Chapter 227: [Bonus ]227 – Lirian Strikes
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The prince's and princess's while feeling completely humiliated, still felt that this was an opportunity for them to prove to Lirian who it was that sat on the top.
But unknown to them some of the princess's just wanted to get closer to Lirian, despite the humiliation seeing Lirian's body, filled their minds with other things and it was all they could think about.
The looks in the eyes of some of the princes had also changed as if they were rethinking their sexual orientation and as they realised what they were thinking, they slapped themselves without holding back, to steady their thoughts.
There was one prince however that seemed to be frothing from the mouth in anticipation to start climbing his eyes were fixed on Lirian like he was prey, Lirian had truly unleashed a beast.
The prince's and princess's all looked to their respectively family leaders then to the emperor, they were asking for permission to go to the talent steps, even if Lirian invited them it wasn't proper of them to go without getting approval.
Seeing how eager they were there were many nobles that started to call out for them to join in on the steps.
The talent steps was usually always a show for the nobles, every twenty years when a new batch of candidates were ready they would be brought from the various academies to specific destinations, as each empire only had a few talent steps they had to place them in strategic locations to use them effectively.
During those events there were thousands of candidates present all battling to climb the steps, it made for a very entertaining event, Lirian's had certainly given them a lot to talk about, but this would truly make things exciting.
For a candidate to challenge prince's and princess's it wasn't a first in history, but it was rare enough that it got the nobles very excited, their only disappointment was that there were only 15 prince's and princess's present.
The emperor nodded in approval, and he did think that it would liven up the party a little, giving everyone a little more to talk about.
Lirian sat on the ninth step comfortably and calmly waited for the prince's and princess's arrival, all of them successfully reached the fifth step, and it could be seen that they were trying to rapidly climb to that point just as Lirian did to make a point.
But it back fired as they ended up staggering under the pressure, the first five steps should have been the easiest but some of them were already breathing heavily due to their attempts to show off.
Lirian smiled in amusement as they suffered from their blunder, but he turned his attention to Kaher who was climbing at a fixed pace he got past the first five steps with ease and stopped when he reached the seventh, the pressure had finally started to affect him so he took a moment to adjust.
Kaher tightened his fists as he took a step into the eight step and then he rapidly took another step placing him on the ninth, he turned to look at Lirian with a smug look as if saying, you're not the only one that can reach this point, and he took another step up onto the tenth.
He looked back down at Lirian to gloat at him but to his surprise he found that Lirian wasn't there, "Yo, I'm up here," he heard Lirian's mocking voice and when he turn to look he saw that Lirian was standing two steps above him smiling smugly.
"Damn you," he cursed through clenched teeth as the pressure was making it almost impossible for him to speak, and that was all he could get out, yet Lirian was still as lively as ever.
Kaher took several deep breaths and now his fists were clenched extremely tightly as he had to fight the growing pressure, from the nineth step upwards the pressure tripled with each step, it was already miraculous that he could perform a double step from the nineth step to the tenth, and now he struggled desperately to push forward to the twelfth.
Just as he reached the twelfth step he turned to Lirian only to find that he took two rapid steps up and landed on the fourteenth step.
"I-m-mpossible," Kaher squealed like a dying pig as his entire body started to shake as he pushed his way up to the fourteenth step, when he arrived this time he found that Lirian was still standing there facing him with a large smile on his face.
"Good job on reaching this point, I feared that I'd have to come down to teach you your lesson," Lirian said ecstatically with a bright happy smile.
"Huh," Kaher said dumbly as if he didn't quite understand what Lirian was saying, but before he could do anything he felt Lirian close in on him at rapid speed he felt a pain on his neck as Lirian's hands wrapped firmly around his neck.
On the talent steps all cultivation was sealed of which meant only one thing mattered on the talent steps skill and only skill.
Lirian skill was far beyond that of even the greatest figures in the mortal realm, add on the fact that the talent steps pressure at this point did almost nothing to Lirian at all taking down Kaher was child play.
"Impudence!" Lord Draco roared at the top of his lungs the moment he saw Lirian grasping Kaher by his throat.
