The Third Party - Chapter 34

Ken’s POV (12 yrs. and 8 months old)

Oh never thought of that, why is the King looking at me like that? It’s like his majesty is scrutinizing me, wait, haven’t I felt this stare in the past too?

“Human named Ken, would you do me the honor of showing your skills to me?” asked the King, huh? My skills? Okay…

“I-if you insist your highness.” I bowed and stood straight again “What element would you like me to display my King?” I asked.

“I believe I haven’t introduced myself, please, call me Raze.” said the King.

“I-“

“Your majesty!”

“Your majesty, that’s preposterous.” Oh-kay. I don’t know which spoke which statements, you guys didn’t have to be that loud, or insulting towards your King. What? I mean look at them, scolding their King.

“How many times have we ever told you about this matter?” said the, I think it’s the Lion warrior with the Judiciary position.

“I for once agree with him on this matter, you cannot just casually let other people call you by your name, you’re of higher standing.” maybe this guy is the one who holds the Judiciary position, wait let me just recognize their skins, surely their buffs are still active? Or did not wear off.

The first one who spoke has traces of the earth guard buff while the other has none, okay, it’s official the first one who spoke has the position of General, while the other has the position of Judiciary.

‘Really? That’s what you’re busy thinking about? Then what of the Judiciary lion said, are you not concerned about that?’ -White-

‘Hmm? Now that you’ve mentioned it, I am.’ I reply to White telepathically, and focused back on what the lions are talking, uhhh, they’re just bickering, about the King wanting me to call him by the name of ‘Raze’, I could just slap myself.

“Please Lions of noble origins, do not fight over what decision the King made, especially something he is adamant about.” I said, stopping them from bickering further.

“And what do you know human? Stay out of our business.” said the General. I’m just gonna call them like this in my head since to mention out their full title is such a hassle.

“Our matters are our own child, you don’t have a say in it.” said the Judge, and for the record calling this guy Judiciary is like calling a whole court into duty, so let me just call him Judge.

“Is it not customary to be involved when a person is mentioned, so that makes it my business too.” I say. Hmm? Oh my gosh, I think I made them angry.

“Huh?! Are you challenging us Kid?” said the General, I instantly backed away holding my hands up, he looks so endearing at me.

“No sir.” I reply almost instantly.

“Then what?!” said the General angrily. This guy has a big temper! That’s a bit, intimidating.

“I just want to say that won’t it be much more easier for everyone if you accept the King’s request?” I said, still holding my hands up, cold sweat rolling down my face since the General’s face is really near mine. Help.

“N-“

“That’s enough Riven.” said the King, I tilted my body to the side and saw him coming before getting flustered and standing up straight, ugh me and my childish tendencies, I brought down my hands.

“But your Majesty-“

“And besides, the kid is right, why don’t you two just accept that I want the Kid to call me by my name.” said the King, why thank you, nope wait, I don’t mean it.

“Bu-“

“No more buts, now where were we, ah yes, you were asking me what element I would like you to use.” I nod at the King, phew, General or should I say Riven went back to his majesty’s side.

“I’m quite fond of other magic, so it would be nice if you could use rare ones, but I would like to test your aptitude on the earth element, so let’s go with earth.” Hmmm, I could work with that.

“Understood your majesty.” I say and bowed.

“What did I say about calling me?” said the King angrily, oh, ah hehe.

“Yes sir Raze.” *slap* Huh? Did he just slapped his face with his paw? No wait, he did.

“Well I can’t really force you now can I, very well, I shall accept this as it is.” said the King, I hear sadness in his voice, or more like dejection, why? The King walked to the center of the field and beckoned me to come, I positioned myself at his side.

“Please give us some space everyone.” said the King, nice thinking, this way, I won’t be able to hurt anyone, the group stepped back towards the edge of the field leaving the other two lions, they look around seeming to question why my friends and masters walked a great distance.

