The Princess And The Lord



It had never crossed Zhao Li Xin's mind that a group of people was raised to kill the entire Lucient bloodline, perhaps because Lory only told pleasant things that happened in her past to Zhao Li Xin and rarely spoke about the hardships of being a descendant of Lucient.

Even so, if Zhao Li Xin think about it carefully he would have realized that Lory's life was far from smooth even before her father's death and the destruction of her kingdom.

As the only princess of the world's strongest kingdom, there was no way no one had no intention to hurt her even he who was clearly a useless, weak, and dying prince still faced several assassination attempts simply because they still have a title as a prince let alone Lory.

[Why didn't your royal side exterminate them all] Zhao Li Xin was furious.

Lory raises three fingers [There are three reasons, firstly we have no proof that this group was formed to kill Lucient apart from the last word the Dragxtarn we captured that ended up dying from suicide causing the information to become useless, secondly, we never got the full list of the people who became Dragxtarn or how they were recruited, thirdly, because of the previous two reasons my kingdom didn't have a clear reason to condemn moreover to attack Luxemborough]

[Even though you managed to catch one of the Dragxtarn?] asked Zhao Li Xin.

Lory waved her hand and roll her eyes [Nah, their government would easily disown them and say that man acted alone and had nothing to do with them, therefore, the least we can do is to demand public apology or compensation, but that's it]

Zhao Li Xin crossed his arms, there was a hint of irritation on his handsome face because he had just been reminded why he hated politics so much [This is so infuriating!] he clenched his fists until his knuckles turned white.

The Archknights also felt the same frustration Zhao Li Xin felt right now, maybe it was the first time Fargo and Fredhard agreed on the same thing which is to trouble Luxemborough from there on, in any way they can.

Lory patted Zhao Li Xin's fist to calm him down [Yes, it is…but anger won't solve anything, and you know that!]

Of course, Zhao Li Xin understands this in her habit of deceiving others, in fact, she is famous for it, but when it comes to Lory Zhao Li Xin it is difficult to calm down and tends to overdo it.

Suddenly they were startled by a loud alarm and Garrof's voice shouting "Yo, Princess, we have good news and bad news!"

Lory was confused then she asked, "What good news?"

Garrof replied, "We are approaching the city of stone eagles!"

"Good, what's the bad news?" Lory asked again.

"Uhm, the wheels got stuck and we ran out of gas so we can't land at the airstrip" Garrof replied.

"So how should we land?" Lory screamed anxiously.

Lloyd suddenly left the cockpit "We have to leave the plane!"

"What now?" Lory was flustered.

Lloyd pushes the plane door open, and the door was flying soon after the burst of wind hits them, Lloyd then screams "Yes, NOW!"

Garrof changed the plane's controls to automatic then left the cockpit in a hurry, Garrof throw a big grin at Lory and say with an expectant tone "We will be depending on you to save us again princess!"

Lory's eyes widened "What do you mean?"

"JUMP!" Lyod shouted he then jumped out of the plane.

"Ready or not!" Garrof makes a long jump.

Zhao Li Xin clicked his tongue then grumbled in annoyance [After this, we better not use air transportation again, the service is very disappointing] The great Lord expressed his dissatisfaction before he extended his hand towards Lory [Okay, Let's leave this useless piece of junk] he snort loudly.

[Okay, let's take the train next time!] Lory puffed out her cheeks wondering why her journey never relaxed down like any normal people do.

Lory grabbed Zhao Li Xin's hand as soon as they both made a long jump from the plane. a second later a strong wind hit her face and hair turning her eyes misty.

Lory blinked her eyes a few rapid beats to focus her sight, it was a moment later before she saw Garrof and Lloyd's figures flying among the clouds not too far from her and Zhao Li Xin, Lory immediately concocted a plan in her head, the first thing she should do right now is to shorten their distance first.

Lory summons her wings and a second later a pair of white wings spread across Lory's back, Lory holds on to Zhao Li Xin while gliding toward Garrof and Lloyd, at the same time conjuring a wind spell.

A whirlwind engulfed Garrof and Lloyd's bodies causing their speed to drop significantly, it was enough for Lory to catch up with them. As Lory drew closer and closer the expression on Lloyd and Garrof's become loosened as soon as they saw Lory's face.

They may not have realized for themselves that all the doubt, fear, and anxiety when they jumped off the plane had disappeared as soon as they saw Lory coming towards them.

This is why people are afraid of Lucient, not solely because of their power no matter how someone is they were deemed to have a weakness as a human being so there's only a way to kill them, So it's not power that fears them the most.

No, what they fear is how the existence of Lucient becomes a symbol of hope in everyone's heart even for people outside of Harland, because with hope people will not give up. They will refuse to accept their fate no matter how hopeless they might be for as long they have hope people will work hard, they will thrive and sooner or later they will prevail solely because they still have hope.

That is why for many people the existence of Lucient it's very dangerous and for many people who wanted to control the world, if they want to dominate the world the first thing they should do is eliminated the Lucient and destroy their myths.

Lory used the power of the wind to slow their descent but had difficulty fighting gravity by carrying the three adults, the stretch of golden sand drawing ever closer. Lory shouted loudly, "Everyone, cast body-strengthening spells, right now!"

[Li Xin use your Qi and prepare for a crash!]

"WIND BLAST!" Lory screamed then a gust of wind from gather around her then shoot the ground creating a shockwave that collided with their fall.

Lory and the others were blown away by the collision, only Zhao Li Xin, who got light-weight skills able to control his movement with a bit of nudge from the wind. 

Zhao Li Xin performed a nimble backflip then lunged towards Lory at top speed and wrapped his arm around her waist before they landed on the sand with a loud boom.

Sand dust scattered everywhere as if it had just been a sandstorm. A few moments later, after everything had finally died down, Zhao Li Xin stood up holding the Lory with his feet sunk into the sand up to his knees while Garrof and Lloyd fell on their backs with their bodies partially covered in sand.

'Ping'

with shaking hands Garrof reached into his pocket and took out his cell phone he look at his cell phone and his mouth curved into a dry smile "Oh, I got a signal, that's...good news"

Lloyd grimace "That's good...." with great effort, Lloyd pulled his back from the hot sand.

"Everyone alive?" Lory checks them to make sure.

"Almost…" Garrof winced in pain.

"Yes!" Lloyd weakly raised his fist in the air and then proceeded to help Garrof to his feet "Get up Buddy!"

"Slowly, my back hurt, ouch!"