210 Great feast in Everligh

Nikalas felt like he was being struck by a bolt of lightning. He waited to break his mother out from the unconscious state since he was little and now Don had the elixir to do that.

Riya stood there clutching her hands against her chest while everyone's faces turned serious.

"Follow me"

Amaryll said to Don and motioned him to follow her as Riya slowly pushed Nikalas's chair towards the room.

The tigress didn't understand what's going on as their festive mood suddenly turned solemn.

"Don't worry, Nikalas, there's no curse in this world that the golden elixir can't break"

Ken patted Nikalas's shoulder and comforted him.

After a few minutes of walking, they reached Vivianna's room and saw her sleeping on the bed peacefully.No one would guess that she's Nikalas's mother, and probably because of the excess life energy in this realm, she looked younger than before.

Her red hair became shinier as she looked like a woman in her early or mid-thirties. 

With a wave of his hand, Don retrieved the golden elixir that instantly brightened the room due to the golden rays it radiated.

"The golden elixir"

Reghys gently took the vial from Don's hand while everyone was staring at the vial in wonder.

Nikalas's heart was pounding against his chest as Reghys took steps towards Vivianna.

"Before I use this elixir on her, you need to know that she might not be able to wake up immediately. Since the curse on her is very powerful, it would take time"

Reghys said looking at Nikalas and Riya

"How...how long, lady Reghys?"

Riya asked in a weak tone

"If I have to guess, I'd say maximum seven days"

"You just need to wait another seven days, Nikalas, who knows she might even wake up tomorrow"

Knight reassured Nikalas as he slowly nodded but his eyes had started to become watery.

"Here it goes"

When Reghys opened the vial, they could feel the life energy inside the room rise as she gently opened Vivianna's mouth and poured the golden liquid into her mouth.

"Look"

The moment the golden elixir entered her body, Don noticed one of her finger twitches and he quickly pointed it to Nikalas.

After Reghys finished the vial, they waited there staring at Vivianna but she didn't open her eyes as expected.

"Just as I said, it will take time and air"

Reghys raised her brow as everyone realized that they were crowding the room.

"I'll stay with her"

"Me too"

Nikalas and Riya said as Don nodded because he had already expected this answer from them.

"I'll send you the food here, don't forget to eat them"

Amaryll said with a gentle smile

"others follow me to the dining hall, we have a feast to enjoy, and I can't wait to get to know these adorable squishy balls"

Everyone patted Nikalas and Riya's back reassuredly and waited for Don to go to the dining hall. And when Don and Knight turned back they heard Nikalas's voice

"Your majesty, thank you"

Don nodded at Nikalas and left to the dining hall while the other followed him behind.

The tigress was amazed to see the fancy floors and walls while following Don. Occasionally she would notice the dwarves and the elves beside her taking a glance at her.

"Don't be nervous, relax"

Arrora whispered to her as she nodded.

When they got close to the dining hall, the cubs couldn't help but drool as they never experienced such mouth-watering aroma in their life until now.

"Look, who's excited?"

Amaryll squeezed them again and kissed their heads.

As the doors to the dining hall opened, the tigress was dumbstruck as she felt like she's going to faint while the cubs' eyes almost popped out of their tiny sockets because they were welcomed by huge tables of foods and drinks.

The goblins and the maids were running around the dining hall and arranging the dishes in order as well as filling the cups with wines and juices.

"You really have outdone yourself this time, Amaryll "

Knight had never seen this much food anywhere in his life and each item on the table looked delicious and smelled so good.

At the long oak table, everyone took their seats after Don as the maids started to serve the food.

"You three sit with this Sister"

Amaryll didn't let go of the cubs and held them in her hands.

The cubs were too busy drooling at the food and didn't care about who's holding them. Looking at the tigress, Knight motioned her to sit beside him as she slowly nodded and jumped onto her seat.

While the maids were serving the food, Don finally saw Benedict walking towards them.

