Elemental Light Mage

Chapter 499: One Day in the Palace

Early in the morning, Neuhac prepared to hold a court meeting in the palace as usual.

When he reached the side door of the palace, Lunari was standing at the door, motionless like a statue.

When Neuhak saw that his close secretary was standing there without greeting him, he became suspicious and wanted to hold Lunari accountable.

But when he took a step forward, he saw Lunali with his eyes closed and a faint breath coming out of his mouth and nose.

"Fell asleep?"

Never mind. Lunari is by my side all day helping with the affairs. There is no need to blame him if he is tired from work.

Neuhak pushed open the side door and walked into the corridor. The moment he stepped in, the cold wind blew across his face.

"Is the cold wind season coming so soon?"

Neuhak gathered his strength and walked to the end of the passage. He could vaguely see a light coming from the crack of the door of the inner hall.

He came to the door of the inner hall and reached out to push open the door that separated him from the light.

When the two doors were pushed open, Neuhac felt a chill on his back.

He looked down and saw that his imperial robe had disappeared, replaced by the armor he had worn in battle in the past.

Neuhak looked up and walked into the hall in disbelief. The officials standing in two rows were not familiar faces to him, but faces that aroused the fear deep in his heart.

As his former elders stared at him, Neuhak's legs unconsciously became weak.

He mustered up all his courage and came to the center of the hall, only to find that there were three people crowded on the throne where he usually sat, and one of them had his back to him.

The other two people on the throne noticed Neuhac's arrival and cast their eyes on him.

Sitting on the right side of the throne was his son Noel, or rather, Xiyeming.

Xi Yeming's lips curled up into a smile, and he stared at his biological father with sarcasm in his eyes. Sitting on the side of the throne, he looked like a powerful child.

When Neuhac looked at the person on the right, he took two steps back in fear.

His father, the late Emperor Ivan, was sadly indifferent to his every move.

"Wait, Father, you are still alive...?"

Neuhac lost his strength and fell to the ground. He thought that his father appeared in front of him for only one thing.

That was the battle for the throne seventeen years ago.

After hearing Neuhak fall to his knees with a thud, the mysterious man with his back to him turned to face him.

"How can it be……"

If Neuhak saw his father Ivan, he would be so scared that he would kneel down, but this person made him subconsciously hold his breath and his whole body became numb.

"Grandpa, why are you here..."

The two emperors before Neuhak, "Feitian", known as the Shura Emperor, looked down upon his grandson.

"Father, father!"

On one side of the palace, Fia, crying bitterly, was carried up by a group of soldiers.

Two soldiers came up and arrested him, and Neuhak could only watch Xi Yeming wink at the soldiers to take Fia away.

"Father, I don't want to die...!"

"Fia..."

Until the end, his daughter kept shouting for him to save her, but Neuhac could do nothing.

He looked at Xi Yeming on the throne with grief, tears welling up in his eyes as if he was questioning his son why he did this?

The Shura Emperor Fei Tian walked down the steps step by step, pulled out the sword from the scabbard of the soldier next to him and approached Neuhak.

“Have mercy on me, Grandpa…!”

Fei Tian did not stop because of the emperor's grandson's plea for mercy. He stood in front of Neuhak with an expressionless face and raised the sword high.

“Please spare me, please spare me…!”

……

Neuhak on the bed suddenly opened his eyes, stretched his hands to the air and shouted, "Have mercy on me——!"

After a few gasps, Neuhak finally realized that he was dreaming...

"Your Majesty, we heard shouting from the Emperor's chamber. May I ask--"

There were guards knocking on the door and asking questions anxiously.

Neuhak regained his composure and said, "I'm fine, you guys can leave now."

"Yes."

When the rustling footsteps faded away, Neuhak turned his head and looked at the moon outside the window.

"Maybe I should go see that kid."

-

"Hurry up," Lunali urged the servants who were tidying up the warehouse. "Your Majesty has had nightmares recently, so the palace has bought a large amount of dream fragrance. It must be stored in a dry warehouse. We can't wait any longer."

Suddenly, a red booklet fell at Lunari's feet.

"This is?"

Lunali bent down and examined the red booklet. On the cover was written in exquisite handwriting "Dragon and Phoenix are a perfect match, the engagement is auspicious."

"It seems to be the engagement letter from the previous emperor?"

Logically speaking, since it was placed in the imperial palace, it was probably a marriage designated by the late emperor for a certain princess or prince, but...