“Start with a basic spell, can you conjure an earth pillar?” said the King, I nodded in reply. Holding my hand out in front I chanted…

“Earth Magic: Earth Pillar.” one earth pillar the circumference of one meter and five feet tall burst forth from the ground in front of us.

“Good, now can you make many?” the King said, he stomped his paw on the ground and five earth pillars with the same circumference and height as mine erupted in front of him in a line. I nod in confirmation. How about I make it ascending.

“Earth Magic: Earth Pillars.” twenty earth pillars the same as last time emerged from behind the earth pillar I conjured before in an ascending order, I think I made them half a feet higher from the previous pillar? I look at the King, he’s wide eyed. *Chuckles*

“Apologize sir Raze, but you might want to close your mouth.” I say. Still in humor.

“Oh r-right.” The King looked around before pouncing a good five meters away from me. “How about trying surrounding yourself with those pillars. Earth Magic: Earth Pillars!” Almost simultaneously a flurry of earth pillars erupted from the ground and formed what looks like a small mountain but made out of pillars, one pillar in particular carried the King up.

I nodded again and jumped back and then back-flipped two times creating a good ten meters away from my location before activating the earth pillars spell, the earth rumbled as earth pillars rose from the ground in a circumference starting from my position, only stopping at the edge of the King’s own little mountain.

The tallest pillar which I rode flung me into the air, I flipped mid-air and landed on the pillar, woah, it’s quite high up here. Hmm maybe two meters high than the King’s, yeah it’s not that high.

“Amazing! Can you do this?!” said the King “Earth Magic: Rock Barrage!” Rocks formed on mid air around the King and flung itself to the ground exhausting all of the created rocks creating smoke. I nod and hold my hand out and chanted… Let me make this interesting.

“Earth Magic: Continuous Rock Barrage.” small rocks formed around me before assaulting the ground, I gently turned my hand so the rocks could follow where I am aiming to the side on a clearing, I withdraw my hand ceasing the assault as the ground turned smokey.

Get it, smokey. No? Okay…

Wind swept from out of nowhere clearing the smoke and I saw that it was the King who did it as he held his paw emenating a light green color.

“I didn’t expect that you were able to do that, well then, how about wind magic?” the King said still on his platform. I nodded at him, he then looked to the field.

“Wind Magic: Tornado” A big tornado formed in front of him the size greater than our pillars combined, it has a very wide width if I might add, the King raised his paw and as if the tornado had a mind of its own it also rose leaving the ground clean.

I can see my friends shielding themselves from the strong wind, and as I looked back at the tornado it dispersed, where did their magic circles go? Hmmm, wait if I remember correctly, the magic circles disperse if the action of the spell is done right?

So maybe since the earth is solid and can stand on its own then the circle disappears right after, meh makes sense, wow I’m agreeing to my own argument.

“Your turn.” said the King, I nodded and held out both my hand, this time two magic circles appeared, one at my feet and the other in front of me, but not covering me.

“Wind Magic: Dance of Blades.” A twisting zone appeared on the field that looked like a circular wind wall from the outside but the wind inside is rotating, with me as the focal point.

Wind blades of all shapes and sizes that I could think off formed inside the zone and revolved at the winds rotating direction.

Since this is a channeled spell, it leaves me vulnerable to any attacks, but I can use the wind blades to fight my predecessors, as for the circular wall,

It’s pretty transparent but no one will be able to go in or out of the zone, except if you fly over or teleport, but flying makes it hard as they just get sucked in like there’s some kind of vortex, hehe.

I used the blades to destroy random pillar here and there, I created this spell weeks ago when I had a one on ten battle with my co-disciples hehe, and of course I’m able to adjust the size of the zone, and I’d joined the King on the zone, wonder what he is doing.

(Looks at the King)

Is that fascination? He looked at me with a gaping mouth. Wow he must be pretty impressed, and shocked if I might add.

