Chapter 13 The Party(1)

After Alibaba had shown various locations to Hakuyuu while being with Casino, who was guarding both o them as Alibaba was now showing Hakuyuu the barracks of Balbadd Palace, a maid suddenly ran over to them as the maid said, "Young third prince and Kou Empire Envoy, your majesty had already finished preparing for the party, and he had requested for both of your presences. in a few minutes in the location of the party."

When Alibaba and Hakuyuu heard this, they nodded as they returned to their royal temperament, stopped joking and talking with each other, and started becoming with their professional look. Both Hakuyuu and Alibaba knew that as they were Royals, they had to put up a facade every time they show themselves in public or around parties such as this as sometimes some people are offended if Royals and Nobles such as them acting casually as most people expect Royalty to act Regally and not expect people like them to be acting casual like normal people.

Even when Alibaba was Solomon in his past life, e had to show his people a facade to feel safe under a regal and reliable looking king. If Solomon had shown his childish attitudes towards his citizens, it would have made the citizens think that their king wasn't appropriate to act as their ruler if they saw the king acting childish.

So due to this, he had to put a facade of a wise, charismatic king to his citizens to assure them that they were living in a country with a wise king and not a childish one, which causes some kings based on history from other kingdoms to be overthrown by either Nobles or the Citizens.

And Hakuyuu knew this as from the stories from his father, he was told about the story of the once greatest nation in the world, the Great Kouga Empire, and was told the reason that the Kou Empire became one of the strongest nations currently was other than because the Great Kouga Empire had failed to unite the whole world, It was also because of the rebellion of many of its citizens which were caused by the horrible personality of the last king of Great Kouga Empire and the leader of that rebellion was Hakutoku Ren who was now the current emperor of Kou Empire.

After they thought of this, Alibaba said, "Hmm, ok then, now can you lead both of us to the location of the party please, and thanks for informing us that it is the time of the party since both the envoy and I hadn't noticed the time."

The maid just nodded at what Alibaba said, and she became a bit uncomfortable since she was just new here and didn't expect someone. Living in the higher-ups thanking a common maid like her, but from rumors, she heard about the third prince; unlike the first prince who orders around the other servants, the third prince wasn't arrogant and didn't order the maids.

And she had also heard that the third prince was an amiable person and often befriends the servant and talk to most of them like friends unless the third prince was in a public or formal location where the third prince had to be professional and noble.

As she thought of this, she lost her slight uncomfortableness a little bit and decided to now guide Hakuyuu and Alibaba to the party's location.

The Ball Room

Currently, the Ballroom where the party that King Rashid had organized was currently constantly being filled with Nobles who had heard this news days earlier before the Envoy, Merchants, and surprisingly some foreign Nobles who seems to be in Balbadd for either trying to meet Alibaba since ever since Alibaba was born many foreign nobles had visited Balbadd in hopes to befriend him and verify the rumors which most people.

And in these meetings, the foreign Nobles had a good expression to Alibaba. They saw that he was just a young child, but they saw how smart and wise he was. Most people who visited him, in turn, gave Balbadd new foreign connections. Still, some of them went bad when some of the nobles were arrogant and thought even if Alibaba was smart, they thought he was still just a kid, and maybe they can use this to get benefits from Balbadd if they were able to manipulate him.

But luckily, since Alibaba was wise and smart due to memories from his past life, he didn't entertain these arrogant nobles, which caused some of them to be enraged, and one noble had already once tried to hire an assassin from the assassin union; however, the plan immediately because Casino was with Alibaba back then and coincidentally at that time Alibaba was meditating, and in this state, Alibaba spreads his ki around the area.

Ki was a special type of Energy Solomon/Alibaba had discovered in Alma Torran back then. Solomon had discovered this special type of energy from a native tribe that was very far off from his country. He only accidentally discovered them when traveling globally and became accidentally lost in the forest where this native tribe lived.

When he came there, Solomon saw the lives of the people of the tribe, so he brought out some magic equipment that surprised most natives since they hadn't seen anything like magic before, which surprised Solomon very much since it was known. In the world that magic existed and never did he meet anyone who had never heard of magic. before

But when he talked about this with the natives, they didn't know what it was, but they showed Solomon another type of energy named Ki, which was the power he was currently practicing before his body can use the magoi in his yet.

Ki was also called Life Force by the natives. Unlike magic, this power is not dependant on a person's magoi because almost everyone in the world has the same amount of Ki in themselves with slight differences among races. And unlike magic, Ki can be increased in the body by training in various ways.

Ki described by the locals can enhance a person's physique, allow a person to make any energy outside their body, which was similar to magic, etc., which made it comparable to the power of magic.

Then after learning this. Solomon stayed in the Native village for 2-3 months before finally being found by Ugo and other Household members. Still, in those 2-3 months, Solomon learned how to use Ki, and he also taught the people from the tribe to learn magic.

Then in the years before the catastrophe of Alma Torran being destroyed, Solomon managed to barely become sufficient in ki since it seems that Solomon did not have a talent for Ki, unlike his magic. So he was able to teach ki to some of his household members but not good either as even when they had a talent for ki, they were only able to reach a level of strength of Ki that was very weak compared to magic, so they rarely used it in their fights aside from strengthening their bodies.

Then because of Ki Alibaba, who now had surprisingly great talent in Ki as well. He was able to detect the assassin's presence, then he informed Casino, who was beside him, silently saying there was an assassin. Casino knew that the third prince wouldn't lie about this, so he became on guard, and due to this, they were able to catch the assassin; however, immediately after this, the assassin had swallowed a poison hidden in his mouth, and due to this, they weren't able to obtain any info.

But although nobody knew, using his third eye Solomon saw the rukh of the man who was half fallen was about to disappear, so he almost wasn't able to get information, he heads the rukh said before he disappeared "Parthevia's undercover unit, the assassins Sham Lash division."