19 Huang Caiyi is reborn. (1/2)
”Your majesty what I'm about to tell you is secret. I can help you obtain the full inheritance but I need that you help me in the future if is possible. What you say?” I say these words at her. I know that she became that kind of ruler because she put the empire and her people above all. Looking at her makes me remember Arturia; she gave everything to her people but never take care of herself. What I know is that there are a lot of different paths to be a king, but the one she chooses is the most difficult. In the end she was betrayed because she didn't trust her people and peers. Alone and without someone reliable at her side she succumbed and her end was tragic.
Maybe I think that that's the reason in which Mordred decided to help. After all she saw her Father fall in the end and she doesn't want that more people experience that. I think that maybe that was the reason that I helped her in the War Games, she needs to know that a ruler is someone that can decide the fate of his people with a single word but above all she needs to understand that the people protects their King. A good king is someone that can inspire awe and fear in the hearts of his citizens. Sometimes he needs to be a benevolent ruler and others a tyrant. The path that Arturia took was filled with thorns, with each step she was losing more blood and die at the end of the road. So I decided to help her with the management of the kingdom that we took in the war games, I only helped the necessary, when she was bent on her ideals I scold her without a second thought. Hahaha that was funny the Knights of the Round Table were sweating buckets when I was scolding her in front of everyone and she was with her head down andi was screaming at her:
”What in all the Hells were you thinking?! Why did you accept those refuges?! Did you not know that they are spies between them. Are you out of your mind?! Know I have more work to do thanks to you!!”
”I-i-I saw their plight and you are not sure that they are spies in the refuges”
”I don't know if you are a saint or plain stupid. We are at war for God's sake! You think that the other kings don't know my strategies to use spies in their ranks?! I was the first to use them in that fashion, how do you think that I have the nickname ”Puppeteer”? I use everyone at their full potential! If I need a muscle brain there's a lot of them here, but if I want to use people with a brain there's none! For the n-time you are the King. You don't need to go to save the world. That is not your job! Your job is use your force when is needed to protect your kingdom and my job is make that everyone that wants to interfere here is dead!”
I continued to admonish this foolish king for another 4 hours. In the end Arturia was devastated and leave to her chambers. Later that day a rumor that I make the King cry was spreading in the entire Kingdom. When I was in my thoughts, the voice of the Little Demon Empress brings me back.
”What you say is true? I hope that you don't try to fool me! I know a lot of people that try that only for their own benefit. I will not put my trust in someone that I don't know” the voice of the empress was devoid of warmth and her regal aura was almost visible. 'Yes! That's how a ruler needs to be, he/she needs to know how to hear his/her subjects but in the end the decision is solely his/her own.' I decided to answer her.
”First of all Empress, I don't need the bloodline of the Golden Crow because I have power that surpass by far the one of the Sun Flames of the Golden Crow, let me show you” I say those words and materialized a little white flame, when the flame appeared an enormous amount of heat and power was enveloping the surroundings of the sedan car. Thanks to the barrier that Mordred put, the might of this flame was contained inside and none outside. When the empress saw that flame she knew that the power of that flame is superior to the Golden Flame of her bloodline. I extinguish the flame and our surroundings return to normal I decided to continue.
”The second reason is that I need allies, in the future I will do something very dangerous that a lot of people will come with the thought to kill me. So I want allies that they can be with me in the good ones and the bad ones. You can think this like a transaction, I give you the full inheritance of the Golden Crow and you help me watching my back in the future. What you say?”
Huang Caiyi POV
I'm standing in my chambers holding a little crystal bottle. Inside the bottle a liquid with rainbow color was stored remembering what Lucius told me.
”I will help you a little more” Lucius said that and from his hands a golden ripple was manifested, my eyes when wide at the ability that he is displaying. This makes to put my guard up again, this man is dangerous if he is an enemy, he alone can enter and exit this continent and kill us if he want. From the space ripple a big bottle and 3 more little bottles of crystal are in his hands, the big bottle contain some kind of liquid, this liquid that display seven different colors is hold in his hands. I don't know what it is but it seems some kind of medicine.
