King's Rule: Creating the Strongest Kingdom With My Broken Talent-Chapter 41: Ananta Court

Vesh and King Aurora entered the Ananta Court.

People were free to register their complaints and any suspicious activity or crime reports.

Vesh had chosen the most honest and upright people after screening a lot of them for this Ananta Court.

Among these one hundred jurors who looked over the cases, forty-two were over fifty years old, and the remaining fifty-eight members were young, ranging from their twenties to thirties.

The court was a vast dome-like structure with ten entrances in ten different directions.

Ten courts were active simultaneously, with ten juries in each to inspect the cases and resolve them according to Ananta’s laws.

"It seems many people have complaints," King Aurora commented as he saw a steady flow of people.

"Past grievances and crimes must be reported as well," Vesh smiled. "Those who did something bad but didn’t get punished will now be punished."

"Well then, let’s see how you resolve the cases." King Aurora chuckled.

Both of them entered a court as a case was ongoing.

"Shadow Lord Eka is here!" one of the two guards at the court’s entrance shouted.

The jury and the case-related parties automatically stood up out of respect.

"Sit." Vesh nodded and waved his hand, creating two chairs in the upper-middle empty space.

"What’s the case?" he asked the jury as he and King Aurora sat down.

Vesh looked at the complainant on the left side. He was a man in his thirties with a passively weary expression, brown hair, and a thin frame.

"Sir, this man called Fernor is here to complain about his wife, who cheated on him. A week ago, when his son was born, he looked nothing like him. Instead, he resembled his neighbour, so the child is not his."

King Aurora wryly smiled.

Vesh looked at the woman in her thirties with long red hair, who was on the right side of the section, breastfeeding the child.

There were only these two people since the man didn’t have any relatives left.

He thought he had a wife, but she turned out to be a cheat.

After learning the information, Vesh looked at the woman. "So? Is that true?"

The woman’s lips trembled with clear fear.

She didn’t dare lie anymore and meekly nodded. "Y-Yes, Shadow Lord Eka."

The man’s eyes trembled. He wanted to shout why she was denying it until now, just to torture him.

"Lord, I was merely a construction worker with my meagre strength, but I worked hard to provide everything, and she did this behind my back. I can’t live with her."

Vesh nodded and calmly asked the cheating wife, "Why?"

"H-He was giving me gifts and also loves me. It started before my marriage."

"So you love him, and not your husband?"

The woman nodded without hesitation. "Yes."

"Then why did you marry this man?"

The woman opened her mouth but didn’t say anything.

Vesh’s eyes narrowed as they glinted with an otherworldly golden spark. "Speak!"

King Aurora blinked as he felt something. ’What was that?’

The woman was stunned briefly as she began speaking truthfully.

"I needed a roof and food, and he was an easy target, so I decided to marry him."

The woman snapped back and shivered. "W-Wh-what..."

She saw herself speaking the truth despite trying to stop herself.

King Aurora’s eyes glinted. ’It didn’t seem like magic... but it was magical.’

It was Vesh’s technique that he created with specific instructions using King’s Rule.

Will Domination.

If the target had lower overall combat power and willpower than him, he could force them to act upon his will to a certain extent. Both conditions had to be satisfied.

Of course, he planned to create a systematic technique inside Abyss Eyes, which can capture memories of people and store them as video to directly ascertain facts. He also wanted a mind-reading feature that could read out loud the target’s thoughts, to acquire precise truth after questioning.

"Bring the neighbour who is in an affair with her," Vesh instructed one of the guards as he continued with the case.

"He is just outside. I’ll bring him here." The young guard enthusiastically nodded and exited. Arriving at the public seating benches outside the courtroom, he called the man in his forties with dark brown hair.

"Sir, Shadow Lord—"

The man was nervous as hell.

And he was not alone.

His wife and his ten-year-old daughter were with him.

Vesh lightly waved his hand and put a barrier around the daughter, isolating her senses, while also showing her a magical scenery and making her feel peaceful and sleepy while a comfortable couch formed below her as she began soundly sleeping.

"The wife. What do you want to do now that you know your husband cheated on you?" Vesh asked.

The woman bit her lips. "He never made it look like he was cheating and loved me. I... don’t know what to do."

Vesh turned to the cheating husband. "What do you want to do?"

"I-I will stop seeing her. I love my wife and child."

"What?!" The cheating woman was shocked. "You said you love me and will take care of me!"

Vesh ignored her and turned to the cheated husband. "You want a divorce, right?"

"Yes, Shadow Lord."

"Granted."

Vesh then turned to the cheating husband. "You will take responsibility for your words and actions."

"Just like you." Vesh turned to the cheating woman.

"You both have two options. Option one, you birthed a life into this world, and you will act as its rightful parents. If your rightful wife doesn’t mind, you will take care of both of them. Think about this scenario now and see if you can coexist peacefully. If not, option two is to raise your child alone and find a new man who is willing to be your husband. Now that this city has changed, everyone can work at what they can do, learn if they want something they desire, become stronger, and eat freely."

"Become better people and think properly. You three can discuss what you want to do in one of the discussion rooms with an overseer present and finalise this case."

Vesh turned to the cheated husband. "Now you are a free man, and the city will reward your effort and spirit. Everyone who has enough desire and will can become stronger using the Training Center. Talents can be awakened if you practice and train hard enough."

"Magic bends to our will."

"From now on, there will be only one reason to make your life hell, and that is if you want to rise in the Ananta Kingdom to earn glory. Otherwise, live peacefully at your own pace and wait for the eternal truth of death, which eventually comes for everyone."

’Does it, though?’ Vesh internally wondered.

On the other hand, the courtroom was silent as everyone felt a soothing kind of oppressiveness, and it invoked awe and admiration in both.

Indeed, even the sky wasn’t a limit in this city anymore, and all people knew that, especially those who had already visited the Ananta Training Center.

"Case closed. Bring me the next one. I’ll go after resolving it. And don’t worry about missing out on the fights if you feel you are stuck working. Such events will be regular. Playground of Glory will also start once people start getting stronger and register." Vesh smiled behind the helmet.

The other Strongest Kingdoms would come here for sure, and he knew not all would be as peaceful and sound as Aurora Kingdom.

And he was completely fine with that.