Emperor's Reckoning

"Why did you serve me water?" asked Lyon as he looked at Assid.

Assid bowed in apology, "Sorry Your Majesty, but it is in the Protocol of Conduct."

(Your Majesty?!) said the three geniuses inwardly. They had not heard of such king or emperor with the name Lyon Torga until recently. There were hidden experts but there was not any hidden king.

Lyon twitched his eyes, "The what?"

"The Protocol of Conduct."

"Yeah I heard that, but what? What kind of protocol forbids me to drink spirits or liquor or any alcoholic beverage?"

"Calm down and sit, Lyon," said Cecile. "Do you know how you act when you're drunk?"

Lyon furrowed his eyebrows before he slowly sat down and looked at Cecile. "C'mon, I'm not that easy to get drunk."

Cecile laughed, "Yes if you were a normal person."

Porealus, Zet, and Ivy immediately opened their ears wider than normal before Lyon asked.

"What do you mean?"

Cecile smirked, "You drink the Monkey King's Wine, or should I say the Devil Ape's most vicious and coveted treasure."

"What? I did?" Lyon immediately leered his eyes toward Sun who was taking a sip at each of their liquors. The little monkey could not be seen by normal eyes thus he enjoyed the very benefit of being a corporeal being.

"Monkey King's Wine?!" exclaimed Porealus as his eyes stared in disbelief. He would have never thought that he would hear the term being spoken here.

"Hm? What is Monkey King's Wine?" asked Zet.

Porealus made a harsh swallow. "In the ancient secret of brew, there was one item that was coveted by many sommeliers. The one drink that ruled the others and was said to be comparable to Nirvana Nectar!"

Porealus didn't even blink once as he muttered those words. However, Zet let out a sigh, "Big brother, I have no idea what you are talking about."

Porealus continued despite the young's confusion. "Legend has it that Monkey King's Wine is so potent it could kill even True God's cultivators in a single sip! Big brother Lyon, you drank the Monkey King's Wine?"

Lyon smiled wrily (I wish I knew that to be honest).

"He did," answered Cecile. "He was a naughty child and use his thievery skills to drink the wine that his grandfather kept. He jugged the whole gourd as a mere growing child."

"What?!" Lyon and Porealus exclaimed together.

(Wait why are you surprised about this?!).

Sun acted as if he didn't hear the conversation and enjoyed the others' drinks while they were not looking. Shen was shaking his giant head before letting out a sigh. It was not rocket science how Lyon grew up to be with these two guidings.

(A-Impossible!) thought Porealus as he wondered what was the right word for this. The spirits, one of the ultimate liquors that could kill gods of gods with one sip was drunk by him even before he became an adult, not to mention survive. 

"The Monkey King's Wine immediately attacked his innocent soul, however, with some aid, he managed to escape death."

"S-Some aid?" asked Porealus. (What kind of aid could get him out of a death's grip?!).

Cecile shook her head. It appeared that Porealus won't get his answers. However, one fact he could pull was that Lyon's background must be incredibly monstrous. (I have not met a single man nor woman at that matter. Mortal World or Heaven's World that possessed such delicate and incredibly rare liquor!). He made a harsh swallow (He had access to Monkey King's Wine... so that means that there is a high chance that his grandfather has the recipe!).

"As a side effect,  Lyon's resistance against liquor is almost nil. It was the price he had to pay," said Cecile before she drank her drink.

"I see," answered Ivy. (She just casually threw away his weakness. How careless, at least that's what one might say to an unknown person. Cecile must have a reason for telling us this).

"Wah, I never thought that liquors would be your weakness, big brother. Hahaha!" 

Yunesia, Ivy, and Porealus furrowed their eyebrows as the Argonaut's family member almost had their eyes jumped out of its socket. Their mouth was trembling as they called out their young master but no word was heard before Cecile smiled.

"Weakness? I won't say for sure," said Cecile before Kesya and the other two generals nodded.

Lyon raised both of his eyebrows as Lumina listened.

"That protocol was not made to protect Lyon from harm's way," said Cecile with a smile before her eyes turned sharp, "It was to protect the others from Lyon's harm's way."

Porealus, Yunesia, Zet, and Ivy raised their eyebrows with questions on their faces.

"It's true," nodded Kesya.

"If you think that sober Lyon is the most dangerous man in Mortal World, then you don't have any idea what he could do when he is drunk," said Cecile.

Their eyes turned sharp. They couldn't imagine how wild Lyon would be when he was drunk. Even when sober he destroyed Treas, who knows what would happen if he was drunk. 

Lyon raised his eyebrows in surprise. He had heard it before that he destroyed the banquet back in the Luderia Kingdom in Deo and almost crumbled the entire building to the sea. He himself couldn't imagine what he did when he was at the peak and drunk.

"Let's just say, this entire pillar might crumble down if he is drunk even a little bit," said Cecile before she let out a chuckle.

However, her laughter was not received by another laughter but instead worry in their faces. They could only look at each other before forcing a smile with a vibrant fear behind their gaze.

"And that would be the least that would happen, the entire mountain might disappear by tomorrow if nobody stopped him. It happened before and it was even bigger than this mountain," said Kesya with a chuckle.

(W-What?!) shouted the four of them inwardly.