Divine Emperor of Death

The two royal protectors nonchalantly nodded their heads.

Indeed, only a few princes were capable.

The others had fallen into depravity, looked after businesses or bullied people of lower status and no longer concentrated on their cultivation from a certain age or died through the machinations of others. It was unknown if their deaths were the work of other Empires or the work of their own siblings.

And in reality, no one cared other than their close kin who remain weak or either looked after their own skin. The royal family was huge, hence, only the strong and the worthy could continue to stay at the top without falling behind.

"As for the cultivators who came to participate in the Conferred King Tournament from the three Kingdoms surrounding the Ethren Empire, none of them got past the quarter-finals. " Crown Prince Hadre sighed as he commented.

"Crown Prince Hadre, what do you think about that woman? Is she to your liking?" Royal Protector Freed questioned with a teasing smile on his face.

The Crown Prince laughed, "Royal Protector must be kidding. Such a powerful woman who appeared out of nowhere must rather have a great background."

"I already have ten wives who satisfy me with their utmost love so why would that gorgeous, mighty and charismatic woman even accept me?"

"Besides, we saw her cultivation. I wouldn't dare to act unbridled in front of her without cultivating my body." 

Crown Prince Hadre inwardly gulped as he said but his face was still nonchalant.

Royal Protector Freed couldn't help but nod his head.

"Indeed, never would I have thought a beautiful woman like her would've trained in Body Tempering Cultivation instead of concentrating on her Essence Gathering Cultivation."

"She is a rare woman, and her bearing is noble than most of our own princesses. She probably is adventuring, and might be from one of the four large territories..."

"That might be the case..." Royal Protector Aleron who had a rich experience with people who concealed their origins spoke with a nod.

He suddenly laughed, prompting the others to look at him.

He shook his head and said, "This reminds me of one of the emperors of our Ethren Empire's history."

Without even waiting for others to ask him what had happened, he continued, "Our Emperor of that time was smitten with a stunning woman who had come from the Thousand Pill Palace to be the Elder of the Thousand Pill Palace's Ethren Empire Branch."

"He tried to woo her to the best of his ability but failed in the long run. Instead, his younger brother who also wooed her quite openly after that managed to gain the beauty's favor in the end but by doing so, he accomplished to court death from the Thousand Pill Palace."

"He was killed and the woman was taken away but what do you think that the Emperor did?"

"What did that Emperor do?" Crown Prince Hadre couldn't help but ask as he was absorbed into the story.

"He did nothing."

"Nothing?" Crown Prince Hadre became taken aback.

Usually, after the Emperor had been conferred, the other brothers would try to turn loyal and support the emperor to the best of their ability, not daring to slight their superior.

But the Emperor did nothing to protect his younger brother?

Not even try to follow the woman?

"In the end, The Emperor only rejoiced that he was not the one who managed to gain the favor of the beauty and it was his younger brother who did so..."

"That's it?" 

"That's it."

Royal Protector Aleron said as he closed his eyes.

Crown Prince Hadre became speechless wondering why Royal Protector Aleron even decided to tell them this story but after a few seconds of contemplation, he realized the underlying meaning.

Indeed, Royal Protector Aleron was advising Crown Prince Hadre to not make any moves out schemes against the powerful and unknown.

Even he inadvertently felt awed when witnessing that proud woman battle. Much less needed to be said about the ambitious Crown Prince.

Crown Prince Hadre wasn't stupid. He nodded his head and heeded the indirect advice of the Royal Protector.

"The Semi-finals are going to begin in a few minutes." He added as he looked towards the names that were lit up on the projection that became observable with the help of a formation.

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Davis and Evelynn looked at the battle platform of the Conferred King Tournament.

A person had just stabbed a barbed sword into a person who had just released his domain. Just when he tried to self-destruct, the person slashed with his barbed sword and lopped the head of the man.

Evelynn frowned for a moment before returning her expression to normal.

Davis noticed her reaction but didn't say anything pertaining to the scene, "Let's sit."

Evelynn nodded her head.

Since she had come here, then she felt she should stay here to the end, especially after paying up the exorbitant price.

They had to buy a token plate as a form of ticket for them to be allowed inside the spectators' seats, and it cost them 10 Mid-Level Spirit Stones or 20,000 Low-Level Spirit Stones to be allowed entry.

Davis bought two tokens plates with 40,000 Low-Level Spirit Stones and then was allowed entry into the spectators' seats along with Evelynn.

As a person who wanted to witness battles to widen his perspective, he didn't hesitate to pay 40,000 Low-Level Spirit Stones for even a second.

They walked over the stadium like structure and found two seats in a high zone which made them view the battle platform without any form of disturbance.

But as time passed, a few more people came and sat beside them.

Although the streets by their residence were not crowded, the area surrounding the tournament was crowded with people, wanting to watch the semi-finals and finals.

At this time, the Semi-finals began with the referee announcing the names of the two contestants to come up on the battle platform in ten minutes.

[Isabella Vs Wilhelm Abel] 

A projection also quickly lit up as if their names were being inscribed on the edges of the walls where the audience sat. However, Davis and Evelynn froze when they heard a particular name out of the two from the referee's mouth.

'Princess Isabella!? Why is she here?' Evelynn inwardly exclaimed before turning to look at Davis.

Davis was just as surprised as Evelynn on hearing Princess Isabella's name because he had thought she would in one of the buildings of their residence, practicing cultivation.

But now, it looks like she came to participate in this Conferred King Tournament.

'This...' Davis felt uncomfortable.

With her here, he didn't have have any doubt about her chances to win this tournament. Conversely, didn't that also mean that their residence would be bombarded with people, trying to suck up to the Conferred King? Or in this case, should he say, Conferred Queen?

'What happened on being low-key?' His eyes twitched in confusion.

Davis didn't exactly know that she had other plans in her mind. If he did, perhaps they could have discussed beforehand and come up with a better-suited plan.

Thinking about it, he suddenly thought back to her purpose.

Princess Isabella wanted to establish herself and gain more wealth, so that she could increase her Body Tempering Cultivation.

From his earlier guess, she should have already spent more than 99% of the High-Level Spirit Stones on the small female Earth Dragon, making it into a powerhouse capable of protecting the Ruth Empire, so that even if something had happened to her in this place, the Earth Dragon will be able to protect every one of the Ruth Empire.