151 You have to pay for i (2/2)
”So King Don, I heard you bested Darlene in a fight and almost killed her”
After leaving the living room, Princess Amber asked.
”You heard right”
”But is that true, she and you were in love before the fight?”
Don pegged her as the curious one, and did not see any harm in answering a few questions since her parents might bring him a steady flow of income to Agoria.
”No, it was just a ruse to fool her parents and avoid getting married to King Garreth's son.”
”Prince Jowan, right? I've met him a couple of times in some tournaments.”
”Never thought that Jowan had competed in tournaments”
Princess Amber giggled when she heard Don
”He came to watch Princess Darlene not participate, King Don”
While talking, they reached the garden that surprisingly had many beautiful flowers and exotic plants as well as many birds.
It could be described as a formal garden. The bonsai trees lined the perfect lawn in their wooden boxes. In the center, there was a pond with flowering lily pads and a wooden bridge that crossed the middle, and one could look down at the koi carp and golden fishes in the pond. The flower beds had roses, lilies, jasmines, and many other flowers that Don had never even seen before.
”Beautiful, isn't it?”
This was the first time Don see lively plants after coming to Sigalla
”My mother loves this garden and each and everything you see is planted by her”
The garden was no less in any aspect, compared to the many gardens created by the elven women in Everlight, but the question in Don's mind was, how did they get the water to keep the garden alive?
”I know what you're thinking, King Don, my mother also know some water spells that enough to keep the garden from dying”
Seeing the beautiful flowers, Arrora's feminine instincts kicked in and she wanted to pick some flowers but under Arwen's gaze, she couldn't touch the flowers as Princess Amber noticed the two behind Don
”They follow you everywhere, King Don?”
”Adria, yes”
”Why?”
Princess Amber tilted her head and asked as Don didn't seem like a man who keeps a woman around him for the sake of pleasure to Princess Amber since he didn't even deliver a single pick up unlike the noble youths she had met
”Its because she is my personal guard, and he's the captain of the archer squad, if you want to know”
Princess Amber looked Arrora with a surprised face
”If you're a great master, what level is she to protect even a great master?”
”That I can't answer, Princess Amber”
Princess Amber quickly shook her head
”Forgive me, King Don, I shouldn't have asked her cultivation level”
”Its fine, Princess Amber, let's continue the tour”
After leaving the garden, Princess Amber led them to a hall that filled with drawings and paintings
”Do you like paintings, King Don?”
She was pointing at a painting of which seemed like a woman as she asked
The painting looked like ash from some smoky fire had been mixed in. The paint itself looked like it was too thick on the paper, giving the surface a rough look, but no matter how close Don look, he could find any shapes or anything that he recognizes in the painting
”I was trying to convey the emotions of a woman in love in this painting, King Don, can you see it?”
Arrora and Arwen had a good chuckle seeing Don's confused face
”No offense Princess, but the only thing I see is, some blue strokes and gray circles”
In the divine continent, crazy rich people would buy these kinds of paintings for outrageous prices and call themselves art lovers. One time Don and Knight even saw a blank white paper with some red chicken scratchings get sold for one million battle energy stones in an auction and because of the craze for paintings in the divine continent, forgery and counterfeiting were considered as one of the successful ways to get rich quickly. Of course, Don and Knight would love to forge paintings and make a ton of money by auctioning it but neither of them had a shred of talent in drawing.
Because of that, they preferred to stick with stealing and killing than trying to forge a painting.