"How come I haven't heard of it?"

Of the princes of your Majesty's generation, the emperor is the only one left, and there are even fewer princesses. All of them are under supervision. If anyone is engaged, someone has to come forward and explain.

"Could it be the marriage of the deceased prince?"

Lunari thought that as the emperor's close secretary, he should have the right to view the contents here.

He picked up the marriage certificate, shook off the dust on the surface and prepared to take a look at the names inside.

A maid stood at the door of the warehouse and shouted, "Master Lunari, what should we do with the devices here?"

"Oh, let me see."

Lunali turned around and was about to check, but his eyes unconsciously glanced at the marriage certificate.

"Never mind, it's not a big deal."

Lunari put the marriage certificate into his pocket and decided to find out the truth when he had free time.

—Maffinari Religious State—

A girl in a dress with white silk stockings hanging down her shoulders was standing on the second-floor balcony of a house.

"Your Highness."

A servant stood at the balcony door, bending respectfully, calling the girl.

"How's it going?"

"As you wish, both the Divine Will of Glory and the Divine Will of Justice have been directed to the Bimoran capital."

The girl continued to instruct, “That’s good. Remember to slow down their pace and control the time when the two Holy Wills arrive at the capital.”

"Yes……"

The servant's last word was drawn out, which caught the girl's attention.

"What's wrong? Do you have any questions?"

"There are two things I don't understand. The first is why you are so sure that the Holy Will of Desire, Xi Yeming, will come to help the Holy Will of Glory and the Holy Will of Justice."

"Hmm..." The girl pondered for a moment. "It's hard to say. According to the news from the Vatican's spies, the Holy Will of Truth and the Holy Will of Tyranny went to the farther South Island, so the only one closest to them is the Holy Will of Desire."

"I see," the attendant nodded in sudden realization, "Then why should we delay the two Holy Ones' time?"

"Because there are too many problems with the Holy Will of Desire, we cannot force the mission that the Ten Wills of the Holy Will will encounter for our own sake."

"Yes, I understand."

Speaking of this, the girl also had a question in her mind, what is the "Ten Devil's Heart"? She has never heard of it before.

"Forget it."

The girl shrugged her shoulders, leaned her arms on the fence and looked up at the sky in the snow despite the cold.

"You must come, my "fiancé" - Desire Saint Xi Ye Ming."

—Inside Dongzhou City—

"What's this mess?"

Xi Yeming looked at the damaged pill furnace in front of him and wondered if this could be broken by a child?

"You're awesome, you're the super destroyer, right?"

He glanced at the little girl who was sticking out her tongue and pretending to be ignorant.

The old lady who made octopus balls said, "Please, Lord Shengyi, fix my octopus ball furnace. Otherwise, I won't be able to open my shop in the next few days."

Xi Yeming put his hand on the pill furnace, then pulled it back in an instant.

"Why is it still hot?"

He looked at the old woman and the little girl awkwardly, and felt relieved when he found that no one noticed his embarrassment.

"Cough cough..."

Xi Yeming used ice magic to slightly lower the temperature of the pill furnace before he felt at ease to put his hand on it again.

"Look."

The damaged round furnace began to deform and recover under the support of Xi Yeming's magic power, gradually regaining its original shape.

In a short while, the furnace was completely restored to its original state through Xi Yeming's alchemical magic.

"Your Highness is so awesome!"

"Isn't it awesome?" After receiving the praise from the child, Xi Yeming couldn't help but straighten his chest and feel a little proud.

At this time, the old woman asked: "According to the agreement, what does Lord Shengyi want us to do?"

"It's not a big deal, just put this on your side."

Xi Yeming pointed to an iron shell outside, which was actually an operating table removed from the Tower of God.

"what is this?"

The little girl jumped to the operating table and tried to pick it up, but she let go in less than two seconds.

“It’s so heavy…!”

"Just use it as a table."

Xi Yeming stretched out his hand and cast gravity magic to carefully place the workbench in the old woman's shop, then took out a tablecloth and covered it.

"That's good, everything will be fine." Xi Yeming clapped his hands to indicate that the work was done.

"Go slowly, Lord Shengyi."

"Bye, Your Highness."

After leaving the meatball shop, it was already late at night. Xi Yeming walked slowly to a crossroads. When he was recalling which route to take out of the city, he heard a woman sobbing behind him.

"Ok?"

He turned around and saw a woman with the same silver hair as him standing on the other side of the road.

