KING

From inside the spherical escort pod, Sol got an aerial view of Adam and the city.

Floating above the clouds, Adam was black flying wing (bomber) shaped or boomerang shaped ship which was 13 kilometer long in length, 3 kilometer in width and 3 kilometer tall.

In the middle of the ship was a long and big tower. On the both sides of the wings were a city with some large structures of different shapes, all black, made from the same material as the ship. Everything was made up of unpolished black metal like a full metal alien ship. Beside it, there were trees, ponds, rivers and streams.

Among all the structures the black tower in the middle of both cities was the tallest and biggest. It was the Royal Palace or Royal Tower on which Sol was before.

Sol smiled while looking at the city. He was thrilled.

He thought, "Now that's what you called a badass Flying Kingdom."

Sol was pleased.

"Let's head down," said Sol. The escort pod slowly descended down on top of the tower where Eve and Drago were. The transparent walls of the escort pod disappeared and Sol got out, hovering in his round white hover pod chair.

"How was it? My Lord," asked Eve.

Sol smiled which raised his chubby cheeks, "It was great. Adam is really great. Much better than I expected."

"It is your highness's kingdom after all," said Eve.

"Is that so?" Sol just smiled while sitting in the hover pod chair.

They were above the clouds with bright sun and beautiful scenery of blue sky and clouds.

"Eve, take me to the Throne room," said Sol.

"As you wish," replied Eve.

All went toward the big circle on the floor. It was the lift from where Eve and Drago came from within the tower before. Eve walked in front showing the way. Sol just hovered and followed Eve. Drago walked.

The round lift slowly lifted down and above the large metallic door slid and closed.

Sol was surprised seeing the round lift with no walls and the metallic door above. While going down he observed things closely.

There were big lines on the black metallic wall that lighted up the lift and way. The round lift and line of lights were not mechanical.

Sol thought, "Magic? – Back then I only created a rough sketch of the ship. These weren't there." He was amazed by the detail of the ship when he just drew a rough sketch as a teen in his previous life.

The lift stopped. And the door on the walls opened revealing a bright passage.

"We are there, My King," said Eve.

"Which floor is this?" asked Sol hovering in the passage in his big white hover pod chair. The passage was also black with the same black unpolished metal as others and had a big line that illuminated the passage.

"This is the third floor of the Royal Tower, my Lord," Eve replied.

Sol thought, "Royal tower…also a Royal Palace. I don't know much about it since I have only read about Adam briefly." In the grimoire, Deva, Adam had the longest description.

After a minute they were in front of a big door. It was white and golden colored metallic door, with a big Golden Sun emblem in the middle of the door.

The door opened itself.

"Whoa," said Sol as he entered the throne room.

The throne room was enormous. It was a simple round throne room, all white with golden and black design on floors and walls. At the end were one large step with few stairs in the middle. Above it was the giant Red Sentinel. It was the giant demon like red octopus that saved Sol back when he was infant.

Red Sentinel had long solid tentacles that spread all over on the large steps. It had horns in the place of eyes, black horns curved from side towards the back. Behind the creature was a big branched murex shell which could fit the whole creature.

Sol, who was sitting in his hover pod chair, stood up and walked in front of the giant Red Sentinels.

"Whoa! it looks like a sculpture," Sol said, "But where's the throne. It was in the picture."

In the picture that was in the grimoire, the Red Sentinel had its large mouth opened showing its large fangs, its long tongue rolled out like a carpet and on it was a throne.

"My King, that is because the Red Sentinel isn't awake yet. You have to awaken it and that can only be done by awakening all the generals," said Eve.

"Then, how was it able to save me when I was an infant," asked Sol.

"Apology My King, I do not have an answer to that question," Eve answered.

"It's okay," said Sol. He looked closely at the Giant Red Sentinel. He thought, "The reason I summoned Adam was because everything and everyone was in it."

Most of the things and being in the grimoire was on the airship, Adam. This was why Sol had to summon Adam foremost.

Sol walked up the staircase and looked at the giant throne room.

"Do you think I am fit to be the king? You know I am not strong and I don't think I will ever be. I don't have mana which is very important in this world and for magic." Sol looked at Eve from above the staircase, standing before the Giant Red Sentinel. He asked, "Do you think the Generals and others will accept me as the king? – Do you think an eleven year old boy without mana can be king?"

