"Hailing from Egypt, we are now honored to welco you Queen Cleopatra, Daughter of the Nile."
The mont she stepped into the hall, the Egyptian queen srized all the nobles that had gathered into silence. A black-haired beauty like no one in Briton had ever seen. Her dark, almond-shaped eyes slanted upwards in a catlike manner, gleaming with sly wit and sharp cunning.
Her seductive body striked the eyes of both n and won as she walked through the hall in her sleek black dress with two slits cut upwards beside both her hips. Her peerless beauty was amplified by the gold jewelry glinting on her silky smooth skin radiating her royalty.
"Goddess". That was the word that imdiately appeared in the minds of the nobles as she slid past them.
Except for Ery, of course. His heart almost fell out from sheer surprise the mont she entered the room, for this young woman was none other than Klea, one of his dearest friends from the Magus Academy. The sight of her imdiately breathed a gust of fresh air into his previously aching heart.
The Egyptian queen strided confidently across the hall. While she was accompanied by a few guards, they all stayed at the back of the room, manning the doors.
Now that everyone had already snapped out of their dreamlike state, their minds began to wander: who exactly was this Egyptian queen and why was she here?
It was likely only half the people in the room even knew where Egypt even was. It was among one of the faraway kingdoms that were thought of as the cradles of civilization, which ant it was among the first kingdoms established by humanity. So of these nobles had also seen so Egyptian jewelry and dyed products as part of their trade. But other than traders, none of the Egyptian emissaries ever ca to Briton, much less a queen. Even Ro, with their big influence, rarely ever sent their statesn over.
The congregation of nobles started to murmur as Klea approached the center of the room.
Ery barely realized he had tensed up when Klea passed by him. Almost as though a telepathic cord had been struck between them, at that exact mont, Klea turned to him, flashing a sly smile and a wink before standing in front of the main table next to him.
Klea nodded in respectful acknowledgent towards the main table before beginning to speak.
"I'd like to extend my most respectful greetings to Logress' new King, Arthur Pendragon. Congratulations on your anointing and may your kingdom prosper."
It was a simple, standard greeting, one that she had repeated countless tis to a hundred different kingdoms before, but it was delivered with such poise and brevity that no one questioned whether or not her words were genuine.
Imdiately after, she surprisingly turned towards Ery and shot him a gleeful grin that only confused him more. Just as she opened her mouth to speak, Uther, who was still extrely bewildered, suddenly interrupted her.
"Queen Cleopatra, what is your purpose in coming here from such a faraway place?" He asked, brows furrowed inquisitively.
Ery could see that this interruption annoyed Klea, but she maintained her respectful smile, as she turned towards Uther.
"Oh, don't mind , your majesty. I ca here today to see my dear Ery." As she said this, she waved a hand in his direction, in a manner that was overly casual for a setting as serious as this.
These words surprised everyone in the room and instantly the nobles began to whisper among themselves. So simply couldn't believe this queen would travel such great distances just to see a low-ranking noble, while others thought she was a sham, a self-proclaid queen that ruled over nothing. Many even believed she had co here looking for trouble. But out of all of them, the one who was in the most shock was Gwen, who could see clearly from her seat on the main table how the said queen was gazing at Ery.
Ery was still gasping in disbelief at what he saw. Seeing the situation, he quickly asked, "Klea, what are you doing here?"
The queen frowned. "To see you of course, silly! Why? Don't you miss ?"
"But how did you find here?"
"Well, it's not hard," she said rather dismissively. "I had found you since yesterday, but you bounced around from here to there! It was so tiring to track you. And finally, here you are now, but you don't seem very happy to see , don't you?"
Seeing that Klea's expression had dissolved into a disappointed frown, Ery quickly panicked.
"No, no... Klea... Of course I am happy to see you," he reassured her, hoping he sounded convincing enough to do so.
While the other guests still found the situation very bizarre, Uther imdiately understood the woman standing before him was rlin's friend. Knowing rlin's unique background, he did not take any issue to it, but he currently still had a ceremony to finish. He cleared his throat loudly, once again interrupting the two.
"Excuse ," he chastised. "If you don't need anything else..."
At this, Klea grew annoyed yet again. She grimaced before flinging a cold glare in Uther's direction.
"Actually, I am kind of tired. Could you fetch a glass of wine?"
The audience was imdiately taken aback and in an instant, they began to mutter amongst themselves in shock. It was an utterly disrespectful and insolent thing to say to a figure such as Uther, but to their even greater shock, as soon as the words left the queen's lips, Uther stood up, walked towards the end of the table, pouring fresh wine into a glass before passing it on to Klea graciously.
It suddenly dawned on Ery that she had just used her enchantnt magic on the most powerful man in the kingdom.
As soon as Uther gave the wine and walked back to his seat, it seed as though he was jolted awake from a dream, as he suddenly realized what he had just done. All the faces looking down at him, concerned and bewildered, made his insides boil with sha and anger.
"Guards!" He roared, slamming his fist onto the table.
The Golden Knights that were prepared for any threats shot upwards readily, just as Ery had requested previously. Now he wanted to hit himself in the head for demanding such a thing.
"Why did you do that, Klea?"
"What did I do? He's not the king, is he?" The Egyptian queen seed genuinely confused.
When half a dozen golden knights had approached closely, she calmly sipped her wine.
"Ery, with your skills, I am surprised you are not the king of this outback kingdom already."
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