Chapter 3:

Ares and William reached the thrones’ room door in no time. Straightening his back and puffing his chest up, Ares entered the Throne room.

When door opened, a hot air wave brushed against his face, warming his entire body. Ares stood still for some seconds enjoying the warm feeling and finally stepped inside the room.

*Tap, Tap*

Entering the room, Ares could only hear his and Williams’ steps.

The throne room was quite large; there were numerous marble pillars to the side of the room that seemed to be supporting the ceiling and flags of different formats and colors were illustrated on these pillars.

The ceiling appeared to be made of a transparent material and you could see perfectly everything outside. Facing the door and in the end of the room, a magnificent golden throne stood.

A muscular man wearing long black robe and a long red mantle made of exquisite animals fur sat on the throne. This man had lumberjack combed like black hair, deep green eyes and milk-white skin.

The man’s’ eyes were closed but when Ares and William entered the room his eyes suddenly opened. He looked at Ares and Williams’ direction and a gentle smile showed on his lips.

This man was Ares father….King Ezequiel

“Greetings father” (Ares)

Ares said with a strange smile on his face while looking at the man who stood in front of him

“You made me wait for so long that I took a nap…” (King Ezequiel)

*Snap…Snap*

The King said as he stretched his arms up and snapping sounds could be heard from his joints.

“So are you ready?” (King Ezequiel)

The King asked as he lazily stood up from the throne and descended the marble throne’s stairs, heading towards Ares and William.

 Every step he took was decisive and fierce, causing an oppressive aura spread through the air, this aura pressed down on Ares making his knee tremble and he slowly knelt down coughing

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“You are already on the 3rd Rank Warrior… Impressive!!!” (King Ezequiel)

The King said as he looked at the panting Ares, a hint of pride flashed through his eyes but slowly disappeared as he started to walk towards one of the corners of the room.

“Let’s go…It’s time for your awakening” (King Ezequiel)

“Yes Father” (Ares)

Ares rapidly stood up and followed his father, while William wordlessly looked at their backs murmuring some incompressible words and readily followed behind them

They stopped at a corner of the room that had a wall engraved with countless lines that joined together to form a small labyrinth and in the middle of it there was an illustration of a little flame with a hole on it.

The king searched through his clothes and fished out a strange key in form of flame, and then he pressed this key on the wall’s flame illustration.

All of sudden the room started to shake and the wall lit up in a white color, seeing this color the King immediately bit his finger and dropped a small drop of blood on the wall.

*Shhhh*

A boiling sound sounded as the room stopped to shake, and the wall magically opened itself, showing a narrow and old stairway that goes downward

The King took a step forward and began to descend the stairs, Ares and William followed closely behind.

After descending a few steps light ceased to exist and the darkness ruled

Seeing this the King snapped his fingers and a small flame ball appeared over his head illuminating the way.

After an hour passed they finally arrived at the end of the stairway.

 In front of them there was a boiling black pond, this pond emanated an overwhelming aura that might easily kill someone.

“So where are we? What is that?” (Ares)

Said Ares while looking around and pointing at the Black pond

“We are in our Ancestral Ceremonial Lands, and that is the Endless Black Pond, we are going to use that for your ceremony” (King Ezequiel)

“Why? The ceremony was supposed to be held in the Elements Room, right?”(Ares)

Hearing this, the king madly laughed.

“Ares…our Imperial bloodline is quite different from others, so we can’t do that in the normal way right? If I have to say our bloodline is the stronger bloodline of this World… but unfortunately most of our ancestrals died in the Purge War, causing our bloodline, and race to weaken…Have you ever heard of the void element?” (King Ezequiel)

“Of course…It’s the strongest element of them all, but this element is just a myth.” (Ares)

“A myth? HAHAHA… Of course is not, our Heavenly God Bloodline is the only one that can control it, why do you think that those damned races joined hands? They were deeply afraid when they discovered our secret, so they waited for millions of years and finally when our Ancestor weakened they attacked.” (King Ezequiel)

Hearing this Ares closed his mouth and thought about everything he heard.

“But then why are we still in this Cold Lands? If we are so powerful we should have counter-attacked, thinking well, with this power is impossible that we lost that war” (Ares)

“Unfortunately…it’s not that easy, to awaken to the Void Element, it’s needed to have a pure bloodline, and a strong Mental Energy, in our family just two people have awakened to the Void Element…just the First and Second Ancestors” (King Ezequiel)

“So it’s like that” (Ares)

An awkward silence spread through the ambient, as Ares digested the new information he acquired.

“My King we should start the Ceremony” (William)

The King nodded his head and looked at Ares and softly said.

“Right... You can enter the Endless Black Pond, just a tip, this liquid is quite advantageous to your body, so I advise you to absorb as much as you can” (King Ezequiel)

Hearing this Ares took a step forward and with decisive steps walked towards the boiling black Liquid.