The next day, a havoc was created in the horse industry. Many people wanted to know how to get Amadeus" horse. This caused all the other nations to learn of the crown prince"s mighty steed. A young looking beautiful black colt nearing the size an average warhorse. Blood red fire for its mane and tail, ruby red eyes, dark red hooves and a sharp red horn. Eight legs carry the horse allowing it to flight. This was the general description, but no records were found of that specific horse.This indicated that it was a new horse that had just been bred. They then tried to find out breeding methods and horses that met at least one of its descriptions. Yet, it was to no avail. What scared them though that one of the horses that had a similarity was a unicorn, a magical beast. One by one they found records of horses that met at least one condition and started to sweat drop. Each one of them was an extremely powerful and rare magical beast.
They now started wondering on how the dragons landed their hands on these mythical horses when another troubling news was heard. More than half these beasts were stated in various scripts that they could only be found in one G.o.d"s domain, the G.o.d of War. This led to many speculations, but the main character of these speculations was calmly walking alongside a carriage.
That very carriage was seen leaving the palace. It wasn"t a luxurious one but was one of the biggest. It was pulled by a pair of wingless earth wyverns. Wyverns weren"t considered part of the pure-blooded dragons rather they only had a bit of dragon blood. Other than that, they were just normal albeit special demonic beasts. A wyvern can evolve into a dragon but that is extremely rare.
The wyverns that were dragging the purple carriage had a familiar build to the stegosaurus but covered in brownish black scales. The carriage had beautiful golden designs surrounding it and had 4 rather large wheels. Inside it was an excited Amadeus as this was the first time he was leaving the palace alone and the empire altogether. He was going to the Mountains of Ferrarius to meet with the Dwarf chief. It was a trip that spanned half the empire due to the capital being in the middle of the empire. The simple yet elegant carriage was only flanked by Sleipnir.
Although they could fly there, Amadeus didn"t want to as he wanted to experience how to properly travel. While they were walking, two squads of blades sitting on top of warhorses surrounded the carriages. There was a total of 100 blades surrounding Amadeus. All of their armours had a strap on their right arm indicating their rank. The leader three stars indicating his rank as the commander of these 99 blades. He walked on the other side of Sleipnir. While Sleipnir walked on the left side where the door was, the commander rode his horse next to the window on the right.
Looking out the window, Amadeus questioned,
"How long will it take to get there, Eras?"
Eras, the commander replied,
"It should take us a week to get there if we travel like this the whole way."
Amadeus nodded as he returned inside.
"Let me know when we leave the capital."
"Yes, your highness."
Amadeus reigned in his excitement as he took a seat and remembered his hurried leave. He had to leave before Arius woke up otherwise the young lad would cry a lot. Eriko who was sitting in front of him closed the curtains as Amadeus lied down. His group of maids started taking care of him as the carriage went past the walls.
The convoy instantly attracted attention especially the royal family"s crest on the carriage. As for who was in the carriage, seeing Sleipnir on the side of the carriage answered their questions. Sleipnir instantly attracted the attention of many onlookers while the females started tip toe and try to peek inside the carriage. The formation set up by the blades allowed no one to come even close. Plus, their aura was enough to deter anyone trying to approach. Looking up they saw two dragons circling, looking out for any troublemakers.
Amadeus once more looked out the window and saw that they had left the inner circle and entered the outer one. The inner circle was full of government buildings, n.o.ble"s residences, academies and schools. There were schools littered round the capital with free education teaching the necessities like reading and writing.
He had now entered where most of the commoners lived. Looking out he saw them bow to the carriage and carry on with their daily lives. He saw the carefree smile they had on their faces and the joyful ones on their children. He wouldn"t mind this lifestyle, rather he craved it, but he knew that it was impossible for him. As a dragon and the crown prince he had a duty to protect them.
Seeing their faces, a rather simple saying entered his head, ignorance is bliss.
The convoy came to an abrupt halt causing Amadeus to fall forwards, only to caught by Eriko. Straightening himself, Eriko shouted at the driver,
"What happened?!"
"A group of kids just ran in front of the convoy, ma"am."
Outside, the group of kids looked fearfully at the lead soldier who had an awkward look on his face though no one could see it due to his mask. He didn"t know how to proceed as he got off the horse, hesitating what to do. He seemed to try and calm the kid down while keeping his hands back, but they just started to cry. The rest of his comrades found this situation funny as they gloated at his misfortune.
