The hivemind is conquering for me? Chapter 968: Great... Just Great

Going to the position Jocasta had instructed me to stand during the broadcast, I just wanted it to be over. I was standing next to a man and a woman who I attempted to give a polite smile to as I got into position, but received nothing from them. They were just posing and putting on faces that looked really bizarre.

I just looked around again and found Maxine looking at me from the other end of the row. She was a nice kid so I gave her a friendly wave at which point she violently shook her head at me before gesturing to me to look ahead.

I rolled my eyes but complied. As my face turned to the front, I wasn’t sure how I missed it, but at least a hundred cameras were now floating in front of us from all angles as well as screens that were now displaying us in real time.

‘Jeez, I look like a fish out of water. How does everyone else look like they belong here? I look like a meerkat looking around for danger.’

While looking at myself, I must have missed something as the surroundings suddenly erupted with the cheers of millions of individuals. The reaction suddenly became clear as Sigismund suddenly appeared from the left side of the balcony.

He gave the crowd a long regal wave and they erupted again. He held the pose for a few moments and the cameras, the lights.

By Jewel’s tits, the lights…

The amount of lights from cameras blaring, I swore a galaxy on the other side of the universe in a few millions of years will see the amount of flashing as a star in their night sky. It was dreadful.

Sigismund then greeted Dickon with a cordial smile and a handshake. The difference between the two kings was like night and day. One was clearly in the military, physically fit and imposing.

The other was… Yeah.

He then went down the line. Most received a simple head nod of recognition, he gave others a small word here or there. He gave Hugo a hug and the dreaded flashing lights started again.

As Sigismund approached where I was, the two people I was standing next to suddenly jolted upright. Their heads held high. I gave them both a look and resisted the urge to laugh. It was so obvious what they were doing.

I then turned back to Sigismund and we made eye contact, prompting him to let out a smirk, avoiding the next three people he was supposed to acknowledge as he approached me.

“Sentinel Lambdason.” He said, putting his hand out for me to take.

“Your majesty.” I said and took his hand, prompting him to frown.

“I’m so used to hearing my name come out of your mouth at this point, it just sounds wrong when you call me by my title. Stick to Sigismund lad, your king commands you.”

“You won’t hear me complaining about that, Sigismund.” I replied honestly, prompting Sigismund to let out a single chuckle. Before looking me up and down.

“Son, I don’t know how you have done it, but you look completely lost just by standing there. This really isn’t your element is it?”

I didn’t even try to deny it. “Tell me about it. Once this is done, I’m getting into the Psionic stuff.”

“Hahahaha!” Sigismund began to laugh and the whole line suddenly turned and looked with the dreaded lights started again. I just smiled awkwardly and waited for the moment to pass.

Once it did Sigismund patted me on the shoulder before stating, “I’ll be joining you then. Don’t worry son, this won’t take long. My staff like my speeches short and to the point in case my emotions get the better of me.”

He then looked around awkwardly before continuing in a hushed voice. “There is only so many times I can get away with killing pussy nobles in public after all. Anyway, back to it.”

I then heard the two nobles either side of me stop their breathing as Sigismund said that before he continued down the line.

The rest of the line took less than a minute, the last one in line, the male Sepiida didn’t even get a glance before Sigismund turned back around and to the front of the balcony.

I was glad he was finally about to start.

I was less glad that I was basically right behind the man and now my face was visible in the close up I could see on the screen.

‘Great… Just fucking great.’

…

Sophia was sitting at the bar of her club, a stack of papers by her side as she was going over stock.

‘Hmm, running low on our “special stores”… I suppose it makes sense, it’s another few weeks till the next long night. Not enough visitors for subtle disappearances. Hmmm, I should get Aubree to look into some other hunting grounds for a temporary solution. Though perhaps I should-‘

‘-APOLLO!!! KIYAAAAAHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!’

An incredibly loud cultist just screamed through the under link. Surprising Sophia deeply as it that level of cultist should not be able to… She paused as she saw what the cultist was seeing.

What thousands of other cultists were now tuning into on the tv. She did the same. Grabbing the remote from behind the bar, she turned on the tv and right there on the first channel that was on.

Apollo.

Her mate.

Her heart began to pound loudly. She hadn’t expected to see him today and now here he was in front of her looking so sexy and handsome.

What a treat!

She didn’t even care why he was on the tv. She would look into that later. For now she just watched. She watched her mate standing there looking around trying not to frown with all his might.

‘Aww, he hates the cameras. I love him so much!’

…

“*COUGH COUGH COUGH* Fuck! *Cough*” Samantha began sputtering after accidentally inhaling the wine she was just drinking.

“My dear, are you alright? Goodness, what got you so surprised!?” Zorina exclaimed as she began rubbing Samantha’s back at the bar.

Samantha shook her head and painfully got out an ‘I’m fine’ . She then stopped listening to Zorina’s rambling and locked her gaze onto the large jumbo screen that was announcing the king’s speech within the casino.

Literally no one was paying attention to it. They were here for debauchery after all. She had just taken a peripheral glance before realising her daddy was there!

“Apollo~” She muttered unintentionally beneath her breath and began to suck her finger as she looked at his perfect face.

He had gotten taller. He had gotten stronger. She could just tell. He looked so perfect.

She felt her biology below begin to flood with desire. She wanted him to destroy her ass here and now. She wanted to take his meat into her mouth and not stop until she choked to death. Why wasn’t he here?!?!?!

Zorina had been yelling at the bartender to fetch Samantha another drink and to clean up the mess, but suddenly stopped as she heard her practically moan a name under her breath.

‘Apollo?’ Zorina paused and looked up at what Samantha was looking at with open lust in her body language.

The Military king was on the screen. She highly doubted she was staring at the eunuch. That was when she spotted a very good looking man with purple hair in the background.

‘Purple hair? Is that the man?’ Zorina suddenly thought to herself. The man her future daughter had told her she had an affair of passion with? The one she had not called off? The one she had shown many charged pictures to her.

She had questions now. What was a fallen Archon doing standing directly behind the king? She supposed she would have to tune into the politics for a bit and leave the girl time with her special partner till afterwards.

…

It took hours. Hundreds of hacking attempts to distract the barbarians defences enough to slip a very small, inconsequential hack through unseen. The hack was not malicious in nature. In fact it was very simple.

Aeletha sat in her office. In her hand was a tactile pad that was now streaming the Spartari broadcast. With the distance from Calnivis to the Ecumenopolis of the Spartari humans, she was impressed by her tech team efficiency, making the delay only a couple minutes.

All of this was done out of her own funds. She could have waited a few hours for some Spartari traitor to leak the recordings to one of her contacts, which she will still do for client posterity, but she couldn’t wait that long.

She needed to know, she needed to ‘see’.

Pushing her hair between her horns, The Seer of the Coalition took a deep breath and began scanning the tactile pad with her fingers. The sight when it came to her little Sentinel was cloudy all the time, though the past few days it had become slightly clearer as she knew certain things. Certain events that were to come.

She instantly frowned as she could feel the outline of the King. She resisted the urge to pull back from the ugly ‘sight’ and continued looking through the pad. She started from the right and felt slowly.

By the time she got back to Sigismund again, she frowned. She spent a lot of her platinum stores to get this recording set up,

“I swear, if I have wasted my… Time.”

She paused and a smile suddenly crept upon her face. Just to the left of the king’s head was a very pleasant sight.

‘There you are, my Sentinel. Not long now till we once again meet face to face.’

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