True King's Ecstasy

"Tell me everyone, is it worth it for your children and future generations to be like slaves for a kingdom or an empire that doesn't even care about your well-being?"

None of them answered his question with loud voices but everyone knew the answer. The people who wanted to leave to look at the gate had urgent looks on their faces.

"I know it's hard so I will give you time and everyone who wants to check bodies whether you had relatives among them, I will prepare them so don't go outside now, it's still dangerous,"

Velian got down from the platform after giving them advice on how to proceed.

"Lyra, make sure all the dead bodies of farmers are properly dealt with, it's true I lied in my speech but at least I won't go back on my promise,"

Giving a little smile, Lyra left to arrange things while Daphnia and Delviny followed Velian.

"Naomi, come out," As soon as Velian said those words, out of nowhere Naomi kneeled in front of him like she was waiting for his orders.

Make sure the noble family and his relatives won't cause any problems. You can kill them if they try to rebel, but make sure to show those assassinations as natural deaths or suicide.

Naomi bowed her head and vanished into thin air while Daphnia quickly got close to Velian.

"Darling, I know we have to fight them but if they decided to surrender can we at least spare their life?" She felt bad for some reason.

Velian couldn't help but smile lightly hearing her words,

"Mother, you're too light-hearted,"

"Those people tried to kill us, but now you want to save their lives,"

Delviny also thought the same thing. She couldn't understand why their mother is so kind, unlike both Velian and her.

"It's unfair, you know I won't go against your words, well whatever I'll spare them if they surrender like good prisoners,"

All three of them sighed as they went into a building owned by Velian's clone.

"Both of you can rest for now, we will meet the leader of the rapidclaw kingdom and Pete after this,"

***

Everything calmed down after a little while. Velian's army started to burn all the dead bodies and collect weapons as they didn't want any diseases spreading in the kingdom.

The only exception they made was the dead bodies of villagers and farmers. It was a depressing scene to look at as the daughters and wives of these people cried hugging their dead bodies and it wasn't hard to see a mother hugging their son's head body with an empty look in their eyes.

"I feel bad," Looking at the depressing incident in front of her, Juno said as she met with Delviny and Velian.

"It's their fate, the only thing I can do as respect for these people is looked after their loved ones until they can sustain themselves, I will try to support everyone."

Delviny and Juno couldn't help but appreciate his effort. He didn't even have to be concerned about them but he willingly decided to help them.

"By the way, would you like to accompany me to meet someone?" Before leaving them, Nikol questioned as he was bored walking alone in this vast land.

"I will,"

"Me too,"

Both Delviny and Juno didn't even hesitate a bit as both of them raised their hands and followed Velian.

"Are you going to meet a prisoner, Veli?" Seen the direction he was walking, Delviny questioned with a curious look.

She thought he wanted to meet Pete since he was curious about him.

"Yeah but it's not Pete, I want to meet Julius Rapidclaw and see for myself, what kind of a man he is,"

The prison of the Cedric viscounty which previously belonged to the kingdom was now guarded by two alliance soldiers. They respectfully bowed their heads when Velian approached them and entered the door.

"Sister, from where did they learn to bow?" He was pretty sure these guards were not really heavy on discipline.

"Maybe, I trained them a little too much," Juno knew how harsh Delviny's training was. She knew the reason they became so proper is because of how Delviny beat up them every time they made a mistake.

"That's good, it will be easy for you and my girls when they are disciplined," Nodding his head, all three of them entered the prison where many cells were empty.

Most of the prisoners Cedric had were already killed or banished from the kingdom, as he couldn't feed their mouths with how hard their food situation was.

As they kept walking they encountered Pete's cell which was the first one out of every cell in this prison. The ceiling of this cell had dirty slime-like stuff hanging which looked quite revolving and horrifying and the insects with long antennas were crawling here and there giving creeps to both Delviny and Juno.

"Haha, looks like he's enjoying this, as expected from rubbish like him," Mocking him along the way, Velian kept walking until he reached the cell he was looking for.

Compared to Pete's cell, Julius' one looked like heaven but it was still dirty enough to be called a public washroom which haven't been cleaned in two months.

"So you're the one," As soon as Vekian said those words, Julius raised his head to look at his guest.

"Prince, it looks like you're enjoying your prison life quite a bit," Even though the words Velian spoke were the same as earlier, this time it was less aggressive.

"You can't be joking, how can I enjoy my life in a prison cell like this with injuries that could easily get me killed," He answered Velian's question but soon his vision cleared.

Julius saw the face of the person in front of him who looked quite unfamiliar to him. He tried to remember who this face belonged to but no matter how hard he tried he couldn't remember anything. So he decided to directly question Velian.

"Who are you?"