Right now Sol was just an eleven year old, chubby boy even though he was much older in mind. And on top of that he didn't have mana in him. This was the reason he doubted himself.

Eve looked above at Sol. She said, "My King, no matter what you are you are the absolute ruler here. Your sheer existence is to rule all over us and ours is to serve you. All the beings here are now here because of you and no one will ever question about you being the King. You are the only Sun for us."

Sol smiled at Eve's answer. "Thank you Eve!" He walked down the stairs and sat on his hover pod chair. "Now take me to the Royal Suite."

"Right away, My King." Eve bowed.

They went to the lift and the lift took them down and stopped at a certain floor. The passage was similar to the earlier passage, black metal passage with big lines that lit up the way.

Then they reached a huge door. This time the door was red with some golden design. There was also a big golden sun emblem in the middle of the door. The emblem had an eye in it.

The eye opened and looked at Sol and others. Then the door opened a little itself.

Sol was amazed by the Giant door and the eye. "Okay the let's enter," Sol said.

"My King, only you can enter the Royal Suite," said Eve.

"Why is that? Can't you enter all the places in the kingdom?" asked Sol.

"I may have access to most of the floor and area, but there are also places which I cannot enter, not just me but anyone except you. And this is one of the floors," answered Eve.

Sol was surprised and confused.

Eve continued, "There's two reason for that: first –Privilege; second – There are floors and areas which, not just me but most of us, avoid. And the Royal Suite falls into both reasons."

"What if I grant you access?" said Sol.

"My King, if it is an emergency or an order I will follow it without giving any thought about it, but if it's a choice then I would decline it," said Eve.

"I won't make you do that," said Sol.

"We will wait for you here," said Eve.

Drago just looked at his master, hinting he will also wait outside with Eve.

Sol then sitting in his hover pod chair, hovered through the small opening. After he entered the door closed itself.

Inside, there was also a passage with well-designed floor, wall and ceiling.

"Wow." Sol looked at the well-designed passage while hovering in the passage. "It has those royal feelings in it. – But I never sketched such passages in the past. It seems many things were added as my drawings came to life in this world."

After a few seconds Sol reached a spacious room.

"Whoa! It looked better than I had drawn." said Sol. In his previous life, he had drawn a room imagining he would like to have. Now that he saw it in real life, he was amazed.

He saw a big room that was similar to a modern royal suit. It had a king bed, living area, bathroom, sofas and many more. The ceiling had big ring-like lines as a light. There was also a huge window that gave an outside view.

The window gave an incredible landscape view of the sky and clouds. It made the whole room bright.

"I forgot for a moment that we are above the clouds in the sky," Sol said as he saw sky and clouds from the window. Sol got out of his hover chair and walked around. "I really want to stay here," he said, "It would be great to stay here with my parents."

Sol returned to hover pod char. "Let's do what I came here to do," he said.

Around the bedroom there were large stuff like cabinets by the walls. They were very large. It wasn't an ordinary cabinet. The doors were made up of metals, and had different sculptures in each cabinet.

The reason why others wouldn't enter this room was because of these mysterious cabinets.

Sol hovered over one of the cabinets. That cabinet had a big slime-like sculpture on the door.

"How many mana stones I have," said Sol. He called, "Deva."

A red light ball appeared from within Sol. The red ball transformed into a grimoire and opened its yellow pupil one eye. Then the grimoire turned the page to the mana stone page. The page had tile, picture, details. It was all written in Japanese.

"Whoa! I have this many. Five hundred. Isn't it supposed to be less than four fifty since Adam took five hundred mana stones?"

He had now five hundred mana stones: twenty beast mana stones, two forty Flora mana stones and two forty Terra mana stones.

Sol was surprised seeing the amount of mana stone he had. "Is it because of the rarity of Flora and Terra mana stone? – Whatever it is, it's good that I have more." He ordered, "Deva use all the beast mana stone and remaining each from Terra and Flora mana stone. And wake up Vastra."

Just as Sol ordered the grimoire used all the beast mana stone and remaining from others.

A green magic circle formed in front of the grimoire's eye. From the green magic circle a green energy flowed into the cabinet sculpture. The cabinet's door opened itself.

