Chapter 29. "Day of Flowers"

- OH I CAN'T! - Rrya in the whole voice and holding the belly, exclaimed Eros, - in your opinion, I have hard notchs and so that I would quit your libido, I rob "innocent" merchants and go to the brothel, so?

Both wizards sat on their knees with their heads bowed while the titan rolled on the bed holding on to his stomach.

- What's happening? - Lily entered, was slightly surprised by what was happening in the room.

- Oh, Lily, you are on time, do you want me to tell you a joke? - with a grin, said Eros, looking at the blushing guys.

- DO NOT! - both shouted in unison.

- A joke?

- Yes, but apparently, these two are against, - the titan drawled with disappointment, - They know her too, so you can get them out.

The girl still didn't understand what was happening.

- Rick, what a joke?

- Um ... Well ...

- Okay, while you torment them, and I sleep, today I am very "exhausted", - said Eros with a mockery, - I will go, rest, and tomorrow again to "work", it will be necessary to be "tougher" tomorrow.

Lily was surprised to see Rick's flushed face. She really wanted to hear this joke, which made him react that way.

- Rick, tell me ...

- I can not.

- Well, Rick ... Well, please! - she used the most powerful weapon against men, these are women's tears.

- Good luck, - waving his hand, Eros left the company and went to his room.

- Yes, and I'm tired, - Roni yawned, - Okay, I'll go to bed too.

With just one glance, Rick was able to convey to Roni how much he "loved" him. But the senior magician did not react to this in any way and left the room, leaving Rick alone with Lily.

"It will be a tough evening ..."

The next day, Eros left again on business and this time, two spies did not pursue him. Nevertheless, in the morning they talked and the titan assured them that there was nothing illegal in his work, as well as robbery. So they decided to believe him and stopped following him.

***

A week passed unnoticed. Streets and houses were decorated with a huge number of flowers, garlands and all kinds of other decorations. The townspeople were dressed in their best outfits and happily chatting along the streets. A huge number of knights walked around the city, engaged in patrol and supervision, because even for the slightest offense, ordinary people could be imprisoned. After all, today is the day of the foundation of the Kingdom and the King and Queen himself will drive through the city and everything should be perfect.

- We arrived in the capital on time, - Lily exclaimed with a sparkle in her eyes.

- I can't but agree, - Roni nodded contentedly, - The snacks here are excellent, and this is a festive mood ...

- Eros, what's so brooding?

Since yesterday, the titan has been nervous and constantly thinking about something, no matter what, not paying attention. Therefore, his friends were very worried about him.

- Nothing, everything is in order, just ... - Thinking about something again, Eros exhaled sharply and pointed his finger at the silver brooches in the shape of a lion's head. They immediately understood and nodded.

"What did you want to talk about?" - in his head, he heard Roni's voice.

"Sorry, I lied when I told you that I am not doing anything illegal."

"EROS…!"

"Listen, please don't interrupt. I joined one of the gangs and was engaged in knocking out debts in order to better know the whole situation in the capital. And during this week I learned a lot, firstly, today there will be an attempt on the life of the King and Queen. Not one gang will participate in this, but several dozen and they were paid very well for this. And with them there will also be about ten A-rank mages and four hundred B and C-rank mages, but I can't say for sure. "

"I take my words back, we came here at the wrong time!" - said Lily in a frightened voice.

"Don't worry Lily, I'll protect you!" - said Rick, hugging the girl.

"Do you know who the customer is?"

"Someone who really wants to put their big ass on the golden throne of the country, but who exactly, I have not figured out."

"I see ..." - for a moment Roni fell silent and began to ponder all of the above, - "We need to get out of the city as soon as possible!"

"I think so too, Eros."

"You don't have to worry, I already passed the information about the attack to one of the royal knights, but from the calm reaction I saw, they were aware of this."

"This is how it is, if this is the case, then we have nothing to worry about, I guess the King is going to use this attack to show his strength ..."

"I think so too, but still, something haunts me, so be on the lookout and do not move more than five meters away from me!" - in a firm tone, said Eros.

"Understood!" - they did not interrupt the mental connection. But the former festive mood cannot be returned.

After this conversation, all three were very tense, and they smiled tightly.

"Behave yourself relaxing, otherwise the guards are already staring at us." - with a sigh, said Eros.

"It's easy for you to say ..."

"As I say, as long as I am near, no one will touch us, but only if one of the Ten Wizard Saints does not accidentally appear here, who suddenly wants to kill us, then maybe he can break through my barrier."

But the skepticism that he received from all three made him almost stumble out of the blue. Although in these emotions the faith also slipped ... Faith in the powers of Eros.

"Here you are not the only one who is the strongest! Have you forgotten about the sparring before last? " Rick said proudly.

