Monarch of Darkness

Their journey continued next day. Evan saw there were four more warriors who were following them. Evan looked at the birds,the warriors were riding and his eyes lit up.He spread his soul conciousness and covered the birds. But as soon as his soul conciousness left his body,a sound reverberated in the ears of Evan. "Who,who is it sneaking?",Thomas shouted. Aaron also looked at the surrounding carefully. Everyone became cautious and scanned their surroundings cautiously. After searching for some time, everyone stopped. 

"Strange,I feel a soul conciousness scanning our area. But in a blink of an eye,it is gone. I can't even trace the source of soul conciousness in such a small time",Thomas said while frowning.

"I guess it is a magical beast from forest. We are currently flying very close to the forest after all. More over,this forest is connected to northern mountains",Aaron added from the side.Thomas nodded his head and said,"It is possible. We have to leave this place as soon as possible to avoid any unnecessary trouble".

The green feathered eagle spread its huge wing and flew rapidly forward. It's huge wings created friction with the wind and sharp wind waves crashed onto the body of everyone riding it. "I was careless just now. Fortunately I have devil codex which blocked the soul conciousness of lord Thomas",Evan sighed in relief.

Speed of green feathered eagle increased rapidly and his body swayed due to impact of wind.Evan felt like he was going to be blown from top of green feathered eagle. Suddenly a blue barrier appeared surrounding his body and Evan felt the impact of wind waves stopped. He looked back and saw Aaron holding a staff in his hand. The staff was grey in colour and a blue coloured gem and a purple coloured gem was fixed on top of staff. Currently the top of staff was glowing with blue colour.

From the structure of staff,Evan guessed the elements Aaron could control and he felt slightly surprised in his heart. Before this he had always wondered about the strength of his uncle Aaron who was also the only wizard among the generals of his father. But now seeing the staff,his confusion got cleared. "Purple represents thunder and blue represents wind. So,uncle Aaron is a wizard with the dual elemental control ability",Evan exclaimed inside his mind.

Their journey continued without break and they only stopped when the sun completely disappeared from the sky. This time they stopped at a army base belonged to raging bull army. Morning came and their journey started again. This schedule lasted for another eight days and only when it was afternoon of twelth day,Evan heard from Aaron that they reached the outside of Northpeak city.

Evan looked forward curiously. He was very much interested to know about the human powers because one of the reason their devil kingdom got defeated was human powers. Humans had dispatched countless warriors to their kingdom and the unbeatable devil army got defeated in the end. Evan was very curious about the well structured armies of human which was used by gods against their devil kingdom. He had already got information about different specialized regiments of Northpeak army and he was looking forward to see their effectiveness in battle.

The green feathered eagle descended from sky and Evan could finally see the ground clearly. Numerous caravans were moving along the road. People were everywhere in the surrounding. Some people were riding on top of magical beasts and some caravans were also being pulled by magical beasts. Evan had a astonished expression in his face seeing such a scene. He had never seen so much people in one place. 

Evan saw a huge gate in a distance and caravans were passing through the huge gate. Their were guards standing nearby the gate and they were checking everyone passing through it. The green feathered eagle didn't stop like others near the entrance. It directly entered by flying above the gate. 

Buildings were as numerous as the crowd outside. No matter where Evan looked at,he found numerous people everywhere. But one thing amazed him. Outside the gate there were all sorts of magical beasts. Although the flying type magical beasts were not numerous as the land-based magical beasts but still Evan spotted a few outside the gate. But now he saw very less magical beasts across the city.

"Uncle Aaron,why there were very less magical beasts inside the city?",Evan looked at Aaron. "Magical beasts are not allowed inside the city. Only city guards and royal family of 36 kingdoms could bring magical beasts inside the city. Restriction order on bringing magical beasts were given to prevent magical beasts from attacking humans inside the capital",Aaron replied. Evan now understood the reason clearly. 

The green feathered eagle flew rapidly like a straight arrow. After crossing some distance it it changed it's direction towards the northeast. A big mountain could be seen at the end of the horizon. Evan saw gigantic palaces were built along the way. Finally they flew closer to the mountain. There was a exquisite building on top of mountain. Their were two other slightly smaller palaces were built at both side of the exquisite looking palace. Green feathered eagle flew toward one of those smaller palaces.

A big palace appeared in front of Evan's eyes.Envoy palace,a beautifully carved word could be seen on it's front gate. There were two red armoured guards were guarding the both side of gate. Their faces were cold and their were two short battle axes on both side of their waist. The green feathered eagle landed infront of the gate of the palace. Both of the guards bowed toward Aaron as soon as they saw him. After everyone got down from its back,it looked at Thomas. Thomas only nodded slightly and the green feathered eagle soared into sky. 

There were many courtyards in the palace. Thomas led them to a cortyard which was located at a corner. Their were many rooms inside the courtyard. Rooms were made up of white stones and there was a small pond in the open place of courtyard. Thomas allowed them to choose rooms of their choice.Evan and Aaron choose two adjacent rooms nearby the small pond.