Sacrifice: Time of Mine

While the King and Queen were sighing, the man in black robes steeled himself midway and just went for it;

"But at that moment, Avion Teller crisply slapped the princess. He then lightly scolded the princess and... the princess surprisingly didn't retaliate, leaving everyone stunned."

Those last words could be applied to everyone there right now.

"W-what did she do..? Is that man, Avion Teller already executed?" the Queen asked as if ignoring the part where the princess didn't retaliate. That situation was just too impossible for the Queen to imagine so she subconsciously ignored it.

After gulping one last time, the man replied, "No, Your Majesty, it seemed that Avion Teller was even the one who brought Princess Alisera in the Royal Mansion and treated her reddened cheek." out of nervousness, the man in black robes made a mistake and continued reading the paper, "The reason this letter was late was that I was stunned too. Princess Alisera looked so happy conversing with that mysterious hands..-" realizing that he should've stopped a sentence before that, he immediately stopped.

The man immediately felt the threatening aura coming from the King and Queen.

"Continue." the Queen heavily ordered.

The man knew he had already drunk the cup of poison. It was bitter and by mistake. However, he was forced to continue drinking until he finished it. If he lied and the paper was read, it could be seen as a heavy crime, lying to the King!

After taking a cold sip of air, the man in the black robe read the last part of the paper, "Princess Alisera looked so happy conversing with that mysterious handsome man. Maybe she fell in love with him because of his looks?"

"..."

This was the moment the nobles were waiting for. Edora was the princess's guard this time and it could be said that she should also be her adviser. Meaning, the responsibility should fall on her shoulders instead of the inexperienced mind of the princess.

Edora was just a commoner and had no noble background. On top of that, she could only reach Rank Dih which is not bad but if compared to the prerequisite of the Royal Knight Captain to be at least Rank Cee, it was not enough. No talent and no supporters due to being a commoner, she turned their perspective upside down when she defeated the other candidate for the position of the Royal Knight-Captain in one swift blow.

Even though the prerequisite was Rank Cee, the other candidate accepted an official match filled with confidence. However, that was his fatal mistake.

Now, a commoner that earned the title of a knight was promoted to the position of a Royal Knight-Captain! The nobles wouldn't allow this!

But, alas, the King favored strength above all so Edora became the Royal Knight Captain. The job of the Royal Knights was to protect the royalties. What occurred could be blamed on Edora who was with Princess Alisera.

A commoner being chosen as the Royal Knight-Captain which was the position only nobles can have for the last century could be seen as her slapping the nobles' faces!

Commoners are seen as lowly humans, unable to cultivate their Elemental Power and could only bring them to Rank Eeh which couldn't even be considered as an Elementalist. Heck! Even Edora herself hates commoners, how much more of these nobles!?

They already have the resources to cultivate Elementalists on top of having strong talent in their bloodline, yet, they still lost to a commoner? It was a large slap on their faces!

So if possible, no, if any opportunity arises, they wanted her out to clean their faces and this was that opportunity, however... the risk was too high. Nobody could mention it.

The nobles there were dukes and marquis. Counts were seen as too low to have a presence in the King's throne room unless needed. The guards are just servants while the knights are just for decorations if there are no real dangers to the King.

Meaning, the only ones who could greet the King on a daily basis were these high-ranking nobles who own cities. But still, none of them could speak, The risk was just too high.

Because, as of this moment, the King might order to ravage the whole Trading-Hills Capital.

Somebody slapped their precious princess?

Politically, this could be seen as the worse! As mentioned before, the image of royalties needs to be absolute to stabilize their ruling.

Personally, how could someone else slap their cute daughter when even them, the parents, don't raise their voice at her!? Just imagining that their daughter is holding her cheek in pain made them want to roar. For them, she was still their angel. If only not for the shitty tradition of letting them rule the capital, they wouldn't let her go.

And lastly, in terms of pride, someone made their daughter agree with them with a slap? They spoiled her and an unknown man straightened her? Doesn't that mean their bad parents then? Not knowing how to raise their child properly that a stranger had to do their job for them. And this was known all over the Haliviana since rumors will surely get its way.

For a King and Queen, this was a great reason to rage!

"Prepare the fastest Igelious, I will be attending the welcome party of my daughter. Apply body strengthening to it and make it faster twice, no, thrice. I need to get there within an hour!" the King stood up, his big figure intimidating them. If the nobles had a strong bloodline, what more to the royal family?

Even the princess herself was about to reach Rank Dih without doing anything.

The King had the looks of the ancient Greek God Zeus with curly long white hair, a stout figure, and a terrifying face. He then walked to a passage just near his throne.

"Yes, Your Royal Highness!" one of the guards half-kneeled and ran towards the aerial barracks to bring the King's order which everyone worked on the spot.

Meanwhile, the elderly officials all had worried faces as they called with respect, "My King! You shouldn't leave our kingdom for that petty reason! Just have someone like Kruse go there to resolve the matter!"

"Silence! I will be back in the morning!" the King did not turn his back, he needed to prepare for the welcome party and the slaughter at the same time, "Let my wife be in charge." he left those words as it fading echoed.

While the nobles only have panicked expressions, the official looked at the Queen, asking for help. They just saw her roughly massaging her temples before standing up, "You oldies be in charge first. If anything happens here while we are gone, you are all to be executed!"

The trembling old officials due to age trembled harder upon receiving the Queen's order.