"Welcome, I'm Chief Egon." The village Chief welcomed respectfully, he looked around and asked.
"Where is the prince?"
"He has something to take care of, And..." Aurora looked around the village and villagers. "Where are we?"
"Come My Queen, not everyone here can be trusted." The Chief said in a whispered and walked towards his house.
"What?" Even though she was confused about the Chief's word, she and Lilly followed behind him.
"Emily, who are those elves? First you brought that troublemaker who killed my familiar, and now two other people." Vince said with disdain.
"Watch your mouth, Vince. Or I'll teach you how." Emily glared at him, scoffed, and followed behind Aurora and Lilly.
'Hmm... Do you think I have forgotten that fool who killed my familiar?! Just wait.' He thought inwardly.
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"Please sit down." The Chief said locking the door.
"What is going on Chief Egon, why so secretive?" Aurora asked, sitting down with Lilly, while Emily head to the kitchen.
"The situation is worse than you think, My Queen." He walked towards them and sat down in front of the two.
"As you already know, your husband is the Eldest son of the Demon race Royal family--"
"--We aren't married." Aurora said in a low voice.
"That doesn't matter, The prince has never gotten close to any woman in all the years I know him. So I know he loved you deeply, so even if you aren't married, to everyone; you two are now husband and wife."
Aurora slowly nodded. "Then what is the Demon's situation?"
"The Demon kingdom is now under a tyrant king, your husband's Adopted Brother... This village isn't a normal Village, but a home to those who have the gut to go against the king; We call ourselves "The Resistances". And the tyrant king is after us all... But the bad news is that not everyone here can be trusted. Some might be working for him." The Chief said with a dark expression.
Emily placed the food on the table, meat Soup and juice.
"Sorry my Queen, but this is all we got, The King have men all over the place, so it's not easy to hunt. Even the cities have mine and some of our photos. So that's a no-go." The Chief said with a sad smile.
"Hmm... How powerful is this King?" Aurora asked picking up the cup of juice.
"He is the strongest warrior class in whole of the Demon kingdom, A Supreme Realm."
"Cough!"
Aurora choked on the juice. "Sorry." She apologized covering her mouth with the back of her hand.
"It's ok, My Queen. This is the unfortunate thing about our reality, The King is one of the strongest powerhouses in the whole three Continent." The Chief said.
'How is this? He's even more powerful than my father, A Supreme realm is the highest level of power. They are practically invincible.' Aurora thought in shock.
"What can we do with such a powerhouse?" She asked.
"I believe you can help us with that."
"Me?" Aurora was confused. "How?" She asked.
"The Prince might have given you something... Something precious and powerful, are you with it?"
"Something powerful?" Aurora thought for a long time.
"The only thing I remember is the Summoning Book, His sword and an unknown Ruby."
"Yes! The Ruby." The Chief nodded.
"The Ruby is half, Not a complete one... It's like it has been split into two." Aurora elaborated.
"I know." The Chief turned to Emily. "Emily, help me bring the box."
Emily nodded and walked inside the room, and came out with a wooden box. She then handed it to her father.
"This is the other half of the Ruby, It has the powers of the prince and all the royal family's ancestors. Only a Royal blood will be able to absorb this legacy, and gain all the powers and knowledge of 100 powerful demons." The Chief brought out a half Ruby and showed it to Aurora.
"So precious? Wait... Are you planning on passing it to Aaron?"
"Yes." Chief Egon nodded. "He has royal blood flowing in his veins, he's the only one who can absorb it."
"But, Can Aaron withstand so many powers and knowledge? From 100 Demons?" Lilly asked worriedly.
"Not with his strength, princess. He must be at least in the Legendary Saint before absorbing it." The Chief said with a slight smile. "We just have to keep this safe till then."
Aurora brought out the other half of the Ruby, she stared at it with countless emotions. 'Is that why he said I should protect our son, so he could take on his legacy?' She gave it to the Chief.
"No my Queen, Only a Royal Blood will be able to merge these two Ruby into one. You should hold the two." Chief Egon gave her the second Half.
