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Chapter 519: E
The next morning, Leo dressed up and asked, "Have you given it a thought? A united space front can be helpful but we need to make sure that we need to keep things tight and not let people think that participation is equal to power."Snow nodded and replied, "I will put it front to His Highness. He will be negotiating this whole thing with the rest of the world. However, do you think it would be a quick decision?"
Leo shook his head and replied, "No, if these dimwitted diplomats could make a decision faster the world would have been a better place."
Snow smiled and protested gently, "Hey, I am also a diplomat now."
Leo shook his head and replied, "You are not a diplomat, you are now a full fledged capitalist."
Snow rolled her eyes, she knew that Leo would not back off, and would roast her, but this was very underhanded of him. The couple hugged each other and fell asleep, and the night passed rather calmly. In the morning when they woke up, Leo found Lily working out with Zeenat and he asked, "Love, do you want to go to the track and have a hot lap session with me today?"
Lily was surprised and she said, "Baba, it is not a weekend, I cannot skip school, can I? We have to prepare for the annual show coming up."
Leo was stumped, it totally skipped him that it was a weekday. He ummed and then picked up his feet to go outside the house and run around for his routine. He sparred with Kyle and then he came back to rest in the living room. Lily was going to school and he wanted to take her to school, but the situation didn’t look like it was going to be in his favor as Snow told him at the dining table, that he needs to stay at home, because the media people are camping outside to catch a few more moments with him. Leo was confused and asked, "Didn’t I give them all they wanted in the conference?"
The lady shook her head and replied, "You can give them all your skin but they would still come back for the hair."
Leo was frustrated and Lily said, "It’s okay Baba, I am a big girl now, I can go to school alone. I have sister Zee with me."
Leo sighed, he knew that someday this might happen but it was happening a bit too quickly. He loved seeing Lily off to school, but it now that his could not do it, he was upset. He didn’t say anything and just nodded as he kept eating his food. Snow and Lily sensed it but they could not give him anything more than silent consolation. They knew that it was unfair, but if he was to go out the world will perceive him to be an not so serious about the whole alien invasion alarm.
Leo resigned himself to the fate and then he stood up kissed the two people goodbye and was about to head to look for the twins when Alpha and Beta led the twins down the stairs with Anastasia following them. The young man asked, "What is this about?"
Anastasia said, "The twins will be going to learn swimming now, they are able to walk and have intelligence higher than the rest of the children so it is a good time as ever."
Leo was stunned, he felt as if he had lost everything that mattered to him, he nodded, kissed the twins and then he walked up the stairs. The young man sat down in his study, and was lost on what he should do with his time now. The young man took a deep breath and replied, "I have no idea what to do with all this time."
’Ping: Host, even though your aim as a father is to do good by your children and the family, it doesn’t mean that you should be forgetting what you are.’
Leo was surprised and then the young man took a deep breath before he replied, "You do have a point but the past few months, I have no idea what to do with myself. Everything that I have been doing has become something to do with the family."
...
Atop a white mountain stood a palace made from gold and white jade. The place looked nothing less than paradise. Surrounded by clouds and sparkled with warm rays of sun. The palace had a river parted to flow around it before creating a waterfall.
The droplets of water in the void shined like gems, and a rainbow could be seen fluctuating in the void. That was not all; the palace had four paths coming out of it, and these pathways acted as the divisions between the four gardens, all filled with beautiful flowers and a faint fragrance mixed with the air.
This place was the Heavenly Palace—the people who lived here were all the family members of the Human Emperor, Helios Celestus.
A man who stood at the peak of spirit cultivation and the helm of the human race. He was not a self-proclaimed emperor, but the Human race in the heavens acknowledged him.
His feats were not something any other human could achieve, and his son, Dawn, was a heaven-defying genius. He was the youngest of all the humans to reach the Immortal True Spirit at fifteen. He started cultivation at five and achieved many names for his talent and skill in one decade. It was said that as he rose the horizons of Cultivation, the human race would rise above the other races.
However, good things are always vulnerable to getting jinxed. Today, the entire human race gathered at the Heavenly Palace gates to hear a trial’s verdict. The Prince of the Heavenly Palace, Dawn, was being tried as a criminal in the court of justice.
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The palace’s interior was similar to the exterior, following the blend of gold and white. At this time, a teenager, with his cold gaze treading the path, walked slowly. He could only see the shackles around his wrists and the carpet below his feet.
While the young man’s gaze was unmoving, the people leading him had tears dripping from their eyes. They did not expect that there would come a day when the pride of their race would follow them in shackles. The two soldiers exchanged gazes many times.
However, they could not do anything as they were under the command of the Human Emperor.
Dawn walked with his dim gaze. However, his back was straight like a spear, his steps were steady, and his head was held high. On the way, many servants bowed to him in respect.
Soon, they arrived at the courtroom doors. The two guards leading him pushed open the door, and Dawn walked inside.
As he entered the courtroom, his eyes regained their spark. He stood among the human race’s decision-makers, Heavenly Human Emperor Helios and his loyal advisers.
Helios sat on a white and golden throne as he watched his son brought forward in the center of the court. Usually, there would be only Helios and his advisers. However, today, the experts of the human race also stood inside the courtroom.
The situation was so tense that even the sound of breath was like a storm. The experts were here to mediate with the Human Emperor if the situation exploded out of proportion.
Helios looked like a middle-aged man, but he was over a few centuries old. He was the strongest expert of the human race who had attained the level of a Heavenly Sage. He was two realms away from becoming a god.
Helios saw his son gazing back at him without humility and nodded slightly. He looked at his adviser and said, "Lao Xu, begin the trial."
The people sucked in a cold breath. Lao Xu was an old man. He served as the keeper of laws and was a Heavenly Emperor-level expert.
The old man wore a Yi dragon beard and a white and blue hanfu. His left hand was tucked behind his back, while his right often stroked his beard. He cleared his throat and asked, "Defendant Dawn, you stand accused of the murder of Envoy Long Wangxi. You also have been accused of treason charges for sabotaging the alliance between the human race and the dragons. How do you defend these accusations?"
Dawn calmly looked at everyone, and his gaze landed on an envoy of the Dragon race standing at the helm of the crowd. He sneered at the person before he turned to look at his father and said, "I accept all the allegations. I did behead Envoy Long Wangxi. As for the rest, that was just collateral damage."
Helios furrowed his brows, and his fist slammed the armrest of his throne. The light from the doom above their heads cast a dangerous look at the people standing before him. His frown made the void fluctuate, and the people all cast him a look wryly.