Chapter 62: Clap for the Empress: Did You Think I Was Weak?
The protective, colorful wall of spiritual essence vibrated as Levi walked past the front of the twenty-nine kneeling nobles and stopped before it.
A sharp metal clicking sound echoed as Isabella frowned. "You!"
Thick veins appeared on her face. She raised her sharp, clicking claws and moved a step forward.
"NO, DON’T!" Empress Diana’s shoulders raised as she watched her daughter melt down the protective wall, leaving both of them exposed. ’You shouldn’t have done that...’
A wide smile tore across Levi’s face. He watched Isabella dismantle their own protective barrier. ’At least, I can save that little power I wanted to utilize...’
Levi shifted his shoulders sideways the moment he saw the angry, black-haired lady with a fluffy cloak on her shoulder charge at him. ’Wow... she’s fast and full of extreme arrogance.’
He sidestepped and watched her pass by, then moved his left leg forward. Isabella’s eyes widened as she missed piercing her fingers into the male’s chest. ’How is that possible?’
Saliva snaked down her throat as she gulped and tripped at the same time.
She went face-flat first with a loud smack, then rolled to her side. ’No man has ever dodged my holy death claws.’
The fluffy cloak on her shoulder caught against the floor when she stopped rolling on the ground.
Levi looked over to Senna, then winked at her. "Give her some help."
He snapped his head to the side slightly when he saw Senna’s eyes blaze like fire. ’Are they long-term enemies? Well, they will cope well by the time I’m done here.’
Levi watched the trembling lady trying to push herself up while she kept screaming with an angry face. ’How stubborn can you be in bed?’
Levi licked his lips when his eyes fell on the top skin of the lady’s breast, where the valley between the breasts starts, then smiled. ’Central City got some nice meat after all.’
A faint foot clicking and cloth rustling sound erupted from his front, causing Levi’s attention to divert.
Empress Diana stumbled three steps backward, her silver hair flaring behind her like flames.
Maya Sirius focused straight on the altar’s direction. "Where are you going, Empress?!"
A sharp, mocking skin-to-skin sound tore through the inner sanctum as she clapped. "Stand and fight against him like you do with your petty, so-called husband. Or..."
The hems of Maya’s crimson robe swept across the floor as she moved forward, crossing the threshold where the collapsed protective wall had once been. "...have you caged him like the others?"
A faint bone cracking sound erupted from Levi as he threw a sharp glance at Maya and back at the trembling Empress. ’Caged husband?’
Levi’s cheeks and upper lips rose slightly. His face distorted with a dissatisfied expression. ’Who does that?’
He sighed and straightened his gaze on the Empress as if she were a nuisance that needed to be cleaned. "So, that’s what you do... Empress."
The ground ten feet away from the altar trembled as Levi moved a step on it. "I thought you would do something even better that suits you."
A sweet fragrance lanced out of the Empress as beads of sweat began forming on her face. The sleeves of her purple robe screeched harshly against the altar as she stopped beside it. ’He’s just another slave pretending to be stronger.’
Empress Diana watched Levi with sunken eyes, her gaze occasionally darting to the kneeling high-tier noblewomen. ’I shouldn’t break under him. He’s just another Charles trying to fight me.’
A stone creaking sound erupted from the altar as she slammed her right palm on it and squeezed her fingers. "Who the hell are you to question my doings, slave?"
Sharp gasps flashed through the chamber as Senna, Mother Beatrice, Lyra Ashveil, and Maya Sirius sighed in unison.
Mother Beatrice shook her head, a dark gold glow reflecting in her eyes. ’Is she mad or what?’
She curled her mouth inward as she turned a joyous look to the kneeling noblewomen and laughed. ’Are they not a lesson for her to see how strong our master is?’
A faint metal-to-metal clicking sound echoed as Senna Drae drummed her right fingers on her black, jagged dagger’s blade. ’She doesn’t even know the difference between a slave and one who is pretending to rule.’
She walked toward the council table and found herself a seat, then crossed her legs. ’Let me just relax myself and watch how this ends.’
Her eyebrows furrowed when she shifted a sharp glance toward the slightly collapsed Isabella, and she sighed at the sight of the slowly vibrating Empress.
Maya walked two steps forward with raised shoulders, her wine-colored robe cutting through the air. "He is a slave who will conquer you in the next few seconds."
Maya turned to Levi, then brushed her palms on her crimson gown before gesturing for him to step forward. "My King..."
Every step Levi took channeled dust off the ground and forced it to swirl around his boots like an anchor.
Just as he walked past Maya and climbed two barriers of the seven stairs, he stopped. ’I can collapse her pride with just a flicker of my Sovereign system, but that will be too easy on someone that’s so important.’
Levi looked straight at the noblewomen kneeling with their heads bowed, ignoring the Empress for a split second. ’At least I have to make them proud of their Empress before conquering her.’
A muffled laugh escaped his mouth as he focused back on the lady at the altar. ’What am I even thinking? Any conquering measure will still give her to me; it is just that I don’t have to rush on meat that’s already mine.’
Levi stroked his right palm through his brown hair, a calm smile playing on his lips.
Just as he lowered his hand and moved a step forward, a sharp stone shot from the altar and grazed his cheek, leaving him with a faint cut line.
Purple glows lingered out of Empress Diana’s body as she raised her hands and spread them sideways.
A stormy air waved out of her and slammed on the altar, wiping it clean in a single swipe. "Did you think I was weak?"
A concussive wave of air plummeted out of her as the hems of her purple robes began flapping on their own like wings. "I just wanted to see if you would go this far, slave. But I guess you actually came without knowing who I am..."
All twenty-nine kneeling noblewomen lifted pale faces upward and watched the Empress transform into her battle mode state.
Skin-to-skin blasting sounds echoed as Levi swiped the trail of blood from his cheek and began clapping. "Who told you that lie?"
