Meeting The Imperial Family I

That Same Night...

Iredale Fort...

"Still drinking?" A dark-skinned man Knight cladded in black and heavy armour, his hair was dark coloured and buzz cut and his eyes were brown. He grabbed a seat and sat next to the brown-haired Knight who was in similar armour and was drinking from a big wooden cup. Both of them were stationed on a tall wall.

"What else my friend?" The brown-haired Knight replied, "We are sent here to the Iredale Fort, to protect these formidable walls for nothing, our lives, daily lives, the dream of having or family or even becoming a prima is stolen from us every time. To be honest, I want nothing more than to just tear down this Fort."

"You are right, a Knight is seen as a noble profession, but we are no less than the country's watchdog. Beats me, but then Roddy, be careful what you wish for, this defence is the only thing all races and kingdom shares together, its more like a common understanding, even the prestigious giant race send their knights here...-

~GGRRRHHKKK~

Both of them stood hastily as the entire place vibrated heavily.

"What naff was that?!" The brown-haired Knight said looking down the walls.

The distance to the ground was very far so it was hard for them to see whatever was on the ground.

~ROOOOOOOOOOAAAAAARGGHH!~

Both their eyes widened with the loud sound they heard.

"It's a beast?!" The brown-haired shouted, and both of them immediately began to run down the walls to alert the rest of the knights and prepare for an attack.

Both their legs began to shiver such that they could not move a step as a very huge presence flapped its wings behind them.

The fiery crimson eyes glared at them with fury, it had a long and scaled skull, two enormous horns sitting atop its head, and several rows of small tendrils running down the sides of each of its jaw lines. Its nose is large and has two short, pointy nostrils and there are crystal growths on its chin.

A long neck runs down from its head and into a massive body. The top is covered in small scales and an armoured ridge runs down its spine. Its bottom is covered in coarse skin and is coloured darker than the rest of its body. Four huge limbs carry its body and allow the creature to stand proud and arrogantly. Each limb has 5 digits, each of which ends in strong claws seemingly made of crystal.

Graceful wings grow starting from its shoulders and end all the way down at its pelvis. The wings are angular, the inside is almost entirely see-through, especially when viewed from a distance and long tendril-like growths grow from many parts of the bottom sides of each wing. Its thick tail ends in a single tendril and is covered in the same small scales as its body.

The dragon slowly growled as it watched them and with a sudden pull back it launched forward, crashing the formidable walls in one trial and the knights themselves tumbled amidst the crashing of the part of the wall which the dragon had attacked. But it didn't stop there, the dragon continued to attack other parts of the wall.

It didn't take long for other Knights to realize what was going on and large siege weapons were immediately prepared to bring down the beast upon seeing this, the dragon gently landed atop the walls and looked around the entire Fort. With a soft growl, it released a breath of blue fire that consumed the entire Fort like a flood.

The dragon flew into the Fort itself and left the entire place in mayhem.

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...Binneniel Empire

...Capital City: Fareria

...Imperial Palace, Gilland's quarter.

"I could swear it, there was an intruder at the midnight! I went after them but they were too skilled, they were very fast." Knight Denethor said.

"It is fine, whoever it is, I don't care. You guys can take of it, I have to go to the main hall for breakfast, I'll be meeting the imperial family I don't want to make a bad impression because I was stressed by your claims."

"Alright young master" He responded bowing towards me who was standing in front of the mirror and combing my golden hair.

"Goshujin, do you always have to be so thorough with your dressing... are you trying to impress them?"

'Yes, Ana, I am because I will be living with them for a long time and I don't want anything disturbing me.'

<Master, isn't it fair that Knight Denethor is being treated like he knows not what saying?>

'Why do you have to disturb me with this matter on the morning where I am supposed to get evaluated by the imperial family, nothing good will come from letting him know it was a Prince that attacked, I don't want to attract attention.'

<Yes master>

"Hmm, so you say but you go around sneaking when I was sleeping."

'I didn't even know you could sleep so well. Well then I remember, you've been sleeping for over two hundred thousand years.'

"What?! I was hibernating!!"

'That's what I said, sleeping.'

"You said sleeping, it's not the same thing and it's not your first time doing it."

'Oh, you mean deep sleep...'

"Goshujin..." She called out with a growl and gnashing of teeth.

Ignoring her, I stepped out, escorted by my Knights, we made our way to the main Palace by feet, passing a lot of servants and strong parading knights, who I could feel were even stronger than both of them.

Ever since unlocking omni Ingenio, the perception of one's strength always came naturally to me, sometimes it could come late when the person was already beside me but I could always tell how strong a person was. Though Anastasia called it a side effect, I always thought side effects were meant to be bad but this again proved me wrong.

About seventeen minutes later we arrived at the main hall.

"It's huge..." Denethor said, not only was the feeling like that, my mouth almost dropped as I looked at the building. My eyes could not capture the entirety of it, accompanied by several unnecessary pillars in the front and a large door after the wide stairs.

"Young lord..." The clerk who had escorted me in yesterday said to me, gesturing his hand towards the door of the hall and bowing a little.

"Ah, that's right..." I said and immediately walked inside.

At this point I might just get addicted to describing how beautiful every part of the palace was, every hall was covered in gold, and finally, as I reached the dining Hall, several golden chandeliers illuminated the entire hall, the Princes and Princess, all stood in one path of the hall, as they awaited Emperor and Empress, I joined, standing next to a short, brown-skinned, white-haired, golden eyes boy that was donned in a royal suit just like the others, except the princess who was wearing a white gown which made her angelic with her white hair.

I couldn't help but wonder how the Emperor managed to create six children with white hair.

Something continued to irritate me as I stood, I slightly looked to my right where the Young Prince was standing.

'The hell is this bastard grumpy for... does he want a slap or what?'

I don't plan to be nice to anyone here, I will irritate everyone and when they finally want to execute me, I will escape to another kingdom since I'm that powerful.

"All bow for the Emperor and Empress"

Immediately the thick voice resonated the entire hall, all the servants and even the imperial progeny all bowed their heads, down to their waist level, mine naturally followed.

The Emperor slowly walked towards the head chair, just like every novel I read, I had expected a crude suppuration of energy to show his domination but this nigga was completely normal, ordinary, undistinguished, a typical run-of-the-mill.

As he sat, they too began to pick their seat according to their positions in the family which made it easier for me to tell.

"Before we start, we have a very special somebody today in our midst. As we know Evan is now mature and as our custom is, he is to have a friend he can always rely on–"

"I don't need a friend father!" From beside me waxed an extremely rude tone, if I was the Emperor I would have given him two years banishment.

"Evan?! That's no way to talk to your father! And you are to address him as your majesty when we are in formalities like this."

Even with his mother's correction, he just threw his face away in ignorance. I looked at him and felt like slapping the shit out of him, giving him a factory reset slap.

"He's a spoilt brat, he'll continue to be that." The princess said, her voice exactly like that of her mother, a husky voice which sounded like they both had sore throats.

"It's enough, let's start with your introduction young man." He said, his eyes looking towards me. I particularly liked the fact that he called me a young man but I'm not going to dwell on that.

I was about to stand up when the Prince beside the young Prince Evan looked at me.

"You don't really have to do that, because if you do that then the rest of us will have to do that..." He said, looking at me.

I looked at the entire table, they all kept an indifferent expression, my butt slowly kissed the chair back, I couldn't help but realize the fact that there's just something very very strange about this family, how can I describe it... that freedom.