《A king's reincarnation》Chapter 25: What it takes to be a ruler
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I didn't expect that the princess, whose eyes are always filled with resolve would be reduced to this state. Her eyes shaking, and her little body paralyzed from the nervousness. Seeing this unusual sight I couldn't help but laugh.
"hahahahahaha! I didn't expect this at all, and here I thought that you would be able to handle this properly, hahahaha!" I didn't notice it but I started showing a genuine smile and laughter without a care for my surroundings.
After a few more seconds of laughing, I suddenly noticed that apart from the citizens below, all of the people present inside the room were staring at me. The maids' faced were red as they just stared at me without moving.
"Eh? what's the matter?" I asked everyone.
"Ah no, don't worry about it my precious and handsome child, it's just, this is the first time everyone saw you smile and laugh like that. Honestly, you always wore a stern expression and an unapproachable atmosphere that makes others feel that they need to distance themselves from you. But of course, your mother here is not affected by it at all, that's why you can fawn over me anytime and anywhere you want without reservations and also-"
"Ok ok, I understand already, please calm yourself down!" I replied to her in order to prevent another calamity, If she were to lose it again, I don't know what would've happened.
"I agree with mother's words, you really should smile more often like that. Look, everyone here including the maids were enchanted by your smile, it's like they were placed under a spell. Even I was affected by it." Said Lily who is behind the queen.
"That's right, Nii-sama. Seeing you happy like that eased my nervousness you know?"
"T-That's right y-y-your highness. It would be our biggest pleasure to see that face of yours!" said Selly, the headmaid.
Seeing these people show care about someone they just met yesterday without any suspicion, even if it's because of a lie detecting magic, it makes want to protect them.
"𝘠𝘦𝘴, 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵'𝘴 𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵, 𝘐... 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘰𝘯𝘭𝘺 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘤𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮." I thought to myself as a certain memory made its way up to the surface of my mind.
"Father must be waiting for us already, shall we head out?" I told them as I completely replicated the smile that I subconsciously showed them earlier.
"See? you can smile like that anytime you want, no need to have any reservations!" said the Queen.
The 7 of us walked outside to the wide balcony and we were greeted by the loud cheers from the entire crowd.
"Oh? look that's the queen and her daughters, the members of the royal family really looks beautiful and handsome."
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"Kyaaaa!! Your highness, Prince Vin!! Please look over here!"
"Your Highness, please notice us!"
"Oh? Isn't that Her highness, Airi-sama!? in the entire royal family, she rarely makes an appearance before the entire citizens of Elune, she really is as beautiful as the rumors made her out to be."
"𝘚𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘰𝘯 𝘸𝘩𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘌𝘭𝘶𝘯𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘴𝘦𝘦 𝘶𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘸𝘦'𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘧𝘢𝘳 𝘢𝘸𝘢𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮 𝘪𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘮𝘢𝘨𝘪𝘤 𝘩𝘶𝘩. 𝘈 𝘮𝘢𝘨𝘪𝘤 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘫𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘴 𝘢 𝘤𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘢 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘢 𝘭𝘢𝘳𝘨𝘦 𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘢𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘨𝘦'𝘴 𝘲𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘪𝘻𝘦, 𝘦𝘯𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘪𝘵 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘣𝘦 𝘴𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘤𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘺 𝘣𝘺 𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦." I thought to myself as I looked up at the huge cloud of mist above us
"Hey, when is the 2nd prince gonna make his appearance? I can't wait to see what he looks like."
"I heard that the prince has been traveling all over the continent until an informant of the nobility acquired an information that someone who seems like the second prince is in the country of Hillian. For him to have been separated from his family for 16 years, it's good that he was found."
"I know right? as citizens of this wonderful nation, we should welcome him with warmth."
All kinds of voices and conversation were heard below, there are some who are excited, some are curious, and some are still in doubt.
"Now then, I would like to formally introduce to every citizen of the kingdom of Elune, the second prince, the child who I lost in the war 16 years ago, has now returned to his rightful country and position." After that, the king looked at me and stepped aside.
As someone who has experienced events far fancier and larger than this, I didn't expect that I would feel a little bit of excitement from this.
I walked forward from the darkness of the room and stepped outside into the light. My plain and expressionless face is being projected into the mist and my appearance has been revealed to every single person.
"....."
