บท 290: The Emperor (PT:1)

After spending a few hours simply enjoying his walk through the market Daedalus finally decided to visit the emperor. So Daedalus asked for directions and began walking towards the castle.

The castle itself was quite large and was surrounded by a large stone brick wall. This made it so there where many gardens around the castle. The castle itself reminded Daedalus of a book that Richard had once written for him. It was a book from earth called Harry Potter, and the castle he was looking at was similar in description to Hogwarts.

Placing that to the back of his mind Daedalus walked to the castle gates and made sure his insignia was clearly visible. The guards stopped him as they would anyone else. When they saw the insignia one of them said "Sir if you wouldn't mind, can we please borrow the insignia, we need to verify it with the emperor?"

Daedalus nodded and said "Of course, I am here to meet the emperor after all. So it's best he can see the insignia."

The guards quickly bowed after getting the insignia and the one with the insignia quickly ran into the castle itself. As he was waiting Daedalus observed the armour the guard was wearing and said "Is that Adamantite?"

The guards eyes widened significantly and said "I'm surprised you can identity it, how did you know?"

Daedalus chuckled and said "Well for one I have some and other than that, I happen to be a skilled Armour and weaponsmith."

The guard raised an eyebrow and said "I assume you're the one that incited the competition of craftsmen then?"

Daedalus nodded and said "This is the weapon that I forged during the competition."

As he said that Daedalus unsheathed his spear and held it in a way that the guard could hold it. The guard didn't hold back and held the spear. After a while he said "It's an amazing weapon, but what kind of metal is this, I've never seen it before and I think the emperor would have shown it off before?"

Daedalus nodded and took back the spear before saying "It's a material I made myself. It has the ability to grow."

The guards eyes widened and he coupled for a second b fore saying "Grow, it can grow!? You must mean you have some sort of mechanism that makes the spear longer, right?"

Daedalus chuckled and said "No, I mean it quite literally. I have an armour made out of it as well it is much tougher than this spear because I have saturated it with my mana."

The guard was about to continue speaking when the guard that had run off came running back. Taking a deep breath he said "You can go in sir, the emperor isn't busy so you can meet with him, I will guide you."

Daedalus nodded and re-sheathed his spear and saying "I enjoyed our chat, but I'll be going now."

It wasn't long after that, that Daedalus was stood in front of the dwarven emperor. As he stood there and the two observed eachother Daedalus couldn't help but think 'He looks an awful lot like my mother, I wonder why?'

The emperor then spoke saying "Daedalus, eh. I knew my sister would have a son, shame I couldn't be there."