The King's throne was very spacious and the ceiling was very high with magic lamps hanging. Not far away from them is where the king's seat will be located.
But right now, there's no king sitting on the throne only an old man kneeling on his knees while crying to his heart's content.
"My darling Lucy where are you right now? Father is so worried of you … wu … wu … wu." The old man sob while he looked at the picture on his hand.
On the picture was an image of a girl with golden hair and amber eyes, the girl was very identical to Lucetta but it was much younger.
The old man keep on looking at the picture while tears are flowing out of his eyes, he didn't noticed that there were already two people looking at him.
"Lucy, my little princess, if someone dares to harm you I will kill him." Upon hearing this, Lucetta felt warm to her heart.
Ever since she was young her father had always shown great care to her so she was very thankful to have a very kind father like him.
*cough
Kios couldn't bear to see an old man crying, he felt that it was very not appropriate for someone of his age to cry just like that.
At the same time the elite warriors the king had sent to look for Lucetta had already return to the king's side. There eyes are lock on to Kios who was looking around like nothing happened.
The king also heard the cough and saw that all his elite warriors are looking at the same direction, curious, he also followed where they were looking and was surprised to see a white haired young boy.
But what made the king surprised was not because of this young boy, it was the girl next to her. Within a single glance the king immediately identified this girl to be none other than his beloved daughter.
With a single wave of his hand, the elite warriors immediately understood what he meant. So in lightning speed an elite warrior brought Lucetta next to the king while 5 more elite warriors surrounded Kios.
Kios looked at the five warriors surrounding him, he instantly knew what they were planning so with a speed faster than the elite warriors he unsheathed the sword on his back.
When they saw Kios unsheathe the sword they were all surprised at his speed, especially the king. He knows that his elite warriors are already at the peak of superior practitioners (HHH), only a small push is needed and they will become expert warriors (G).
(AN: With reference to the leveling system J-I-H-G-F-E-D-C-B-A-S-Z-Y-X.)
Kios cannot gauge how strong he is right now but he is very sure that this five elites are not a match for him. At the same time as he unsheathed his sword, the five elite warriors had also unsheathed their sword much slower than Kios.
But this did not stop them from attacking Kios, because almost at the same time they jumped to attack him. While they were getting closer to him, Kios remained standing as he hold his sword.
Just when the swords of the five elites hit him, he blocked all their sword with one sword.
The king looked at the scene in front of him unfold and he was completely dumbfounded, not because the white haired boy blocked the attack of his five elites but because only swords had remain on air but the five elite warriors are already pinned on the walls.
Everything happen so fast within five seconds and Lucetta just recovered from the shock she received when an elite warrior grab her in surprise. She was also now looking at the scene in front of her with a very surprised expression.
From the time that Kios unsheathed his sword and block the swords took him two seconds. Then he used three seconds to punch the five elites with his free hand.
"I thought I wouldn't be surprised anymore but I guess I underestimated you didn't I?" She mumbled to herself.
*clang *cling * ting
The swords dropped on the ground, ever since from the start till the end, Kios didn't made any movement and this made the king broke in to a cold sweat.
Because if it was him in Kios' place, even though he would also be able to defeat those warriors but he will not be able to do it the same as Kios. Even though with his strength of Superior Expert mage (GGG) he thinks that he will not be a match for Kios.
This means that Kios' strength is Master rank (F) or higher, a warrior like Kios can easily be made an elder on a clan or family and can become a special guest at his castle. But now that he had offended him, he will have to fight till the end together with his daughter.
He don't believe that working together, they will not be able to defeat him especially when the two of them are mages.
"Lucy, when I give you the signal you cast a spell to bind to the ground while I attack him. Okay?" He turn to look at Lucetta and told her seriously.
When Lucetta heard what his father told her she didn't know whether to laugh or cry. She now knew that her father might have suspected Kios to have kidnapped her.
"Father, I think you have mistaken something." She said with a smile.
"I didn't Lucy. Your still young so you don't understand everything. Don't be fooled by his handsome face, although I think that he looks unparalleled and he has a considerable amount of strength and it would be great if the two of you get married. He is an enemy so we can't do that."
Hearing this Lucetta's face turned red as a tomato while she knocked the wooden staff to her father's head.
"Aw! What was that for?" The king felt wronged as he looked at her daughter.
"That's what you get for being so talkative." She stick her tongue out and went towards Kios.
"Lucy where are you going?!" The king got anxious as he saw Lucetta moved closer to Kios.
He is confident that he will be able to fight with Kios and be able to escape if necessary but with Lucetta being so close to him things might get ugly.
"Don't worry father, he won't harm me." She said with a smile as she is still walking towards Kios.
"Why?" Although he don't understand what was going on but he also noticed that Kios was only standing there looking at his sword not paying attention to them.
"Cause his my summon." Lucetta also saw Kios was not paying attention to her so she felt dissatisfied in her heart.
'Am I not beautiful?' she thought to herself.
But sad to say, it is not because she is not beautiful but rather it was because Kios felt some connection with the sword on his hand after he used it against the fight earlier.
The connection was only faint but there is still a connection between them, this connection was similar to when he and Lucetta formed a the Contract of Servanthood but the only difference is that he can feel that he is the master of this sword.
"Hey! Why are you looking at the sword?" Next to Kios, Lucetta asked him as she also looked at this black sword which have nothing out of the ordinary.
"Lucy you…" The king was scared witless as he saw that Lucetta was now very close to Kios.
But then he remembered that her daughter told him that Kios was his summon so that means that they must have formed the Contract of Servanthood. Then that also means that he will also have a very powerful expert on his kingdom.
This made him very happy as he paid more attention to Kios and Lucetta.
"Nothing. By the way is that how your father greet others?" Kiose sheathed the sword on his back as he looked at the king with a confused expression.
Hearing this the king felt extremely awkward and thinking about his earlier actions that was very rude. Especially since he made an action without even knowing the truth to himself.
"I'm really sorry about that. I just thought that you might have some bad intention to may daughter so I made actions without knowing anything. Please forgive me." The king bowed to Kios and apologizes sincerely.
"It's alright. No big deal." Kios was satisfied with the king, not only is he caring to his daughter, he also knows how to admit his mistakes.
But Lucetta was surprised to see his father apologizes to a young boy. This scene made her not knowing whether to laugh or cry.
"Eh, father what happened? Why is it that I didn't see any servant in the castle?" Lucetta asked the thing that made her really curious.
When Kios and the king heard her ask this question they looked at each other and then look back at Lucetta. With the same thought on their minds.
'Is she that stupid or is she really just so naive?'
"Lucetta, I think I know the answer." Kios tapped on Lucetta's shoulder.
"Huh? Kios you knew? Then quick tell me." She asked impatiently.
"It's all because of you." The king and Kios said in unison.