As I arrived at the imperial palace, all eyes turned to . From servants to officials, everyone was staring at . Well, aside from being completely different from before, my power was sothing else as well. The power I was giving off was almost equal to that of a divine rank. My END was naturally in the Divine rank but the rest of my stats were barely at the SSS rank.
But with the skill [Archangel's blessing], there would be no divine rank in the world who'd be able to stand against . Of course, unless so special circumstances were involved.
The one to welco was none other than Lucius, the second prince of the Lux Imperial family. Along with him was a platoon of shadow gourds, the hidden platoon of the imperial family. The one that carried out the dirty work of the imperial family.
But that wasn't the surprise. The surprise was the man standing next to Lucius. Well, young man to be exact. You guessed it right. It was none other than the dear protagonist of this world.
"You are under arrest," Eric said, taking great pleasure in saying that sentence.
But he shouldn't have. Standing next to , Rose blew away almost everything in the vicinity and covered everything in lightning as she took a step forward, intimidating everyone in the hall where the teleportation circle was.
The material of the room was sothing else though since it didn't even tremble from Rose's power.
As for the people, well, they were an entirely different story. Basically, no one was spared. Eric took a step backward and so did Lucius. Even he was taken aback by the power of Rose.
The shadow guard wasn't a group of ragtag. They were very low in numbers but each and every one of them was at the SSS rank. Even all of them were taken aback but the result of the fight wouldn't be in Rose's favor.
She'd lose. Why?
Well, that was because of the man in the wheelchair behind everyone else. Zarden was also in the hall and as his mana shook everything in the surroundings, Rose's mana disappeared like it was nothing.
Of course, I used [Celestial guard] to protect her from the mana wave. It was still sothing else though. It was very strong though. Not the typical mana of a divine rank blessed but a lot purer. While I couldn't wield mana, I could very well feel its effects.
"Follow ," He said while looking at and turned to Rose, "Control yourself, young lady."
Well, Rose was also at fault there. I an, what was she planning to do? Go on a war with the imperial palace? Had Zarden not appeared, I would have cald her down before.
Anyway, I followed Zarden through the hallways of the palace and kept my gaze on him. He seed to be getting worse.
Whatever Michael had done to him wasn't normal at all. His situation was getting worse as ti passed by and now, it was showing its effects.
"Do you know how many tis we have called for you?" Zarden spoke, a little angered from his tone. Well, I did promise him that I'd have him healed but I hadn't done so yet. He knew his condition was worsening so it made sense if he was angry or sothing.
"I was training," I replied.
"Hmph!" He harrumphed angrily before he said, "Do you know how on edge of a war we are?"
And what did that have to do with ? I wasn't the one engaging in their wars so they shouldn't drag in theirs as well.
[You almost started most of them]
'…' I had no comnt on that. Well, granted that I almost started a war with the elves and the vampires, but those weren't my faults so I had nothing to do with them.
"And who are having the war with?" I asked.
"The elves," Zarden replied.
Now that was strange. Elves wouldn't start a war on their own. Even if they wanted to teach humans a lesson who enslaved them for a long ti, they wouldn't do that solely on their own power.
And no matter how eager the other races were as well, they wouldn't go to war before they were sure of their victory. The Allied races wouldn't move so soon so it was clear soone was pulling the strings from behind.
My guess was the demons but it could have been a third party as well. After all, that organization had yet to make a move. Ever since I ca to this world, they didn't do a single thing. With how quiet they were, they must surely be cooking sothing. What it was though was a mystery. Even in the novel, they remained hidden to the point almost no one knew about them.
"And why would they suddenly want to go on a war in which they'd have no supporters?" I asked. As I said, the allied races wouldn't join. If they didn't, the elves had no chance of winning.
"Apparently the world leader had their elders assassinated," Zarden replied. Yep, definitely a third party involved. However, they must have covered their traces. If it was foul play, the humans would have tried to clear the misunderstanding. If things were still dire, then it must have failed.
"What do you want to do?" I asked. That still didn't explain why I needed to be here. I an, I needed to be here but what for was the question.
"To attend the crown ceremony," Zarden replied. Oh, so they decided to make the emperor. Well, convenient, ain't it?
Dump all the responsibility on the new emperor. Of course, they didn't an to do that but that's exactly what it ant.
But I had my own plans for that. For now, I simply needed to stall for ti. It wouldn't be that difficult once we'd have to deal with this issue.
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The situation was direr than I expected. Skirmishes occurred on the border several tis and many outposts of humans attacked and burned. There weren't just the elves but demons mixed in as well which told a lot about the third party.
Clearly, the demons were behind this and the most targeted spot was the…
"Rivera kingdom," Monica replied.
"Why would they be targeting that place?" Ronal asked.
"It's obvious, isn't it?" I said.
Not only was the Rivera kingdom the perfect entrance to human territory, but it also contained sothing else.
"They contain the souls of the lost," I said when everyone was looking at . Souls of the lost. An item from the 'Dungeon of Diamonds'. No one could process it so it was unclaid and it was a target even in the novel so that was the demon's target.
The question was, why?
As I said, it was unprocessed. So, it was not only unclaid, but no one had the ans of processing it as well. Among many things from the 'Dungeon of Diamonds', souls of the lost were left unclaid and just considered a trophy.
"We'll leave for Rivera kingdom in a few days. We'll see what the deal is about," I said before the eting was agreed upon and dismissed.
As the eting ended, a man approached and said, "Are you Prince Adrian?"
"I am," I replied. Everyone was still present when he ca to . Everyone was looking at each other, wondering why he was talking to . It looked like they knew who he was and he seed to be soone of great importance as well. But I didn't know him so I didn't know how to treat him as well.
"You must kill that child!" He suddenly did a one-eighty and leaped at . I was fast enough to react and caught him which worried others. Before I could say anything, he began to yell, "You must get rid of that child in the saint's belly."
"It will bring disaster upon this world! Disaster!!!"
He seed scared. And not just scared as in scared for his life. His very being was scared of sothing.
Well, he was pretty annoying so I was about to throw him away when he said, "If you don't! Death will co for us all! Death will co!!!"
I grabbed him and pushed him down before I looked into his eyes. One look in my eyes and he was quiet, but the sa kind of fear he showed before didn't appear.
"Now, my friend, I don't know who you are but I'll ask you this," I pulled him closer and asked, "What do you an by death is coming?"
"Does it an we're all gonna die a horrible death? Or…"
"Is it soone else?"
He looked at , fear of still not as strong as the fear from before, and the earlier fear was coming back as well, "Coming! He's coming! Death is coming!!"
"Death is coming!!!!!"
"Ahhh!!!" A scream fell in my ears. A familiar scream. I didn't know who it was in my hands but I threw him away and ran towards the source of that scream.
"That child is a curse!!! Kill him!!!!!!!!!" I could hear him speaking gibberish behind but I didn't care. I was more worried about that scream from before.
It belonged to Alicia after all.
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