"no need to be so shocked! if i haven't poisoned my dear princess and wasn't higher cultivation realm than her i would have died yesterday. even then i was defeated! this is the only reason i am working for her but that wont be like so in the future when i defeat her myself" asuna grinned
"you have to defeat me first! just you wait i will kill you the next time you dare to attack me" faes glared at asuna
"before that i will have plenty of chances to deal with you and give you lots of poisons!" asuna replied returning the glare.
"you dare!" gray and others were not a match for asuna but they can keep him from hurting faes and sky
"relax everyone! he is going to work for ME for the time being. that means that you might have to work with him so try to get along" faes sighed. asuna knew how to get her worked up easily.
"faes i advice not to trust him" augustus spoke grimly glaring at the boy who dared to speak of poisoning his daughter in front of him. but then his eyes widened
"and you are poisoned?"
faes sighed again "yes but its not lethal only to weaken me temporarily. from what i know it will wear off in two to three days"
"if a king establishment stage cultivator have been inflicted they would have died in few seconds" asuna deadpanned just as everyone were relaxing tensing them once more.
"shut up otherwise i am going to rough you up so bad this time that not even you will recognize yourself" faes glared
"you speak as if you can fight in that condition" asuna replied
"you want to try?"
"you want to die?"
both began to glare each other again ignoring everyone else in the room
"stop fighting sky is trying to relax here! if you hurt my sister then i will turn you into a coat!" sky spoke finishing the porridge as she smiled at asuna with sparkling eyes
"or even better! that red hair will look better as a decoration of my dress!" sky spoke before turning to faes behind her
"sister faes can i have his hair in my dress next time you fight? just like that fire fox dress!" sky asked making faes relax and grin immediately. sky knew how to improve her mood in any condition.
asuna on the other hand stopped speaking as he felt a chill hearing sky. sky was clearly weaker than him but he didn't know why but the tiny girl felt dangerous.
for sometime the whole place was quite no one speaking making sky frown
"why did everyone stop speaking? sky asked as faes giggled patting sky's hair finally
"they are all mesmerised by sky's idea probably" faes even poked her tongue out giggling. sky was after all a three year old and no one can tell her that her idea sounded crazy.
"faes! are you sure you will be fine? just take a poison resistant potion or antidote" augustus asked
"i am fine" faes shook her head and clicked her fingers as if suddenly remembering something.
"i forgot to tell you royal father but i will arrive in the royal capital in a few weeks; a month at max" faes said making augustus bring his attention to her from asuna
"that's great! i am sure commander shiva will be there to escort you" augustus turned his attention to shiva who have been slient most of the time.
"yes your majesty! after her highness completes her final test after recovering i will personally escort her to the royal capital but-" shiva glanced at faes for help. he couldn't possibly tell the king that he want his most loved daughter as his heir, at least not without some kind of punishment.
faes understood shiva's thoughts as she completed his sentence
"commander shiva wants me to be his heir! the next melee commander of kingdom altai's military after he retires; i have already accepted and only your permission is needed to finalize this decision."
when augustus heard that he stayed silent for a while eyeing the two. according to him faes was a princess, a much higher title than the commander's heir. he was fine with her being shiva's disciple but being his direct heir would mean that either the royal family was disowning faes or that shiva had gone insane. after all none of the nobles would think that faes could cultivate and is much higher level in cultivation than them when three years ago she barely could cultivate.
"but you are a princess" augustus spoke after sometime.
"arent you proud that the daughter which was a laughing stock in the past will become the commander of your kingdom's army?" faes asked in return her eyes shining with cunningness
"i am eager to see the dumbfounded faces of those arseholes who dared to make fun of me in the past, maybe some might even give me a pleasant surprise or some kind of entertainment"
faes was not interested in political struggle before meeting shiva but after a year training under him she had learnt how to have her own way without causing problems for herself.
while faes got excited everyone else stared at her in shock again! this was the first time they heard her curse after all! eli and others were fine as they had assumed this happening sooner or later after following faes for more than two years but shiva and augustus were not expecting to hear that.
"your highness please behave there is a child near you" asuna grinned amused at faes. even he wasn't expecting her to say something like that especially in front of everyone.
"oh right!" faes turned to sky seriously. she had forgotten that sky was still a three year old because of her high intelligence and understanding
"you didn't heard anything understood!" faes spoke as sky nodded her head obediently but her eyes were sparkling with mischief.
king augustus didn't comment on her cursing but he began to think what faes was thinking. if the nobles suddenly realize that the girl who they used to make fun of and use her existence to mock the royal family with have become a higher ranking towering existence then their reaction might be entertaining! not to mention the position of his family as the royal family will turn solid if they used this information properly.