Higher realm, Kingdom of the fallen Immortals, The Royal Palace.

And in this royal palace, thousands of floating figures surrounded a large stage and were waiting with bated breath. And soon enough, a middle-aged man with a dark purple crown on his head walked out slowly. Each of his steps seemed cemented and steady emanating an air of confidence of a royal above all else.

“We greet his Highness the Fallen Immortal King!” Suddenly every figure that had been in the air just moments ago landed on the ground and knelt on one knee.

“Welcome everyone, and this royal one thanks you for coming to my son’s 1,000-year birthday. The Fallen Immortal Kingdom was started by my father, The Original Fallen Immortal King! When the Heavens decided to banish us to this plane, they had intended to teach us a lesson, they had intended to make us feel inferior and powerless!”

“But my father refused to become a pawn to destiny, and chose to build an empire for his people instead! Today we are only below the heavens and above everyone else! We have thousands of middle realm planets under our command and millions of lower ream planets as our pasture!”

Roar!

Listening to the word of their king the crown roared in excitement.

The Fallen Immortal king smiled and nodded in satisfaction. All of the people in front of him were big shots in the kingdom, whether it be in alchemy, smithing, or medicine, none of these people had rivals in his kingdom.

“Now that my son has turned 1,000 years old, the time has now come for him to follow tradition, and follow in the footsteps of every noble that came before him, by grazing the pasture!”

Roar!

The excitement in the crowd could nearly be touched by one’s hand!

“And although other children of nobility are only required to conquer a lower realm planet for their trials, my son as a prince of a kingdom shall have his trial difficulty raised as is our custom! So, he shall head down to a mid-level plain, and conquer its inhabitants with any means necessary! And if he comes back in victory, we shall welcome him as a prince!”

Roar!!!

“But what if he returns in defeat?!” The King asked the crowd.

“Death by decapitation!” The crowd responded.

“That’s right! Our traditions don’t show favors, the heavens themselves don’t show favors, so neither will, I,! If he does return in defeat, I will take his head myself!” The king said without blinking an eye.

A young man in a golden robe stood behind the stage walls, away from prying eyes listening to the king. This young man was the prince of the Fallen Immortal Kingdom. And with every word his father spoke a little piece of his heart turned cold.

“I don’t want to die! I don’t want to die! The people of the middle realms might be savages in front of truly strong cultivators of the Higher realm, but what am I?! I am just a little dog that only cultivated for a few thousand years! Compared to the truly mighty existences in the middle realms that cultivated for over a hundred thousand years how am I supposed to compete?!” The prince’s eyes were bloodshot as he hysterically mumbled to himself.

After the festivities ended the crowd gathered to wish the king luck on his son’s trial. They had intended to pass on their good wishes to the prince himself but he was nowhere to be seen!

And as soon as he was done sending off his guests the King rushed into the palace halls to find his son. Angry and disappointed at his son for not attending his own coming-of-age ceremony.

Bang!

Blasting the doors to his son’s room open the king rushed inside only to find a seductive young lady cradling the 10,000-year-old prince in her arms. The young lady was dressed scandalously and her dress could barely contain her breasts. And the young prince’s head seemed to comfortably rest in between them.

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“Why weren’t you at the ceremony boy?!” The King scowled.

“Father, I don’t want to go to the trial! I don’t want to die! Please, Father, don’t send me to my death!” The young prince wrestled himself out of the woman’s embrace and rushed to hug his father’s knee as he pleaded.

But before the King could respond the young seductive lady walked over to the king and wrapped her arms around his waist and spoke in a slightly sad tone.

“Why are you frightening our child my King? Doesn’t your heart ache to see him like this?” This seductive young woman was apparently the king’s wife and the queen of the kingdom.

“It is all because you coddle the boy too much! Look at him, all worked up over nothing! Since when did the royal family need to risk their lives to prove themselves for a stupid trial?!” The king enjoyed his wife’s embrace and slowly extended his hands and rested them comfortably on the woman’s bottom slowly massaging it in enjoyment.

