Chapter 15 Castle of the royal family

"Rumbles"

"Give me all your mana, child."

I did what he told me. My mana started to move in only one direction, and that was the black moon-shaped tattoo. The manna came to that place; My whole body became sweaty and I experienced a bit of dizziness with the urge to vomit. I felt like they were taking all the energy I needed to move every muscle in my body. It was like something was trying to extract everything from me and leave me with nothing.

The mana ran out and, as if it were almost two pools of mana, all that mana was absorbed simply by moving it to the moon-shaped tattoo. Suddenly, I felt that the entire place became dark, a darkness that was even stronger than the light itself. I felt like my eyes were closed, but they were really open. Then, a voice echoed outside the carriage. I quickly opened the door with some staggers due to lack of mana.

I got out of the carriage. Endless darkness showed itself wherever he looked. I couldn't see anything, just endless darkness. This brought back memories of when I felt that cold and darkness on the verge of death; It was similar, but at the same time it wasn't. I felt like this darkness belonged to me. When I looked towards where Josephine was on the ground and the hooded wizard, I saw a third person, and that was Encrid.

"It's the same as when I first saw it."

He had those same facial features: black hair, black eyes but with purple tones that stood out. A height of approximately 1.80, very tall for ordinary people, a body as if it had been trained for several years without the use of steroids, with a completely dark suit.

"Hahaha, I can finally move."

were the words he said when he appeared. He seemed like a psychopath, but he wasn't, he was just happy to have a human body. That was just fun for him, being able to move freely without being in the form of a tattoo and then a sword.

"Now you are a problem for my descendant and his future wives."

My face crumpled when he said those words. He wanted to punch him, but he wasn't in the tattoo shape of him to just pinch him.

"This jerk is always up to that bad joke."

Thinking, I stared to see what would happen next. Seeing Encrid be this strong just by giving him all my mana, which might be considered very little to others, just makes him seem like an exponential amount of mana. By looking, he could tell that that hooded wizard would be in serious trouble.

W—who are you?" the magician asked, but his voice was so fragile that it was even sad.

"A puny third circle magician is asking me something that should not be asked."

"L—long, damn. That bastard didn't tell me anything about this..."

The magician tried to run, but for some reason it was impossible. However, when I heard those words at the end, I realized that he had been sent, therefore, I approached him.

"Who sent you?"

He looked up, I stared at him with immeasurable depth, I watched him coldly trying to instill even more fear in him. In fact, I would even say that this wizard is insignificant, but I am barely a first circle wizard, and it wouldn't sound good to say that. So I just stared at him and asked the same question again.

"Who sent you? If you don't answer, you will die very painfully."

I admit that I don't want to spill blood again, but there are always people like this who will try to kill you at any cost. Therefore, even if he wants a new life without regret, he must still be murdered in this place. I couldn't help it, but it is for the safety not only of myself, but also of countless families who were possibly murdered by this magician.

"I will ask you once again: who sent you?"

"…"

He looked nervous, but his lips parted as my gaze intensified even more.

"It was—it was Duke Edmund Blackwood. He sent me and told me that he must kill someone named Asher Frostblade. Just know that, please let me…"

He was going to do it first, but Encrid got in the way and the wizard's head flew into the air. I was really going to do it, but…

"Wow, you don't even care about killing people. Boy, you're starting to interest me even more."

"Hey… I think your body is not right."

"…"

He looked at the middle of his body; It was slowly evaporating. We just looked at each other with an expression of "what's going on?"

"I think my time is up. Well, it's time for me to return to your arm like a tattoo," he said sarcastically, and with that he ended up evaporating. Then I looked at my arm and sure enough, there was the tattoo again and the darkness disappeared revealing the sunlight.

Then I looked at the magician's lifeless body. I looked at his arm and it had three white circles in the shape of lightning, but in a circle. If a mage has a certain element, the shape of that element is engraved and formed into a circle surrounding the mage's arm. Therefore, because of the lightning shape he has...

"This wizard is of the electric element."

There are strong elements and also weak elements, but each has its advantages, even better than the strong elements. It is like a cycle that repeats itself with a strong and a weak, but the weak always has a trick that makes it compare with the strong.

Finally I looked at Josephine; She was lying on the ground, fainted and with serious injuries.

"Sigh".

I walked and approached the carriage. I looked out the window from outside; Gloriana and Luna were in a dream.

"Since when did they...?"

"It was me, I can't let them see me that easily, but they will wake up in four hours," said Encrid.

I walked further and there was a middle-aged man sitting while he was holding a rope. The man was passed out. I looked around and everyone was on the ground.

"This will take me a long time."

***

-Change of scene.

Almost five hours had passed. In the distance you could see a huge wall that, instead of surrounding the city, seemed like it wasn't. That means that Mengrana City is so big that it is not possible to see the wall from around the corner. It was completely a straight wall in my view, but in reality that wall is round and covers an entire city.

I had finished mounting all the knights on their horses and I kept an eye out for any horses to stray from the path, so it was very frustrating.

The middle-aged man who was directing and controlling the knights pushing the carriage is passed out, so I took the initiative to do his job. I did everything by myself until now.

"Hmm, what happened?"

I looked out a small window behind me. Luna had just woken up.

"You passed out," I replied.

"What are you doing there, and Mr. Edgar?"

I looked to my side and saw the middle-aged man asleep just like everyone else. Luna was referring to this man who was next to me.

