"Jax you get a letter from her majesty" Haytham said, and handed him the letter with royal seal that depicted a Phoenix.
"Jax, son of the Haytham and member of Zephir Clan, I invite you and your family for audience" he read aloud skipping, things like her majesty queen of phoenix kingdom etc., etc.' I'm curious why she wants me to come to palace'
"Son it's a very serious matter, remember you can get so much from it, but also lose a lot more, don't bite more than you can chew" Haytham warned Jax.
"I understand father, so when we are going?"
In the letter, there was a date when he was supposed to arrive.
"I will write a letter to ask for permission to use the teleportation gate, if they allow it we don't need to worry about anything" Haytham answered. Teleportation gate were magic circles that allowed a teleportation from one gate to another, usage was strictly controlled and nobles must send letters to ask for permission to use it. Jax doesn't have power over it, so he doesn't bother. He went to toilet in his workshop.
"I think it will be one of my greatest creation" he said looking at toilet, when he learned how to make magic circles or arrays, the first thing he created was a toilet, before toilets were just sits with a hole. 'I thank all the Gods that I was able to do it' Jax prayed honestly.
Other than that he created things like central heating, but instead of normal fire, he used fire magical stone, that way there is no possibility of carbon monoxide poisoning, and as always it brought him a lot of money, and thanks to gold merchant guild, his products are in all neighboring countries, as side effect he doesn't need to worry about copying of his designs. Gold merchant guild earns too much money from it, so they will never allow for copying to grow. Jax took cage near him, compared to rat cage, this cage more like glass box. In that box was light blue slime. He used the ability from the Sabrina blessing, [Mana Eyes] and [Researcher Eyes] at the same time. They showed him, how slime core is connected by mana to the entire body.
"Interesting, so what will happen to these threads, after I pluck the core from its body" Jax opened the box, and cast paralysis on slime, after that he took a tool similar, to tongs and pulled out the core. Jax saw that when he was pulling it out, threads started to break, and after that when he pulled the core out all threads broke and the slime body became just goo on the bottom of the box. The core itself wasn't damaged, but something left it, and it was empty.
"The core needs a body to protect a soul, from outside mana, but is it possible to separate the core and keep at least a single thread?"
Jax took another cage, thanks to him being a VIP he doesn't need to pay for things like rats or slimes, even orc blood is in price. He repeated the entire process, but when he saw that only one thread is connecting the core to the body, he tried to reinforce it, by using his mana. It worked, but only for a short moment, because pulled out core lost a soul again after a minute.
"So it is possible, this is great. Hey Sabrina, is it possible to put soul into this slime core?"
'Yeah it's possible to do it, but you need to capture soul and inject it into this core, but this core can't handle average soul, you would need something much stronger'
"Thanks for the answer, btw Shiro and the rest I will need your help, we need to prepare" Jax said with full solemnity, after that he explained what he wanted.
Now, Jax was in a carriage with his parents on the way to the royal palace, but firstly they need to use spatial gate. What Jax saw was the big fortress that was full of soldiers. Jax activated [Mana Eyes] he saw that the entire fortress was covered in magic dome. When they got closer, the soldier came to their carriage.
"Are you Haytham, Abigail and Jax from Zephir Clan?" Soldier asked, the rest of soldiers were ready to strike. Haytham took out the letter of acceptance of usage of this spatial gate and handed it to the soldier. Soldier took it and read, few minutes later he gave it back.
"You are free to use it" soldier went back to fortress. Jax carriage went into the middle of a gigantic circle. He saw that a lot of mages are operating it, after a moment light blinded him, when his sight came back, he saw they are in different place, near the capital of Phoenix Kingdom, City of Rebirth. The legend says that in that place phoenix was reborn from ashes and thanks to that it was blessed by that phoenix. After some time, they arrived in the palace. It was lavish and rich, there were a lot of golden statues of phoenix or paintings with golden frames. The throne was shaped like a phoenix and in it was a woman that looked like as woman in her middle to late 20s. She had red as fire hair and red eyes, her gaze was that of a predator, that can strike its prey at any moment. She was tall 180cm and had a very voluptuous body. That woman was Queen Elizabeth.
"We greet fire of our kingdom, Queen Elizabeth" all of them kneeled and say it at the same time. Elizabeth looked at them and smiled.
