"This is the trash that defeated you, a 1st mortal realm? Impossible! Even if he's a saint dragon his body shouldn't be stronger than yours." The prince snorted.
Zane didn't get impulsive reigning in his urge to smash this guy to the ground. This man was a wyvern of a royal bloodline, he had to have his own trump cards, unlike Zane who had barely started his path to power. Although Zane was without a doubt incredibly strong for a first mortal realm, he still had a long way to go.
Furthermore, this guy didn't bother to reign his aura in, revealing his foundation as a 3rd sky realm. Furthermore, his aura is hundreds of times deeper than the messengers despite the age gap, this proved he was absolutely not simple.
Last time it was Zane's mistake to get impulsive, he didn't want to reproduce that mistake so soon.
He just glanced at the prince for a moment and ignored him.
The prince snorted, not thinking this kid was worth his time.
"Shall we begin the 2nd round today?" Zane asked.
The wyvern nodded to which Zane said "Good, but I'd like to add a rule if you don't mind?"
"It depends, what's the rule."
"No outside interference." Zane responded.
The prince snorted "As if I'd need to interfere in your cat fight, I'm just here to see who dares stand in the way of me obtaining my beloved."
Anne retorted "Watch your words, prince Aldris, otherwise, you may not even know how you died."
The prince was stunned before laughing "I love how you're concerned for my safety, dear, but do you think anyone dares to kill me? Well, it's certainly not this brat."
Anne trembled in anger.
Zane sighed "People like you are always the first to die, thinking they are invincible because of their backing."
"You little bastard!" The prince roared, but before he could act Elaine's aura soared to the sky crashing down on him forcing him to the ground.
"Call him a bastard again and I don't mind killing you myself…" She said glaring into the young wyvern's eyes with a glare so cold it sent shivers down even her own husband's spine.
"Y-You… You wouldn't dare!" He managed to spit out under the pressure of the increased gravity.
In the mortal realm's ones aura is nothing but mental pressure, but in the earth realms, one could give it physical form, in the sky realms a spiritualist can give it absurd amounts of weight, and in the heavenly realms one's aura can act as a gravitational or anti-gravitational force, hence they can fly without wings of any form.
Suddenly the sounds of bones cracking was heard "You care to try me? I have our emperor's support, unlike your lineage who is actually on bad terms with your emperor."
This made the wyverns eyes widen with both fear and pain.
A wyvern emperor was at least a half saint realm in the process of forming their grand domain. The hell shock wyvern emperor is actually a 2nd saint realm existence, currently in the process of forming his 3rd grand domain to become a 3rd saint realm, living in seclusion.
The wyvern queen snorted and let him go.
"If you interfere in this battle or try to forcefully snatch my daughter… Although I won't kill you, I happen to have been wanting to find a subject to test my torture skills." She said.
The wyvern prince nodded in fear.
Zane looked at the wyvern prince in pity.
He sighed "Prince Aldris, take my advice, don't rely on your backing forever. The founder of the saint dragon clan was actually not a saint dragon but a paragon dragon. He almost died by relying on his backing instead of focusing on his personal strength. After this incident, he grew to focus on his own strength and become one of this world's strongest figures, 2nd only to the transcendent 68. He was a legitimate champion realm existence." Zane said sincerely.
Seeing Alice's curiosity from the corner of his eye, Zane continued.
"He and his wife changed their bloodlines to form the main house of the saint dragon clan after becoming sovereigns. Later other dragons came to join the clan doing the same forming the other 11 houses royal houses, 24 noble houses, and 36 guardian houses of the saint dragon clan."
The prince was surprised to hear the sincerity in Zane's voice.
"Why? Why would you help an enemy? Isn't it the stupidest thing you could do?"
Zane chuckled "Very few are worth my lifelong hatred, honestly, I don't think you're entirely bad, I think you're like Zeldris a bit."
Zeldris looked away in embarrassment hearing this.
"You never got much attention in life did you?" Zane asked the prince with a pitiful gaze.
The wyvern looked down gritting its teeth.
"S-So… What if I didn't?" It asked stuttering.
"Then it makes sense why you want Anne, even I have to admit, whether it's her wyvern form or human form she has charm befitting that of a loving sister. In the end, all you want is love right?"
The prince grit his teeth and nodded slowly.
"H-How do you guess all this?"
"I've met many people like you." Zane responded softly.
He looked up to the sky with a reminiscing gaze.
He then looked back to the prince. "Do you hate me for revealing your secrets in front of the woman you desire?"
The prince hesitated, he couldn't describe his feelings. In the end, he replied "No."
Zane nodded.
