to be a warrior fit for every situations and conditions.
She also added that most kingdoms are ruled by pure power instead of monetary capabilities and her kingdom's custom does not differ much from the others.
Again, the knowledge I had about royal families or kingdoms I know in my previous life does not match this world's.
I also settled and slump my huge body at to the ground. It created a small loud thud but not enough to disturbed my sleeping siblings. I've really gain a huge body know, I also determined that leaves and fruits will not satiate my diet anymore.
Right now, I'm still the only one who eats meat. Guess I am now an official omnivore. Kaitron wants to it meat too but for some reason, I didn't allow him because I don't want to. I don't know how will this affect his diet in the future, but I decided my siblings won't eat meat until they evolved into greaters.
Kaisa eagerly agreed to my decision as she was the one whose most disgusted by me when I'm eating meat. Or even when she hears the sound of meat being squashed on my mandibles.
I made sure to practice my mana manipulation and empowering my body with mana before I sleep. I've been doing this since we first left the ants den and it showed great results now. I can now efficiently control the intensity of my fire. Added with the will of my mysterious magic, my flames spread instantly on its target as if my flames were always anticipating to devour everything I deemed worthy or needed to be ignited by my flames. Luckily, it did an exception towards the birds I hunt. I shot the ball of fire to them and then the flame will instantly cover their whole body in flame. It would only burn the feathers and keep minimum damage towards the skin.
Now I don't doubt that my flame has its own will. Maybe this is really my innate ability.
With the empowerment of my body with mana, I've became efficient on it. I could now instantly spread the tendrils of thread like mana into the parts of my body I deemed needed to be empowered. I now have a perfect memorization of my body's layout and the visualisation of the distribution of management onto it.
I slept after half an hour of my new routine and the night passed peacefully.
The next day, all of us was awaken by metallic footsteps. It's obviously far from us but we can't help but notice it because of how loud their clanging was.
"They're must be our our kingdom's Knights!" Elissia bolted up from the makeshift bed of piled dried leaves. She ran instantly towards the entrance.
"Elissia stop! We're still not sure!" I shouted on her back and then she turned until I can't see her figure and heads towards the mouth of the cave.
"Kaisa, stay here with your siblings." I said gazing onto the place of Elissia where Kaisa and Kai settled to sleep last night. Still half asleep and confused on what's happening, Kaisa nodded and I also head at the cave.
I was expecting for Elissia to be at least out of the cave screaming to call the Knight's attention. But she's just crouching, closed by the wall and peeking out on the forest. Base on her demeanor, her first guess must be wrong, and this new individuals was deemed to be suspicious fellow or a possible threat by the Princess.
I moved closed by her back and extended my sense onto where the canopy of metals are coming from. My instinctive detection sensed a about 20 plus group of individuals with amount of mana surpassing the assassins that we've faced yesterday.
"They're not from our Kingdom." Elissia said with a tone full of suspicion and wary.
"What might be their business here in Gashnor forest?" I asked
"They're probably searching for something. If they had a prearranged legal business towards our Kingdom, they wouldn't bother crossing the forest and would choose the road."
That makes sense. And there's one possible reason of why are they looking for something here. Or who we're they looking for. "They're must be after you then."
"True. But I don't recognise their armor design patterns from any Kingdom I know."
"If they really looking for you, it's best to just stay here for now." I advice. When I heard their metallic footsteps getting fainter, I stepped out from behind her and had a clear view of the Knight's from afar and in the gap between the leaning trees.
"I recognised them." I said with a passive tone.
"You recognised them?" She said with disbelief and questioning look.
"I will never forget those armor designs of the Knights who killed John."