Chapter 2007: The Red Banquet -Part 2
Chapter 2007: The Red Banquet -Part 2
But even with that kind of thinking, it seemed like there was no need for him to go that far as one of the Ministers was already grumbling very loudly about why the supposed new king's successor had not appeared so far.
"This king really thinks he can hold sway on us? We are coming here as a courtesy call for him, to let him know that although he is the king, he still has to listen to us!" The minister shouted and everyone in the court agreed to it.
"Now, now. Let's not be hasty, shall we? Perhaps he had already died from the celestial relic from the Moon King. We should wait for the old servant to give us that news and later plot our time. Besides, as you can see, the king's servants are already preparing the tables for us while we wait for this king.
They knew that we had already waited long enough for dinner to be served under the royal's tab." The other minister said and the rest started to laugh knowing that they did not need to spend money for their dinner since it was going to the debt of this particular king. He had to work hard to get back all that money.
"What if he survived the celestial relic and needed time to come here?" Gara suddenly spoke out and the Ministers looked at him with suspicion. This had been a long time since the Royal Mage General had spoken a word during the conversation of the Ministers. While he had roughly the same power and rank as them, they all knew that Gara did not make much small talk as his magic did all the talking.
So, the War Minister had decided to entertain him with his thoughts.
"If he does, he can join us in this upcoming dinner and we celebrate his survival from the relic. After that, we will bill that to him and have the new king to work his ass off paying the cost of the dinner."
"I briefly saw the new candidate during the summoning process. He does not seem to be the usual king that we had." Gara gave a lie but within that lie, a warning to the ministers. When Jin overheard it, he was already smiling. This Royal Mage General might have been hiding, no- ignoring all that was happening so that when the right time came, he would strike.
This might be the ally that he was searching for in this mess of the Kingdom.
Perhaps he did have an agenda but as long as it aligned with Jin, there were no qualms with it.
"Royal Mage General. You might have your opinions but for the past few generations, all the kings have always been rubbish. Crying kids, despaired adults and there was even one handicapped. All of them could not do shit to run this country. I honestly have no idea why you guys keep summoning all these useless king candidates for. Just because of the legacy of the Moon King?
That guy is already dead for 2000 years. Just let us be the actual kings, create a cabinet and we can move the Kingdom of Ress to the next stage." The War Minister exclaimed and each and every Minister was shouting in support for the War Minister except for one.
"Who's that guy? He did not make any noise at all." Jin said as he continued to monitor the situation from the top. He knew that all of the Ministers were in their colourful attire to differentiate them and their minions and there was this rather old veteran looking minister who kept his mouth shut for the longest time ever.
In fact, Jin noticed that there was no interaction between the bulk of the ministers and him. Not even a greeting. All that old minister did was sit at the corner with one lackey analysing the whole situation.
"That guy? …Ah. He is the Minister of Kingdom Development. Usually deals with the development of the kingdom as well as spearheading the research of the kingdom. The only problem with that is there is no funding going into that. Every minister in this room felt that there was no need for research at all." Linus stated as he squinted his eyes to check if he had identified the minister correctly. Stay with the story on m v l e m p y r
"If I am not wrong, his name is Topharm. If the rumours were correct, the generation before him apparently had tried to back a particular King because that King had the same thoughts and alignment with the Topharm's parents. However, as much as Topharm's parents tried to assist and support the king, the other ministers had schemed and caused a downfall."
"Let me guess, he does not have a family? Or if he had one, it was a forced marriage with that he did not agree to. Subsequently, he wed and gave birth to someone because he was forced to as well.
So that his child will continue to be a minister and that this is a reminder for the rest of the ministers to not to cross the group." Jin theorised and Linus was amazed by that line of thinking because it was exactly what had happened.
This might honestly be a boon if this candidate was able to placid the entire group of ministers and come out as the final victor of it all to bring the current Kingdom of Ress to a new age.
"Your Majesty. If you are willing to make changes. I will follow you to the depths of hell."
"Heh, if you follow me, the depths of hell are not enough of a route. We are going to fight and sit on the throne of the heavens too." Jin said but at that point, Linus had no idea that they were going to fight not just against demons but angels too.
"Are all the ministers such assholes?"
"You never seen the atrocities they had done. I am not extremely well versed with memory vision spells but here. This is one of the worst that I have seen and been etched with it for all eternity." Linus said as he created a small sphere of whirling on his palm before it turned clear and projected his memory onto it.
Jin saw the ministers all line up stark naked with their fellow 'entertainers' in action. Not only that, the ministers were in some luxurious stadiums where their beds were the seats and the centre of it all was the arena. They watched humans fight against each other with bare hands to death.
For a mage kingdom citizen to fight without any magic was basically the greatest handicap and to see the raw visage of humans tearing each other apart with tooth and nail was arousing them for their entertainers to do the job. Not only that, the winner will fight against the captured demon.
Linus was scheduled as one of the guards to ensure that the demons do not go overboard and this was just a standard duty which almost every soldier in the castle did. They cannot say no as that would be against orders.
Only if the ministers felt generous that they give them a tip or two, and if the ministers felt that they were in a bad mood, the guards themselves had to risk their lives for the sake of entertainment as well.
Linus was lucky he was able to pull through this occasion without any hiccups but there were a few of his seniors that did not have such peace during their course of duty. As much as Linus did not wish to do this, it became a daily occasion that he became a little numb from all the sins that were happening.
Still, he could not forget the first time he saw it happening as he honestly hoped to cut them down for they are also the demons that are hiding in plain sight.
"Huh, well. Then as king, should I not try to educate them so that these monsters become humans again?"
"Are you that kind?" Linus did not dare to laugh but that emotion came out as an instant reaction, not allowing him to withdraw it. So, he quickly kneels to apologise.
"Heh. Heh. Heh. They like to watch sports a lot, right? Well, it so happens that I like this kind of sports watching too." Jin smiled as he decided to start
It was then, that Jin also understood that this was more than enough observation and he decided that it was time for the show to start. However, before he did, he touched his storage watch for a moment and attempted to see if it was still working or not.
To his relief, he was still able to access his storage watch and he took out a Panda mask and wore it as he always did when it to theatrics. He cleared his voice for a bit and he started his show.