ICE EMPEROR

NIGHT WALKS

It was a cold, cold night like no other day. In a dark room, where the candles are turned off. So that the room became pitch-black, in this room there was a snow-white haired young man sitting on the edge of his bed. His mind floated towards something, but it could not be talked about with anyone else. Then what about the Dragon God who was residing with him, of course the feeling of unworthiness of this snow-white mane youth could be felt by the Dragon God. But for him as a Dragon God, he could neither interfere nor give her advice, as this fellow, had to figure it out for himself.

“Maybe I'd better take a walk first.” In the end the young man stopped thinking about it and tried to relax himself by taking a night walk. Due to the cold air outside, the young man in a snow-white mane wore a thick, bright blue jacket to protect his body from the cold. Though he was a user of the ice element, but still felt cold. But the cold was not his body, but his mind, and it involuntarily affected his body instead. Of course, every one's thoughts would definitely affect his other limbs.

The young man opened the window and came out from there jumping high, the small wind blowing down his jacket and making it flutter up there.

Tap

Slowly and smoothly, the young man managed to land precisely. In the middle of the city road, it felt so quiet because it was already midnight and at this hour everyone fell asleep. Except for a few of them who were still awake and the royal soldiers who were patrolling around the city.

“Where is it good..” thought for a moment, he himself has not decided where to go after this. While walking and thinking about it, his footsteps brought to the center of the city square. “Walking like this might take me somewhere. But this path instead of going to the square.” the young man realized it, he walked straight towards the fountain in the middle of the city. It was the first time he met a lost little girl who was the sister of his new friend here. Now he was right in front of the fountain, so remember when he saved a little girl named Maria when she was lost that time.

“There are others turned out..”

A feminine voice caught the attention of the snow-white mane youth, he looked to his left where a woman walked up to him. This young man knew who the woman was, because they had known him for a long time, even if it was only a week or so.

“Lanya, ah no... Princess Lani.”

She is the Princess of the Kingdom of Eartfil, Lani Eartfil. An only child of King and Queen Eartfil. It is said that Lani will become the new leader of this kingdom after her father. It was indeed not in doubt because he was the only heir to the kingdom.

“Didn't I tell you not to speak so formally, Yugi.”

“Yes I just want to call you so.”

“Successful.”

The atmosphere became silent for a moment, they looked towards the fountain. Yugi the snow-white-haired young man looked at Lani, there was a question he wanted to ask her. He just hesitated a little.

“Yugi, is accepting fate for granted the right thing?”

Lani asked, without looking at her interlocutor. Then for Yugi, not knowing what to answer. Because talking about fate, he himself had something like that.

“Destiny no one knows, we are only humans who receive it.”

That explanation makes Lani feel sad, if indeed fate is only able to accept even if it is bad even for him. Isn't that unfair...

“But..”.

Lani stared at Yugi, she waited for a continuation of the word that seemed to refute his words earlier.

“That destiny, we can hold with these two hands. You can decide which direction you're going to take destiny. There is no reason to give up on destiny. If giving up without a struggle, it is not fate, but he who has given up will the future.”

The wind blew, waving that bright brown hair with the sparkle of moonlight. The woman who was together with this young man, felt stunned by the sentence uttered by Yugi. As if bringing a new dream to him, the eyes were rounded, a smile formed, the sense of pressure in his heart began to subside. And it was all thanks to the young man in front of him.

“Destiny is just a blank paper waiting for us to write our next story. So, you're the one who decides what it will be like.”

Lani doesn't know what to say, Yugi has already said everything she wants to hear. If fate is just a blank piece of paper, he wants to write it with his own story, without being forced by others.

Lani walked back a little and said. “Yugi... thanks.”

At that moment I saw the smile of a Princess, and it was so beautiful, the sincerity was in that smile, the wind blew her beautiful hair, the moonlight illuminated that face... and I was glued to her...

The next morning, in a room of a young mane in snow-white. He stood facing the window, staring at the bright morning sun. His mind was still in the picture of a meeting with a woman last night. And that woman was a Princess of the kingdom of Eartfil. It was still ringing in her head as that beautiful face smiled so endearingly. It was true that her beauty was like a celestial angel, it could even compensate the eldest Princess of Northern Esla kingdom.

“There is no time to imagine it all. Today is the fifth competition, and my opponents can predict.right, whoever my opponent will be, they have extraordinary abilities.” Yugi looks at the back of his right hand and brings up the dragon emblem which is his familiar contract. “Maruya, the Dragon Slayer. Rexas, the demon sword wielder of Pheonex. Seiga, from the sword clan, and the wielder of the sword of Moryasense. And lastly Lugi, a mysterious participant who has yet to be known for his face, a user of the earth element who has already surpassed the Witch King. It was possible that he had already reached the peak Witch King. If fighting him will be very dangerous, hopefully the first fight is not me who is his opponent.”

Tok tok tok tok

The door of the room was knocked from the outside, making Yugi quickly remove the contract symbol of his dragon and look towards the door. “Log in..”.

The door opened, revealing the little girl who had entered the room. The little girl carried a white-haired wolf with a blue tinge on each of her four legs and neck. Yugi looked at the girl who was his student.

“Is the teacher ready?” ask the girl.

“Of course, let's go Vira.” Yugi replied with a confident face.

