Prosperous Neighbors
2174 Words
| Blakend Kingdom, Axuuhh Continent |
“It’s nighttime. How about I take you to your lodging? Queen Vel gave me the keys and the location of your lodging.” Azeed showed them the keys to their lodging.
“Yes, I’m getting tired too,” King Ovex said.
“After seeing that f*****g barrier demonstration, my energy will be shit.”
“Are we staying outside the Center, Sir Azeed? Since this place is getting renovated,” Jodie said, asking Azeed.
“Oh, you’re definitely staying in here since you are valued guests, let’s go. Mina? Don’t you have somewhere to be or are you having another clone to work on that?” Azeed said, asking Mina as they head back down the building using the teleporting pod.
“I can summon more clones than this, Azeed, and half of my Mana won’t drain,” Mina said, answering Azeed’s question.
“With all due respect, I just wanted to ask, what kind of mage are you, Ms. Mina?” Jodie asked her as he approaches her.
“I guess they are unaware of it fully.”
“I am Azeed’s Mage, Head Jodie, and if there is one spell I can’t do for him then I’m not his Mage since I’m incapable of doing what he asks me,” Mina said, answering Jodie’s question.
King Ovex went over to Jodie’s side. “Jodie, at least, has the balls to ask someone like her, I don’t have one, but her answer didn’t really make sense.” he thought to himself.
“What she’s sayings is that she’s a versatile mage who can pretty much summon any spell,” Azeed said, clarifying Mina’s answer.
“Right, that,” Mina said, responding to Azeed.
They then went down the building, Mina followed them while Azeed takes King Ovex and Jodie to their lodging. A luxurious lodging for VIPs.
After a few minutes of walking, they arrived at the lodging. Azeed and Mina led King Ovex and Jodie to their rooms after they entered the lodging.
“Their lodging here is pretty damn nice.”
“Here are your rooms. Here are your keys, this lodging’s building will be renovated last since the owner wants to, so you can stay here for about 4 or 5 days, depending on how long the renovation outside here will be completed,” Azeed said, giving them their room’s keys after they arrived at their rooms in the lodging.
“We might stay for just 2 or 3 days since we can explore your kingdom in that time with resting and sleeping in between. And besides, it’s not as if I’m the only one exploring your kingdom,” King Ovex said, taking the keys to his room.
“Right, I want to explore your kingdom since I haven’t been here before,” Jodie said.
“I have before but I was a baby before.” King Ovex thought to himself.
“That’s great. But try not to call the Blakend Kingdom my kingdom since I don’t rule this kingdom. It’s Queen Velverosa’s kingdom after all,” Azeed said, reminding them.
“Right. Okay, We’ll be leaving now!” Azeed and Mina started walking out, “have a good night!” he shouted as they are leaving.
Azeed and Mina left the lodging’s building.
“Are they even worthy of your time and the barrier’s demonstration, Azeed?” Mina asked him after exiting the building.
“King Ovex is more knowledgeable about magical devices than all of us, I might learn them quickly but I feel like learning it is extremely different from getting supplies from their kingdom. I do want to learn them since they seem very interesting,” Azeed said, answering Mina’s question.
“You didn’t technically answer my question, Azeed,” Mina said.
“Oh, right, I want to say no, but I’ll say yes, they’re worth my time, for now,” Azeed said. Actually answering Mina’s question.
Azeed then called Mina in her thoughts to talk to her privately. “And that man was insistent in getting his commanders in the Center, so let’s just assume higher security against them, is that okay?” He asked Mina.
“Of course,” Mina murmured.
Mina then summoned another one of her clones to watch specifically King Ovex and Jodie.
“We will be going to the Ogestic Kingdom, by the way, Mina,” Azeed said.
“What? Why?” Mina asked.
“Don’t you remember? It’s the time when the Elder Planteas attack their kingdom, have you forgotten?” Azeed said, asking her.
“Ah, I don’t know how you remember that but that means it’s been a year now,” Mina said.
“Yeah, it’s crazy. I can still feel that I’m new here. But then I remembered how many events have happened—where I’m involved, and then I’m just like. I am too busy,” Azeed said.
They then headed to the teleporting pod that’s in the Blakend Center, to the Ogestic Kingdom.
*zoom*
“This never gets f*****g old.” Azeed thought, not knowing Mina’s thoughts are still connected.
“Should I turn this off?” Mina asked him.
“Yes, please, sorry about that,” Azeed apologized, their thoughts’ connection was cut off afterward.
“Since when was the last time I cursed, what is actually happening to me?” Azeed thought, asking himself.
The longer he is as Azeed, the more his personality merges with his own, but it’s not as if either one can overpower the other, which means Azeed Anima will never be more than Azan, and Azan Reed will never be more than Azeed.
The two of them were then teleported to the Ogestic Kingdom.
| Ogestic Kingdom, Axuuhh Continent |
“They’ve renovated their kingdom as well, it looks amazing now!” Azeed was amazed by the new look of Ogestic Kingdom.
“Yeah, it looks Ogestic than before for me for some reason…” Mina said.
“You sound indifferent about this. This just means that they can do this without any worry, and it seems that there are no Elder Planteas around or any Planteas in the kingdom,” Azeed said.
“I do since it’s now very plain? I can’t really describe it,” Mina said, asking herself.
