The Dragon's Flame Queen ✔

✔Chapter XXVIII - The magical stones

The long fields stretched till the horizon with the colorful vegetables filling the green plants and the golden rice swaying with the breeze. It was almost time for the harvest season and soon the Harvest Festival would come up as well- Seraphina halted in her thoughts as she remembered the old days which she spent with her guild members and family. The Harvest Festival was always filled with lots of games and a fair which she never missed. Now, being here she would only have to suffice with the memories she made with her friends.

The mining areas were located at the outskirts ot the town and many people along with a lot of equipment were present there. The land was completely barren around the area with a pile of large black rocks in one side. The miners were wearing the safety armors which protected their heads and body. Seraphina felt her curiosity rising as the place seemed strangely familiar, it wasn't that she had visited it before but she wanted to know why she was feeling the warmth in her belly.

"Oh, if it isn't Gorof!" A miner dwarf called out and then bowed quickly as he noticed Seraphina, "Welcome Princess!"

The rest miners bowed as well and greeted her while she stood there watching the hole at the base of the mountain.

"From there the miners go in?" She asked and Gorof nodded.

"Can I go inside?" She asked.

"No, it's extremely dangerous, a lot of accidents occur down there along with the earthquakes and if anything happens to you the Dragon Prince will bring hell upon us." Gorof said rather curtly.

"All right." Her enthusiasm deflated a little, "but I can see the shiny stones, right?

"Sure. Derek can show you the gems that they found today." Gorof pointed at the dwarf who had greeted him earlier.

Derek gestured Seraphina over towards the small building which was at a distance from the mine and she followed him along with the dragons guards and dwarf guards.

"These are the stones we found today." Derek said as he pointed at the stones on the table. An old dwarf was sitting there on a chair with a lens fixed on his eye focusing on the gems.

"What's he doing?" Seraphina asked.

"That's Ferro, he's checking if the gems have some other properties except for their beauty." Derek said and Seraphina frowned.

"Some other property? Like what?" Derek went quiet for a moment, no one else spoke as well it was just the sound of the footsteps hurrying from behind which made Seraphina slightly conscious about some trouble she was about to get in.

The intense aura came crashing on her as she turned around and found Demian. Well, an angry Demian.

The twitch on his brow was hard to ignore as he rushed toward them with the other two guards.

"Princess Seraphina..." Demian said through his gritted teeth, "would you mind telling me, what are you doing out here?" His voice sent a chill to her core.

"Err... Just-" Then she recalled, he shouldn't be here, "and what are you doing here? I suppose you need to rest properly."

"Don't avoid my question!" A vein bulged in his forehead, "it's very dangerous to stay out here and we barely have enough guards to protect us and I'm sure they are very tired."

"No, your highness. We shall protect our Prince and Princess even though we have to tire ourselves." One of them said, which made Seraphina give a smug look at Demian.

"And, since Your Highness and Princess are in this town it is our duty as well to protect you with our lives." Gorof said in a dutiful voice.

"Don't worry. Everything is fine and besides, we should take our chances when we get it to check everything. I'm sure everyone in the dwarf town would be glad that their prince is acknowledging them." She grinned as Demian had no choice but to consider her point.