Chapter 58: Observations (1/2)
”Heh~So this is the queen of humanity? Your mother is truly incredible.”
A brown-haired young woman wearing a tight white shirt as well as white pants commented with a chuckle. She was observing the heated stats of the colosseum after Lilith's speech, amusement and amazement clearly visible in her hazel colored eyes.
Next to her, another person sat while hiding her features with a cloak, strands of purple hair could be seen if looked closely.
”My mother was always incredible.”
The brown-haired girl didn't miss the bitterness hidden in those words. She knew that the relationship between this mother-daughter pair wasn't best.
Deciding to steer the discussion away, she continued,
”Still, why didn't you show your identity? We could have entered the royal VIP room and you would have finally met your cousins after a long time.”
The purple-haired girl sighed wistfully as she said, ”Today is an important day for Sol. I do not wish to become a source of distraction. It would not be too late to meet him later once this ends. Also–”
'I don't really want to meet her.'
The purple-haired girl didn't continue her words but her friend understood the unsaid words.
”Well, enough of that. I said that I wished you to understand our ways better. If you really want to become Sol's advisor, you can't just use the information found in books. I am pretty sure your race has a rather bad view of us and still see us as some kind of barbarians.”
The Brown-haired girl sighed a little as she nodded, ”Indeed. Some of our books call you uncultured apes or hairless baboons. Then again, we even see angels as smart pigeons, beast-kin as crazy beasts, demons as parasites, and Dwarves as greedy midgets. So nothing personal.”
The purple-haired girl had to stop a rather unbecoming laugh from spilling. Though she understood that this wasn't an exaggeration. After all, elves were the most stuck up and prideful race in this world.
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Sol clapped after Lilith's discourse and waited for her to reach her place in the lounge. Once there she sat silently and Sol, understanding that she didn't want to be disturbed simply congratulated and focused once again on the events.
He had personally asked Milia to place Lilith under surveillance and never leave her sight until the end of the week. Only then will he have the time and composure to face her.
He still reeled in shock at the revelation that basically 30% of the maid in the tower were direct members of the crown's shadow. This was truly a dangerous organization with weird beliefs. He trusted Milia and trusted her loyalty to the crown, but the heart was always unpredictable. She was just one out of 5 leaders of one branch of the crown's shadow. It wouldn't be weird for there were people with different ambitions.
'Sigh, I am not even king yet and I must already worry about controlling a super organization full of spies and assassins.'
Sighing again, he began to focus.
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What happened next was a veritable festival. Wyverns were one of the rare but powerful flying-type beast species. All wyverns knights were people specially trained since they were young and who contracted with Wyverns. The second type of war beast were nightmare horses.
One thing to note was that while wyverns were seemingly related to dragons, the difference between a wyvern and a dragon was akin to the difference between a chimpanzee and a human.
Still, as it may, even though dragons looked down on wyverns, dragons looked down on basically all beings. They were the beasts under the sin of pride after all and so it didn't mean much. Incidentally, pride and Humility were the sins and virtues of the elven kingdom, Southern Pride, truly fitting.
Sol idly thought as he watched the different demonstration of flying abilities and acrobatics actions as the spectators awed and screamed.
His mind couldn't help but wander as he wondered if he could ever fly by himself one day. As an earthling, it wouldn't be a mistake to say that flying and magic were basically the greatest dreams humans had.