Meanwhile, the wyvern king in the palace was in genuine awe seeing Zane defuse the prince's anger so easily…
'What a terrifying kid. If given the chance he could probably make someone weak-minded doubt their life's purpose…'
"Anne, do you hate him?" Zane asked curiously.
This caused the prince to tense up…
If it was a minute ago Anne would have without a doubt replied yes. Yet now… She didn't know.
"I… Don't. But I don't like him either… if you're asking if there's room for a future relationship, the answer is no, not romantically at least…"
This made the prince's heart constrict in pain, but he didn't lash out.
"I see… Old man, do you still want to fight?"
The old man chuckled before nodding "If you wish for it, I don't mind."
Zane nodded he cleared his throat and flapped his wings shooting to the sky.
The old man followed suit. With a clap from Elaine's hands in human form they began.
*BOOM!*
As expected Zane was sent crashing into the ground, this was a 1st sky realm expert, after all, even if it's cultivation was sealed it's experience is no joke.
Zane got right back up.
He dodged a tail strike from the wyvern raised his head knocking a claw away, and headbutted the dragon in the ass growing a horn on his snout.
*ROOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAR!* A painful roar was heard.
'A scaly lizard's weakness is its ass.' Zane thought smiling.
He didn't stop, he combined it with a tail smash sending the wyvern down to the ground. The wyvern couldn't react in time since the ungodly amount of pain distracted it.
*CRASH!*
A mushroom cloud of dust and smoke formed.
Zane didn't end there though! He dive-bombed headfirst onto it!
*ROAAAAR!*
*BOOM!*
*Crash!*
It was knocked away once again.
Zane tail smashed it, then body slammed it. He had grabbed the upper hand in the battle!
However, a moment later a roar was heard and he was sent flying. Zane extended his wing's catching air and soared back into the sky avoiding a tail striking out of the smoke by rotating his body causing him to fly to the side.
A bloody wyvern was revealed from the smoke and dust cloud.
"Kid… That fucking hurt!" The wyvern exclaimed.
Zane chuckled "That was the point, to stun you with pain and get the upper hand. Feel free to get a little dirty with me too, after all the more experience I get the better."
The wyvern's eyes lit up making Zane's eyes light up as he decided to mess around. He wore an awkward expression "Uh… I don't mean that kind of dirty… I don't swing that way pal."
Everyone froze before the heaven shock wyvern prince lost his shit and burst out laughing. Anne and Alice couldn't help but snicker as well. It was too sudden, how could they control themselves?
"Y-Y-YOU-"
"You what? You think I should be honored to be violated by a heaven shock wyvern noble… You are quite sick in that case. Do I need to find a purification pond to clear your mind old man? Or are you perhaps growing senile?"
The wyvern's expression looked so wronged and angry it invoked more laughter.
This was too funny!
Elaine had an amused smile revealing a grin from time to time. She was resisting the urge to laugh.
[Mission Complete!]
[Reward sent: Lesser Increased Regeneration!]
[Info: You have done great at gaining combat experience, keep going!]
Zane ignored the system's random success notification.
The wyvern shot forward in an attempt to pierce Zane's skin, but Zane rolled avoiding the wyvern. With a single flap of his wings, he got behind the wyvern, grabbed it by the tail with his teeth, and sent him flying to the ground without letting go… he then proceeded to repeatedly slam the wyvern on the ground.
*BOOM!*
*BOOM!*
*BOOM!*
"I give up!" The wyvern shouted amidst the slamming.
"It's obvious when it comes to fighting wyverns who are at the same level as you, you are more than ready. But fighting a human opponent is something else entirely, remember that." The elder said to which Zane nodded letting go of the wyvern elder.
He looked at the prince "Are you willing to give up on her?"
The prince hesitated before sighing "I ruined my chance…I've probably ruined my chance for a lot of people. Zane was it?"
Zane looked at the prince and nodded.
"Let's meet again one day. Thank you for your words today…"
Zane nodded.
"Before you leave…" Zane sent an orb of 100 drops of spiritual essence to the elder.
"W-What? Why?"
Zane smiled "Doesn't hurt to have some friends, go make that breakthrough, I might need your help in the future."
The Elder turned to human form and bowed sincerely to Zane.
"Thank you, Zane, no- Lord Zane. My noble house will be at your disposal in the future, of course, that's assuming you don't intend to make us betray our clan."
Zane shook his head "I have no such intentions, im quite content with my current status."
The elder nodded gratefully.
[New System Module unlocked: Allies]
A/N: Sorry for the slightly longer chapter, just wanted to finish this all in one chap. I hope everyone is enjoying the book so far!