"I remember then I slipped by accident and got directly under your flame, and I had to strain a little to extinguish it."

"HEY! I won you honestly then! "

"Oh, but I don't remember that, I'm sorry ..."

"YOU! .." - Rick exclaimed with fury, looking menacingly at Eros.

The others barely held back their laughter as they looked at the two.

When the titan saw that everyone was more or less able to relax, he sighed with relief, yet he did not want to spoil the already ruined day even more. Let them rest and have some fun. It is unlikely that these children were at such holidays, and Roni most likely did not attend, nevertheless, he was listed as a dark magician, and they were not allowed to enter the capital.

Two hours later, fireworks began to fly from each rooftop, decorating the sky with many colors and patterns.

- Mum! Parade! Let's go quickly! - joyfully exclaimed a girl of about seven, dragging a woman behind her.

- I'm going dear, stop pulling so ...

- Let's go and we'll go! - grabbing Rick and Eros by the hands, Lily dragged them towards the crowd that surrounded the most decorated road along which the King and Queen should pass.

- Children are children, - Roni said with a grain of nostalgia, following after them.

Making their way through the crowd, they got to the fence that blocked the road on the sides. At that moment, a column of mounted knights in silver armor was passing along that road, sparkling when the rays of the sun hit. She was followed by infantry in equally bright armor, and behind her were knights in lighter armor with muskets in their arms, and between the two were several guns, similar to ordinary cannons, but a lot of symbols on it and the outgoing magical power said that it was not ordinary guns.

But something made Eros nervous, these are the many sources of magical power in the columns, at least a third of the soldiers were magicians, and this is almost four hundred people and among them there were seven strong sources comparable to a magician of A-rank. And also, about a hundred sources of magic were located behind the back of Eros, in houses and the fact that these could be ordinary townspeople, the titan doubted very much, they cannot live for thirty people in one house and a third are magicians.

At that moment, Eros overheard a conversation between two men nearby.

- Will there be no king? - sadly asked the first second.

- As I heard ... - he abruptly fell silent and began to look around, and more quietly continued, - He got sick and can not take part in the parade.

- That's how it is.

- But do not be upset, the Queen will definitely be.

- Even so, although I so wanted to look at the king live, I only made it all the way from the village for the sake of this.

- You too? - he asked in surprise.

- Oh really?

- Where are you from?

- From the village of Rosemary, eh ... spent two whole weeks to come here, - he said with annoyance.

- And I'm from the City, - he said proudly, - I spent almost a month to come here.

- Wow!

- Here it is ... - said the titan thoughtfully, - "That is why there are so few forces, most likely, the main battle will be in the palace, and here is just a prelude."

"Most likely the attackers will try to kidnap the queen ..."

"No, I doubt their main goal will be the palace, because here ..." - for a moment the titan froze, - "I was thinking on the general channel, right?"

"Aha!" - sounded mocking voices of Rick and Lily.

"Heck!.."

"Eros, have you forgotten how to handle your own toy? After all, you yourself taught us to communicate with the help of thoughts, and also taught us how to keep them in check so that another interlocutor would not hear them and he himself pierced ... "

"Eros, we understand that you want to do the best you can for us, and for that, we are very grateful to you, but you also need to think about yourself!" - came the firm voice of Lily.

"You heard everything from the very beginning ..." - the titan said in embarrassment.

"Yes." - Rick held out a malicious voice and got a slap on the head from Lily, - "For what ?!"

"Don't bother Eros!"

The titan himself looked at Rick with a grin, he who noticed this froze.

"YOU…!" - but, not having time to finish, there was a strong explosion from the side where the royal palace was located.

- ALL TO PROTECT THE QUEEN AND PRINCESS! - a loud cry of one of the knights sounded and a second later, the carriage in which the Queen and her daughter were, was surrounded by knights, and four people in simple gray robes landed on it. Hands clasped together, purple letters appeared around her. They surrounded the carriage, not allowing even the soldiers to get inside.

At the same moment, the houses around them began to explode and people began to run out from there who immediately attacked the guards that protected the queen.

Ordinary townspeople in panic left this place, knocking over each other, they tried to quickly escape from this battlefield.

"Eros!" - Ronnie's worried voice sounded in the titan's head when they were attacked by one of the mages, but Rick quickly dealt with him by knocking him out with a blow to the stomach.

"Building 3!" - all three nodded, standing back to back with Lily in the center, so as not to let anyone near her. And their company was surrounded by a white dome, the magicians that tried to attack them using weapons, only when they came into contact with them, it instantly disintegrated, - "As long as I support this spell, no one will touch us, but be on your guard, it is not omnipotent!"

"YES!"