"Your Majesty, Miles XIII has been sending large numbers of people and members of the royal family overseas under the guise of colonization. Should this old servant try to stop him?"
Abraham stood properly behind Norton's recliner and cautiously asked.
Elizabeth knelt before Norton, occasionally feeding Norton glistening blood grapes, while supporting her book with one hand so that His Majesty could easily peruse it.
The destruction of the Holy Boya Empire by his single word seemed to have had no effect on Old Norton whatsoever.
Little Princess Maria sat obediently beside Norton. Her usually lively face had lost its usual liveliness; instead, she stared blankly at Norton's exquisite face, her expression revealing an undisguised disappointment.
She knew that the imperial city was not a place where royal family members were being transported out of the capital overnight. Although she did not know why her mother, brothers and sisters were being transported out of the capital by her father, she had already sensed something was wrong as everyone else left, leaving her alone beside the Pale God. Even though she was still young, she had already noticed something was amiss.
She didn't cry or make a fuss, nor did she chase after it; she just felt a little sad.
She seemed to have become a discarded pawn, abandoned by her father.
This has plunged her into despair; if she weren't in the Pale God, she probably would have burst into tears.
But she didn't cry. This was a task her father had given her, and she, at thirteen, was capable of completing it!
Maria sat on a small stool, her face full of distress; even the small freckles on her face seemed to betray her unhappiness. But this was the happiest she could manage to feign.
However, his happy expression suddenly turned sour at Abraham's words.
'Oh no, Father and the others have been discovered!'
Thinking of this, little Maria immediately looked nervously at the exquisite and beautiful face in front of her.
Norton felt the gaze on him and turned his eyes slightly to the side, meeting the gaze of Maria, whose face was full of tension. He couldn't help but laugh when he saw the nervousness on her little face.
Why are you nervous?
"Huh? I... I didn't!" Maria Adam was startled, not knowing why her feelings had been exposed.
At an age when she couldn't even control her expressions, she wanted to be a spy—that's just too wicked!
"Hahaha." Norton laughed loudly, his pale body rising straight up from the sofa like a zombie without any support from his arms. This movement, which defied the laws of mechanics, startled Maria, causing her pupils to shrink.
Norton sat on the sofa, stretched out his pale arm, and gently patted Maria's little head.
Then, those two seemingly Magic Power black eyes stared intently into Maria's azure pupils and whispered, "You shouldn't feel nervous, nor should you feel afraid."
Do you remember what I told you, Maria?
You are royalty! You are a member of the royal family! The royal family is born to fight amongst themselves, to kill all other members of the royal family, and to seize supreme power for yourself. That is your ultimate destiny!
Maria, you are a person of supreme nobility!
Now that you follow behind my Pale God, you are even more honored!
Your father and family have abandoned you; this is not painful. Rather, it is the beginning of your rise to power!
Maria, look at your current situation, look at the methods of your father.
He wants to deal with me, he wants to fight against me! So he sent your entire family out of the Aodelan Empire, far away, so that I can hardly threaten them.
You think this is royal kinship? No, it's just a backup plan he's keeping for his country!
If he could kill me by killing all the members of the royal family, then he would not hesitate to kill your brothers and sisters so that I would die a violent death!
And the fact that he left you behind to numb my mind is also a sacrifice he made for this!
Maria, you are royalty; anything that can be exchanged for power is worthy of sacrifice!
Norton looked at the stunned girl he had just spoken to, and a feeling of pleasure welled up inside him.
Ugh, he's getting worse and worse.
" Maria, your father wants to target me, and other countries also want to target me. They have all sent out members of their royal families so that they can stay and deal with me with peace of mind."
Even now, the Aodelan Empire has secretly signed agreements with other countries and is secretly mobilizing a million troops to the Aodelan Empire's capital in order to besiege me.
They may seem to be acting in the name of human freedom, but who cares how many soldiers and civilians will die in the process of dealing with me?
If your royal family has fled, how are the people of the Southern Continent supposed to escape?
Maria, selfishness is the true nature of your royal family!
And you, too, have to be selfish..."
Norton teased the girl in front of him with a wicked grin, but the words he uttered sent chills down Elizabeth's spine.
Looking back, she realized that she, too, seemed to have been shaped into what she is today through the tutelage of this Pale God.
What terrifying figure will this girl become under his deliberate tutelage?
People's joys and sorrows are not all the same. Maria and Elizabeth were afraid of Norton's discipline, but Abraham was afraid of the words from Norton's mouth.
"They're secretly mobilizing a million-strong army to besiege Your Majesty? Damn it, even I didn't know about this, how could Your Majesty have gotten hold of it?"
Could it be that my past assumptions about His Majesty's perception were wrong, and that His Majesty can actually sense not only us Vampire, but also all living beings in the entire Southern Continent?
Or perhaps they possess more advanced surveillance methods?
Abraham felt a chill run down his spine, as if he were a naked young woman with no secrets left in his body.
'Your Majesty, are you also fully aware of my past conspiracies with Duoxia?'
Your Majesty's power is truly unfathomable...
Abraham's mind drifted back to the mutated humans he had seen in Sak City, and he felt an even greater chill run down his spine.
His Majesty seems to be plotting something that terrifies him, but to this day, he still cannot understand it.
That's the scariest part!
Kuba's words were indeed entirely correct. It would be a blessing for the Southern Continent to permanently banish such an extraordinary individual, who possesses such humanity and desires!