Everyone listening to them listened with great interest. After all, Diana is once one of the most influential figures before the death of her father and Aghus came into power. At the least, half of the crowd is still actually in her side, especially with the questionable cause of death of the late king Mahar.
Moving across the court for a few rounds, pretending like he was deeply thinking, Aghus finally came to a halt and smiled greedily.
"I am afraid I cannot sell to you this human my dear little princess.."
"And the reason?" Diana frowned from his answers and anger slowly swell up in her. She expected much that she won't be getting her hands of such a rare commodity. She hesitantly came here to purchase that human following her father's command and knowing Aghus's scheming nature, she knew it was not an easy task to complete.
"Well you see, the truth is, considering that this human has Royal Dragon's blood flowing in his veins, I figured that the price has just doubled in reason of his powerful benefits to us."
"Doubled the price?!" Diana could not help but clench her fist in anger.
This hateful lord!
"Take it or leave it," Aghus replied nonchalantly.
"I will take it." Diana immediately decided.
"Oh? You will?" Aghus smiled wickedly as he signaled Shuk and Kuys to go around and capture her when Diana suddenly raised her head to face him.
"Yes. By force." A face full of determination flashed in her eyes as she swiftly slammed her huge red-tails at the royal ground.
BAAAM!
Diana's powerful tail sent a powerful shock wave that pushed every one surrounding her with a terrifying force except Aghus.
"Hah! You need to do better than that brave little princes!" Aghus stood proudly after successfully defending himself from Diana's sudden attack and just when he was about to cast his skill against her -
MOOOOOOOOOONNNNGH~
CRASH!~
"Aaaaah!"
"We are under attack!"
"To your formation!"
"My Lord"
Everyone was in disarray when a great blue whale the size of a cruise ship covered in golden armor slammed at the floating golden palace! This blue whale is Diana's pet and just responded to protect its master by hitting the grand golden palace with its massive body, shaking everyone inside it.
The golden armor of the great blue whale managed to absorbed the damage of the impact and continued to ram against it for other rounds.
The powerful impacts caused tremors all over the palace, fortunately, this floating golden palace was made of gold and was not that easy to destroy, much less a scratch.
However, this attack did manage to catch the nobles and royal soldiers off guard causing them to respond with utter chaos. While some royal soldiers attacked with golden spears and arrows, the golden armor kept the giant whale from vital-threatening attacks. With such a huge threat, the whole royal army was dispatched and engaged into a furious battle with a loose whale covered in golden armor!
Right after the impact, a strong tornado of water suddenly gushed out of nowhere and hit Aghus from his back, sending him quite a distance away. That powerful current was water forcefully expelled from the giant whale's blowhole.
"How dare you play water with me! Raaah!" With veins bulging in his head, Aghus forcefully dissipated the powerful current by his bare willpower. His eyes burned with rage and anger.
Recomposing himself from the impact, Aghus's long bluish hair was all around his face as he scanned the surroundings with his red angry eyes looking for traces of Diana.
"The human!" A realization dawned on him and immediately panned the messed up courtyard with with his vision and quickly saw Diana rushing towards Elric.
"I see you were after that human after all.." Aghus quickly made haste to chase after Diana.
"What is going on here..." Elric was unable to understand the situation as he looked at the beautiful mermaid rushing towards him. He was able to brace for the impact of the whale's attack thanks to his extraordinary instinct that always warns him from incoming danger. Seeing the troubles coming closer to him, Elric had an urge to run away.
But for some reason, he could feel that the mermaid swimming close to him did not harbor any ill intentions or else, his dragon-senses could have warned him.
"Hide here!" swiftly, Diana threw a white piece of shell that instantly transformed into a giant red clamshell. It flew towards Elric with an open mouth seemingly inviting him to get inside. Trusting his instinct, Elric was about to jump in when he sensed danger coming from behind him and immediately dodged to the sides.
WHAAM!
"UGH!" With his own greedy intentions of having a taste of the human meat, Shuk sneaked behind Elric aiming to devour him whole when the latter suddenly slide to the side and a giant red Clam front-faced smacked him down instead!
"No.." Failing to get Elric into her clam container, Diana continued and reached to grab Elric instead when Kuy suddenly appeared from behind and grabbed her tail before she could reach her goal.
"Got you! Hahaha! Where do you think you are going you princess trouble?" Kuys, who also happened to recover from the impact, laughed maniacally as he slowly pulled back Diana with his scaly hands.