True King's Ecstasy

"What do we do now, Veli?" Their plan was already successful with most of the nobles dying at the hands of commoners and them salvaging their tax money and food.

"We can't allow anyone to take advantage of this situation to beat us, there might be some business organizations and even adventure guilds that might interfere with this," Velian didn't know what the future had for them but he only wanted victory and nothing else. After all the people that were killed in the process, he didn't want to see defeat.

They advanced through the castle finding for remaining nobles and at least someone who can give information until Velian and Daphnia saw a room which looked rather dark compared to others.

"What is this room? Some kind of a prison?" Slowly pushing the door, they entered it to witness the saddest thing, they saw after coming here.

It was a body of an old man but it almost had no muscles. Even one it had was glued to the bones giving a rather scary look with his dark eyes and lips.

"No ordinary man would be able to live in the castle like this, so this must be the Rapidclaw kingdom who ordered our execution before," Getting close to the body with a faint trace of life, Velian muttered while taking a good look.

"What should we do mother? If we keep him here, he's going to die either way but he has no reason to live, at least we can give him a death without humiliation," Velian asked for his mother's idea but unlike what she expected her answer didn't come.

Velian looked at her face only to see Daphnia having a confused face.

"Veli, these symptoms are familiar and this look, everything looks familiar," Her words piqued Velian's interest.

"To whom?"

"To-" Daphnia hesitated for a minute as she looked at Velian's face but soon she steeled herself and decided to face the truth.

"To the emperor, to be exact, former emperor," Velian only had to hear that name, he knew why Daphnia hesitated to say those words.

"Hmm~"

"And this smell in the room, it's the same musky smell of medicine, I'm pretty sure this isn't a natural disease," Daphnia's words became more and more complicated over time.

"Were they planning to steal the throne?" Velian didn't want to touch the man, but he observed everything carefully.

"This familiar feeling!" It wasn't apparent at first time, but the more he assessed this body using his mind, it was rather easy for him to notice the similarities between what he witnessed that day.

"..."

Daphnia also kept looking at Velian's face and the victim's face simultaneously trying to remember everything until she heard the sound of footsteps near the door.

"Veli! Someone is coming," She quickly grabbed his hand and decided to hide in the cupboard which barely had space for both of them.

Velian had to deal with Daphnia's huge boobs almost suffocating him but, it wasn't a bad feeling.

"Mother, why are we hiding? We can just encounter them," Velian asked in a whispering tone.

Daphnia couldn't help but wonder why she did that. Her reflex to protect her child activated as she quickly grabbed him to hide but now she regretted it a little showing this uncool side to her son.

"Whatever, this ha perfect, let's see who this guest of ours is," Hoping to take a peek, Velian opened the door of the cupboard a little but with darkness, it would have been hard for him to see, if it's wasn't for his extraordinary senses.

"Tsk, this isn't what I expected, that rebels had to go and destroy everything I did," Kicking the face of the already unconscious king, the mysterious figure reached for his pocket to take the letter to read it.

"You useless piece of shit," He kept kicking the king's face until he looked at the main door of the room hearing a sound.

"What happened?" Looking at the person in front of him, the mysterious figure questions without any patience.

"We couldn't find the princess, I'm sorry prime minister," In the end, the identity of this mysterious figure was none other than the prime minister who was also the brother-in-law of the king.

"Oh this is getting interesting!" Muttering to himself with excitement, Velian decided to observe everything until he heard Luna's next word.

[Target's rank cannot be measured, master]

This was the second time this happened to Velian. First when he assessed the dragon and now this.

"What do you mean by that? What's special about him? Is he more powerful than me but that's impossible," Velian thought until he calmed his mind.

"Wait! It's not impossible if he's hiding his strength and race that's not a miracle, this is dangerous, good thing mother acted on reflex to hide," Velian looked at Daphnia gracefully, he couldn't help but see her as a guardian angel in this situation. Not because he was scared of this unknown situation, because it is always good to be cautious, he didn't want to wager his life for a useless battle when it has nothing to offer him.

Suddenly black smoke started to come out of the prime minister's hand and entered the king's body. Velian knew what this familiar feeling he felt was right after seeing that.

'That black smoke, it's the same thing that killed Yuvanna the dragon'

He knew he wasn't mistaken because Yuvanna's memories inside him were the ones to identify this smoke.

"Mother, this place isn't safe anymore, we should fall back for a few hours," Velian didn't know what this power was or his system but fighting the unknown was something Velian didn't prefer.

After using his black smoke on the king for a few minutes, the prime minister left the room leaving Daphnia and Velian but they also quickly left the room through the window using Velian's levitation power.

"Veli, did something happen?" Looking at the concerned face of her son, Daphnia questioned as she felt uneasy seeing Velian's serious face.

"Looks like there's something unknown playing with people's destiny, we need to be careful," Leaving those words with Daphnia, Velian went to meet Delviny leaving his doppel with rebels.