98 Chapter 96: Princess Anastasia? (2/2)
Luther's wife had to be from a full royal lineage, with no mixed blood with a trace of a royal and a noble, a royal and a commoner, a royal with a peasant or a noble. A commoner wasn't even a thought. Since Luther was a full-blooded royal with no drop of noble, commoner, or peasant blood in his veins, so he had to have a wife of equal blood in order their children and countries would prosper.
Needless to say, it was mandatory that his wife was royalty, and not just any normal royal, his wife needed to come from a powerful royal family, this is why he asked Julian for his strongest daughter since Julian himself had full royal lineage as well as his wife Cassandra. Since Ivery was Julian and Cassandra's only daughter together, she was the most suitible for the position to be Luther's wife and empress.
”Now that you've both returned, when shall the wedding be?” Erdel asked with a wide smile
”Wedding...?” Ivery blushed
”Don't tell me you've forgotten about it?” Erdel chuckled
”It's not that we've forgotten about our wedding father, we're just too busy with trying to deal with Xia and the dark god supporting her, we'd like to start the plans for our wedding after we handle them.” Luther said to Erdel
”Alright then, after you've handled that then we'll begin the wedding preparations, the sooner the better.” Erdel smiled impatiently
”Anything else?” Erdel asked
”Yes...there's actually one more thing..” Ivery nodded
”Yes?” Erdel raised an eyebrow
”The next evaluation tests for the academy are next week, is it possible for the students being tested to get demoted a class for failing more than one evaluation instead of executed?” Ivery asked
”Hm..” Erdel thought about it
”Why is it that you want this princess?” Erdel asked her
”I just believe that killing the students for failing the evaluations could be wasting their future potential if the students were to work harder to strengthen their abilities.” Ivery answered
”I suppose you're right, request granted.” Erdel agreed
”Luther from now on, executions for failure are no longer apart of the evaluation tests, if students fail more than three evaluations then they are to be immediately demoted to a lower class.” Erdel told Luther
”Yes, father.” Luther nodded
”Thank you for your benevolence, your majesty.” Ivery bowed
”We'll take our leave now.” Luther bowed his head
”Take care of each other.” Erdel said with a wave
Luther nodded again and grabbed Ivery's hand. Luther pulled her along with him to the doors.
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As Luther led Ivery through the seemingly endless halls of his castle, a girl stood far down the hall and began walking towards them, wearing a light gray dress with several floral patterns, she had long black hair and violet colored eyes.
”Brother..” Anastasia turned pale at the sight of Luther
”....” Luther didn't say anything to her
”Hello.” Ivery smiled at Anastasia, instantly knowing that she was one of Luther's sisters
”Hello..” Anastasia lowly greeted Ivery
”You must be princess Inanna..” Anastasia noticed that they were holding hands, she had never seen them together before but she had heard rumors that Luther deeply loved princess Inanna and treated her preciously
”I am.” Ivery noticed the nervous look on her face
”And you are?” Ivery asked
”P-princess Anastasia, Fresia's 19th princess.” Anastasia responded
”Is..it possible for me to speak with her...alone?” Anastasia fearfully asked Luther
”It's her decision if she wants to speak with you or not.” Luther shrugged
”We can talk.” Ivery wondered what Anastasia wanted to talk about
”Come to my room...” Anastasia carefully walked past Luther and headed to her room
Ivery let go of Luther's hand and smiled at him before following behind Anastasia.
Luther sighed and walked to his part of the castle.
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When Ivery entered Anastasia's room she was delighted to see how cute it was, there were several stuffed animals around and her room was colored with a pastel purple color, and her floor was pure white carpet. Her bed was a lilac-colored canopy.
Ivery sat at a small four seater table on the balcony with Anastasia sitting on the opposite side.
”Princess Inanna...” Anastasia looked seriously at Ivery
”Yes..?” Ivery was slightly shocked by the sudden serious expression on Anastasia's face
”Please breakup with my brother.” Anastasia bluntly said
”What?” Ivery's shock dramtically increased
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