Chapter 8

"Hehehe! Impressive, truly impressive."

A feminine silhouette appeared behind Kazuki

"You don't look surprised hearing my voice! When did you discover me?"

The feminine silhouette said.

"I heard you following us when we departed from the palace gates. Regarding your identity, I wondered, why you left the last egg for me. You are clearly someone who doesn't care about money, yet you didn't bid for the last egg. I realized that you only wanted me to buy the last egg, so you can lure me outside the Glory City."

Kazuki explained with an indifferent face.

"Hahaha! So, the first prince has some abilities after all."

The young lady from the auction said.

Under the bright light of the moon. Kazuki turned around and saw the young lady's appearance. She had covered her entire body in black clothes. only her gray colored-eyes could be seen from the covering black clothes. In her hands, She held two crystal daggers. Kazuki knows that only the assassins would wear this kind of clothes.

"Who sent you?"

Kazuki asked.

"Hehe! Your Grandfather had angered a lot of people. Is this answer enough for you?"

The young lady said in a playful tone.

"It is enough."

Kazuki said with an emotionless face.

"Okay, time to finish this business."

The young lady said with a cruel smile.

"Swoosh"

The young lady moved towards Kazuki with a speed much faster than Mira's speed. Her two foots covered in the wind element. The two daggers in her hands were also covered in the wind element.

Seeing this, Kazuki released arrows towards her at an incredible speed.

With amazing speed, the young lady didn't slow at all. She kept slashing the coming arrows with quick strikes from her two daggers.

The wind warriors are the fastest elemental warriors beside the lightning warriors. not only the wind element could help fasts the strikes, but it also gives the wind warriors a light body. It makes them faster than the other elemental warriors.

Kazuki couldn't do anything but to retreat fast, yet the young lady has already arrived before him.

"Flash Winds."

The young lady slashed her two windy daggers at the same time towards Kazuki. The two daggers were too sharp that it cut the air in front of Kazuki. The terrifying wind force of the two daggers made it reach Kazuki's chest in an instant. The young lady smirked. This was her strongest attack.

Suddenly. "Whoosh."

The young lady looked stunned as Kazuki vanished from his spot.

"Shattering Arrow: first style."

A loud sound came from above.

The young lady raised her head.

"Rain Of Arrows."

Kazuki shouted from above.

The young lady looked above with a stunned expression, a torrent of powerful arrows came at her with amazing speed.

"Ten arrows are coming at me."

The young lady cleared her mind and looked towards the coming arrows.

"Shoo, Shoo"

the ten arrows came at her at the same time. All the ten arrows aimed at different parts of her body. If only one of those arrows hit her, she would get injured.

The young lady began to block every arrow of the ten arrows. Every slash from her dagger was so fast, yet the arrows were fast too. The young lady was barely able to stop the fast ten arrows.

"Whoosh, Whoosh."

with fast slashes, she cut down nine arrows out of the ten arrows. only one arrow was remaining. the young lady began to relax. The last arrow was coming at her chest, but she didn't worry. she knows that she could block it. "Shwa."She cut down the last arrow.

Suddenly. The young lady widened her eyes in disbelief. Because, when she cut the tenth arrow, an extra arrow was behind it.

"How is this possible!!! not only he made the ten arrows come at me at the same time. he even shot the eleventh arrow behind the tenth arrow. He shot it with the same angle and the same speed as the tenth arrow making it difficult for me to see it."

The young lady analyzed quickly inside her mind.

"Bang"

The eleventh arrow hit the young lady's chest.

"Boom"

The force behind the arrow was powerful enough to send the young lady crushing to the ground. A wave of dust flew into the air.

"Hehehe! I underestimated you."

The young lady said weakly in her last breaths before dying.

Kazuki walked towards her and took the two crystal daggers. These two weapons were his spoils of the battle. He then dug a grave to put her in. after finishing, Kazuki walked back to the cave.

Kazuki was in deep thoughts. he searched her body earlier for any information, but he didn't find anything. Kazuki then began to analyze the battle.

Kazuki had shown earlier his unbelievable control over his arrows releasing. To make the ten arrows arrive at the same time, Kazuki needed to have great control over his hand strength. Kazuki controlled earlier the force behind each arrow. Every arrow he released was stronger than the arrow before. Which made the ten arrows arrive at the same time.

Kazuki also used two other techniques. The first one was the second style of the movement skill, fury of a mantis. The style name was Sudden Jump. it was one of the fastest moves of the fury of a mantis skill. With this skill, he had jumped ten meters above to shot Arrows. The Sudden Jump required from its user to develop special muscles on the two feet. luckily, Kazuki had developed those special muscles. it gives him the ability to evade in an instant.

The third technique he had used was the first style of his archery skill, the Shattering Arrow. Kazuki created this skill after years and years of practicing archery. This skill depended on pure strength as its main force.

Kazuki returned to the cave. The cave was now cleaner with some torch fires being on the walls to lighten the cave. The carriage was parked at the entrance, while two placed tents were at the center.

"Your highness, everything is ready for us to start living here."

Attendant Lee said with a smile.

"good. Let's wait for the egg to hatch."

Kazuki went to the deepest part of the cave where they placed the egg.

..

Kazuki and attendant Lee were standing in front of the egg. The egg has completely absorbed all the nutrient water. It was now ready for any time to hatch.

Kazuki looked at the egg with a mix of anticipation and worry. He couldn't exactly remember how many times he waited for an egg to hatch in the past, and only to be ended with disappointment.

"If the egg didn't hatch in one hour, then, the egg is surely an empty one."

Attendant Lee thought inwardly.

"Tick, Tick." seconds and minutes had passed, yet, there were no hatching signs from the black egg so far. Kazuki and attendant Lee began to feel some disappointments

Suddenly.

"Crack, Crack."

The hatching sound of the egg began to fill the entire cave.

A black creature began to come out from the egg. The black creature had two large rounded eyes with other six small eyes beside it. It got out from the egg with its long eight legs. It looked both horrifying and monstrous.

Kazuki and attendant Lee looked at the black creature with astonished faces. According to their knowledge. the kinds of elemental beasts that could be born inside a huge egg are two kinds.

The first kind was the flying elemental beasts races like eagles or falcons or even crows. the second kind was land elemental beasts like snakes and crocodiles. yet, shockingly enough, this was their first time seeing a huge insect like that.

A huge sized black spider akin to a small horse came out from the black egg. Its first reaction was to look at the two figures in front of it with a wary and a cautious look.

"Attendant Lee, bring the food. It looks hungry."

Kazuki said, feeling an immense amount of happiness. After numerous times of failures and disappointments, finally. An elemental beast has successfully emerged from an egg.

"Here is the food, your highness."

Attendant Lee said, holding a huge dish that was filled with different types of food.

Kazuki went closer to the black spider carefully and put the huge dish in front of its mouth. The black spider inspected the food warily. After smelling the food, the black spider's eyes lit up. It started to devour all the food inside the huge dish.

Kazuki looked warmly at the black spider.

"It has dark black eyes which means that it's an iron elemental beast."

Kazuki thought to himself.

"Attendant Lee, bring more food."

Kazuki ordered. He noticed the big appetite of the black spider who is quickly devouring all the food inside the huge dish.

After eating five more dishes, the black spider finally had stopped. it looked at Kazuki innocently with a satisfied look.

"Kar, Kar."

The black spider voiced some strange sounds before closing its eyes and going to sleep.

"Congratulations, your highness."

Attendant Lee said with a face full of smiles.

"Thank you, uncle Lee."

Kazuki replied smilingly.

To be continued.