Everyone looked around at each other. Kian finally waking up although weak was just as shocked as everyone else.
"Wait! ECHIDNA!!!"
The girls looked at Kian "You know her?"
"She destroyed Arcadia!"
Seraphina glared at Echidna. "You killed my Father and Mother!"
Kaji glared at Echidna as well "You betrayed me!"
"Looks like everyone hates you." Deus said
"I had my reasons for doing it all. Either way, why are we meeting?" Echidna asked crossing her arms as her claws changed back.
"Royals can't meet up? Especially my beautiful Echidna?"
"Shut it! And how are you even alive!" Echidna asked
"Yeah we killed you!" Kaji added
Azazel laughed "Killed, no... You killed a mere copy. Why do you think your energy has been drained Echidna? It's because you only killed a Demon that I supercharged with my own mana and blood."
Both looked dumbfounded
"Oh how I do love you my dear"
"I ALREADY TOLD YOU, I DO NOT, WILL NOT EVER, LIKE... YOU!"
"Yeah you're right. You Love Me!"
She ran over and punched him square in the face.
"Oof!"
"Now shut the hell up!"
The King of Kings clapped his hands getting everyone's attention. "Let us talk. Now that we know of each other's existence. Plus dear Zela, who is unfortunately. Asleep. He pulled her from thin air, she was knocked out cold. "Now usually it'd be the Royals just meeting so they can know who their rivals and allies are. Buuut since we Kings came. Now they know who they need to kill... Not to bad."
"Will we be fighting?" Kian asked
"No, Meetings are only for knowledge. Then everyone goes home. Waaazaaa!"
"So... We can go?" Kaji asked
"If you wish, but we haven't seen each other's capabilities."
"I have important things to do... If we can't fight that is." Kaji said
"I see, so this meeting was quick... Sad indeed." The King said shaking his head as if sad
Echidna smiled "You all don't realize, your in my temple." She threw her hand up and a thousand monsters surfaced. "I suggest you all leave... Now"
"As you wish." The King of Kings sighed and snapped his fingers as bright light enveloped them all.
***
The girls were back at the Tavern.
They boys were at the house.
The Kings were elsewhere and so we're the royals.
Kian sat on his bed. He remembered saving Kaede, although vague. He stood up and crouched and tried to do it again. But he only fell flat on the ground.
He looked at the symbol on his hand.
"So I'm the Royal of Kings... There are 5 kings and 5 royals. Divine, Undead, Monsters, Demons... And Kings. I suppose being the King of Kings makes you above them all." He paced around his room as he recollected everything he'd learned. "This symbol marks me as the Royal of Kings more than likely. It also gives me spells. Also I can die infinitely. My body will also regenerate."
As he thought he heard someone. He opened his door and looked around only to see the Maid reading.
"Um... If you don't mind what are you reading?" Kian asked
"Huh! When did you get here!" She jumped dropping the book.
Kian looked and saw the title. When he read it his eyes widened.
The book of The 5 Kings.
He picked it up "What's it about?"
"Basically um... It's these 5 kings... Um... They were born... Well by fate... Oh... It sounds weird doesn't it..."
"No not at all! Please continue." He grabbed her hand
She shook when he grabbed her small hand. "Well! Um... Basically fate brought them into the world... But It doesn't say why. But it does talk about a specific King."
"The King of Kings!?"
"Huh? Oh have you read this?"
"Uh... No..."
"Oh... Well... No... The... It was The King of Divine... But... This one was... Female."
"King of Divine? What about her? What did she do?"
"Well it said... She... Well I'd better describe it... She... Um... I... I can't say it."
"Please!"
"Kian your scaring me!"
"Please Tell me..."
She turned away "She... She murdered her Royal..."
Kian's eyes widened "What?" He fell back on his butt. His heart racing. He knew Kings fought their Royal, but... Kill them?
"She didn't just use a sword though..." She grabbed her hand and rubbed it as if to comfort herself "She... She beat them... To death, with her bare hands... It was said that she was one of the strongest and most powerful King's of her time... Then again it doesn't say how."
Kian began to shake. Could The King of Kings kill him? If so... Would be? Is that why he had to get stronger? If so... From what that snap did... It wouldn't be easy, not easy at all.
"Um interesting story see ya" he dashed off as the maid sat there flustered.
He ran to his room and took a breath I need to go back there... To the Sacred Realm... But I can only go there if I die right?
He looked at his window. If he jumped he'd die right? It was 2 stories up. Maybe he wouldn't? Wait this is weird why would I kill myself? Wait should I? I mean I'd return right?
He slapped himself still the thoughts remained. He ran to the window, but stopped himself. "No!" There has to be some other way... Maybe... Just maybe.
He closed his eyes and took a deep breath. Trying to picture the Sacred Realm as best as he could.
Then when he heard the sound of chatter he opened his eyes. There he was in the city of the Sacred Realm.
He gasped "YEAH! I DID IT! WITHOUT HAVING TO HARM MYSELF WOOOOHOOOO!" As he cheered the civilians looked at him as if he were insane some even moving their kids away or shielding them.
Kian let out a nervous laugh. Then scratched his head.
He sighed and looked around for the Castle, yet it was nowhere to be seen.
He walked through the city and saw that everyone was pretty normal. The area wasn't though. The sky was a pinkish red. The sun was blood red. The moon was nowhere to be seen maybe didn't even have one.
He kept looking for The King of Kings until he saw someone. A woman with blonde hair and basic clothes, but her aura was different from the other's... Almost like a...
He ran up to her "Excuse me!"
She kept walking. "Excuse me! I need to talk to you!"
No one even stopped, people did look at him, but moved on.
