Wife of The Demon Prince
Chapter 209: The beginning of the tournament

Chapter 209: The beginning of the tournament

The day of the tournament the people of Findara had been anticipating had finally arrived. The largest arena in Findara was filled with thousands of people who came to watch from various kingdoms. The whole arena was fully crowded as people made to their various seating positions.

The seats were arranged hierarchically, the commoners were seated at the lower parts while the elites sat on the upper deck overlooking the arena.

On the other side of the arena, were all the royal family members, including the royals from other kingdoms. However, the royals of Findara sat at the exclusive reserved deck for them. The queen sat on the right side of the king, with Cassius beside her followed by Princess Eadlin, who looked anxious as she glanced down at the arena. While Cornell sat on the left side of the king with his head proudly held high.

Meanwhile, Ara and Hamon sat a bit far from the rest of the family. And there were also some of the king’s relatives who’d also come to watch the tournament. Everyone was present and they all looked down at the arena with excitement shinning in their eyes.

Soon the host began to announce the participants one after the other as they walked inside the arena. The moment he called out Kane’s name, all the audience stood up and cheered loudly for him.

"Kane! My hero!"

"He looks strong, I’m sure he would be the winner today! Kane!"

"I wish I could be the lucky lady to give him my piece of clothing at the finale!"

The audience cheered and praised him, and Kane waved back at them as they called out his name. He still had that same arrogance to him as he gracefully walked to the arena. Ara’s sharp eyes managed to spot her brother among the assembly of warriors participating.

Henry had his usual calm and rigid face on, and there was no signs of nervous tension.

"Henry is up." Hamon remarked as he noticed how his wife’s eyes shone brightly seeing her brother.

"Yes...He looks alright, I hope nothing goes wrong today." She still had that dreadful feeling in her. Hamon was about to speak again, when the loud voice of the hosts echoed in the air again.

"All our contestants are present, we have over a hundred contestants this year, and as always only three of them shall win. The first entrance game will be, archery!"

As the host’s voice announced the start of the games, all the spectators eyes turned to the contestants in the arena. They all stood in line to shoot their arrows at the far away target. Anyone who failed to land at least twenty arrows at the target before the drum was hit, would be automatically eliminated from the game. From then on, extra points were awarded depending on how close to the center of the target their arrows landed.

"Let’s start at the hit of the drum!"

Da-dum-da-dum!

At the sound of the drum, the first line of contestants let loose their arrows in unison. The sound of arrows slicing through air reached the audience stands, and some cheered. Most of the contestants hit the count, however the rest were eliminated.

Finally, it was Henry’s turn to step up, Ara watched with her hands folded over her chest as he lifted his bow and calmly fired his first arrow, it pierced the target in the middle. Although it was only his first shot, Ara cheered for him. And so, he fired his remaining shots effortlessly.

When Henry was announced to be part of the ones to move to the next level, Ara clapped happily. Hamon, who had been closely watching her the entire time couldn’t help but smile at how cute she looked, "He is doing really good so far...I can see how excited you are."

Ara flushed at the fact that she wasn’t hiding her excitement, "I...I am only cheering for my brother."

At her words Hamon’s smile slowly fell, he couldn’t help the sliver of jealousy that crept up to him at how happy she was cheering for Henry. He leaned sideways and whispered, "Wife, if I had participated in the tournament would you have supported me or your brother?"

"Of course I’d support you, in fact I’d cheer for you more." She replied without hesitation, and a satisfied smile graced his face, "It’s good to know my wife will support me alone."

"Mhm-hmm, I would. You are my husband after all, but since you are not part of the contestants now, I’ll cheer for my brother." Ara laughed, her husband was being possessive and jealous of her brother, but then, she found his jealousy towards her brother even cuter.

"If you’d cheer for me like you’re doing now, then I’ll take part in the up coming year’s tournament."

"Really?"

Although the royal family weren’t barred from participating, since even Kane was part of the contestants, but Hamon was the crown Prince, and he wouldn’t be allowed to join, as a crown Prince was considered too valuable to the kingdom. But she knew Hamon wasn’t one to joke, if he said he would, then he would.

"Yes, with my wife cheering for me, there’s nothing I can’t do. I’d so much like to join another tournament."

The corner of Ara’s mouth twitched and she slightly tilted her head towards him and whispered in his ear, "I’ll give you my piece of clothing at the finale. And I’d cheer for you at the top of my voice."

Hamon looked at his wife and clicked his tongue, "Darn it, if I had known, I really would have joined this year." Hamon imagined himself participating while she gave him her piece of clothing as a good luck token and he’d win and share the glory with his woman. Unfortunately, it was to late for him to join.

The couple continued to whisper to each other, meanwhile on the other hand, Eadlin anxiously looked at Henry in the arena. It was only a matter of time before her mother began her plans. She had to find a way to leave this place and stop her mother’s plan from happening before the finale. If her mother’s plans should work...he might die if he made it to the finals.

Eadlin anxiously clenched and unclenched her hands on her lap as her eyes remained on Henry, she watched all of his movements in the arena.

A short break was declared at the end of the archery competition, and as the contestants who made it to the next level had their breaks, some workers installed the obstacles for the next trials. The numbers of contestants had been cut down to about four-quarters of it’s original number.

Henry silently stood alone on one side as he watched the workers arrange the traps in the arena. It was then that he overheard some loud voices from behind him,

"Lord Kane, You got the highest score at the archery competition earlier. You were amazing!"

"Yes, he was. No doubt he would be the winner of the tournament again this year."

Henry slightly turned his head to the direction of the voices. A group of men were gathered around Kane, who sat gracefully on a big rock hearing their praises. For some who already had a lot, the purpose of the tournament was not to win, but to simply participate to gain more fame and test their limits, or just to take part, others wanted to get on the good grace of well-known contestants, just like now. Their noisy voices continued in an endless stream as they praised Kane.

Henry changed the spot he was standing at, but unfortunately for him, he could still hear their lousy annoying voices.

"Even the well-known Lord Henry is no match for Lord Kane."

"Yes, I agree. Lord Henry can’t stand a chance to Lord Kane, he is just a mere soldier under his father’s small army that aren’t even more than a few thousands."

Hearing them mention his name, Henry decided to leave the side completely, it was a waste of time to listen to what people thought or said about him. They were just buttlickers of Kane wanting to gain his good grace.

Kane, who had been quietly listening finally spoke, "Henry? You mean the crown princess’ brother?" He’d heard the name from the crown princess when they were having the stupid family meal, she’d even dared to say that her brother was a potential winner, ha, over his deadbody!

"Yes, the brother of the whore who made her way to the crown Prince’s bed before marriage, and is now a crown princess."

Henry’s footsteps abruptly stopped hearing that, and he slowly turned his head and looked at the person who spoke. It was one of Kane’s lackeys, a large man with tanned skin, he was also bulky just like Kane.

Kane smirked, "I see. I could tell she used her bitchy ways to charm my idiotic cousin. I must say, she’s one beautiful slut. I wouldn’t resist if I were my cousin as well." At his words, the other men around him laughed out loud in response,

"Ha ha ha! That’s true."

"If he’s a whore’s brother, then am sure she might have done her sluty tricks to charm the host to give Lord Henry a high score earlier." Said one of the men.

Henry clenched his fist tightly, the sound of his knuckles grounding in anger, instead of walking away like he’d planned to do, he turned on his heels and approached Kane and his lackeys.

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