The moment I appeared, the noises ceased to exist, as if a speaker has been muted in an instant. All people were just staring at my image as if they have been putted under a trance.
"𝘐𝘵'𝘴 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘐 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘢 𝘱𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘤 𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦. 𝘚𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘐 𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦 𝘮𝘺 𝘳𝘶𝘭𝘦𝘳'𝘴 𝘢𝘶𝘳𝘢? 𝘐 𝘨𝘶𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘐 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘵𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘪𝘵 𝘥𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘵𝘰 𝘢𝘷𝘰𝘪𝘥 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦"
At the same time, the aura that I've been suppresing for a while now bursted out, even though it's just a tiny portion, it's still potent enought to make an ordinary person want to submit.
When everyone felt the sudden change in the atmosphere, their bodies trembled slightly and a look of awe and respect emerged from their faces. In order to finish this quickly, I decided to speak up.
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"Greetings to everyone present here today, I am Lucas White, a former traveler and the 2nd son of His and Her Majesties. Today, I would like to extend my gratitude to everyone who is present in this event and to those who welcomes me. As all of you have heard, today, I will be reinstated as this country's second prince. I know that for some of you, especially the nobility, this would be a hard thing to accept, the appearance of a new member of the royal family. Therefore, I will prove myself. Even if you see me as someone who doesn't have the capabilities, I will prove myself to be worthy of being one of the leading individuals that will lead this nation to greater heights. I am not asking everyone to trust me. I want each and everyone of you to watch with your own eyes as I prove myself to be worthy of this title. Right now, this title that I am about to receive from His Majesty will just be an empty vessel. And I, myself will be the one to fill this vessel up with power and achievements. This kind of heavy position as a prince is not something one can just accept, one has to prove with one's own abilities how worthy he is of this position. I also heard that right now, the entire nation of Elune is in a predicament, please rest assured, As one of this country's future leading powers, I will make sure that this entire country will not fall. That's all."
"""...WHHHOAAAAAAAAA!!"""
Every citizen of Elune began to shout loud cheers.
Awe, respect, adoration, admiration and exhilaration, every single citizen of Elune didn't hold back on showing these expressions.
"Not only is he handsome, but he also possesses great charisma, and the aura of a ruler around him is so powerful."
"You call this a failed heir? In my eyes, he is someone with a high aptitude for being a leader!"
"Kyaaaaa! He is so handsome! Please look at us!"
"Please let us be your maids!"
"That silver white hair and red eyes, iyaaahhh!! please let me bear your child!"
"The 2nd prince's looks is on a whole another dimension. The entire royal family has good looks, but the 2nd prince's is just on a level of its own!"
"I know right? good thing I'm a noble, I still have a chance of being his fiancee"
"Hey, that's not fair, we also have a chance!"
"Then shall we see who he will choose from the 5 of us tonight in the banquet?"
"Bring it on!"
All the people are shouting and cheering in awe, their eyes full of respect for the person standing on the balcony.
After achieving the results that I expected, I turned around and saw the dumbfounded looks of the royal family. Shock was evident in their eyes as ach one of them didn't expect me to make such a bold move.
"I was right about my precious and heavenly child, I knew that he can capture most of the citizens' heart and trust quickly! My son really is a god-like existence, come here and let mama give a hug!!!"
The queen was the first to recover from the shock, she quickly approached me and started praising me, since the projection magic has already been disabled, no one was able to see the queen's strange side.
"you praise me too much mother, that was just a normal speech that I came up with on the spot. It's not anything special."
"No, look at what your speech did to everyone, they're now full of awe and respect for you. With that speech, you already proved yourself worthy of the position" The king also recovered and came up to me.
"As expected of Nii-sama, I didn't expect you to pull off such a move! I hope I can also become like you someday!"
After a while, we continued the event and after half an hour it finished smoothly, all that remains is the banquet for the nobility tonight. Time flew by fast and the banquet is now ongoing.
Many nobles came to greet us, and congratulated father and mother for finding a lost treasure. They're referring to me, I guess?
Most of the nobles like a person named Marquis Nev even offered his daughter to me. But just like what I did to everyone, I politely rejected their offers.
Although the food is not as good as the ones from Earth, they're still better than average. After two hours, the banquet finally ended and all the nobles returned to their territories. After bidding goodbye to my parents and siblings, I went back to my room.
