"Is everyone here?" Drake asked, his gaze briefly scanning the group.
"Yes, we're all here!" the others echoed.
Nox's teammates—Mira, Brutus, Fenix, kasiy, Toren and Zara—stood alongside him and Drake at the top of the Royal Castle. They were making preparations to travel to Frostpire, where the Competition of Kingdoms would be held.
Each decade, the tournament's location changed from one kingdom to another. The organizers believed that keeping the competition in a fixed place would give an unfair advantage to the dominant dragon species of that region. To maintain balance, the location was shuffled regularly.
Of course, this method still granted the host kingdom's dragons an edge, but it was an unavoidable reality that had long been accepted.