Lirian seemed annoyed by the roaring voice so he lifted Kaher by the throat and let him dangle in the air for anyone to see.
"Release him this instant!" Lord Draco roared at Lirian in pure anger.
Creak, Crack.
The nobles were all gasping at the sudden turn of event, but they were horrified when they heard the cracking sounds, it was the bones in Kaher's neck, he wasn't dead yet they could still hear his breathing, but they could tell that anymore twisting on Lirian's part and Kaher's neck would snap.
"I really, really don't like being ordered around," Lirian said in an annoyed voice, "Trying saying that again and we'll see if your precious successor can survive," Lirian said coldly, and the people could tell he wasn't joking, he truly had no qualms with killing Kaher if anyone displeased him.
"Lirian, you should stop with what you're doing," the emperor said in a grave voice, his brows were knitted together tightly and a frown had formed on his face.
He was on Lirian's side but this was taking things to far, he felt that he might have shown a little to much favour for Lirian and it went to Lirian's head, even the empress was frowning at Lirian's actions, he was taking things too far.
Lord Draco smiled seeing that the emperor had taken his side and even the empress seemed displeased by her son's actions.
But to everyone's surprise Lirian pretended as if he heard nothing, "Draco get on your knees and beg for my forgiveness," Lirian said, and his word caused everyone to suck in breaths of cold air, because now Lirian wasn't just fighting a prince he was also attacking a Lord of a super world, that was no different from turning an entire star zone into an enemy.
"You want me to what?!" Lord Draco roared at the top his lungs and shot a blade of energy at the talent step as if it reached the steps it broke down, no power could reach the steps, but it was his attempt to scare Lirian shitless.
Even with what Lirian had done he wouldn't dare to directly attack him with the empress present.
The empress recognised Lord Draco's intention, so she didn't jump into a rage right away, she also knew that Lirian was in the wrong.
"Taliyah say something to him," Albus urged her in a whisper, he figured that the only reason Lirian ignored him was because he felt that he could still rely on his mother to get out of this scot free.
Taliyah nodded she did intend to anyway, "Lirian please stop this now and we can act like nothing happened at all," she said gently to Lirian trying to reason with him, in truth she didn't know if her words would have any effect at all on Lirian.
He wasn't the type to do things without reason or thinking things through, and she also recalled that Lirian mentioned that Lord Draco was in cahoots with Efrideet, if that was true it was possible that this was his attempt to expose Lord Draco, but this wasn't the right way to do it.
Even if he was on Efrideet's side, it wasn't a crime, so it didn't justify his actions.
"You will apologise for being an inadequate waste of space, that is incapable of disciplining your family members," Lirian said coldly, this time even disregarding his mother, with that he burnt all bridges of reconciliation.
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The prince's and princess's while feeling completely humiliated, still felt that this was an opportunity for them to prove to Lirian who it was that sat on the top.
But unknown to them some of the princess's just wanted to get closer to Lirian, despite the humiliation seeing Lirian's body, filled their minds with other things and it was all they could think about.
The looks in the eyes of some of the princes had also changed as if they were rethinking their sexual orientation and as they realised what they were thinking, they slapped themselves without holding back, to steady their thoughts.
There was one prince however that seemed to be frothing from the mouth in anticipation to start climbing his eyes were fixed on Lirian like he was prey, Lirian had truly unleashed a beast.
The prince's and princess's all looked to their respectively family leaders then to the emperor, they were asking for permission to go to the talent steps, even if Lirian invited them it wasn't proper of them to go without getting approval.
Seeing how eager they were there were many nobles that started to call out for them to join in on the steps.
The talent steps was usually always a show for the nobles, every twenty years when a new batch of candidates were ready they would be brought from the various academies to specific destinations, as each empire only had a few talent steps they had to place them in strategic locations to use them effectively.
During those events there were thousands of candidates present all battling to climb the steps, it made for a very entertaining event, Lirian's had certainly given them a lot to talk about, but this would truly make things exciting.
