the-domnyom - Ali Saeed (novel24 .TXT) 📗

room, feeling her hot breath behind his head.

LINIAS sat before a luxurious ivory white table, surrounded by six large table-colored benches. The walls of the room were dark red, and the room was surrounded by many flowers of all colors. It was a nice room with a nice smell. Inside the room are two wooden doors. 

-" beautiful ". LINIAS muttered those words as he cast a scrutiny of the room.

 I entered the Riviera in a luxurious carriage, full of strange things, and LINIAS did not recognize any meal from it. Behind Rivera were her deputy and several women who stood by the walls, staring at their master with interest. 

Rivera put a cup of tea on the table, in front of her master, and stared at him as if waiting for something.

"Is there something , Rivera ?"

"No. There is nothing. Don't you like tea.. Do you want something else? Or maybe you prefer Helmos juice?" .

 

LINIAS had no idea about this. For a moment he was curious to know what this strange-named juice was. However, he was sure that it would be something as disturbing as the juices he had seen earlier, so he said:

"The tea is good. So... will you still be standing there? Sit down, please."

Rivera sat across from him on one of the benches, while everyone knelt, with the five maids upright behind him.

LINIAS sighed at this scene. And in fact he wanted to talk to Rivera alone, but, he didn't know how to act, should he ask them out, but Rivera was the one who brought the people around him so is it right for him to do that. He didn't know that he didn't ask them for anything. 

 Are there no men here?

 He turned to the corner of the room. He saw something strange there and said, pointing at him:

-" What is that ? ". Rivera turned behind her to shiver, and said with a sour smile on her face:

It is a chair made of bones. Her maids gave a look of withered cultivation. Cold sweat erupted in the maids.

"Made of bone. "LINIAS murmured these words. It was believed that it was made from the branches of the tree of demon. Yet he knew that Rivera liked these things in a marvelous way, and he had made such a chair for her himself a very long time ago.

 But Rivera wished her master not to ask her what kind of bone it was, for she was afraid he would look at her with disgust. Her master was a human before now. Thinking about these things made her face sweat like rain. And she produced a handkerchief out of nowhere to wipe her sweat.

LINIAS narrowed his eyes.

-" Are you okay ?".

Those words made Rivera 's heart beat like a drum, knowing full well that her master would do so when he knew she was hiding something. 

For a moment she cursed her maids in her heart for making her this chair, which she loved madly. And she didn't know what to answer. She laughed angrily and said:

"No, I'm fine. But I haven't drunk blood in years."

It was a lie that Rivera didn't need to drink blood anymore. But she did not find anything other than this, to distract her master from this damned seat.

 LINIAS , looking at the golden ring that Rivera wore on her left thumb, knew that this enchanted ring abolished and suppressed her need for blood. He had no idea why she said that. 

But he knows she's hiding something. In fact, he didn't care much about that.

So he said, ignoring her : 

Rivera , are n't you bored".? Those words made Rivera and her deputy's eyes twinkle.

LINIAS continued :

"Actually, Rivera , I'm so bored, and I don't know what to do, and I've come to meet you for that. Do you have any idea?"

Rivera swallowed her saliva, squeezing her palms.

"There are many things."

 She looked at her master with great interest, as if her eyes were shooting x-rays to read his thoughts.

LINIAS said :

"Are you trying to control my mind , Rivera? "

Rivera replied with a smile:

"No, I never thought of that." Rivera remained silent.

LINIAS said :

" So?...". 

"I'm sorry, I was.. I remember something. But, I don't think you will like what I'm suggesting to you.. So.. Shall I keep talking or shut up?" .

LINIAS signaled her to continue

 She said:

"The invasion will take away this feeling from you."

" Rivera . Are you serious about what you're saying?"

Uncomfortably, Rivera replied , caressing her earlobe:

"I'm quite serious, that's why I said you wouldn't like it."

LINIAS sighed and said:

"I invade only because I'm bored. What madness is this?.. I thought you were going to say funny things but this is.."