Kian grunted and grabbed her sleeve "Ex-"
She grabbed his hand. "Let of me please."
"I need to talk to you!"
"Stop yelling please."
Kian got more frustrated, was she dumb or something?
"I need to ask you something."
"Why?"
"Because your different"
"So your discriminating?"
"Wait no!"
"Shh, no yelling"
Kian gritted his teeth, she really starting to piss him off. Why wouldn't she answer him, why was she acting this way?
"You... Have a different... Feeling..."
"Oooh, so your confessing? Sorry I don't like younger men."
Kian's eyes twitched "no..." He let out an aggravated breathing "I... You are.. you have a different aura?"
"So you admire me?"
"No!... I mean no"
"So what is it then? You say these things that mean something you aren't trying to say. Are you trying to ask me... If I'm like you? If I'm The King of Divine?"
A gust of wind passed by.
"Yes... Are you?"
She nodded "Yes, I am. Or at least I was."
"But.. wait, did you die? Is this a realm of the dead!"
"Shhh... No I'm not dead. I gave up my position."
"Wait what?!"
"Shhh!"
"Why? Why do I have to be quiet?"
"Because... This is a quiet part of the City. Because it's my haven. I love the peace here and the people here too"
"Oh... Sorry..." He rubbed the back of his neck
"I gave up my throne because it corrupted me."
She began to walk again and turned to see if Kian was following her. Kian hurried to her side.
"It made me hungry for more. I couldn't stop it was like a lust for ultimate power."
"Is that why you killed your Royal?"
"Royal?" She sighed
Kian looked at her with confusion "Yeah... Royal..."
"Boy... I didn't kill my Royal... I killed my Royals. Not just 1, multiple. I also killed my fellow Kings, including the King of Kings. I stole their power... Then I became Immortal."
Kian looked at her with eyes of fear. He was standing in front of a mass murderer.
"I didn't just kill my royals... I killed theirs too, but I became sick... With incurable diseases. So I tried to find healers all over the place. None could help. Yet that's when I made the first medicines. Because magic couldn't cure everything."
They walked into plaza, where a statue was. It held a sword and in the other hand a chain that was around it's own Neck.
"Is that you?" Kian asked
Her face became grim "Yes.. it's to remind me of what I did. It may look like a perfect statue, but it resembles pain and corruption."
"So... when did you stop?"
"Over 70 years ago. It all started when The now King of Kings came to me. He didn't challenge me. He asked to train under me. Then challenge me once he felt ready."
She mimicked a young boy begging.
"Then once he got strong enough he challenged me and somehow even though I was clearly on the winning side... He used a spell that... Defeated me."
She gasped "A god made spell..."
Now that Kian looked, she seemed sleep deprived. She had dark circles under eyes. She herself was small. She sounded insane as well.
"Are you okay?" Kian asked
She spun around and nodded quickly "I... I have to get back home." She dashed away.
"WAIT!"
"Shh!" The people around said
When Kian caught up to her. She was in front of a huge mansion.
"Woah"
"I built it, all by myself." She flicked her hand on a rose and it emitted golden sparkles which went around the house. The house began to turn into a more lab type house.
"Come come!"
She pushed the door open and they walked inside.
The house was tidy, but had a bunch of papers and glasses with liquids of various colors. Papers on the walls too that has different things like tests, notes, and even spells and stories.
"What... Why is all this stuff here?" Kian asked looking around and almost knocking over a glass.
"It's my tests... My experiments." She said putting a glass back in it's place.
"For Immortality?" Kian asked looking through the glasses
"No... I'm already Immortal... I want to be Superior to all beings. Not The King of Divine, but the Queen of the world! These spells are beyond that of the God of Magic's... Well almost."
"That sounds corrupt you know?"
"You haven't even let me finish..." She looked at a paper that stated some laws "I want to make the world a better place and more advanced. Way more advanced!"
Kian started to hear voices "I think I need to return."
"Oh! Wait, here look at this." Sheed him over to a paper. It had ancient writing and a picture of a man with red hair and two battle axes. "Whenever you are in need of help. There's a man named Alvor... He's a great legendary warrior. He's killed thousands... First you must beat him in combat. Then he'll be extremely loyal. He's in the peaks of the old kingdom Marterra. The Kingdom of the Mountains and biggest sea."
Kian grabbed the paper "Thank you..."
Then everything went black.
***
He woke up surrounded by Arthur, the maid, and Kazuya.
"He's awake!" The maid screamed
"HE'S ALIVE!" Kazuya yelled shaking Kian
Arthur looked at him with suspicion.
Marterra... I need to go there in order get him? But it's so far!
Kian sighed "I'm fine..."
They helped him up and the maid ran downstairs to make him something to eat "YOU'LL BE BETTER ONCE YOU HAVE SOMETHING!"
The boys walked down too, but that's when the girls busted in.
"Kian!" Kian's 'lovers' yelled
"Arthur!" Seraphina and Selene yelled
Kian hugged them all.
If they accept... I'll go... No even if they don't I'll still go... I need to be prepared for anything.
"EVERYONE!"
Everyone julted up and looked at him, but then the door bust open and everyone looked there instead. Then came Mimi.
"WAAAH! I was eaten by a big frog! Then kidnappped! Then- then... I randomly woke up in the middle of the forest! Then I tried to find my way here...!"
Kazuya ran up to her "Mimi!" He hugged her trying to calm her down.
Kian still had his mind on Marterra. In the morning he'd tell everyone what his plan was.
***
When Kian went to sleep he woke up in the Sacred Realm. "I'm here again? WHAT AM I DOING HERE?!"
The King of Divine showed up with a soft smile. "Hello Kian... We meet again so soon."