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    Once everyone reached the end of the tunnel, the gates were still sealed shut. It made them quickly realize that they had imagined they would die there, and whoever took care of that, was already told to close them.


    "Looks like we''ll have to make our way through…" ke squinted his eyes.


    He slowly stood up and pointed his hand at the closed gates through the car''s window. Everyone in the party panicked.


    "W-Wait, ke, don''t break the gates, you might alert them of us!" Elfriedden said.


    "Destroy? What type of person do you think I am?" ke sighed. "{Deconstruct}"


    FLASH!


    A bright gray light surged from his hands, the power of Alchemy and Creation Elements converged together, affecting the very materials the entire wall was made of.


    Within seconds, a neatly made opening was made, the car passed through it and then ke simply closed the opening again.


    There were no guards around, the entire area waspletely sealed shut and there wasn''t a single person waiting in the other side.


    Using ke''s Deconstruct, they went through four more sealed gates until they arrived at the Rosenheim Dukedom, to further infiltrate, they used Cattalina''s illusions to move across a group of guards outside, and then moved to the road, pretending to be just another car.


    "The ce looks… normal?" Erika wondered, looking through the window. "I can''t really see anything bad here… Everyone''s having a normal day."


    Indeed, everyone was having a normal day, Erika and ke noticed at first how awkward it felt. The people seemedpletely unaware of what had happened just now. perhaps not even the guards were aware that their order of closing the gates had this meaning.


    "It''s weirdly bizarre how they pretend everything is okay…" Erdrich sighed, looking around. "Or I guess they don''t know…"


    "Let''s go to the root of the entire situation, no need to engage with the people here anyways," Chris said, crossing his arms. "ke, if it truly is what you might think it is, what do we do?"


    "Just follow my lead and mymands as things happen," ke was confident. "For now, let''s go."


    The car quickly moved towards the noble district, Everfrost used her authority as a powerful noble to be allowed inside with ease, until they arrived at the Castle''s surrounding vi.


    There were roughly more than ten other houses surrounding this huge castle, which wasn''t even the true main capital of the country, but the Rosenheim Dukedom.


    "We''re almost there. From here, we should go on foot," Everfrost said. "Let''s go."


    They were able to easily move across the castle as everyone knew Lady Everfrost. There were no panicking faces of seeing her being alive, so ke started to assume that the guards were also unaware that someone in the royal family had be a traitor.


    "Maybe it''s not the King but someone else? Someone secretively doing this?" Erika wondered. "It feels like nobody really knows what happened at all, nobody has bad auras either."


    "Bad Auras?" Everfrost asked.


    "I can detect when people have bad intentions… Well, sometimes, it still a power I am developing!" Erika smiled. "But these people are fairly weak so I can detect it quickly, they''re all just doing their job, nothing suspicious."


    "Hmm, I see…" Everfrost nodded. "I am worried, perhaps it might truly be someone hidden and not who we think it might be…" Stay in the adventure with m-vl-em,py-r


    "We''ll only find out once we greet them," ke insisted. "Please, don''t feed yourself false hope, it is always better to always prepare for everything, even the worst possible scenario."


    With ke''s words in their hearts, everyone made their way through the castle, greeting guards after guards, as a butler finally recognized them, with sharp eyes, he analyzed everyone and nodded.


    "Ah, the Summoner! Yes, his majesty has been eagerly waiting for you toe here. Was there something dying the arrival? You''re quitete by a few minutes," the butler spoke with a calm smile.


    "Yes, quite a lot of things happened, actually," ke nodded. "I would like to discuss them with the King, if possible."


    "Very well…" the butler nodded. "Follow me."


    Once finally inside the castle, ke stealthily spread out several small shadows around, which nobody except Cattalina noticed. She simply smiled at that and said nothing.


    The silence of the castle was rather unsettling. There were maidservants and butlers, and guards everywhere, but they always kept themselves very silent.


    They had yet to meet any noble though, most assumed they were simply not here gathered, and probably in their respective homes.


    However, ke had another idea about where they might be.


    "His majesty is awaiting for you across this door, please make sure to be polite when greeting him. He has been on a rather… bad moodtely," sighed the butler. "The endless advance of the demons and Fafnir''s army is worrying, our country is in chaos… I know this mighte out of nowhere, but you and your group might be the veryst hope we have."


    "I understand, I shall do what I can to save your country," ke nodded, simply going with the flow.


    With a gentle push, he opened the door, Everfrost walking right by his side with Elfriedden and little Sapphirus who had just woken up.


    The King sat down over his golden throne, therge throne room beautifully decorated with red and gold tapestry,rge statues of knights and kings adorned the entrance, several guards lining up at left and right.


    There was no mistress or any children this time, it was just the King alone, a tall, muscr elf man, with a long blonde beard and curly blonde hair, a gold and silver crown adorned his head.


    His facial expression was sharp and masculine, his face looked strong and manly, a rather unusual sight as most elves, be it females or males, looked very delicate.


    It was clear the King was much older than the majority of the poption.


    He wore silver armor over his body, a golden cape, and golden linings decorated his armor.


    There was a long, silver and gold spear embedded with five colorful jewels, red, green, blue, orange, and yellow colored, imbuing the spear with high spiritual power.


    "…Wee, Summoner," the King spoke with an expressionless face, devoid of panic or anything that someone who was seeing the person they intended to kill alive would make. "I''ve been waiting for you."


    "Your majesty…" ke bowed, alongside the rest of his friends.


    Despite the formalities, ke''s sharp red eyes red directly into the King''s golden eyes.


    And both eyes met.


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