|3rd POV|

Ferid Egan, the Royal Commander of the Queen's Knight, walks toward the massive barrack near the Sun Palace. This is where the elimination stage will start in a few hours, and currently, Ferid and his guard, Galleon, one of the oldest members of the Queen's Knight, decide to visit.

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=Ferid Egan=

=Galleon=

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"Royal Commander!"

The captain that oversees the elimination stage salutes at Ferid, who laughs a little.

"At ease, soldier. We are not at war. Call me Ferid, instead!"

The captain, who already knows how this ends, looks at Galleon pleadingly. The old knight only sighs and says.

"Please don't tease him, your majesty. You are the husband of our queen and the king of our Queendom. Therefore, you cannot ask the other person to call you by your first name."

"Bwahahahaha! Don't be like that, Galleon! I don't mind if people call me by my first name!"

"Please don't do that."

Galleon can only sigh when he hears his friend, commander, and king laughing as if it was a great joke. However, he couldn't help but smile at his friend's behavior. Ferid has that aura that attracts people and makes him well-liked by people.

If Queen Arshtat has the aura of a Royalty, Ferid, her husband, has an aura of a brother. A brother that will support you from the back, throwing a joke that makes you smile when you are down, and a brother that will stand in front of you if danger arrives.

That is the reason why he is a beloved figure to the people of Sol-Falena.

"Bwahahahaha! Anyway, we come here to watch the fight, if you don't mind."

"Of course not, your majesty! Please follow me. I will show you the VIP room."

"Umu! Show the way, my good man!"

The captain nods his head and leads Ferid and Galleon to the Vip room, where he can watch the fight without the others knowing. While inside the room, they can watch the fight from a window but from the outside, they see nothing but a wall from the outside.

"Hmmm, this is good. Who is the first person to fight?"

The captain nodded his head and took out a bundle of paper from his bag, and read it for a few seconds.

"The first fight will be someone named Jacob Shiff. We did not know where he was coming from specifically. However, from the data given by him, he comes from the northern continent."

"Oh?! Which country is he coming from?"

"It says he is coming from the City-State of Jowston."

"Does he say which city he is coming from?"

"He said that he is coming from a small village near Muse."

"Ah, Muse! It's been a while. Muse city is a well-known place to create the greatest warrior in the City-State of Jowston."

"They are also well known as pacifists." Galleon decides to interrupt. While he did not spend a long time like Ferid in the Northern continent, he once visited the said country in his youth. "There is a well-known saying among the Northern Countries. There are only two types of people coming from Muse, a Craven or the Bravest Warrior you will ever encounter. We did not know if he was the latter and not the first."

Ferid looks at the data in his hand and smiles a little.

"I have a feeling he is the first one instead of the second one. Anyway, who is he fighting against?"

The captain takes another paper and starts to read it.

"Lianes the Bloody Ax. He is a mercenary that usually works for the Armes Kingdom." The captain frowned as he read the data in his hand. "He is known for his cruelty on the battlefield. He pillages and razes any village on his way. He is also a well-known rap*st that takes any young woman in his way as a slave."

The more the captain read it aloud, the more Ferid's expression changed into a stone-cold commander who won the war against the Armes Kingdom.

"Why is he allowed to participate in the Sacred Games?!" Galleon shouted. "The queen explicitly said that anyone from Armes cannot join the Sacred Games."

The captain quickly read the paper in his hand before saying.

"It was a loophole, sir Galleon."

"A loophole?"

"Yes. The Queen said that anyone working with Armes and anyone born Armes could not participate in the Sacred Games. On the other hand, Lianes was born in the Nagarea Theocracy and had not been working with Armes for a few months. So technically, he is not working with Armes, and he is not born in Armes, making him a legal participant."

Ferid released a sigh before nodding his head.

"Very well. He will participate in the elimination stage, and if he wins, he will enter the Sacred Games."

"Are you sure, Your Majesty?"

"Yes. The Queen's word is the law, and we must follow the law."

The others nod their heads and decide to wait for the fight to start.

~A moment later~

As Jacob arrives in the arena, he can see a massive man grinning at him. This man is Lianes, the Bloody Ax. Lianes is a massive man, standing at 2.2 meters tall with a weight of one hundred and ten kilograms.

His body is filled with muscle, and ordinary people will immediately be intimidated by his size. However, Jacob did not get intimidated; he was excited. Why? He got a new mission.

|New Quest!|

|First Impression|

|You want to make a good first impression. Defeat your first enemy in under three minutes! More rewards will be given if you can beat him in under two minutes, and you will get even more rewards if you defeat him in under a minute.|

{Main Reward: +10 to all stats}

{Secondary Reward: Flowing Rune}

{Tertiary Reward: One Random Skill}

Not only can he test his new strength, but Jacob also gets a reward from it. His excitement cannot be contained.