Guardians Of Magic

Chapter 9

Chapter 9

Cerulean
"Look what we have here"

Hiro's Point of View

We woke up early to prepare ourselves for our arrival at the Kingdom of Cerulean. Cerulean is very well-known for its busy nature for their rapid economic growth because of the businesses that settled there. Because of the money and business outrage, the kingdom was dubbed as the Trading Capital of Ethiopia. A lot of large businesses and indrustrial factories are located on every corner of the kingdom. Small and medium businesses can also be found on the streets like the little stands, stalls, and stores which reminded me of when I take the afternoon walk towards are own kingdom's market. Since this place is basically the mother of all businesses, we can easily find anything here whatever it is that we wanted.

"Waaahh~" Kichi gaped in amusement and wonder as he saw the facade of the kingdom. Cerulean has two borders that needs to be crossed before we can enter its domain. We were still outside the outer gate but we can see the towering buildings inside the kingdom. I can even hear faint chatters from even a mile away from the people that are inside.

"That would be 2 gold coins for each person and 5 for the carriage," the man said from the small box stall beside the large gate. Before we can enter the first gate, we have to pay a toll first. Talk about capitalism. I paid the man and soon after, we could hear the clanking of the gate and got in eventually.

Like the common description that I heard from travelers, there were many people flooding the streets each making noise. Every store had their own products like clothing, furnitures, jewelry, fashion accessories, and there's even a shop that was selling Frog Legs. The people here came from different races from different kingdoms. There's the Elves, the Dwarves, the Witches and even Celestials like us.

Even though we passed the entrance, there was still a second gate where guards check for any threats. It's taking us too much time to enter because eventhough it was still early, there's already too many people here. There are only four guards that checks up on people by the gate that's why there's more people here by the second gate than inside the kingdom.

"What's taking so long Hiro?" Xael groaned.

"I can't push through. There's too many people here."

Xael looked outside the carriage window and felt dismay when she saw how crowded the place was.

"There's so many people here. It's making me hungry, Hiro" Kichi complained.

"We just ate."

"But I'm starving!" Kichi whined while looking at a carriage full of food.

"Bree, look over there," Xael called. She was pointing at a carriage full of weapons.

"Some knives, let's buy some before we leave, ok?" She said while looking at the knives that caught her eye then back to Bree with a grin.

"Whatever you say, hime" Bree said with a smile.

The girls continued looking outside the window while talking about the things they'll buy while I was stuck outside getting bored with Kichi beside me, checking to see if someone will rob us. I couldn't do as much so I unconsciously stared at the horse's butt in front of me. I'm...not sure why I did that.

Creep.

"Can we buy food now?" Kichi asked while tugging my shirt which kept me out of balance.

"Will you sit down properly?" I annoyingly asked. He didn't answer me or maybe he didn't hear me so I directed my attention to my left where I heard some folks talking about a rampage the other night. I overheard them saying about a beast in the forest. They said something about under the full moon and ice. But I didn't really paid much attention to them.