
One week passed quickly without realizing it. Combat unity had been prepared and was training in the Eastern Empire with the guidance of Rudeus. All became busy especially the executives in the Region who had to sort out the elite soldiers among the many soldiers. To date, there are over fifty elite soldiers.
Regarding the processing of the White Tiger bones and the few remaining of the Hydra were handed over to the Dwarves who were doing work in a crazy speed. In this one week, they had already finished the house and the hot spring bath. Even Rigel himself was quite fascinated by it. Although he could trample their efforts easily, yet he had no intention of doing so.
Regarding the Heroes, they had nothing special to do other than prepare themselves and recover their bodies completely. It was expected that they were in golden condition when the day of battle arrived.
Surely everyone felt the same thump, felt a little awkward and looked forward to the fight before their eyes. Despite being afraid of such a terrible opponent, they were honestly looking forward to it.
For the Region, this would probably be the second greatest conquest after the initial conquest to liberate the island from Hydra. But for the world, this was the first conquest. Of course, this information was only owned by important people from the nobility and royal members. Because their opponents are not easy and there is a mysterious figure behind everything.
For the sake of facing that day, Rigel accosted on a mountain cliff overlooking the Region. He gathered the Mana Realm slowly to recover his body and strength. As much as possible, he wanted to reach his super prime condition.
Slowly strength permeated his body and recovered it slowly, until he finally felt something begin to gather behind him and opened his eyes.
"Sylph, yes..., is there any recent information or something?"
The accumulated energy seemed gentle, sometimes crude, and only the Fairy Queen had such fluctuations.
"No, my purpose here is just to meet you and discuss a few things before the battle arrives."
Rigel let the cool air cool down on his body while gazing at the peaceful scenery of the Region. He did not stare at Sylph who was behind him, but his ears were focused on what he was going to say.
"Well, let's hear it," Rigel closed his eyes again to calm his mind.
"Maybe this is the second time for me to break the decree about not helping humans. Because again the girl I thought of as my own biological daughter was involved with something unexpected, as if fate had designed it in such a way."
The first time she intervened directly in human affairs was the sealing of Tortoise a thousand years ago, where Priscilla insisted on helping her to the point of sacrificing herself. In the end, he still lost Priscilla.
Regarding the case of the Tortoise conquest at this time, he did not directly intervene and only helped to show the way to its success. Perhaps for him it was not included in breaking the decree that Rigel did not know what it was like.
"Yes, fate is mysterious. Something that is always surprising often happens, as if everything important happens behind the screen without anyone's knowledge. Especially on that hooded bastard who knows who and came from nowhere..."
The abductor of Priscilla himself made her really curious about her true identity. He has three main suspects, the first being Lucifer. Then for the other two is a figure that should not exist in this world.
"I myself have one candidate who never wants to be true. If it was Lucifer, he would not have resorted to such cowardly tactics as hiding his identity, due to his great pride. Because of that, the fight this time became a disaster so I had to take some tough decisions."
Rigel was certainly interested in the candidate Sylph was referring to, but he had no intention of asking. It is useless to try to guess something without useful information. He just had to kill her and reveal her identity. Even so, it was likely that the candidate they had thought of was the same person.
"Difficult decision..., you mean breaking the decree or something like that?" he tried to confirm.
Sylph smiled gently and shook her head, "No, not something like that. But more things and determine the fate of the fairies in the future."
The forecast is off the mark and it seems Sylph herself is ready for the worst possible eventuality. It seemed obvious, that the situation they were about to face might be beyond his means.
"Because of that, I have a request of you, Hero Rigel. This needs to be done to avoid the worst situation that can happen."
The conversation became more and more serious and Rigel opened his eyes as he realized the atmosphere of the conversation was changing drastically.
"The worst situation related to the future of fairies. Even though you've never shown your strength, I believe that you're standing on a par with Lucifer."
The power of Sylph was beyond doubt. If he was serious about fighting, Rigel himself wasn't sure he could defeat him so easily. But now he predicted that there was a worst situation until he himself could not cope.
"You rate me too high, Hero Rigel. To me this is only in anticipation, when an unwanted event actually happens."
"I see, then what do you need from me??"
Sylph did not immediately reply and only showed a gentle smile that made her beautiful face even more stunning.
"If something happens to me, my daughter or even the two of us, I want you..."
A strong gust of wind blurred his voice, but it could be heard clearly by Rigel. Sylph told something unexpected so many times that I don't know how much she was surprised to hear it.
Not scared or anything. Sylph did not experience any significant emotional changes at all. Her smile did not change in the slightest, but was clearly exposed to her sadness from behind her beautiful face.
"You.., do you mean it? Then why leave that important thing to me??"
"I've been watching you for a long time and you're the only human hero I trust. Although I know that you are trying to use my daughter who is my weakness to deal with this case, yet you never asked for my authority as Fairy Queen, in exchange for saving Priscilla from the Tortoise seal."
Instead of never thinking about it, she simply did not bother to take care of the annoying fairies. But it seems that from that he got the trust of Sylph.
"Although that is so, how can I make someone a successor?"
Sylph's smile didn't change in the slightest, but this time her face was slightly blushing over something, "Let's go to the fairy forest, as it would be better to explain it there. I hope you want to run what I want you to run."
Since he had nothing urgent to do, it would not hurt to follow Sylph. Rigel did not use teleportation to go to the fairy forest, but instead went to use Sylph's teleportation, because the location was not in Rigel's teleportation point.
In an instant the scene before his eyes turned into a vast expanse of lake decorated with beautiful flower arrangements. There is a beautiful podium decorated with white and green flowers, as if specifically designed for important events such as weddings.
