Possible Plans

Chapter 57: Possible Plans

Margrave and Tibbott were the first ones to snap out from the shock. Soon, they glanced at each other and ran towards Raollet to help the Holy See.

On the other side, Crown Prince also went berserk and started to go all out against Jeanette while attempting to move closer to Raollet.

Clangs, which were shocking enough to cause ripples in the air, reverberated everywhere as their weapons clashed against each other.

But Jeanette remained steady as she didn't even give him an opportunity and hindered his every attempt.

Frustrated, Huggin coated his sword with an advanced aura, slashed at Jeanette, and roared.

"Eliot! I didn't expect you would take sides with the Holy See and scheme against the Royal Family!"

Huggin glared at Margrave hatefully and attacked Jeanette fiercer with his advanced sword aura.

At that moment, Margrave also moved closer to Raollet and spoke without even turning around.

"Sorry to break it to you, Your Highness. But I won't hand over this kingdom's authority to a person who solely spends the tax money to build a luxury magic tower instead of strengthening the military."

Eliot's reply appeared firm and decisive.

While saying so, he glanced to his right and saw the Holy Knights also moving closer towards Raollet from the Red-Curtained carriage.

'They aren't bad. These Holy Knights' strength should be more or less around Third-Tier Warrior's level.'

While thinking, he suddenly noticed that one of the Holy Knights took out a strange crossbow from his spatial ring, raised it above his chest, and aimed the riser at Raollet!

'Are they going to kill the Prince?' He even saw a strange black iron bolt loaded in the crossbow and stiffened up.

The same goes for Huggin and Abium!

'Dream Bolt!' Abium squinted his eyes in shock.

He hadn't anticipated that they would use a Dream Bolt here to capture and got startled.

It was one of the bolts used by the Holy Knights to capture enemies.

Once the bolt's poison entered a person's bloodstream, the victim would lose consciousness and enter a dream-like world. Although there wouldn't be any side effects, this could sometimes turn into a life and death situation for the victim.

Meanwhile, Holy Knight moved his left hand towards the foregrip, adjusted the position, and placed his right-hand forefinger on the trigger in a blink.

At that moment, he didn't even stop running and remained steady.

"NO-!" Huggin also realized their plan and bellowed in anger. But the Holy Knight made an evil smirk and pulled the trigger.

Puch!

A dark bolt flew from the crossbow at an unimaginable speed and struck Raollet's arm the next instant.

"Raollet!" An angry cry resounded from the Crown Prince's mouth as he imbued every bit of mana into his sword and created a unique pale greenish aura around the sword.

Although it only appeared for a minute second, it managed to shatter the Holy Maiden's sword into multiple pieces and even inflict a deep wound on her right hand.

Meanwhile, Raollet looked at his right hand in shock and soon noticed that strange dizziness started to assault him suddenly.

Before he could understand the situation, he felt that his consciousness was being sucked into a strange dimension and soon went blank.

Slowly, his figure fell and soon landed on the yard with a thud.

At that moment, Abium also cast the [Blink] spell on himself twice, teleported from where he stood before and closed the distance between him and Raollet to a large extent.

Then, he took a step forward and swiftly rushed towards Raollet.

If he didn't do anything now, he knew Light Church members would capture Prince Raolett and try to use him as a bargaining chip.

At first, he didn't plan to oppose the Nobles and only thought of helping Raolett from being kidnapped. But once he saw the Holy Knights' arrival, he knew it would be almost impossible to escape.

'My Interference will change many peoples' futures and cause a complete shift in the future of this kingdom.' He muttered inwardly.

What he worried now about was not the princes and the kingdom but about himself!

'I heard that Gods will send angels to eliminate anyone who tries to interfere with the fate... Mother Goddess. Destiny Goddess. Light God. and finally, Goddess of Judgement...'

There were the five Greater Gods of Easica Plane.

'I don't know if they have the power to see far into the future and even track down my location, but It's better to be more cautious. I've to leave this town soon and enter the Pocket dimension.'

While thinking, his eyes started to picture everyone's actions on the battlefield keenly and sent them to his brain in the form of images. His six senses also heightened, and soon he noticed that the whole surroundings started to move in a slow-motion!

No, he felt that the whole surroundings got frozen in Time!

Although he couldn't move his muscle, his thought process appeared much faster and calmer.

'Time Divinity's doing?' He muttered to himself and focused his attention on the current situation.

'I'm currently 40 meters away from Raollet, but those five Holy Knights much closer to him than me. Hmm, it should be around 15 meters. If I don't do anything, they will arrive closer to Raollet in 4 to 5 seconds and capture him.' He quietly shifted his attention towards Margrave and Tibbott and noticed something was off about them.

'Although they are closer to Raollet, they are running a little slower due to their old age.'

As for the ordinary soldiers, he didn't even glance at them and began to think of a plan.

'Plan: A. Instead of going to Raollet to help him, I can move towards the Holy Maiden now, sneak attack on her, and kill her on the spot. Once I did that, the whole scheme would go into a poof.' He knew that it wasn't hard for him to assassinate her at this moment.

'She is in a most vulnerable state now.'

But he instantly declined that idea.

'Killing her would be more like making the enemy of the Light Church itself. Prince Huggin and Prince Raollet won't face many problems because of the presence of Academic Mages, but that can't be said true for me. The Light Church will get frustrated due to the death of God's chosen one and shift their full attention towards me. Their fury won't be lighter. I don't want to be chased down by these religious maniacs.'

'Plan: B. I can let the Holy Knights take Raollet and allow them to think that they had achieved their purpose. But when they loosen their guards, I'll sneak up on them from behind and kill them using my High-Tier Sword. Let's see how powerful the wrath of the sword's creator is. Anyway, it's a most realistic plan.'

'Plan: C. Kill Margrave and Tibbott instead and ruin their whole plan on getting the Magic Tower's blueprint... Nah, even if Margrave dies here, there are two more Dukes out there to accomplish the Holy See's mission. Moreover, I'll become the enemy of Nicolaus if I kill Tibbott now.' He instantly shook that idea.

He chose to Plan B and thought of continuing forward but noticed that he remained in the frozen state!

'Wait... How the hell am I supposed to move?' He sighed inside and decided to utilize the Time.

He calmly shifted his gaze towards the slightly right side and soon noticed that his friend Nicolaus was directly staring at him!

He showed a surprised expression at that moment and even seemed to be planning on moving in his direction!

'No good. Nicolaus noticed me. I've to do something to stop him from warning others-' At that moment, he suddenly noticed that the frozen surroundings started to move and soon curled his lips upward.

On the other hand, Nicolaus hurriedly moved in his direction and waved at him.

"B-Brother T-Thallan! What are you doing here?" He asked with a stiff expression.

On the other hand, Abium also showed a confused look and spoke.

"Nicolaus! I overheard noises suddenly, so I came here to see. What is happening here?"

"Some robbers infiltrated our fortress, Brother. We are trying to arrest them."

'Moron! If you want to tell a lie, tell something believable.' Abium coldly snorted inside as he arrived closer to Nicolaus and responded sarcastically.

"Heh, I never knew you guys had the power to order the Holy Knights to capture small thieves."

As Abium spoke, he suddenly clenched his left fist and punched him.

Due to the sudden punch, Nicolaus bent forward and opened his mouth in pain, but no words came out.

On the other hand, Abium immediately smacked Nicolaus's nape using the sword hilt and calmly ran past him.

Meanwhile, Nicolaus stared at him with disbelieving eyes and asked in shock.

"W-Why?"

"Well, I just need you to keep your mouth shut until everything is over."

Saying so, he once again sprinted towards Raollet.