Next day.

  Gold: Hurry up I don't want to stay here any longer.

  Nico: I am done with everything but the princess is still in a middle of something.

  Gold: Can't we just leave her here?

  Alaric: I wish we could.

  Nico: Not you too Alaric!

  Alaric: Just kidding! Obviously we can't leave her here even he knows it. Lady Caroline will show us hell.

  Gold: And that buff old man will become the devil.

  Nico: ( so fear is what stops them from leaving her here)

  Lucia: I am back! What are you all talking about?

  Nico: Nothing!

  Gold: Finally you came we have been waiting for so long.

  Lucia: You were waiting for me!

  Gold: Yes. I want to go back to the kindom, right now!

  Lucia: We can't go back yet.

  Gold: What do you mean!?

  Lucia: We have to first have an audience with the king.

  Gold: What! No! I don't want to.

  Lucia: You have to he especially asked for you to come.

  Nico: Good luck we will wait for you here.

  Alaric: Don't come back wounded this time.

  Gold: You both are coming too! They can come right?

  Lucia: Yes if you want to.

  Gold drags both of them with him to meet the king.

  Harold: Greetings to all of you. I am sorry about what happened yesterday. But I had to do it for the pride of my nation.

  Lucia: It's alright your majesty. Gold is fine he wasn't hurt that much.( He healed so fast!). Infact he wanted to fight you. He was very excited about it.

  Harold: Haha! I am impressed by Gold. He is worthy to join my gatherings you can bring him as your escort from own. I won't force him to fight me unless he wants to fight.

  Lucia: Is that so! ( That means he has been accepted by the king! If he gains more status then father will have to let me marry him!)

  Alaric: Your majesty can I ask you a question?

  Harald: Go ahead.

  Alaric: How did you defeat my grandfather?

  Harald: I don't remember it.

  Alaric: What do you mean?

  Harald: When I fought your grandfather I was being overwhelmed by him. He was very fast but there was something more to him. He would appear out of no where and vanish out of plain sight. But even though he was able to do that the only time he would attack me was when he was visible to me. But still none of my attacks reached him. I realised that he is not someone I can beat with Strength. Then at that moment I used lightning to supercharge my brain to get the intelligence to figure him out. I won the fight but i don't remember anything about it that move fried my brain and I am still affected by it.

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  Gold: Your grandfather was that strong?

  Alaric: He was the strongest in the Kindom at that time even more than you father in law.

  Gold: You know I won't care where we are so don't make me angry.

  Alaric: Then don't talk about my grandfather so casually.

  Gold: What's up with the grandfather obsessive people around me.

  Nico: Don't do this here you two.

  Lucia: I am so sorry about this your majesty!

  Harald: It's alright. Gold you have a very tough path ahead of you. My eyes are not so weak yet, I can see that ring on your hand.

  Gold: I don't understand why people care about this ring so much. So what if the first kings all had one.

  Harald: It's not the ring that is special but the person it chooses. One that represents the true qualities of a king an ideal man, only someone like that is chosen by it. The actions you will take in your life will be that of a king and like a king you will bear the burden of the people who choose to serve you. You will live your life in service of others protecting the weak and erasing the evil. But not for yourself or to get something but because you can and because it's the right thing to do. You will do it by recognising it as your duty. That is the path of a true king. Though it sounds more like a hero of a legend, the kings of today are nothing compared to these ideals.

  Gold: This all is too much for someone like me.

  Nico: This exactly matches who you are Gold!

  Alaric: Yeah it does. Even if you don't think highly of yourself your actions have always been righteous. I never thought I would follow someone in my life but when I overheard you talking to that girl in the tornament I was moved by it. You were fighting to protect that girl from someone as strong a Luka.

  Lucia: You even saved me from the bandits.

  Harald: Look at that Gold! It's right in front of you. You have to accept yourself as a bearer of that ring.

  Gold: And do what? Try to become king? Fight wars for power? Kill countless innocents of other kingdoms so I can feed mine?

  Harald: No. You just have to make the right choice and not run away from it. You will have to believe in yourself and accept the role that you will be given to play. Never again say that you are not good enough for it.

  Gold stands there in thought.

  Harald: Alright let's put that all aside. I have prepared some gifts for you all before you leave.

  Harald signals his servants to bring the gifts.

  Lucia: You didn't have to do that your majesty.

  Harald: I am just doing the right thing.

  Nico: I am getting excited.

  Alaric: Me too.

  Harald: For you princess I have this copy of medicine research passed down by the greatest chain doctors of our kindom.

  Lucia: Thank you so much you majesty!

  Harald: For you little boy we have this toy I used to play with as a kid.

  Gold: haha!

  Alaric: haha!

  Lucia controls her laughter.

  Nico: Thank you so much! ( They may laugh at it but a toy from a royal family is a great treasure)

  Harald: Alaric for you I have this sword.

  Alaric: Is that my grandfather's sword!

  Harald: No it's a replica his sword was broken in our battle but I had my greatest craftsman make a copy of it and we put your family name on it. It's even stronger than the original sword I kind of feel bad giving it away but I feel like the sword was fated to be yours.

  Alaric: Your majesty I am greatly indebted to you for this!

  Harald: and finally Gold! To be honest I had a hard time trying to figure out what is a gift fit for you. Then I remembered our fight. If only you could take more hits you could have lasted a few minutes more. Which is why I want to give this.

  Harald presents a bottle filled with some blue liquid.

  Gold: What is that?

  Harald: This bottle contains the blood of Jormungandr.

  Nico: The great serpents blood!

  Alaric: Where did you get that from! The serpent was killed long ago.

  Harald: In the frozen mountains of our land there are deposits of its blood.

  Gold: But what use do I have for it?

  Harald: If this blood mixes with your own then your body will become tougher.

  Gold: Seriously!?

  Harald: Yes but this blood is also poisonous so it will kill you.

  While Harald was talking Gold had already drank the blood. His eyes started to like that of a snake and his body had some changes to it.

  Nico: Gold!

  Alaric: Atleast listen to him first!

  Lucia: Take him a medical room quickly!

  Harald: No medicine can help him now! He drank so much of it! But there is still a chance. Gold try to concentrate and gather all the blood to a single point in your body. This blood can be controlled by the power of mind.

  Nico: It will work! Gold is master at this!

  Gold effortlessly gathers all the blood in his neck. His adams apple turns blue.

  Harald: You did it! You controlled the blood!

  Alaric: How can you just drink something like that without hearing an explanation.

  Gold: Sorry I got excited.

  Lucia: You could have died!

  Harald: Only a few in the royal family have been able to control the blood but only a bit of it. You on the other hand managed to control so much of it.

  Gold: So I can make my body tougher now?

  Harald: No not yet. Even though you can contain it's flow your body is not used to it. Your body will need to adapt to it. But when you completely master it you will get more than just a tough body because you drank so much blood. I can't wait to see what will become of you in future!

  Gold: Thank you so much for this gift.

  Alaric: Don't mind his language your majesty.

  Harald: It's alright. I am looking forward to meet you again someday.

  Gold: We will take our leave now your majesty.

  Harald: Farewell.