Chapter 53: Chapter 53
'' And here is my judgment
Since you challenge a noble’s son, then you have to fight the twelve noble sons in the tournament in three days and any noble son is welcome to join the duel. Your family will be killed if I don't see you in the tournament and Giovanni will be stripped of his title as Baronet and arrested. War knight Thaddeus let the meeting begin"
Thaddeus mildly walks as he spoke
"Now if I may be so forward, I Thaddeus linpim, leader of the imperial knight will direct today’s proceeding".
"It all happened about two weeks ago at the kingdom of Gondor when a member of the royal family of the kingdom of Qing princess Felicia Rivera was accused of food poisoning the royal family of Gondor and added to her crime she was sentenced to death for killing her father with a sword, her reason is yet clear..
."Listen," a noble cuts in angrily, " I get that you want to talk up a good show here, but I am busy you know. We the royal nobles fraction do not believe that the princess committed the crimes lay at her. Time is money, you stating what we already know so get to the point" noble Macross spoke as other fraction nods their head in agreement while their hands folded in agreement.
Thaddeus continued more solemnly Few days ago, the crown prince received a messenger bird, in the letter , he was told that the army of Gondor will embark on a journey with crown prince now king Duran to Qing to destroyed the city. It will take a weeks to March it's full forces to our gates, we must prepare for war.
The issue is the Imperial iron claw army of Gondor have never been defeated since the upgrade began. It was stated that they upgraded their amour, swords, spear are no match at their armor as it shatters on contact, investigation reveals that armor share similarity with the rampaging dragon.
"What about the marriage treaty?," noble Donald cuts in
"What about peace talking to King Duran. We could let princess Felicia pay for her crime by just handing her over, it should help to advert the war".
"It's not that simple, from what the letter reveal is that the seven princes were poisoned and killed along with the king and some noble men, princess Felicia loyal knight was accused of murdering the royal family. He was spotted nights ago in the scene and King Duran has taken this opportunity to wage war on Gondor immediately after the burial of king Gregory the spy reveals that the journey will take a week if they choose to delay I believe this was planned by king Duran to take over the throne, so handling the princess is not an option. We have to find a way to destroy that armor if we must win the war, the question is what shall we do",
"Good question, prince Darius spoke, this the reason for the tournament suggested by that man. There's only one way out and that is purpose of this tournament allowing peasants and nobles fight in the arena is to observe strong magic users within the kingdom in which after the tournament. The ten winning warrior's will be chosen and given a quest with knights of Qing to search and kill the rampage dragon and with the help of dragon body. We can quickly recreate an armor strong enough to give Qing forces a fighting change" The Hall
Drifted in loud conversation among the mass of nobles and one question from the audience
"How do we make an armor from a dragons body, a dragon is full of powerful magic, question a female noble"
"This is where he comes in", the prince spoke and order the doors to be open before the court,
"Come in" order a guard the doors swung open as footsteps of a hooded man in red hooded robes mildly walking into the palace and then bows is head, he removed his hood and gaze his red eyes with a smile on his face
"Your humble servant thanks you King Darius for this opportunity to serve in your camp. I am a grand Magician named Vermilion" correctly as you have stated, there is one way to improve the imperial army of Qing and stop the advancing iron clad military power house army of Gondor and that way is to capture not just any dragon but the rampage silver king of dragons. It has high magical capabilities that strengthened its body and with my book of alchemy, we can create an army stronger than the iron claw of Gondor"the prince cuts in
"For this, I have called the dukes and nobles and I want all provinces controlled by nobles to ensure that citizens of Qing in various provinces with high magic capabilities must attend the tournament to select powerful magic welder for an expedition to dragon hills and prepare for war.
Tributes are to be sent to other supporting kingdoms for a coalition army to fight this enemy. I believe with a coalition, we can win".
The meeting continues with prideful talks and how they would win and the day came to an end. Vermillion smiles and said to him
"just as i thought, every plan i put in motion is going according to plan. first, i gave a Qing kingdom a threat by improving the army of Gondor with dragon scales and i have forced the one i can control easily to make the decisions which is having a tournament, the gathering of magicians and quality people possessing magic to become a sacrifice to awaken the demon that will revive my master course Dracula whose coffin lay inside the arena. The only person i need to stop now is Arslan. how ironic that Gloria grandchild will be the one to dents this plan. I will stop him.
Arslan seated in deep in thoughts.
''If Felicia said he saw Vermillion in Gondor with prince Duran, then why his he here. What motives and agenda for the tournament. How can he help Qing, if he is in league with Gondor''
That day, the meeting came to an end with three days to the tournament. Arslan had no choice but prepared his mind to face the dragon of kings. He walks up to Bumi and Roland and they talked.
“it seem something has changed, I can see a spark of determination unlike the previous day, I won't ask if you are ready instead shall we begin training" Arslan
A solemn face with gleam of determination written on it,
" i want to face the dragon am ready for training"
he later told them about all that when down and bumi was shocked to the news of the first Queen but Roland had more deeper understanding of it because of his knowledge.