Inside the cabinet was dark. From within it a four feet, blue, semi-fluid slime came.

"Vastra, a semi-fluid slime that can shape-shift. Plus it can shape-shift to a form of different material that it absorbs," Sol stood out from the hover chair. "Vastra, absorb my clothes," he ordered.

The blue slime, Vastra, latched on the clothes and started absorbing. It tore the clothes into pieces and melted them inside. The white fur jacket, black pants, rain boot and all clothes that Sol was wearing were all dissolved.

"Now, transform into clothes," ordered Sol.

Vastra, shape shifted to the exact clothes Sol was wearing before. The slime turned into the same clothes, same material, same color, same size, everything: white fur jacket, black pants, rain boots etc.

"Whoa! It's good. No, it's better. It's much cleaner and it fits perfectly." Sol was happy with the result. "This was the reason why I wanted to come to the Royal Suite."

Vastra was a semi-liquid slime which Sol drew in his past life. He drew it imagining making it as clothes that can be turned into any other clothes that he liked and that would fit him. It could absorb dirt and cleanse. It could absorb materials and make form with that material just like Sol's clothes.

"Let's see how many mana stones were used to awaken Vastra. It was fifty mana stones or some magic stones when I read it." The grimoire turned the pages to mana stone page. "Hmmm? All the twenty beast mana stones are gone but only one each of Terra and Flora mana stone are gone. – Does this mean that one of these mana stones were equal to fifteen beast mana stones."

The total mana stone required to wake blue slime, Vastra, was fifty mana stone. But only twenty beast mana stones and one each terra and flora mana stone were used.

"I really need to learn about these mana stones," thought Sol. He then sat down on his hover pod chair and went out of the room. Deva turned back into a red light ball and disappeared within his chest.

"It would be great to live in this room while looking at those incredible views," he thought while floating towards the exit door. "And I should walk some instead of flying around in this chair. I am gonna be fatter if I keep doing this."

The door opened slightly and Sol exited the Royal Suite. Eve and Drago had been waiting for him outside the Royal Suite.

"Are you done? My king," asked Eve.

"Yes," replied Sol.

"Then where do you want to go next?" asked Eve.

Sol said, "I don't know. I only thought about getting Vastra." He thought, "I like to explore the three level city and many things, but that's going to take time. I should do that some other days."

Eve then suggested, "My lord if you don't have any idea then shall we head to the green floor and kitchen floor."

"Green floor and kitchen floor?" Sol was confused.

"Green floor is the twentieth floor and Kitchen floor is the twenty one floor in the Royal Tower. Most of the floors in this tower are your personal floor," said Eve.

Sol thought, "Hmm… I did draw something like that in the sketch book back then."

"If it's possible it would be better to wake the incharge of that floor," said Eve.

"Then let's head to the green floor," said Sol.

Then all them got into the lift and headed to the Green floor first.

The passages were the same as before. After a few seconds they were in front of a giant door. It was a green door with an emblem: golden sun with an eye in the middle. The eye saw Sol and the door opened itself and all went inside.

There was also a small passage. The end of the passage was bright. And at the end they saw a small landscape with forest.

The landscape was full with rows of different fruit trees. There was an open sky with a bright sun. The most unique was the orange hexagonal walls of that floor. The walls were made up of giant honeycomb.

"Whoa!" Sol was surprised by many things. "I remember creating this floor with only fruit trees and bee hives to store fruits." He looked at the sky. He said, "But how come there's a sky here."

Eve answered, "It is one of Adam's abilities."

The forest with different fruit trees in one place, an open sky and the orange beehive walls made the floor astonishing and beautiful.

"Whom do I have to wake?" asked Sol.

"My lord, it's the incharge of this floor, Queen Bee Sara." replied Eve.

"I remember her," said Sol, "Deva." The grimoire once again appeared from within him as a red light ball and transformed into thick black and red grimoire. It opened its one yellow pupil eye.

"Show me about Queen Bee Sara." The grimoire turned the page to a page containing Queen Bee Sara. Sol read it briefly.

"Hmm.. Eighty mana stones or thirty magic stones," Sol read, "Since I only have mana stones I will use that.

"Deva! wake her up," Sol ordered.

