BXBX NOVEL Chapter 202 Feast Day Pt.V
SUNALLA POV
The storm spirit had left off towards a chamber in the palace to enact the final plans of the princess. To be honest, she wasn’t expecting the princess to tell her what her final plans were, but after hearing them, she was completely stunned. For the princess to have planned all of this for just that, it was beyond her imagination.
However, for something like that, she knew her father would give up his life in a heartbeat. At least, she could rest easy knowing that he died for a cause he had been fighting for all his life. Still, it hurt that she couldn’t even see his corpse even though it was delivered to them. Did they think she was so weak that she’d break down from seeing the body?
She had definitely seen worse, so why wouldn’t they let her? Was this the royalty’s way of showing consideration to the Captain of the Royal Guard’s kin? If so, the royals really had no idea what people actually wanted in such situation.
While swimming, a stray guppy came in front of her. She looked at it and smiled.
‘What are you doing here, fella?’
She grabbed the little guy and brought him up closer to her face. The guppy stared at her intensely, but then Sunalla thought about it more.
‘Wait… I keep the guppies in Larm. Why’s this guy here then?’
It was absurd. The guppies weren’t strong enough to survive deep down here, so they were all left in Larm and other surface waterbodies to allow them to grow stronger before releasing them into the Mass Blue. That has always been the custom for guppies and nymphs.
The only reason the guppy hadn’t been crushed to death was the dome covering Yorul and preventing the pressure from outside to bear down on it. Had that not been the case, this guppy would have been a blood smoothie in the sea.
The guppy started making gargling sounds at something behind Sunalla. She looked back and saw five individuals approaching her. They were the prince Nanek’s closest attendant, Randy and four other guards, all with their blades at the ready.
Sunalla grabbed the guppy and delivered a message.
‘Go back to where you came from, fella. I have to do something here.’
She sent it flying away from where she was. With folded arms, she asked,
“What’s with the entourage, Randy? Heading somewhere dangerous?”
“Guards, cease her.”
“Huh? What for? I haven’t even done anything.”
She mused with a wide grin. Her hair started to crackle with lightning and her eyes were turning bluish-white.
One guard charged for Sunalla with his spear pointed for her head. Amusedly, Sunalla conjured up a whip of lightning to grab the spear and spin the guard around some distance away, before releasing a bolt to hit his chest.
Fortunately for him, his armour was set up to protect him against all forms of magic, especially lightning which was still the most potent form of attack magic known to them.
The others came after her as well. She easily avoided the first slash, parried the second with her bare hands and defended against the final with a shield of water. She clapped her hands, creating a loud boom that blew the guards away.
“It’s been a while since I’ve had a fight. Do try to be decent playmates.”
Sunalla, the Storm Spirit, was not an easy target by any means. With her versatility and myriad of magic skills and knowledge of some sword techniques, she had absolute confidence that in a one-to-one with any guard, she would dominate. Even with four guards on her, she was finding no trouble.
She began her offensive and charged at one guard, avoiding his thrust by spinning around. Her lightning and quick spinning transformed her body into a vortex of lightning that hit the guard straight in the chest, creating a dent in his armour.
The impact left the guard with some internal damage such as a broken rib, creating a momentary stun. In that moment, she grabbed his face and released a several volts of lightning right where his armour couldn’t protect him.
She looked back at the others who were now hesitant after seeing her incapacitate one of their peers.
Sunalla looked back and saw that Randy was swimming away. She shrugged it off and decided to finish off these guys quickly to go do her job.
She grabbed the water like it was a solid object and spun it around, throwing it at the guards. The [Sea Curtain Technique]. The guards, who hadn’t passed the test to become Royal Guards, had only seen the technique being used and did not know of a way to counter it.
They tried to avoid it, but their tails were caught in the wave mercilessly before their bodies were slammed into pillars. Sunalla sent powerful bolts of lightning through the water, before running away. Hopefully, they would simply be concussed since the lightning wouldn’t be nearly effective with their armour on.
She got to where she meant to go and was shocked by the sight of Nori carrying the guppy she had told to run away. He was petting it gently while leaning on a wall.
“Oh, you’re finally here. Don’t keep me waiting next time.”
He told her, waving for her to come closer with a disgruntled expression on his face. Sunalla stopped in her tracks once the entire area went dark.
“What’s happening?”
“Don’t worry about it, it’s just the Grand Court Mage’s spell for the feast. Now hurry.”
She wanted to run to the princess’ side, but decided against it.
“I hope she knows what she’s doing. This plan has too many holes.”
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GARAND POV
The Grand Court Mage was greatly dissatisfied with the turn of events.