"Are you talking about this Mr. Edgar? He is fainted too, in fact, everyone is."

"W—what happened?"

The minutes passed quickly and I explained the situation. Obviously, I didn't mention Encrid and made up a story.

An unknown man appeared out of nowhere and then defeated the magician who attacked us. He then cast a spell that made everyone present faint, and the man left me in charge of taking them to the city and then left.

A short but completely invented story. I didn't know why Encrid wanted to hide, but I did my best to avoid any information about him.

"So, that's what happened?"

"That's right, when the knights wake up, you explain to them what happened."

"Alright".

Finally time passed. An hour later, we were almost at the entrance to the city. There was a group of more than twenty knights and, seeing their strength, I could more or less make a guess of their ability. I came to the conclusion that all of these knights could defeat three circle mages easily.

The knights had woken up and were in a state of confusion, as was the man next to me. He had woken up, so I went back inside the carriage. Luna and Gloriana were wide awake and still talking, but I was just watching out the window. Finally, the carriage stopped.

Several knights who were at the entrance of the city moved forward and spoke with the other knights, especially Josephine, who turned out to be the leader of these knights. Although he was a bit weak compared to the others, they seemed to respect him.

Josephine approached the carriage door and opened it.

"Princess, we will arrive at the castle in a few minutes, so you can relax," Josephine said.

She looked at me with a cold gaze, but I ignored it. The carriage continued to move forward as we entered the city.

The landscapes of a medieval city were so incredible that I couldn't take my eyes off. When I looked ahead and stuck my head out to get a better look, I saw a castle so huge that, at a glance, it was definitely huge. So what would it be like to be inside that whole castle? It would be even more decorative than Edmund's mansion.

"W—why is it so big?"

"Because the royal family deserves a place this big," Luna replied.

"But that... is too big."

"Don't tell me, ask the previous King that he decided to make a castle this big," Luna said.

"Do you mean the ninth circle mage Belgir Mengral?"

"How do you know his name? I thought only the wizard families and the royal family themselves knew about him."

"..."

So why did that book have that information? Should I have brought it? But I left it on purpose since it was just a book in those slave rooms, but I never thought that it was a book that contained hidden information of the royal family.

So who wrote that book and for what purpose? Now I didn't understand anything.

"Well, I only read it in a book I had found."

"It's okay, after all you don't want to tell me about your magic either."

"..."

"Sigh".

It's not that I don't want to say it, I just don't know what this magic is. Although I know who has the answer, they may not answer me at the moment, so I would wait a while before asking the origin of this darkness magic.

"Deaf sound."

Gates were heard opening. When I looked out the window, I was right at the entrance to the castle. It was so huge that I couldn't see the end of it, just huge.

The carriage stopped at what seemed to be the direct entrance to the castle. Josephine opened the door and guards lined up in rows bowed just at the entrance. Gloriana, as expected, came out first.

"We welcome Princess Gloriana."

They all saluted at the same time. I looked at Luna, who was next to me.

"And where does she come in? I don't think it would be a good idea to come in here, would it?"

"Hahaha, don't worry, just stay close to me. We have to enter the royal hall, it's where the king and queen are."

"..."

I felt very unsure if I should really go in. Right at this moment, I still had a chance to get out of the carriage and head straight to the exit without any problem, but I had to go in; My instincts said I should do it.

"Are there wizards in there?"

"Of course, do you think no one protects the king and queen? They are magicians up to the seventh circle and the headmaster of the Laosa Academy, a ninth circle."

"..."

It just surprised me. Inside this huge castle is a ninth circle wizard. It could be my chance to even get into that academy, but what if it doesn't? What would happen if everyone in there found out that I was a commoner? Being the king, he should be neutral with people's titles and positions, right?

"Sigh".

I finally got out of the carriage. Silence invaded, but quickly the knights shouted in joy.

"Welcome Miss Luna Hazard."

They just said that and we entered through some large oak doors. Behind that door, a hallway decorated with things even more valuable than Duke Edmund's mansion. Everything was decorated with objects more valuable than that mansion, and all this in a hallway about fifty meters long. On each side of the hallway were doors. The place itself is too big and this is barely a small hallway compared to the entire castle.

We finally exited the hallway and two large doors opened causing a sound. There were twelve pillars on each side of the place, a red carpet leading to the end of the gigantic hall. At the end of the carpet were four seats, which seemed to be the thrones of the king and queen.

The king and queen were in the center, with two thrones that appeared to be made of pure gold and two silver thrones next to the gold thrones.

Silence filled the large room as Gloriana spoke happily.

"Father, I have arrived."

"Daughter, are you okay? Those dirty kidnappers didn't do anything to you, did they?"

"..."

The king got up and ran to hug Gloriana. Gloriana is definitely someone very special to this king. However, the queen was not there; All the thrones were empty, except for the king, who had just left his throne alone to embrace Gloriana.

"Well, I don't care, but..." I looked at Gloriana and she managed to see me in an instant.

"Father, he was the one who kept me safe."

With those words, the king looked at me. His eyes swept over my entire body and he seemed completely unaffected until he spoke.

"You are a commoner, but you kept my dear daughter safe."

I thought he would speak to me like Edmund or the knight Josephine, but the king kept his calm and serene gaze. He then started walking and approached me and said:

"Ask me anything, I'll gladly give it to you," he said kindly.