Saga of Atlantis

Chapter 119: Crowns Shrine 2

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"Are you going to keep quiet all day long?"

As Aeloria stood quietly beside me, I felt frustrated about her behavior.

She had been standing beside me for, like, five minutes without saying a word.

"What do you want me to say?"

She asked, looking at me with a plain expression.

"Anything is fine. Look around; everyone is being friendly with their team partners."

I replied as I made her look around us.

Most of the students had already formed their teams with their assigned partners and were waiting for the guide to arrive.

Everyone had something to talk about, although awkwardly, as most of them were made up of one boy and one girl.

"Look at them; they are not talking." She spoke as she pointed in one direction.

I looked in that direction, only to notice she was pointing towards Breg.

The poor guy had been paired up with Cassia.

That girl has a tendency to ignore anyone who comes close to her, apart from Aron; she rarely talks with anyone other than Aron.

"Look beside them; they are happily talking." I replied as I pointed at the team beside them.

It was Aron who had been paired up with Nora.

Who knows why, instead of Aeloria, who is now with me, Aron has been paired with Nora, Breg’s so-called girlfriend.

They both were not shying away from the presence of others, as they talked despite both of their childhood friends being together just beside them.

"Why are you comparing others with us? Maybe they have known each other for a long time, unlike us," she said as she started walking towards the portrait of the first king.

"Yeah, yeah," I replied as I followed her.

We both stood in front of the portrait, looking up at the towering figure.

"Do you seriously think Anna has Human God’s bloodline?" Aeloria whispered softly as she looked at the portrait with a conflicted look.

"I don’t know," I replied as I looked at her. She may not show it, but she looked quite worried about her.

Good for the princess for making such a friend.

"I looked into the history and myths about him," she said, looking at me. "He had killed God and eradicated races that were held to be the supreme races of their time. He had also killed ninety percent of the dragons that lived at that time, all because he wanted to protect the humans who don’t even worship him now."

"Bro seriously got ghosted by his own race," I joked, but she didn’t laugh.

"Be serious."

"Okay."

"Most of the gods that he had killed had descendants that are being worshipped as their gods by humans."

"Yeah, if she really has his bloodline, many of the churches will come after her just to please their gods," I replied, focusing my gaze towards Angelina, who was standing with the teachers.

Because of the last incident at the academy, she is going to be with the teachers all day long for her safety.

"I am worried about her." Aeloria’s words brought me back to our conversation.

"Why are you? You are just her friend while she has been engaged to a big shot, the Crown Prince of a whole Empire," I replied, emphasizing my last words.

"You do know about them, right?" She frowned. "They are power-hungry beasts. If sacrificing Anna will bring more power to them, they will do it without a second thought."

"She was the one who made the choice to marry in that place; what can we do about it?" I replied, shrugging my shoulders.

"She could die, Eden!" She shouted, but she kept her voice as low as she could.

"And what do you want me to do? Protect that girl who left me at my lowest." I replied as I stepped closer to her, my eyes glaring at her.

"You love her, don’t you?" She whispered, looking at me.

I stayed silent as I thought about her words.

"No, I used to, yes, but now, no, I don’t," I replied, shaking my head.

I felt like a hand was crawling around my heart as I said those words, and I knew why this was happening.

The Eden within me who loved her desperately wanted me not to say those words.

"So, are you going to just sit back and watch her die?" She asked as she took a step back.

"She is not my responsibility, Aeloria. Don’t forget that. I don’t want anything to do with the royal family, not now or ever."

"Alright, everyone!" As she was about to continue, a loud voice brought our attention to it.

As I looked towards the teacher, a new figure had arrived with them.

He was a tall and lean person with a big beard, wearing the traditional dress of the kingdom.

He had a few wrinkles on his face, but his body looked well-trained despite his old age.

"He is our guide and one of the retired king’s guards, Sir Connor Dhala," Sophia introduced the guy who stood tall and proud in front of us.

"Hello, everyone." His deep voice resonated inside the hall.

"I won’t be taking too much time as we are already late, so first let’s get out of here." He said, and the gate to the outside of the chamber swung open, revealing the city outside.

In the same manner as the class came inside the chamber, they also exited, with us being the last ones.

"Welcome to the old royal capital of the kingdom, Crown’s Shrine." He said that as he moved out, the rest of the teachers followed him.

"Ladies first," I said as I stepped forward, gesturing for Aeloria to go out first. She did so without replying.

As soon as I stepped outside the chamber, a whole new city was in front of me.

The air carried a sense of history around this place, and as I moved deeper into the streets of the city, the first thing I did was look back from where we came out.

It was an old building that had been renovated with a lot of new materials, but the essence of the old still lingered in the structure.

"The Unity Building," I mumbled, reading the name written on the board.

Then I looked around the city.

Monuments dedicated to long-forgotten kings and queens adorned the squares, their imposing statues casting long shadows on the streets.

"The first place we are going to visit is the monuments of the first king," Connor said as he directed us in a certain direction. "Please pair up with your partner to avoid forming a huge crowd."

"The first king was the most beloved monarch in the history of the kingdom; just beside him was the previous king of our kingdom, who unfortunately passed away from an incurable disease," Connor explained as he moved forward.

"The first king was the most beloved monarch in the history of the kingdom; just beside him was the previous king of our kingdom—

He used mana to let his voice travel to everyone without being too loud.

’He was assassinated,’ I thought as I recalled what my mother had told me about Angelina’s grandfather.

He was a benevolent man, an amazing king of his time, and a good father.

Unlike Angelina’s father, he didn’t sell his daughter to another kingdom but let her marry someone she loved.

"The first king was the one who made the forefather of all the royal descendants, as his bloodline still remains with us, and there has been no change within the royal family since then," he said, nodding towards Princess Angelina, who reciprocated with a nod of her own.

Well, how could someone just change the main royal family? After all, there is a big shot behind them that is taking care of them from behind the scenes.

One of the ancestors of the royal family.

"It is said that before he died, he used all his mana within him to transform the whole Eve continent into the best producer of minerals for a long time," he continued, sparking my interest. Read latest stories on mvl

The thing he used was not some kind of power; it was a living being that helped him achieve that.

In the game, there are many mentions of different races that were already known or that were mentioned in some of the mythology,but there are a few that they introduced themselves as races that were just made exclusive for the game.

Some of them were made just to give something new to every part of the game.

But some of them were just hinted at as extinct races, such as the one that was the companion of the first king of this kingdom.

A being so powerful that it only had a few of them born in millions of years.

One of the supreme races of ancient times and the Easter egg that was hinted at in the game.