The two didn’t seem to care that their son was watching and just enjoyed each other’s company more and more. Until…

“Wait father, so, are you saying I don’t have to go?!” The prince asked in astonishment.

Rudely interrupted from his enjoyment the king responded with anger and disappointment lacing his voice.

“Don’t be stupid, of course, you will have to go! But you won’t go to a planet in the middle realm, but one in the lower realm! There you will stay and play until one of the royal guards cleans up a middle-realm planet for you. Then his accomplishments will become your accomplishments, and his deeds will become your deeds, cementing your legacy as a prince once and for all.” The king smiled as he reminisced about his trial that took place the same way.

The current King’s father, the Previous king, a cautious man, refused to let his son participate in the trial and sent a royal guard as well. But different from his son the king was brave when he was young and was actually raring to go and kill those savages!

“And you won’t be going to the lower realm planet alone either. Other princes and princesses from other kingdoms will head there with you as they also hide till the completion of their kingdom’s trial.”

“But father, why? Why the need for secrecy? It’s not like we fear anyone in the kingdom, so why the need to lie and go through all this ruse?”

“Idiot! You really are an idiot!” The King roared in anger and his hand that was resting on the queen’s bottom squeezed furiously in response.

“Ahhh…”

But the king ignored his wife who was moaning in pleasure and patiently explained it to his son.

“We do all this because our place must never be challenged! Our legends and feats must stand tall in the eyes and ears of our subjects so that they won’t even think to rebel! Do you understand now boy?!”

The prince nodded even though he was still a bit confused. But he knew that if he still didn’t understand by now his father would start using his fists to explain himself.

“Good. Now leave us, I need to talk to your mother about something important.” The king didn’t even wait for his son to leave as he began ripping his wife’s clothes and threw her on the bed.

“But father…this is my room…” The prince said helplessly.

“Ahhhhh…”

“Yes, take it! Take it you slutty bitch!!”

“Yes, my king! I will take what you give!”

“…” The prince.

It was a rainy day in Willow village and the deafening sounds of thunder struck fear into the hearts of many villagers that were waiting for the storm to pass in their little huts. And it was especially so in one of the smaller huts where a little girl’s sobbing could be heard clearly.

“There is nothing scary about a little rain, Lili, it can’t hurt you.” A young man by the name of Lewis who was at most eighteen was desperately trying to comfort his little sister Lili.

“No big brother, something bad is going to happen, I feel it. I am going to die, everyone in this village is going to die!” Lili refused to listen to her brother though, and began crying even louder than the loud thunderstorm.

“No one is going to die Lili, and especially not you. Have I not protected us for this long? Do you not believe in big brother no more?” The young man then pretended to make a sad face.

Lili finally looked up and looked at her brother’s sad face and forced herself to stop crying, “I…I believe in big brother…”

“Good girl, now stop crying okay? Look at my muscles, do you remember the time Aunt Haley couldn’t move her wagon because it was stuck in the mud? Two strong men in the village couldn’t even make it budge but who moved it In the end?!” Lewis asked Lili as he rubbed away the tears from her face.

“You did, big brother,” Lili whispered like a mosquito.

“And when Albert the town’s smithy wanted someone to bang on some heavy metals for him, who did he immediately call?!” Lewis asked again.

“He called you big brother,” Lili said a little more enthusiastically.

“That’s right! How about when all the ladies in town lost their underwear, who found it for them?!” Lewis asked.

“Umm…” Lili stared at Lewis in shock.

“Who found it for them?!” Lewis asked again.

“Big brother, they were found in our house underneath your bed…”

“Exactly! I found them then I brought them here to wash before I returned them. Sadly that created a slight misunderstanding with the women in this village but God can vouch for my honesty!” Lewis said seriously.

Pffft…

Lili started laughing uncontrollably. Who in the village didn’t know about Lewis’s strange hobby of collecting women’s underwear? In fact, he was caught in the act many times, and many of the aunties either chased him with a broom or were flattered and just handed it to him.