Chapter 117: A Draw

The two were scared seeing this, didn’t dare to fight anymore, hurriedly rushed out together, they just got out, and the 300-year-old Royal Martial Arts Arena behind them directly collapsed, turning into a pile of rubble. Although Arthas and Old Xie escaped the risk of being crushed to death, they were still covered in dust, making them look like two mud men.

Fortunately, the Little Princess had run back for treatment after her eyes were blinded, otherwise she would have been killed by these two.

With such an accident, the fight naturally couldn’t go on. The two looked at each other, then laughed out loud at each other’s miserable appearance. This laugh dispelled a lot of their resentment, Old Xie laughed first: “Pretty Boy, you’re not bad, you’re the first one to force me into such a mess. Although you just relied on good equipment, your skills are not bad either!” Obviously Old Xie was a bit unconvinced.

“Hehe, barbarian!” Arthas then also laughed: “You are also very powerful, although you just relied on talent and weird things, but being able to draw with me, you can be proud too!”

“Bah!” Old Xie immediately said disdainfully: “What’s so proud about drawing with you? It’s more like shameful!”

Arthas didn’t expect Old Xie to turn his face so quickly, also immediately retorted, “Drawing with a barbarian like you is my shame!”

“Your biggest shame should be your sissiness and womanly posture!” Old Xie immediately mocked.

“Your most shameful part should be your extremely vulgar words and deeds!” Arthas also said without showing weakness.

The two then stared at each other like fighting cocks, looking like they were about to fight again.

But just then, a rush of footsteps alerted them. They turned to look and found many people had come around, all nobles attending the banquet and Imperial Palace Guards, obviously, the huge noise here had alerted them.

At this moment, the Emperor, with a pale face, walked over somewhat helplessly, and said in as gentle a tone as possible: “Oh, may I ask, what happened here?”

“This~” Arthas immediately felt very embarrassed, could only smile bitterly: “I’m very sorry, when we fought, we didn’t control our strength well! Resulting in damage to this building, please forgive us.”

“Oh, I see, it’s okay, it’s okay.” The Emperor naturally couldn’t blame them, hurriedly said politely: “Perhaps this Martial Arts Arena was too old, the strength was somewhat insufficient, so it caused you to be embarrassed, if anyone should apologize, I’m afraid it’s my fault!”

“No no, it’s my fault!” Arthas was an honest man, hurriedly said: “I shouldn’t have used Explosive Arrows inside the building!”

“Cough cough!” Old Xie had been impatient listening for a long time, directly coughed twice to interrupt them, then said extremely arrogantly: “I’m a bit tired today, going back to rest first, Pretty Boy, I’ll deal with you another day!” As he spoke, he also provocatively pointed at Arthas.

“Barbarian, I will definitely teach you a lesson another day!” Arthas also retorted without showing weakness.

“Che, you? A sissy wanting to teach me? Wait until the year of the monkey! Haha!” Old Xie said, then turned and walked away, although his head, face and body were full of dust, looking very miserable, but looking at his aura, it gave a valiant feeling.

The nobles present were all dumbfounded, thinking, this guy really doesn’t know how to write the word death? Daring to be so arrogant in front of the Emperor, and also publicly insulting His Royal Highness the Elf Prince, God, doesn’t he know how terrible the consequences of offending them are?

Anyway, at this time the Emperor’s face was already iron-green with anger from Old Xie, if not for the Lightning Magic Saint, he would definitely have ordered Old Xie to be dragged out and beheaded. But now, he could only smile bitterly to Arthas: “I’m really sorry, this Little Stephen is too rude, I apologize to you on his behalf. But he wasn’t like this before, maybe he was injured a while ago and damaged his brain.”

“Is that so? This guy’s strength is so strong, who could injure him?” Arthas immediately asked curiously.

“Oh~” The Emperor was also stunned, couldn’t help asking strangely: “His strength is really strong?”

“Yes!” Arthas said solemnly: “I used a full set of Legendary equipment and only barely gained the upper hand, you see, the building was blown up by me, but he was fine, you should know how scary he is!”

“Ah?” Everyone present heard this and couldn’t help exclaiming.

“No way, he wasn’t this powerful before?” The Emperor hurriedly asked: “Then Your Highness the Prince, what level of strength do you think Little Stephen has?”

