SON OF THE HERO KING

As the three of them walked and joked, Sol began to remember the distribution of the different districts.

In the past, The imperial city of Lustburg was divided into five great districts.

The central one belonged to the church and the tower of babel.

The North district was under the supervision of the Highland family.

The South was under the Milaris.

The West was under the Travers.

And finally, the East under the Gorfard.

Four Duke families, one Church, and one Royal family. Those were the powers that stood at the apex of the Lustburg kingdom.

Despite having their own territory, each heir of the Duke family had the obligation to live in the imperial city until they took their obligatory position as the head of their household and officially replaced their predecessor.

The problem was that after the Gorfard became traitors and were stripped of their titles and position, a vacuum was created.

The royal family took partial control of that zone and shared the rest with the three remaining Duke families.

After the whole fiasco with Gorfard and the past with his grandfather, Sol did not want to give too much power to the nobles again.

The Highland, Milaris, and Travers may be loyal now. But he did not know what would happen in the future.

“Speaking of, they said that this Duchess was blessed by the goddesses. What does it mean?”

Isis asked, curious to know more about the Kingdom that Sol ruled. After all, she was now part of it.

“Duchess Milaris is….Hum. Well, let’s say she is an incredible woman whose talent was recognized by the goddesses. So they gave her a gift.”

“Seriously!? Whoa! She is like, super awesome, then!! Can we meet her!!?”

Sheherazade was beyond excited. It wasn’t like it was the first time the goddesses gave a gift on a whim. But one would need something really impressive to make them act.

“What are her talents?”

“Art.”

Sol chuckled as he remembered the rather disturbing paintings of her father in that woman's house.

Arachne Milaris's obsession with his father was on par with Lilith and perhaps even superior. She had never really liked Sol and she never hesitated in making this clear.

Their relationship had grown closer after the fight against the traitor but that was all. The two of them would never go beyond a simple relationship of acquaintance and superior/Subordinate.

“Ohhh! Art, huh? I don’t know much about art. I am curious.”

“Well, the monument we saw earlier was made by her.”

Sheherazade and Isis opened their eyes wide. The amount of detail on those monuments was simply insane. Even if one knew nothing about art, one could still understand that this wasn’t something that could be done without great love and passion.

Sol though simply shrugged. He had always wondered why his mother was depicted in her dragon form rather than her human form and deduced that this was simply a small way for Arachne to take a small revenge.

‘Haha, a woman in love can really be petty.’

“Well, we are finally here.”

—-

The south zone was under the control of the Milaris family and her family was pretty wealthy all things considered.

Furthermore, since her true territory was on the border, the Milaris family enjoyed a very great reputation as they helped protect the country from invaders and welcomed tourists of all kinds.

The moment the three of them entered that zone, it was like they were entering a different world.

Everywhere, light could be seen floating as they illuminated the streets.

People were playing and moving around and joy could be seen on everyone's face.

The eyes of the two girls began to sparkle as they observed this scene they had never witnessed.

Festivals were not exactly easy to organize in the underworld and Sheherazade had been pretty ostracized by the member of her race and was unable to participate in most of them.

As for the festival in the Phoenix realm, they were few and far between and Isis did not participate in them. She did not want to go to a place where people obviously did not like them.

“What should we do? What should we do!?”

Sheherazade began to fly and buzz everywhere as she looked all around. There were so many things she wanted to try. So much so that she felt like she was becoming completely dizzy.

It was funny but Sol just realized that he had forgotten one very important fact.

They lived in a very capitalistic world and there was one thing that the three of them lacked—Money.

‘Fuck.’

Sol sweated heavily. As a prince living in the Tower, he never had to buy anything. Everything was directly delivered to him. In the Astral realm, gold was worth shit and only Faith coins had any value. But this was not the case in the Mortal realm.

“Hum…? Is there a problem?”

Isis was quite perceptive and immediately noticed his awkward expression. Sol briefly debated between lying and keeping his pride or telling the truth.

“I forgot to bring money with us.”

“Pfft!”

“Hahahaha!”

He covered his face. Indeed. His pride had been crushed.

Both Sheherazade and Isis were merciless in their laughter. They did not even try to leave him some dignity.

“You always call me an airhead but it seems like our dear old prince isn’t without flaws after all?”

“Laughed enough?”

“Nope. Never. This will go in the annals of history.”

“Heh, like how you trying to play a prank on me ended up with us facing Kidnappers?”

“*Cough* *Cough*”

Isis coughed awkwardly to hide her embarrassment at the sneak attack Sol launched. She should have known that he was not an easy target to tease.

“So, what should we do?”

“I can go back and take some money home.”

“No no no no! We don’t even need to buy anything. We sneaked out, right? It would be a shame to simply go back. Let’s have some fun!”

Sol looked at Sheherazade and grinned before taking out a wig to hide his hair. He also keeps his horns above his head. Demi-humans were not rare in Lustburg so it would be a disguise enough.

As for their clothes, while Isis was covered in a thin robe and jewels, Sol could see many nobles moving around in even more outrageous clothes so there was no problem.

The three began to move around.

The current festival reminded him of a mix of the kind of festival that was most current in countries like brazil and japan in his old world.

Everywhere he looked, people were singing, dancing, or selling something. In the corner of some street, he could see couples kissing or doing even more daring things but people would simply ignore them.

This was the country of lust after all.

Soon, Sol realized that he had been worried for nothing as money did not even become a problem.

Along the way, even without paying anything, they would receive free gifts. The vendors would say that it was for a beautiful couple, causing Isis to blush greatly whenever they would compliment how good they looked together or how beautiful she was.

The hands of Sol were already full and Sheherazade was cheering as she munched on street food. Sol had verified that there was nothing dangerous in it so it was safe.

He had been curious if the others were getting the same treatment but no matter how much he stretched his senses, this was obviously not the case.

“Why think too much? let’s just enjoy.”

Hearing Isis. Sol nodded. He wouldn’t have many opportunities to have fun after this. So he should just enjoy this day.

—-

What Sol would have discovered if he used his dimension to scout was that, a little farther in the South district. In a closed bar, a veritable operation was taking place.

A holographic map of the capital with three red dots moving around was floating in the air as people busied around.

Standing in her maid clothes with her hands behind her back, Milia observed the map as the red dots moved in real-time and keep giving her orders.

“Zone B6 and B7 clear.”

“Zone C5 and C19 clear.”

“Here Bishop. The vendors in the 2nd alley have all been replaced by our agents.”

“Good job everyone.” Milia praised them as they received positive feedback. “Continue clearing out anything that might disturb his highness. Drunk should be pushed aways and ruffians need to be put down and sent to jail.”

She looked around, “Everyone, this is a very important mission. I will have your head if you fail.”

Everyone shuddered as they simply did not know just how serious Milia currently was.

So the crown shadow decided to move as if their lives really depended on it.

—--

(AN: Yep. This ain't a dream. SHK finally got on Amazon. Man, I really waited long for this. This is my first time on Amazon and SHK has some, let's say controversial content. So I would really be happy if you guys could help by giving reviews, writing comments, and of course, if possible buying it. The book is only 5.99$. So please go on. The better this book does, the more money I will invest in Book 1 part 2.

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The book should be only available on Kindle USA for now. You could maybe get it by simply shifting your address for a bit as there is only the Ebook version anyway. Just find a random address in the USA.

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Of course, this is just temporary. I plan to make it so it becomes available in others countries.

Since I am happy. Tomorrow I will post 2 chapters.)