125 Dealing with the Nobles (1/2)

Tabletops layered with trays of the most delicious food and drinks lined the walls, delicacies capable of making one's mouth water. A whole roast deer with sprigs of rosemary threaded through its antlers and stuffed with mashed potatoes and rye bread, marinated wild chicken, grilled fish with lemon, smoked meat, and a blueberry glazed ham, mounds of fragrant wild rice grown by the proud dwarven farmers.

Aside from the mouth-watering meats, there were potatoes and diced pumpkin smeared with butter and spices baked on hot stones, countless cheeses which apparently Ken had bought from his trip to capital that went with baskets of crackers and bread rolls shaped like seashells, and all sorts of varieties of salads and side dishes. A tureen or two on each table contained either hot soup or a hearty stew made by Amaryll.

While serving the food to everyone, Amaryll was showing her new clothes to her friends.

”Thanks Don, she never had so many new clothes in her life,” Arwen said as Don just nodded.

Although Don bought her new clothes before, this was the first time he bought an entire floor of Luther and Grannar for everyone to choose what they like.

”me king, be I looking good? this be tha first time I'm wearing these”

”Who's the lucky lady Stodemar?”

The dwarf startled when he heard Knight as he started to open and close his mouth without speaking anything

”You look good Stodemar”

Arrora bailed out the dwarf from an awkward situation as the dwarf let out a smile and joined everyone at the table

”Don what's our plan of dealing with Agorians?”

Arrora asked Don while tasting the soup

”The bandits, I want them gone from my kingdom”

”Hmm, we should assign this task to our trainees. And one of Arrora's team can be backup in case the bandits have any surprises planned”

”We also need station some of our troops in Agoria”

”Yeah Don, we can't let our men running around in masks and armors”

Considering most of Don's men were from non-human races, it would attract some unwanted attention towards Don and his kingdoms. While in Emir, Don only used a couple of dwarves so it didn't bring any disaster to him but an army of elves and dwarves would cause a commotion and it could even attract the attention of the emperor.

”Teleport our men in Agoria back here tomorrow, we can teleport them back there if anyone comes knocking”

”Let's enjoy the feast shall we?”

Knight said and started to munch on every dish and stuffed them into his belly as much as he could

The rest of the night went with laughter, drinking games, and dancing as Don stood on the corner and watched them. As usual little Elrond started an archery competition using mini arrows and won. The drinking game between Arwen and Dhursir ended up with both of the men losing their consciousness due to the extreme hangover and surprisingly Stodemar was on his best behavior and Don saw him dancing with a dwarven girl all night until the girl got tired and went to bed.

That night Don did not cultivate but went to bed and closed his eyes hoping to get some good night sleep without any nightmares which he always gets when he closes his eyes to sleep.

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”Brother wake up”

Before even the sun fully rises in the east, Don heard Catalie's voice in his ears as he slowly opened his eyes.

And the moment he fully opened his eyes, he saw Catalie was bouncing in joy before him.

”What happened to you?”

Catalie looked like a grown up as she resembled a girl at the age of fourteen or fifteen and Don had no idea how that happened.

”I don't know, yesterday I felt sleepy and when I woke up, I grew up”

”Well as long as you don't bring a BOY friend here, I'm cool with it”

”Hehehe”

Catalie giggled after hearing Don and disappeared from his room so he could change into his usual more sleek black robes and put his black hood back on.

Don never felt comfier when he put his armor on and hood. After changing his robes, Don retrieved his black sword from the space ring and put on his back.

”I missed you, Ghost”

Don knew that if he used Ghost to fight with Darlene, she would have been slashed into pieces even with Randal's force shield around her body.

But Don chose not to use Ghost because he didn't want the person who was watching him while fighting Darlene to get curious about his black sword, Ghost was one of a kind.

Since fighting with the Dragon king broke his most powerful weapon Storm the battle hammer, Don was keeping it safe in his space ring until he could find someone skilled and loyal to forge it back to its previous state.

After leaving his room, Don reached the throne hall and saw Arrora waiting for him to go to Agoria, and beside her stood Benedict and Arya.

”Here”

As he approached them, Don took out the two keys and gave them to Benedict and turned to look at Arya's worried face

”Don't worry, you are one of my people”

Don said and walked past them towards the teleportation array while Arrora patted on Arya's shoulder and followed Don.

Reaching the teleportation array room, Don Nikalas reading his father's diary and working on the array