Chapter 12: Igraine Pendragon Darkbringer

[3rd Person POV]

In the blanket of the night that embraces half of the world, a lady in black was admiring the moonless and starless sky. The sky that is supposed to be ominous for being depraved of any and every kind of light except for the lights that came from the houses of the people who can't appreciate how beautiful moonless nights are other than the lady in the top of the walls of the Tyrfing Empire Vassal Nation, Camelot.

The lady looked at the night sky with her golden eyes that have an iris in a vertical slit, the whites of her eyes have a color similar to the night, Pitch and Dense black and if anyone is to stare into her two pairs of golden eyes, they will see nothing, a void, the place in which nothing existed, in which any and everything in existence will one day return.

Her black colored hair that reaches up to her back flutters about and dances with the wind as well as her dark colored battle gown.

In Her left hand, she holds her rapier with absolute confidence in his face, similar to the confidence being held by her beloved father, The King of the Devils, Loki Darkbringer.

Igraine Pendragon Darkbringer, or Igraine in short is one of the oldest children of Loki, she is actually the second oldest as Guinevere is also Loki's second wife. Two hundred years ago when the war erupted she is not with her father when he fought and got sealed.

She have this tinkering anger towards herself because she didn't even tried to save her father from being forced to sleep for two hundred years, but her mother kept her up and encouraged her to be strong until her father returns.

And so she does, Igraine was first a very shy person that doesn't want to speak with anyone but she forcibly changed herself to become more confident for her to one day show off her strenght and power the moment her father woke up.

She patiently waited for the day in which her father will return. And alas, the gods, if they are even real finally let it happen, her father, woke up from her slumber that lasted for two centuries.

They immediately knew it, her mother Guinevere and Igraine herself as they saw the blood red aurora in the direction of the Devil/Vampire country, Valentine, an aurora that sang the song of death of many people throughout the history of the world, the aurora of the Malevolent Ruler of the Devils that incarnated his bloodlust.

Guinevere's husband, and Igraine's father.

They want Loki to visit them or Vice Versa, but because of the War of the Rulers a giant crater between the relationship of the Rulers, maybe except the Fairy Princess and the Royal Sibling of Valentine. But all of them, even the non-existent hero of humanity have a very bad relationship right now, and because Selaphiel took the post of the hero as the protector of humans meaning that The Devil King, the representative of Devils will carry the very name of his race when coming to Camelot and the Archangel can see that as an attack of the whole Devil Race and Loki will be making a huge mess out of his own race if he recklessly visited Camelot.

Well, this rules just applies to Loki at the start, as he said, Fun times is about to begin.

And the "Fun" will commence the moment one of his two surviving wives came back into his side.

However, there is a loophole of that certain gentlemen's rule between the rulers and that is, They are only applied in the ruler themselves. Meaning subordinates, lackeys or other people related to the Ruler and not a Ruler him or herself can pretty much transverse anywhere they want.

Meaning, that if Ophiuchus desired to buy ice cream in Camelot, no matter how infamous and notorious she is as one of Loki's subordinates, she can do so freely without any kind of restriction. (It depends on the country of course) And of course that also applies to Igraine, meaning that if she want to go to Valentine, then she can go freely, but her mother can't, because Guinevere is a long pending candidate as a hero and because Guinevere wants to watch for her brother's Kingdom though it just became a puppet country, Guinevere can't fully go there at ease unless someone trustworthy pick her position for her.

Well, that was the formal reason, but the informal ones is because she is watching over Hiroshi's body and can't leave the place unless Loki come here and use his help in guarding the place even without Guinevere being locked up here forever.

Guinevere may be someone who have one of the most powerful and most cataclysmic Bloodline Magic in existence, it was even said that her magic is for mass destruction and not for one on one combats, her magic however lack versatility so she cannot use it to tinker around the undying ice of her brother's daughter, Merlin to even make someone who ever dared to touch the ice have immense diarrhea.

Igraine's mother, Guinevere's bloodline magic is named [Chaos] earning Guinevere the title "Chaos Bringer" makes things and their natural order be manipulated at will and the only limit is Guinevere's imagination and Mana Capacity.

But, she cannot add additional laws into it. For example, if the ice is undying then she can easily make it melt by making it emit flames instead of coldness, but she cannot make the ice have other properties, like making the ice have an ego, give it a curse or other things, in short, she cannot make the ice have a curse and thus Guinevere is incapable guarding it without her being present.

She also cannot melt the ice because Hiroshi will run rampant when that happens.

Furthermore, Guinevere already misses Loki's strokes and embrace that she didn't felt for two hundred years and she instinctively knew that no other man can give her such happiness and pleasure other than her beloved husband.

And of course, because Igraine is very close to her mother, she knew all of this and thus already formulated a perfect formula to first, drag Loki inside Camelot so that he can help her mother get the hell away from it, and second to immediately find a suitable substitute for her mother as a country magistrate.

