Chapter 44:

The Arena Of Clashing Champions: Beneaver

The Creature Hunter: Soul Of The Wind


At the time, the Queen was watching the event in her castle on the hill. 

She sat calmly on her balcony, in her luxury chair, and looked at the arena.

She was almost six feet tall, with light grey hair of a near-blue tone, and had purple eyes. She was wearing a dress that was decorated with stones and patterns on it and had purple, violet, and pink colors on it. She also wore a transparent piece that covered her mouth and she was holding a fan to wave at herself.

She was a ruthless woman that enjoyed people battling. And as usual, she was waiting for the fight the start.

She said to herself,

"Everything is set at its finest. Now I will wait and enjoy that little monster's show."

But it didn't started as she expected. Rather than that, something happened that she didn't expect.

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As the fight started, all the spectators around waited for the contestants to come out with excitement. There was a tense atmosphere that covered the air.

And when it got dead silent, Orano jumped into the Arena and walked towards one of the gates that opened.

At first, everyone looked at him with shock. 

Then they started shouting,

"Hey what are you doing there!"

"Get back here you don't deserve to be there!"

"Somebody stop him!"

Caitrin almost lost her mind and shouted,

"Hey! Where are you going? Are you crazy? Hey! Come back!

But Orano seemed like he didn't listen to her. So she jumped after him and ran towards Orano,

The crowd gossiped once more,

"Another person?"

"Why is everyone jumping at the Arena?"

"We can't just let them go like this."

The Queen that was watching the event at the same time, watched them shocked like everybody else,

She then said to herself,

"Who are those peasants and what are they planning?"

As they continued to approach the gate, Caitrin said to Orano with a nervous voice tone,

"You just jumped into the Arena, are you crazy? What happens if we get arrested? Hey! Are you listening to me? Why didn't you wait back there?"

But as she was talking to him, she realized that they reached the gate. 

Orano then entered through the gate and started searching around.

Caitrin followed her and tried to talk with him once more,

"Hey! Wait for me at least!"

They walked and looked around for a while. They were looking for something, but even Caitrin didn't even know what Orano was thinking. So she tried to keep silent and followed him quickly. 

But when they were searching, Somebody shouted behind their back,

"Hey! What do you think you are doing here?"

A very large and scary man appeared behind them and looked at them as he stood still. 

The man was six feet tall, had long black hair and black eyes. He only wore black pants and he was shirtless. He was also very muscular and carried a very big axe with him.

At first, Orano asked,

"Who are you?"

The man looked at them confused and said,

"Who am I? I am Evander Boras! The person that will fight Genju Natsuki tonight! Who did you think I was?"

Caitrin nervously held Orano's arm and said,

"No! No! We knew who you were! We were getting out of here anyway! Right? Tatsumi?"

"You two better get out before something bad happens to you." The man said as he looked at them with a scary look.

But Orano didn't move an inch. He just stood there and looked at him under the mask.

Then as Caitrin tried harder to convince Orano, the man tried to hit them with his axe.

But just in time, Orano pushed her back and saved her. But now her mask was sliced to two from the center. And as the mask pieces fell down, she looked at him with fear and stepped back.

Orano then slowly took out his sword and said,

"At first, maybe we could come to an agreement and we could prevent these from happening."

Then he looked at him and said,

"But you really pissed me off right now."

And after staring at each other for a couple of seconds, Orano started to fight with him. 

Then after a short time, he beat him and the guy finally fell to the ground.

He then looked at Caitrin and said,

"Let's go, we have to search here quickly!"

As Caitrin followed him, she said loudly and nervously,

"Hey! At least tell me what is going on!"

"Bachi and Miko are in trouble." Orano replied as he looked around.

"What? Really?"

"The Emperal soldiers finally found us here, and they're coming for us. They told me that we had to find the Rift by the time they got here and said that they couldn't hold them back any longer. And in addition to that, Lydia found an escape route for us and trying to fight with the soldiers too. So if we don't hurry, there might be a big problem for us."

He then looked at her and added,

"We have to leave as soon as we find the Rift. So look out for any evidence you find."

After they had just come out of a chase, entering a new one made Caitrin very nervous about it again. But she nodded anyway as she wanted not to be chased like the previous time, and they started to look around.

The place they searched was more like a cell than a cage. It was neither small nor had a huge area. But it was shaped like a maze, and it was getting harder and harder for them to find their way.

But as they looked around for a few minutes, Caitrin finally saw the Rift.

She shouted,

"Right here!"

And as Orano caught up to her, he stood there and examined the Rift floating in the air.

The place they saw was the Black Forest of the third Kingdom. Just like Yuma saw. But it made the situation more complicated. After all, almost all of them had begun to see the same places, and this had confused Caitrin quite a lot.

She then said,

"Now that we've seen this place, we need to contact Yuma, right?"

"We have to. But can't since we don't have time. We will travel to Idrisud and we will meet him there directly."

Then he added,

"Come on, we have to leave here as quick as possible."

She nodded, then they started to walk again and made their way out of the cell.

And when the crowd saw them once more, as they were getting out of there, they shouted again,

"Hey! We said get out of here!"

"You guys are going to get arrested! You know that right!"

"Don't ruin our show and get out of there!"

But they didn't listen to them, they just quietly made their way to the exit. 

But as they were walking there quickly, a loud voice said,

"Where do you think you're going after you just knocked out my opponent, huh?"

As the man talked everyone stopped shouting and listened to him. At first, nobody understood where the sound was coming from, but just then, they saw the huge cell in front of them and the huge mists coming out of its door. 

They could hear him, but they couldn't see him. The person was moving so mysteriously at the shadows and it was coming closer by the second. 

And finally, a few seconds later, he finally came out of the fog and stood there, directly staring at them.