Witnessing a Murder

The following day, Alex swapped places with his puppet living in the highly guarded castle of Viscount Bardrick, somewhere near the kitchen sector. 

'Dawn is about to break. I need to get to his bedroom and get this over with,' Alex thought as he sneaked past some of the guards patrolling the hallways of the castle. 

Viscount Bardrick was the last person he needed to remove so that he can reunite all of the lands that the Slyvia Kingdom had once ruled.

After that, he would only need to fend off attacks from the Armen Kingdom and possibly the barbarians if they don't stop amassing at the southern borders even after the death of the Viscount. 

Just as Alex disabled the two guards posted at the gates of the Viscount Bardrick's bedroom, he heard a scream of man and the sound of women crying and hurling curses from the other side of the gates.

Alex pushed open the door, but an unusual sight met his eyes.