Chapter 126 - Secret Revealed - Part 1: Elina’s Confusion

'I wonder if he will be free right now...'

'...'

'Hmm... he might have a lot of works as he is the sea king...', Rex was without a doubt thinking about Poppo whom he had met in the sky Islands.

It seemed like he wanted to discuss something with him but he thought that he would be busy right and because of that he let the thought go.

"Oh well, I will ask him sometime later...", he said in a low voice.

He then looked at the scenery outside and decided to go for a walk in the garden which would make him feel better.

He almost immediately jumped off of the window pane and landed slowly on the ground.

He turned his head here and there and was relieved since no one saw him do that.

He then walked slowly and enjoyed the cool breeze that was blowing past him.

'Hmm... it's still the same as before...', he thought after taking a look at the fountain that was placed in the exact middle area.

He looked towards the other spacious side and then lowered his gazes.

"It all started here..."

He recalled the moment when he had been asked to take the test to find out the Emblem and soul power and other things.

Until then everyone adored him and thought that he would definitely become a great person. But the moment the reading of the ord was announced, all those people turned their eyes off of him.

He wasn't much sad because he was aware of such people who would just come running towards you and start bootlicking you when you are in a relatively high position or when you are having a great time.

But those very people would abandon you without a second though when you would either be in difficulty or when you would be slowly failing in the life.

They wouldn't bother to help you at all and those people couldn't be called reliable or trustworthy.

However during those times, one would be able to recognise the people who would actually be ready to help.

But it still was quite awkward for him because he was called trash no matter where he went.

This could be hazardous which was even proved by the assassination attempt that was done when he was young and now that he returned, no one could know what would happen.

There could be another assassination attempt or someone might just try to eliminate him in some other way. Regardless of the methods, it was clear that there could be only two reasons if someone wanted to attack him.

One was because they detested him and didn't want him to succeed the throne, the other would be his elimination from the line of hierarchy after eradicating everyone so that there would be no successor.

The same danger could be over Julia too and Rex was now aware of all these as he thought with cool mind.

"That's troublesome...", he was thinking deeply while sitting on the bench that was provided in the garden.

Elina, who used to oftenly visit the place to get refreshed, saw Rex sitting and thinking something.

His face was a bit gloomy which she noticed. She wanted to walk towards him right away and ask if something was wrong, but it seemed like she forced herself to stop.

'He is grown up now... he should take care of his own necessities...', she thought this.

She wanted to return immediately when all of a sudden she heard the new maids discussing something while peeking at Rex from the windows in the first floor.

She couldn't hear the topic of discussion clearly, but she did hear one word - 'Rex'.

She was now almost completely sure that they were discussing about Rex, but she couldn't do anything about it.

It was not their fault either as Rex was the exact what they could describe.

'I can see that he might have undergone some hellish training to turn his body so muscula...', she thought.

She was his mother and because of that very reason, she knew most of the things about Rex.

Rex had a frail body and despite that he might have worked hard in order to overcome that was that Elina Thinking about.

'Sigh, despite that he can't cast magic...', she looked towards him and thought.

She was entirely wrong. But it was not her fault either because she couldn't even feel a slight bit of mana.

She then just returned back to her works after spending some time there and observing Rex.

Rex knew that Elina was nearby but he didn't know what to tell her. He was having other thoughts with him too.

He was constantly getting some weird back pain since earlier and that was probably why he was pre-occupied.

'It's too weird...'

'Sometimes my heart starts to beat in a crazy manner and my back pains a lot...'

'No matter what I do, the pain onmy increases...', Rex thought.

'But then all of a sudden it vanished out of the blue. It's indeed weird..'

He somehow knew that it was related to the third crest which originally belonged to an ancient dragon.

The dragon was so fierce and powerful that it used to destroy everything and anything that opposed him.

And since it was constantly attacking, it was completely tainted with blood and probably that was why they started to call the dragon as the 'Red Dragon' or the 'Blood Dragon'.

And that very dragon is the guardian of the area which is covered by the Rhone. Thus in simple words, the fierce Red Dragon is the guardian of the kingdom of Rhone.

Though that's only a belief, and no one has actually seen it, it is passed down as a fairy tale to the royals.

