Chapter 19: Family
Blue Dream woke up.
After teaching Gog and Joannis a lesson with illusion without a trace, Alexei and the group of them begin their first family dinner with the mage.
It's just that this family has only one owner.
Alexei sits on the highest throne, and the towering back of his chair is a constant declaration of his sovereignty over the family.
The ranks descended in order, and sitting to his right hand was Lan Meng, the only person who could sit down in front of the mage. For the rest, Gog and Joannis each picked a small bowl for their lunch of the day, and they sat with Dora around the small table behind the large table, occasionally stealing a glance at the empty chair that Alexei had placed on his left.
It was the throne of the illustrious servant announced by the mage, and it was decided once a month. The winner will receive face-to-face training from the Mage and will be one level higher than the other minions, and can serve as Alexey's second-in-command, helping with some of the minions' chores.
Finding a tame head sheep for the flock is the basic skill of every mature slave owner. If you have to take care of everything, then why do you need slaves?
If you have a slave, you should make good use of it, and not let them be a drag on your master. Beside him, Archarius, whose skeleton was unusual, climbed the ceiling and turned upside down to hold a bowl of soup for Alexei.
Taste with a spoon in moderation, simple vegetables mixed with frozen meat stew, in the absence of seasonings, Dora's cooking skills are quite good, the salty taste is suitable, at least not so difficult to eat.
"Aren't you hungry?"
He looked at the girl on his right. The female mage's face was as white as paper, her lips were slightly open without a trace of blood, and her godless eyes were looking at the scenery without knowing where to look. There was a hanging bottle hanging beside her, and fresh blood was flowing through the transparent catheter, drop by drop into the upside-down glass bottle.
"Eat some. I don't want to use those overly rude tactics to you. It's okay to lose your temper, you can scold me or make trouble, but it's okay not to eat. ”
"Come, open your mouth. ”
Alexei picked up an empty spoon, scooped up a spoonful of the soup, and placed it on the paw of Alcharius.
"Woo woo woo ......"
The runes that have only recently been put into use are nowhere near fine enough to handle the work of feeding. The spoon full of hot soup of Alcharius hit the bridge of Lan Meng's nose directly, and the girl whimpered, and her waist was forced to bow up by the rope on the chair, and she shook her hair violently, and the soup splashed on the ground.
The three apprentice reservists who had suffered from the unjustified disaster hurriedly opened the table and hid in a distant corner to eat.
"Why do you bother? ”
Alexei picked up the second empty spoon again, and was about to poke into the pot, when he heard a series of screams in his ears, and the girl frantically struggled to turn the chair upside down, and was about to fall down, when an invisible magic lifted the chair that was about to fall.
"Brute!"
She gasped for breath, chopped leaves and thick soup stuck to her unfurled blonde hair. She glared at Alexey and shouted, "Scoundrel,, kill me!"
"And the strength to curse, good. It seems that you are recovering well, and I am relieved. ”
Alexei smiled and continued to lift the silver spoon from the pot, the light yellow soup steaming upward: "Come, drink, you have to eat enough to have the strength to open your mouth." ”
"Don't, let me go. I have my own hands, and I will eat them myself!"
She dodged the soup spoon poked by Alcharius in embarrassment, and was about to open her mouth to scold, but she was not paying attention, the corners of her forehead hurt, and she was splashed with soup again.
"Enough!"
Covered with the smell of thick soup, Lan Meng's expression was shattered, and he yelled: "Don't humiliate me anymore, Alexey, do you still have any shame? Bullying the weak and killing innocents indiscriminately, is this what you should do as a full member of the Council of Legislators of the King? Haven't the mages of your kingdom always called themselves orderly? My councillor! Don't tell me that you didn't read the contents of the oath slate when you signed it, or do you mean that you are a shameless person who can even turn around and forget the oath you have made?"
