Wife of The Demon Prince
Chapter 210: Second round

Chapter 210: Second round

As Henry walked straight towards the group of men, their eyes turned towards him, he then stopped right in front of them with his hands crossed over his chest, his cold blue eyes bore at them one by one as he spoke in an authoritative voice,

"I can see you’ve all lost your respect for the crown princess. Bunch of jackals! Instead of focusing on what brought you here, you’re busy running your mouths. If I hear any of you say another word against the crown princess...I will make sure to kill each of you before the end of the tournament."

For the first time, Henry spoke more than he usually does. He wouldn’t have cared if they talked bad about him, but he wouldn’t tolerate anyone who spoke bad of his sister.

One of the men seemed to suddenly looked shame-faced when he recognized Henry. "Oh my, it’s Lord Henry..." Everyone suddenly stared at each other in fright and embarrassment, but only Kane seemed unfazed and continued on with even more bravado. He’d been curious to know who this Henry was, but the man had showed himself, amazing.

"I finally meet the brother of the whore. It’s nice to meet you Henry Boxton."

Henry’s brows furrowed. He had told them that he wouldn’t tolerate Ara not being called by her respectful title, "...I don’t care who you are Kane, but I hate it when people ignore my warning or words." Waves of cold anger radiated from Henry, but Kane didn’t so much as blink nor flinch.

The atmosphere suddenly turned bloody, and Kane stared back at Henry with a challenging smirk, "So what? What can the brother of a whore like you do to a king’s nephew? Oh I see, you think you can scare me, che, I want to see you try little cat." Kane grinned, showing off his white teeth as if to provoke Henry even more. If they weren’t already in the tournament, Henry would have immediately challenged him to a duel.

However, he wasn’t in a hurry, as he already had a good chance of fighting Kane at the finale today, "Kane, I will surely be the one to bring you down your high horse today, mark my words." His voice was as hard as steel, but Kane only laughed even more as if he’d heard something funny, "I want to see you try. I will end you myself, I hope you won’t go crying to your whore of a sister after am done with you, ha ha ha!"

"..."

Henry didn’t deign him with a response and just blankly stared at him, which only seemed to drive Kane even more, he continued taunting Henry, and mimed slitting his throat with his thumb, " You should watch your back today, Henry Boxton, because I’d certainly finish you up in front of everyone. Now run along before I slit your throat."

Henry’s lips pulled up as if he found Kane’s taunting amusing, "Haven’t you heard this saying; a frightened dog barks more loudly, bark as much as you want while you can, dog."

"You asshole_"

Henry turned and left the group ending the conversation. He heard Kane yell out cursing him, but he just simply ignored him and continued walking away. There was no need for a verbal fight when they’d get the chance to settle it with their ability at the finale.

Henry knew that Kane was one of the favorites of all the audience and would most likely win the tournament, but then after hearing the bull so openly badmouth his sister, that he wouldn’t stand. He hardly lost his composure, but it was as if a flame had been lit under his skin hearing Kane talk that way of his sister.

He glanced up at the direction of Ara, but then his eyes fell on someone else instead, the princess. He frowned, why was she looking at him like that, was he seeing wrong because of the distance? he gazed at her for a while before he turned his gaze back to his sister, who waved at him from where she sat,

"...I will win this tournament." He murmured softly.

Soon after the break, the next game began. A flag was to be reached within some given minutes. The contestants would carry a sandbag on their shoulders while they raced to reach the flag within the minutes given to them. And Kane’s group were the first to begin, his abilities to fight the obstacles were already superior to everyone, nevertheless, he deliberately slowed down the second and third contestants by sticking them with his pocket daggers on the leg. There was no rule stating he could not do so.

Thus, Kane took first place score in not only archery but the flag reaching as well, earning him higher scores than anyone else in the competition. Even though the audience clearly saw what he did to the second and third contestants, they still cheered for him and called out his name.

Henry followed suit, as his strength and running skills led him to reach it first in his group, he also got a high score, which could take him to the next level before the finale.

The games progressed to the tactical match, where the contestants would be in groups, and the groups would be chosen by random draws. The task given for this round was to display co-operation and leadership among themselves. Two groups would be up against each other, and the losing team would be eliminated.

Some judges also supervised the event and scored each individual on how much they contributed to their given group team.

The host now stood in the middle of all the contestants as he randomly drew the names and grouped them up,

"Henry Boxton, group two!"

When Henry’s name was called, he nonchalantly walked towards his given group members, His blue eyes blazed with determination.

"Kane De Biville, group six!"

Henry’s eyes had remained on Kane since the flag race, he’d seen how he didn’t hesitate to hurt people with his daggers. Kane was cheered on by those in group six as he entered their circle. His grey eyes met Henry’s blue ones with a smug look on his face, he then muttered something, which Henry didn’t hear but could read his lips, "I will definitely kill you today." Henry didn’t pay heed to him and glanced away to look back at the host.

After all the contestants were grouped up, the host began to explain the rules to them. After this trial, the finale of this year’s tournament would be one-on-one mounted spear combat, which was different from the rest of the years where they had a sword combat. Even after all this, the heated excitement of the audience would not be abated.

The host’s voice rang loudly in the air again, "This is our last trial before the final, Your score in this level will determine if you are qualified for the finale!"

It was the last game before going into the final tournament. Henry had perfect scores so far, and was most certainly to be selected as one of the final twelve of the contestants that will participate in the finale if he passed this round. Henry turned to his group members and took the lead, the total number of people in his group, including himself, were ten. But unfortunately, his group members were filled with newly recruited soldiers, who looked like teenagers. Any direct clash from their opponents would certainly leave them vulnerable with how young they were, not to mention how fragile their bodies looked.

Henry sighed inwardly looking at the bunch of new recruit soldiers in his group, how on earth did these new soldiers even pass to this level of the competition? Just take a look at them, one even had a voice that sounded like a lady’s, but why does this one’s voice sound quite familiar to him?...

The soldiers were wearing their helmets, so he couldn’t see their faces, but this soldier really does sound like a female. He gazed at the soldier for some moment and glanced at the others.

Well, he shouldn’t judge them by their appearance, they made it this far, they might be really good then. He mused.

The young man with the female voice, who stood beside Henry spoke, "I wonder which group is going up against ours...I just hope the team will be similar to ours or else...we are doomed."

Henry inwardly agreed that it would be easier if they went up against a team with similar new recruit soldiers as well. They really had to avoid the team filled with bulky muscular men as much as possible, or else it would really be a hell of a match for his team.

The host’s voice rang loudly again, "All the contestants have been drawn. Now we will match the teams with their opponents!"

The host began to announce the matching teams, and a thrill of anticipation shivered through Henry as he waited to hear which group was up against his. Soon, his group’s match up was announced,

"Group two will be up against...group five!"

At the host’s words, Henry turned towards group five, however his expression was quick to darken, ’My group is certainly doomed...’

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