Rigel looked at the lake in front of him and found that the water was so clear that he could see to the bottom.
"I never knew there was such a place. It seems like the fairy forest is much wider than my shadow," she muttered. Every now and then, maybe Rigel will play and explore the fairy forest.
Rigel kept quiet and listened to Sylph's explanation. Inevitably he did have to do it to understand the hang thing had to be done.
"In order for you to have the authority to determine it, then you must obtain the title of Fairy King, Rigel."
Rigel was wide-eyed when he heard it. Then one thing he never thought existed, the Fairy King. All this time he had not heard anything about it. It should be suspicious, if there is a queen there must be a King. However, Rigel always assumed that the Queen was the only leader, Sylph.
"I..., Fairy King? Wait, whoa! Isn't weird? I am a human being, how could it possibly rule a fairy or something??"
"You don't have to rule, just keep an eye on this forest for a while. If only something bad happened, with the Elf King, then the forest would have a leader who would enthrone the next Queen. After that, you won't qualify as King anymore."
Although he explained it as smooth as silk, there were some parts that Rigel still did not understand. To her knowledge, the Queen to the fairies was the absolute leader of the sacred. Then so, what is the title of Fairy King needed for?
"If the Elves no longer had a Queen or a King, they would start to lose their way. Even worst of all, the spirit tree itself would go berserk in search of a new Queen."
If that happens, there will be more problems. Rather than letting it be like that, Sylph made the right choice by setting up someone who at least held her authority. And, the one who will gain that authority is Amatsumi Rigel.
He himself did not believe that. No matter how one looked at it, there should be others who were more deserving of it. But since Sylph only trusted him, so she willingly accepted.
"Well if so. It bothered when the big tree went berserk. Then, how am I supposed to be king?"
Rigel asked and looked at Sylph who was smiling gently as usual, but this time her cheeks were blushing over something. Rigel himself is not too distracted with him, it is something that is nice to see. There will be no man who feels uncomfortable or disturbed by the smile of a girl as beautiful as her.
Especially Sylph, a Fairy Queen who was famous for her peerless beauty, as if herself the meaning of that beauty. So it is not surprising that all men in the world are attracted and fascinated by him.
Rigel remained silent and waited for Sylph to answer. Sylph herself simply closed her eyes, placed her hands on her chest and seemed to take a deep breath as if preparing for something. Rigel kept waiting, but not a word came out of his mouth.
"Is there a problem? if anyone just say it, there's no need to be afraid or condescending towards me."
Sylph regained her senses once Rigel reaffirmed his question. He looked a little dazed but only lasted for a moment.
"I'm sorry, I'm just a little daydreaming and preparing, because it's my first time" he said, sounding tired. Something about the first time that Sylph was referring to made Rigel interested.
"To divide the authority of the fairy forest into two, the ultimate authority must marry someone who wants to be the second authority. So because of that...,"
Sylph removed the wings on her back and walked up to Rigel with her smooth bare feet. He walked up to Rigel who remained silent and stood right in front of him.
"Although you jump a long way, you must tie a sacred promise with me. Disfiguring my body all you want by making love with me."
Rigel was so surprised and put on a confused face as if thinking that Sylph was joking. But given his expression and the personality he had, it was impossible for him to joke around at this kind of circumstance. Now he understood what Sylph meant about this first experience or something.
"Did you mean it? You're not kidding, are you? that kind of thing..," even though he knew it was real, he still asked.
"..., it does, but yes. The edict states that to divide authority, it requires the qualification of the spirit tree, binding a sacred promise and doing something the bride and groom do for seven nights. You already have the qualifications of the spirit tree, there are only two others left."
Doesn't that sound stupid? What kind of freak made it?? inner Rigel.
"... You mean we should get married and do it seven times every night?"
"Y-well, though embarrassing and very strange. But such a thing is written in the edict."
Absolutely absurd and strange conditions. Rigel was really curious as to who made such an edict to such an extent.
It's not that Rigel doesn't want to do it with Sylph or doesn't like it. He just had a hard time accepting something like that that that many people would not think of. This is also the first time Rigel sees Sylph looking troubled and blushing in shame.
"Huhh, it's really troublesome. I didn't suffer any loss myself, but are you sure it should be me?"
Growing crops does not make it a loss, even so Rigel does not intend to spread seeds carelessly. The other is Sylph.
"You are evil, Hero Rigel. Don't make me say it. Even if there's nothing special or anything like that, at least I'd rather do it with you than the others."
It seems that he gave consent to things that were not easy to do and handed over to girls. Rigel simply scratched his head tiredly and agreed to it.
"Well, fine then. When is that gonna happen??"
Sylph smiled in relief, perhaps grateful that she had not received her first rejection. During his life he had never done anything of this kind, so this was his first time.
"Whenever, even now we can do it. It's just, is there a certain person you want to invite?"
"No.., there will only be chaos if others find out. If so, it's okay to start now. However, did the preparation not take long?"
Sylph only smiled and patted her hand once. The little fairies gathered and brought flower arrangements and placed them on the heads of Rigel and Sylph. All the forest dwellers in the form of spirit animals and other little fairies gather to witness their Queen's wedding.
Rigel himself was surprised, seeing that they had already flooded the place, but what was most surprising was that a gigantic tree root was twitching from the sky. Looking from her direction, it was very clear that it came from the Spirit Tree that was intending to attend the sudden wedding.
As this would be his secret with Sylph, as much as possible he had no intention of revealing it to the others. When Tirith finds out, maybe she'll get the wound and she gets the nickname trash.
'Well, after it's all over maybe we'll get a divorce and I get a title of widower at a young age, ' he said. That's why it's worth keeping a secret.