quaila

Meanwhile, Lord Palmer was getting dressed for the battle.

He stood in front of the huge mirror and thought to himself.

What's the point of winning this battle anyways, power, riches? What are these things without happiness?

After Luca's birth, he lost his wife, and had to lie to young Miguel that his mom went out in search of power.

Now that all he loved was gone, he couldn't hold onto any other reason for living. And not even Mercury was available to console him.

"My Lord!", He heard a knock on the door.

"What is it?!", He asked still not taking his gaze from the mirror.

"The battle is about to start!", The messenger replied.

"I'll be out soon!", He responded.

"Alright My Lord, I won't disturb you further!", The messenger added and left.

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This is how the Apical battle works:

Before even going to contest for head of any city, you'll have to go through some tests. After which you may proceed to join the fighters for Apical head.

The test conducted were based on vision, logic and some others all aiming to see if you are qualified in the first place to rule.

Some who knew about the rigorous tests, only came to witness the battle, because it was definitely not a story to be told by someone else.

The Apical battle started, walking up to the stage was the funny event manager, Sir Misha.

Right from when he was 27, he had been the one anchoring special events like the apical battle, now he is 67, so the crowd knew him very well.

"Hello everyone!", he spoke into what was called the amplifier.

It's like a horn with many other horns attached to it, then other horn like things are also attached to the walls of the ring. So after the sound comes out of the amplifier, it is captured by these horn like things attached to the walls of the ring and further amplified so all could hear.

"Hi!!!", a majority of the crowd replied excited.

"What's my name?!", the old man with a youthful aura yelled into the amplifier and received a cheerful response immediately.

"Sir Misha!!", they replied like children.

He stood and put a finger in his ear as though he did not hear the crowd shout out loud.

"What's my name?!", he asked again in a much louder manner.

"Sir Misha!!!!!", the crowd replied louder.

This time he had to cover his ears as they continued shouting.

"Alright! Now I know you can all here me.", he added as he looked at the crowd with a smile.

"I believe we all know why we are here!", he said to them.

Instead of grumbling at his obviously stupid question, they looked at him eagerly waiting for what he was going to say.

He smiled and looked up at the silent crowd.

"We are here to celebrate a marraige ceremony!", he added with a smile and the crowd began to laugh.

They were waiting eagerly for him to say something this abstract and unrelated to the main event. He had always done this and so it wasn't new to them, instead they always looked forward to this.

While they laughed, they saw this old move his hand as though he was calling someone.

And before their eyes, 2persons walked in.

As soon as the crowd saw this, they kept quiet as they watched the beautiful girl standing next to him and a funny looking man.

The man was recognized at a glance... It was the ugly son of Kanon Miza, the owner of a well known pill shop in Quaila's central.

Kanon is one of the ugliest men in Quaila, due to his business success, he was able to get himself a good looking wife and with her, he had 3 children.

A boy, a girl and finally a boy, in that order.

The first 2 kids were okay, but the last one, Biron looked more like Kanon.

Standing next to Misha and the beautiful unidentified girl was Biron.

The crowd looked in a daze as the old man forced out a smile and said: "This is my daughter, Mira....", he added as he placed his hand on the back of the beautiful girl.

When the crowd heard this they went wild, all at a glance began to assume and conclude what must have happened behind the scene.

They immediately began to protest.

"Injustice!"

"The rich would always manipulate things!"

"She's too beautiful for him!"

As they spoke the beautiful girl began to shed tears as she looked at her father whose eyes at the time were also red.

"Stop this!", Misha and the rest persons on the ring turned to where they heard the voice from.

Soon when the crowd saw them turning to a direction and another figure walking in, they inadvertently looked and saw Luca take the amplifier from Misha.

"First, this is not the platform to this! Which tells me more that you are acting against your will!", Luca spoke into the amplifier.

As soon as they heard this, the crowd went wild once again.

"Yes!"

"Lord Luca is so smart!"

"What did Kanon make you do?!", he asked Misha whose tears had began to roll down his eyes.

He kept quiet as he looked at the crowd as though he was looking for someone.

"Bring him in!", Luca added gesturing with his hand that someone be brought forth.

The crowd began to look in the direction of his focus and in no time they saw two Quailian guards pulling a man on the floor.

"Looking for him?!", Luca asked pointing at the man who had obviously been badly beaten.

When Misha saw him, he was dumbfounded.

At first scared but when he thought about, Luca's strength, he became overwhelmed with joy.

When the crowd saw the face of the man, they grew even more wild.

"Luca! Luca! Luca!", they chanted in excitement.

They couldn't beleive that the dreams and imagination they tagged a fairy tell was unfolding before their eyes.

To be continued.....