A Burning Conflict Between Commanders

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***Setting***: Spade Kingdom

***Characters Involved***:
		- Soleil Excandescentia
		- Arthur Hisumi

***Synopsis***:

Within the land of the Spade Kingdom, near the board close to the neutral zone, not too long after the sun has set merely an hour ago. As the snow slowly falls down from the sky and gently lands on the snow covered ground. Suddenly out of nowhere, a pair of large, fancy magic doors manifests which opens up revealing a spatial portal at both ends of the doors.

From this doorway portal, a man in full, glowing golden armor with an elagant red cape baring the insignia of the Clover Kingdom's strongest Magic Knights squad, the Golden Dawn on the center of the cape, walks through. This man's very first step in this snow covered land caused the snow to instantly melt at his presence around his foot and the snow falling around simply vanished before it could even reach the ground. The man wasted no time checking the scenery nor cared about the environment around him and preceded towards his destination at the Spade Kingdom's border walls follow closely behind a large group of Golden Dawn Magic Knight members.

After finally approaching the boarder wall's gate, leaving behind a trail of melted snow from where his feet has stepped on, revealing beautifully grown greenery thats been hiding under the snow this time. The man in shining golden armor looked up towards the fortress. "Open the gate, in the name of his majesty, the Wizard King of Clover, I, Arthur Hisumi demand an audience with the royal family!" He called out to the Spade Kingdom lookout soldiers he couldn't see but knew they were watching him.

The guards muttered among themselves as he yelled at them. They were all out of sight, but a mana sensor among them sensed his power and was nearly blown back. She had only felt this before with one other person, and even then her power wasn't quite so blinding. Whispering a suggestion to the leader of the border garrison, they sent someone to run to the center of town and get the person currently stationed there to deal with the problem. This was out of their league.

In the town hall meanwhile a woman with elegant red and gold armor, with a horned headdress was talking to the mayor, discussing the upkeep of the defense in the town. As the man barged in, relaying the details of the situation, she listened thoughtfully, occasionally asking for further detail, picking up her sword and shield. When the soldier had finished she was already out the door, walking there at a confident pace, though unhurried considering the situation that the town was in. The slow gently falling melted in the air around her, with the ice on the road melting as she stepped on it.

As she walked over to the border wall, she got up on top of it extremely quickly. As some of the soldiers shivered from the cold she released a bit of mana into the air and it warmed up. Unlike most of the soldiers she was fully visible to Arthur and as she saw him she rolled her eyes. To the surprise of all the soldiers there, she jumped down from the border wall. As she started picking up momentum her face was calm, and she landed on the ground unhurt. To those who knew about it her activating mana skin was rather obvious. Walking towards Arthur she stopped in front of him, making eye contact with her hand on her sword. "Their majesties the King and Queen of Spade are not in this town nor is that the proper way to get a royal audience." Her tone was serious.

Arthur remained where he stood, staring into the womans eyes, however his face, usually completely apathetic, showed no interest in the person standing before him. Despite the fact that they are looking into one another, It was clear that Arthur doesn't even acknowledge her existence. "Do you take me for a fool? I am well aware where the Royal Family resides. If i wish to speak to them, I must first enter the kingdom. If you dont even know that much, your not worth my time. Now i will only tell you just once, step aside and let me in."

"We will not let a commander in through a crucial border point without any prior notice." her tone was firm and it was obvious that this point was not something she would budge on.. As she noted how he acted her demeanor shifted to become more guarded. "If you want to go into the Spade Kingdom then go through one of the trade entrances in St. Homobonus or St. Eligius." She was being polite but her tone was clear on the matter. Still sizing him up she noticed that Arthur has obviously not recognized her yet and she wasn't going to reveal herself.