199 Avoiding an unnecessary figh (1/2)

”You have completed the arena challenge”

The mechanical voice sounded as fireworks decorated the sky above the youths.

After the werewolves in the eighth wave, Don faced three more waves.

In each wave, he faced different mythical creatures such as one-eyed cyclops, a swarm of cockroaches the size of a cat, and finally a giant cobra that sent chills through everyone's spines.

For defeating the cyclops, he was rewarded with an armor set but he couldn't even touch the armor as it was shrouded with lightning cracks.

The lightning that covered the armor was even more powerful than the lightning bolts created by the hydra and he decided to ask Ken about what kind of armor or when he could wear that.

After the cyclops, he faced a swarm of nearly a thousand cockroaches. At first, some youths laughed at the cockroaches but no matter how many cockroaches Don killed, they always respawned and attacked him. Eventually, Don figured out that he had to kill the queen of the cockroaches who were hiding among the swarm to permanently kill the cockroaches.

The cockroach wave was the longest wave he had faced in the arena and what he was rewarded for killing those damn creatures almost made him go mad.

It was a ceramic plate and at first, Don thought that it could have some spirit hiding in it or some overpowered function but as far as he could tell, the plate had nothing magical to it.

The youths, however, had various ideas about the plate's magical function as someone said that the plate was so ancient and could provide unlimited amounts of food, someone said that the plate could summon a mythical beast to the aid as many youths like this, pondered about the plate's function.

And the last wave with the cobra was the hardest one for him. The cobra's scales were so tough as even the arrows from Don's bow could only make a tiny cut. It struck lightning fast with its poison coated fangs.

What made the cobra extremely the deadly opponent was its ability to summon a poison rain on him and if it wasn't for the shield, he would have melted considering the acidity of the poison.

If he couldn't conjure hell flame, he couldn't have defeated the cobra as only by coating the arrows with a thin layer of hell flame, he defeated it.

Without the hell flame, no one could defeat the cobra and fortunately, no one noticed the thin layer of the hell flame that Don used. What he was rewarded for the final wave was neither a weapon nor a blueprint nor an armor but an egg.

Unlike the ceramic plate, the egg radiated an immense amount of power as Don couldn't help but feel excited when he was holding the egg in his hands. He had no idea of what's inside the egg but after seeing the power it radiated, he knew that the egg was something extremely special and belonged to a powerful beast.

”Do you have a quill? I want to take an autograph from him”

”Let's get out of here”

Don sighed and walked into the light gateway.

”Young master”

”Friend”

”Lord”

The moment he stepped outside the light gateway, he saw a swarm of people running towards him.

He was extremely tired as he looked for Knight among the crowd

”Make way for her royal highness, Princess Audrey of the Archeron Kingdom”

”Move out of the way, The Crown Prince of the Star Empire, his royal highness, Prince Reudan wants to meet the archer”

The crowd suddenly made way for the two big shots as Don saw the crown prince and Audrey walking towards him.

Princess Audrey let the crown prince talk to him first as she stood behind him.

”How do I address you? No one seems to know you”

Prince Reudan asked as everyone waited for Don's answer.

”Name is, Spectre, Prince Reudan, no one knows me because I'm not from this continent”

Reudan thought he was being arrogant by addressing him without any honorifics but hearing him saying that he's from another continent, he calmed down but still, he was pretty shocked, so was everyone.

”You from Elvenor Continent?”

”Yes, Prince Reudan”

Reudan frowned as he asked

”Then how did you get an ancient key?”

Although Don started to get irritated by Reudan's investigative tone, he chose to answer them in a calm and polite tone so he could avoid unnecessary trouble with the prince.

”My father bought one from a wandering heavenly mage, Prince Reudan, as for the mage's identity, he didn't give us one”

With a single sentence, he implied that his imaginary father is a very rich man and has a connection with a heavenly mage.

Reudan's empire had some heavenly mages and he knew what a single heavenly mage could do in a battle. Because of that, Reudan didn't keep talking to him with an authoritative voice but changed his tone to sound more friendly.

”Alright, Lord Spectre, I'll get straight to the point, do you have any intention to sell the items you got? Our empire would pay a hefty sum for your shield”