26.3 Unexpected

Shaking my head at my folly, I resumed my search for the- smoke... within the palace grounds?

I frowned. That was pretty out of the ordinary. Were they smoking something in there? I highly doubted that the royal kitchens would output that thick and black of a smoke if it was food-related.

"Huh."

I guess that solved the mystery of the distant pop. Some random experiment on the-

*boom...*

My eyes widened as another distant explosion slowly reverberated through the air. The force of the shockwave was significantly stronger than the first as the smoke from the palace seemed to grow even larger. And was that a light shining through the billowing smoke?