The Conquerors Path

"This place is beautiful as always."

I spoke, walking alongside Clara, who couldn't seem to keep the goofy smile on her face off her face. The very idea of a date-like moment between us is more than enough to satisfy the soul of this cute little girl. Smiling a bit at that thought, I kept walking, the whole atmosphere here was more relaxing than the other sectors.

Thus the two of our journey kept going till we started to see more dwarves in the area. Yup, there are some healer dwarves out there, but this area is more infested with dwarves due to the very fact that within this location lies a very important character that is now undergoing treatment, one suffering very badly, I might say.

The moment I entered this place, I started to get some very unfriendly gazes from all the dwarves around, the dislike for me is very apparent in the eyes of these members part of a faction. The new faction formed from the ring of the elf that was taken away by the Elven Empire for his great betrayal of trying to get Sabrina killed.

'Rip dude, rest in peace...'

Giving off an internal salute, I reached a much more porch area of the healing sector, the buildings and treatments here being for the more affordable, VIP students, which would mean towards the stronger students within the academy. And within this place undergoing extreme treatment is the sister of the current leader of the faction, headed by a dwarf leader, a very formidable dwarf man that walks both the path of creation and fighting.

Now the main reason all the dwarves around me are giving me the stink eyes is due to the very fact that I put the sister of their leader of the faction, in a situation that she isn't recovering at all. The moment I stood in front of the three-story luxurious building, my eyes met with Nathalia standing outside the door with hesitant looks filling her face.

Though the moment her eyes met mine, all of them lit up in glee, along with a shy blush filling her face, a thin smile spreading all around her face as she walked down towards me and spoke.

"It's good to see you are here, leader."

To this, I shook my head as I spoke, my hands going above to give a pat on Nathalia's head, while activating that spell creating that sympathetic connection towards her mother, increasing her affection towards me. I could see it work like wonder as Nathalia seemed to melt from my pat, those little elongated ears of hers trembling, while that thin smile got better.

However, that was quickly followed by the killing intent of all around, as every dwarf in the place started to look at me with greater anger. But they didn't come forward to say anything. It's not their place to speak when the princess herself likes it, not to mention there are not many people with the balls to try and create a problem with me here.

"You can just call me Austin in here, we are not at the faction after all."

As I said my words, I took my hand away, and I could see the reluctance in Nathalia's eyes at that action. But she didn't come forth to say anything as she replied in a shy tone.

"Um, I will do that."

"Now shall we see the patient?"

At my question, Nathalia nodded her head as she started to lead the way towards the building, with her present beside the two of us, it wasn't hard for us to easily enter this facility. Well-built, if I say so myself, and it was between this walk that Nathalia spoke with light guilt in her voice.

"I'm sorry for bringing you into this, but after the battle, nothing seems to work. Now only you and Clara are the last hope."

To her words, I replied with a light tone.

"Don't worry about it, for someone I care about, this is nothing."

The contents of my words only going to bring out light giggles and big blushes from the shy Nathalia, who has zero ideas on how to deal with a man. Thus the rest of the walk was with the shy girl trying to get to talk to me more but failing and blushing at any little words from mine. Besides me, Clara walked, looking at all this with a sly smile.

Thus within a minute, the two of us reached a door guarded by a human and dwarf, my arrival once again gaining me their stink eyes, but they didn't speak a word as Nathalia opened the door, leading me and Clara into a hospital-like room where a beautiful yet sexy warrior dwarf lay, her eyes closed, her auburn hair spread around the bed, laying like a sick person.

Her face looked paler than I last saw her, while her body this time was covered with a hospital gown. She lay there with her eyebrows crushed up, shivering in the bed like she was in pain.

'Well, she looks bad.'

I mused, the woman lying in front of me being Krisly, the very one I had fought with before, along with the other four to place my dominance, and right now she was still suffering from the very fight. The moment I broke the axe, I had added my special touch, plus even breaking the sword was more than enough to put her life at risk.

Cause her axe itself was connected deep into her blood and soul, something she created from all her tears, sweat, and blood, an axe meant to be amongst the best and greatest. Yet I broke it, adding a bit of my destruction energy, thus causing a backlash to her soul, body, and blood, making it so that she lost a huge chunk of her powers, causing her to fully suffer all the time, and along with it her body turned weak.

Normally even if by some miracle the axe breaks, she had in-built the ability for the axe to grow itself back. Krisly would have fallen to a state of weakness for some time and returned, but this time it didn't happen due to the presence of destruction energy I used at the attack. However, I didn't do it just to get back at her.

Reaching at this thought I turned towards the man sitting close to Krisly with a worried gaze. The man itself being a dwarf of age 22, he similarly has the same auburn hair as Krisly but with a darker set of eyes. Facial he looks handsome and even has a resemblance to Krisly quite a bit and just like her, he is also quite bulked up.

Like all the other dwarfs he has shorter height but his body seemed to have grown in width as he seemed to have built himself of full muscles, his biceps being enough to break someone's head, his whole body screaming strength as he sat at the bed, I could feel the raw energy coursing through his body, while his greatsword lay at the side of the room.

And the moment our eyes met I could feel the anger bursting out from him as his energy started to fill the room.

"You-"

"Krill!"

Nathalia shouted out before the dwarf named Krill could get any words in, her shout making him take his energy back as Nathalia spoke.

"You promised you would not make any problems!"

"I'm sorry, princess, I will make sure this doesn't happen again."

Krill spoke with a respectful voice, while his anger-filled eyes looked at me, but he didn't go forth to give any hate-filled comment as he spoke.

"Please help my sister."

His words were directed toward Clara who nodded her head, her expression turning from her cute relaxed face to one of seriousness as she walked up to Krisly, touching Krisly's head as her darkness started to leave her body and cover Krisly, seemingly moving through her body trying to see the extent of the damage. And as she was doing so, her eyes met with mine, a wink leaving her as she did so.

'I guess she will do well.'

I mused as the whole situation is something I came up with and I have already given the instruction of how Clara should play this. By the end of it all, Krisly will regret the day she opened her mouth to me, though then again, I am not doing this for that. There is a deeper ploy at play here.