Chapter 93 (1/2)

“Stop!”

When the wagon reached the front gate of the Imperial Palace, the gatekeepers and the guards intercepted it.

“Luke de Rakan, the young Lord of Rakan Viscount. I have come here for a formal meet under the orders of the Emperor.”

At the end of his words, a guard went closer to confirm the seal of Rakan Viscount which was in Luke’s hands and said,

“From here, you need to come with me.”

Philip had gone to the villa where the attendants were supposed to stay, and Luke began to walk in the extensive palace following the guard.

It was his first time at the Imperial Palace.

The palace of marble tiles was large enough to kill a man.

After around an hour of walk, Luke reached the throne room.

The door of the room had an engraving of a dragon swallowing the sun, Luke couldn’t help but snort to himself.

‘Are you still deceiving people, saying that you are the descendant of a dragon?’

From ancient times, there were a few royal families and noble families who claimed themselves to be the descendants of the dragon.

It was their story that a dragon had transformed into a human, and a noblewoman had given birth to the child of a dragon.

The story was told in order to increase the authority of the noble family by borrowing the majestic power of the dragon, as the ancient mythology claimed that the dragons were mighty beings.

‘Not a descendant of the dragon, but a whale. Or the descendants of the drunkards.’

Luke remembered how the ancestors of the Baroque family were like and smiled.

The guard who was accompanying Luke thought that Luke was having the ‘I feel glad to meet the Majesty’ feels.

When Luke reached the door, the attendant announced the arrival of Luke with a loud voice,

“Emperor! The Lord of Rakan Viscount has arrived!”

“Yeah? Tell him to come in.”

As the voice of the majesty was heard from the room, the huge doors were opened to the side.

Luke took big strides confidently.

There was no meeting in the throne room, the entire room was empty.

At the end of the room was a large chair carved out of white jade and a man with red hair falling down like a lion was sitting there.

‘Is he Rudolph?’

There were rumors that Lion king Rudolph was a genius swordsman.

That he trained more than eating, which was he had entered the Sword Master at late ’20s and was one of two Sword Sages the continent had.

Luke stared at the emperor with a lot of concentration.

Seated in a rather mannerless position, yet tremendous waves could be felt from Rudolf’s body.

And waves like the literal waves of water seemed to move from his body and wrapped themselves around Luke’s body.

Luke’s skin was tingling and he wanted to use his dark magic to get rid of that captured feeling, however, Luke decided to endure it.

‘It is okay.’ Luke kept telling himself.

Rudolf who was seated on the throne nodded while looking at Luke who withstood the waves that he had shot.

If it was a fire wave, then the face of the person would have turned into a red hot ball.

However, the opponent was able to shoulder it.

‘An Expert swordsman and magic of 3 circle? He is better than the rumor, once my preparation is done, you will die the death of a dog in my hands.’ thought Rudolf.

Rudolf who was able to grasp the skills of Luke stopped the waves.

Luke exhaled a sigh of relief.

If he wouldn’t have released the magic…

‘Phew… I almost showed my skills.’

Not long ago, he had the magic and new powers that he had taken from the demons along with his 5 circle magic, and with that, he could have easily pushed back Rudolf and changed the situation.

However, if Luke did that, his identity would have been revealed.

And the emperor wouldn’t think twice to strike the neck of Luke’s with the power of a Sword Sage for turning on his king.

Luke had no intention to rush his revenge. Revenge was much better taken when the opponent was strong.

“It would have been troublesome coming all this way.”

“Not at all, your Majesty.”