When they walked out, they were in the throne room of the castle. The three heroes looked around in shock.
“That was a long-distance portal just now; it carried us from the edge of the kingdom all the way to your capital,” Meg said.
“Yes, is there something wrong with that?” Silva asked.
“No, it’s just that it takes a lot of Mana, so only powerful mages do it for long distances. There’s also the fact that you are bending space and time, so it is very delicate,” Meg said.
“Hmm, I get what you are saying, but it’s different for us. Also, you are not only using space and time in a portal, you are also using reality.
It is a long topic, but reality also plays a very delicate role in portals. You see, in a portal, you have to bend space to make it possible for you to travel.
But if you enter without bending time as well, you’ll have a disordered time, and that can cause your body to collapse on itself.
Then there is reality, and that is the belt that holds the two together. That portal that exists is not supposed to exist.
So when we do it, we are tampering with reality as well. It is a very long discussion, and there are intricate details that can be talked about for days unending, but that is not what we are here for,” Silva said.
He walked to his throne and sat down, while the heroes stood before him.
“Before we get into what it is that could have brought you here, I’d like for my guardians and a few other people to be here,” Silva said.
“That’s not an issue, as long as you trust them with what we will be discussing,” Meg said.
Silva snapped his fingers, and portals started opening, the whole gang coming out in their domineering forms.
The summons: Dang, Gallan, and Dawn. The siblings: Lia, Mike, Quin, and Sage. Also, Roxy, Aaron, and Fay. Then Aris and Amber. Finally, the Guardians and Elsa.
The presence of the throne room changed immediately. The heroes looked around and were simply shocked at the beings they were seeing.
Their instincts screamed at them, telling them how dangerous the place they were in was. They had to swallow that feeling and try to speak.
“You seem to have quite the force here,” Meg said.
“Well, most of them are my summons, and the rest are friends and family. They are all the people that I trust and for sure I can leave my life in their hands.
Each person here is a story of my life; each person tells about what I’ve done for the past fourteen years of my life.
So that’s why I wanted them to meet you, for you to know the faces behind the kingdom that is the Dark Dragon Kingdom,” Silva said.
“So this is your council, I guess. Well then, I won’t waste any more time. You already know one of the reasons that we are here, and that is the hero candidate over there,” Meg said.
When they heard this, everyone in the throne room had a confused face. They wanted to take Leah? Why?
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Silva leaned forward and then spoke. “Look at the faces of everyone here; they are confused because they know that Leah would never actively try to leave here.
Now take a look at Leah standing here. She is genuinely pissed at you lot. Does this seem like a person that wants to go with you? She looks like she wants to kill you.
She left her family and all she grew up with and decided to stay with us. Do you think she wants to go with you?” Silva asked.
Meg froze up a bit after she heard all that. She couldn’t process an answer fast enough, but Ron could.
“You have done something to her, and to all the humans here as well, else there is no way that a hero candidate would choose to coexist with a demon like you. ƒreeωebnovel.ƈom
This is not to insult or spite you, but this has been the setup for generations,” Ron said.
“Hmm, so you think I have mind control on them? That’s a pretty crazy idea, but sadly I don’t. The reason all of them are here is because they believe in what we will build.
You don’t even know the story of Leah and what she went through because of the tag ‘hero candidate.’ She was chosen at a young age, and she had to bear pains because of it.
Her parents were only concerned about her training, wanting her to get stronger and be a hero. They detached from her and made her a loner.
Because of her loneliness, she found solace in the arms of a crazy woman that used her and made this little child commit still crimes.
All this because she bore a tag, but she no longer wants to be defined by that tag. And so she decided that she would walk with me to the end as we go against everyone.
I have no plans to be a demon king, and the status is but a name to me. I will not stand for the demon kings nor for the heroes.
I choose to be for myself and beyond. I do what I want and go where I want. And Leah has allowed me to be her leader.
You think just because she carries the tag ‘hero’ she should become like you? Your decisions are made by a group of old farts called the heroes.
Leah, not anyone here, is under control. They have all chosen to stay here and live here, and if you decide to try to take them away, there will be no body part left to bury you,” Silva said.
The heroes kept quiet after that, but then Riker stepped forward.
“I refuse to believe that a hero candidate will forgo humanity and choose to walk beside a demon like you. Let’s have a deal: fight us, and if we win, we get the opportunity to talk to her ourselves,” Riker said.
“Oh, this is getting interesting,” Silva said with a smile.