While with the other participants, they had already walked towards the arena from four different directions but would meet halfway towards the main door of the colosseum. And in the middle of the road looks Yugi, and Vira who carries his familiar, they also walk towards the arena. In the end the five participants met each other and showed an aura of resistance to each other. Not long after the gate of the arena was wide open, all the participants looked towards the gate, at that moment they made up their resolve in their hearts.

‘Last semi-final fight.’ (Yugi)

‘I'm getting excited.’ (Moruya)

‘At the moment showed my training results and advanced to the final round.’ (Rexa)

‘Klan sword will rise.’ (Liga)

‘...’ (Lugning)

They all walked into the colosseum with the confidence of him wanting to win this royal competition.

“Alright, all participants are already present in this fifth round competition. The rules remain simple as yesterday, but because we have five participants who are experiencing peculiarities to the next fight. Then a chart will be created, and the opponent who will fight is determined through a draw.”

Instantly a hologram of magic showing a prepared chart where the first half is written number 1 against number 2, then the second half is written number 3 against number 4. And the last one is the number 5 where he will fight with whoever wins the second round, in other words between numbers 3 and 4 will fight with number 5 if one of them wins. Then the referee brought a large cup container with 5 sticks inserted into it.

“In this container there are five sticks in which there are numbers 1 to 5. You will take one stick and it will be this fifth round battle sequence.”

Yugi, Rexas, Maruya, Seiga and Lugi stared intensely at the container, their opponents will be determined by this draw, he said, in other words, anyone here will benefit or lose about the opponent they will face.

“I warn, never use magic to determine your sequence number, because it will disqualify you directly. I know number five has a high advantage where he will fight an already exhausted enemy against his first enemy. So rely on your luck and get the number five without using magic. I hope you guys don't dare to try it..” Rud intimidated them all with murderous eyes, the five participants felt something terrible from this referee. If you think about it, the referees in a fight are those who break the rules, in other words, the referees should have more power than the participants.

It seemed like Yugi was aware of that, from the referee in front of him he could feel the eerie high-level monster air, the haw was very dark and had the killing intent of a Witch General class.

“Because it looks like you guys already understand, so please take.”

The five participants also began to regain consciousness when the killing air disappeared from the referee. Then they one by one took the stik and showed the numbers.

“I'm number one..” (Moruya)

“Two..” (Yugi)

“Three..” (Rexa)

“Four..” (Liga)

“...” Lugi points out number five without saying it.

That way the chart also writes the names of participants who have taken the stick number. And look at the number one to five sequence starting from Maruya, Yugi, Rexas, Seiga and Lugi.

“These are the names of the participants who will fight in the fifth round. It is unexpected, whether it is fate or what, but fellow ancient magic users Dragon Slayer will fight in the first field.”

“Huoooooo..”.

The spectators cheered as the referee announced who would fight. Yugi and Maruya stared at each other with hostility, but on their faces were happy smiles. They could not guess, it turned out that their first fight would meet directly. But there is only one who will qualify for the final round.

“Participants who do not fight please leave the arena..”.

Hearing the referee's instructions, the three non-combatants directly left the arena. They sat on the bench of the participants who had been prepared to watch the first fight.

“Opening the fifth round, Maruya adventurer from Vouleftis as well as the Dragon Slayer Fire magic user will fight against the adventurer Yugi from Aries the Ice Dragon Slayer magic user. Both participants prepare..”.

Yugi and Maruya immediately jumped back to take some distance. About ten meters away, with the referee in the middle. Then make the horses attack each other first.

The referee who saw the two participants was ready, with one shout starting the fight. “Fight... STARTED...” Rud instantly disappeared from the arena leaving both participants.

With that signal Yugi unleashed the aura of a blue dragon, as well as Maruya who had been enveloped in the aura of a red dragon. Both of them had dragon instincts that wanted to defeat each other, the smiling face showed its canine teeth, their hair fluttering with each other following the blaze of aura that had been growing bigger for so long.

“Come start..” Yugi darted quickly with a single stomp of his foot towards Maruya.

“Hayooo fights..” so does Maruya with his red blaze that directly hit Yugi.

Duuuaaaarrrrrr

Those blue and red plated fists met at one point that blasted energy as it clashed. The ground beneath it was uprooted by the dragon-based energy overflow.

“Hooorrraaa... “ (Yugi)

“Rrroooaaarrr (Moruya)

They shouted like raging dragons, could be seen the shadow of a giant blue and red dragon among them which symbolized every element used. If you look again, this is like a fight between two dragons that have opposite elements. Like a destiny, they are met in an arena that is as devoted to them.

“Like the rituals of the dragons.” muttered the King who was unconscious, and it could not be heard by his wife who was beside his left.

In the town square, the woman with beautiful unraveling red hair was walking in search of a place. As she did not know the direction of the road to that place and seemed to have lost her way as well, she finally walked into a fruit shop guarded by a middle-aged man. It turns out that even though the royal competition has begun, there are still a few people who trade and do not watch the fight, and of course there are still those who buy the merchandise.

“Excuse me, directions to the royal competition venue where ya?” ask the woman.

“Ah... miss wants to watch the competition yes, miss just take the right direction there then just stay straight. Not long the colosseum where the competition takes place will be seen.”

Hearing the directions of the fruit merchant, the woman thanked him with a sweet smile. “Thank you very much for giving you the way.”

“Sama-sama miss, be careful on the road.”

The woman lowered her head a little and then left, while the fruit seller just waved a little and then started trading back.

There, the competition arena took place, Yugi...

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