Tales of The Mighty Dragonair

As they reached the ground, Edmory led the group towards the place where Obrim was. All the clansmen there were looking with admiration to Arthur, looks he never cared about.

He wasn't that young and impulsive to be intoxicated with such mere slight success. His eyes were on the big prize, Cesile walking in front of him. his own problems were mostly solved by her sudden unexpected appearance, as now he could be relieved that he wouldn't be threatened easily in the academy.

From the way Edmory was dealing with her, he knew she must be some big shot in the academy. From her own words just now, he knew she wasn't part of any clan or guild, stood alone by herself, making her like him, but a decade or two older in experience here.

They reached a special area where everyone there was older, all except for one. Arthur just glanced, with no interest, towards Tenshi, whose face was really unsightly at this moment.

He stood with bowed head, and dark face, beside a man that seemed an older version of him. Arthur guessed that man's identity as his father, someone who had some prestige already in the clan, as many mages here were standing by his side, like consoling him on his current loss.

'So, you are the one who struck out the deal?' Arthur thought to himself, realizing what happened here when he was inside the battling stage world. He didn't care about the pair of father and son, as there was a more important figure here, Obrim.

"Welcome, Willy the clan head of the golden lion clan. It was a great sight to witness your fighting just now," Obrim said, welcoming him with warm words that made some of the elders here stole ill glances towards Arthur.

"Thanks for the warm welcome, clan head, it's an honor to be present here today. I just stood up to help my brother Rayan, as I would always do," Arthur replied, with his own courtesy, slightly bowing his head to Obrim, expressing his own respect towards him.

Obrim just nodded in content towards Arthur's reply. He didn't care about courtesy, he cared about the message Arthur said. His clan now had one son and one supporter inside Cesile camp, which was a nice gain for him.

"By agreement, you have thee as your rewards," Obrim waved his hand as three objects appeared in front of Arthur, a sword, a small cube, and a miniature cauldron. Arthur took them without any hesitation, and stored them inside his ring before saying:

"Thanks a lot, it was such a pleasure doing business here."

His saying made many laugh, including Obrim and Edmlory, but many didn't, with Furij and Tenshi on the head of the second list. "Now you can go and rest for a bit, the fight must have its own toll on you," Obrim said, while offering Arthur to stay here in the clan for some days.

"Thanks for the kind offer, clean head," Arthur bowed his head again, before adding, "but I have to move now, if I wanted to catch up with the competition on time."

"Oh, quite impatient and careful are you?" Obrim praised, "no problem, I will let all the posts out there to be notified of your presence, so no one would stop you on your track," he added, before looking at Rayan, the extremely happy Rayan, as he instructed, "send someone to accompany Willy in his journey, so nothing can happen along the way."

His words were for Raya, but his eyes were on Furij, as he was warning him from pulling anything funny.

"I will make sure to send my private guards with him," Rayan instantly replied, before adding, "we will now excuse ourselves clan head, thanks for the support."

Obrim just nodded, while Arthur moved behind him, exiting this place. "I will wait for you inside the academy to have more talk," Cesile suddenly said to him, and he just raised his fist high in the air. This stance had tucked on her heartstrings, causing some deep, forgetful feeling to rise for a moment there.

"Oho, interesting," she only muttered, while softly chuckled as she watched his back while moving away.

"This was very intense, very great fight you did back there, never knew you are such a badas*!" Rayan instantly said, with a great excitement, when they managed to get themselves far away from the big shots in his family.

"I hope you can use this for your advantage," Arthur simply chuckled, as he knew how excited Rayan was right now. "I will, you gave me a really golden chance, I finally regained my previous rightful place back from that bastard and his father!" Rayan added, with some hatred and vengeance in his tone.

"I'm curious, what exactly happened before between you and them?" Arthur asked, as he understood that Rayan was in a greater position than Tenshi, before the last conclave at least.

"I had a great place in the clan, and the last conclave was just a mere show to make me a sprout head, but that treacherous Furij, Tenshi's father, had pulled some dirty tricks and turned some of my supporters against me. I lost the conclave, and his son went up from sprout elder to sprout head."

His tone was melancholic with so much sadness in his words. "After that I was targeted at the academy, kicked off from my clan's faction there, and was treated like a stray dog by this Tenshi. Now, I got that all back, my reputation, my prestige, my fame, and my position and rank at the academy. Besides, I got the support of Lady Cesile, which is a great gain without doubt!"

"Is she that prestigious inside the academy?" Arthur asked, casually, as he never knew anything in detail about the academy inside factions or powers.

"Prestigious?!" Rayan sharply turned to him with a jump as he hurriedly added, "she is a super star there, not just normal strong masters you hear about normally every day. She is a legend, acting alone with no back up of any family or guild and she managed to dig her way up towards the very top of the academy."