Everyone’s eyes were at the door which was being opened by Anne and Richard.

Rhaegar walked in slowly with his head standing tall and his look unwavering .

He was used to being looked at ever since he was a child, he was familiar with looks full of curiosity, envy and flattery .

As instructed by his father, he had to go and greet higher ranked nobles first due to their status. The first ones to be greeted were, of course, the royal family representatives.

That was the plan at least

“Stop right there “

The demi human from the wolf tribe placed his hand on Rhaegar’s chest, Rhaegar’s fake smile was immediately replaced by a serious facial expression.

“Ill give you 3 seconds to remove your hand, you are making my outfit filthy.

My mother suffered for hours preparing this for me “

The demihuman warrior turned to prince Achilles as if to ask “what now” , the prince nodded and the warrior continued.

“What happens if I don’t remove my hand”

“Ill cut it and shove it up your asshole.. “

Rhaegar directed his look at the prince and added “your highness”

He knew quite well that Achilles was trying to mess with him, he also knew what high ranked nobles were like, if you gave them an inch they would take your hand whole.

Selena spit her drink and started laughing while her mother the duchess gave Rhaegar a flirtatious look .

“Your future husband is better than I thought Selena , there’s more to him than just good looks “

Selena couldn’t really understand her mother’s thoughts so she just pretended.

“I told the old man to not disgrace ourselves by granting Rhaegar our youngest, Look he even disregarded the overlords “

Geld was worried that his brother in law was going to get pissed at his son but the rumours about Dave being weird were not false, the guy started laughing loudly.

“Alicia, forget about marrying him, I don’t find anyone in this room to be woman enough for my nephew “

The situation was already tricky but after Dave’s remarks it got even worse , prince Achilles looked like he was about to explode.

How dare a mere viscount disregard his superiority and insult him, tchh . If he didn’t need their support for the throne he wouldn’t have come here at all.. What was his father thinking when he decided to marry Cara to him .

“It seems that me and my sister showing up tonight has made you arrogant, do you think that a loser like yourself is equal to a royal prince ? Did your false god Set give you courage to go against royalty? Are you trying to rebel ? “

Achilles spared no effort in trying to justify killing Rhaegar, he couldn’t just kill a noble heir after all. He had to be ‘ in the right’ while doing it or else he would get in trouble .

“I didn’t go against the royal household, your highness, I only defended myself against you. Do you alone represent the entire Royal household? After all, if you are all that is to the Royal household I’m afraid you wont remain overlords for much longer “

Princess Cara stood furiously, this insult wasn’t light , Rhaegar was challenging royal authority.

“What? Am I wrong? The overlords should at least be the strongest among the entire noble families, and by the looks of it your highness isn’t even the strongest in this room “

Many of the higher nobles who had just shown up for political reasons started to show interest at what was happening, the Prince’s attempt to make a fool out of Rhaegar had backfired hard at him.

Lord Dave on the other hand was laughing like a drunkard , he looked like he was having the best day of his life .

“Viscount Geld, if your son doesn’t kneel and apologise right now I’ll be the one to teach him a lesson. You have clearly failed as a father, don’t fail as a noble too “

Seeing that Rhaegar wasn’t eating insults but going twice as hard at him, the prince decided to maintain his reputation by forcing lord Geld to take action .

“Your son’s actions are of no sincerity, even though I lowered myself and attended this humble party of his, he shows 0 respect to me and my status “

Geld gave Rhaegar a serious look but Rhaegar didn’t notice it, or he pretended not to . He wasn’t going to let a spoiled prince who was yet to spill blood humiliate him in his own territory.

“I have already shown you enough respect by not cutting down these so called warriors of yours and of course by greeting you first... or are you assuming that your status is higher than Duchess Luna? Or the Terra household’s countess“

Achilles for a moment there looked like he was unable to catch breath, why did he have to bring that seductress up in their personal issues .

“Lord Rhaegar is right, your highness may be a prince but there are 12 other male heirs to the royal family. Your status can’t be higher than a duke or count, he has already shown you enough respect “

Consort of the Hera’s household was the one to speak, if he didn’t then it would mean that he acknowledged the prince to be of higher status than himself .

Many more of course followed, Achilles was losing ground there and couldn’t do a single thing about it. He was regretting trying to make a fool out of Rhaegar !

“Mother, I didn’t understand why father decided to marry me to him, but by what Im seeing now Im convinced . I understand everything “

The countess looked at her daughter Anabel and said .

“You understand nothing, Achilles demise was obvious from the moment he had that demihuman warrior touch Rhaegar “

“What do you mean mother? “

“Rhaegar first showed no signs of fear or hesitation to make it obvious that he isn’t one to be messed with, by doing so he won respect from the lower nobles .

Every humble man likes it when another humble man stands up to the arrogant, and Rhaegar had already foreseen that “

“Huh? How could he have foreseen that, nobody knew the prince was coming “

“Stupid girl, you still have a lot to learn .

You could easily tell that the prince wanted to mess with him just by looking at his casual outfit, he did it as if to say “ look I show no respect to the house of Set by dressing casual at their heir’s birthday party “ . Besides, look at how he mentioned duchess Luna and Me when asked about status, by doing so he forced us to agree with what he says and also the lower nobles sucking up to us to support his words. After all, if we had remained quiet it would mean that we acknowledge that spoiled prince to be above us “

“Huhh? He thought of all that? Mother are you sure that you’re not overthinking? “

Thats what Anabel thought until Rhaegar added :

“Your highness, I showed you respect until you ordered your demihuman slave to lay hands on me. By doing so you insulted all the nobles present here.

Correct me if I’m wrong but, are you trying to say that even your slave has high enough status to lay hands on us nobles?”

And , that was the finishing move.

Once Rhaegar’s words fell every single noble in the room started supporting his words and Rhaegar appeared to be in the right, how dare a mere slave lay hands on a noble .

Dave was enjoying himself a bit too much while lady Luna only whispered “ interesting” after all of that played out . Anabel on the other hand stood up forgetting all about her surroundings and loudly said .

“Mother, I want to marry him “