"Who caught your eyes?" Amon asked Elixir.
The young man stared at Elixir. The mysterious lady who dresses in white with wool-like hair but eyes that give two different hues gave her a sweet smile as always.
"You really want to know?" she teased because the young assistant she had kept asking her how many times, even before they left the chamber of the Eternal Threader of Destruction.
"I'll show you tomorrow," she said. The next morning, they go where the palace's most exclusive craftsman was held captive. They are forcing him to work under the new ruler, but he declines. The young lad who pledged his oath to the previous emperor. The official Prince Orion was forced to create a tool that inhibits the use of the sacred weapon.
She smiled and said, "That's my prospect," she pointed while peeking with Ammon.
The Legendary weapon is in line, a potential weapon of birth and creation, but the Threader is still mortal. Young and ruddy, valiant and loyal.
"He's perfect." She stretched out her hands and put them together like forming a frame and fitting him in it.
"I hope he'll overcome the torture," Ammon replied.
She giggles. "They won't destroy potential," she said. "I won't let them. He needs to go with me willingly," she added.
Meanwhile, later that day, Princess Shannon made her petition. The crisis in their homeland is worsening, so she pleads with the tyrant to give her permission to visit. The relief that the previous emperor distributed is already running out, and this new tyrant, who claims that he cares for the people, is not doing anything.
Everything makes her disgusted, and she wants to leave for a moment. Emperor Howard won't allow her, but since. They successfully made the Emperor's craftsman create medicine that will inhibit the summoning of the sacred weapon; the tyrant allowed her.
Although it is still not perfect and may have adverse effects on the user. He made her drink it and let her go.
Duke Oliver went to see her.
"I need peace; I'll visit Princess Minerva." Princess Shannon smiled and gave him regards before she left.
Sarang, one of the previous emperor's wives, pleaded to come with her to help since she and the princess have a common origin. She also wants to help her people.
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Meanwhile, Leon makes a decision to leave the place with the money he collected. He buys a farm wagon, good enough to carry the important things they need as they move. Hidelga hasn't seen Ricka the next day and after.
Her body has improved a lot from the injuries and after preparing the things they will be needing. Leon doesn't hesitate to have her for himself. She is his wife, after all. Leon placed a ring on her finger, giving her a promise that he will formally marry her in front of his family.
"Well, that's nice," she smiled at him. "Tell me about your family. You haven't mentioned anything about them to me," she said.
He climbed up in a reclining position, having her leaning on his chest and he began narrating.
There's a short pause as he thinks about where to start and then he speaks. "I have an older brother and a younger sister," he says.
Hidelga finds it interesting and she turns to await his next words. "I'm not close with either of them. However, you can say tht I am my older brother's enemy and my younger sister... she is always persuading me to have an heir," he said.
'Of course, a lord needs an heir to his position,' she thought.
"So, there might be other women before me?" she hunched. Leon was quiet.
"I can't blame you if I am your mistress. I know you need an heir, a legitimate child." Hidelga moved a little, covering her body. For a slave, being a concubine or mistress is not something uncommon. It is not something unusual since she experienced having Ricka living with them for a while. Even though Leon doesn't consider her as a wife. She went to all means to seduce him in front of her.
Leon, indeed, has five wives back at the castle but he is planning to divorce all of them whenever he finds his empress. He held her shoulders and pinned her on the bed.
It was never a big deal for an emperor but he knows it is to a commoner wife.
"Would you like to be my only wife?" he asked. It appears as a mean question. for those wives who will be sent back to their home.
"It's alright," she smiled. "Maybe it won't be that bad when I'm living with them," she said, thinking about what happened when she was fighting with Ricka.
He sighed. He started kissing her chest.
She exhales as she lets him do what he wanted to do. His kisses went down to her stomach.
He stops and goes up to kiss her on the lips. "I give you a trusted personal attendant so you will have a comfortable pregnancy. If it's a boy, I'll name it Ronan, or maybe Ren;. If it's a girl maybe Hina or Belina." he uttered. She was dumbfounded.
Hidelga was still thinking about the wives issues but he is thinking about the pregnancy.
"umm... I.. I-I" she stuttered.
He looked and said, "You didn't like the names?"
"No. I just—" She stopped hesitating to finish her sentence.
Leon was trying to read her like a book, though. Maybe too much of being an emperor is not always asking for the other person's permission or opinion. Being considerate is the solution, he thought next.
"I see, if that's the case, please give me children," he said boldly.
Hidelga was flustered. She wants to cover her reaction to him. Aware that she wants to cover up, he lay on her chest while she was still in her reclining position.
and they do it one more time before they leave.
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Meanwhile, the tyrant went to travel east to have a business trip.