He raised the teacup and stared at the steam rising from it for a while, then said:

-"I've never seen tea here until now. But I've known tea for thirty years, and all this was ten days ago."

Rivera smiled at this. She thought it was a joke."

"What. Don't you believe me? I told you."

"No. Not at all, sir, but I never understood anything. Is this some kind of riddle?"

-"It is a strange riddle, and I never knew how to solve it. Yet it is an absolute truth. I was a young man of thirty years...or perhaps an old man." And he put the cup of tea in its place without drinking from it, and continued saying: 

"Do you have information about that giant woman I told you about?

"- Unfortunately , that story is strange and difficult to understand. Even for me, and when I try to comprehend it, I feel that my perception of the world is fading...but the professor may..."

-"The Professor .. I had never seen the Professor so fervently before.. He told me crazy things. I could no longer understand anything of him. He said things about sheep... and about castles, and palaces floating in the sky, and a gigantic castle in the shape of a woman, and underground cities. Made of gold, ruled by a skeleton, a throne above the clouds, and crazy things... why didn't he tell me about them earlier?"

LINIAS sighed , and continued, staring at the people in the room:

"This is pure madness." Rivera checked LINIAS ' face for signs of worry or annoyance, but found nothing. And she understood what he meant:

-"I understand what you mean...Do you want me to check these things for myself? Although I've seen them before, and there is nothing in them to delight, especially the throne above the clouds...it was accompanied by a really troublesome woman."

She was upset about this, and Rivera thought that she had better kill that woman when she had the chance. There is no doubt that it will be a thorn in the throat in the future.

"No. I don't like interfering in what doesn't concern us. As for the invasion, I hate it and loathe it. Don't ask me to be like the filthy Verna kingdom .. Wars don't bring roses. Also, I don't want us to be annihilated again."

Everyone snorted at those words. Even the maids behind him.

 

LINIAS looked at them in confusion. Didn't understand why they did it. He looked back at Rivera , who was coughing.

"Allow me to speak, sir." So said Rivera's deputy, who was kneeling beside her chair.

LINIAS gave Rivera a meaningful look, and Rivera immediately understood what her master wanted.

" Gilgamesh de Emperador. If you want to speak to the great master , raise your head." 

-" Excuse me ". He said and raised his head. He stared with his sharp turquoise eyes like an eagle to his master. LINIAS asked him to continue talking.

-"The humility of my master is without limits. But, humility, honesty, mercy, compassion, and love, no longer exist."

LINIAS said :

-"This is true.. This world and the other world is sick. No. Everything has died in it."

Gilgamesh said :

" It is, as you say, sir, that you must crush it underfoot." 

"Crush it...?"

-" Yes sir " .

 "What are you talking about exactly?"

"I'm talking about the world, sir."

"The world? You mean that I have to crush the world?"

" Yes, sir." 

-" Are You serious?".

"All seriousness, sir."

 So there is one more person added to the rest of the lunatics. LINIAS muttered these words, and Rivera gave an icy look as he thought she was the reason for this talk.

Rivera was troubled , and she fiddled with her cup of tea. She raised her eyes to spy on her master, but he was staring at her with icy looks. Rivera could not stand those looks that seemed to know her thoughts. I burst out laughing like crazy. She raised a cup of tea in front of her.

"Cocococo!..it's delicious tea!..isn't it? isn't it?..uh..what a smell. what color!" For a moment she forgot herself and drank the tea at once.

In an instant, her face shrank and turned green with nausea. Rivera could not stand drinking many things, and tea was one of them. If she had not kept it for her comrades when they came to visit her, she would have thrown him in disgust.

She put her hands around her mouth, and her cheeks swelled up as if they were going to explode with vomit.

LINIAS stared at her coldly and said:

" Are you going to throw up... you're going to throw it at me?" Rivera shook her head in denial. 

"You reap what you sow, Rivera ."

She shook her head affirmatively.

" You admit that?" She shook her head affirmatively again. 

