Chapter 166 - Just A Facade

Dardus was shocked when he heard that. Indeed, whatever Lex said was true.

Dardus was indeed one such king who controlled minds. He wasn't essential powerful, the only thing great about him was that he could alter memories.

Needless to say, he altered the memories of all the women and everyone else in order to frighten them.

All the memories that were implanted confused Elina and Seria. Elina was definitely mentally strong, however, due to aging and due to the incident with Rex, her mentality had been weakened a bit.

Thus she too failed to realize the actual truth and for a moment believed whatever came to her mind and memories.

And yes, it was true that Dardus had the power to control others' bodies. Because of that everyone had become immobile, however, that too had a trick hidden in it.

He basically controlled their minds yet again. He made them believe that they had turned into statues due to which they didn't and even if they tried to, they felt as if they gave it their all when in reality they hadn't used even an ounce of the strength.

Regardless, Alex had exposed his trick and when Elina and others heard that, they wondered about it for a moment.

Once a trick is revealed, one can easily detect the wrong, if the person is sharp that is. And without a doubt, Elina was sharp enough to understand and notice what her own husband stated!

She almost immediately closed her eyes tightly and then started to think about everything that had happened in her life.

Her eyes were shining with blue light even when they were closed. The light was bright enough to cover the entire hall!

'Swoop'

In a blink of an eye, she broke free from his spell and so did others. They then realized that this was just a cheap trick.

His facade was now in front of all. He was no great king, he even impersonated the Lightning King!

"No! Dammit!"

"What did you do?"

The ladies who had sided with him also realized what they were doing. All of them came to know about the true nature of the man who was in front of them!

In fact, even his look changed. It was as if they were trapped in an illusion till now.

In any case, a fat man appeared in front of them and all the altered memories were restored. 

Elina grabbed his head and slammed it on the ground.

"How dare you try to alter my memory in such a way!?", she asked in a raised tone.

Indeed, it was quite vulgar due to which she was quite mad. More than that, she was angry because it was due to that man that Alex doubted her, even if it was him controlling Alex!

She then lifted his head to show it to everyone. All of them were furious about seeing him and wanted to kill him on the spot.

Since their memories were restored and their knowledge was regained, they finally envisioned the true Lightning King.

It would be better to say, the Dark Lightning king because he was one of the very few Kings who passed dual-element! Also, he was the strongest King in the world who was on the very next continent.

The King of, Ernado, the Strongest Nation in the world, couldn't possibly attend such a small banquet. It was evident and thus now it was confirmed.

Alex grabbed the man's hand and said in a raised voice filled with anger, "How dare you cause such troubles here?"

"..."

Elendo didn't want any more trouble. He knew Alex very well, once if he were to start a fight, he wouldn't stop until the foe would end up becoming a toast!

That was why he thought that it was best for him to step in so that the fight could be avoided and thus he did the same.

"Alex, leave him to me. I will treat him well...", Elendo said with a creepy smile on his face.

Alex didn't want to drag it any longer and thus he ended up agreeing to Elendo. Right after that Elendo ordered the guards to take the fatty man away.

Of course, he was already unconscious from the slam. His face was badly wounded too and he looked worse than a pig! 

In any case, no one was interested in looking at him so they just started chatting with each other while trying to distract themselves.

Seria walked towards Elina to start chatting once again after trying to console her since she was quite angry when suddenly a wagon arrived.

"Your highness, a wagon from Rhone has arrived for Her Highness Emilia.", said the one who was guarding the door of the hall.

"A wagon?", Seria and Elendo were confused when they heard that.

But it seemed like Elina and Alex knew what the wagon was about.

"Ah, they might have arrived...", right after saying that Alex rushed towards the guards so as to go and see the wagon.

Elendo followed Alex without saying anything and so did others. They were curious to see what it was. 

The wagon was right in front of the entrance so they didn't have to go anywhere far!

Elina smiled and walked beside Alex. Seria followed Elina.

When all of them had arrived near the entrance, they found a rather huge wagon that was twice the size of any carriage that a royal would use.

"This...", Elendo was fathomed by that,

The wagon was just like a chariot made up of crystals and gems all over.

"Alex..."

"What is this?", Elendo asked.

"Haha, this is a small gift for Emilia from our country...", Alex said with proudness.

Emilia, who had just arrived at the Hall was baffled to see everyone empty the hall. She followed them only to find the wagon or rather a chariot!

"This..."

"Haha, Emilia, happy birthday, this is a gift from our country!", Alex smiled and said that.

"Th-thank you very much your highness...", she lifted her royal frock-like gown which she wore with grace and thanked Alex while bowing a little.

"..."

To be continued...