Chapter 707 (1/2)

Garth City was brightly lit and bustling; the streets were sparkling clean, and all the roofs had been scrubbed till they looked brand new. Even the troops marching along the streets wore a bright red robe on top of their armor, making the entire scene look extremely festive and joyful.

When viewed from above, the entire city could be said to be wrapped in a sea of red. There were red flowers, red ribbons, red carpets and the majority of the people were wearing red outfits as well.

“I’ve always known that you like red, but not to this extent. The city looks like a pot of stewed shrimp!” Javier remarked as he looked around.

Sui Xiong pursed his lips and replied, “What kind of description is that! Call yourself a prince, that’s horrible use of language!”

Javier roared with laughter and retorted, “Do you know what kind of man my father, the king, was when I first became a prince?”

Sui Xiong shook his head and grew curious.

“He was twice the height of an average person, and his arm was the size of an average person’s thigh. When he talked, it was as loud as drums. When he ate, one meal consisted of half a sheep, ten pounds of biscuits, and he drank wine straight from the barrel. He used a heavy bow and arrow, wore heavy armor and carried a huge axe weighing 120 pounds on the battlefield, but he never rode a horse. Even the demon beasts couldn’t stand his energy. But of all his strengths, he had one main weakness: he was illiterate.” Javier’s eyes shone, and one could tell that he was speaking fondly as he thought back about his father.

“Huh?”

“Well, he was not a hundred percent illiterate. He could recognize his own name. However, even so, he couldn’t read nor recognize my name or any of my brother’s.”

Sui Xiong was shocked. Internally, he mused to himself: how could the leader of a country be illiterate?

Wait… but, a barbaric king was still a king! Just like how the founder of the Mongolian Empire, Tiemuzhen, was a barbarian, he was still a king nevertheless.

Sui Xiong also recalled a movie he had watched titled “Conan the Barbarian” where although he couldn’t quite identify how the main character was a king, he was definitely still a barbarian.

Thus, it was clear that barbarians could be leaders and kings as well, with no issue.

He nodded before asking, “So… previously, you were a barbarian too?”

Javier nodded back and replied, “Yes, that’s true. However, I knew more words than my father… about 50 odd of them?”

Sui Xiong was speechless again. All along, he had envisioned Javier to be an extremely cultured man who could write poems, compose songs and explore music, and he did not know that when Javier was a common man, he was a barbarian.

All the cultured things that he could do now were all learned after he became a god.