Chin The Conqueror

Chapter 4:The awakening

They were supposed to be powerless.

"My Lord! The messenger bird has returned with another report!"A scout sprinted frantically toward the royal carriage, breathing heavily while his chest heaved.

"Speak!" the ice king thundered, his usual witty composure almost broke by the sight unfolding across the plains.

"According to the frontline scouts, the Fire Lord might have...," the messenger stammered, trembling under the king's gaze.

"They believe... they believe he has resorted to some kind of forbidden dark sorcery to force the flames to obey him!"

"Nonsense!" the Ice Lord roared, slamming his fist against the carriage frame. "What kind of absurd sorcery could allow a fundamentally ordinary man to command a ravenous, world-consuming flame like that? He is supposed to be sealed!"

It all now all made sense why he was being cocky—the fire lord.

" He is ravaging a cavalry of over a hundred thousand soldiers!"

And in a matter of seconds, half of that massive vanguard was sure reduced to ash. Their ice magic was simply no match for the fierceness of the welded fire. Worse still, the flames possessed a trait—they seemed to grow larger and hungrier with every man that goes down.

High above the scene, Minister Laus and the high army commanders stood paralyzed on the defensive ramparts.This was the fortress battlement, a stone platform reserved for heavy ballistas and war artillery to protect the kingdom. Today, it was a stage for watching the impossible.

The commanders stared down with wide eyes and dropped jaws and were unable to process the carnage below.Was this truly their quiet prince? The fragile royal heir whose very destiny had always been whispered about and doubted by the court?

The king was sharp, nonetheless ,the ministers had only stayed by the his side out of duty because many secretly harbored deep reservations about his ability to rule. But witnessing this display of power changed everything.It wasn't just a political shift. This was an awakening.

Suddenly, a calculated footsteps clicked against the stone behind them.Another high official rushed onto the platform, his eyes darting to the blazing plains below. It was Zhou.

His jaw dropped while his face drained of all colors as his eyes confirmed the rumors."The King has been bewitched!" the official wailed dramatically ,falling to his knees and throwing his hands to the sky.

"Oh gods, who has cast this dark hex upon our King?!"The man burst into a loud, frantic cry, weeping for their fire lord. But his rubbish nonsense didn't draw a single glance from the puzzled generals around him. They weren't looking at a victim of sorcery.

Minister Laus kept his eyes locked on the silhouette of Chun standing amidst the smoke."He is not a puppet," Laus whispered, his voice resonant and with a mixture of fear and reverence. "He has never been."men standing in front of him.By the time the ice king could formulate a cohesive counter-strategy, half of his proud vanguard had already been reduced to smoldering ash by the swirling torrents of flame.

Realizing his empire's invasion was collapsing in seconds, ice king surged into motion.He launched himself out of the royal carriage, his white cloak snapped and flared behind him like a sonic propellant.

Mid-air, he channeled his chi, summoning and hurling a jagged boulder of giant ice directly at the other king.

The glacial projectile tore through the sky, but Chin didn't even flinch. With a subtle, lightning-fast tilt of his torso, the ice block crashed harmlessly behind him, missing his shoulder by less than a fraction of an inch.

Gritting his teeth, the ice king twisted his hands into his basic technique,a martial hand-seal, gesturing fiercely.

A second, sharper volley of glacial spikes fired in rapid succession toward Chin's chest.

Boom!

The spikes broke into pieces, effortlessly deflected by a shimmering fire shield of condensed fire that erupted around the fire lord.

Shock was still written all over the Ice king's feature's.His expression hardened.

It was one thing for a person of magic blood to experience a , sudden awakening.It might be of his own element or another totally different from his clan's. Big thing here was....,it was another thing to wield it like this. Chin wasn't fighting like a novice testing out new powers—he was moving like a seasoned fire warrior who had mastered these techniques since birth.

Looking closer,the ice lord caught sight of the young king's eyes. The passive, quiet boy from the court rumors wasn't what he was seeing .

The ice lord could see it.In his place stood a monster, unleashing calculated forms with precision.

Minutes ago, the ice king ,lord Lu had been the unchallenged aggressor. Now, he was fighting on the defensive, struggling just to stay alive.But as their elements clashed, there was one chilling detail fire lord Lu managed to notice...