Although these were just whispers, they managed to reach Eldra's ears, p.i.s.sing her off as she sat and listened to an elf talk extensively about the Olympics.

"-this is where the continent will be! So many people from so many kingdoms coming to watch, but it will only be two kingdoms who will have the chance to display their skills and steal the hearts of all the spectators. My Queen,-"

"Have you booked tickets yet?"

"No, I'm trying for the VIP seats."

Being interrupted suddenly, the elf answered without thinking and closed his mouth immediately while his eyes opened wide with surprise.

As chuckles started to sound around him, his face started to flush and he looked down at his shoes.

Eldra smiled inwardly, but nothing showed on her face. Since the time that she had taken the Throne and talked to her mother before she had been executed, the number of times that she had smiled could be counted on one hand.

In even those instances, it was just happiness that came from seeing elves freed from their misery.

Of course, she couldn't even say that she was unhappy. Although she had been a little lost in the beginning, she had quickly found her stride and she now enjoyed ruling this kingdom and being loved by so many people.

Yet, the link in the corner of her mind which was like an itch that she couldn't get rid of was something that perpetually lowered her mood.

That, and the words from her mother that she hadn't been able to forget.

Now, seeing a minister of her's speak so many praises about the event organized by the man secretly in control of the Kingdom of the Elves, she had felt the urge to speak like so and stop him.

"It's alright. I know that many of you are doing the same, so I don't understand why you are laughing."

As if they were school students caught red-handed by the teacher, half of those who were chuckling closed their mouths.

Elves were a species who had a lot of pa.s.sion for skill in any field. Also, there were many elves who loved to study humans and their behaviors in order to understand them better.

This would be a golden opportunity to observe so many people and draw conclusions about how groups acted in such scenarios.

In any world, the feeling of superiority that a species might have over others wasn't something that could be kept from appearing. It was actually this feeling that led the elves to want to study humans, making them feel as if they were researchers treating those of the other species as mice to be prodded forward in a maze to note down and understand the dumb actions.

Of course, this only applied to a minority, but it just so happened that this minority was in the top echelons of the government of Eldinor and thus had the authority to attend this court.

In fact, the booking hadn't even begun, but the elves had started to pull strings in order to make sure that they would be the first when it did start.

"So, what is your pet.i.tion?

The other aspect that came along with this superiority was that of pride. Pride which would be hurt if it saw the status of others rising far above in the hearts of many while they only stood on the sidelines, watching.

Looking up with determination, the elf said, "Elves must also take part, and we must showcase our power."

Eldra was startled by this. One known weakness of elves was that they were mostly Mages and that they actually had slower training speeds than humans in general when it came to training their bodies.

All of the events announced so far were meant for Fighters, so she didn't understand how elves could even hope to partic.i.p.ate.

"Although I applaud your wish for Eldinor to rise in popularity, the events are all for Fighters. We would only embarra.s.s ourselves if we insist on partic.i.p.ating and then end up losing."

Those in the court were almost all older than her, and she sometimes forgot that they were also wiser.

This fact was shown to her again as she heard the reply of the elf.

"My Queen, we must challenge both of those kingdoms and mock them for not including any events for Mages. We must also anger them, saying that they are doing so because they know that their performance and skill cannot hold a candle to that of the wise elves of Eldinor. This will close the mouth of those who have started to talk that the other Kingdoms are too scared to test themselves in such a public scenario. If they refuse to include events for Mages, we will still have maintained our pride. But if they do include them, then we will crush them all and make it known to the continent once again that we are the Masters of Magic."

As the elf gave this pride-filled speech, Eldra chose to simply relay everything to Daneel through the oath.

As the King of Lanthanor received this message, his eyebrows raised as he realized that the Olympics were growing to become something even bigger than he had imagined.

"Alright. You're in. I'll send over the rules of the Mage games soon.", he replied, looking forward even more to seeing just how much of a grand spectacle the Olympics were going to be.