I clapped my hands as I remembered something important and said, "I do have two constant stalkers or can I say "tails" since I came back to the academe from my one-week adventure." Aurum''s eyes widened and asked, "What do you mean?" and then he looked around the suite seemingly worried and a bit angry. I am quite sure he won''t find anyone since they are using a high level of concealment skill, spell or maybe an item. I told him that they are hidden quite well so he shouldn''t bother looking around.

    There is a way I thought of so let''s go with that. I closed my eyes and chanted a magic nullifying spell in my head and then two people appeared all of a sudden in two opposite corners of the suite. After releasing the spell, I opened my eyes and told Aurum, "There they are!"

    When the prince suddenly looked directly at each of them, they knew that their invisibility spells have stopped working for some reason. For spies or even assassins, their only options as of this moment is either to fight or flee. Since their job is only to observe and not to kill, their first instinct was to "flee" in this situation. They suddenly tried to bolt out of the room but would I let them do that after making me uncomfortable for so long? I silent casted a bind spell to stop them from any attempt to escape and when the two realized they couldn''t move, they stopped struggling. The prince then asked in a booming voice that one might suffer internal injuries from, "WHO SENT YOU AND WHAT IS YOUR PURPOSE IN FOLLOWING THIS WOMAN?" One of the men immediately kneeled down on one knee and said, "I am called Zen and I am a personal guard assigned to Miss Luna from the Academe of Gnosis, Your Highness 8th Prince. I do not interfere with her daily activities and my only task is to keep her safe." Aurum nodded and then looked at the other guy wearing a black hooded robe that covers his whole body. The other guy did not move for almost a minute. He is extremely quiet that not even a breath can be heard from him. He has perfected the art of stealth and concealment, it seems. He also kept standing and did not kneel for some reason which means that he isn''t from this kingdom. The hooded guy then slowly pulled back his hood to reveal himself. The first thing I noticed about him was that he''s surprisingly taller than the average human, had silver gray hair and had exotic looking features (it''s a given that he''s handsome like all the men in this world are) with his skin having a mix of the dark blue and gray shades to it. I also noticed the pointy ears that he was trying to hide underneath his hair. Who would have thought that the first one to find me were the dark elves that those self-proclaimed "high" elves hated. This is making things interesting.

    After seemingly a lot of consideration from this dark elf''s part, he spoke in a low and husky voice with a broken and weird accent and said, "I apologize but I can only bow to my king and queen. I am also not from any of your human clans." I smiled and surprising everyone in the room, I spoke in mystique language saying, "Dos ph''natha olath darthirii. Usstan tlun l''sii''a eridok d''Eieneos ka nindel

    zhah vel''bol dos ph''galla ulu ragar doeb."

    (You are a dark elf. I am the current heir of Eieneos if that is what you are trying to find out.) The dark elf''s beautiful lavender eyes widened and he immediately kneeled before me and begged, "Ussta valsharess, qualla dormagyn ussta lodias" (My queen, please save my people.) Aurum kept looking back and forth at me and the dark elf as if we did something miraculous.

    To prove my position and show my sincerity, I think I have to deal with this as an heir to Eieneos and not Luna who''s pretending to be human. One of the races has found me, surprisingly quickly. Without warning and even if Aurum was in the room, I set up a domain to isolate us from the outside world. I made the spy from the academe pass out, enveloped Aurum in a barrier to protect him from being crushed due to mana pressure and then I also released my several layers of disguise and concealment spells so the remaining two conscious people in the room could see my real countenance. I also missed freely releasing my mystical mana in the area surrounding us. I can see Aurum''s eyes go wide like saucers at the sudden changes in me. I then said to the dark elf, "Usstan . tlun ul''kas Luna.Vel''bol zhah d osst belbaunin kaas?" (I am called Luna. What is your given name?) He immediately answered in a polite tone, "Usstan tlun ul''kas Neantak, ussta valsharess." (I am called Void, my queen.) I smiled at him and his eyes widened. He immediately looked down. If his skin was pale, he would have blushed for sure. Men are all shy whatever their race is, I guess. I then continued, "Ulu jous dosst sincerity, sila dosst ventash''ma ulu inbal natha dialogue xuil uns''aa." (To show your sincerity, bring your leader to have a dialogue with me). He looked into my eyes for a few seconds as if memorizing my face. He then seemingly realized that it was rude to stare so he hurriedly nodded and then disappeared from my domain. I put all my disguise and concealment spells back on and then released my domain. As for the guard from the academe, let him sleep for now.

