THE MAD KING OF NYX
I summoned the forces of chaos within my mind, just as I would when wielding my chaos magic.
From that chaotic energy, I began to shape a semblance of order. As I worked, my understanding of chaos magic deepened, and I gradually gained greater control over it.
Before long, I tapped into the power of the Crown of Eloora, using it to escape the strange realm I found myself in.
I knew I held the key to leaving the Realm of Order and Chaos—I just needed to learn how to turn it. Rubik, the girl I encountered, the goddess of this realm, showed me how to harness the chaos in my mind with a disciplined order.
In an instant, I was returned to the chamber that I came from.
To my horror, the place turned into utter chaos. The machine was destroyed, and everything was flying around like it was my Upheaval magic causing it.
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"Husband, you returned to us", Rinna shouted to me in joy as she ran to hug me.
"What happened here?" I asked.
"This place turned into your personal Upheaval moments after you went into the machine. You waste our time searching for you in this stupid chaos for months", Sara complained to me.
"I was gone for months?" I asked.
"Yes, you were gone for a very long time", Rinna replied to me.
"Did you obtain the Crown of Eloora?" Ratatouille asked me.
"Yes, I did", I replied to him.
"How can this be? How did the Eloora machine get destroyed if you obtained the Crown of Eloora?" he asked me.
"I don't know. Perhaps I've changed the route to the machine's source of magic", I replied to them.
The Eloora machine was a machine built by the Mages of Prolis to tap into the magic from the Realm of Order in one of its fissure nodes in this chamber.
After I obtained the Crown of Eloora, I unwittingly, changed the route of the machine. Instead of going to the Realm of Order to tap its magic, the machine went to the chaos Realm or somewhere in between which caused it to be wrecked as a result.
"Can we fix the machine?" I asked.
"You can if you can get the Mages of Prolis to build you a new one. This bloody machine is wrecked properly. It won't work again", Sara replied to me.
"What are we going to do now without the machine? The Noble clans in Drachia will not surrender to us willingly?" Rinna asked me.
"Don't worry, there is always an order in the chaos", I replied to her.
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"The Bastard of Drach has returned"
"The King of Nyx is the last in the bloodline of the Drach dynasty"
"The Bastard of Drach destroyed the palace of Eloora in anger and in vengeance"
"The Mad King of Drach"
"The cities of Drachia rose in protest against the new king, anointed by the Church"
"They call you the Mad King of Drach. Or did you do that on purpose and gave yourself such a disgusting name?" Prince Geoffraie asked me after reading the Herald Times several times and showing me the articles.
"I did ask Reageon's staff to write some articles about my Drach ancestry, but I guess I wasn't around to guide their journalistic freedom", I replied to him.
"It's more like a disaster in journalistic imagination", Ratatouille told me.
"Don't speak bad behind a person who is not present to defend himself", Reageon replied to him as he walked into our room.
"Speaking of the devil", Ratatouille added.
"Your majesty, my staff did go overboard with the stories, they were too used to your style as the Bully. They even gave you the Title of Mad King. I apologize", Reageon the publisher of our newspaper apologized to me.
"First, we have a Bully, now we have a Mad King. What is happening to the morals of this world?" Prince Geoffraie remarked.
"Actually, the reputation as a Mad King suits me. The background of being a bastard of the Drach kingdom coming back for revenge also suits my flavor", I said to them.
"Never mind that but you shouldn't have destroyed the Temple of Eloora. All our knights have nowhere to go now to attempt their breakthrough and improve their magic", Prince Geoffraie told me.
"Destroying the Temple was an unavoidable accident", I replied to him.
"How are we going to convince the cities and the Noble families to serve the Nyx Empire without the inducement of the magic from the Temple of Eloora?" Prince Geoffraie asked me.
"Well, we do it the old way", I said.
"Which is?" he asked.
"We get all the governors in the land to a dinner and talk", I replied to him.
"And kill them all?" Ratatouille asked as Prince Geoffraie gasped in horror at the thought.
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[At the Conference of Cities in Drachia]
"What do you think the Mad King wants by asking all the governors of the cities in Drachia to meet here in the Conjurer Court of Tarah city?" a governor asked.
"He probably wants to persuade us to accept his coronation as the new king of Drachia", another replied.
"I am surprised to see all the governors of the cities here in this conference considering that few of us will support the Mad King", another governor commented.
All the governors of the cities in Drachia were invited to come here to the Conjurer Court to discuss the future of the kingdom and the Church's anointment of the new king of Drachia.
Although few of the cities would willingly give up their newfound independence after the fall of King Lavrentios, they all attended the conference.
The main sponsor of the conference was the Church of All-seeing, so they would at least have to pay respect to the church's wish even if it was just a token of respect.
"We'll hear them out and leave. That is my plan", a governor said summing up the intention of the others who came to the conference.
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