For a candidate to challenge prince's and princess's it wasn't a first in history, but it was rare enough that it got the nobles very excited, their only disappointment was that there were only 15 prince's and princess's present.
The emperor nodded in approval, and he did think that it would liven up the party a little, giving everyone a little more to talk about.
Lirian sat on the ninth step comfortably and calmly waited for the prince's and princess's arrival, all of them successfully reached the fifth step, and it could be seen that they were trying to rapidly climb to that point just as Lirian did to make a point.
But it back fired as they ended up staggering under the pressure, the first five steps should have been the easiest but some of them were already breathing heavily due to their attempts to show off.
Lirian smiled in amusement as they suffered from their blunder, but he turned his attention to Kaher who was climbing at a fixed pace he got past the first five steps with ease and stopped when he reached the seventh, the pressure had finally started to affect him so he took a moment to adjust.
Kaher tightened his fists as he took a step into the eight step and then he rapidly took another step placing him on the ninth, he turned to look at Lirian with a smug look as if saying, you're not the only one that can reach this point, and he took another step up onto the tenth.
He looked back down at Lirian to gloat at him but to his surprise he found that Lirian wasn't there, "Yo, I'm up here," he heard Lirian's mocking voice and when he turn to look he saw that Lirian was standing two steps above him smiling smugly.
"Damn you," he cursed through clenched teeth as the pressure was making it almost impossible for him to speak, and that was all he could get out, yet Lirian was still as lively as ever.
Kaher took several deep breaths and now his fists were clenched extremely tightly as he had to fight the growing pressure, from the nineth step upwards the pressure tripled with each step, it was already miraculous that he could perform a double step from the nineth step to the tenth, and now he struggled desperately to push forward to the twelfth.
Just as he reached the twelfth step he turned to Lirian only to find that he took two rapid steps up and landed on the fourteenth step.
"I-m-mpossible," Kaher squealed like a dying pig as his entire body started to shake as he pushed his way up to the fourteenth step, when he arrived this time he found that Lirian was still standing there facing him with a large smile on his face.
"Good job on reaching this point, I feared that I'd have to come down to teach you your lesson," Lirian said ecstatically with a bright happy smile.
"Huh," Kaher said dumbly as if he didn't quite understand what Lirian was saying, but before he could do anything he felt Lirian close in on him at rapid speed he felt a pain on his neck as Lirian's hands wrapped firmly around his neck.
On the talent steps all cultivation was sealed of which meant only one thing mattered on the talent steps skill and only skill.
Lirian skill was far beyond that of even the greatest figures in the mortal realm, add on the fact that the talent steps pressure at this point did almost nothing to Lirian at all taking down Kaher was child play.
"Impudence!" Lord Draco roared at the top of his lungs the moment he saw Lirian grasping Kaher by his throat.
Lirian seemed annoyed by the roaring voice so he lifted Kaher by the throat and let him dangle in the air for anyone to see.
"Release him this instant!" Lord Draco roared at Lirian in pure anger.
Creak, Crack.
The nobles were all gasping at the sudden turn of event, but they were horrified when they heard the cracking sounds, it was the bones in Kaher's neck, he wasn't dead yet they could still hear his breathing, but they could tell that anymore twisting on Lirian's part and Kaher's neck would snap.
"I really, really don't like being ordered around," Lirian said in an annoyed voice, "Trying saying that again and we'll see if your precious successor can survive," Lirian said coldly, and the people could tell he wasn't joking, he truly had no qualms with killing Kaher if anyone displeased him.
"Lirian, you should stop with what you're doing," the emperor said in a grave voice, his brows were knitted together tightly and a frown had formed on his face.
He was on Lirian's side but this was taking things to far, he felt that he might have shown a little to much favour for Lirian and it went to Lirian's head, even the empress was frowning at Lirian's actions, he was taking things too far.
Lord Draco smiled seeing that the emperor had taken his side and even the empress seemed displeased by her son's actions.
