The Golden Throne

Chapter 194: Talking with each other

Liu Feng and Amelia were alone. They were in a tent, with the drapes all down, and they were facing each other.

“Where were you all this time? When I asked my father, he smiled cryptically.”, Amelia asked.

“Interesting. They didn’t tell you huh.”, Liu Feng wondered out loud.

“What didn’t they tell me?”, Amelia asked.

“I was within the army the last three days. I was undercover as a recruit, looking if there were any big problems within the army itself that could hamper the rest of the war.”, Liu Feng explained.

“Why would you do something like that? You are a crown prince. You could have gotten all of that on your own.”, Amelia said.

“Well, when I was a recruit, I already met a few interesting people who would have caused quite the unrest. I learned about a few people and I wouldn’t have if I sent someone else. Corruption and the power of nobles are too rampant for even the king to stop it.”, Liu Feng said.

“You are trying to decrease the power of the nobles?!”, Amelia cried out.

“What is so surprising about that?”, Liu Feng frowned.

“You are the prince of Aegon. The human kingdoms always had a noble system, and it was a big problem. My father told me that the moment you get rid of all nobles in Aegon, it will become twice as powerful as it is right now.”, she said.

“Well, that is because all the past kings needed the support of the nobles. But I am going to change that all up.”, Liu Feng smiled.

“How is that? I am a princess. I am not going to fall for all your lies. I am well versed with all the politics of the four kingdoms that surround Elvan. I know enough about Aegon to say that too much needs to be done for your plan to work.”, Amelia said seriously.

“Why are we talking about this? This is for later. So, did you miss me?”, Liu Feng said as he leaned in towards her.

“What are you talking about? Why would I miss you?”, Amelia blushed.

“Is it? Because I heard otherwise.”, Liu Feng smiled as he leaned in further, until his eyes were just above hers.

He bent forward and pecked her lips.

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“Sir we are getting a lot of complaints from the student’s area. They are making a lot of noise, apparently.”, a soldier said.

“Who the hell is complaining? No one is over there.”, George said.

“The children from the mage tower, Sir.”, the soldier reported.

“Damn it. We can’t just ignore them. Fine. I will take care of it. That kid comes, and all of a sudden, my workload increases by double.”, he cursed.

He dropped whatever he was doing, and headed over to the student’s section.

Over there everything was chaos. All the students were talking to each other in groups, and everyone was outside. The amount of noise that they created was so loud that George closed his ears with his hands as he walked past them. 

He headed over to the center.

“Silence!”, he shouted.

All the students stopped talking and looked over towards George.

“What is this ruckus? Get inside. You are here because you are mages. You do not have any other privileges. Go to your tents. And where is His Highness the crown prince? He is in charge of all of you.”, George shouted.

“He, he disappeared. We do not know where he went. He just said that he will be in charge of us, and then he left. We were just talking about this-“, a student who was standing next to George said.

“Fine. I will speak with him later. For now, maintain decorum. You also have close to two hundred children living next to you. Keep them in mind.”, George said as he turned around to leave.

“Is it true? He is the crown prince of Aegon? I heard that he was the son of the city lord of Dilheim.”, one of the students asked George.

George glared at the student who asked the question.

“Listen boy. Whenever you talk to me, you shall call me Sir, like the recruit that you are. And, yes, he is the crown prince. Do you think that anyone could be so stupid to impersonate the crown prince himself in the middle of the Aegonian army?”, George laughed as he kept walking away.

All the students murmured once more, but in a much lower tone. Slowly, the groups dispersed into the tents, and the center of the camp was as sparse as when Liu Feng had come here.

Now, someone else stepped into the center.

“Finally, they are all gone. I swear, they were ready to crush me in a stampede.”, Liu Feng chuckled as he walked through the center.

“Wait for me. Who goes in front of their guide?”, Amelia ran behind him to keep up with him.

“It’s not like I was running. You just took too much time to come.”, Liu Feng shrugged.

“Yeah, yeah. Why do you want to see the kids anyways? It’s not like they are going anywhere. The work you have to do is over here, with all the students. All of them are hooligans. In the little time that I have been here, I was confessed to at least ten times. Even though I made it clear that I had a boyfriend.”, Amelia said.

“All will be done in due time. I just want to see the kids once. I mean, I am the one who gave them all this new responsibility. I am supposed to be the one who supports them through all of this. And, they are the important people here, not the students. I don’t know why the students were called here, but these children are our most important force.”, Liu Feng said as he kept walking.

“The most important force? Most of them are around the same level of mages as the best students. You saw those demons. How can these children take care of those demons?”, Amelia asked as she finally caught up to him.

“How? All of these kids are contracted. Imagine that. They have unlimited potential. They might even become stronger during this time. If they get to even the third order, I mean, the fifth circle, then that is the best thing that can happen. They will be able to band together and defeat demon soldiers.”, Liu Feng said.

Amelia shook her head. “I am a king contractor, and I am still at the fifth circle. You expect children to be better than me even though they have been mages for so little time?”, Amelia asked.

“That is because you have not been cultivating the right way. But these children got the guidance of an expert mage who reached the eight – I mean, sixteenth circle before. The master of the mage tower is a very powerful man, but he lost his physical body.”, Liu Feng said.

“Can he teach me as well?”, Amelia’s face shone.

“Haha, I knew that you would want to do this. In fact, the one month that we didn’t do anything, I wanted to send you to the mage tower, but I don’t know why it missed my mind.”, Liu Feng shook his head as he kept walking.

Right now, all that was in sight were tents. There was nothing else seen, and all was quiet. After a while, Liu Feng paused.

“And you call yourself a guide.”, he scoffed as he took three steps back and he turned right to face a tent. He opened it.

Inside, there were ten children seated in a circle in the lotus position with their eyes closed. Liu Feng closed the drape and put his finger over his lip.

“Looks like they are all meditating.”, Liu Feng whispered.

Amelia looked shocked. “They are kids, and when they get free time, what they do is cultivate? No wonder they are almost reaching me in their mana levels. I am truly ashamed of myself.”, Amelia said with a quiet voice.

“See. You had the talent, but not the willpower and determination. Maybe that is why your spirit doesn’t talk to you as much as mine talk to me.”, Liu Feng whispered.

“Talks. It is talks. You said talk. That means plural. You can’t have plural spirits.”, Amelia chuckled.

Liu Feng felt a cold shiver up his spine. “How did she go from a grammatical error to that?”, he thought to himself. He smiled to cover it all up.

“Well then, if they are all meditating, then we should go back.”, Amelia said.

“Not all of them are meditating. Obviously.”, Liu Feng said.

Amelia nodded, and they kept walking. Liu Feng stopped here and there, and closed his eyes from brief moment to make sure that he knew where they were going.

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