Chapter 16: The Golden Egg

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Everyone spread out and surrounded all area's the dragon was most likely going to land at. Everyone prepared their magic-infused bows and shot them aimlessly at the dragon.

While everyone was attacking, Ivery was searching the room for any possible places the dragon's golden egg could be. Ivery ran beside the dragon's nest and saw regular dragon egg's...but no golden egg..

Ivery had no clue where else to look, Ivery looked up at the flying dragon, and her attention shifted to the giant chandelier with a giant golden ball in the center...

Wait..

It couldn't be.....could it?

Ivery looked closer and concluded that the giant golden ball above everything, looked suspicious.

Ivery's translucent magic golden bow materialized in her hand, she put a translucent golden pink arrow in her bow, she pointed the arrow at the top of the chandelier and pulled her arrow back.

"Hm?" Luther's eyes scanned the whole room for Ivery, the enormous crystal blue dragon had little to no interest to him, he didn't even attempt to engage in battle with it. But if he did, the dragon would have no chance even against his weakest attack.

Luther finally spotted Ivery at the back of the room, she was pointing her bow and arrow at the ceiling.

Luther looked up and only saw the giant golden chandelier that was far above everything. Luther looked at Ivery and then back at the chandelier....what was she doing?

The arrow was released and hit the chandelier's support. And a loud boom echoed throughout the area. The chandelier came falling down.

The dragon was alarmed and looked up as it saw the chandelier coming down.

The dragon immediately flew up, it seemed that it was trying to catch the chandelier....

Ivery set her magic boost to 35% in her feet and legs and she took a big leap up and jumped above the dragon's head, she caught the giant golden ball with her two hands and pulled it off from the falling chandelier.

Within seconds Ivery fell down with the golden ball and crashed into the floor.

Rubble from the floor scattered everywhere and a cloud of debris surrounded the area Ivery crashed into.

Luther dashed over to Ivery in a blink.

As the cloud of smoke cleared up Ivery opened her eyes and thought she was going to feel an intense amount of pain...but instead she felt surrounded by warmth and comforting softness...

"Are you trying to die!?" Loki shouted

"Loki..." Ivery sat up and realized she was on Loki's back

"All for some stupid ball...I had to take that painful impact..." Loki hissed in pain as his eyes focused on the big golden ball in Ivery's arms

"This isn't a ball.." Ivery looked at the object in her arms

"What is it then?" Loki asked

"It's the Golden Egg" Ivery answered Loki's question

"...." Luther was speechless

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"Stupid" Luther plucked Ivery's forehead

"Sorry.." Ivery touched the red mark on her forehead and looked down

"You're so careless, do you have any sense of danger?!" Luther scolded

"You should've told me and I would've done something about it! here was no need to put yourself in harm's way because of some damn egg!" Luther's blood was boiling underneath his skin, he was angry, very angry

"I don't want to always depend on you and your power...I'm not so weak that I need a knight in shining armor to hold my hand and help me walk, and I'm not powerless either..." Ivery looked up and stared directly into Luther's eyes

"I don't care, you're always going to have my protection..no matter how strong you become, and even though you do hold an immeasurable amount of power, your own decisions cause you to be hurt, do you understand how it makes me feel every time you're injured?" Luther's eyes looked pained as he expressed his feelings..his voice cracked

Luther pulled Ivery off of Loki's back and held her in his strong, warm arms.

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"Return my egg humans!" The dragon swooped down and flew straight towards Ivery and Luther

"It can talk!?" Loki stared at the incoming raging dragon

"Aren't you a talking cat?" Luther looked back at Loki

"Yes and no..." Loki hissed as he stretched his back out, cracking his dislocated bones back into place

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With their attention off of the dragon for a split second, the dragon appeared in front of them in an instant, and within the same instant, Ivery shoved the golden egg in Luther's arms.

The dragon picked up Ivery in its giant silver clawed hand.

"Ivery!" Luther and Loki shouted as the dragon swiped her off of the ground in a second

Ivery felt as if she was being slowly squeezed and the ground was getting further away as the dragon flew higher up. A sudden cracking feeling was felt by Ivery, an immediate reaction of blood came out of her mouth.

"Let..me...go!" Ivery grabbed the dragon's wide ankle with both of her hands

Ivery's hands burned with a glowing bright, furious golden pink fire. Her red eyes covered with a golden glow, her veins were beaming red underneath her skin. Her light blonde hair slowly turned bright red, spreading from top to bottom.

The heat and shock waves of Ivery's touch caused the dragon to lose its tight grip on Ivery. Ivery instantly broke out of the dragon's claws and bone-like wings came out of her back.

Her wings flapped and she flew up to the dragon, she landed on the dragon's back and walked up to its head.

"Human! Return my egg and maybe I'll show you mercy!" The dragon roared as it tried to shake Ivery off of its back

"Take a quick nap" Ivery's arm flowed with her infinite energy, her demon blood raging through her veins, ever so cautiously mixing with her infinite energy, protecting her body from the damage of her infinite attribute

Ivery swung her fist down with little to no hesitation and landed a huge punch to the dragon's skull.

The dragon came falling down in that same moment that Ivery smashed her fist into the dragon's head.

The dragon crashed into the floor, several feet down inside the earth, the dragon's giant imprint was made into the floor. And a cloud of debris covered the whole room.

An enormous tremble traveled across the floor and the walls, the powerful impact caused everyone to lose balance and fall on the ground from the intensity of the crash.

Giant chunks of the ceiling came falling down on the floor, the floor cracked and the cracks traveled up the walls and the origin being the huge hole that the dragon made as it was pummeled into the floor.

As the smoke cleared up, Ivery's figure was seen as she walked out of the rubble she created.