A green magic circle formed in front of the grimoire's eye. From the green magic circle a green energy flowed into the one of the largest honeycomb walls.

The energy flowed into the honeycomb where there were statues of many humanoid bees. Then it reached a spacious orange place where the statue of Queen Bee Sara was. The statue of Queen Bee had the original queen bee appearance much larger than humanoid bees. The green energy flowed into the Queen Bee statue. The stone of both queen bee and other bees began to crumble and turned into dust.

After a few minutes, Sol, Eve and Drago who were roaming in the row of cherry trees heard a loud buzz. The buzz was getting louder and nearer. They saw swarms of bees coming out of the honeycomb walls of the floors. They swarmed around where Sol was.

"Whoa! That's a lot of bees," Sol said, "Humanoid bees with original bee appearance- they must be worker bees and scout bees."

Then from a large honeycomb wall, a gigantic bee flew out. It was the Queen Bee which had the original bee appearance. She flew towards where the Sol and swarm was.

The other bees clear the way for their Queen.

"Whoa! I knew Queen Bee would be big but not this big." Sol was surprised seeing the Queen Bee.

The Queen Bee, Sara, was about twenty feet tall and seventy feet in length. She was beautiful with a yellow and orange color body and wings. The other humanoid shape bees were about seven to eight feet tall. Unlike Queen Bee they had transparent wings and black and yellow body.

The Queen Bee was flying as there was no big space to land.

"The swarm greets the Great King. Forgive me for greeting you from above." said Queen Bee Sara. She had a deep calm and deep voice. Some of the humanoid shape bees landed and kneeled in front of their Great King, Sol.

Sol was a little embarrassed and awkward as it was his first time seeing a group kneeling to him. He looked at the Queen Bee who was flying.

"It's okay. You don't need to apologize," Sol said while sitting in his big hover pod chair. "Please Rise all of you."

"Thank you for generosity, my king,"

All the humanoid shape bees on land rose. They were standing on two legs like humans.

Sol observed the humanoid shaped bees on the ground. He was amazed by the way they look. He thought, "I remember drawing them as a food collector and preserver, also honey maker from the food they collected.

"Not just that, they can carry stuff and fly that is three times their body weight. – Seeing them in real life, they look really cool."

The Queen Bee Sara said, "Then with your permission allow us to carry out our task, Oh Great King."

"Go ahead," replied Sol.

"Thank you, my king," said Sara. Some swarm and queen bee flew off into honeycomb walls of the floor and some of them flew off in the forest to pick fruits.

Sol watched them fly off and he remembered something, "I think I have also created floors filled with only flowers, crops and other things like that."

Sol looked at the giant orange honeycomb walls that were far away. He said, "Do they store food in those walls?"

Eve said, "Yes, My king. The honeycomb walls are the home to the bee swarms as well as some of them are path to other floors."

"Other floors?" said Sol.

"The flower floor, Agriculture floor, Forest floor and the kitchen floor. Only the King and bees can use that path to get to the other floor," said Eve.

Sol thought, "Yep, I did create something like that." He looked around and went to the apple tree row. Only some of them had borne apples, others were growing while other trees were young. He wanted to taste those apples.

The round hover pod chair which Sol was sitting in floated a little higher. The hover pod chair could float up to five feet high only from the ground.

Sol picked a few apples. Then the hover chair returns to its original floating height, a little above the ground. Sol wanted to give it to Eve but stopped after seeing her hologram-like body that reminded she was a just a spirit with no body. Then he gave some to thirteen feet tall Drago. It was like a candy to him, a big alligator lizard.

"If you want you can go down in the forest and eat some beast," Sol said to Drago. Drago just flicked its long tongue.

"Since our job here is done, lets' go to the kitchen floor," Sol said. He took the grimoire in his lap and started eating apples.

"Yes, My king," Eve led the way.

They took the lift and went to the twenty first floor, right below the Green Floor.

The door of the kitchen floor was the same as the other but silver color.

Sol noticed that the living eye in the emblem of the door.

"The eye on the door, does it have some reason to be there?" Sol asked.

"Every door that has eye like that only opens to you, my lord, while some door also opens to me," Eve replied, "Only the king can use the lift and these doors. There is another common lift for others which only has access to certain floors."

The eye in the emblem looked at Sol and opened the door.

