Gladiator✔️

Assassins

General Azarios steeled his heart when it came to dealing with the people who offended his precious wife. Even though the beast of Ambrose was infamous for being brutal and unforgiving, this once he tried to not interfere in Lilith's plan and let her deal with the enemies the way she preferred.

Instead of gore torture and slaughtering, he patiently waited for Lilith to crush the ones trying to harm her prestige yet one shall never test the limits of a beast.

It had been countless times that Countess Jillian tried provoking and scheming against his little empress, the very first was the time she had called out Lilith in the banquet.

Second was using the Prime Minister's eldest daughter to frame Vios, put a question on the virtue of his wife so that according to the law she might have a chance to either demote his wife to a concubine or to exile her.

And when the very third incident happened, the commander general had enough of it.

Holding his precious tulip in his arm, Azarios carried her sleeping form to their inner chambers while clutching her to his chest. He fed her and later served tea, they talked about the most random of the things before the woman fell asleep on his chest while gazing at the gems encrusted in the dark sky.

"Long Live my Empress" a chaste kiss was pressed onto her forehead before Azarios lowered her down on the soft bed. A thick coat of blue wolf fur was wrapped on her body as comforter to keep her warm.

The Serenity that felt beyond imagination was broken like a shattered glass chandelier when Daisy, Lilith's maid came running outside the General's chamber that were strictly prohibited for the servants to enter.

The commotion along with the sound of pitter patter of feet made the General get up in haste before going out of the chamber while closing the entrance.

"Lord! Lord!" the handmaiden looked pale with fright, her body trembling with fear.

"My lord Commander Vios, Mistress's personal guard is injured in a fight with seven assassins, five out of which are dead yet two are injured heavily... they tried to infilter the Mistress' boudoir. T-There is also a b-beast that is creating commotion in the courtyard."

Azarios' face changed from indifferent to that of a raging fury, what if he had not brought Lilith to his own chamber today...the possibility that she could have been harmed in the fight made his blood boil. This place where he took an oath to protect her was her home, to think that she would have to keep her guard up even here.

This one would gauge out the eyes of those who dared to look at my wife in malice.

"Return first, convey my command...the beast must neither be touched not be harmed in anyway or I shall have all of the soldiers' heads hang on the capital city's gate."

"Y-Yes Mylord"

Ink charcoal cloak fluttered in the heavy wind as the general gave out the orders to Sub commander Seros and the fierce high soldiers of Azaron army to protect his chambers, even though the strongest of the men were reduced to mere guards they did not uttered a word and accepted their duty.

The Mistress's safety was even more important than the protection of the Emperor and the soldiers must abide by this law till their last breath.

While the entire Lotus Mansion was turned upside down, verium incense burning in the inner chambers of the General made the lethal demoness sleep in peace. Not being aware of the horrendous mood her husband was in, she was lulled to sleep in peace.

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Chirping of exotic birds that were meticulously brought from the nine step mountains accompanied by the voice of greetings from the snow white parrots that were given as tributes by the tribes of the Northwestern regions echoed in the entire grand residence of The Great Lotus Mansion.

The servants were woken up early and were doing the tasks they were accustomed to do for years. While the strict militaria order that the events of last night were to be treated as if they had never happened was passed in the early morning by the head steward.

The beast Lion that appeared in the night had disappeared soon after the general had an encounter with it while the assassins that were injured were interrogated the entire night.

Yet all of that was to be kept as a secret and the ones speaking of it would have their tongues cut off thus it was calm. Lilith who woke up early today could not move an inch due to the fact that a much stronger muscular male was sleeping on her down while his head was nestled on her bosoms.

After trying for a while the woman gave up and caressed Azarios sculpted face and threaded her fingers through his silky strands to massage his scalp, yesterday he had worked very hard to prepare for her birth anniversary despite having to train the army in morning and attend the imperial court at noon. Even in the evening he had to deal with the Prime Minister's farce for her and despite all that he did not forget to take care of her.

Once the High Priestess, her highness Saintess Helixis of the Silian River told Lilith that all the things she would ever desire shall be hers in this life.

(A/n: see aesthetic of the saintess in Aesthetic chapter published previously)

Then let her desire Azarios from everything in her heart. No matter how cold she appeared from her hard exterior, Empress Lilith was the most beautiful person deep down and that was the reason her subordinated referred to her as the goddess.

While the woman was lost in though she also did not failed to notice how tightly yet gently Azarios was holding onto her as if he was afraid that she would disappear.

We are not even halfway through the book eek!