I took out a set of clothes I wear at my house from the spatial storage. I changed into it and layed down the bed, I'm not feeling tired at all but I wanted to sleep.
"It's been a long and busy day. I guess it was a little bit fun..." my thoughts drifted away as my eyes slowly closed.
And thus, the eventful day came to an end.
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Sword System Academia
2/17 NOTICE: I'm putting this on hiatus, possibly permanently. I didn't want to spam with an "update chapter", so hopefully here and in the story blurb will get enough eyeballs. There are a couple reasons for ending SSA for now. 1) I wrote the next chapter but wasn't happy with it. I've been less and less satisfied with SSA's quality the more I thought about it. Part of the reason is... 2) I am seriously thinking about trying to publish some novels to help pay the bills, since I don't have my other source of income anymore. I have never asked for anything from SSA readers, no money, not even a review or rating. SSA is written for fun to amuse myself, primarily, and I would kind of feel bad actually charging someone money for something as unserious as that. I don't think it is good enough to ask anything in return. To use an analogy from music, SSA is more like a jam session with a bunch of friends. You're just chiling and having fun playing some music. I mean, if you are Mozart or even Eminem, your jam session is good enough to sell, but for an amateur beginner like myself, haha, no. If I want to publish something, I feel like I need to go the proper route of practice and rehearsals, which might be more similar to a classical concert performance. With SSA, I work from worldbuilding notes and a loose outline, but what you are essentially getting is the first draft with lots of so-called pantsing. Pushing out a web novel like this also means it is very difficult to go back and improve things without breaking everything else downstream. I wanted to try this "jamming" approach, as it was a good way to teach me about another aspect of writing, but to move forward, I think I need to hone my "classical" techniques, which emphasize rewriting, or at least, revising outlines. 3) While I intend to try to make $$$, my actual current goal is to "get gud". I've spent a lot of time recently trying to understand the self-publishing industry, and I'm pretty sure I can make some money by using short-term strategies with my current amateur skill level. But I've seen too many authors come and go/burnout, and really, the only way that I think I can enjoy writing and still make money on a long-term basis is to become a better writer. And the next step for me, which I haven't done much before, is to spend more time on rewriting and outlines. That is pretty much antithetical to the way SSA is developing. I've always been kind of 20/80 plotting/pantsing, but I want to spend a lot more time outlining before I even start writing. SSA jam sessions don't really fit my goal anymore. If you're curious about what's next, read on... Among other regrets, I regret not finishing SSA. It's the first story I've dropped, but then again, it's the first web novel I've attempted, so I suppose that's not a surprise. I don't think traditional web novel formats suit me that well. The whole SSA story I had loosely planned (beyond a first book or major arc) is way too large as well. Big story = good for neverending webnovel with Patreons, bad for penniless and fickle writer like me. I am currently outlining a complete trilogy to another story in great detail. I want the story to end concisely, and I also want the chance to really spend a lot of time on the full outline to spot pacing problems, character issues, lost themes, and so on. I'll still share this story on RR. What I intend to do is finish book 1, flash-publish the whole thing here for a few weeks, then publish on the big Zon. Repeat for books 2 and 3. The upcoming story will be about crafting heroes. The backdrop is an isekai-like setting, where elves will summon humans to their world as heroes, but the whole hero crafting business is still in its infancy. The elven mage researchers are figuring out how to imbue heroes with power, while the heroes are trying to figure out how to use the powers that they gain. Humans are the best hero templates because they are blank and have no intrinsic magic. Or at least that what the elves thought. The human MC has his own secrets... There will be some similarities with litrpgs, but I would call it more a progression fantasy or gamelit story. For example, the stats are very low, at least initially. Say we have a stat called Str. Going from Str = 1 to Str = 2 is a huge deal. Also, going from Dex = 0 to Dex = 1 is an even bigger deal. I guess you could call it a "low-stat litrpg", haha. Also, the heroes won't be gaining stats simply by killing things or leveling up. You can't increase stats arbitrarily, either. There will be rules to how stats can increase, and how they work with each other. The elven mages will be figuring out these rules in order to craft stronger and stronger