The Queen Demands An Audience part 2

"Excuse me!, do you know where the toilet is?", asked Arnold as he stumbled upon his prey." The toilet? come with me it's this way".

After wasting a few minutes inside the toilet, Arnold thanked the man as he came outside of the toilet and asked for his name." "The names victor but can call me "Vic", said the man with a suave voice".

" What's your name gentleman?, judging by your garb I can distinguish that your a silk-stocking person".You have rapier-like wit I must say I'm taken aback."Well, thanks for the laudation I was not trying to be sapient".I know, you can call me Rick.

"I reckon that I have other guests waiting for me". Are you leaving already?."Yes, I don't think there's anything worth the time for discussion is left". Well, trust me there's a lot of things left to bat around with me.

" Oh my!, what will it be I wonder".What if I say I know the dinkum oil happening between your mother and the king." I don't know what you're talking about".I insist that we spend some quality time discerning the truth to you.

"Ok, Let's go to a bar and let me be frank we'll go Dutch".

After that Arnold and Victor sat on a well-known bar in the capital." Should I do the honour or would you go for it, Mr. Rick?".

Let me do the honours then Mr Vic."Well, carry on then I'm all ears".I have a copper-bottomed source of gen from which I found out that the king was thinking of announcing the wedding of you and your aunt's daughter after the birthday of your kinswoman.

"I pretty much get everything but marrying my aunt's daughter it's making me feel gut-churning".I know so I have a scheme to demolish it, only if you want to." It's obvs true that I don't want to marry my aunt's daughter".Then the more reason to prevent it from happening."I have a question why are you trying to prevent the marriage?".Well,I have taken quite a shine for your aunt's daughter after meeting her."Oh dear me, you do know that my aunt's daughter is not simpatico".Yes,I know I'm sympathique about that with her.

"Well, good luck with that, I'm going to have a gee-gee head-to-head with you before listening to your plan, is that okay with you?".Of course, why not but can I know the reason behind you choosing the yarraman race?.

I think riding a mount helps one to rearrange one's thoughts.Ooh! I see.After that, Arnold or rather Rick and Victor left the bar and were headed towards the royal horse artillery.

There were more than 50 horses in the artillery and all of them were top-hole foal waiting to be ridden.Arnold decides on a black mare and Victor choose a brown one.Seeing Arnold choose a mare Victor started laughing in a guffaw manner.Arnold didn't say anything.

After that, they rode on the horse to reach the royal race field.The field was huge with the grasses trimmed.There were two routes in the field.Arnold and Victor decide to hold the race on the oval-shaped route." So, are you up for it? you can chuck now if you want".No, I'm fine.

The race started when a blue cloth was dropped by a woman.The filly Arnold was riding started with a great pace but Victor's horse came to the fore.

Arnold put his hand on the horse's mane and started petting it and whispered something.After that, the horse started running at breakneck speed. At the end of the day, Victor lost three matches on the trot resulting in Arnold's victory.

"You win, saying this Victor told Arnold to follow him". Victor took Arnold to a hidden basement of the palace."I want to know what did you whisper in the horse's ear?". I just told the horse if we win I'm going to give it a titbit.

" Really!, that's what you whispered in the horse's ear?".Yup, that's what I told."Ok, I believe you now tell me the plan about how you're going to stop the wedding."I'm going to stop the wedding by putting the kibosh on your life", saying this Arnold gave a deep cut on the throat of Victor."So sad, unfortunately, it's not going to happen"."What!, I just cut your throat how are you still alive?", said Arnold with a shocked tone of voice.

"The cut you just landed was on my puppet body which I made with my dark magic". What! Huh! why am I feeling nauseous?."So, the poison's finally kicking in, saying this Victor had a burst of uproarious laughter".

" Did you think that I'll listen to everything you say and leave the chance of ascending the throne"."You knew everything from the beginning", said Arnold coughing out blood."Yes, you catch on quick that's the only thing I found up to the mark about you Mr. Arnold".How do you know my real name?."I also have a reliable source of information"."Since your dying let me tell you, saying this Victor started whispering in Arnold's ear and told him that the Queen's head maid is one of his trusted aides".

As time passed Arnold started to cough up more blood."Looks like you don't have much time left,I hope you go the way of all flesh, saying this Victor went outside of the hidden passageway through the foyer.Arnold was thinking is this where he is going to die?.

As time passes white fluids started gushing out of his mouth.Arnold greeted his teeth and tried to stand up but his whole body was numb.

Arnold's eyes rolled up and he fainted.After some time he regained consciousness and saw a mirror-like Quadrilateral floating in the air which had congratulations written on it.Arnold stood up and touched the plate.

{Something popped up}

[Welcome to the System]

[Congratulations]

[Evolution from normal ant to poison ant is complete]

[New skill unlocked - "Chameleon"]

[New skill unlocked - "Antena logic"]

[New skill unlocked -....]

Panting heavily Arnold gritted his teeth and started mumbling,I'm coming for ya bitch.He stood up and was grateful that he's still alive by the grace of God.Arnold read a lot of manga but in every one of them the plate shows up at first but in his case, it showed up late, yet he was happy that he didn't bite the big one.

Arnold gained many skills as he scrolled down the writings in a whistle-stop manner.Among all the skills there was one skill that got his attention and it was the ability to order other ants to work for him and drain their life energy which he can later reserve in his bod for future use.With a grin on his face, Arnold started to run as fast as possible to get out of the secret passageway while shouting," I'm coming for ya bastard".

As Arnold reached outside of the passageway he at once made himself tiny by becoming an ant.There were other ants around so he used the skill "Antena logic" and called for the other ants to help him.The ants formed a line and were transporting Arnold by moving his body above them.

Arnold drained some of the ant's life energy and stored it in his body in case he needs it.Arnold didn't have the time to search every room so he made a list of rooms he should check first in his mind.

After searching in two rooms he finally found victor in the third room which was the kitchen room.Victor was mixing something with the food most likely poison.

With his tiny legs, Arnold went as close as possible to Victor.He then nullified his ability and went back to his normal size.Arnold then placed one of his hands on Victor's shoulder and muttered, "it looks like I'm about to pop your clogs".Before Victor could look behind Arnold knocked him out with one punch on his nape.

In a pitch-black room filled with a shaft of sunlight coming from outside was illuminating on Victor's face as he found himself tied up with a pillar of the room. Victor tried to speak but couldn't since his mouth was filled with a ball probably made out of a handkerchief.

Arnold was standing in the sombre part of the room and started muttering," So, you're awake I thought you had already bitten the dust but your alacritous and kicking".Victor was trying to make sound desperately. You thought I was going to cash in my chips but the tables have turned."Well, you're going to die, either way, the Queen ordered me to rub out your existence, said Arnold with a low key voice. After hearing this Victor started to ululate while shaking like a leaf knowing his death was at his doorstep.

"Don't worry I'll make it painless", Arnold whispered in Victor's ear."Ooh!, That reminds me we took care of your rat smoothly and I can tell that she's missing you", saying this Arnold pinched a needle on Victors face."Did the skewer hurt?, asked Arnold with a slightly high voice tone.

After a few minutes, victor's whole body started to shiver while his skin colour was becoming blue, the ball of handkerchief became all red and Victor breathed his last. Thus, Arnold concluded the story of Victor's death for the Queen.

Arnold then cut off victor's head and presented it in front of the Queen.The queen was delighted to see the severed head of Victor and seeing her ominous facial expression, Arnold understood how shrewd of a women she is.