Saying that, Lan Meng sneered twice and said sarcastically: "Of course, there is another possibility. If you can't read, I can help you and teach you not to be a rascal who doesn't know how to learn. ”
"Oh, that's good. Alexei stirred the soup in the pot, looked sideways slightly, and said: "I didn't expect Her Royal Highness the princess to remember that there is such a stone slab in the old country, if you don't say it, I really forgot it." ”
Shaking his head deliberately, Alexei, who tapped the table with disdain, tapped the table and said, "I just don't know which tutor Your Highness is listening to in the academy." Thirty years behind the times without knowing it, I'm afraid it's not an old pedant who just jumped out of the coffin board, and even knows the old accounts of decades ago buried under the garbage heap so clearly, wouldn't it be better for you and him to learn some history of the kingdom? ”
"But I still have to applaud you, after all, it's not too easy to find some information about the kingdom in Grio Davido. Think about it, are you the former princess of the kingdom, what is the saying, by the way, it is called being in the empire, and the heart is in the hometown? ”
"You!"
The girl is angry.
"Oh, it's true that the truth is a bit hurtful, but don't be angry, my Highness, I can help you make up for what your mentor can't tell you. The Oath Slate has long since been abandoned by our mages, just like your last name, which you have forgotten by the people of the kingdom. ”
"Why?"
"Isn't it understandable to tear off the shackles? The pursuit of freedom, this is human nature, Your Highness. The moment your grandfather was ousted from the throne, the Mage Council of Onco no longer had to owe allegiance to the royal family, and I, as a member of the Mage Council, naturally had to follow the leadership of the Council and no longer have to obey the rules and regulations of the Oath Tablet. ”
"What!"
Lan Meng was shocked: "Could it be that what I heard before was fake?"
She muttered to herself, "Impossible, impossible." ”
But then, as if she suddenly realized something, she opened her mouth and questioned: "I don't want to hear anything else, I just want you to tell me whether you have signed it or not!"
Stiffening his neck, Lan Meng's heart was suspicious, "How do I know if you bad breeds of Angke will make up stories to lie to me, I want to hear you admit it yourself and swear by your name!"
"Don't make me laugh, Your Highness. ”
Alexei disappetically grabbed a loaf of bread with his magic power, broke it and added it to the soup: "What if I signed it, and what if I don't sign it? The slate of the oath has been cracked for more than thirty years, and the promises signed on it have long since become waste paper. ”
"Do you still want to duel in honor between mages according to the oath? I'm not that stupid, little fool, you're my baby, and it's too late for me to love you. ”
"No, shut up. Get away from me. ”
She tensed her muscles, kicked her feet hard, pushed the chair off the edge of the table a little, and retched: "Can you stop saying such things, I'm about to throw up." ”
As she spoke, she opened her mouth and vomited a little sour water, and then raised her head, her tone became more and more intense: "I thought you were a person who could communicate, but I didn't expect you to be a disgusting person from the inside out, you can do evil at will without restraint, and you dare to do evil without supervision." I've admired you before, but you're obviously a maggot from Angke, and I can't eat because it's disgusting both mentally and physically. Count me blind, how can I think you are young and promising. But it's not too late to wake up, I've already recognized you for who you really are! Alexey Adrian, you are a bastard, a bug, a fool, a waste, an intellectless ooze monster, a stinking necrophile, a castration in the emperor's court, a coward who only dares to fuck goats in Darune, dare to kill me like a man? I will not be afraid of you, I will not say a word about what you want to know. If you don't dare to kill me now, you're a vain, damned, nobody-raising freak. ”
Alexei heard the scolding in his ear, his left ear went in and out of his right ear, and he turned his head to see that Lan Meng was glaring at him fiercely with her big amber eyes, panting.
"It seems that our Highness's life in the black stork has not been in vain, at least he has learned a lot in his mouth. ”
Then he raised the third empty spoon, and watched as the emotion in the girl's eyes quickly turned to despair after the scolding.
"Enough is enough, thirsty. ”
"Then let's have some soup. ”
"No !!"