"Good morning, everyone." Everyone sitting at the dining table turned their heads to look at Aditya. Seeing Aditya, everyone inwardly felt relieved and happy.
An Empire cannot exist without its Emperor.
Without light, there would be endless darkness.
Without a protector, there would be endless chaos.
Without the Dragon Monarch, there would be no value for the Dragonians.
Without a King, there would be no shine in the Dragon Palace.
And Without Aditya, there would be no Istarin Empire.
As Aditya approached the dining table, everyone stood up and greeted their King. Even the maids who were serving dishes stopped and bowed to Aditya.
"Good morning. Aditya" - Riya
"Good morning." - Alicia
"Good morning, your Majesty. I hope you have rested well." - Watson
"My King, it's really nice to have you back." - Spencer
"Good morning, big brother." - Leo
"Good morning, Big Brother. I really missed you." - Clara.
"Good morning, Your Majesty." - Scott
"Good morning, Your Majesty." - Josh
"Good morning, Your Majesty." - Amber
"Good morning, Your Majesty." - Eleanor
"Good morning, Your Majesty." - Henry
"Good morning, Your Majesty." - Nathan
"Good morning, Your Majesty." - Tyler
Everyone except for Julia was present at the dining table. The atmosphere looked very joyous. Everyone was very happy to see their King back.
Aditya looked at everyone's faces before he signaled everyone to sit down. "Where are father and mother?" Aditya asked about Adam and Sophia.
Tap! Tap!
"I hope we are not too late." Adam came with Sophia and little Zak. Julia's little brother was very happy.
"Aditya, Where is Julia?" Sophia asked. The goddess's mother can somewhat guess why her daughter was late. As a woman and also as Julia's mother, she can somewhat understand everything without even needing to hear a single word from Aditya or from Julia.
"Julia will be 10 or maybe 20 minutes late." Hearing Aditya's reply, Sophia secretly knew that her guess was correct. Just like she and her husband had gone a little bit wild last night, the same must have happened with Aditya and Julia.
As the King and also as the Emperor, the golden armchair belonged to Aditya. The chair on his right was empty. It was Julia's chair. The chair on Julia's right was used by Riya. Alicia sat on Aditya's left side. Riya sat next to Alicia.
Back when Riya started living with everyone, she wanted Alicia's chair but Alicia firmly refused. Alicia and Riya even had a little argument over this position. In the end, Aditya had to step in and stop the catfight. He managed to convince Riya with the chair next to Alicia.
As for the chair on his right, that spot was forever going to be reserved for Julia and Julia alone. As for the guests, they were sitting on the other hand of the dining table.
"By the way, where is Lara? Is she sleeping?" Aditya asked.
"No, Princess Lara is not slumbering. Afore Peregrinating here, I peregrinated to her room to call her. According to her coadjutant Rose, Lara is getting yare. She should be here in any minute."
"Alright." Aditya wanted to officially introduce Lara to everyone.
'This also reminds me. Lara needs to drink my blood every single day. After breakfast, I will let her drink of my blood.' As for letting Lara drink blood in front of others, Aditya didn't think that would be appropriate. While Vampires might think of this as normal, no one here would see this as a normal thing.
Not to mention the fact, that Aditya was probably going to have an erection once Lara sucks blood from him. He doesn't that to happen in front of others. As the King, he had an image to maintain.
"Spencer, how was everything going in my absence? I trust that you have taken care of everything." Aditya trusted Spencer a lot. In Aditya's absence, Spencer was in command of everything. Alicia, Riya, and Watson have also helped Spencer a lot in Aditya's absence. Because of them, Spencer had everything a little bit easy. But taking the role of the Emperor isn't something that even Prime Minister Spencer can take.
"Your Majesty, you can repose assured. This auxiliary has taken care of everything. Though I must mention that was a certain matter which I would relish to draw your attention to it."
"What that would be?" Aditya asked back.
"It's about the Dragon Slayer guild. Thanks to everyone's avail, I have managed to deal with the main quandary. Once we culminate our breakfast, I cerebrate you should take an optical canvassing of it."
"Alright." Aditya understood that this wasn't a topic that should be talked about in front of others. Especially, in front of children." Clara and Little Zak hadn't reached the age where they should listen to things like this. Especially Little Zak was too innocent for this.
"Aditya, afore we commence with breakfast, I optate to let you ken something."
"Please go on." Aditya respectfully gestured for Adam to continue.
"Before I came here, I have been getting heavy rumors from my spies about the Addison family is preparing for something big. You should keep your eyes on them." Adam knew for a fact that the infiltration system of the Istarin Empire was far more powerful and quicker. Aditya should be able to find out what the Addison Family was planning very soon.
The Addison Family was originally a friend of the Onard Family. But the Addison Family broke that relationship by choosing to ignore Adam's requesting calls for reinforcements when the goblin invasion took place. If not for Aditya, the entire Onard family would have fallen. Unfortunately for the Addison Family, instead of seeing the Onard Family fall, they witnessed the power of the fiance of Julia Onard.
During Julia's birthday, Aditya and the head of the Addison family both had met each other. From them, Aditya had a feeling that these snakes from the Addison Family were definitely going to try to harm either the Onard Family or Aditya in some way.
"You can rest assured. I will personally deal with the Addison Family. If necessary, I will personally go and wipe them out of existence." Adam nodded his head.
"Can you two not talk about killing and destroying in the morning?" Sophia was annoyed with her father and also slightly with Aditya. But all of her anger was taken out on Adam.
The Furious Lion was tamed just by one angry glare from his wife.
"Sorry for making you all wait." Aditya found Julia walking to the dining table with Lara. Her maid Rose was walking behind while wearing a new maid outfit. Probably this maid outfit was given to her by one of the servants. Not only that, but Rose was also wearing a black mask to cover her entire face. She probably didn't want to scare the children with her zombie face.
Aditya was surprised to see Julia holding Lara's hand. Right now Julia was looking after Lara like a responsible big sister.
"I am sure most of you by now have met her. If not let me introduce you to Lara. Lara is a Princess of a big powerful Empire located in a place that is very far away. From now on, Lara will be my little sister. You all should give the same respect as you give me, Alicia, and Riya." Lara was touched by Julia's kindness. Lara was shy in front of so many people. Julia realized this and helped her.
With Julia's last two sentences, she basically cleared everyone's doubts. In her introduction, she made it clear that she held the same position as Dragon Emperor's future wives. Meaning that just like Julia, Alicia, and Riya, Lara was also going to become one of the queens of this Empire.
"He...Hello everyone! My name is Lara Murphy. I look forward to living with you." Lara lowered her head. She bent her body 90 degrees. After a few seconds, she raised her head while nervously looking at everyone.
Seeing her look, everyone had an urge of protecting her.
However, before anyone could speak, Aditya got up and took her right hand. "Good morning, Lara. I hope you have slept well." To which Lara shyly nodded her head. Seeing her husband holding her hand right in front of everyone, the sleeping Princess felt very happy.
"There is no need to be formal. Everyone here is a family. No one is going to judge you. Now join us for breakfast." Aditya personally lead Lara to her chair which was going to be next to Julia's chair.
With Aditya's actions, he further proved that Princess Lara was going to be the future 4th queen.
Seeing Lara still looking nervous, Julia sat next to her and held her right hand. Seeing this Aditya just smile while sitting down. He was glad that his partner was this kind and also this understanding.
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