Jaus, now waiting for the Battle Royale where the last 50 people standing will be allowed into the tournament, is looking at his opponents.

Arrogant ones fill the entire readying room. Only he is the quiet one. There are some people who aren't arrogant but they seem confident.

A few glares are sent at him. Afture all Jaus is dressed in full white. With a mask aswell.

The only different color on him is the black lines on his hair.

He waits for hours... And then the horn is sounded and all the contestants walk towards a huge platform.

The entire arena is surrounded by walls and ontop of those walls are people watching.

The announcer walks towards the arena and uses magic to amplify his voice.

Announcer: "We shall now begin the Battle Royale. Only the last 50 will be allowed in. No fatal injuries allowed. Serious injuries will be healed with magic. The prize for winning the entire tournament is being hired as a retainer in a royals home and also a personal manor near the royal you are serving."

All the contestants start shouting our of pure joy from hearing that.

Being a retainer in a royals home and having a manor is basically becoming a minor royal yourself.

Another horn sounds. The battle royale begins.

Atleast 25 people charge straight at Jaus thinking he is an easy opponent. But in a second all of them are thrown out of the arena smashed into a wall.

Jaus smiles a little under his mask. The other people avoid him afture that. But the few arrogant ones who approach him are instantly dispatched. Also the ones Jaus decides to attack are thrown out instantly too.

Every time Jaus picks a new opponent and starts slowly moving towards them the crowd watches in interest.

In the beginning there was atleast 500 people in the big arena.

Afture one minute of fighting only 175 were left.

Out of the 175 50% were women and 50% were men.

They were all tired and bruised from constant fighting. But Jaus didn't even pretend to be tired. He could've taken on everybody here and leave without being scratched. And all that while reading a book.

Upcourse he couldn't read human language anymore because it changed. Only beast language.

Everybody avoided Jaus for the entire fight as Jaus sat down in the middle waiting for somebody to approach him.

In the end there were 10 women and 39 men excluding Jaus left. 20% and 80%.

The announcer walked up again:

"The battle royale has ended. The time what it took was only 3 minutes. Currently the most interesting people in the fighting are:

White Demon Jaus, Silver Knight Tien, Black Knight Sien and The Female Knight Yuir."

Jaus asked the announcer:

"Why am I the only one called Demon and the rest are called Knights..?"

Announcer:

"The reason for that is... The king decided that. You seemed like a ruthless demon what didn't even leave a speck of blood on his clothing afture finishing his opponents. The knights are called knights because of their fighting style and armor. You are the most strange one here. Jaus."

Jaus: "Hmm... Ok. I get it now."

Jaus and the 49 others leave. The crowd glared at Jaus as he left last. Eveybody was interested in this stranger.

The town also noticed the dissapearance of the White and Black Gorilla aka Jaus's real body. White and Black Gorilla is what the humans named Jaus when he was asleep.

Jaus was directed to a huge house with 50 rooms. A maid opens the doors for them and a butler is standing infront of them.

Butler: "Welcome, fighters, I am the head butler of this house. We will take care of you all until the tournament is finished. Jaus... The king wishes to speak to you personally. He will come here an hour from now. We prepeared some clothing for you. We hope it fits. Also if you need we prepeared a bath. Just follow the maid outside your door. She will help you around the house."

All the others turn their glare at Jaus, some filled with hate or anger. Others filled with amazement.

The butler then tells maids to go and take the fighters to their rooms. Jaus's room was the first room. The 3 other knight's who were named by the announcer held the 2nd to the 4th room.

Jaus went and took a bath and then changed into some royal looking clothing afture checking his room for magic items what could be used for spying on him. He always kept his mask on even while changing clothes or being in the bath.

He went togther with a maid who was assigned to him and ended up in the living room of the house.

Soon afture the King came in with 3 guards.

He sat down on the couch opposite of the place Jaus was standing at. Jaus didn't stand up and greet the king.

All the guards looked at him angrily but then soon fixated their eyes on the maid who was escorting Jaus.

King: "Well well... Hello White Demon Jaus. I'm the King of this kingdom. Uic."

Jaus: "Hello King Uic."

Uic: "Just call me Uic... You are far stronger than anybody in this kingdom and strength means everything here. Especcialy for a frontier kingdom like ours."

Jaus: "Frontier?"

Uic: "Hmm... Seems you were secluded somewhere. I'll get you on track personally. 700 years ago the beast king dissapeared and we took that chance to expand. Thanks to some heroes we summoned we got this land quite easily. Our kingdom is a pretty big one. Covers 25% of the former beast land."

Jaus: "Good to know... But the Frontier?"

Uic: "The beasts came together into a kingdom... You really don't know anything... Frontier kingdoms are the kingdoms in constant fighting with the beasts. We are one of them."

Jaus: "Ok... Now why are you here."

Uic: "I saw your fighting. Ruthless but elegant. Swift but strong. Not even our top warriors could see what you did. I want you as a personal retainer for my army. I'll even give you some land near the capital..."

Jaus: "We will see afture this tournament. But i'll take you up on your offer."

Uic: "Good good... By the way... You are also going to be the personal bodyguard of my eldest daughter Jera. She's quite a ferocious and warrish one. Quite tepremental. So be careful."

Jaus: "I will. Anything else?"

Uic: "No. I just wanted to get to know you better... But it seems you want to rest don't you?"

Jaus: "Does not matter to me."

Uic: "Oh. Perfect. Let's talk for a while..."

Uic and Jaus talked for a while about each other. Jaus didn't talk about his personal life much because he didn't trust the king. He was willing to become a retainer because he wanted to get some trust so he could start trusting the humans too. Only this time he won't be as stupid to believe every random human...

The king left afture 3 hours of talking with Jaus.

When the king left all the other contestants came out of their rooms to check out what happened. They were told to stay indoors during the meeting with the King.

They immediatly surrounded Jaus but when Jaus gave them the eye of the killer they all made a path for him. They were too scared to argue with Jaus directly. They knew they were no match for Jaus but they wanted to test out his true strength.

Jaus slept the entire day... It was time for the first match in the tournament. It was between Jaus and the 2nd favorite for winning The Black Knight.

We shall see how Jaus deals with the Black Knight in the next chapter.