"Get up, you don't need to kneel" all of them stood up, and she gazed at Jax." It's nice to finally meet such a young man, who created so much, say how did you do that?"
"It was thanks to blessing of the God of Wisdom, thanks to it, I was able to gather a lot of knowledge and use it, your majesty" Jax answered, Elizabeth was amazing queen because she was blessed by goddess of justice Themis, she gained ability called [Lie Detector] thanks to it, she always knew the truth. Jax couldn't lie but what he said wasn't a lie, knowledge from magical books helped him and Herodot blessing helped him a lot in extracting knowledge from them. Elizabeth wasn't pleased with it, but he didn't lie, although she didn't show it, she still had a smile on her face.
"It's great to have such a blessing, young man. Could you go with me to talk in private?" She asked, but Jax knew it wasn't a request, but an order.
"I will accompany you with pleasure, your majesty" Jax bowed.
"I'm happy to hear that." She smiled, and after that, she took a bell and ringed it, few minutes later a butler showed up.
" You called your majesty?"
"Yes, took my guests to guest room, when I talk with Jax alone"
"Yes your majesty" he turned towards Abigail and Haytham." Please follow me" After that, Elizabeth and Jax went to the room. When they arrived, she gestured Jax to sit on the sofa opposite to the one she is sitting in.
"You love your parents, don't you?" She asked, while pouring him tea.
"Of course your majesty" he sipped a tea, after that he put, tea back at table."but could a lowly one as myself have one request?" Elizabeth was surprised, but she answered.
"Of course Jax, you are my guest of course, and I'm a host"
"Could you remove that spy over there that was spying on me during my experiments?" He pointed at the corner of the room. Elizabeth face changed into a frown, and she nodded her head, after that in the corner of the room a black clothed figure appeared.
"So you know, thanks to that I can be frank with you, hand over all your research data and work for me, unless you want your family to die" Elizabeth spied on Jax after he created company, and after one day when she got report that, Jax is making progress on orc blood and even changed rat into orc variant, she wanted it for herself.
"I must disappoint you, your majesty because I refuse to do it, and I will not change my mind" Elizabeth knew it wasn't a lie." Also, to be honest I don't recommend you to threaten me or my family, because if you cherish your country you will not do that" Flames appeared around Elizabeth. She was furious.
"How dare you! You are a child, do you think I will not kill you and your family!? Who do you think you are!? Why you think I shouldn't kill you right now?!" She was yelling at him, and the entire room was shaking, and because of it, Jax spilled some tea on him and used a handkerchief to wipe it off. When he wiped all he could, he gave an answer.
"I created boxes that are sealed using my soul flames and I sent them to all neighboring countries. I filled them with all my knowledge, experiments and ideas for weapons with blueprints. If something happens to me or my family, the spell I engraved on my soul, which will cause my death and allow these countries to open these boxes. Your majesty understand, what will happen if they get their hands on it, and I assure you, my weapons will wipe out an entire continent" Jax said looking straight into eyes of the queen. Elizabeth paled when she heard it, because all of it was true [Lie Detector] says that he doesn't lie. She gritted her teeth, and calmed down.
"So what do you want then?" She hated that she lost to mere child.
"I want unlimited access to kingdom library and all experiment's documents, in future I want an unlimited number of slaves to experiment on. My family should be protected by you, also I want royal family to supply me with materials." She sighed in relief, his demands weren't that bad.
"Fine, do you want anything else?"
"Yeah, I want your blood in constant supply" when he said that, spy moved to his position with the dagger, but before Elizabeth could say something, Jax did.
"Stop" Jax's voice was filled with power, and spy froze in the middle between him and Elizabeth.' Magic words' Elizabeth thought. Magic words were a type of magic that allowed to imbued words with magic and affect reality.
"I will not use it to harm you, if you don't believe me, use your [Divine Contract] ability" It was another ability of her blessing, this contract connected two parties and the person who will enforce penalty for breaking it, is goddess herself.
"Yeah we will do it" Elizabeth snapped her fingers and a gold contract appeared, he wanted to use [Appraisal] on it, but before he did that Shiro confirmed it was a real thing. Elizabeth and he signed this contract, other than stuff he mentioned, he wanted support of the royal family when needed, but requirements were, he will not use his ideas against the kingdom unless, the kingdom betrays him, his family or people close to him, and he will help the kingdom in times of need. When Jax left the room, Elizabeth destroyed everything there in rage.