Next morning at the breakfast of the Osburn family,
"Noah, you should have reported everything to me as soon as you returned from Blackwood city?" The emperor also known as Ronnie looked a little angry and also frustrated at this moment.
"Father, when we returned home, we found you sleeping on your desk. I thought I can just report everything when you wake up." Noah knew that his father had worked really hard these days knowing that his daughter is going to bring her boyfriend. Besides, the matter with the mutant fire ant was temporarily solved. Noah didn't think that the Mutant fire ant queen would send her army right after she lost over a million of her children.
sigh!
Ronnie sighed hearing his son's words. It was true that Ronnie had fallen asleep last night. Ronnie slept not because he was tired or anything. It was impossible for a 5th-order to get tired or exhausted from working. It was the opposite. He was bored. At the middle of the night when he is normally sleeping he was staying awake. Even he did not notice when he fell asleep while waiting for his son, daughter and daughter's boyfriend to return.
'I have to do something about my sleeping habit.' Ronnie felt that his sleeping habits were going out of hands.
Hearing Noah's words Norah, Bianca and Flora all three wives of the Emperor rolled their eyes. "Noah, your father wasn't exhausted. He has a habit of falling asleep whenever he is working while sitting on his desk. This is not the first time this has happened. Next you see your father sleeping, just wake him up."
"Alright mother." Noah also knew about his father's habit as he had seen his mothers scold his father for falling sleep during work many times when he was young. He simply lied so that he can save his father's face in front of Alicia and Aditya. But it looked like his mothers were not going to let it happen.
Ronnie's right eye twitched hearing his 3rd wife's words. The man again sighed while deciding to drop this matter. He knew that if he continued with this topic, he would only be roosted by his wives in front of his daughter and his daughter's boyfriend.
"Alright, give me a brief summary of what happened last night. What happened to Blackwood city?"
"It was horrible. All we saw were half eaten dead bodies. The eyes of the dead were open wide and it reflected the fear that they faced when dying. The whole city was painted in red blood. The ground and the grass had been painted red. Blackwood city had become a ruin. Not even a single building or man-made structure was left intact. Everything was broken, destroyed, and smashed."
Sigh!
The Emperor sighed another time. This time he felt regret about the fact that under his watch 1.5 citizens of his Empire had died. He knew that this wouldn't have happened if the mutant fire ants had not attacked them.
Suddenly Ronnie's eyes got cold. The Aura around him changed. His gaze had become sharp and calculative. Those emerald green pupils of his seem to contain endless lust for blood and revenge. "Tell me about the enemy?" Ronnie's tone was very serious and also cold.
Noah and his three mothers seem to know that they couldn't mess around when their husbands and father are so serious. Noah straightened his back. He then put the spoon and knife on the table.
"First of all, the most surprising and also shocking fact that we discovered is that the Fire ant which we thought to be abnormal magical animal, as a normal fire ant cannot reach 2nd-order not to mention 3rd or higher orders, is actually mutant fire ants. It seems the Ant queen has someone managed to evolve and become Mutant fire ant queen and give birth to Mutant fire ants."
Clinking!
Aditya raised his head to see that Alicia's grandmother had dropped the spoon from her hand and was looking at Noah with her eyes wide open. Those emerald pupils of hers were filled with shock and disbelief. Her body was slightly shaking. Just like how fast Ronnie's Aura changed, Olivia's Aura also changed. But unlike Ronnie who looked like he couldn't wait to get his hands on the mutant fire ants, Olivia looked more shocked and also frightened.
Ronnie noticed the strange behaviors of his mother. He frowned and asked his mother while massaging his temples. "Mother, do you know anything about the Mutant fire ants?"
Olivia stiffly nodded her head. "I have heard of them from my grandmother when I was around Alicia's age. My grandmother told me that around 800 to 1500 years ago, more than 2,500,000 mutant fire ants had appeared in the territory of a certain powerful Empire that had multiple 5th orders."
Olivia then paused. She then took a sip of tea to calm herself and also for her dry throat. "When the mutant fire ants appeared, in just a month's time, the mutant ants had alone caused the half of the Empire to fall. More than 13 million people had died because of the mutant fire ants. It was only when several and the remaining 5th orders of the Empire joined their hands together, they were able to defeat the mutant fire ant queen."
Ronnie, Bianca, Flora, and Norah, all four gulped in fear. To think the mutant fire ant queen was powerful enough to fight several 5th-orders. It made Ronnie and others wonder just how strong the Mutant fire queen was.
"It was later found that the mutant fire ant queen had hidden herself in the deep forest. She did not allow any foreigner to find out her nest and her children nor did she let anyone live long enough to tell that there were mutant fire ants. After a few decades of hunting, without no one realizing it the queen and a few of her children had reached a frightening level. After their population was increased to a certain point, the queen had no choice but to hunt people that lived in the cities as the mutant fire ants had hunted all the beasts in the forest."
For the next few minutes, no one spoke. After digesting all the information, Ronnie put his attention on his son who was the future Emperor of the Ethereal Empire. "Noah, you can continue."
"When we were about to leave the blackwood city after having a rough understanding of the enemy's powers, we were stopped by a beginner 5th-order mutant fire ant." The fact that the mutant fire ant had a 5th-order made Olivia and Ronnie even more serious.
"The 5th-order mutant fire ant did not let us go. Sylvie and the 5th-order and fought for a while."
'Come to think of it, I really couldn't sense it when the 5th-order mutant fire had appeared behind me. I should have been more alert.' When Aditya, Alicia, Noah, and Sylvie had come to blackwood city, Ayden was returning to blackwood city after having a meeting with the queen. As a result, neither Aditya nor Sylvie was able to sense its presence within the city.
It was only when the team was about to leave, Ayden stopped the visitors mainly to prevent any information from being leaked and also to eat the flesh of a beginner 5th-order. The higher one's cultivation order was the tastier and the more delicious their flesh was to others.
Eating the flesh of a high order can really benefit a low order. This is why higher-order magical beasts are always sold in millions or even in billions. Rich nobles and Kings would spend a large sum of money just to get the meat of 3rd-order magical beasts.
"What happened then?"
"When Sylvie and that 5th-order ant had started fighting it attracted the attention of others mutant fire ants. We were attacked by 129 4th-order mutant fire ants. It was all thanks to Aditya we have managed to survive. He not only killed all the 4th-order mutant fire ants but he also killed a million of the mutant fire ants." The other mutant fire ants attacked Aditya, Alicia, and Noah because they had become confident after sensing that these three's cultivation was only in 3rd-order.
Once again the whole family was shocked. Ronnie and Olivia definitely wouldn't have believed it if these words were spoken by someone else. But they knew that Noah was not the type of lie.
For the next 5 minutes, Aditya was being stared at by the whole Osburn family like he was an animal in a zoo. He can only lower his head and pretend to not notice their burning stares while having his breakfast which had become cold.
"Aditya is really powerful. Today he not only carried Alicia in his arms but also fought the dangerous 4th-order mutant fire ants while protecting my sister's life." Hearing these words, the goddess's face instantly turned red. She angrily glared at her big brother.
"I won't forget this." Alicia murmured in a low audible tone.
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A small chapter as I have bene out the whole day. I wrote this chapter in a hurry.