As they entered they saw wide green field with few trees, small garden, sky and sun above. In the middle was a large common outdoor kitchen, storage, stage, and dining table. The floor had all kitchen equipment which were not mechanical but magical, and had magic spells embedded in it.

"So this is the kitchen floor." Sol was amazed.

"It's the kitchen solely for you, my King," said Eve.

"For me, isn't it too big? And what about the others?"

"We have a large common kitchen on each city. If you wake the incharge of this floor the other kitchen's workers will also wake on their own."

"Okay then," said Sol. He then walked near a tall statue that had three heads and four arms. "Food is needed if I am gonna wake all the asleep ones here.

"Deva, Wake him up."

The grimoire in his lap floated and a green magic circle appeared in front of the grimoire eye. The green energy from the magic formation flew to the stone. The stone crumbled and turned into dust.

A seven feet tall humanoid with blue skin, three heads and four arms. He was wearing a chef uniform and hats.

Sol looked at the tall humanoid while sitting in his hover pod chair. He said,"Neyer."

Neyer kneeled before Sol, "This Neyer is at your service, Great Lord."

"Rise Neyer," said Sol.

Sol remembered drawing him as a fantasy chef that could tell what is edible and non-edible and also a cooking master.

"Is there anything Lord wants to eat," asked Neyer.

"Not today, Neyer. Besides, I need to go home, have a snack and dinner," said Sol.

"As the lord wishes." Neyer bowed.

"Eve, are there anything left to do?" Sol asked.

Eve replied, "No my lord."

"Then let's go to the first floor. I think it was a floor with a view," said Sol. The grimoire turned into a red light ball and went inside Sol's chest.

All of them went to the first floor below the tower roof.

The first floor was a large floor with dark coloured marble floors, a few sofas, and plants. It had a large panoramic view window that brightened the floor with outside view. Looking at both sides, cities on the right wing and left wing could be seen and looking in front, a front view ahead of the ship could be seen.

Sol floated on his hover pod chair and went close to the front window. He saw a blue and white landscape of sky and clouds. Then he moved to the right side, looked below and saw the city on the right wing.

"Such detail." Sol was mesmerized by the city. He turned towards Eve and Drago.

"Eve, do you know what you did before I summoned you." Sol was curious.

"My King, all we know is that we were asleep, waiting for you to wake up from this slumber." Eve replied.

Sol thought, "Slumber?" He asked, "Then what made you think I was your king?"

"We all know your face, while in slumber I saw a dream where you were our king. And when I saw you for the first time I got a strong feeling that you were our Monarch. I am sure it's the same for all those who haven't awakened and are still in slumber," replied Eve.

"Is that so. Thank you." said Sol.

"There's no need to thank me, my King. I was just doing my job," Eve replied.

Sol turned to the side and looked at the sky. "I should head home now," he said, "Adam, take us down."

Adam slowly descended down below the clouds. It reached the place where it was before, at the top of hills. The fog was still there. Now Sol could only see fog from the first floor.

Sol turned toward Eve. He said, "I can't always come here. Also be careful of being found out. Stay in invisible mode and stealth mode. Try to get as much solar energy during the day."

"We will be careful," said Eve.

"Good. Adam close the city," Sol ordered.

There was a wave of white thin light, spreading all over the top of the ship, creating the top part of the ship. The city was closed and the ship looked fully enclosed.

All went to the open roof of the tower. It was cold and foggy. Sol stepped out of the hover pod chair. He turned toward Eve.

He said, "If Adam and you guys are found, fly far away immediately. No one should suspect the village because of it. And if someone attacks , don't try to fight back - just fly away and try to escape. Adam is not a battleship and it doesn't have that many features to fight back. Besides, it will be bad if it takes damage."

"We will do that. Please do not worry and have a pleasant day, my King," Eve bowed.

Drago also lowered his head.

The walls of black spherical escort pod disappeared leaving a round floating metal board. Sol got on the board and the walls reappeared. The spherical walls became transparent and slowly flew towards the front of the ship in the fog.

Eve and Drago watched their King leave.

The escort pod left Sol at the bottom of the forest. Sol then walked from there, crossed the river and passed through village outskirts forest. By the time he had crossed the outskirt's small forest he was already breathing heavily.

"I should really lose some weight," he panted.