Chapter 52: Then its decided. (1/2)

When they entered the castle's hall, they were directly guided to the King's room. Apparently, Raal ordered them to do so when he heard it was Arima.

When they reached the room, they spotted Raal who was waiting for them along with his wife. They were chatting at a table and invited Arima's group to join them. Night jumped on the room's bed and laid down on the pillow. He found the best way to use that small body.

”Welcome,” Raal said with an unnatural smile.

Arima tilted his head, ”Is something wrong?”

”No, of course not, don't worry,” The Demon King answered. He glanced at his wife and noticed that she was conversing with Lanya and Lilis. He sighed in relief, ”{Let's just continue with telepathy. Sorry, she can be extremely scary. I don't know what she would do if she learned that I want a match with you.}”

Arima smiled, ”{Sure, no problem. When do you want to do it? I have all the time in the world. I'm going to the Main Land after this.}”

”{Well, what about today? Just help me, saying to my wife that it is a friendly spar to improve ourselves and it should be good,}” Raal answered and Arima nodded in return.

”What are you talking about?” The Demon Queen in question suddenly raised her voice.

Raal shuddered and looked at her with a smile, ”Nothing much. By the way, I'd want to spar with Arimane here. Today would be good, after all, he leaves to the Main Land soon,” He said and distorted a bit the fact that Arima had all the time he wanted.

The Queen studied Arima from head to toe, ”You actually want to accept that spar?”

Arima smiled, ”Of course, it should be exciting to fight the man said to be the strongest on the continent.”

The Queen was a bit surprised, ”Are you saying that you are qualified to fight my husband?”

”(Aaah, that's what you meant…)” Arima wryly exclaimed in his mind.

”Ratia, don't be rude like that. Arima is strong. I would even say that he is a level above me,” Raal intervened.

Ratia glanced at him and looked back at Arima, ”Did you set a sort of bet?”

”A bet?” Arima and Raal exclaimed at the same time.

”You're not saying that you're really just fighting for fun, right?”

The Demon King's expression stiffened while Arima wore a pensive expression, ”What about this? If you win, I will serve your country.”

”What?” Raal was shocked, ”Then what if you win?”

”Well, before that, I have to ask you something. Do you have a prison in this country or a place where you lock up criminals?”

Raal strangely looked at him, ”Yes, we have one, of course. We should have around ten thousand locked up just in our city.”

Arima grinned, ”If I win, I want the permission to destroy the life force of all of them. Obviously, the reason is a secret. That shouldn't be an unreasonable request, right?”

Raal's eyes widened, ”Of course it isn't. If you can destroy the life force of all of those criminals then you're welcome. Well, we'd lose some labor force, but as long as you don't kill them, it should be fine.”

”Then it's decided, let's begin then,” Arima declared and stood up. He then pointed to the east ”Let's do it around twenty thousand miles in that direction.”

”The sea, huh? It's not a bad idea. At our level, no terrain can make a difference anyway,” Raal agreed and stood up as well. Night opened his eyes and jumped on Arima's shoulder. On the other side, a two meters tall bull appeared beside Raal. The four stared at each other and the entire castle was already shaking.

”Hey! Don't tell me you're-!” Ratia tried to say something but was interrupted by her husband.

”Sorry, can't go back on it now. Can you protect the continent?”

”You two as well, Lanya, Lilis. Help her shield this continent.”

The two fighters smirked and disappeared at the same time along with their soul beasts. The three girls that were left looked at each other.

The Demon Queen clicked her tongue, ”Who said they could go all out? They even brought their soul beasts.”

”What do they meant by protecting the continent?” Lanya asked.

”They meant that their fight would cause many repercussions. Devastating tides is one of them. We need to safeguard the continent from it,” Lilis casually shrugged and stood up.

”We should hurry. Just a single punch from them could produce a tsunami,” She uttered and teleported. Lanya and Ratia soon followed her. The former was nearly at the ninth level and had learned how to teleport and manipulate space from Arima and the Demon Queen was already at the late ninth level and didn't need any help whatsoever.