But to everyone's surprise Lirian pretended as if he heard nothing, "Draco get on your knees and beg for my forgiveness," Lirian said, and his word caused everyone to suck in breaths of cold air, because now Lirian wasn't just fighting a prince he was also attacking a Lord of a super world, that was no different from turning an entire star zone into an enemy.
"You want me to what?!" Lord Draco roared at the top his lungs and shot a blade of energy at the talent step as if it reached the steps it broke down, no power could reach the steps, but it was his attempt to scare Lirian shitless.
Even with what Lirian had done he wouldn't dare to directly attack him with the empress present.
The empress recognised Lord Draco's intention, so she didn't jump into a rage right away, she also knew that Lirian was in the wrong.
"Taliyah say something to him," Albus urged her in a whisper, he figured that the only reason Lirian ignored him was because he felt that he could still rely on his mother to get out of this scot free.
Taliyah nodded she did intend to anyway, "Lirian please stop this now and we can act like nothing happened at all," she said gently to Lirian trying to reason with him, in truth she didn't know if her words would have any effect at all on Lirian.
He wasn't the type to do things without reason or thinking things through, and she also recalled that Lirian mentioned that Lord Draco was in cahoots with Efrideet, if that was true it was possible that this was his attempt to expose Lord Draco, but this wasn't the right way to do it.
Even if he was on Efrideet's side, it wasn't a crime, so it didn't justify his actions.
"You will apologise for being an inadequate waste of space, that is incapable of disciplining your family members," Lirian said coldly, this time even disregarding his mother, with that he burnt all bridges of reconciliation.
The prince's and princess's while feeling completely humiliated, still felt that this was an opportunity for them to prove to Lirian who it was that sat on the top. But unknown to them some of the princess's just wanted to get closer to Lirian, despite the humiliation seeing Lirian's body, filled their minds with other things and it was all they could think about. The looks in the eyes of some of the princes had also changed as if they were rethinking their sexual orientation and as they realised what they were thinking, they slapped themselves without holding back, to steady their thoughts. There was one prince however that seemed to be frothing from the mouth in anticipation to start climbing his eyes were fixed on Lirian like he was prey, Lirian had truly unleashed a beast. The prince's and princess's all looked to their respectively family leaders then to the emperor, they were asking for permission to go to the talent steps, even if Lirian invited them it wasn't proper of them to go without getting approval. Seeing how eager they were there were many nobles that started to call out for them to join in on the steps. The talent steps was usually always a show for the nobles, every twenty years when a new batch of candidates were ready they would be brought from the various academies to specific destinations, as each empire only had a few talent steps they had to place them in strategic locations to use them effectively. During those events there were thousands of candidates present all battling to climb the steps, it made for a very entertaining event, Lirian's had certainly given them a lot to talk about, but this would truly make things exciting. For a candidate to challenge prince's and princess's it wasn't a first in history, but it was rare enough that it got the nobles very excited, their only disappointment was that there were only 15 prince's and princess's present. The emperor nodded in approval, and he did think that it would liven up the party a little, giving everyone a little more to talk about. Lirian sat on the ninth step comfortably and calmly waited for the prince's and princess's arrival, all of them successfully reached the fifth step, and it could be seen that they were trying to rapidly climb to that point just as Lirian did to make a point. But it back fired as they ended up staggering under the pressure, the first five steps should have been the easiest but some of them were already breathing heavily due to their attempts to show off. Lirian smiled in amusement as they suffered from their blunder, but he turned his attention to Kaher who was climbing at a fixed pace he got past the first five steps with ease and stopped when he reached the seventh, the pressure had finally started to affect him so he took a moment to adjust. Kaher tightened his fists as he took a step into the eight step and then he rapidly took another step placing him on the ninth, he turned to look at Lirian with a smug look as if saying, you're not the only one that can reach this point, and he took another step up onto the tenth. He looked back down at Lirian to gloat at him but to his surprise he found that Lirian wasn't there, "Yo, I'm up here," he