Courting Death System-Chapter 42: Birthday Invitation

[Poison Arrow!]

[Toxic Hands!]

[Acid Bullet!]

...

Lucius practiced alone inside a training room provided by Sugitrox. He’d started about a year ago and had now just grasped the basics of using a Concept Law. For airline completely untalented in this kind of thing, it was going to take him a long time to fully grasp the manipulation of a Concept.

At least now, he could condense arrows made from Poison Mana, his hands could also turn black and release powerful toxins that could kill an opponent after a single attack. He could also shoot accurately using his acidic saliva like it was shooting from a sniper rifle. There were a lot more skills that Lucius had practiced but his proficiency on these three were the highest.

While training, Sugitrox suddenly appeared in his training. Nothing about him had changed, not even the way he talked to Lucius, it was neither too friendly nor unfriendly.

"Just came to tell you that Her Majesty, Princess Lolitron will be hosting her eighteenth birthday in five years time and you’ll be coming with me to attend the birthday celebration." said Sugitrox.

"I see, no problem. But why did you come personally, shouldn’t you have just sent one of your maids, you have thousands of them after all."

"You wish. Those mermaids are MY collection. Do you know how hard it was to get each one, the amount of money I spent?! I’ll be damned to let a talentless bastard like you to tarnish them!"

Maybe Sugitrox did change a little, just the way he spoke sometimes.

"I thought I was your Champion, what’s yours should naturally be mine. Come on man, just give me one of them."

"We’re not fucking married you gay-talking bastard. If you truly want a girlfriend, five years later is your chance. Her Majesty Princess Lolitron will be also holding a competition, the winner of the competition will gain her hand in marriage. Maybe this is your chance to be part of Royalty hehe."

"Clichè."

"I know this sounds like one of those cliche plots in novels you told me about but let me tell you something, there’s no one in the Andromeda Empire more beautiful than her and no one with more authority and status than her. If you manage to become part of Royalty, making me a King shouldn’t be a problem and you’d have completed the end of your deal."

"Is she really that beautiful and holds so much power?!"

"Of course! When ever did I play jokes with you? So prepare yourself." said Sugitrox before disappearing.

"I guess it’s not so bad marrying a Princess. I’ll give it a try."

...

Back in Sugitrox’s throne room, he was sitting on his throne with a sly grin on his face.

"You look happy master." said the old man who once served Lucius some food.

"Of course I’m happy. That lustful bastard won’t bother me about my girls for the next five years, isn’t that great. And if he does win Her Majesty’s hand in marriage, wouldn’t I behitting two birds with one stone. Oh Lucius, if you truly marry her, then I wish you the best miserable time of your life, hahaha!"

"Master, you mean that..."

"Yes, that guy wants to enter hell. As his master, shouldn’t I support him in his decisions or I’d be labelled a control freak. Boya, don’t tell anyone about this."

"...Yes master."

... 𝘧𝓇ℯℯ𝑤ℯ𝘣𝓃ℴ𝓋𝑒𝑙.𝑐𝘰𝑚

Five years quickly passed by and today, it was the day Sugitrox and Lucius left for the birthday celebration. Lucius wasn’t wearing anything cool this time around, just a red beast cloth of a creature he did not know and it only covered his lower body. The beast was slightly above the knees. Also, his skin was now ink black, blending beautifully with his silver helmet.

Sugitrox on the other hand wore a long garment that reached the floor. The garment was silver in colour and the way Sugitrox wore it looked like a thick liquid was poured on his heads, flowed down his shoulders and all the way to the floor like a melting candle. And this garment looked like a universe that was turned into a clothing because of the lifelike galaxy patterns on it.

"How did you obtain somethings so cool, it looks like an overcoat yet not, a robe yet not."

"The Weaver designed it for me. It was created from a newborn Small World that he turned into this exquisite piece of art."

"So extravagant."

"Do you know how much this thing fucking costs! I’m still paying for it even now. Come, my ride has arrived." said Sugitrox.

"OH. MY. FUCKING. GOODNESS! THAT’S WHAT YOU CALL A RIDE?! A FUCKING TRANSFORMERS-LOOKING GREAT WHITE SHARK!" exclaimed Lucius while looking at the planetary sized monster swimming in space.

"Don’t be ridiculous! This is my pet, a Metallic Space Beast. His name is Kish, I got him when I was three years old. He’s a..."

"Let’s just go you rich motherfucker!"

...

Sitting on the head of the shark, Lucius didn’t feel comfortable, afraid that he’d slip and fall but Sugitrox assured him that he wouldn’t fall. Also, the shark moved at such slow speed that Lucius felt bored.

’I practiced for five years to meet my future wife yet this shark is so damn slow. At this speed, it will take us forever to reach our destination, even though I don’t know where we are going.’ thought Lucius.

About half an hour later, Lucius saw a planet, it wasn’t big, gigantic, enormous or huge, it was massive, like really massive, like really really really massive. It was ring shaped with a truly sci-fi appearance, the epitome of technological innovation and advancement.

"That’s Planet Andromeda. The gravitational force of Andromeda is so strong that universes revolve around it. It’s so far away from my kingdom that it would have taken us at least a year to reach if not for Kish who can instantly travel from one galaxy to another."

"Did you just say travel instantly from one galaxy to another?"

"Yes."

"How fast is that?!"

"Let’s see. The average distance between galaxies is about a million light years and the average Space Beast travel at a ten thousand light years per day, some beasts like the Space Dragonfly, a rare Space usually travels at a hundred thousand light years per day. So, we can..."

"Make it short." said Lucius in a bored look.

"Well, Kish travels at the speed of one million light years per second which is not very fast, some Space Beasts travel at ten times, a hundred times or even a thousand times that of Kish. In fact, it’s rumoured that the Emperor’s Space Beast can travel from one universe to another in a second. Now that’s fast." explained Sugitrox.

"I wish I could see the Scientists, Astrophysicists and Mathematicians faces when they got this information. They’d probably be shocked to death. Kish, sorry for looking down on you, you’re very fast." said Lucius.

While travelling, Lucius saw other Space Beasts, Spaceships and Space Puppets and only a few could reach Kish’s speed. The were countless space travellers flying towards Planet Andromeda. Soon, Lucius and Sugitrox reached their destination but there were a long queue that if one looked from inside a planet, they would think that the queues were aligned stars.

Kish didn’t queue like the others but continued to travel towards Andromeda and no one stopped them or complained about cutting through the line.

"I’m part of the Royal Family so of course I don’t have to queue like the others. All Nobles have this privilege which is very useful because whatever the Nobles bring to the Empire, they won’t be searched by the Law Enforcers. This is what many Nobles usually rely on to get rich, merchants flock to them like iron fillings attracted to a magnet."