“I don’t know!” Arthas immediately smiled bitterly and said: “His magic power isn’t very strong, at most Level 2, but his movements are too agile, simply more agile than a monkey, my Explosive Arrows couldn’t even hit him! His strength is also terrifying; although he doesn’t have Battle Qi, his brute force alone made my wrists go numb. If I hadn’t seen him release that Lightning Spell, I would never have believed he is actually a Mage.”

“I see!” The Emperor said as if realizing something: “Last time he was forced into a Berserk state by someone, and ever since then his personality changed drastically, and his strength also increased fiercely. Perhaps it was because of the Berserk that the Barbarian bloodline in his body was revived, greatly increasing his physical qualities, which is why he possesses such powerful strength and agile skills!”

“He has Barbarian bloodline?” Arthas immediately asked curiously.

“Yes!” The Emperor nodded, then suddenly smiled slightly and said: “We can talk about these things slowly later. For now, you should go change your clothes first!”

“Oh!” Arthas then realized that he was still covered in dust. To meet someone like this was very rude, so he hurriedly said with embarrassment: “Sorry, I forgot, please forgive me, please excuse me for a moment!” After saying that, he hurriedly walked inside with several guards of the Elves.

“Alright, everyone else go back too!” The Emperor then said to the crowd.

Upon hearing the Emperor’s order, the crowd dared not neglect and turned to leave. But as they were scattering, the Emperor quietly asked the leader of the secret agents beside him: “Where is Stephen?”

“He just left with Little Stephen; I’m afraid he couldn’t help but go punish the troublemaking Little Stephen!” The leader of the secret agents explained.

“Hmph, he got off cheap today. Remember to call him over tomorrow; I want to ask him how he educates his son!” The Emperor said viciously.

“Yes!” The leader of the secret agents hurriedly agreed, thinking to himself with secret gloating, ‘Damn Little Stephen, last time with the Princess’s matter you made a fool out of me; this time, I will definitely repay you well.’

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Just as the Emperor was thinking of ways to curry favor with Arthas, lest this important figure hold a grudge against the Griffin Kingdom because of Little Stephen. Old Xie was also facing the non-stop complaints from the wretched Fatty.

“Ancestor, you are my ancestor, okay?” Fatty said to Old Xie with extreme agitation: “Can’t you stay quiet for a while? A moment ago you beat the Princess, and the Emperor called me into the Imperial Palace and scolded me for a full three hours, scolding me so thoroughly! I barely endured that; after all, the Princess was the one looking for trouble, and I can understand your mood. But today, you old man, how could you even beat the Elf Prince? And you even demolished the Imperial Palace! Do you know? That Martial Arts Arena has a history of over three hundred years! The Royal Family of past generations all practiced Swordsmanship inside it. You demolished it; what a huge crime that is!”

“Why so much nonsense?” Old Xie couldn’t help but frown and say.

“This isn’t nonsense, I am telling you how much huge trouble you have caused!” Fatty shouted angrily.

“What damn trouble!” Old Xie said disdainfully: “I beat the Princess, what does that have to do with you? The Emperor scolds you, can’t you scold him back?”

“You, you actually dare to tell me to scold the Emperor? Do you think I am a lunatic like you?” Fatty was almost angered to death by Old Xie.

“You don’t dare to scold, that means you have no guts!” Old Xie shrugged and said: “So you deserve to be scolded!”

“Fine, fine!” Fatty laughed in extreme anger: “I have no guts, you have guts. If you have guts, then don’t be afraid of the revenge of the Elves!”

“Scorn, I just exchanged a few moves with that pretty boy. Do you think the Elves would start a war against the Griffin Empire over such a small matter? Or would they start a war against the Stephen Family?” Old Xie sneered: “Wake up, the Elves have always been elegant and generous, not as stingy as you think! They won’t go to war over such a trivial matter!”

“This~” Fatty was reminded by Old Xie and immediately understood. The situation was indeed so. Because the various races of the Continent must unite to resist the powerful Three Great Disasters, they had an extremely close interdependent relationship, described as lips and teeth. Therefore, as long as the Elves weren’t fools, they would absolutely not fall out with the Human Race over such a small matter; that behavior would be too idiotic, practically suicide.

Actually, Fatty wasn’t stupid either, he was just scared silly by Old Xie’s shocking actions, so he didn’t think of it for a moment. But Fatty was still unconvinced, he continued: “Even if the Elves don’t look for trouble, how do we explain it to the Emperor? After all, you smashed the Imperial Palace?”