Aurora nodded, storing the two.
"Please, Make yourself at Home. Your room is ready... Emily, show the Queen, and Princess to their room."
"Ok Father. My Queen and Princess, this way please."
"Come on now." Lilly stood up and crossed her hand over Emily's shoulders. "Call me Lilly, We are now friends, right?"
"Right, Lilly." Emily said with a small smile.
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After hours of killing, the two finally reached the exit of the forest.
"I'm so exhausted." Protean grumbled, He was now a red 2 meters wolf, walking behind Aaron.
"Stop complaining, You have eaten more than 5 Enraged-stage Monsters' Cores. You should be happy."
"Only six Cores, The Wolf, Griffin King, Blood Raven, Ogre, Poisonous Serpent, and the Alpha Undead, are all cool. I'll say we are the deadliest duo in all the three Continents." Protean said with a proud grinned.
"We'll be the strongest after entering the Supreme realm, Lilly said that's the strongest in this world."
"We are already out of the forest, and you have Absorbed the Cores of 5 Enraged-stage and more than 10 lower-stages Monsters, Why haven't you realm up?"
"I don't know? I think I'm missing something, that thing is stopping me from entering the Sky realm." He said walking towards the Valley surrounded by mountains.
"You might be right, but... No one in this world can realm up so quickly."
Aaron stopped and looked at the sky. "It will be dark so, we need to kill that Bastard before nighttime." He increased his speed, running towards the valley. Protean following behind.
"Are you sure that guy is in that Valley?" Protean looked up seeing something flying towards them.
"What the hell is that?"
"Boulder! Dodge!"
"I don't Dodge!" Protean grew in size, and smashed the Boulder with his claws shattering it into countless small stones.
"That work too." Aaron said with a smile, he looked up seeing more Boulders flying towards them.
"Is that Bastard throwing stones at us?!" Aaron's eyes turned cold, he pointed his finger at a Boulder.
"Fire Bullet."
Fire shot out from his finger, shattering the Boulder heading towards him into pieces.
"This guy wants us to waste our Energy, before attacking." Protean said, shattering another Boulder.
"That's on him, My Sid energy can be exhausted, but my demonic Energy is infinite!!" His eyes turned completely black.
"Wind walk!"
BOOM!!
He shot towards the Valley with incredible speed.
"Hey! Wait for me!!" Protean turned into the Griffin king, which was a lot bigger than any Griffin.
He flew into the air and shot forward.
Aaron leaped to the side dodging a Boulder. He pulled out his dagger, which he had dipped in deadly poisons.
"You Bastard! Do you think Rocks can stop me from killing you?!"
Bam!
He came to a stop, even Protean landed beside him.
"Are you kidding me?!" Protean growled in frustration.
"Come on, we can take them down!" Aaron gripped his dagger tightly.
Charging towards them was an unholy number of Talos, from different sizes, and height.
"Ok then." Protean took the form of the skeleton, he placed his broadsword on his shoulder.
"It has been long I have some fun."
"Shut up, you just killed a horde of undead an hour ago, even eating the core of the Alpha." Aaron said with a smirk.
"Inferno." He muttered as purple flames burst out from his body, forming a ring of fire around him.
Aaron cracked his neck. "Let's get more Cores." He shot forward with incredible speed, Protean following behind him.
"Graaaaa!!!!!"
All the Talos let out loud roars and shot towards the two intruders who dared attack their territory.
BOOM!
Whoosh!!
The two sides clashed, the sound of Blade tearing the air and smell of roasted flesh rose into the air.
Aaron and Protean butchered their way towards the entrance of the Valley, taking down the Talos like cutting down weeds.
"These guys are weak!!" Protean yelled, cutting down two Talos with a swing of his broadsword.
"They aren't weak, We're just stronger than them." Aaron cut down the Talos in front of him into halves.
"Hahahahaha!!! You are good, elf!"
The Talos suddenly stopped attacking and moved back from the duo. Aaron's and Protean's eyes widened in shock seeing the Talos' king.
"ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!!!". The two yelled in unison.