71. ORDEAL

"Don't I look cool?" He uttered looking at his reflection in the mirror.

He was wearing black armor and he had his scimitar tied with his back and the dual-bladed dagger attached to his boot pocket. He possessed a pair of hidden blade gauntlets and he had his chains shapeshifted into shoulder armor.

The equipment he wore was all snatched from the regulars.

Camila was waiting for him in his room gazing at him since she was told to accompany him to the palace by Cinzia.

"Lord Nix, you are becoming quite busy aren't you?"

"Tch, Can't I go alone?"

She shrugged her shoulders.

"What can I do? It's what Lady Cinzia ordered me to do..."

"I am ordering you to go then," He said indifferently.

"Sorry Lord Nix but, orders from you and Cinzia are the same. So I can't."

"Tch, whatever..."

They both left the clan house and boarded a carriage to the palace. After an hour they reached the palace. It was exactly how a palace supposed to look like.

The palace was painted in a red shade and the palace incorporated most of the land. Moreover, the palace was immensely under surveillance by the soldiers. A flag on the top of the palace with a hammer emblem in the center of the waved receiving a strong wind. The soldiers on the walls of the palace stood in their place tightly clutching their weapons under the fiercely burning sun.

'This is my first time visiting such a place. It sure does looks like what I imagined yet, there is this anxiety surging within me,' He thought as he approached the entrance keeper along with Camila.

He gave the invitation to the gatekeeper. The gatekeeper bowed and showed the direction to him as they walked a man approached them in the inner gate.

He instructed them to surrender their weapons before entering in. Fortunately, Nix, placed his possessions in his inventory while using the chains in the disguise of a piece of armor. The soldier made them go through checking and then escorted them to a large hall inside the palace.

The large hall had several pillars supporting the ceiling and there was a long table in the center with neatly arranged chairs and at the end of the table was a man who sat on his throne-like seat wearing a crown and upon his lap was a nude succubus and two more women by his sides. The customs of Empyrean were certainly different.

The man's lips arched up as he laid his eyes upon him. There was certainly pride and arrogance in his eyes from Nix's point of view.

The man had a well-groomed royal beard. His hair was grey in color and his pupil had a similar tint to it and it suited his dark charcoal skin tone. His muscular body frame showed that he isn't lazing around and properly training his body.

"Welcome," The man said.

Nix was certain that he is the king. Nix waited for him to tell him to take a seat but, he was still studying Nix. So, took a seat on his own. The man just smiled and nodded his head.

As he clapped his hands a succubus and a drow woman walked towards Nix with wine bottles in their hands. They were wearing see-through loin clothes. As such he could fully see their private parts.

Camila just had her seat next to Nix and quietly observed the scene. The succubi poured wine in the glass and placed it on the table while the drow woman tried to approach Nix.

Camila noticed the uncomfortableness in Nix's face and approached in the place of another woman and sat on his lap.

She slowly drew her face close towards Nix's ear and whispered.

"It would be hard refusing the gift of the king so, you better stay quiet and I will take care of the rest."

"I See you are already accompanied, What would be the miss saying?" The king asked while groping his woman's breast and making her moan.

Nix just smiled and slid his hand inside Camila's cloth and grabbed the handful of her chest.

"Mnhh~Mnhh What are you doing? Stop it" she whispered in his ear while staring at him with her reddened face.

Ignoring her words he looked and the king and said.

"With all due respect can we go to the main subject? I am Nix and your administrator invited me to pay a visit."

"Ohh, The Lord of Transgressors. I am glad that you accepted the invite."

The two women just continuously disturbed him while he was talking so, He pulled the drow and inserted his finger inside her vagina, and forcefully played with her.

"Mnhh~ Mnhh" The woman moaned biting her lip while giving a seductive gaze towards Nix.

"I see, You are a man of culture as well..." The king said with a smirk.

As Nix tried to open his mouth...

"Your majesty I apologize for my delay."

It was the voice of the administrator that struck their ears from the entrance to the hall.

"It's alright take your seat."

The administrator nodded his head and took his seat. He wasn't offered any woman for servicing him though.

The trivial thing was that there weren't any ministers in the hall. It was like he waited for his visit to talk alone.

"Lord of Transgressors, Why did you choose that as your clan's name? and you seem young too." The king asked.

Nix opened his mouth with an indifferent expression.

"Transgressor means those who go beyond limits of what socially or morally acceptable and I thought it was cool that's it."

The king laughed and said.

"Haha, A simple young man aren't you? So what's your goal in Empyrean young man?"

"I don't have proper goals. I just want to go back to my world."

The king leaned against the table with his hands to rest his chin with an intrigued expression and said.

"Is that so? I see... I wonder if you could go back though,"

and added.

"I have seen many outsiders throughout my lifetime of eighty years and I haven't heard of anyone that went back to their world."

'Eighty years? No matter how I look at him... He seems like he is in his mid-thirties" He thought to himself.

The Administrator who quietly watched the conversation suddenly called out for the soldiers.

"Soldiers you may enter in now."

Soon, Almost thirty soldiers encompassed the hall pointing their weapons to Nix. The administrator stood up from his seat and bowed.

"I apologize for making you go through this inconvenience. It is just that...his majesty wanted to see what you are capable of..."

Camila shot up in a startle and looked at Nix worriedly and drifted her gaze towards the Administrator. Noticing her complex expression the king and the administrator laughed at her.

"Haha, Don't fret miss. If he is really worth it. He will overcome this ordeal and don't worry you may return in one piece." The king assured her.

"Nix..." She mumbled his name throwing glances at him.

Nix just sat in his place and scanned the room. No matter what he was very much startled. Yet, he didn't show that in his face.

The king clapped his hands.

"Lord of transgressors, One must earn respect on his own. Show me what you got. Each one of them in this hall possesses the capability of a level four warrior in your Outsider terms."

and added.

"Kill the soldiers and show what you possess."

He said and stared at Nix who was quietly sitting in his place while drinking the wine and analyzing his opponents with his eyes.

"Tch, Are you just merely an overvalued young man?" He questioned and walked away with the administrator out of the hall. They even dragged Camila out of the hall forcefully and shut the exits of the hall with the metal gates.

Among the soldiers, one soldier had noticeable features and seem to give off a different pressure. He had an evil grin on his face as he looked at Nix.

[PRIVATE ABILITY: TRUTH EYE ACTIVATED]

"Twelve sword wielders, Five ax wielders, and twelve spear wielders and one devil? devil huh?... I can fight back, I think."

Nix studied the soldiers and muttered inwardly after taking his rusty dagger out of inventory while gazing at the soldiers.

[PRIVATE ABILITY: DOOM PREDICTION VISION ACTIVATED]