"Who are you?"
"Me?, don't you already know?, the 9th Dungeon master."
"That is as clear as the day, I am asking who are you and since when had the ninth Dangeon appeared, weren't they only eight?"
"Ah, you are asking about my name,OK I will tell you ,my name is .....but isn't it proper manner to give your name first"
Edward took a sharp breath, as veins appear from his neck,as he was holding his anger,{is this bastards doing it on propose or what, if I was not a match for him especially in his territory I would have already kicked his ass, haaa calm down Edward, calm down, even if it was not out of politeness, Don't forget that he had saved you, at least before he showed his motivation for saving me, I should calm down}, taking another deep breath,I said to Leo who was looking at me from his throne,"please Excuse my rudeness, my name I edw—"
"Ah,Yes your name is Edward lionheart, I have already hear it before, my name is leo lancer, it's nice to meet you,I guess.",Leo said this in a cheerful voice while looking at the Edward who had almost broke his polite facade.
{Calm Down,Calm down Edward, like hell I will!,If I do not beat this bastard I will not be able to calm, even if it was the last thing I have to do...},As Edward was trying to restraining himself the best he could,he heard Leo's laugh,"pfft,haha-hahaha "
Cut~
At the moment Edward could swear he heard a string getting cut on his head.
that is the mental chain that restrained him, that is called rationality.
As that happened, Edward put his hand on the sword handle on his waist, activated his magic circuit, then used [ reinforcement magic— body] to enhance his physical abilities.
As he did that, blue lines like circuit metalized, in his body, specifically his arms,legs and his neck
then he put his strength in his right leg, a moment later he vanished from his spot,leaving behind a small crack on the ground, appearing less than 2 meters away from Leo,in a moment.
Even though, he moved by his rage, but it's not like he is moving recklessly, he know clearly what it means to fight a Dangeon master in his territory but—{this Dangeon is clearly new, means he only became its master recently ,that also means that he does not have a strong control of it yet, he also had a very youthful appearance, at least he is younger than me, so he would at best be stronger than me sightly, unless he was one of those monsters,or he was of another race, but the later doesn't seems to be true,in other words I can win!,if I won I will not kill him, but I will take his right of Dangeon master, or maybe not this is belle's territory I will not be accepted here},while he thinking of this in less than a second he is already swing his sword toward Leo's defenceless body.
As the sword was about to touch him,Leo's black long spear that was resting on his shoulder, moved by his right hand as he slammed its butt on the ground, beside his rocky throne.
Thud~
In less than a moment after that, and before Edward had realised what happened ,he found himself being restraining by tree branches that suddenly appeard,on the floor.
Even as all that happens leo was still laughing as if nothing had happened,"HA-hahaha, sorry, i am truly sorry , I couldn't hold myself, pfft-haha,ahh it's Been a long time since I talk with someone please forgive me for my rudeness"
Edward who found he couldn't break the restrainings on him no matter what, give up and calm down a little, but he couldn't help but say a few angry words,"can't you see my situation how could you laughter at me like that then ask to be forgiven as if it was a normal thing"
"While I don't really care if you forgive me or not ,I have some good news for you, your comrades are all alive, although they are knocked out now"
Edward who was about to say"what do you even know about me, to say you have good news for me?",halted his words as he said," are you sure???,Where are they?"the angre he felt before vanished as if he was not, from the very beginning, as he asked in a hopeful tone.
"Yes, they are still alive,I just put them in safe place for the moment until our conversation ends"
{As expected},"you are really after something when you saved me ,so they are hostages so I can agree forcefully to what you want right?"
"Although, you are not wrong about the part that I need something from you, but even if I didn't I will surely had saved you even If I wasn't, also they are not hostages, even if you don't agree to my request, I will set them free later,but not for you, you are staying here if you refused."
"How very nice of you,if that is truly the case, the my reason for staying here is Because I saw you?"
"Bingo!,thats correct. I can't send you freely because you saw me afterall."
"Hmm, I woudn't really blame you for doing that, are you perhaps a drifter?"
"Yes, you are right, I am a Drifter, althought slightly different from the regular ones"
"How very honest of you, I thought you would try to lie, also what do you mean by being an irregular Drifter?"
"Sorry Can't say, anyhow can I ask you something?"
"What?"
"What had made you, think I am a drifter?"
"Ah, about that, it's actually because of those branchs that are restraining me"
"Them?"
"Yes, the energy you used to make them appear was not ,anything I knew before, it was not mana, curse, evil. Although it was very close to aura but even so it was clearly not it, if I have to name it I would say it actually vitality"
{Mana...interesting!},as leo though he clapped his hand, as he said,"bravo! its exactly what you said, it vitality,but to think that would blow my cover, but wait a minute, I was not even trying to hide it so I can really say that it blow my cover ha-ha " as he said that his spear's butt was slammed again,against the floor as Edward's restraining slowly vanished.
After Edward was freed, he stretched his limbs a little then said to Leo in a serious tone,"taking about drifters, since you are one of them, there is one thing I want to know, are you not ignorant as they are since you are an irregular as you said?"
"Although I feel how you word it is insulting, but nevermind, I don't know everything about this world, but I also know some, so what do you want to say"
"Have you taken premission from the land owner when you became the Dangeon master, even though they might not be able to do anything to you here, but if you didn't asked them ,they will surely hinder your operations in the future."
"Oh,about that I had already talked to Angelica before"
"Angelica! That queen Angelica herself ?,how did you even met her"
"Oi,take that question tone away, although I am trying to be nice with you, because I am really nice, but Don't push you luck too much, you are not my mother nor my wife, we are not that familiar enough, to question me like this"
{Nice my ass },as Edward thought,he said,"sorry I was just slightly excited, Angelica is not someone you meet just because you want"
"..."
After a longer silence, that made Edward's forehead drench from sweat, he finally heard Leo's calm voice as he couldn't help but sigh in relief.{Although from his smell, I can definitely tell that he never had killed a human before in his life, but who know what could really happen, I should be careful of how I speak later, but how ironic, a prince trying to be careful with his words with someone who is not even a Noble, what a comically story}
"Edward."
"Yes?"
"would you like me to back you up?"
".....Yes???",{did I heard him wrong}, Edward checked his ear if they had been accidentally injured in his pervious fight, but he found them, faultless.
"Strange, I am sure I didn't stutter, anyway,what I had said is ,would you like to be my ally?"
"...", as this was they second time, Edward had heard this, he knew that he didn't hear wrong and because of that exactly he understood nothing, so all he could say is ,"Yes????????".
...
Later, a few miles away from Leo's Dangeon core.
A group of people Laying down on the their backs suddenly appeared, from the ground.
they were all slightly injured,their wound still bleeding, except the one who is stood up.
The men who were laying, were startled when they saw the standing figure, they couldn't help but stand up in a moment and said in union,"you were safe your highness."
"Thanks God, your highness is safe"
"Does that mean you have defeated that man before?"
"Sorry guys, although I would like to talk explain, but let's leave that for another time,now lets go before they realised he died and came toward us"
"Another Sin, will come ?"
"For sure, if we don't get away from here quickly,so let go ,we are just wasting time"
"Yes,as you order your highness, men let's move".
"Sigh...",Edward sigh as he run together with his trusted comrades,who fought battles of life and death with him as he thought, {I hope our cooperation goes will leo, this is an opportunity for me ,but if I am not careful it can also be a big disaster , I need to be extra careful of my future action, but for now let's get to a safe place first}.
Before long, Edward and his companions reached the border between the lionheart kingdom and the red moon kingdom.