They then left the teleporting pod since there are others more that will use the pod to go to the Blakend Kingdom.
They headed to the Ogestic Kingdom’s castle to talk to King Velvet—Queen Velverosa’s brother.
“They didn’t change much in their castle since it’s not affected much whenever there are attacks since Ogestic Kingdom is big. And it’s right in the middle of the Kingdom too, raiders will take years to master a way to attack this kingdom perfectly where they can actually hit their castle.” Azeed said after they arrived at the castle.
“Right,” Mina said, following Azeed to enter the castle.
They went to the castle’s throne room, where King Velvet is always working.
“King Velvet has renovated the Kingdom and you’re still working in the throne room, isn’t this way too hard?” Azeed asked as he enters the throne room.
“Sir Azeed! What brings you here!?” King Velvet asked him, surprised by his—and Mina’s arrival.
“We’re just checking the Kingdom’s situation since it’s been a year since the Elder Planteas attack, right?” Azeed said, asking him.
“Wait, how did he even remember that?” King Velvet was surprised he remembers—like Mina earlier.
“Right, yes! I totally forgot about that,” King Velvet said.
“How did you forget the once yearly devastation of our Kingdom, your highness?” Chief Lothian asked King Velvet.
“I don’t know either, Chief,” King Velvet answered as he is confused.
“Well! It doesn’t seem like there are any attacks now and now that we provide supplies for your Kingdom, you can pretty much take care of it too," Azeed said, reassured as he looks over the throne room’s window.
“Are there other Planteas out there?” Mina asked King Velvet.
“There are smaller ones and bigger than smaller ones but the Elder Planteas are the bigger Planteas out there, at least, those around our Kingdom,” Chief Lothian answered Mina for King Velvet.
“You know a few bits about these Planteas, chief. Did you study them before? Botany?” Azeed asked him.
“Sort of, Sir Azeed. As a Chief, knowing about the Elder Planteas, I needed to study about them, how to kill them, and how to deal with them. But I found out that despite having that knowledge when I fought it for the first time, I got decimated, so I just went with what the others are doing and hid when they arrive since they just go past the Kingdom,” Chief Lothian explained, answering Azeed’s question while working.
They have a big table in the middle of the throne room where they are doing their tasks for the kingdom—the main tasks.
“They even say that they come here every midnight too, that’s a shame.”
“Oh well, I guess that’s all we came here for, I thought for certain. We will leave now, it’s already midnight,” Azeed said, heading out of the throne room.
Mina follows.
“Sir Azeed!” King Velvet asked him.
Azeed looked back. “Yes?” He asked him.
“How about a glass of wine before you go?” King Velvet asked, inviting him for a drink.
“Hmm, why not? Mina?” Azeed then heads to their table.
“I’ll be down for a wine,” Mina said, she then followed Azeed to the table.
| Blakend Kingdom, Axuuhh Continent |
The next day arrived. King Ovex and Jodie left their lodging to meet with their commanders and officers that are outside the Center—in the Blakend Ring.
“King Ovex, are you doing something with your commanders because I’m eating breakfast with my officers?” Jodie asked him.
“Oh, you go. I’ll be eating with my commanders too, we’ll be exploring the Blakend Ring as well,” King Ovex said, answering his question.
They then separate ways since King Ovex’s commanders are in the East section of Blakend Ring while Jodie’s officers are in the Northeast because they couldn’t find more places to stay in the East section.
“My commanding officer told me through thought communication that they are over the barren areas of the Blakend Ring because the areas in the East section are already filled up, at least, the lodgings for outside visitors.” Jodie thought as he head out of the Blakend Center through the Northeast gate.
It took him a few minutes to leave the Blakend Center. And because the keys that he got from Azeed have an ID, they can enter the Blakend Center all the time.
“ID, Sir?” The Gate Guard asked Jodie.
“ID? Is it this?” Jodie took out the keys and showed the ID that was with it.
“Okay, just making sure since that means you can enter again,” the Gate guard said.
“Why do they need that?” Jodie then left the Blakend Center to meet with his officers.
And just as he left, the officers are waiting for him outside the Gate.
“Head Jodie! Good Morning!”
“Good Morning too, Commander,” Jodie greeted her as well.
The Commanding Officer of Jodie is the only Commander of Jodie Country since Countries don’t have a lot of privileges for commanders, they can only have one.
“What are we eating, Head Jodie?” The Commanding Officer asked him.
“Let’s go to the nearest dining area and eat there, I’d hate to go around the Kingdom on an empty stomach,” Jodie said, answering her question.
“I wonder what King Ovex is doing at the moment.”
Little did he know that King Ovex and his commanders are already looking around the Blakend Ring to look for a secret entrance or a passageway through the Blakend Center without anyone catching them.
“We will need to not just be careful but we need to clear our minds of evil thoughts, I don’t know how long this barrier’s range is. But I assume it’s just over the floor of the Blakend Kingdom since my commanders aren’t affected by it last night.” King Ovex is structuring a plan.
He also told the commanders that thinking of Evil intents—at least for the Blakend Kingdom, is enough for them to be zapped out of existence since that’s what happened to Mina’s clones last night when it’s demonstrated to King Ovex.
Though he doesn’t know that the barrier only teleports enemies inside and outside the barrier in the skies and drops them to their deaths.
They then continued their travels.
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