Though Rex had different opinions about it. He could constantly feel a large amount of faint mana being emerged from the ground.

The same mana was basically preventing the depletion of mana from the surroundings in Rhone.

It was something that Rex had already felt long ago when he was just a child and even now he could feel it.

"I guess, I'll investigate this area sometime...", he thought.

Then he just sat and relaxed while Bandis and Zor were asked to talk something important with Alex.

Alex was asking tons of questions to them about Rex's training and everything else as he still held a doubt if they were indeed Rex's masters.

"So tell me, how did he used to live? When he used to get up and...", the questions were quite silly and at times ridiculous but it seemed like Alex wanted to know about everything.

Though he was right that Bandis and Zor weren't Rex's masters, he failed to prove it and had to ultimately believe those fake words.

That was because they answered each and every questions perfectly as they had been with Rex not only in this life but also earlier when he was Chronos so basically they knew each and every habit of his.

Though right now Rex was undergoing a bit of change, but it was unknown to Alex so he didn't suspect and just kept nodding.

In the end he was completely satisfied with their answers after which he discussed about some other matters.

But more than that he was excited about something.

"Umm, can we have a fight a bit? I want some training advices...", Alex said.

He seemed to be aiming for that since earlier because right now he was so strong that it was quite boring to fight with others.

Also he couldn't fight with entire of his strength against Elina as he couldn't afford to hurt her or he held back subconsciously because she was a woman.

Bandis and Zor stared at each other's face while holding the cup of tea in their hand.

Zor nodded his head and wanted to say that they would need some time to think about it.

But the over-enthusiastic Bandis understood something else and said, "We need to ask Master first."

"Huh?", Alex was confused when he heard that.

Zor too suddenly stared at Bandis yet again.

'Idiot! I meant that you need to ask for some time!!!', Zor regretted not using the telepathy earlier.

"Master? What do you mean by that?", Alex asked.

This time Bandis has clearly stated it and thus they couldn't find out a way to make some excuse.

At such a time Zor opened the small mouth of his and said, "Actually, we have a Master too, so we need to consult him..."

"Huh?", Alex was surprised when he heard that.

He could hardly even fathom what they were saying.

'They are without a doubt experts who can easily rival me or even be stronger than me...'

'But they too have a master? Then how strong might he be?', he was completely shocked just by thinking about it.

He kept staring them after hearing that and asked, "Alright... please tell me how much time would you need to confirm this?"

Alex was really persistent and he wanted details about this too.

Bandis immediately spoke, "Not much time, Master is here itself and-"

Bandis yet again spoke something really ridiculous when Zor interrupted him and said, "We will tell you by tomorrow."

Alex was about to get shocked again but he failed to listen everything that he said.

"Ahem, Alright then, I'll come to ask your opinions sharp early in the morning.", Alex said with a smile on his face.

Both of them nodded and immediately evacuated the room and came out after which Zor felt like walking Bandis' Head.

"Idiot, because of you we might have been in trouble!", Zor said.

"Uhh, I'm sorry, but I was very excited to battle master's father...", Bandis was trying to give an excuse.

"Ha! Even I am excited, but I didn't speak anything useless there...", Zor was trying to scold Bandis but then Bandis just walked away.

"You!!!", Zor too ran behind him.

MEANWHILE...

Inside the chamber, Alex was wondering, 'They definitely talked about some master... who might he be?'

'He might be too strong... or perhaps he could be an immortal too!'

'...'

'I just want to meet him no matter what!!!'

'Where are you!?'

AT THE SAME TIME...

'Achoo!'

Rex, who was sitting in the garden, sneezed.

"Just who is trying to remember me?", Rex asked himself because it was probably one of those sneezing which he used to get oftenly while he was away for training.

"Is it Juli...?", he wondered.

AND...

'Just... just what did I hear...?', Elina, Who was walking back towards her own room heard what Bandis and Zor spoke just after coming outside the chamber where Alex was working.

'What did they mean by... 'Their Master's Father?'!'

She was hiding behind the other passage and thinking all these.

'Couldnit be that...'

'Their so called Master is...'

'...'

'Rex...?'

'...'

To be continued...