That's my king.

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The royals were all looking at Arlo pitifully while Gage was proud of Lynorr, as evidenced by the expressions on his face. Lynorr was standing far away from Arlo, whose cheek was crimson with steam bursting from it.

"If you all are done with your little argument, let's start," Gage said as he started, chuntering in the ancient language, and a jiffy took it all for all of their hands to be tied with shackles.

"Why is my thickest and sharpest?" Arlo and Lynorr complained at the same time as Gage looked at both of them while smiling.

"It was the direct order of the head as a discipline for the blast that both of you did because of your pride" Gage answered as both Arlo and Lynorr averted their eyes.

"I guess we are good then" Gage again said as he turned toward Ophni, who was struggling with his shackles.

"I know he tightened mine more than the others on purpose" Ophni muttered with rage as he tried to move his hand, which resulted in the shackle getting tightened than before.

"Ophni already has passed as he escaped from my chains but teasing him a little is fun," Gage thought to himself while smirking as his regard fell on Ayrton, who was ready to cast a spell.

"Will my spell-casting work?" Lydan's notion murmured as his eyes were filled with excitement.

"You all have half an hour to free yourself from these shackles, a minute late and you are fail" Gage instructed as they all started to murmur their spells.

Lydan closed his eyes with excitement as he started chuntering, in his mind but before Lydan could even start chuntering the shackle fell on the floor in the blink of an eye as everyone stopped and looked toward him with their surprised expressions.

...

Far away in the dark, his golden pair of eyes was as if they could see into any abyss– the only ray of light there was reflecting on his pale lips that depicted the diamonds but more precious than any jewel in the world.

"That's my king" his voice was deep and dominating, and the smirk on his precious lips was indicating the elation he had.

...

"Lady, how did you do that?" Ophni asked with wide-open eyes.

Lydan was surprised himself "I don't know" Lydan signed as Gage stepped forward.

"Your highness, which spell did you use?" Gage asked with curiosity.

"I was about to use the third spell in the second volume of spell's book, it happened before I could even start" Lydan hastily signed.

"Maybe the shackle was not that strong" Arlo blurted out.

"Did you use your force to break it?" Lynorr asked as Gage bent down to pick up the shackle.

"It doesn't look like that force was used on it, and as far as I know Lydan doesn't have any powers and he can't speak so, how?" Gage thought to himself.

"We should check it out again," Ayrton said as Gage snapped back from his thought.

"Yeah, that's a good idea," Gage said with excitement as he dashed toward Ophni and took out his shackle with spell chuntering.

"That feels good?" Ophni muttered to himself as he rubbed his wrists.

Gage again went toward Lydan as he started chuntering to put the shackle on Lydan's wrists "Let's try now" Gage said as he stepped backward.

"Lady, the shackles are not tight, right?" Ophni asked.

"No" Lydan signed.

Lydan was confused, he stared at everyone before closing his eyes; all the royalties including Gage, were looking at Lydan with curiosity "Will it work this time?" Ayrton thought to himself.

The shackle that was on Lydan's wrists fell off the floor before they could open their eyes again after a blink "Wow" Arlo applauded.

Lydan was surprised as everyone else, "Are you hiding your powers from us?" Lynorr asked with a suspicious look.

"I'm not" Lydan signed.

"That's surprising," Ayrton said with a smile.

"Your highness, can you do it without saying it out loud?" Gage asked Ayrton as he nodded.

Ayrton closed his eyes and started to do the same as Lydan, but nothing happened "It isn't working?" Ayrton said.

"As I thought, the spell needed to say out loud for it to work but Lydan didn't do it" Gage's conscience muttered.

"Lady, do it one more time," Ophni said as his eyes started flaring the red smoke.

"That's it, Ophni can see through powers" Gage muttered as he signaled Ophni.

Ophni nodded as Gage tied Lydan's hand again "Is there something wrong with me again" Lydan's conscience was murmuring the same thing again and again.

"Your highness, let's do it again," Gage said.

Ophni saw that the black smoke around Lydan was murkier than before "Is his power's smoke darker than before or am I just seeing it?" Ophni muttered.

Lydan was looking at Ophni's eyes as he took a deep breath before closing his eyes– Ophni managed to see that the black smoke surrounding Lydan changed into every color there is in the world for a split second and the next thing he saw was the shackle on the floor and the murkier smoke again surrounding Lydan.

Ophni was surprised to the core; he could feel his goosebumps and chill in his spine– all of the others were looking at Ophni with curiosity, even Lydan was anticipating.

"What did you see?" Gage asked, but Ophni didn't let out a word from his mouth.

"Why aren't you saying anything?" Ayrton asked, but there was still no response from him.

"Hey, did something happen?" Arlo asked with a worried look as Lydan stepped toward Ophni with a spooked face.

"I couldn't see anything, it was all blur" Ophni finally said as he saw Lydan coming toward him.

"It doesn't look that way," Gage said with a suspicious look.

"Why didn't you answer us then?" Lynorr asked.

Ophni's eyes were still flaring the red smoke "That's because it happened for the first..." Ophni halted as he looked toward Lydan who was standing in front of him, he saw that Lydan's eyes were slightly scintillating a blue spark.

To be continued...