True King's Ecstasy

"Sir Velian, our royalty is not that like, we really care about our people, it might be true we did some mistakes but we love our people," Julie got up from her seat with a determined look. She wanted to make things right for everyone in the kingdom, her family and all her vassals.

"Princess, how do you explain the death of your innocent soldiers? People died of starvation, our crops were damaged and there was no way to feed our children, women were absurd by empire soldiers and the kingdom did nothing to help them," Velian kept guilt-tripping them step by step as he brought every single thing they did up until now.

Julie who was motivated at first to make things right felt rather broken and sad after hearing all this.

"Julius Grandbell Rapidclaw II, where's our king? He didn't even give us any concern until now, we never got a chance to talk with him,"

Julie didn't know how to answer his question. It was supposed to be a secret about her father's condition so, she didn't want to reveal it but she knew if she showed at least a tid it of dishonesty, Velian will lose his trust in her.

"His majesty's health condition is not good enough for a meeting," Without going into the deep details, she tried to tell the truth.

"Whatever, so what's your answer? Do you agree with our deal or should we proceed with our own methods?"

Hearing him coming straight at them, everyone had a frown on their face. They were fuming with anger from how a useless commoner like him threatened them like this.

"We have absolutely no reason to agree with you," As soon as one of the nobles said those words, one of the assassins tried to attack him from above.

Even before Velian entered this room, he already noticed the existence of a shadow but he just let them carry out their plans because he wanted to benefit from them.

"Who?" Julie shouted in fear seeing a person clad in black trying to attack their guest. She felt her whole face going numb just by imagining what would happen if Velian and his group got assaulted here.

"Stop it! Who are you? Guards, stop them," Even though she kept shouting no one entered the room. It was almost like they ignored her voice.

Unknown to her some of the nobles kept laughing seeing their plan working. The one who initiated this attack was none other than nobles who felt threatened by the existence of Nikol. They didn't want to lose any of their lands so killing one commoner in exchange for the land was like a matter of fact for them.

*Clang

The assassin tried to go for his neck but suddenly his body lost its balance and he was only about to cut Velian's arm.

"Brother!" Delviny and Daphnia both were terrified. At first, they didn't care much about this assassin as they also noticed him but now seeing their brother and son bleeding like this, they felt their mana going out of control.

"I'm ok, sister, this is ok, don't do anything," Bedore they mess up Velian's plan, he quickly signalled them while taking their hands and trying to escape instead of fighting back.

Seeing their attack going wrong, most of the nobles felt blood drawing from their faces.

"Damn it, kill him, we paid you for killing him, not to put a baby cut on him," They shouted in anger to which the assassin reacted, he quickly charged in with his degrees asking for Velian's neck.

Meanwhile, Velian had a small grin on his face. If he stayed there any longer, he would have been unable to control his face and burst out laughing at how predictable their trap was.

'Everything according to plan'

Thinking about how he succeeded on his first try, Velian looked at his mother's and sister's faces and hinted at them to act with him.

"Are you winning, son?" Daphnia suddenly murmured so that others in the room won't hear her voice. She wanted to know the plan so that she won't make any errors.

"We are, mother, now we don't have to go for the war route, from here on people will do their work, we just have to support them,"

Quickly running toward the door, Velian advised both of them until they reached their destination which was a huge door built up of metals.

"He can't escape, our soldiers should be keeping that door safe, quickly kill him,"

Another slash came from the side as soon as they reached toward the door, Velian quickly dodged it without showing any of his skill making it look like an error on the assassin's attack.

"What the hell?" He couldn't help but question what he was seeing. It was like even if he attacked him when Velian is standing straight, he would still miss that strike.

"What are you doing? Is that a power?" Frustrated about not being able to do his job, the assassin questioned Velian but his answer made him even more confused.

"Please don't kill me, I'm fighting for our starving children, please," Velian said making Julie's eyes tear up. She didn't even know why she started crying but soon her tears started to leak like a waterfall.

"Who did this? You will get royal punishment for this, attacking one of our guests who is trying his best to support his parents and villagers, aren't you people ashamed to be called nobles," Hearing her voice, everyone who organized this attack knew they fucked up.

"Damn it, princess listen, we should now our heads to commoners like this, they are nothing more than our servants," Until now Julie didn't even realise how disgusting her kingdom's nobility is.

"Oh~ looks like that princess isn't a part of this attack, I feel sorry for her but either way, we can't stop now," Velian quickly pushed the door behind him that others thought to be locked.

As soon as he opened the door the spectacle in front of them surprised everyone including Daphnia and Delviny.