“This is amazing! What else can you do with both elements?” asked the King, I stopped channeling as the spell lifted. I held my chin with my right hand as left arm wrap around my stomache. Hmmm…

“It depends sir Raze on the situation.” I said.

“Show me.” He replied, why does it feel like he’s very pleased with this, it almost feels like his eyes are sparkling, and coming from me who’s basically far away from him with this distance, but how come we can still here each other, oh right, forgot, I have heightened senses now.

“Okay.” I replied as I used earth magic again to bury the earth pillars I created back to the even ground before and I saw that he followed suit. Okay time to burn some mana. Wait no not literally burn, exhaust them, oh you get the point.

-After an hour of casting earth and wind spells-

Okay, I think the King is satisfied with this, man I’m hungry now, must be time for lunch, I look at the table and see that the guys are preparing the table, so it is lunch time now, huh, I didn’t notice the time run by.

“Thank you Ken, I had a good time exchanging pointers and spells with you today.” said the King as he approached me, have I mentioned that he’s a lot larger than his other two warriors?

Like almost twice as large as a regular Lion, now that I look closer the King has a distinct feature from the other mountain lions, he’s the only one with a mane, a red like mane, kind of like simba’s, but more vibrant in color.

Why didn’t I notice that the other two doesn’t have manes? Must’ve slipped my mind, oh and the difference between the two warriors is that the General has battle scars, if that’s what you call them, and the Judge looked like he has a noble air to him without as much as a scratch on his skin, that’s cool.

“You’re welcome your highness.” I say and bowed to him before straightening myself and walked toward my friends, the three lions went to talk with the masters.

“Please do visit once again your highness.” I hear Master Klein say.

“Oh right that reminds, one of the reasons why I visited the village today is that because other primal animal beasts whishes for your students to visit them.” I stopped in my tracks on what the King just said and turned to face them, only they’re looking at each other.

“The others your highness?” asked Master Lana.

“Yes, they said that they would be very delighted if your group could come visit them, they also want to see how well the children they’ve encountered and helped in the past have grown now.” is he talking about me, Celine and, Wilbert? I can’t help but wonder. The King turned to look at me, oops got caught looking, now you’re busted Ken!!!

“If you’re wondering who I’m talking about, it’s you and you’re other human friends Ken.” He said, my eyes widened in realization, I nodded as confirmation before holding my chin again, Why would they want to meet us again? Hmmmm….

“Well, we’ll be off then, thank you Klein for accommodating us for the day.” said the King. I’m still busy thinking.

“Why don’t you join us for lunch your highness?” asked Master Ulysses while bowing. Okay now I’m more intrigued for this, my fooooood.

“Don’t worry we have prepared our own lunch back at home and our families are waiting for us, so we won’t be staying for long.” said the King as he conjured a slab of rock from the ground, he sat on top of it as the rock floated with other bits below it, as did the other lions.

That’s an earth spell I’d like to call, ‘Dashing Board’ it lets you use a slab of rock to surf on the ground, kind of like a surfboard on sea, but this one is on land, I introduced that spell when I couldn’t move from place to place faster.

At first they had a hard time copying the spell but gradually and in an instant they were able to grasp the concept behind the spell and was able to use it pretty well while riding. I was shocked when the three of them showcased their skills.

I mean I had only taught them how to use it and now they’re like pro on it, maybe because they are prone to using the land so much that it’s almost second nature for them? Not to mention their proficiency in manipulating the earth, I don’t even wanna bother.

The King left with the two lions as they rode with their earth boards back, and they are not leaving a trail from the earth wave they are creating, wow, guess I underestimated their potential.

Okay Ken, let’s not think of underestimating them anymore, hooh, okay, we are normal human beings, hooh, okay,

I skipped towards the table and-

“Everyone, we’ll be leaving to plan for our visits for the other primal animal beasts.” said Master Klein, we nodded in confirmation and the three of them left, okay, where was I, ahh yes, skipping towards the table, I’m halfway there. Foooooooooooo——

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