Chapter 360: Rio Vs. Selain, An unfair battle... Part-1.

Chapter 360: Rio Vs. Selain, An unfair battle... Part-1.



"I just found out that they have also arranged a massive arena in the great ancient Colosseum during this festival... What do you say, Rio? How about we settle our match today then?"

Walking down the wide streets decorated by the dragon folk, the group was having an amazing time chatting.

The group even bought souvenirs to bring back home.

Rio doesn't really have anyone to give souvenirs to, so he didn't bother buying them; just enjoy the festival yourself now, and that's okay enough.

Even Liam only bought them for Ellie and his other summoned beasts.

Hearing Selain's words, Rio nodded his head and agreed immediately.

The rest of the group has also found out about this matter already, so they weren't much surprised either.

Link and Liam were giving Rio surprised looks when they found out that the princess wanted to be Lia's love rival.

In their opinion, it's already very shocking that Rio, who's such a boring and emotionless person, was even able to get together with Lia.

Link and Liam are both handsome guys who will look good in no matter what they wear; moreover, they both have no shortage of money, and both of them are rich.

Due to this, they have a massive fan club filled with female fans.

Link's fan girls are in fact so jealous of Riya that they might scold her endlessly if they met her somewhere.

Rio also has a fandom, but his fans are mostly those young people with low talent and humble families. He's more of a motivation source for the young, as he was able to reach such great heights despite being from humble origins.

And if you take everything into consideration, even Selain got interested in Rio after finding out that he has insane mastery over sword intent.

Regardless of the situation, Rio isn't really going to get swayed by any other woman anyway.

...

The group walked to the Colosseum, and Selain went over to register her and Rio's names in the reception area.

Link glanced at the giant Colosseum made with ancient-looking architecture and spoke in a curious tone.

"They still have Colosseum's in this day and age? I wonder if gladiator battles still happen here?"

Hearing that question, Liam shook his head and said,

"Nope, this ancient Colosseum is only used during some events and duels; those kinds of bloody battles don't happen here anymore..."

Everyone gave Liam a surprised look after hearing his confident words.

"Well, don't give me that look; there were books in my room that described the general history of various important buildings in the central city..."

"They must have placed those books in your rooms too, but you guys didn't bother reading them at all..."

Only after hearing those words did everyone figure out why Liam knew about this place.

Rio and Lia were busy texting each other on the phone till late at night; Link was busy thinking about various things that the dragon king told him, and Riya was sleeping like a dead log.

None of them had the time to stay up till late at night and read some random books.

Even Liam wouldn't have read those books if not for the fact that he was all alone and had

nothing better to do as there was no Ellie to mess around with him.

"By the way, the books also mentioned that the dragons used to force the dragon men to fight in this Colosseum to death for their own entertainment..."

"I was very angry about that matter... Truthfully speaking, I haven't talked to my father since that day; he's always doing whatever he wants to; he never listens to what I want..." Selain has liked swordsmanship since childhood, and she wants to be the one to decide her own life partner. Idri's ignorant act of randomly choosing her partner really pissed her off. Selain took action on time and asked Aria to modify the invitation token to invite the whole team, Astra; this way she countered Idri's attempts by brining Riya into the picture.

She was worried that Link might get swayed if the person he's engaged to wasn't around, and thus she invited the rest of the group so that Riya also comes here and counters this

possibility.

As for Rio, she has genuine admiration for him.

Not only did he win the title of champion, he even proved that the person that her father was

caring about wasn't the 'absolute genius' who couldn't be defeated.

"Well, we aren't really destined for each other... That's the conclusion I have come to..."

"But you know, I will not give up; I will find someone whom I can accept; I won't get ordered

around by Father, hmph! He can go and cry in the arms of his favored genius, Link!"

"I do what I want to do!"

Rio also gave Selain a thumbs up to support her decision.

He's not a saint who comes forward to help out any random person. He's not obliged to

sacrifice himself to help out Selain in these circumstances.

All he can do is hope that she will find someone better in the future. Moreover, it's better that Selain has enough self-knowledge; she knows her circumstances and what she needs to do in

the future.

'All matters aside, she will become a great leader in the future, that's for sure...'

Selain is already playing a game of chess against her own father and is countering him quite effectively; there's no doubt that she will become a great ruler one day.

'I guess I will come over to congratulate her one day when she seizes the throne for herself... But that day is still too far away-a few centuries, I guess...'

Rio isn't interested in getting involved in this family conflict; he came to the Dragon Valley as

a guest; there's no point in getting involved in this.

"Well, my well wishes are with you, princess... May you find someone who genuinely likes

you..."

Selain also nodded her head and replied,

"I originally didn't know what was so good about Lia, but truthfully speaking, she's the best person for you... I am just getting in the way... My well wishes are with you two..." Although Rio and Selain didn't establish a relationship, they became great friends after wishing a happy life to each other.

Author's Notes.

Yo! It's your beloved author here!

Question of the day.

Which one would you rather choose to become friends with?

1. Rio (The Tea Addict)

2. Link (The Barbarian)

By the way, don't forget to use those power stones!!