33 The Goddess and Demi-goddess of ........... (1/2)
Bored bored boring was Ryuu's condition with a capital 'B', why does he have to suffer so much, a thought ran through his mind, he never felt so sleepy, 'even mommy's lullabies does not make me feel so sleepy when will the torture end', as he tried keeping his eyes peeled open like an owl it really was the greatest test on his endurance and patience. Suddenly the angry look on his sister's face came to his mind he shivered and jolted into full attention.
As words came to his ears ” ....as a result we were forced to close the mine.”
Antariskh: ”Huh you closed it for such silly reason, now listen carefully, you will...”
Ryuu's mind wandered off again 'it is so difficult trying to keep awake, it is so boooorrrrrring ', as he tried to stifled a yawn, 'hmmm maybe I should carry a fan like that funny moustache old man at least no one will see me yawn', was the musing of a seven year old as the funny moustache kept droning on some report.
Shamiran was observing Ryuu from the corner of her eyes, her lips twitched a little on seeing Ryuu struggling to stay focused and awake.
After long agonizing hours, the meeting came to a end, it was near midnight and, Ryuu was already on the edge of falling asleep, if the meeting went onfor a few more minutes he would have fallen asleep on his throne consequences be damned.
All the officials bowed deeply, as the Empress left her throne and was walking towards the door, with her siblings following behind her closely. The officials all sighed in relief inwardly as they watched Empress almost outside the throne room, 'It was closed we have distracted her enough to forget about the punishment', thought the same person who was the first one to apologize when they unintentionally insulted Ryuu.
Just as Antariskh was about to step outside she came to an abrupt halt she turned and addressed her council with a pleasant smile, ”Ah before we forget, we want to reward you all for your hard work.”
At that most of the members were giddy with happiness, only a couple of them starting sweating getting 'reward', the word sounded like death sentence.
Antariskh continued with a pleasant smile on her face, ”We will only allow the officials currently present in this room to partake in the enjoyment of this reward, no one regardless of any reason outside of this room is allowed to participate; we hope you will accept it without any protest.”
The officials all chorused as one with hidden glee and some with a bit of greed, ”We are greatly honored to receive your gift your majesty.”, while the duo thought, 'maybe she really is rewarding us', with a bit of hope.
Ryuu looked at her sister in horror that smile she has seen too many times on his Third mistress's face, his thought was proved correct when she uttered the next sentence, ”Excellent, then we would allow you all to serve my family by hunting down and bringing us the body of Peak Empyrean God level Void Beast, We hope by the end of a week by this time we wished to see its body before us, time is running out so we suggest you all should hurry.”
A commotion broke up, as all the officials were horrified on hearing about the content of the 'reward'. The strongest person was the head of their entire eastern division, was one man named Othomann Müller, even then he just achieved it a few months back.
One of the more foolish officials spoke out of turn, ”Pardon your majesty, but how can we all…”
Antariskh stopped him by raising her hand, ”We understand that most of you are not satisfied by the conditions given, we never knew we had such loyal citizen, alright we will change the reward.”
At that many visibly relaxed except the duo, who already had tears forming on their eyes as they inwardly wished their family goodbye.
Antariskh continued with same kind smile on her face, ”Well since all are so eager we want each of you to hunt and bring the body of onePeak Empyrean God level Void Beasts.”