Xi Yeming's biological mother, Milian Alu, was staring at him at the intersection.

Xi Yeming was very surprised to see the queen in tears, but he was too timid to look directly into his mother's eyes.

After taking a few quick glances, he discovered that the queen did not come out in formal attire, but instead wore a shawl from outside, so he followed her here.

In this season, you will probably catch a cold if you wear so little.

"I guess he came to see me?"

While thinking this, Xi Yeming secretly used his magic to raise the temperature of the air around him.

Logically speaking, Xi Yeming might need to do something at this moment, but he felt like a thousand-pound mountain was pressing down on his shoulders, and he couldn't take a single step.

“Mother…!”

The rescuers finally arrived, and Xi Yeming breathed a sigh of relief.

Angelina, Aliang and several maids hurried to the queen.

"Queen, you will catch a disease if you come out wearing so little." Aliang covered Milian with a thicker blanket.

Angelina was accompanying the Queen. She noticed Xi Yeming in front of her. She whispered a few words in her mother's ear and then came to him.

"You don't look like you're going back to the palace next. What are you going to do?"

"Well..." Xi Yeming crossed his arms over his chest and confided, "I plan to go back outside the city to repair a gully that I had dug."

"The gully you created?" Angelina tilted her head. "Why? Can't you just leave it alone?"

"If I could just leave it alone, I'd go and rest now. That gully is pretty deep, and I used a death knife to cut it."

The blow from the Death Sword caused the environment outside the city to show signs of being polluted. Xi Yeming did not use the Death Sword when he chopped the Giant God Guards of the Religious Kingdom, so he had not discovered this problem before.

Angelina advised, "Why don't you go back to the attic and say hello to everyone before leaving?"

"No need. I just want to be alone recently." Xi Yeming lowered his eyes and replied without looking directly at Angelina, "Tsubaki and the others, as well as Senior Huawan, I'll leave it to you to arrange."

Angelina knew very well that Xi Yeming was still immersed in all the recent events and had not recovered yet.

Yes, in just over a year, the cheerful Xi Yeming is now full of sorrow. Fate is really unpredictable.

"How long will it take to get back?"

"At the fastest, it may be half a week; at the slowest, it may be half a month."

"Okay, I and everyone else are waiting for you to come back, as well as our mother."

"Just wait and see."

-

In the ruins of Angelina's mansion, there should have been a quiet scene, but at this moment it was broken by the noisy roar of machinery.

Huge excavators were working busily in the ruins, their steel bodies gleaming coldly in the moonlight, as if they came from another world.

The excavators obviously do not belong to this magical world, and their appearance makes people feel strange and out of place.

In this ruin, there are some workers wearing construction hats and some strange-shaped machines. They are scattered around the construction site, each busy with their work.

These workers and machines are from the construction team of Locke Company. Under the joint arrangement of the eldest princess Angelina and the new chairman Xi Yeming, they are responsible for renovating the princess's residence.

Although the working environment is not comfortable, the workers still complete each task conscientiously, and their figures appear particularly small among the ruins.

"Ok?"

Suddenly, the supervising engineer on the construction site made a puzzled sound. He seemed to have stepped on something and his footsteps paused slightly.

He frowned, moved his feet, looked down, and saw a black fragment lying quietly on the ground.

The supervising engineer picked up the fragment curiously and examined it carefully under the moonlight.

This fragment looks very ordinary, with a rough surface and dull color, but under the moonlight, it seems to emit a hint of mysterious light.

On the black fragment, the logo of Locke Company was clearly engraved.

"Hey, isn't this the company's logo from more than ten years ago?" The supervisor was also an old employee, so he recognized the origin of the logo at a glance, "Why is it here?"

What the supervisor didn't know was that what he was holding between his two fingers was actually a fragment of a bomb...

—Ranking of the Ten Sacred Aspirations (excluding the version of borrowing power)—

Upper three digits:

Desire is holy, and the night is bright;

Justice Divine Will Scott;

Domineering and holy Chris.

The three middle ones:

Glory to the Holy Will, Torena;

Truth Divine Will Bianca;

Gentle and holy Leo.

Next three:

Liberation of the Holy Will Kasong;

The promise of the Holy Will is high and low,

Courage and Holy Will Su Caibai.

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I have finally finished writing this volume. I need to think about how to write the chapters where the male protagonist becomes the boss. The reason I haven’t updated it is that I haven’t thought it through yet.