11: The Founding Gathering 2/2

"Huh?" Alexander was confused.

"We each challenge you to duels!" They said once again.

"Oh. Fine, but when? I have business on the next two days before I go back."

"I already got permission from the king to duel in the training room out back."

"Well then let's go. Weakest duels first and the Strongest duels last so figure out who is stronger and who is weaker among yourselves." Alex said to the three men.

"Alright."

While the three men were doing that Ivy asked Alexander a question.

"Alex, why are you doing this?" Ivy asked with a confused expression.

" I am doing this for three reasons. First to prove to other nobles that I am worthy of the position fiancee of the royal family. Second to show your family that I am strong enough to protect you. Third to be honest I have gotten much stronger and I have yet to test my strength. So I would like to get some battle practice."

"Let's go Alexander Holt. We are ready." The three men said.

"Lead the way."

5 minutes later they arrived at the training ground. They decided on a melee contest; no magic.

First to fight was Ken Fabian.

"Sorry kid. How could a fifteen year old like you beat me in a match without magic? HaHaHa!" Ken said a loud.

"I'll just beat you with brute force." Alexander responded with a nonchalant expression.

The truth is almost everybody was thinking the same way and when they saw the results of the match they were truly shocked.

"Begin the match!"

As soon as he shouted begin, Ken got into a fighting stance but when he looked up he was already flying through the air. If Alexander let him fall then he would of landed in the royal garden; which was a hundred feet away from the stadium so he caught him and said "I win." In a heartbeat Ken was defeated.

Everyone was shocked besides his family. The son of count Craig withdrew his duel request and so did the son of duke Sorione. Then the king walked up to the stage and started to speak.

"Everyone, I want to warn you that if you are under the rank of master, don't even challenge him. Even I, at the advanced rank of master, would not challenge my soon to be son-in-law. The reason is simple; he ranks higher than me. The truth is this guy was never sick, he just had so much potential we had to keep it under wraps. Besides, even if he was sick, he could just send his body back in time. After all, he is a time emperor."

"Huh?" Corey Craig said.

"I just said this kid is a time emperor."

"You're serious?" While Heath Sorione was questioning the seriousness of what he said

"Yeah he's serious. I'm the third emperor of time. In other words, I'm currently the third best time user in the world."

"You mean the one that mysteriously appeared five years ago?" Duke Trident asked surprised.

"Huh? what are you talking about?" The King questioned.

"Five years ago, I heard that the second best user of time among the demons and ranked third in the world suddenly had his rank dropped to fourth in the world. So they asked the dwarves if it was there time user and they said no, in fact a year before that his rank dropped from fourth to fifth. Everyone was wondering who the new time emperor was, but after a year they stopped looking. Who would have thought it was a human boy who reached such heights. But how did you do it? To overcome him, you would have to have quite a bit of experience." Duke Trident said wondering how this kid did it.

"Well I cast a spell on the room I stayed in and what felt like ten years to you felt like two hundred years to me. I stayed in that room from the age of five to fifteen and came out of that room less than a week ago. I used my time to power level from pawn to grandmaster." I said with that nonchalant expression on my face.

"....."

"Well it's getting late so let's get dancing!" The king says with a hearty expression.

They all went back to the main room and danced. Alexander got three dances with his fiancee before he left and went back to the hotel to get a good nights rest.

6 days later...