Spirit Taming

Chapter 723: Very Annoying

Jasmine noticeably shrank away from her sister as she and five guards escorting her came up. From what Clark could see, this was the one that Jasmine had been worried about gaining more power. Gaining enough backing to take away the future standing of the earth elf elder.

"Yes we are. We are the guests of your matriarch." Clark kept calm and spoke in place of Jasmine. She was currently stuck in her own head.

"Since it appears my sister will not be introducing me, I am Lina. I am fairly well known among the elves. Especially since I have two golems representing my stature as an earth elf. The mountain rock golem and a magma golem."

"That's nice and all, but who cares what your beasts are?" Ralph was annoyed that they had been stopped before they were able to get to the larger stall selling metal energy infused woods. He wanted to examine them but this tall brown haired elf was in their way. On top of that, she was being arrogant and annoying.

"You would speak to me like that? I thought humans would have some clue about how to act to those-"

"Seriously? Aren't you going to shut up and let us be on our way? Before we have to get back to hunting down cultists we want to look at the market." Ralph clenched his fists. No one made a move to silence him since the entire gorup understood that this elf was generally a problem. Plus, they preferred Jasmine after they had seen how prideful she was of her history as an elf.

Her arrogance was lesser than what it had been at first.

"As you can see Lina, the guests I am guiding have more important things to view here." The way that Ralph had spoken to Lina had inspired the same confidence within jasmine. She had never said such things to her since she did not have a beast that could compete with her.

"Sister, you are not using your head here. These humans are insulting me. I should educate them along with you since they have clearly made you ill. They are within our city and should show prominent figures respect as they deserve."

Before Lina was able to say more, Ralph signed and tried to just walk around them. The guards stopped him and it appeared that Ralph had lost patience. The entire act of him being more mature and focused on blacksmithing was gone.

"You elf Bitch, your two beasts are weak as dirt compared to mine. Either fight me and step down from whatever high lofty standing you have when I beat you, or walk away. Because I am not going to miss out on anything because of you."

"You're challenging me to a battle?" The stunned look that Lina had was not there for long. As soon as she realized how much she would gain when she won this little fight, she smiled widely. "Then you can battle me in our arena. Many of the elves our age go there to demonstrate their determination in the ways of battle. I am considered one of the top when I go. Prepare your mind for learning."

While she turned away and began heading toward the arena she mentioned, the other elves that had heard this began spreading the rumors. The human visitors fighting a potential earth elf elder in the future was a big deal.

"Well, I'm glad none of you stopped him. I can't wait to see her get her butt kicked." Reese laughed a bit since he was sure that the girl who was here had been spoiled too much and just generally needed to be taken down a peg.

"I think it is good training for Ralph and us. We do not fight many golems." Brad's opinion was different but still supportive. He didn't doubt Ralph winning either.

A slight glance behind him at the stalls that had just temporarily closed because of the new commotion made Ralph a little angrier. Every single thing they did had to lead to training for battles or in to some random drama. He was a bit tired of it time and time again. But he could easily finish this one before anyone else was in to it.

The branches they followed to get to this area were fewer than what they had expected. But the arena itself was a little more elegant. Many vines had been grown to become a large circular structure. The elves could stand on nearby branches to watch those demonstrating their battle prowess. Those fighting could just drop down inside to show off.

There were many here that had been showing off their skill. This place seemed to be a very entertaining place for the younger of the elves. They could train in real battles so to speak. They could also show off their potential so that they could gain more training or generally prove their points to others.

The two golems that appeared within the arena were large. One was sewing smoke since it was the magma golem. Its semi fluid body made it appear as if it would be much harder to handle. The mountain rock golem was also a bit different. Larger stones with more jagged edges made up its body compared to a rock golem which would have more smaller rocks making up its body. Less jagged edged too.

"You two handle the mountain rock golem. Just tear it apart and leave the core on the ground. I'll tear the core from that lava golem." Ralph called out the dragon wyrm and hsi molten boar. the pair appeared ready to do this without Ralph, but he was already charging ahead. No one had even said start for the fight!

"What are you doing human!? We are not fighting, it's our beasts!" Lina tried to yell out in protest. However, Ralph was already slashing down and cutting the magma arm off the magma golem. It fell to the ground where it had to absorb it again and reform its arm. Not that there was much time for that, Ralph was using his axes to vent his anger.

The sudden mess of steamy poison from the molten boar had begun to eat away at the stone body. While the mountain rock golem was larger, it didn't matter. Its body was not resistant enough to the fumes from the stomach of the molten boar. On top of that, the dragon welp had also leaped on to its back and was cutting out pieces of rock with every swipe of its claws.

The brutality was nothing near the normal elegant that the elves normally fought with. Lina had no idea what to even do since she had never been forced to fight head on with someone that was able to fight a beast on equal terms. No, that was clearly able to defeat beasts like this without a sweat.

The simple fact that Ralph wasn't affected by the what at all was too much. He wasn't a fire elf and couldn't be born with such flame resistance. The molten magma golem was quickly losing its energy due to the fact that portions of its body were slashed off.

Seve slashes was the count when Ralph spotted the red heated core of the magma golem. His hands dropped the axes and he gripped the core, ripping it from the magma. This caused the magma to fall without life and the core to shiver. Ralph's hands were not burning at all. This was the strength of a blacksmith who trained to handle the hottest of metals.

His partners were working together to shave away the stone. The molten boar charged out and shattered a leg. The dragon welp carved away more stone. By the time the pair had carved away all the stone, a shivering stone golem core lay on the ground. It felt that it had never had any physical strength to be seen ever.

"Now we will end it unless you want to apologize for getting in our way?" Ralph brandished his fists over his ax. He held himself ready to put Lina down if she moved the saber she held even slightly.

"It appears my partners were ill today. I will be-"

"I said apologize to my group for ruining our tour. And then apologize to your sister for not caring enough about your family." Ralph made it clear that this was not an option.

The entire audience was dead silent as they heard Lina apologize before running off. Her two partners sent back to the taming space. They both had to reform bodies now. Lina would not have any ability or confidence to fight for the time being.

"Your hands are fine? Right?" Grace made Ralph show his hands to her until she was confident that he had not been burned. The audience was in constant murmuring. Spreading what they had thought and saw.

"Let's go back to the tour earth elf girl. I want to look at the metal affinity wood." Ralph just pushed things forward like this had just been a way to stop and vent some anger. Nothing too crazy.