heroes. Some inspiration will be from cultivation magic systems, but there won't be overt cultivation, at least for now. A theme I really want to explore is the idea of interactions. That includes things like hero crafter vs hero, tactics vs strategy, skill synergies, racial interactions (dwarves, elves, etc), and son. Yeah, so hero crafting. I'm super excited about this project and venturing into publishing. If you want to check out the upcoming story, you can follow my RR author profile to see when it drops here. Finally... THANK YOU TO EVERYONE! I'm very sorry that SSA is stopping, but I hope at least some of you will find the next story at least as enjoyable, if not more. Thanks to all the readers who gave SSA a shot. Big hug or solid fistbump to all of you, whichever you prefer! I hope this message is not a downer but an upper, because I am psyched!! -purlcray -------------- BLURB: Talen, youngest Master of the Koroi, makes his way to the Empire's capital to salvage his clan's fate. But the bustling city has few opportunities for the traditionalist. For the old sword clans are fading. With the rise of alchemy, gold can purchase strength that ordinarily took years of training to cultivate. Sword artists, once rare and accomplished, are quickly growing in number, especially among the wealthy noble class. Even with such alchemy, though, no one has advanced to the rank of Grandmaster in countless years. Talen's true dream is to walk the path of a sword artist to the very end while fulfilling his clan duties. And then the Swordgeists return, fabled founders of all sword arts, gods who had touched the world long ago and vanished. These myths turned into reality warn of a coming threat. Alongside this warning, they issue an invitation to the Sword System Academy, a path to power beyond the mortal realm. But first, they will hold an entrance exam... Story notes:Sword System Academia blends elements of western and asian fantasy such as xianxia and litrpg. I took parts from different genres I enjoyed and twisted them into my own creation. There will be an explicit system, both of the litrpg kind and the hard(ish) magic kind, but it is embedded within an academic structure that will develop over the course of the story. This is my attempt to design a unique type of system, the System Academia.
8 153Doomsday 2020
January 2020 the world come to an end.. When the plague started it, it brought death upon 80% of the population. When the survivors thought there was no more hope. They came. 1008 pillars dropped from the sky and spread all around the world in more than 100 countries. The pillars became defensive bases to all of the survivors. But in the end.. after 10 years of struggle, The human race still lost. This is a story of Alex, given a second chance to start anew, one month before it all started. This time it will be different for his family, friend, and the human race.
8 137Crucis
Three factions oversaw the continent of Jumana. They were the Palace of Anima, Church of Arbor, and Seditio. The Palace of Anima worshipped Fate. A divine principle by which the order of events has been inevitably predetermined. The proxies of the Palace were the Moirais as they were blessed with precognition, great mana talent, and high affinity with Fate. The Church of Arbor revere Conscience. A moral principle that inhibits or influences the thoughts or actions of a person. Their advocates were the Fae, children born from the Tree of Truths. An ancient, sentient tree who bore the Fruit of Good and Evil. The third, Seditio, a clandestine society that was established by the Enlightened One. A peculiar individual who ate the Fruit of Good and Evil and lived to tell the tale. Seditio believed that comradeship was thicker than Fate and that Man should seize their own destines without the help of the Moira. Athos Dimitte Ferre, heir to the throne of the Palace of Anima. Was blessed with the gift of foresight and talent for mana. On one fateful night, however, he was cast away by a tragedy, and all was slowly taken away from him. "Why did the Seditio attack us? Why couldn't I see this, did my foresight fail me? Or perhaps, the Church of Arbor interfered?" A man who fell from grace learns to bare his fangs. ~~~~~ Updates every MWF 5PM EST ~~~~~
8 180Kingdom Hearts X Reader
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Ron inexplicably broke up with Slytherin prefect Cassiah Black just days before their final year at Hogwarts, leaving them both with broken hearts and no future plans, but too stubborn and too proud to fix things. Will they find their way back together before the year ends, or will the end of their time at Hogwarts be the last time they ever see each other? warnings: slow burn. angst, drug/alcohol use, eventual SMUT (and lots of it) ;) highest rankings (all time)#1 ron x oc #7 ron#7 ron weasley x reader#2 slytherin reader#11 ron x reader#87 ron weasley #400 dracostarted October 21st 2020. updates about once a week. Published on my Wattpad and my Tumblr (theweasleyslytherin). © 2020
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