"Your majesty, General Knight, Arrora, you're back"

Benedict said with a tired smile as the three of them nodded and Don gestured at him to take the seat at the table.

"Where's Arya? And who was that woman attacked Gael?"

But after seeing the tired look on Benedict's face and the happy atmosphere in the hall, Don decided to ask questions like this later but now enjoy the feast with everyone.

"Let's talk about it later"

"So are you going to introduce them to us?"

Amaryll and everyone agreed with Don and then Amaryll asked Don looking at the tigress and the cubs.

"We met them inside the dungeon and they are going to live with us from now on"

"Did you hear that? You're going to live with me from now on"

Amaryll laughed loudly.

"Hey, everyone"

The tigress waved her hand with a shy smile but the cubs had already started to dig into the roasted meat that Amaryll put before them.

"I'm Grey, she's gold, he's black and he's white"

The tigress pointed at the gold, black and white cubs respectively to them.

"We can see it but what are their names? And yours?"

Amaryll frowned and asked the tigress

"Those were their names, and mine is Grey"

The tigress couldn't guess why they were looking at her with confused faces just like Arrora and Knight when she first introduced themselves to them.

"Okay"

Arrora dragged the word okay and glanced at everyone for a moment before she asked the tigress

"Do these names are sacred or anything?"

"Nope, it's just suited them better and they love their names"

The cubs suddenly stopped eating and shook their little heads

"Purrrr"

"I'm not an expert in cubs language but it seems they don't like their names at all, do you want me to give you new names ?"

Amaryll said and looked at the cubs with an excited smile but the cubs were not sure as they tilted their heads with doubtful faces.

"You'll get more delicious cookies like this with your new names"

Arrora took three of Arwen's favorites, the chocolate cookies from the tray, and waved it before the cubs as their eyes started to sparkle looking at the cookies in Amaryll's hands.

"How about we name all of you with new ones?"

The cubs rapidly nodded their head and bounced on the table to get the cookies.

"Whatever"

The tigress knew that she baited the cubs with the cookies as she sighed.

"Stodemar, how's the construction works going?"

Don asked the dwarf while slowly eating his salads.

The dwarf put down the wine cup and wiped away the wine flowing into his beard

"We be laying tha foundation for tha dam in Agoria an' in a week, we'll finish tha construction work o' tha restaurant as well as tha tea house buildings"

"And also your majesty, there was someone who came here after you left and gave us the title deed of Prince Rodrigo's building that you won from him in the duel"

Ken quickly informed Don as he took a long sip of juice and thought about Rodrigo's plan of challenging him again.

"What about in Sigalla?"

Knight asked the Stodemar

"That girl Amber had already picked up a building when we got there, an' i have ta say, that building be very suitable for a restaurant, it wou' have taken us a long time ta build one like it"

Stodemar looked like he was truly pleased with the building that Amber chose and a dwarf would rarely appreciate something which was built by humans, so it showed Amber's talent to Don, once again.

"And you have to see what the princess had done to the place, Don, that girl picked an old building and changed into something really really beautiful and fancy"

"You went there?"

Knight was shocked to hear that Amaryll left Everlight and went all the way to Sigalla.

"Shouldn't I see the place that I'm going to boss around?"

"Don't worry you two, I made her wear the mask"

Amaryll was very cooperative when he asked her to wear the mask and she even avoided talking with anyone except Amber and him during her trip to Sigalla.

Don knew that she has to leave Everlight and socialize with others and she needed to be there when the restaurants were up and running. And her visit to Sigalla was a good start for Amaryll.

"I need our business to open when the winter starts"

Joel had already informed the dwarves that the rich would love to spend their time and wealth enjoying warm food in a place that fit for their taste and status, especially the nobles in Agoria and Sigalla because there were no fancy establishments like Royal dine in these kingdoms. And even in Emir, the Royal Dine branch was located in Virnam which was a long way from the capitol, and traveling to Virnam during the winter would be a pain.