"You kids, okay?"
Seeing the scary armoured man get closer, all the kids started bawling stopping the blade from getting near them. This had attracted quite the crowd as onlookers looked at the scene. Inside the carriage Amadeus heard the crying,
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"What are they doing?"
The driver"s voice was heard,
"The lead blade tried to check up on the kids, but they seem to find his scary, your highness"
Sighing lightly, he turned to Eriko with hopeful eyes, who in turn just gave a helpless smile,
"I"ll take care of it, your highness."
Seeing the carriage door open, everyone was tensed thinking that the Crown Prince was about to come out. Much to the female"s disappointment it was just a maid that attracted the gaze of the males.
Eriko had grown into a beautiful slender lady. She was now 20 years old and had grown perfectly. Her white cat ears and tail glistened in the light, with her maid outfit causing it to stand out. No skin was shown from below her neck causing her maid outfit to be rather tight. Her white hair was pulled back into a high ponytail showing off her tender nape.
Carrying herself with dignity, she came in front and crouched down to eye level with the kids. Seeing the beautiful onee-san they slowly stopped crying and sunny smiles were plastered on their faces soon. Eriko seemed to be able to calm them down and make them laugh.
A messenger was sent to locate their parents as it seemed they had come a far away from home. Amadeus started to get bored within the and made everyone know that he was leaving. The blades immediately straightened up and had their weapons ready as they started to vigilantly look round.
With a bit of change in the formation, even the one that had gotten off had come back and readied himself. Everyone noticed the commotion as Sleipnir whined a little and trotted to the carriage doors side. Everyone was about to kneel when they heard a beautiful voice resound in their ears,
"No need."
Amadeus exited the carriage and immediately sat on top off Sleipnir while the crowd halted and got back up. They immediately looked up, only to see a veiled Amadeus. Disappointment was written on the girl"s faces as they tried to bend down and get a glimpse to no avail.
Suddenly a black streak flew towards Amadeus from the back. Amadeus noticed this but didn"t dodge as that meant that he would put the kids in danger. And it was also because he didn"t need to dodge. With a shout, Eras was already in front of it and struck the projectile mid-flight to the side while screaming,
"a.s.sa.s.sination! Protect his highness!"
Immediately all the blades tightly surrounded Amadeus.
"ROOOOOOAAAAAR!"
"ROOOOOOAAAAAR!"
The two dragons saw what had happened and gave earth shaking roars. Hearing this, a few more roars were heard in the distance. Before he could do anything, Amadeus was pushed back into the carriage despite his protests and his carriage was heavily surrounded. Eriko was also thrown in a rather unsightly manner as the surrounding onlookers scrambled.
Before they could even move, various portals appeared with the imperial guards exiting.
Inside Amadeus didn"t know what was happening outside as the formations within the carriage had activated. Amadeus wasn"t allowed near any of the carriage"s openings and all he could hear was various shouting and people running about.
It wasn"t long until Amadeus was allowed out, and when he was no one was around. The kids were gone, and everything was back to normal, except for the now deserted trip. Eras looked at Amadeus,
"Your highness. Do you want to continue the trip?"
Amadeus nodded. He wouldn"t let this little setback disrupt his plan from getting his weapon and armour made from the best blacksmith currently alive with the best materials anyone could find. The a.s.sa.s.sin was found dead and he knew that his father would take care of the rest.
Amadeus did feel slightly useless in the previous a.s.sa.s.sination attempt but knew that he just needed time to get stronger. So, with renewed determination, he started to go through all the basics he received when he awakened.
By the time they left the capital, they had garnered everyone"s attention as well as the higher ups of the other nations. Upon knowing that the surroundings were safe, Amadeus was let out the carriage so he could train and ride Sleipnir. This resulted in him barely spending time in the carriage.
Amadeus would start riding on the horse and train his stability while on it, he would then spend training his powers whenever they stopped to rest. Whenever there was an abundance of trees, he would ride Sleipnir in between the trees to improve his horsemans.h.i.+p and spar with the blades on horseback.
At sun set he would train both his powers while at midnight, he would train his ice abilities. When the sun rose, he would once more train both his abilities and train his fire abilities at midday. This had slowly become more and more of a training journey and it wasn"t until the second day that they encountered something,