And now, she is here in the front fortress of Camelot and stares at the direction of the Valentine forest of death with her eyes that can look at things several thousands of kilometers away from her current position as she fantasize on how her father will react into her changes that Igraine brought to herself just for him.

Igraine also have someone beside her in which she is not really familiar with and she just befriended a few days ago as to give Loki a "Welcome Back" gift, and even though Igraine didn't paid any kind of attention to her, Igraine is sure that Loki will give a real good attention to every nook and cranny of the woman's body, she is so sure about that because Igraine herself finds the woman really sensual so she appease her conscience of using a person as a gift with that.

Even the daughter is shrewd, to be expected from the Devil King...

Going back, even though she have a rather shy personality that seem to come from her being left out and neglected of her family of nobles, that shyness of hers just added to her charm that it will be not surprising to see even the two Royal womanizers of Valentine fighting for her attention and fighting to make this woman in her right side be their wife.

The plan Igraine had, or formulated was very simple minded. Using the loop in the rules of the Seven Rulers, she, someone who can reach the threshold of power as the Seven Rulers, she who is always in monitor by the Seven, or Six Excluding Loki, will travel by foot from Camelot to Valentine.

And with this, she then will announce an assassination attempt towards her father Loki, and as much as it pains her, she made this point that Loki have a soft spot when it comes to his family so she will "use" of her standing as his child to hinder him of his usual cunning, cold and calculative personality.

Of course Igraine knows that she can't still win against her father no matter how hard she tried as of now so she decided to call out this maiden in her side to make her give the finishing blow when the fights reaches its climax and Loki losses all of his attention to his surroundings and will stab Loki when that time comes.

The lady have questions such as, if it is an assassination attempt, then why is it have to be a drawn out fight?

But Igraine is not a half wit and immediately came up with an answer that she simply said, "If I want to kill Loki very silently it's either I have to hire Hebi Tsukaiza, HIS LOYAL SUBORDINATE, or poison him with Arachne's poison, IN WHICH IS CURRENTLY NOWHERE TO BE SEEN. So being noisy while killing him is necessary if I don't want myself dead because of procrastination."

Igraine immediately pointed out and emphasized this things that actually makes logical sense as because they are essentially true and stated just to divert a person's mind into the main issue on why is assassination noisy, but at the same time making that lady in front of her realize that, that is indeed the case and so, problem solved.

The two of them looked at the field with hills and no road, for Valentine is one of the very few Kingdoms who doesn't have or only have few connections in Tyrfing and the only Kingdom on the planet who stood tall and above the said Empire even though they still have the "Kingdom" in their name, that's why Camelot and Valentine doesn't have any connection roads for trades and tourist to come and go from one nation to another, that is also the reason why did Igraine choose to just go and travel by foot.

Igraine doesn't have insane mana control like his father so she can't sprout wings using pure mana, luckily her speed will not lose at all with either her father or mother so she doesn't have to walk it all the way to the Forest of Death in which the front gate of Camelot and Valentine is staring at each other.

Well, you can say that Valentine was really bold by making one of their most dangerous military facility in front of Camelot's face.

Igraine also notified Ophiuchus of her so called "assassination attempt" and even though Igraine is still confused on how the hell Ophiuchus can just appear when she thought out loud "I wonder how can I contact Hebi-san..."

Ophiuchus suddenly appeared in front of her with a purple blur of light and said, "You called, Igraine-chan?"

But then, she just decided to shrug it off as a mystery of someone mysterious so she moved on immediately and make Ophiuchus to immediately send the message of hers to her father, and about right now, she is sure that the message is already through.

"Hey, let me carry you."

Igraine suddenly princess carried the lady who goes by the name, Juliet, Juliet's breast jiggles around in front of Igraine's face as small veins can be seen in her forehead.

Much to her annoyance, Igraine doesn't have this big of an asset so she just have to grit her teeth to not accidentally rip apart this humongous bonkers in front of her.

"Eh!? W-why!?"

"We're traveling in the speed of sound."

Igraine immediately accelerated as she took off with a smile because of anticipation of seeing her father.

However, she forgot something.

"Eh? EH!? WAI-BUEEEEEGH!"

Juliet is not used in traveling at mach speed.

Juliet didn't saw any hills, tress, grasses or anything, she just saw a pure green dome with a black hue at the top signifying the darkness of the night, because they are travelling at the speed of sound, this much is normal, though what not normal is Juliet having her eyes rolled up and foaming the carbonate of her drinks.

Igraine was immediately startled.

"Opps, forgot about that..."

Igraine immediately stopped a few second later and then let Juliet rest.

This kind of scene repeated again and again because Igraine is not used in having someone else in her trips that requires her to be in her full speed so they have to stop again and again, until five to ten stops later.

The Valentine Forest of Death can finally be seen.

Igraine immediately put down Juliet to the ground and made a serious look and reaffirming nod as she immediately transversed the forest leaving behind Juliet who have a dedicated appearance as she also transversed the forest running but a little falling behind Igraine.

Juliet pumped herself up with a low sounding "Alright, let's do this!"

Without even knowing, that everything is just a mere show.