Mathias started pouring his magic senses on Elliana and the more he poured, the more tight his furrowed brows were. He began to sweat a lot. After some time, he stopped and retracted his hand and looked at Elliana who was looking at him with her clear blue eyes.
The two just stared at each other and neither spoke. This silence made the grand hall more suffocating than it usually was.
"Mathias, what did you find?" The emperor asked with clear indifference while resting his chin on his hand. Either way, he did not care about it. He was just a little bit confused as to the sudden change on the eye color of the baby. She was the baby that his empress had birthed to.
Mathias broke out of his reverie and turned to look at the stoic emperor. His face that was full of wrinkles became even more wrinkled. And then his eyes that was full of knowledge of the world was now left with utter confusion and bewilderment.
"Your...Your Majesty," He stuttered and swallowed a lump in his throat. He really does not know how to explain this but he has speculations. He looked at the emperor and felt very uneasy. "Your Majesty, the princess' body is full of magic power. Her capacity for magic are great but because of how tremendous it is, it may affect her growth. Fortunately, it was lying dormant and seemed to have been sleeping. With this, I can only say that the change of her eye color was due to this."
"And how can her magic awaken?"
"This I do not know, Your Majesty. This is the first time that I have encountered such a case. Also, if I can say in all honesty, if awakened, the princess will possibly be more powerful than you are, Your Majesty." Mathias looked at the emperor before him as he said this resolutely. There was no denying that the emperor was really powerful hence he was crowned as the emperor and had since changed dynasty.
Instantly, the hall burst into a series of hushed whispers.
"This is great news to you, Your Majesty. You have finally found your successor."
"The empire will thrive even more."
"Congratulations, Your Majesty."
One after another, the people in the hall that were all high ranking nobles in the empire congratulated their emperor ingratiatingly. They competed on who could appeal more to the emperor to gain his favor but the stoic man sitting on the high throne remained indifferent and aloof from their empty words.
However, while the nobles were happy about this, the two imperial consorts were not at all happy about this. They were still planning on conceiving a baby themselves powerful enough to succeed the throne. Why does it have to be this little orphan girl?
The two imperial consorts were looking at Elliana with a murderous look in their eyes covered with fake calmness. There were even smiles on their lips. They were really people good with acting that they could win the Oscar's best actress.
"Oh? I am powerful?" Elliana blinked her eyes innocently before bursting into a loud laughter that had rang like gentle bells and resounded in the grand hall. It was such a lovely laughter that immediately drowned the commotion those nobles were making. Their eyes rested on the baby.
"Wait, magic?" She wandered. "So there really is magic? And this old man was saying that I am really powerful, right? Hahahaha!"
But Elliana's happiness was cut short as Mathias poured a bucket of cold water on her.
"However, this is the problem, Your Majesty." Mathias broke out into cold sweats that he had to wipe his forehead covered with sweat with the back of his hand, looking at the emperor. "The little princess is very powerful but due to this, her body could not handle the great power in her and resulted in her body shutting down. So what I am trying to say is that...the little princess is crippled. She can't use magic. Hence, she got the blue eyes that indicate the powerless."
Loud gasps could be heard in the hall. They had never expected this unexpected twist. So does that mean that they had failed yet again in conceiving an heir? If that is so, then the royal family is at risk of being replaced yet again.
'Say what?! I am crippled? Like...for real?!' Elliana's eyes widened in shock and her jaw dropped on the floor together with her baby drool.
She could not believe that her blood was thick of magical power but it was too strong that it had affected her.
'Fck! What kind of luck is this? No, this is not luck. This is just utter bllsht.' Elliana wanted to grab her hair in anger at this. She was so frustrated. In an instant, she remembered what that fairy told her before that she would live a carefree and fun life. Where is the fun in here?!'
Yes, Elliana was really in deep sht. She was expecting that she had finally found a life completely different from her previous ones but boy did she thought wrong. She was too naive to even have believed that that annoying fairy would trick her.
The emperor was getting annoyed by the noise surrounding him. He scanned around the crowd and almost instantly, the tranquility and silence in the grand hall returned.
"What is her name?" The emperor asked, looking really bored and want to end this session immediately.
"To answer this question, Your Majesty. Her name is Elliana, Elliana Rae Montbourg. " Nanny Josy lowered her head deeply while answering. "The late empress was the one that had named the little princess before she went away."
Nanny Josy did not dare to say the words "die" or "passed away" or say anything bad because this she still could not believe and accept that the empress she was serving wholeheartedly had already left this plane. Though she said "went away," the people in the hall already knew what she meant.
"..." The emperor was still showing a languid look that was really quite charming too. However, his face was cold and just too unfeeling. But because of his status, wealth, and position, many ladies would still flock to him to try and gain his affection.
'How can it be like this? I thought that I had finally found my heir and yet it turned out to be a complete waste. Tch.' The emperor thought, displeased.
"Her name would be Elliana Rae Montebourg, the seventh princess of the Gratiae Empire. She would live at the Eastern Palace. You can immediately move there now." The emperor waved his hand as a gesture for them to go. He was nonchalant from beginning to end. There was nothing in this world that could really catch his attention.
At this time, he can feel the burning hot eyes from someone. He turned to look at its direction only to be slightly surprised that it had come from his daughter that he had just tossed into the desolate Eastern Palace.
And then, the baby opened her mouth, "Uwa ooo aaaah!"
Translation: "Fck you!"
Elliana knew that her father in which she had just admired just awhile ago had abandoned her as soon as he knew that she was useless to him. 'What a total jackass. Hmph!'
She was so infuriated that if she could, she would give him a piece of her mind and a middle finger.