Book 6: Chapter 21

Book 6: Chapter 21

Within the Farshore

Not long ago

Tar feels incredibly nervous as his form watches over the spiritual land of which he has taken care of for an entire month. He’s put all of the effort he could possibly muster into this tournament, even bringing out every last resource he has built up over the years to win. To match the amount of effort Scarlet has been putting in all these years himself.

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At this point he knows very well that she could easily destroy their contract and abandon him. He knows she wouldn’t do that, but he knows she could. All she would have to do is have the Red Plague within her devour the bond and that would be it.

Most importantly, he can’t stand the idea of her giving him one of her pointed judgmental stares for losing. Even if he knows she won’t if for no other reason than not particularly caring much.

After all, they will win so long as he gets twentieth place in this competition.

And he also knows that if she were to fail at getting the ability to teleport, they would find some way around it.

That’s just how Scarlet is.

She doesn’t let anything stop her if she actually wants something, and she ignores the things she doesn’t care about. After perhaps giving them a judgmental stare with her now-internet-sensational eyebrow raise.

Tar almost tries to take a deep breath to calm himself, only to remember once again for the umpteenth time that he is currently in the Farshore. And breathing is not something fae do in the Farshore.

There isn’t air here after all, nor is there even a physical reality for them to breath in.

Tar grows more and more nervous with every passing second, just thinking back on the journey he and Scarlet have taken till this point.

To when Scarlet first contracted with him in order to save her life as she was awakening her demon side.

When she fought her first demons, like the spider demons that were chasing her through the halls of her father’s office building.

Or when they fought in that first ranking tournament for Lion’s Heart university, and she quickly ran in and killed one of the higher Class students in the middle of his fight. Having burrowed under the ground and tunneled her way towards their battlefield.

He feels startled in his artificial form within the void when a System Notification appears in his vision. One stating everything he needs to know about what happened.

Warning! This is a Farshore notification for all fae!

Tarankar Floorid Del Vaschmir Detra has just won the Fae Ascendancy Tournament, earning him the position as the new ruler of the Fae with a score of 10,101 points!

Tarankar will now be granted Moderator privileges over the System!

This will entail the ability to teleport anywhere within reality through the power of the System’s Core, the ability to turn off System Assistance for anyone using skills up to rare rarity skills, to initiate anyone into the System regardless of contract, and to upgrade a single mythic skill into transcendent rarity!

May Fae King Tarankar rule fairly and justly for as long as his rule shall last!

Long Live the King!

And right after he sees the notification, he feels a surge of knowledge entering his mind. Knowledge that feels completely natural to him. As if he’s known about it all for his entire life.

He gains the knowledge on how to tap into the System’s power to teleport. How to direct the teleportation. How to turn off and on System Assistance for others. How to initiate people into the System. And even how to upgrade a mythic skill.

All without any confusion in his mind.

Then he receives a message from his father with the rankings of each one of his siblings.

And more than the sight of that previous notification, the message makes a wide smile stretch across Tar’s face.

Because he got tenth on the final round of the tournament.

He actually beat the majority of his elder siblings and made it to the top ten, albeit barely.

Tar feels a tear begin to leak out, but he quickly shakes his head and teleports straight to where Scarlet is, only barely noticing the crown over his head.

And he sees her for the first time in what feels like ages.