    I looked at Aurum and said, "Don''t pretend that you didn''t know. Don''t make me think you are an idiot." He stared at me as if he can''t believe I insulted him and responded, "I had an idea the first time we met but I didn''t know you looked ethereally beautiful compared to the usual look you are wearing." I looked at him with an eyebrow raised, "It''s because of perverts like you that I needed to avoid so I have to keep a disguise all the time." He looked at me as if he was attacked "I am not a pervert!" I stared at him and pointed towards his crotch area and said, "Yeah, that thing standing on alert between your legs is really making that statement very credible." He looked down and covered it with his hands while blushing. I simply rolled my eyes at him showing that I am not buying the shit he''s telling me.

    Now that we have that out of the way, I continued the conversation me and Aurum are having. I then asked him, "What is your goal with suddenly wanting to improve the city? Are you vying for the crown prince position again?" He shook his head, "I was the one who gave it up willingly so why would I want to get it back? I simply want to own more territories. My target territories to acquire are the places where my four attendants came from. I want to get something that is due to them." I looked at him and smiled, "I did not know you were this kind." He responded, "Oh, please. I am not kind, I am damn spiteful and vengeful." I couldn''t help but laugh at his honesty. He smiled at me sweetly then he coughed to force himself to look serious again.

    He then stared into my eyes and said, "Do you want to hear an interesting story?" I looked at him and responded, "Your five minutes are up but since I find you fun to talk to, why not?" He smiled at me and said, "Once upon a time, there was a lonely little prince that did not have friends. He lived in a very extravagant palace doted by his parents but he was always alone and fearful for his life. His mother one day asked him, "Do you want to have little friends to talk to and protect you?" The little prince of course said yes and he even requested to have four which was just a random number he thought of. The queen then announced to the whole kingdom that the prince was looking for friends and playmates and the queen is willing to give rewards if any family can give a little boy that the prince would find suitable." He then paused and closed his eyes as if remembering something that hurt. I interjected and said, "That prince is you and the four friends are your attendants. Why do you have to start it with "Once upon a time" like its a damn fairytale. Your voice and your evil looking face makes it creepy." The prince scoffed and said, "Can you at least just say something nice to me? Do you dislike my face so much?" I then laughed out loud and he turned red, obviously irritated. I then told him to continue the story while I was still giggling.

    He then continued, "The announcement shook the whole kingdom and many family wanted to send their kids to the palace to somewhat get any possible connection with the royal family. The prince was happy since many children want to be friends with him until he realized the kids were just being forced to be sent over and they will eventually leave. He even saw children who looked like they were beaten and starved as well as parents seemingly trying to sell their children to his palace. There were four particular children that looked like they were sick, weak and dying. They were given to the palace in exchange for a chunk of change which means that''s all the worth that their family puts on them."

    I looked at him intensely and interjected to say, "They have a dark and sad backstory, I see. Since you are spiteful and vengeful, you want to do that for them. Okay, count me in." He looked at me and stared. He then rolled his eyes and said, "You did not even let me finish the story!" I then said, "It''s fine. Who doesn''t have a sob story. They can just tell their stories to me by themselves. I don''t need you to have a storytelling session with me about other people''s lives." He then abruptly ended his story with click of his tongue in annoyance.

    Since it was already late, I stood up and walked out of the room. He ran after me and asked where I was going and then I responded, "To my first husband" and his face turned sour which made me giggle. As I exited the door, the four minions are standing outside. I looked at them one by one and suddenly remembered to ask my favorite girl in the world, "Lia, can you check my resonance with these four?" The voice I missed so much said, "I don''t know how they did it but the master''s soul has been linked to the other four. The resonance level will then be same with their master." I couldn''t help but be shocked since that means these four also have perfect resonances with me? This is dangerous. What if they all go crazy at the same time. I bettter leave so I decided to just go back to the academe tonight.

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    Author''s Note:

    Just giving credit to whom it is due:

    I am thanking the "Chosen of Eilistraee" website for your helpful translator:

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