Chapter 90 - 90 - A Truly Shameless King

Pax and Wolf returned to Cosmopolis after sorting out the new office in Sand Country. For the next few months, at least, they could easily supervise it remotely, which effectively gave Ren and Fang enough time to get over Fang's exams. By then, the medical institute would be fully ready as well, and the young couple could be happily on their way to becoming certified doctors!

However, the world seemed opposed to letting the couple live in peace for too long. Five weeks after their return, an unexpected VIP turned up unannounced in Ren's office and despite his extreme reluctance to meet him, Ren had no choice. He couldn't afford to cause an international incident by being openly hostile to a foreign monarch, after all.

The middle-aged king of Dune Country was a well-maintained and handsome fellow - of course, he couldn't hold a candle to Fang. However, his eyes were shifty and his entire demeanour rather unpleasant.

Ren greeted him with the bare minimum courtesy required of him.

The King laughed, his lascivious gaze raking over Ren. "CEO Ren is far more attractive than you appear in your pictures..." he murmured, licking his lips slowly. "After seeing you in person, I want you for myself now, CEO Ren, instead of one of my offsprings."

Ren clenched his fists, barely managing to restrain himself from blasting the awful man with his magic.

Shameless! Sylvia hissed angrily, poking out her head from Ren's sleeve.

Immediately, Pax stepped forward and blocked the king's view of Ren on the pretext of offering the king a cup of coffee.

Instead of backing down, however, the king eyed Pax appreciatively. "You must be Pax," he said with a smirk. "I have heard many tales of your efficiency. I hadn't expected that you would be almost as attractive as CEO Ren himself..."

Pax stood his ground.

"How about a threesome?" the King asked excitedly. "The more the merrier, I always say!"

The minions around the king guffawed obscenely.

"I'm sorry, Your Majesty, neither Pax nor I are interested. If that was the only purpose of your visit, we should part now," Ren said, standing up from his chair, ready to throw these indecent people out.

The King showed no signs of moving. "Why don't you call your little sweetheart over, CEO Ren?" he asked with a lewd grin. "I've seen his pictures. What a rare beauty! I could barely hold off my desire to possess him...!"

Sylvia could take it no more. She sprang out of Ren's sleeve and changed into a huge snake about 20 feet long and thicker than an adult man's waist!

"Don't kill him!" Pax shouted.

Hearing her Uncle Pax's instruction, Sylvia, who was about to bite the obnoxious man's neck, bit his shoulder instead. Ren immediately cast a memory spell on the minions of the King, and they all fell to the floor, unconscious.

As for the King, Ren glared at him, his eyes burning fiercely like pools of molten gold.

The King stared at him in horror. Sylvia's poison spread rapidly through his body, causing him extreme pain and rendering him incapable of any movement.

"How dare you have designs on my Fang?" Ren hissed. His hands moved rapidly, creating a glowing magical array in the air. When Ren's hands stopped moving, the formation flashed bright gold for a moment and then sunk into the King's chest.

"From now on, every time you harbour a lewd thought, Sylvia's poison will make you suffer intolerable pain until you give up the thought," Ren informed the King with a cold smile on his face. "Unless you turn into a monk, Your Majesty, your life will be very painful."

"You...you damned magician! Take it off! Take off the curse! You...you can't do this!" the King cried out. "I... I'll... I'll invade Cosmopolis!"

Ren laughed coldly. "Ah, but Your Majesty, you won't remember any of it now, would you?" he said.

"I... I'll...you..." the King spluttered in anger and pain.

"You see, Your Majesty, I can still consider forgiving you if you try to harm just me as long as the threat is neutralised. But if you seek to harm people I love, you can't expect me not to retaliate a bit more, can you? And you just cast your dirty eyes on two of the most important people in my life," Ren said pleasantly. "Could you blame me, really?"

The King glared at him, his face distorted in agony.

Ren stroked Sylvia's smooth scales. "Go and rinse out your mouth, my dear child," he murmured gently. "You bit such a filthy thing...what if you get a tummy ache later?"

The King turned purple with rage and Pax burst out laughing.

"Go on, Sylvia," Pax said. "If you need more than one bottle of mouthwash, there are extra ones in the cabinet next to the sink. Shout if you can't find them."

Sylvia looked at Ren in concern. Daddy?

Ren gave her a gentle, reassuring smile. "Go ahead, my dear," he said.

Sylvia slithered off to the ensuite bathroom in Ren's cabin. She was a bit reluctant to go, but then she knew that Ren was very protective when it came to all of them. There would probably be something really, really unpleasant in store for the shameless man who was bugging her Daddy!

Ren's face hardened as soon as she was out of sight.

"I didn't want my little girl to witness something so filthy," Ren spat at the King. "But needs must."

He waved his hand and the King's clothes disappeared. Ren waved his hand again, and the King shuddered violently as his skin began to turn red. It subsided after a while. Ren used his magic again to get his clothes back to normal.

"What did you do?" Pax asked curiously. He'd never seen a spell like this.

"You'll find out soon enough, I suspect," Ren said.. "It's just a little something to ensure that if he harbours even the slightest malice towards one of us, he'll have bigger problems to deal with."