Rise of the Legendary Emperor

Chapter 164: As long as you stay out of my way

Holding the spear in his hands, he started to bend the spear. It was a simple feat for him to bend the spear using his strength plus metal bending skill.

The people stood there dumbstruck as the spear started to bend and take a 'U' shape. And when it reached a certain point, he snapped the spear in two halves.

"Do you yield?"

Don calmly asked Rodrigo while holding the two halves of the spear in each hand.

"You wish"

Rodrigo seemed like he's not giving up until he couldn't stand as Don nodded and tossed the spear halves into the air.

While the two halves were on the air, he dashed forward at Rodrigo and started to treat his body like a punching bag. Most of them could only see Rodrigo twitch and hear bone-cracking sounds.

Unlike most of them, Rosaline could see he landed at least fifty or so punches on Rodrigo's body in a short amount of time. And when the two halves finally landed on the ground, he stopped punching Rodrigo.

"Rodrigo"

King Enrico shouted when he saw Rodrigo fall to the ground.

"He'll live"

Don looked at Enrico and said as the guards of Enrico already came running to the battleground to check whether he's alive or not. King Enrico only sighed in relief when the guards told him that he's alive.

" You can defeat him right?"

Aster looked at Rosaline and asked but Rosaline had no answer as she wasn't sure that she could defeat him if they fought. Since she trained as a long-ranged mage and he was extremely fast who could reach her before she even cast a spell, the odds of her winning didn't seem to be on her side.

After the guards of Enrico took Rodrigo away, Don calmly looked at the nobles and kings sitting on their thrones as there was no sound from the crowd and the people waited for him to speak.

"Until now, I've heard you talk and I listened, now I'll talk you listen"

He paused for a moment and continued

"When I first received the invitation to the gathering, I thought its a token of respect from everyone" he looked at Queen Cassia and King Virgo

"I was wrong, nothing came out of this gathering but trouble for me and I also learned that some of you hold a grudge against me" King Mattia felt like it was meant for him

"But if you decide to make a move against me or my people, don't expect me to play politics with you because I don't do politics, what I do is, I'll send my entire army to your doorsteps and I'll personally come to kill you and everyone who stands in my way"

King Mattia had a cold sweat on his back as no one spoke a word 

"As long as you stay out of my way, I won't do anything"

He said and then looked at Lord Clemo and Arrora

"Let's go"

He didn't want to stay until the gathering end and get into more unnecessary trouble.

"That's my king bitches"

Lord Clemo's look conveyed his inner thought clearly as he and Arrora started to follow him to the outside.

The other kings and nobles were dumbstruck seeing him walking out without even taking a glance at King Virgo or Queen Cassia. It was rude of him to leave like this but no one dared to speak a word against him, even Queen Cassia.

Fortunately, King Virgo didn't open his mouth but his eyes had already turned red in anger.

"He has some balls"

Yvonne grinned after seeing them leave the arena.

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"What just happened?"

Arwen came with the men when he saw the three of them.

"We can talk about it on the way"

As he said, he went to his carriage and entered it to leave Enarin.

"I assume you fought with someone"

Looking at the tears on her dress, Arwen asked and she nodded her head

"Come, let's go"

General Brown had no idea what happened inside besides the sounds of explosions he heard a moment ago. He got no chance of asking them as Arwen nodded at him and started to march towards the white orchard road to leave Enarin.

Joel was still in Enarin to find what the kings are talking about after Don's departure.TImothy and the red-haired princess never bothered King Edward because he seemed like an ally to Don since they both came to the gathering together and everyone saw and heard both of them having a friendly chat during the gathering.

Yvonne, on the other hand, became richer due to the betting and told everyone that she and Adria are like best buds. Rodrigo had woken up after Don left Enarin and seemed fine except for a few broken ribs, punctured lungs, severed tissues but King Enrico was glad that he's still alive considering he just fought a peak level grandmaster who could have simply killed him on the spot.

After waking up, Rodrigo learned everything that happened after he lost consciousness from King Enrico.

"He seems a very interesting guy, father, I'm starting to like that one"

"What do you mean interesting?"

King Enrico frowned 

"Who has the guts to talk like that in front of all the kings and nobles?"

"He could have made some powerful friends, Rodrigo. Now no one's going to deal with him"

"You're missing one important fact, father"

"What's that?"

"He's powerful, even the girl beside him is freaking grandmaster who beat one of the prodigies to near-death, powerful persons don't need allies, I don't know much about politics but make sure Mairis stays in his good side "

King Enrico was surprised that for the first time, Rodrigo was thinking like a rational person rather than like a madman.

"What are you going to do?"

"I made a bet and lost, now it's time for me to settle the score"

He needed to give the warehouse to him but before that, he had to transport all the beast caged in there to the pit. He didn't have any idea what Don was going to do with the building but since he lost the building, it was not his concern.

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"Your majesty, you're back"

The old woman of Agoria came to greet Don at the entrance of his castle.

They did not travel back all the way to Agoria but used the teleporter to reach Agoria.

"Yes, how's everything here?"

Don seated himself on the throne and asked the old woman.

"Nothing worth mentioning, your majesty"

"Did you tell the villagers about the oath-taking ceremony?"

Don notified the old woman about the upcoming oath-taking ceremony where they had to swear an oath to him, it was a procedure to find out who is loyal to him and who is skeptical about his rule.

"Yes your majesty, I talked with all the village chiefs, most of them will swear allegiance to you"

"At the ceremony I want all the village chiefs to bend their knees, or I will find someone who will and make them the chief"

The old woman expected this and she was still negotiating with other village chiefs to swear loyalty to him considering he had already started to rebuild the houses and roads as a first step to develop the kingdom.

After dismissing the old woman, Stodemar and his people came to the throne hall.

"me king, be everything alright? I thought ye'll be gone for some time"

"Me too, how's the construction work going?"

"We repaired some pipelines of the drainage system, me king, but we need Gabriella's metal and stuff to completely fix it. currently, we are doing some groundwork to start building roads and Ken is busy with designing the blueprints to build the dam"

Everything needed Gabriella's supply and according to what she said, the supplies would reach Agoria in a few days.

"Me king, I have a request to make?"

"Go on"

"I need more men, me king, if ye give me tha permission I'll bring some people from Everlight an' put them ta work, tha drainage system in this place be a mess, we can nae build anything wi'out fixing it first"

Stodemar was right to ask for more men as at the moment, he had more work than anybody in the kingdom.

"Take as many men as you want and order whatever you want from Gabriella, I'll give you a separate fund soon"

Stodemar let out a wide grin and bowed

"Thank ye, me king, when I'm done, ye won't recognize this place"

"Good, what about the refugees I sent?"

"Ken put all tha abled body men ta work, me king, they seem very grateful towards ye an' doing their best"

Don was glad to hear Stodemar that they are working and earning their keep or he would have to chase them away.

"Where are they staying?"

"For now, we put tha people in the capital an' villages"

"Pay the villagers a few coins for their help"

"Ken already did that, me king"

"Alright, you'll be very busy soon Stodemar, we have lots of things to do"

Stodemar looked very excited hearing Don as he knew that they are going to open new businesses like restaurant and tea houses

"I'm up for tha challenge, me king"