923 Death of the Mythical Beast Part 2 (1/2)
Saleen looked at his children with a dumbfounded expression for quite some time. The Caucasus warriors bowed to him and saw themselves out after a while. Saleen turned and saw Sika standing at the door smiling, clapping her hands.
Seeing their mother at the door, the children cast the beast aside and ran for her.
While it was obvious that his children were capable of some speech, they simply gaga-ed their way to their mother, and nothing of sense was able to be made from the words coming out of their mouths. Sika hoisted her children up and kissed them once each, letting them play with her for a bit before putting them down. She then told the children, ”Go play by yourselves. I need to talk to your father.”
Saleen was even more surprised as he saw his children climbing down from Sika's arms. While the children were incapable of saying much, it was obvious that they were able to understand Sika's words. Normal children would have only been able to say a few words at such an age, yet his were able to make sense of the complex speech of adults. Saleen was at a loss. He did not know if he should be worried or happy about his children's development.
The children ran straight for the mythical beast as soon as they left Sika's side. The little mythical beast trembled, and then looked at Saleen. He just simply pretended to not have noticed anything. ”Smart thing that beast is, knowing how to play helpless and all that.” Had Sika not been able to subdue it, the mythical beast would have probably run away a long time ago, instead of staying around being toyed with by the children.
Saleen's son and daughter were just as active. The children hardly differed from one another. His son went and picked up the beast by the tail. The boy then walked to the table. The table was tall, and the children climbed on to the chairs and the opposing side of the table. Sika apparently was used to it all and did not have the least bit of fear of her children falling off. If her children fell off just from getting up to a chair, they would not have been the offspring of a priestess.
The boy put the mythical beast on the table and the two children took out pieces of toys from their clothes, which looked like building blocks. They went on to build a house for the mythical beast, and then stuffed the beast inside without any regard if the beast liked the little cage built by the little humans at all.
The clothes the children wore were hardly any different from those worn by normal children. The only possible difference was that the clothes were made of purple-gold sea urchin hides, which had storage spaces within that even normal people were capable of using. While Saleen's children did have peculiar developments about them, they were children nonetheless. They did not possess skills, and there was no way they were able to use spatial equipment.
The children then took out fresh meat from their pockets and start playing feed-the-beast. Saleen let out a long sigh. While his children were indeed special, they were hardly any different from normal children of their age when it came to hobbies. They spent all day playing and did little else.
Sika took Saleen to the other end of the room and sat by the window. Having left for several months, he missed Sika awfully. But seeing the serious look on her face, he knew that there were countless matters about the Kingdom of Metatrin waiting for him to attend to. As a regent, Sika was able to do little, but keep the place running as it was.
”Saleen, I have two main matters to talk to you about, and I will leave it up to you to decide which one you would want to address to first. Before that, take a look at this letter.”
Sika took out a letter as she spoke and handed it to Saleen. He opened up the letter and scanned it, then gave a cold smirk. ”You believe what the Holy See is saying? That they want to form an alliance with us to take out Qin. What a joke. Lex being a Grukos aside, even with her out of the picture, this can be little more than a bluff.”
”I know, so I locked up the one sending the letter. How do you want to go about it?”
”Leave it to Nicholas. Have him look into it. Sika, tell me about the two important matters you mentioned.”
”The first one is that ...Lex was being trapped in Lonestar City. Sikenqinyans schemed with the Holy See and deployed their forces against us. It is just that they have yet to be able to do much just yet. This letter was sent here at the same time.”
Saleen grumbled. Lex was trapped, and Sika had yet to deploy any reinforcements to her rescue. That meant that it had a lot to do with the second matter.
”The second one is that our merchant ships are being held hostage by Cloudflow. Nailisi's four demons were taken by them too.” Sika actually had to hold herself back from laughing when speaking about the matter.
”What happened?” Saleen was baffled at Sika's reaction. Four demons taken, and Sika felt like laughing?
”A Cloudflow person who called himself Grand Duke Iron Blood robbed our merchant ships and caught the demons. He said he wanted them to be his concubines.” Sika's expressions looked strange as she elaborated. Even Saleen felt like laughing then.
Cuisi and the lot were given female forms by Nailisi using Ultimate Shapeshifting, but the demons were all males. ”The grand duke actually had an eye for the four male demons. Now I'm wondering if they have finished doing the deed, if they have indeed gone through with it. My, pity for those four indeed.”
It was unknown if Ultimate Shapeshifting was actually capable of changing every structure of one's body subjected to the skill. Saleen nonetheless felt a shiver down his spine the more he thought about it.
”Saleen, which one should we be looking into first?” Sika asked. Cloudflow fleets had appeared on the waters of Lianyun City, which was not all that far from Metatrin City. If he were to deploy troops to Lonestar City and the enemy fleet at sea came knocking, it would be quite a huge problem for them.
”What about the Caucasus people outside the city?” Saleen asked.