บท 27: Cornered Mouse will bite the Cat

After the information of the massacre of the entire royal family of Lipon kingdom along with the citizens and guards spread like wildfire, the execution of Adam was also announced for the crime of trying to force himself upon Princess Ares.

The entire Delos Empire was in an uproar!

The fall of one of the richest kingdoms along with all the citizens of Gabon city, the execution of Prince Adam, the marriage of Princess Seraphina with Prince Luke, and the fact that the Lipon Kingdom was one of the leading members of the rebellion that was supposed to happen but was avoided somehow....lead to many rumors spreading amongst many noble households like the plague.

Some said:

'Delos Empire released a mass destruction monster hidden in the Palace on the Lipon Kingdom for planning a rebellion'

'Emperor is too cruel'

'Prince Adam's execution must have been planned after he survived the calamity to wipe out all the members of the royal family.'

'Yes! Prince Adam must be innocent, he survived but the Imperial family wanted to wipe him out to keep his mouth shut from exposing their dirty secrets of hiding such a monster amongst them.'

'The Emperor was already keeping Princess Seraphina as a hostage in a mansion in Delta city, now they have wiped her entire family to make her more helpless.'

'Too cruel! too cruel!'

Within one hour many royal families and noble households gathered together to plan their next moves, they were fearful of the strength of the Empire but like the saying goes 'cornered mouse will bite the cat'.

Flames of civil war that Emperor tried to put down were now burning with even more fury...

Emperor had a slight frown on his face ever since he heard about the news in Gabon city plus the fact that he has to execute Adam because of crystal clear evidence provided by Noah made his aura gloomy.

.....

It was already afternoon, Noah was teaching Ares in the training arena but he was constantly hearing the murmurs of the imperial guards talking about the rumors.

All the citizens of the Delos Empire were in a state of unrest.

According to them if their rulers planned a rebellion then their lives will be endangered as well after hearing about the massacre in Gabon city, where forget about citizens not even children were spared.

All of them died a gruesome death where their hearts were crushed and a river of blood could be seen flowing in Gabon city.

Just the rumors made the citizens shudder in fear.

*clank!*

'Seraphina must have heard about her parents by now...' thought Noah.

*clank!*

'It's interesting how Gabon city was attacked right after I left that place...' he smiled amusedly thinking about this coincidence.

For a moment he felt the method of killing, that is, crushing the hearts of enemies felt very familiar to him but he quickly shook his head, clearing those thoughts almost immediately.

*clank!*

"haah...haah....haah..." Ares panted heavily after repeatedly failing to put a single scratch on Noah.

Beads of sweat were rolling down Ares's skin and it made her supple skin glisten.

"Let's stop here for today, after all a lot of things have happened in one day," Noah said and kissed her forehead.

At that moment Valentina appeared in the same long hoodie and sneakers that she was wearing previously with a worried expression after hearing that his daughter was almost taken by force.

She looked like a worried elder sister more than a worried mother.

When she saw Noah kissing Ares on her forehead a mysterious glint flashed through her eyes.

"Are you okay?" Valentina hugged Ares and tears were threatening to escape her blue eyes that were now a little gloomy.

"I am fine mom!" Valentina didn't listen and started checking every inch of her body as if she was looking for a single scratch, a single reason to release her fury on that bastard.

When she saw that Ares was okay, she heaved out a sigh of relief and hugged Ares with even more strength, and started kissing her to display her show of affection.

She didn't care about the Imperial guards or her status, right now she was only a worried mother.

Though the Imperial guards didn't feel any awkwardness at all. They already knew about the overprotective nature of Valentina, so they quietly left.

After a few moments, she calmed down and then asked about the events that took place from Noah because she did not wish to put any mental stress on Ares.

Noah recalled all the events, missing the parts where he visited Gabon city for about 1 minute.

"Sigh~.....You two have really grown up...you handled the situation very well.." she hugged Noah as well then she asked

"by the way how did you change your eye color?" Noah was not surprised that Valentina knows about the minute details of the events and even then she decided to ask about the details from their own mouth.

It was just a display of trust.

Noah didn't reply and taught her a spell which anyone can use as long as they have comprehended even a little bit of water element just enough to produce a few droplets of water out of thin air using mana.

It was very simple but on Earth where magic was relatively new compared to other older civilizations, this spell was a breath of fresh air.

Valentina looked at her son in a new light.

She then remembered something and took an exquisite ring out of her storage ring and handed it to Noah while recalling the events that took place between her and Mary.

Noah looked at the ring and put it on one of his fingers.

As soon as he put the ring on his finger, it glowed.

A worldly pressure erupted out of nowhere and tried to bind Noah's soul with black ethereal chains.

Noah used small gravitational fluctuations to connect all the three pieces of jewelry given by Mary to Valentina, Adah, and Noah.

His powerful Saber Intent erupted from the depths of his soul.

Howls and Shrieks of beings that have been slain by his Saber could be heard deep inside his soul where a pitch-black colored Saber was resting and glowing ominously.

[Space] and [Time] fluctuated around this Saber, only Noah's [Soul] power held the saber in its place, or else it would have rushed to cause a massacre on its own!

The cruel and overbearing personality of this Saber was released with full force as if it was saying 'How dare you to put a leash on me? ME!? I'll cut those chains into pieces that dare to touch ME. I'll cut those things that go against ME. I'll cut everything into two that dares to defy ME!'

*SLASH!*

Connection with the three pieces of jewelry was abruptly cut off, chains that were put on all the three souls broke with this Saber Intent.

The glowing light vanished and the 'slave ring' turned into an ordinary ring! The two 'slave bracelets' turned into ordinary bracelets.

Moving back in time...

Noah used his Saber Intent using small gravitational fluctuations on the bracelet directly to make it essentially useless.

Thus the 'slave bracelet' on Ares's wrist was already turned into an ordinary bracelet before it was put onto her wrist which was different than what he did now.

Noah wanted to do the same with Valentina and Adah but when he saw that Empress Mary didn't give them any 'orders', he decided to postpone it and moved to Gabon city to check on some things quickly and now he was quite satisfied with his decision because he got a 'precious thing' just before the city was destroyed.

He felt extremely lucky because he was sure if he wasted even a single second in Delos city, either he would have to face 'that monster' and his 'precious thing' would have escaped in the meantime, or that 'precious thing' would have died before he could have done anything!

Thinking about the 'precious thing' a wide smugly grin formed on his face.

A fortune for a [Immortal] must be something great right?

.....

In a secret room right below Empress Mary's room...

A beautiful woman was dancing elegantly.

"Tarara~ rara~ rarara~ ra~"

Her dance was graceful, aesthetic, polished, and artistic.

Her movements were smooth and precise yet very sharp and flowed perfectly with the rhythm like the orange skies blending with the setting sun.

Although the room was empty, if anyone was here as a spectator, they would be mesmerized by the beauty of this dance.

Dancing to her heart's content was one of the favorite hobbies of the Empress. It helped her to relax her mind.

"rara~ ra~ bam~ bam~ BAM~ BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM!"

She felt the rhythm breaking and looked towards the 'magical music recording instrument' trying her best to listen to the rhythm...

"ra~ rara~ rarara~"

Although the music was still the same, she could feel something amiss...

*BAM!* *BAM!* *BAM!*

Suddenly her head started spinning and she felt like her head was being hammered successively, she tried to resist whatever was attacking her with her mana but it didn't help at all.

She felt like her brain was put into a juicer and blood started coming out of her ears, nose, and eyes.

She clutched her head with all her might because she felt like if she doesn't, her head may explode.

She left the room hurriedly and entered her main room and called out the maids before she fainted...