Luther rushed over to her in a heartbeat. She fell to her knees and coughed up blood onto the floor. Her bone-like wings cracked into her back as she gasped for air.

"Ivery! Ivery! Where are you hurt?!" Luther lifted up her head and checked for wounds

"Here.." Ivery pointed to her chest

Luther put the egg down on the floor and touched where Ivery directed her injury was located.

His shaking hands glowed with a green light.

He realized that her injuries were severe, deadly even, the bottom half of her left rib cage was shattered, pieces of shattered bone pierced into her left lung, the activation of her demon blood was what kept her alive for so long.

A moment longer or without her demon blood being activated, she would've dropped dead.

The pieces of shattered bone reversed back into its rightful place, her rib cage was fully restored to its previous condition.

She was able to breathe without coughing up a mouthful of blood. Her bright red hair rerooted back into its usual light blonde color, her golden-red eyes shifted back into their beautiful ruby red shade.

Her veins calmed down and ceased the demon blood flow throughout her body. The adrenaline rush she felt caused her demon blood to activate unconsciously.

"You keep doing..reckless things.." Luther's voice sounded raspy and pained as he pulled Ivery in close to him, and squeezed her tight in his arms

"I'm sorry..." Ivery didn't know how many more times she was going to have to apologize today...

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All of the classes suffered many casualties, all that unfortunately died, surely died gruesome deaths.

A handful of students that traveled along with the MVP's died by the MVP's hands.

MVP leader Luther killed 1 out of 20 students, Juliana Lecres killed 3 out of 25 students, Stewell Norel killed 6 out of 18, Piere Cortette killed 1 out of 23, Sariell Hesteria killed 4 out of 28 students.

The students that were killed was for being incompetent in front of the MVP's or acting out of place.

They will not hesitate to take lives if they see that you are not qualified for them to live or if you display a single weakness in front of them.

They're all ruthless, who see everyone and everything as worthless ants, and those ants have to prove themselves to be worthy of being seen as something more, it was almost impossible for you to be seen as their equal.

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The golden egg was presented by Ivery to Fresia's emperor, he awarded Luther's team with 50,000 diamond pieces each.

Everyone was given the reward but Ivery did not receive anything.

It's not that she was upset, but she found the egg, yet she wasn't compensated for all of the dangers she faced to retrieve such an invaluable item that thousands of people had died trying to obtain?

"Princess Inanna" Erdel said

Ivery looked up and gave her full attention to the emperor, Luther's father.

"Come here" Erdel ordered

"Yes, your majesty.." Ivery nodded and gracefully walked in front of the emperor

"Caribella, bring it" Erdel gestured to his wife to come to him

Ivery's head turned as she saw an astonishingly beautiful woman.

This woman could rival with her own mother's beauty, her hair was exceedingly long and flowed behind her as she took each step.

The color of her peach pink hair caught Ivery's attention, and her rose quartz eye's looked gently at Ivery. Her skin, flawless and perfected in every way imaginable.

"This is for you" Empress Caribella opened her hand and on her palm laid a small red ruby that glistened with just the slightest shine of sunlight that beamed through the stained glass windows.

Ivery reached for the ruby and with just the single contact of her fingertip the ruby shone brightly

In an instant, just as the light faded away, a long golden ruby gemmed scepter was in Caribella's hands.

"Amazing.." Erdel stood up from his throne

"You truly are the perfect match for my son.." Empress Caribella smiled at Ivery

"What...do you mean?" Ivery asked, not grasping the situation

"That gem you touched reacts differently depending on the person who makes contact with it, it takes the form of what your role and importance is, the gem took the form of a golden ruby scepter, which only means you will indefinitely be an important ruler in the future, the perfect person for my son to marry, and to sit on the Empress's throne beside him and rule alongside him..." Erdel took the scepter out of Caribella's hands and the scepter instantly changed to a large ruby gemmed golden crown, only worn by Emperor's

"And since you are the crown princess of the Lilith Empire, and the future Empress of Fresia, your first child regardless of gender will inherit the throne of the Lilith Empire from you, so you will be able to completely reign over Fresia with Luther" Erdel said

"I am overjoyed....you are the first girl that our Luther has accepted and acknowledged as his bride to be, we thought that Luther would never marry...we'd never have any grandchildren from him...and his infinite attribute would never be passed down to the future bloodline of Vandell's...but now I see that is now a possibility thanks to you, Inanna" Empress Caribella removed her white satin gloves and held Ivery's hand in hers as tears ran down her beautiful face

"You are a special existence to both the Castiell royal family and the Vandell royal family...both of you were chosen by the gods themselves to hold such power...you two are destined to be together...bound by the thread of fate...so I'm absolutely sure that the gods are pleased by this union" Empress Caribella gently caressed Ivery's cheek

"Mother..." Luther lightly blushed and felt like his mother was saying too much

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"Oh my....I never knew my son could make such a face.." Empress Caribella laughed to herself

"Ever since he was born...he's always been quiet and serious, never once cried, never once complained, never has he wanted anything nor was passionate about anyone or anything..but somehow...you've opened him up, so I thank you from the deepest part of my heart" Empress Caribella told Ivery

"It's my pleasure.." Ivery smiled

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Ivery and Luther said farewell to the emperor and empress and left the throne room together.

Ivery and Luther walked down the stairs as they exited the castle so Ivery could aboard her carriage, an intense gust of wind almost blew Ivery away. Luther held Ivery in his arms as he was unfazed by the wind pressure.

A giant shadow was cast above a large portion of the area, Ivery and Luther looked up and they couldn't believe what they saw above them.

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"Master!" An enormous crystal blue dragon landed in front of the castle, looking eagerly at Ivery and Luther

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"Master!?" Ivery and Luther exclaimed

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