heard Lirian's mocking voice and when he turn to look he saw that Lirian was standing two steps above him smiling smugly. "Damn you," he cursed through clenched teeth as the pressure was making it almost impossible for him to speak, and that was all he could get out, yet Lirian was still as lively as ever. Kaher took several deep breaths and now his fists were clenched extremely tightly as he had to fight the growing pressure, from the nineth step upwards the pressure tripled with each step, it was already miraculous that he could perform a double step from the nineth step to the tenth, and now he struggled desperately to push forward to the twelfth. Just as he reached the twelfth step he turned to Lirian only to find that he took two rapid steps up and landed on the fourteenth step. "I-m-mpossible," Kaher squealed like a dying pig as his entire body started to shake as he pushed his way up to the fourteenth step, when he arrived this time he found that Lirian was still standing there facing him with a large smile on his face. "Good job on reaching this point, I feared that I'd have to come down to teach you your lesson," Lirian said ecstatically with a bright happy smile. "Huh," Kaher said dumbly as if he didn't quite understand what Lirian was saying, but before he could do anything he felt Lirian close in on him at rapid speed he felt a pain on his neck as Lirian's hands wrapped firmly around his neck. On the talent steps all cultivation was sealed of which meant only one thing mattered on the talent steps skill and only skill. Lirian skill was far beyond that of even the greatest figures in the mortal realm, add on the fact that the talent steps pressure at this point did almost nothing to Lirian at all taking down Kaher was child play. "Impudence!" Lord Draco roared at the top of his lungs the moment he saw Lirian grasping Kaher by his throat. Lirian seemed annoyed by the roaring voice so he lifted Kaher by the throat and let him dangle in the air for anyone to see. "Release him this instant!" Lord Draco roared at Lirian in pure anger. Creak, Crack. The nobles were all gasping at the sudden turn of event, but they were horrified when they heard the cracking sounds, it was the bones in Kaher's neck, he wasn't dead yet they could still hear his breathing, but they could tell that anymore twisting on Lirian's part and Kaher's neck would snap. "I really, really don't like being ordered around," Lirian said in an annoyed voice, "Trying saying that again and we'll see if your precious successor can survive," Lirian said coldly, and the people could tell he wasn't joking, he truly had no qualms with killing Kaher if anyone displeased him. "Lirian, you should stop with what you're doing," the emperor said in a grave voice, his brows were knitted together tightly and a frown had formed on his face. He was on Lirian's side but this was taking things to far, he felt that he might have shown a little to much favour for Lirian and it went to Lirian's head, even the empress was frowning at Lirian's actions, he was taking things too far. Lord Draco smiled seeing that the emperor had taken his side and even the empress seemed displeased by her son's actions. But to everyone's surprise Lirian pretended as if he heard nothing, "Draco get on your knees and beg for my forgiveness," Lirian said, and his word caused everyone to suck in breaths of cold air, because now Lirian wasn't just fighting a prince he was also attacking a Lord of a super world, that was no different from turning an entire star zone into an enemy. "You want me to what?!" Lord Draco roared at the top his lungs and shot a blade of energy at the talent step as if it reached the steps it broke down, no power could reach the steps, but it was his attempt to scare Lirian shitless. Even with what Lirian had done he wouldn't dare to directly attack him with the empress present. The empress recognised Lord Draco's intention, so she didn't jump into a rage right away, she also knew that Lirian was in the wrong. "Taliyah say something to him," Albus urged her in a whisper, he figured that the only reason Lirian ignored him was because he felt that he could still rely on his mother to get out of this scot free. Taliyah nodded she did intend to anyway, "Lirian please stop this now and we can act like nothing happened at all," she said gently to Lirian trying to reason with him, in truth she didn't know if her words would have any effect at all on Lirian. He wasn't the type to do things without reason or thinking things through, and she also recalled that Lirian mentioned that Lord Draco was in cahoots with Efrideet, if that was true it was possible that this was his attempt to expose Lord Draco, but this wasn't the right way to do it. Even if he was on Efrideet's side, it wasn't a crime, so it didn't justify his actions. "You will apologise for being an inadequate waste of space, that is incapable of disciplining your family members," Lirian said coldly, this time even disregarding his mother, with that he burnt all bridges of reconciliation.