Of all the moments for Hinotori to appear, she chose now, when he was going to be busy with his preparations for the stupid feast that only helped the royals control the people more with their nonsensical speeches and claims about speaking to the Great Goddess.
Thanks to Vermillion, he knew that the Sea Goddess was a sham. Merely one member of an entire race that came to dominate them in order to feel good or accomplished where other members of her race wouldn’t interfere. Still, he could not deny her power, seeing as she was still the one to create the Original Three Sea Folk.
Unfortunately, after hearing most of what he knows from The Vermillion herself, he saw them as nothing more than strong children. A waste of his breath to offer praises to her.
Right now, during the feast’s opening ceremony, he wanted to speed things up. The chief priestess was giving her words on what the goddess told her. The mere thought irritated him to the point he ordered the Senior Court Mages to turn out the lights of the dome.
Some argued that it was disrespectful, but they soon came to realise that Garand was not someone who cared about being respectful or disrespectful. Quickly, they did as he said.
Floating above the feast hall with his arms folded, Garand felt disgusted by the speech the priestess was giving. So much so, he made a weird sound.
“Time to put a wrap on all this goddess nonsense.”
He meant to say this under his breath, but his voice was so loud, everyone heard him. He wasn’t aware of this till one of the court mages came up to him and whispered into his ears that everyone heard that. Realising his mistake, Garand coughed and decided to go on with the show as if he had planned that.
He spread his arms wide, garnering the attention of everyone present.
“Now for the actual show!”
He snapped his fingers and all the court mages appeared out of nowhere. They had been cloaking themselves with magic so as to not divert the attention from the royal family to themselves. Now that their gig was up, they all showed themselves in their ceremonial garments.
Together, they took out orbs which they fuelled with their mana, creating large threads that linked above the mages. The threads possessed a myriad of colours that mixed together beautifully, creating an absolutely spectacular sight that had all the citizens “Oooing”.
“As we all know, it is up to the Court Mages to come up with one event that will go down in history whenever there’s a Royal Feast.”
Garand begun speaking with his hands behind his back.
“Sadly, the past few Royal Feasts have been disappointments on the part of the Court Mages, not producing any spectacles of such grandeur. The last two Royal feasts which the old folk here should have seen, were nothing to brag about.”
Indeed, it was getting exceedingly difficult to outdo the past acts and no one felt this burden more than the Grand Court Mage who everyone was counting on.
“This year, I have succeeded in changing that fact! Five years ago, at the defeat of our foe, the mortal enemy of our goddess, Sea Devil Makrov, I was struck with what I personally believed was beautiful and I have decided to share that beauty with you all.”
Once he said that, all those who bore witness to the end of the Sea Devil had an idea of what he was talking about and were instantly alarmed. Or at least, that was how he saw it.
‘That’s right. You’re probably thinking, there’s no way this crazy old man would do that, right? Hahahaha! Well, I did!’
He thought maniacally to himself, hoping they could see the smug expression on his face. Down, he noticed that the prince, Nanek stood up to go elsewhere. It was rude for him to do that, but Garand would ignore it this time.
At the end of his speech, the intertwined threads of mana formed a large plate of mana above the hall, close to the edge of the dome. In truth, this wasn’t a mere plate of mana. It was simply the largest portal ever made in history. Indeed, this was quite the sight to marvel at. Still, doing such a thing came at its own risk, one was the potential of causing the caster or casters to develop Mana Overload.
However, that wasn’t even the main treat. From the portal, one creature swam through. It’s size of a magnitude so large the Atlanteans couldn’t believe it was in their city. It had pitch black skin with glittering dots on its body that made it look like a starry night. It resembled their whale dogs, but with a much prettier coat than they’d ever seen.
Their jaws dropped as the glittering lights on its body were good enough to brighten up the darkened dome. And the song it sang was so excellent they were mesmerised. Another of these beasts popped up, making everyone feel terrified, but intrigued. More of the creatures showed up, each larger than the last.
“Dear Atlanteans! I present to you, the Star Whales! They aided us in our war against the Sea Devil and have now appeared for this monumental feast!”
He declared loudly.
‘Unfortunately, I couldn’t get the king of these beasts… he would have killed us all.’
He was saddened. In truth, what he wanted most was the most majestic of these creatures, the King Star Whale that truly helped Hiro in the decisive battle against Makrov. It was simply exquisite, but he would have to settle for this.
The servants from the temple started to drop their parcels down to the masses. The maids of the palace all came carrying large trays of food and serving them down before the king, priestess and candidates in large seemingly endless amounts.
The Feast had officially begun.
<A/N: 14 days... and I got to chapter 200. Lol, this was around half of the original story, but now it's not even a fourth of the whole story.
Also, finally done with the boring festivities. I've even skipped some details to save time and chapters.
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