Recovery and the Kings Decree (2)

Once they reached the doors of the royal palace the guards looked at them for a few breathes before opening the door to the royal court.

The inside of the Royal court had three pillars on each side of the court, these pillars engraved with dragons on the left side pillars and phoenix on the right sides pillars, accordingly on the right side were the women and on the left were the men, though there were significantly more men than women.

Once inside the doors opened and they entered the entire court went silent.

This was, until one of the nobles on the left spoke "You dare ride that beast into the court?!?!" The man yelled out garnering the supporting voices of several other men around him.

Looking coldly towards them Chaos spoke, thick killing intent oozing out in small strands from his body, "You must be those lower nobles I was told would try to start trouble with us, is that right?"

"Start trouble? You sure know how to speak big!" But the man didn't seem to understand the underlying threat in Chaos' voice, neither did the men behind him as their voices only got louder, the rest of the court just watching the scene in amusment.

"I'll take that as acknowledgment, seeing as you are such a piece of trash to be okay with the abduction of a city guard and attempted defilement, disregarding not only the armies authority but the kings authority, I will dispatch all of you right now!" Finished speaking Chaos raised one of his legs to move towards them and incinerate them.

But before he could move a mountain like pressure descended upon him restricting his movement. "So you are the beast that I've been hearing about, is that right?" The voice this time came from the center of the hall, on the throne.

"Yes, your majesty, I am called Chaos, and this is Pan, the lady whom those clans people tried to defile." Chaos responded, retracting his killing intent and aura as a show of respect towards the king.

"So then, do you admit to destroying those clans, not leaving anything behind?" The king asked calmly staring directly into his eyes.

"Yes I admit to destroying them." Chaos said staring right back into the kings eyes not moving his gaze.

"Then you shall be sentenced to death for the killing of the kingdoms clans" The king said taking a pause. "Is what I would say under other circumstances, but as you have stated, these clans betrayed the kingdom by kidnapping and attempting to defile a soldier of the kingdom, however killing off their entire clans is too much of a punishment, so instead of death, you're punishment will be to join the princess' retinue, as for those nobles who spoke out earlier, have their heads torn and bodies fed to the beasts." As such the king finished his decree and left the court in silence.

"I am the princess in question, now follow me." The princess, the one who Yori had referred to as 'your highness' spoke beckoning them to follow her, her abyss like eyes staring for a moment before turning around.

As such Chaos followed her through a side door in the court, heading through a corridor and down same stairs for what felt like hours until eventually they came out to the light, now they were outside in the forest miles away from the city.

All around them were soldiers, a massive army of several thousand, amounting to at least five thousand soldiers, each giving off the aura of Intermediate to Advanced Rank 0 stages with a few at the Intermediate and low Rank 1 stage.

Following the princess farther into the camp, eventually arriving at a tent in the center of the camp, following her inside a strong aura billowed out surrounding both of them, pressuring them for a moment before they too let their aura's out putting the two forces into a stalemate.

"So you two are the new recruits the commander talked about." A man said from inside the tent.

"You two better work hard, her majesty saved you from at least fifty years of jail time." Another voice spoke out in a harsh tone.

Looking inside there's only the man that spoke first with duel swords at his waist and a hooded person figure with a staff and icy blue eyes.

"Now for introductions" The princess said cutting off any further chance for chatting "I am Elara El Raila, you can all call me Elara, as for those two, the sword wielder is Borgen and the witch is Ferae,

Both of these two are my right hands." She said seriously.

"And as for the reason I saved the two of you, I was watching when you went on a rampage, killing all of the clans that had slighted you and I admire that and need that kind of beast in my retinue to become one of my independent armies, right now I don't have any troops to give you so you must solve that on your own, any way you want so long as it doesn't hurt the kingdom, right now we are at war with the surrounding barbaric tribes that transported along with us here to this world, they are powerful every tribe has their weakest link at the Rank 0 realm and their strongest at the advanced Rank 1 realm for each of the tribes, your mission is to subjugate the smaller tribes while the main forces advance on the stronger tribes." She said evenly all in one breath.

"May we recruit the tribes we defeat?" Pan asked.

"Do as you wish, as for their locations, this map shows them with the capital as the center location." She said then reaching into her clothes.

"And here are your updated dog tags, the same as before just bleed a little bit on it." And they did as she said, again a white light appeared on the dog tags, all of the information being the same just that now the insignia on the back side not only had the mounted troops but also the princess' insignia, it being a green coiling dragon.

It was also when those dog tags finished inscribing all of their information that the previous ones shattered to dust being blown away into the winds.

"With this the meeting is adjourned, as for you two, the both of you will leave in the military district installations #22 lodging building." Elara said leaving the tent and disappearing into the crowd.

"Do either of you know why the king gave the punishment to force us into joining the princess' retinue?" At this point Chaos finally gathered the courage to ask Borgen after the princess had left.

"So you don't know?" He said laughingly " No wonder you could be so calm despite receiving those orders, this princess' unit has the highest casualty rate of all the kingdoms units, like a suicide army of sorts, we are almost completely made up of criminals ranging from murderers all the way down the ladder to the pettiest thief." He said laughing, as he left the tent, behind him from under the hood a slight smirk could also be seen on Ferae's lips.

"Then let's go and scout out these tribes shall we?" Chaos energetically said, flexing his muscles breaking off the bandages from his body now that he had healed completely.

"Let's go then!" Pan said her icy expression cracking into a warm one after hearing Chaos' energetic voice.