I slayed an Ice dragon and now I'm King of the dragon slayers
Chapter 43: Rise of a new king

Chapter 43: Rise of a new king

The words sounded very loud to him, it didn’t seem to bother him, only he could hear it by the way.

Dhamsel was now off the terrace and standing in front of her father, his body emaciated and his head off and lying on the ground, it gave her the creeps.

Tears welled in her eyes and when she seemed to flutter them, the tears fell down. She looked at Rhett, suddenly angered and hating him.

"You could have taken him as a prisoner while you take over his kingdom!", she shouted at him.

Rhett,breathing hard now, only looked at her, not saying a word. Dhamsel seemed too daft brained to him. Hell!, he had almost been killed by her father and if he hadn’t acted brave and showed resilience, he would have been dead by now.

Rhett’s hands slowly went to the sword thrust to his belly. He gingerly held it and with a tentative motion, took it out. He groaned a bit as he did so and breathed more hardly before falling on his knees, staring at the floor.

Ash faced the crowd of Knights who were still in shock. Their rogue king was dead and just staring at his dead body and head, they didn’t actually know what to feel.

"ALL HAIL KING RHETT, KING OF THE DRAGON SLAYERS!"Ash said in a very loud voice and then the crowd echoed what he said.

They all, their faces wanting to show hope, said:

"ALL HAIL KING RHETT, KING OF THE DRAGON SLAYERS!".

Haicor followed in the chant and it drained the kingdom. The whole damn village were now shouting:

’ALL HAIL KING RHETT, KING OF THE DRAGON SLAYERS!’.

Rhett, in his kneeling posture, heard the faint chanting and he brought up his head and tried to stare at the crowd, trying to muffle the surging pain he was feeling. He gritted his teeth and stared at the skies and then he heard:

"[C’MON, LEAD THEM OH YE MIGHTY KING OF THE DRAGON SLAYERS!, LEAD YOUR PEOPLE NOW!]"

His head throbbed greatly and he felt dazed. They were still chanting his name and instead of him feeling glorious or soaked in pride, he felt pain. The side of his belly was hurting so bad it felt he would die.

Then he heard a crystal breaking sound and...

SCREEESH!

His stats were in front of him:

NAME: KING RHETT

RANK: DRAGON SLAYER

Slayer hub: Level 3/10

[XP - 600]

{300 XP Added]

[XP needed to Next level: 800]

Abilities: [PORTAL ASCENDER, GAZE KILLER]

Artifacts - [PORTAL COIN]

Rhett shook his head sideways and then, fighting through the pain, he stood up and holding the side of his belly, shouted:

"Together we shall conquer all!".

They cheered him, the knights and archers and guards actually. That baffled Dhamsel who still stood where she was, in akimbo, staring at the scene. They made her think, was her father not loved?, had they always tried to get rid of him?. It was blowing her brain.

Ash walked over to Rhett and looking back, he saw Haicor, running very quickly, towards Rhett. Rhett, stunned by the footsteps, looked back and then Haicor was in his arms, in a warm embrace.

Rhett pulled out of the embrace and grinning, said to Haicor:

"I told you I would make it".

Haicor laughed, it was a nervous laugh actually, cute and childlike.

"But you almost died", she said.

Ash smiled and added: "I mean, if not for the miracle of the slayer hex, we’d be in the chain prison now, or King vongarth would had slayed our necks and feed us to the wolves in the forest".

Rhett forced a laugh. "Well, I survived and luck, oh sweet luck that has always been on my side, was here now".

The crowd was still chanting Rhett’s name and he smiled. The pain throbbing in him all gone for a split second. Now, this was royalty, not that short, hectic ride he faced when he just became king. Now, he would find the surviving of the other dragon slayers and form a big empire.

A damn empire of dragon slayers!.

"Anyone with a map of this place, this world?".

An old knight stepped forward: "Yes I do, it’s in my chambers".

"Then hurry and go get it for me!", Rhett said in a commanding voice to him. He bowed and scampered away, almost all eyes in his direction, looking at him.

Rhett, his face stern, now raised his hands and said to the knights:

"Who opposes my reign?".

There was silence and mutterings but no one actually answered the question.

"I won’t kill him or her, I just want to know, so that I can give the person freedom to walk away. I don’t want to rule over a deceitful person".

There was silence, though often interrupted by murmurs and faint chit chats. Suddenly, coming out of the crowd were three men in Knights armour, their faces vile and dastardly looking.

"We do you piece of shit!, we f**kin do!", said one of them. "You come from nowhere, slay our king and still want us to worship and hail you like some messiah?. Hell no!, we won’t, I’m not your servant, we!, are not your servants!".

Rhett smiled, it looked mischievous and deadly.

"Who else!", he shouted. "Let me set you free like them, let me set you free!".

An archer stepped forward and joined them and then Rhett, a bit startled, grinned.

"All good?", he said to the crowd.

The inhabitants of the ’crowd’ exchanged glances and no one came out again.

Rhett clapped his hands. "Good".

The people who didn’t want to him to rule them now looked at him, the archer saying:

"Now let us go, free us!".

Rhett laughed and turned to a knight in the crowd.

"Spare me a sword will you".

He was spared one and with a swift motion, even before the three knights and the archer could reason what was happening, he had slit their throats, one by one.

The crowd, even Dhamsel and Ash and Haicor!.

Rhett pointed to the knight who had given him the sword.

"Take them away", he said.

The assigned guard did so, taking the dead bodies of the knights and archer, three more guards assisting him in doing that.

Rhett turned to Dhamsel and pointing at her, he said:

"Take her to the chain prison, she is nice and might be of help but now, she’s too engrossed in the death of her father she might turn rogue".

Dhamsel gasped in shock as two knights ran over to her and took her away.

Rhett turned to Ash and said, his voice sounding grim:

"Now we head to the ghost slayers kingdom and rip it apart!. We’ll do far worse than they did to us".