Book 5: Chapter 38: The Fae Tournament

Book 5: Chapter 38: The Fae Tournament

Earth

One week later

Emily smiles as she walks down the sidewalk of the main street within the capital, vaguely listening to her friends from Lions Heart talking alongside her.

Did you hear? Another professor quit teaching. One of her friends, a girl named Julie with long black hair and a short size, albeit still taller than Emily, says with her usual gossipy tone of voice. This makes twenty professors that have resigned from the university in just the past week!

Well, what point is there for them to stay now? Elizabeth, another friend of Emilys, comments with a slightly haughty but also gossipy voice, retorts. Most of them stayed at the university for priority on the Fractures. But now that demons arent crossing the Fractures anymore, there isnt much point in working there.

Dont most of them have a fortune large enough to live off of now anyways? Another friend points out, making all of them nod.

Emily just continues walking without saying anything as the four friends walk alongside her talking.

Im more worried about how were going to continue living without the demons life force to fuel our life spans, Jessica says, making the others grow silent at that.

That does seem to be most of the Guardians main concern

Emily looks up at the sky, raising an arm to stop snow from falling into her eyes.

Ever since the Demon King returned from wherever he was, immediately ordering the end of the war between humans and demons, life has changed all across Earth. The demons even gave Demon Isle back to the humans, although they and the Knights agreed to let the demons keep the Arctic since most humans dont have any interest in living there anyways.

Hello everyone! Ill start it short and simple, if thats alright with you all! He says, sounding a little too excited in Emilys opinion. As ordered by King Oberon of the Fae, the Fae Tournament will be shown across all of Earth and Tartarus. The tournament itself will be based on a point building system, where various competitions are held and each give points for first, second, and third place within them. Competitors will have multipliers and handicap free points given based on their circumstances, such as level caps, and can opt in for an anti-death mode that will take away the free multiplier every competitor gets for having it disabled. Opting for the anti-death mode will make it so that if they die within the artificial universe His Majesty created, they will just be sent back to where they were before entering the tournament.

Jasmine takes over from here, accepting the mic back from Black before she says, But onto what Im sure everyones wanting to hear! A drumroll begins to play from the screen before most of the images of the competitors disappear, leaving only nine remaining. The rankings!

Oh. I forgot the various news stations were going around making a list of who they believed would win the tournament, along with the rankings, ranking each of them by an assumption on how theyll place.

The remaining nine images, including three of the four Demon Lords The Reaper not having a fae apparently and the five Knights, along with Scarlet, begin to spin around the screen.

The rankings were rather difficult to determine, but I personally think we did as good a job as we could with what information we have, Jasmine says before snapping her fingers, making a flash shine from the screen. Then the nine images reappear descending from the top in the form of a pyramid, with the Blood Calamity on the very top.

Emily hears more than a few displeased voices from the people watching on the streets, many complaining that Scarlet is only around rank number six on the list.

Now, Im sure youre all not very happy about how we placed our beloved Princess, but please consider her level in comparison to the others, Jasmine says with a light apologetic bow of her head.

If what Amelia told me shes doing is true, then this news reporter is in for a rather large surprise.

As if on cue, a wave of power spreads out from the East, over the ocean. And along with the power is a bright red flash of light that illuminates everything.

Everyone stops what theyre doing to look in the direction of the light, but no one is able to clearly tell what it is.

Emily, on the other hand, just grins.

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