Chapter 478 - Returning back to Ayindril (Part-4) (1/2)
Kangjon Su-Min stepped out of the flying vessel as a large plethora of musical instruments began to play to welcome her return with hundreds of people stood in attention as a few excited ones even began to clap with great enthusiasm.
She spared a small glance towards them with a small smile while inwardly she was scowling, 'Vultures, all of them, even if they hid their true face with a smile, I was not born yesterday to be duped by them.'
She swiftly made her way to the throne room where her parents sat at the highest of seats, Su-Min then kneeled in front of them as she spoke without any emotion in her voice, ”Royal Father, I have returned from the expedition.”
”A rather disgraceful return, hmph, from the looks of it you did not make it very far.”
Su-Min gritted her teeth before she spoke, ”How audacious of you, Lord Uncle, my Royal Father, the Emperor has yet to speak, yet here you are interrupting him, and who said that I did not make it far? Were there with me spying on me?”, with a mock gasp Su-Min continued, ”But, that cannot be possible after all you are a weakling of Mid-Golden Immortal Level dear Uncle.”
As Su-Min's uncle's face turned an unhealthy shade of purple, her father decided to intervene, ”Enough both of you, act like your station demands of you.”
As his voice thundered a hush silence descended in the court while Su-Min balled her fist in anger, 'I should not have left, and from the looks of it the situation has gone critical since my absence, most of the Nobles at my father's court are siding with my uncle and they are not bothering to hide, this is bad, very bad.'
Kangjon Il-Seong looked towards Su-Min with his eyes filled with a mixture of pride and concern as he spoke, ”News has reached my ears, about the disaster on the second floor.”
Su-Min simply gave a small nod as she spoke, ”The accident in the second floor was something out of our control, we meet a very strong pair of guardians at the gate, the guardians were so strong that their breath was enough to kill us, the breath was so poisonous that within a blink of an eye it would turn a cultivator into ash.”
A stunned silence descended as Su-Min's mother, Empress Kangjon Hee-Ra, could not help but speak out loud, ”Then, how did you survive?”
A small smile graced Su-Min's lips as she briefly reminisced the time she spent with her friends in Eden, before she replied, ”One of my teammates turned out to be an incredible array master, he deployed a shield that was able to withstand the poison long enough for us to move into the next floor.”
As she spoke the sound of chattering rose all around the court which quickly stopped, as his uncle spoke again, ”So did you manage to recruit him to serve our glorious dynasty.”
Su-Min bit her lips as she spoke, ”No, I do not….”
”Really now you cannot even accomplish that, what a worthless child are you.”
Su-Min balled her fist in anger as she spoke, ”Is that so uncle, and then please enlighten me on how would you be able to entice Dao Fathers to serve our Empire.”
Su-Min's uncle harrumphed as he replied to her, ”Hmp, I am talking about some Mystic Immortal, not some Dao-Father.”
”His family came to escort him and do you know what I saw.”, she paused for a moment before she continued, ”I saw Dao-Fathers lowering their head in greeting but his older sister did not even bat an eyelid as she left with her brother, she was like an Empress in midst of them, so tell me what do you think about his lineage, his upbringing, when his own sister did not pay attention to Dao-Fathers, then tell me why would he serve out Empire.”
Her eyes roamed over the audience before she spoke, ”Tell me why would he joined when he is so far ahead of others because of his knowledge that it is not even funny.”, her eyes then travelled towards her mother as she spoke, ”Royal Mother, do you remember my friend Zywia?”
Hee-Ra frowned for a brief moment before she spoke, ”I recall a friend of yours who plays the zither and last time I met her she was being escorted by peak Celestial level beings who acted as her maid.”
Su-Min nodded as she spoke, ”Yes, Royal Mother, the person's name is Ryuu and even though he is a family friend of Zywia's from the way they interacted I believe Ryuu had higher social status than Zywia.”
Her words made nearly everyone suck their breath, and to many of them a Celestia was insurmountable power, it was because of that reason they had yet to revolt against the current emperor, and Dao-Father, it was so far ahead in the totem pole that many were not even aware of their existence and to a few they were like a fairy tale.
”A likely story.”, was the retort of Su-Min's uncle who spoke with a scoff, only to freeze as Il-Seong flared his powers.
”Enough, this kind of bickering is beneath you all, if there is nothing else then I declare today's court is over.
With that, he stood up with his wife and left while rest of them simply stood with their head bowed low, and as soon as the Royal couple was out of sight Su-Min left soon after.
A few more minutes later Su-Min found herself in the inner the chambers of the Royal Palace, with her mother hugging her so tight that she was afraid that her ribs might break.