Age of Heroes (Age of Heroes Chronicles)

Chapter 230: Signed and sealed (1)

He has finally arrived. Arial thought to himself.

Behind the Dark Prince is his entourage an army of five hundred troops. All of them is wearing their armor, but they did not wear their helmets.

They did not expect any fight and Azrael probably wanted to convey that to the humans that he had come for peace.

The chatter in the tent stopped and the Zettelian King with his bouncy belly strut outside his tent to join the other nobles seeing this assembly.

The troops are tense gripping their weapons in fear especially seeing that towering Giants holding a large torch that if it was thrown to the Hill it will incite a big forest fire.

It was like the Giants is holding a miniature sun on their hands.

Arial looked around at Azrael side.

'It is a good line up' he thought to himself.

The other companies with the entourage of the Dark Prince are no less frightening. Orcs, Kobold, Fairies, Merman, all of these races are the stuff of the legends, rarely seen.

Arial have seen them before of course, in the war but mostly their troops not their Kings.

The other Kings in the waiting tent have also left their food and put down their wine glass and walked outside.

No doubt they too wanted to join this historic moment, to brag on the fireplace someday to their grandchildren and descendant of how they were there the moment the Demonkind and Humans sign a peace treaty and bring peace to the continent

Arial did not care if the king wanted such hollow prestige and it would also enhance his own family prestige.

Arial then recognized a familiar face in the crowds of the Demonkind

Silas is in front of the demon troops an honor that no doubt bestowed by King Azrael. Beside Silas is the Commander of the Watchers, Commander Brooke.

Behind them are the Eight King and there is one who have a tan complexion, differentiated with the other, standing out even among the crowds, handsome and possesses a noble regal feature, with red cloths that emphasize a posture of boldness and grace befitting of a King.

His hair is black and on his head is the crown, a perfect balance between subdued and powerful, an impeccably detailed look and it is plain obvious to Arial that crown is crafted from dwarven crafters with jeweler's metal and finished with a gold metal shine.

Twin bands builds the frame of the crown while lending it subtle Elven styling, while the diamond accents studded with black and red and capped with pearls which lend the appearance of the King the right measure of decadence.

It is not too overdone, yet also not to subtle, the right combination of jewels and metals make it a stellar crown for any King, of any Kingdom to wear, while his jet black hair, long black hair gracefully flowed along the crown on his head.

His trouser is high quality leather with dragon design, which drew some attention of Arial subjects.

Arial know that dragon is a symbol of royalty in Anvali.

Of course the similarities with his own family crest are unmistakable. Arial did not know that when he chose the symbol, though he knew he should remember.

Thinking about it again, it might be because of dragon banners he saw in his past life. Though he only saw such banner rarely because the elite guards of the Demon King are the only one allowed to raise that banner.

Arial knows that now.

He thought at that time the banner of dragon looks very terrifying. And thinking about it again, it was not like he was the one that choose the banner of the dragon.

It was his father that choose the crest because he went into Fierce Dragon in Knight Academy

He shakes his head to shake off his mind wandering as he focused on the people behind King Azrael.

Behind him were the Kings. The Kings of the Eight Races of Anvali.

The Orcs are creature of great strength and stamina, they can wield heavy mace and some even say that they can punch a tree even without the help of internal energy and the tree would be plucked out from their roots because of the force of their energy.

The faeries are a mysterious creature that even during the Invasion War hardly participated, liking their fabled forest

They are the least understood and the most mysterious race of the Dark Lands even among the race that inhabits the dark lands.

The Faeries have this unearthly beauty air around them and their height is mostly around five feet not that different from humans but that is usually their tallest height, and they have a fair skin and has variety of colors.

All of the faeries that accompany the King each and every one of them have regal faces and exquisite colored features.

There is not many that Arial know about faerie but they are known to be as cunning as Dark Elves.

It is only fit in that their physical capabilities are not that high but they compensate that with their mastery of ancient magic's and ancient words.

They also have a lot of mana, controlling the elements of the world. Arial then look toward the merman

The merman representatives are seen looking around at the world on the surface.

A merman has human-like faces but the difference between humans and merman is that merman have gills in their throats and some of them have fin in their backs, a sight that baffle the human nobles there that is seeing them for the first time but they held any word fearing that would offend these representatives and ruin the treaty signing

However, the main concern of the nobles and King is this one giant who towered above them all and holding a large torch and all of them is fearing that giant would drop it accidentally.

That is enough to create chaos and disorder. Arial is not that worried as he looked toward the one walking slowly in the back

The other kings.

There is the dwarves King, and the Elven Council and the Kobold who have been replacing the dragons as one of the important King of Anvali.

Lord Brooke went and approached him, dismount his horse and quickly kneel.

'Rise' Arial ordered and he rise

'I have fulfilled my task, my lord' he reported and Arial nodded

Silas whispers something into the ear of the Dark Prince and then Silas come out and brings his horse in front of Arial and dismounts it and kneels and began presenting the Eight Kings.

'I present to you, my lord, the King of the Orc, Koer Vor, son of Gruk Vor of the Vor clan.'

And the Orc King dismount his horse

He rides a large horse which is so different from the horse in the human continent

His horse is stockier, big like a bear but have the feature of a horse. Arial knows that he needs to know about this kind of creature later

The Orc King nodded to him and Arial gesture his servants to show the King his seat. The Orc King understands the gesture and takes his seat. After that Silas speak again.

'Here is the Faeries King, King Oberon Lightspear. The Elder Council of the Elves Alynn Shir, Merman representatives Dorr Vine and Slathor son of Balthor, son of the King of Giants of the Arathor tribe'

And the giants grunt and a gust of winds comes out from his nostrils.

Thankfully the masons have crafted a huge chair for the giant, a stone chair almost as big as a hut and the Giant took his seat.

'And I present you King of Arakath, Ruler of Anvali, Protector of all the Realms of the Dark Lands, King Azrael Mournstar.'

And with that Arial bow slightly.

'Your Grace' Arial held out his hand and Azrael smile and took his hand and shake it and then there is applause from the King, and nobles and even the reluctant churchmen who are seeing the spectacles.

Slowly the sound grows louder and then gradually it turned into a thunderous applause. And Azrael too the time and glances at Arianna and his face light up, the same way his face lights up when he sees Helia.

Arial smiles a bit.

Azrael must have exercised great patience on his part not to run to her and hug her because he takes his seat at the center of the table, knowing that there is still matter to be settled.

One last deed before he can embrace his beloved. And Arial admire Azrael dedication that he has for his duty as a King.

This is a good king that could be an enlightened ruler that prosper the kingdom and generous to the people.

Arial took his seat on the west side looking at this King of the Dark Lands who in his other timeline, undoubtedly would have cause the misery of humanity but now, he is sitting here for a peace proposition to bring Arial quest to an end.