”This liquid, contain something that only the best alchemist in the universe can do. We call this [Elixir] and this is something that my master gave me but I can only use it when the time is right. This medicine will help you in control your bloodline, cleanse your organs, bones, bone marrow, etc. in simple words is a very potent medicine. Now let me tell you the other side of the coin; if the effect of cure your symptoms is the head of the coin the excruciating pain is the tail. This medicine will literally crush your bones and reform them again, reform your bone marrow, even something as profound as your DNA base will be reconstructed. But the pain is something beyond normal.”
”I will give you one little bottle filled with [Elixir] and the other two for my companion and me; the two of us already drank this medicine so the effects is more like a tonic instead of an [Elixir] but we will drink this in front of you to demonstrate that it isn't some kind of poison. I don't care if you want that someone was with you when you drink the medicine but if you let someone else drink it I will kill them. You are warned.” (Lucius)
Lucius gave me the bottle but his killing intent was released at the end of his speech. Although in the exterior I was composed in my mind I was screaming. He took back his killing intent and continued to say.
”I will pour a little of this in the bottles, only a sip is necessary, so I won't give you more than that.” He divide the liquid in the 3 bottles, later he took two and gave one to his wife and one himself, without making a fuss the two drank all the liquid. When I saw that the two were fine I breathed a sigh of relief.
”As you saw, nothing happened to us. Talk to us when you are ready to make your decision, but don't take long, we will only stay here for three more days.” With that we continued to travel to the palace. When we reached the palace I take them to their chamber and left them be.
”Bring the Royal Physicians and call to all the patriarchs of the guardian families” I gave the order to the maid that was in my office and she left to deliver my instructions. Four hours later the eleven patriarchs and the royal physicians were in my office. I started to told them about what Lucius told me and was expecting their input in the matter.
”Your majesty, I don't know if we could trust that person” the patriarch of the Su clan Su Xiangnan gave his answer.
”Your majesty, he is my benefactor. You know how long I was separated from my child and know we are reunited again. I heard from my son and his master about the things that he can do and I beg your pardon but if he really want to kill you, he didn't have to resort to poisoning.” Yun Qinghong tells his part and that was true, he could kill us if he wanted.
”Your majesty we of theclan Under Havenare known for possessing an affinity with nature, when we saw the man named Lucius my instinct told me that he isn't a bad person at heart but if he needs to be ruthless he can excert the might of mother nature. My thoughts are that he hasn't other agendas. He only wants to help, for what he wants to help? that is something that I don't know.” Greates Ambition Under Heaven the patriarch of the Elf Clan spoke to the empress next.
”Your majesty if I may, I invited master Yun Gu if you want to know more about that man Lucius, if your majesty gave her blessings I can let him enter” Yun Qinghong say after the speech of the elf patriarch, with a nod from me I conveyed to bring the man knows as Yun Gu in my presence. After a few minutes Yun Gu is in my presence standing close to the patriarch of the Yun Family.
”Your majesty, what is that you need to know?” Yun Gu spoke in a polite tone. I conveyed to him about who is the man named Lucius.
”Your majesty I don't know him much. What I know is that he is a man of word; he never uses force when he can talk but if is necessary he is capable of bringing extinction to all of us. I saw what he is capable of do, he alone destroyed more than one hundred thousand practitioners of different realms. In my continent that is very far away from here, he destroyed a lot of sects that were hunting me because I refused to give them something very precious. I'm not gonna say what is what I gave him but if he wants he can use that power to bring doom to the entire realm without a problem. In exchange for that I gave him, he gift to me something very precious: Knowledge. This knowledge is superb and if I may say way too advance to our standars. I brought with me a scroll and if the royal physicians wants to take a look to verify my words I will very much pleased.” Yun Gu pass to the royal physicians a scroll and after a few minutes all of them were making a fuss.