Chapter 8

LUCIUS

The meeting with the council was taking its toll, and it took so much time. Many issues have been covered in the session since this morning. Covering the food security for the farthest regions of the kingdoms, the border security with their neighboring kingdoms and tribes, and the dark magic that would come as a threat because several kingdoms illegally practiced dark magics without the consensus of their neighbor kingdoms–resulting in a rift between them.

As for now, Lafazall Kingdom was only observed from afar without interfering with their sovereignty.

“Your Majesty, there is one thing we need to talk about before we conclude the meeting,” Azara, the Elders, stopped him to finish today’s meeting.

“What is it?” he halted from his tracks and turned his back on them again.

Azara’s hoarse voice was heard faintly from his seat, “I heard you bring a woman to your room, My King? We would not interfere with your personal affairs… but we had just finished the ritual in the Ariadn