
Aldric began to wake up from his deep sleep when he woke up he realized the sky outside had become orange signifying the afternoon, the music box was still playing beautiful chants as usual, but this time Aldric realized something the music was never blown or the same as the chant released was a song that never ended and continued to play until it was stopped.
Aldric then pressed the top of the music box to stop it when it turned off, the world felt quieter than it should have felt something was missing in the air.
Suddenly, he got into his mind a thought. Did the music box have a greater influence than he thought? Did something happen when the song stopped? There may be magic power hidden behind the never-ending chants of music.
but the inner thought was stopped by the knock of the door from the outside, Aldric opened the door of his room, it was Seraphina as usual she was wearing a pretty dress she was probably the most 'adult' sister' in the royal family.
"hm?, what's the matter ?" aldric said through the gap from the door he opened he did not want to know anything about the music box because it would be troublesome if he had to explain where he got it from.
"so the royal guests will stay here to... Time not specified... So dad's having a family dinner with the royal guests".
Seraphina looked at Aldric with a sharp gaze, as if trying to figure out if there was anything strange with her sister. However, Aldric quickly shifted his gaze and tried to look as habitually as possible.
"Oh, I see," Aldric replied casually "Sure, I'll be ready for dinner with the royal guests. Thank you for telling me, brother"
Seraphina still felt that something was strange, but she decided not to extend the conversation. He nodded and gave a smile to her.
"Well, don't forget to dress modestly and look charming, huh?" seraphina said kindly. "It's a great opportunity to get to know and connect with royal guests. Who knows, there might be an interesting opportunity"
Aldric also with a confused face asked "attractive opportunity?", with a smile Seraphina replied "ituloh, Brianna's daughter she was looking forward to?, who knows you two...."
Aldric immediately understood what he meant by his brother but given what happened last afternoon and women were not his focus at this time he did not care much about it.
"oh.... Yes yes, see you at dinner" so Aldric closed the door to his room and Seraphina left from the front of Aldric's room.
Aldric went to the bathroom in his room even though this world has magic elements that many of his bathrooms still use water pipes, after all, if you use the water crystal Aldric can not activate it considering he does not have magic.
Finishing the shower and getting ready for dinner, Aldric chose a decent outfit for the event. He chose a formal dress suit with an elegant blend of colors. Although not very interested in meeting with the royal guests, Aldric realized the importance of showing courtesy and respect at this dinner considering his father's closeness to king Douglas might be able to correct his first bad impression that afternoon.
The sound of knocking on the door was heard again this time it was the palace maid "mister Aldric are you ready ?" the servant said, looking down politely, "apart, I'm ready" replied Aldric confidently, who then pointed the way respectfully to the right "please sir" aldric walked the lead where he did not know the way.
Aldric tried to do a trick that he used to use is to let people know the way first, but how much he slowed down his net the servant beside him did not catch up as if he was keeping his distance from him, and this was not good for Aldric.
But Aldric realized that the line of soldiers standing guard in front of the crossroads and two roads, front and right, close the guard, which means he only needs to turn left, and this happened along the way where the road had been secured by the royal warrior, Aldric could breathe a sigh of relief knowing this.
After passing through several corridors filled with rows of soldiers, Aldric arrived at the palace dining room. The room was decorated with luxurious furniture and beautiful decorations. The long dining table is in the middle of the room, surrounded by comfortable chairs.
king Allen sat at the end of the table, at the other end Douglas sat there, it seems that the woman is sitting on the left while the man sitting on the right sees that there are two seats for Aldric and Cedric but Cedric is not in place.
Aldric sat down on one of the chairs and looked up at the seat of his oldest empty seat, and king Allen, who saw his son, spoke, "Cedric was late because he had just finished training wait for him a little while longer" hearing this Aldric nodded in relief.
it seems that they are cool themselves it is not a problem that Aldric opened his system and did a search for the 'demon king' and the documents appear there are.
Belialor king of the Abysmorian kingdom is a demon king of pure descent descended by the demon goddess Nyxara, he is a humble and kind leader even with a poor image of the devil, he has a sister named Ravenna whose status is in secret.
he was also a quick-fight strategist and hit hard on his front line similar to the Blitzkrieg, although he used his power to protect his people.
after reading the document Aldric slightly confused the demon king in this world is not an evil entity but like the king of a race like other kings trying to protect the people and his kingdom.... Then who is the 'bad guy' in this world?, he also conducts a search for evil entities in this world
The word abyss appears in the document that contains, Abys is a race whose origin is not known they are destructive creatures that usually appear in the form of monsters, the Abys, there was a place called the pit of abyss where it was the abyss creature residence.
Keristal in the Abyss was extremely brazen and could grant power to the exposed but whining common sense from the exposed made them nothing more than mindless monsters.
Pit of Abyss has a depth that is not known but the thing that is known is the deeper it is explored the smarter and stronger the Abyss creatures, to the point they have a human form, the more, they are called humos.
Humos believe in having a community, a social life, even the city under the pit abyss was ignored and many considered them to be nothing more than monsters because of their destructive attitude and their deep hatred of all forms of life, especially the sensible ones like humans, the entire world is still at war with the Abyss.
Aldric thought deeply about the document while looking at the screen, little did he know that Brianna's daughter was paying attention to Aldric and also watching the conversation he had with the women.
Since Aldric looked at the screen of the system that no one could see, he seemed to be pondering over something, this caught the attention of one of his sisters Celestia.
Celestia looked towards Aldric who was... Pondering?, originally he was reading and understanding the documents in the system, Celestia who was shocked because her sister was contemplating while she was having fun with friends, Celestia who was shocked because her sister was pondering, the sister and her mother ignore her non-interactive sister making a sense of guilt in the day Celestia grows.
"Aldri-" calling Celestia cut off with the sound of the door opening it was Cedric she was wearing formal royal attire, even so from the eyes and expression she made, she was exhausted.
Seeing this king Allen was worried about his eldest son "Cedric are you okay?, you can just rest if you want" Cedric who heard this felt touched "not what father, you are fine, you can rest if you want, I'm fine.... Just.... Just a little bit exhausted" he said as he approached his chair and sat down.
"all right let's start this dinner !" king Allen said, the waiter came with a large amount of food and wine bottles, but one thing that attracted Aldric's attention was the large piece of flesh that looked like part of the tail of a creature, from the scales surrounding it it was probably a dragon.
The waiters stand next to each person sitting at the table, then when the person points at a food/the servants drink and announce or cut a part with their magic and then move it to a sitting plate.
Aldric noticed this happening, so he pointed to the 'dragon' meat, the waiter next to him swiftly cut off part of the meat and put it on Aldric's plate.
Aldric ate the meat and it tasted.... Strangely enough, the texture is like fish but it tastes like chicken and seasoning is sprinkled is savory but there are spices that make a taste like numbness, even though it looks like Aldric likes it.
then Aldric's attention was turned to the wine that was still sealed in a bottle of Cedric who saw this little smile, "wait until your maturity ritual later we can drink together well" he said in a friendly tone.
Aldric returned Cedric's smile while nodding "of course" he continued to eat together, all who ate looked good but Celestia looked less happy maybe because she had previously ignored her sister.