Adventures of the last Wild Dragon

Chapter 297: Issues at the Farm

Violet and Luna awoke that morning before the sun even began to rise above the horizon, they had tried to get a good nights sleep but had mostly failed in that endeavour.

It had been a busy few days for the girls. Since their meeting with Steelclaw and visiting the dragon farm for the first time they had spent the rest of their time preparing and gathering as much information as possible.

Be that from visiting the library to read up on the history of the kingdom and the city, to visiting some of the nobles that they had become somewhat friendly with like Rose.

They had also spent some time better understanding their own strength after their most recent level ups. Something that they had been somewhat neglected on since arriving in Sonantis.

Still they had done all that they could, now all that was left was to actually pull everything off.

To do that they first needed to make it to the farm and settle in whilst they wait for the key players to arrive.

After a slow morning of impatiently waiting, they had a hearty breakfast and headed outside to enter the awaiting carriage.

Soon enough they were once more outside of the city and following a familiar road towards the Mount Emporium’s compound.

This time they were not alone however, a number of other carriages were also traveling towards the compound. A total of 6 other nobles had been granted the right of claiming one of the many dragon hatchlings this batch. The remaining dragons would be sold off the the military to be used as mounts of war.

By the time that mid day was fast approaching their carriage finally arrived in front of the heavily defended gates leading into the farm. This time their was a full regiment of smartly dressed guards and attendants awaiting their arrival.

Their carriage, along with the 6 other nobles present all arrived inside of the central courtyard where they came to a stop. Then everyone began to disembark to witness the awaiting attendants. Amongst those was the unpleasant fat overseer of the emporium who was pointedly not looking in violet or Luna’s direction.

Not that it was much of a loss for our girls as they had no intentions of interesting with the unpleasant human more than absolutely necessary. So that situation worked just fine for them.

A small party was to be held in the assembled nobles honour, as such everyone was dressed in fine clothing befitting their station. The number of guests numbered just shy of 40 individuals, each carriage carrying on average 2 nobles along with their personal maids or butlers with a guard or two to round out their entourage.

The group was led over to the main building of the compound and into a large ball roll. The insides of which were finely decorated, tables of food and drink liked the walls whilst a band played music off in one corner of the room.

It was quite the event, with people mingling and dancing.

At least most people were doing so. Violet and Luna, not so much.

Whilst within the city they had managed to avoid the worst of the racism directed at them due to their strength and status, combined with generally avoiding interacting with the bigoted people.

Here they had very little chance to avoid such people. The kind of people that tended to purchase dragons were also the kind of people that would look down on beastkin and any non humans as a whole. As such they were receiving some hostile looks from the assembled guests.

And after some drinks had been had one such noble just had to push things past simply glaring at them from a distance.

A tipsy young noble sauntered over with a couple of lackeys or sycophants following close behind the young man. "Hey, you two. Why are things such as you allowed in here? Shouldn’t you have a collar around your necks or something!"

Both girls who had been mostly minding their own business up to that point slowly turned around to face the man. Their faces icy cold, Luna spoke after a moment, the air around her growing noticeably colder.

"I’m sorry I don’t think I heard you right. Because surely you didn’t just imply that we should be slaves now did you?" Her voice cut through the subdued murmurs of the gathering, all attention turning towards the small confrontation happening.

Either out of arrogance or pure stupidity the noble did not back down from his statement, instead doubling down. "You heard me." He then sniffed loudly as his eyes raked over both girls bodies with lustfull eyes. "I may even allow you into my bed if you accept your place in the world."

At that Violet patience was all but dried up. Her disgust at the man bubbling up and her tightly controlled presence seeping out and causing cracks in the fabric of reality to begin forming. Then she spoke, her voice causing the world to ripple around her as the discussing noble was suddenly frozen in place.

"I should kill you where you stand for speaking such words to both myself and my companion. I care not for how important you may think you are, but I am feeling magnanimous. So I’ll allow you one chance to apologise."

Then after several long moments she partially retracted her presence that had fully engulfed the man, still binding his limbs in place with her shear pressure but releasing enough to allow the man to breath and speak.

Yet the man just did not know when to back down. Instead of doing the sensible thing and apologising he instead had to go and act like the spoiled young master that he was.

"How dare you! Filthy beast, do you know who my father is? He will have your head for daring to insult me so!" Spittle practically flying from his mouth, some may have even landed on the girls had Luna’s own presence frozen it solid long before it even came close to touching them.

Luna then spoke up, her tone surprisingly light for the fury running through her body at the moment. "We dare because we can, because we are strong. And you, you are pathetically weak. Go cool down."

Then the world around Luna froze.

The noble, who was hardly even half way through tier 2 by their best guess was entirely unprepared, as was everyone else present in the room. None of them having expected anything like this to have happened.

So when the world around Luna froze, no one was able to react until the effect had already happened.

Frost rushed out from her body, reaching the young man in less than a heartbeat. Yet it did not stop at just reaching him, but instead the frost targeted him.

First his feet froze to the ground, then his legs and trousers froze, followed swiftly but his torso, arms and soon his head.

In less than a single second from when Luna finished her sentence the ball room had a new decoration, that of a very life like ice sculpture.

Silence dominated the room at that, no one quite knowing what to do or say at the sudden freezing of a noble in the middle of a party.

And of course it was at that moment that the main doors opened up and two new figures strolled into the hall. Accompanying them was an all too familiar sensation, a domain had just decided to lay claim to the entire room.

Our two companions ith slowly turned to face the doors, once again locking eyes with the City Lord of Sonantis, Lady Jasmin Sonantis and her personal guard Kurtis Raven.

The lady took a moment to take in the scene before her for a moment, a flicker of surprise crossing her face upon spotting the ice sculpture that was once a young noble. Well he was still technically alive within the ice, just not exactly in great condition.

Lady Somantis eventually spoke up, her voice carefully neutral as she enunciated her words. "Would someone care to explain why young Lord Falken is currently encased in ice?" Her gaze naturally turned towards both Luna and Violet seeing as they were both the closest to the man in question.

Yet her words did not intimidate the two girls, after all they knew what they were aiming for in coming here today. So Violet spoke up, her voice devoid of any kind of respect.

"Well that thing over there." She started whilst lazily gesturing at the frozen noble. "Decided that it would be a smart idea to insult the two of us and claim that we would be better off being both slaves and his bed warmers." Her words were harsh and spoke without the slightly of inflections.

"So as recompense for his insulting words we simply punished him. Although I do want to say, we will not be as forgiving towards the next degenerate that dares insults us so next time." As she spoke both her and Luna’s presences had merged together and forcefully pushed back against Kurtis’s dominating domain, managing to successfully push it away from them and leaving the early stage sovereign in a state of shock.

Yet he did not have time to act upon that shock as it was right then that bells began to ring around in the compound outside.