Whispers of the Gods

Chapter 37 Mundy IV

"You're thinking too much, brother." Monty Apollion wanted to reassure him.

"She hates me, I can see that," Chuck said.

They sat in the corner of the noisy tavern. The tavern looked a bit shabby, and the sign hanging at the door read "Golden Feather" vaguely in Vivarian.

Despite Monty's urgings to dress modestly, Drake chose a long-sleeved ruby-coloured silk tunic.This may be what he thought was already relatively modest clothes, and his strong figure made the clothes look a little tight.

Monty was wearing the same black linen robe with a hood as he used to when he walked around the city.

"Brother, I appreciate you coming out with me," said Monty, "but you've had a little too much to drink."

He didn't know how many glasses of ale Zhuo Ke had had, and his brother was still drinking heavily while complaining to him.

"This damn wine tastes like nothing! Monty, I didn't sleep with Irma, I swear to the gods," Duck said drunkenly. "I'm just missing my mother's company..."

"I believe you," said Monty, "Mother will find out the truth in the end."

"She won't trust me," Zhuoke shook his head. "She just likes her little Ellen, brother. I don't know what's so cute about that ungrateful little bastard that makes mother care so much." he."

"He's our brother, don't talk about him like that," Mundy said emphatically.

"Half brother," Chuck corrected him.

"That's why, we weren't born by her." Zhuo Ke said with a disdainful smile, "If our biological mother is still alive..."

"I'm sorry," Monty said guiltily.

Monty had never met his biological mother; he had been brought up by his wet nurse, Ojiva, who was more like his mother than anyone else.

It was his presence that killed Mother, Monty always thought so.He not only made Zhuo Ke lose his mother, but also made his father lose his wife.

"Hey! What are you apologizing for?" Zhuo Ke patted Monty on the shoulder fiercely, "Her death is not your fault, it is the fault of the gods, they have no eyes..."

"You're drunk, brother, you don't know what you're talking about." Hearing his blasphemous gibberish, Monty hastened to stop Chuck.

"Alan is not like us at all, brother." Zhuo Ke said, "whether it is ability, character or appearance, he is like a defective product, like a... a Vivalia bastard. But why, Why can he be loved by his mother?"

"You're talking too much," said Monty. "Anyway, he's our brother, father's son, and he's from the Apollon family."

Monty held Zhuo Ke's arm with his hand and said: "Father needs you, the empire needs you to cheer up, marry Queen Lozaria, stop talking nonsense here."

"Father..." Zhuo Ke muttered, "Father will only ask me to follow the path he designed for me."

"This is all temporary, and one day you will be able to become the emperor alone." Mengdi persuaded.

Zhuo Ke sighed and said with a chuckle: "I envy you, brother. You have always looked carefree, doing what you like."

Why don't I envy your life, Monty thought.Although his father had high demands on Zhuo Ke, he also paid a lot of attention to him; his mother cared for Allen, talking and laughing with him all day long.

As for him, he needs to read the works of scholars, history, state governance and religion, just to have common topics with his father.That's how his father paid him a little attention.

He also remembered discussing the kings and their accomplishments with his father, whom Mundy admired, whom he felt as emperor to be equal to Igomel IV the Righteous, Licher I the Steady, the Wise "Like Hunnard I, he is a good king who is good at governing and stabilizing the empire.

But his father didn't want to stop there. He wanted to recast Hastza's former glory and become a once-in-a-century emperor no less than "The Great" Igomel I and "The Great" Agric III.

Monty thought of the joy on his father's face when he talked about these things, and it wasn't the joy that came from talking to him.

Although he usually pretended to be indifferent, how much Monty wished that someone could only pretend to be him.

"Wang Wang!"

A dog barked interrupted Monty's thoughts, and he looked down. A big white dog got under their table at some point.

"A hound?" asked Drake. "Where's the owner?"

The hound has short white hair and a dark nose.She looked up at Monty curiously with amber eyes, panting with her tongue out.

"Xiali!" A girl ran over from the other side of the tavern.

"You are here, come out!" The girl bent down and said to the white dog.

The girl has a rare red hair, her fair face is slightly flushed, her blue eyes are shining, and her slender nose is full of moist lips.He watched her fascinated.

She was dressed in a dark blue linen dress with a white corset, a gold hoop ring on her breast, and a lute in her hand.

The gold ring was shiny and engraved with characters that Monty couldn't understand. Its texture was old and it seemed to be old.

Seeing Monty's gaze, the girl quickly covered her chest with both hands.

The white dog seemed to understand the girl's words, and obediently walked out from under the oak table.

"Is this your dog?" Monty asked.

"Well," the girl nodded, and then awkwardly bowed to Zhuo Ke with her long skirt, and said in Vivarian: "I'm very sorry, my lord."

"My brother can't understand you," said Monty.He was a little amused by the girl, as if he was mistaken for Zhuo Ke's servant in his outfit.

"Ah, I'm so sorry!" The red-haired girl hurriedly apologized to Monty again, "I thought you were..."

"It's all right, what's your name?" Monty asked.

"Lucyna Hervas, my lord," answered the girl

Monty nodded, Monty reached out to touch the big white dog's head, Shia sniffed his left hand with her black nose, and didn't refuse.

"Xiali, let's go." The girl gave another awkward salute to Monty, and left with the white dog.

"She's so beautiful," said Chuck. "What were you talking about?"

"Nothing," Monty shrugged. "If you want to know, you have to promise me that you will learn Vivarian later. Master Riquel in the palace teaches it very well."

Mondi's Vivaria was taught by Master Riquel. Apart from Vivaria, Master Riquel can speak four foreign languages.

(End of this chapter)