LINIAS was about to laugh at this spectacle, but feared that it would diminish her followers' respect for her. That's why he did

his best to keep himself from laughing. As he saw tears welling

up in her eyes, he said: 

"Why are you still here? You want to throw it at me right?"

She shook her head vigorously, red tears flying around her.

"Don't tell me you're asking permission to go?!"

Rivera shook her head affirmatively.

-" Oh God , what is this nonsense?! Go, you idiot!" Rivera ran like an arrow, to open a door into the room, and shut it behind her. A severe vomiting sounded. 

LINIAS turned back to Gilgamesh , who wanted an answer to his earlier conversation. So LINIAS continued to speak, ignoring the voice that Rivera gave as a roar:  

"Gilgamesh , let's go back to what we were talking about. Your talk about the world is true. I agree with you, that the world has made me sick all my life. But that is the doing of the people who live in it. The world is really a heaven, but. That's only if people love each other. as their love for themselves."

-"It is as you say, sir. But allow me, to say, that this is impossible, for the inhabitants of the world are beasts."

- "Beasts? Mm.. they sound a bit harsh when you say that. I think you're right. But not all of them are like that.. Also, aren't we also part of the world? Does that mean we are the same?"

"Absolutely, sir. We can't be like these monkeys."

LINIAS stuttered .

- “Monkeys.. uh..it is..maybe..why do you think this?”

"Because these worms, they will not stop wriggling disgustingly until they are crushed underfoot."

  LINIAS glanced at Gilgamesh , thinking that the man in front of him was joking. But in vain. He was completely serious, as if he was talking about an absolute truth.

So... are they beasts, Monkeys or worms? As I expected this guy has a head problem like the rest. He sighed in his heart, and he understood what the man wanted to say. Speaking to him, he said:

"That's why I said I had to crush the world. Because they're disgusting worms, aren't they?"

"It's as you say, sir." LINIAS has heard these things from many people. That is why he said the words that were ready in his head, which he said to those before him:

"These things need a lot of preparation. Only a fool would jump on the back of a dragon without being prepared."

Those words made Gilgamesh smile a beautiful smile from the bottom of his heart. LINIAS was relieved that those words made him feel satisfied. And he thought as he looked at those teeth stacked like pearls.

This smile will undoubtedly break girls' hearts. That's why... why not use that smile to make the Kingdom of irem help us out a little bit. The young queen is leading the country. Perhaps she will look at him and see him as a handsome, elegant man, and he will make her feel comfortable with us instead of those idiots who kill anyone who enters here.

 Hmmm. But this.. no. Perhaps Elfam would be a very good choice . What are these silly ideas .. Should I think like this? Or do I need help. Maybe not. Everything is possible through magic..also they are at war .    

"Sir, is there something wrong?" His thoughts faded because of that soft voice. 

"Uh. Rivera .. I was thinking some silly things. How are you now?"

Rivera replied shyly: 

"I'm perfectly fine.. Would you allow me to tell you your answer to the question I gave you?"

"A question? What question, Rivera? "

"It is the question I told you in the throne room."

-"Uh, this is what I was talking about with Gilgamesh. We need to study this matter first of all..."

And at that moment, electric charges ran through Rivera's veins, making her shiver nonstop. She stared at LINIAS with glowing eyes, like a hungry beast staring at a fresh piece of meat.

- " Rivera ... are you okay?"

LINIAS said those words, feeling something strange from them.

"I haven't been well in all my damned life like now! So you're saying that you agreed to my suggestion, sir?"

LINIAS said : 

"I didn't agree. I said I need to prepare for this well."

"But, does that mean you're thinking of him, sir?"

-" This is correct ". He could not deny that he was thinking about these things. In an instant, faster than the blink of an eye, Rivera rose and stood before LINIAS . She tilted her body to stare straight at his face with her crimson eyes, which were shining like jewels.

She was so close that her face was pressed against his.

 LINIAS receded to the back of his seat, turning away from her