Silva and Lily arrived at the herb spot in the forest. To not look suspicious, they started picking some herbs there.
“You can both stop the pretense. I already expected you, and you expected me,” a voice came from behind them.
Silva and Lily turned around. They saw the man in white standing there with a smile on his face.
“So, you are the one that has been planting crystals into the heads of those from my kingdom.
What is your game? Talk now, and I’ll spare your life,” Silva said.
“Big talk coming from a measly demon king candidate. But the crystals were never the goal; it was simply to lure you out of your kingdom.
I needed to have a one-on-one talk with you, and your city now has defenses that even a hero would have a hard time getting through.
So this was the best method for me to get to you, and it worked. So here we are.
As for my name, I am—”
Boom.
A huge blast of chaos slammed into the ground where the man in white stood. From the dust cloud that rose, the man leaped out and landed a small distance away.
“Hero White Fang,” Aris yelled as she and Drake arrived. When she spotted White Fang from a distance, she immediately knew who it was.
“Hero?” Silva asked in shock. He looked at White Fang with his guard up.
“Hahaha, if it isn’t the chaos spirit that refused to serve the heroes. To think that you would actually come to serve a demon king candidate.
You refused the heroes, and you refused the demon kings, so why did you choose this little demon king candidate? What is so special about him that has everyone up and boiling?” White Fang said and started walking toward Silva.
Drake and Lily immediately leaped in front of White Fang to stop him.
“Whoa, an original vampire? One that holds the blood of the first monarch? And the fairy, a royal fairy. How do you have such beings working for you, kid?
Even heroes and demon kings would go through a lot to get their help, yet you have the best of them. Vampires are already rare as it is, but you have an original,” White Fang said with a smile.
Silva was hearing new information. This was the first time he heard about another royal fairy or original vampire.
But that was not important now because right in front of him was a hero, and he couldn’t tell off the bat. It was as though White Fang had suppressed his aura.
Silva knew that he had to speak here. It didn’t matter if he knew what was happening or not; he had to be the king here.
“So why did you come here? You said that you wanted to lure me out here. What is it for?” Silva asked.
“Oh, nothing much, Silva,” White Fang said, dragging the name Silva. “You see, I started hearing about you everywhere, and that piqued my curiosity.
When I discovered that we looked similar, I had to come. You know why? Because there is only one other person that should look like me.
My only family. I’ve known she has been alive, but I never thought she would be in a small kingdom, and so I never searched here.
But you—I found you, and I have a feeling you have something to do with her. So, I’ll ask you now to come with me so that I can ask you a few questions,” White Fang said and stretched out his hand to grab Silva.
Drake blocked the hand, and White Fang frowned a bit. He sent a punch at Drake. Drake blocked it but went skidding backward till he slammed into a tree and made it fall to the ground.
Silva was shocked to see this because Drake was ten times stronger than what he was before, yet he was pushed back from a punch.
“Vampire, where did you get that strength from? Even if you are an original, that punch had a hint of my blessing in it. It should have killed you or knocked you out regardless of your stats.
You need a way to block my blessings or ridiculously large stats, and you should not have that,” White Fang asked.
Hearing this, Silva understood that Drake survived due to their pact. The hero had used a bit of his blessing, and that was power beyond what Silva had.
“Silva, this is the power of a hero. I am a demon king, and the reason I lost. Once they use their blessing or curse, it’s a whole different game,” Aris said to Silva telepathically.
“Oh, telepathy. You guys should let me in on the discussion,” White Fang turned his attention to Aris.
“All of you are centered around this Silva. Then he is special, really special. He must have given you all some sort of power-up. That’s why you survived the punch.
Now I want to know all the details about you even more. Silva, come with me, and I’ll not have to kill your friends right here. Their bodies would make great research,” White Fang said.
“In your dreams,” Aris yelled and fired a stream of chaos. White leaped into the air and dodged it, but Lily had already attacked with a massive fireball.
White Fang didn’t even flinch at the sight of this. He swatted the flames, but to his surprise, the flames exploded.
The massive explosion threw him into the trees. He landed with a bang.
“Silva, you have to go now,” Drake managed to get up and say.
“Go where? I’m not going anywhere. I can already tell that he is stronger than all of you combined. Look at what he did to you, Drake, with a touch of his blessing. Imagine if he decided to do more.
To fight his crazy power, I’ll need a power that isn’t bound by reality as well,” Silva said.
He activated Joker of the Abyss and got ready to fight. This was the only form he believed could stand against this.