Avilena took the four Archons by surprise in the reception hall. They never expected such a sudden appearance of a beautiful red-haired girl in a flowing snow-white gown. She stood at a distance and emitted a powerful magical field. The giants stared questioningly at her with their amazed transparent eyes, reading the information about who she was.
"Did you ever expect to see the Goddess?" Avelina declared defiantly.
One of them whispered slowly in a pleasant voice:
"So that's what you are, Zarian princess! You came yourself! Good girl!"
All four of them, smiling contentedly, looked at her from head to shoes.
"How reckless of you to come to us like that!"
"Come here," the pink-eyed Ruler invited her to sit next to him.
His gaze was furiously blazing with fire.
"No, thank you, I'd rather stand here," Avelina grinned. "I wouldn't want to linger in your arms."
"You're in vain to refuse, impudent one, I like your energy," Tremiroiz did not take his passionate gaze off her. "Your salvation is in my hands."
"Why was your agent Zorhit just about to arrest me?" Avilena asked calmly. "I am not under your command, Rohen is my Lord! You have no right to detain me."
"He is obliged to serve us and so are you, but he is disobedient and constantly acts without our consent," Rumiodis said. "Why did he give you such powers? You are a woman, not a fighter. Who are you going to fight with?"
"It's better to go with me to the bedroom," Tremiroiz suggested brazenly. "That's where you belong. I will give you pleasure that your husbands are not capable of. At the same time, you will be saved from punishment!"
Their words hurt Avelina greatly, and her eyes flashed fiercely.
"I have persons to sleep with and time to fight," she cried out in anger. "I fight for freedom from your tyranny!"
"Tyranny?" Ertosherioch laughed heartily.
"Made me laugh!" - Mertarizar commented. "What nonsense is sitting in your beautiful head! The Zarians surprise me all the time. Rebels, out of control, on the edge of the world, are always looking for some kind of mythical freedom that exists only in their dreams."
"Who are you going to free?" Rumiodis grinned.
"Women from slavery! Your elite kidnap girls without their consent and condemn them to short lives due to their plasma radiation."
"It's not your place to worry about mortals! Rohen is completely crazy: he's wasting his power on such insignificant stupidity - protecting people from imaginary slavery," - Ertosherioh said angrily.
"In any world, no one is free from anything. Every creature is obliged to be useful in some way and serve in the name of Prosperity. In this way it develops its potential and becomes stronger. And there is a fee for each service. What kind of slavery are you talking about?" - Rumiodis arrogantly said.
"There is no Freedom! Everything in the world is interconnected, everyone is chained to their attachment. Nothing just happens. Humans and syrinxes need each other until the problem of reproduction is resolved," - Mertarizar added.
"You are too voluptuous!" said Avilena. "You are trying to justify yourself by insufficient reproduction and you don't know the measures to be satisfied. The eternal thirst to enjoy without doing anything. You solve your problems at the expense of the weak and powerless. You are parasitic on people!"
The Rulers all stood up from their seats at once and stared at her threateningly. They began to be covered with tongues of blue flame, which did not burn them, but only slid over the surface of clothing and open parts of the body.
She stood at a distance of ten steps from these four and felt that the same tongues of plasma were jumping all over her. Avilena guessed that they decided to punish her in the same sophisticated way that Amirel mentioned.
The Rulers began to shine even brighter and almost disappeared from the fire that had consumed them, turning into blue lamps.
Avilena realized that she could not move, as if some kind of magnet was holding her. The flame suddenly engulfed her entire body, but it did not burn or harm her, it only raged furiously over the entire surface. She did not burn, even her clothes and hair remained intact thanks to the gift of invulnerability.
She was horrified by the thought that the Archons were deliberately trying to burn her alive, despite the fact that she was an immortal princess.
It's easier for them to do this than to re-educate her. That is why Amirel warned not to come close to them, which means that in this way they execute violators of the code of Prosperity. They are also going to do the same to her husband for hiding the princess from the authorities.
The fire gradually died down, and the lamps went out, and in their place the Rulers appeared, with annoyance discovering that Avilena was still safe and alive. It was time to make a teleport, but she could not restrain herself from uttering insults in response to their execution.
"Did you want to execute me? I didn't know you were so cruel. It turns out that you hate strong women. And how many of these poor things have you burned? Maybe there were many more princesses, but they resisted your lust, and you destroyed them in cold blood? You are terrible Rulers! I hope we never meet again."
Avilena glared angrily and disappeared.
"Still invulnerable!" Ertosherioh hissed.
"Rohen seems to have foreseen this, since he endowed her with such a gift," - Tremiroise suggested.