Queen Without Crown

Chapter 114 Towards War

King Sagar was ushered home by Faye right in front of his room. After saying his thanks, King Sagar immediately went inside his room. He saw his wife sleeping in the company of his two daughters. Ever since he found an intruder in his palace, he took his children to sleep together in one bed.

King Sagar went to the balcony, paying close attention to the sounds of the night and gazing at the mountains towering in the distance and dark gray.

A small bottle of Eldrige. Observing a roiling pink liquid such as the explosion of gulai soup cooked on the fire. If he opened the lid, would his reaction be immediately visible? Curiosity made his hand slowly pull the wooden stopper at the end of the bottle.

Pluks.

Pink smoke came out of the open mouth of the bottle. The thin, sweet smelling smoke like the smell of caramel soon spread to all directions. The smoke partially entered the room and made the entire room appear pink.

Seeing this, King Sagar again closed the bottle and checked the state of his son and wife. The man breathed a sigh of relief when he saw the three people still sleeping quietly.

King Sagar finally got on the bed and laid his body. Soon his eyes closed and he immediately fell into a deep sleep.

Unknowingly, pink smoke was still spreading in the air and mixed with the cold and fog that descended that night. The smoke infiltrated every corner of the palace building.

It seemed that nothing had happened that night, other than a brief drizzle before dawn. The fog is starting to thin. That was when the changing of the guards of the soldiers arrived. The soldiers on duty the night before immediately reported themselves to the guard post.

But what happened then was the horrified shrieks of some men tearing apart the silence of the morning. They were shocked to see some of their colleagues' bodies lying stiff inside the post with torn and blood loss conditions.

Several soldiers from other posts came rushing over and immediately covered the corpses with their robes. One of them immediately reported to the king.

The king, who had been asleep for less than two hours, awoke to the knock of the door. While buttoning his robe King Sagar opened the door, his eyes were red and there were dark circles underneath.

"What's wrong? " Task King Sagar while holding his mouth not to yawn.

"Some soldiers were killed in his post, Your Majesty." A young soldier reported the incident that made the palace neighborhood stir early in the morning.

"How come? "

"They look like victims of Daemonies' violence."

The face of King Sagar froze. It turned out that the effects of the potion in the small bottle were reacting immediately. He immediately told all the soldiers, staff and servants of the palace to gather in the courtyard.

As King Sagar was walking down the corridor, Faye came closer. The girl bowed respectfully.

"I am sure that your Majesty has opened the bottle given by Queen Malea." Faye's words got a nod from King Sagar.

"The Daemonies now must have been unable to hide their true form. Please take care of my wife and son, I will meet all my subordinates in the courtyard. "

"All right, Your Majesty. " Faye rushed to the queen. King Sagar continued his steps.

While at the Concubine Wisma where the girls were, the atmosphere also seemed tense. They've heard that there's been a murder at the guard post.

However, Miss Sekar strictly forbade them from leaving the building. So no one dared to go out. Although they felt like leaving the palace and returning to their respective families.

The incident in the dormitory was enough to scare them. Now coupled with murder. For those young girls, this was already beyond the limits of their abilities.

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A frenzy of chaos ensued in the various regions of the Royal League. How all of a sudden some people turn into Daemonies when inhaling caramel-scented pink smoke.

The soldiers were preoccupied with fighting the Daemonies and trying to drive them out. Now everyone can clearly distinguish between friends and opponents.

Some of them were surprised that the people closest to them were Daemonie incarnations. After that, a massive search was launched for the people who disappeared. Most of them were eventually found dead despite a handful of survivors.

Within two days the entire territory of the Royal League had been cleared of Daemonies. Some of the Daemonies were killed and some fled.

For a time the atmosphere became somewhat calm although it still left a deep sadness for the families of the victims.

Ningrum cried for days for the loss of his only brother. Princess Juwita always accompanied the girl through mourning. But after that Ningrum was pulled back home. So did all the students of Griya Pitutur School. Madam Padma decided to send them all home because it was no longer possible to continue learning activities.

"I'll visit you if I can. " Say Ningrum said before his chariot drove away from the Alsatian Palace.

Princess Juwita looked on her best friend's passing sadly. He himself had to go back to his home. But before that King Sagar asked him to move to a room adjacent to the room of his family members.

The girl spent time playing with her two cousins Lintang and Wulan. The four-year-old twins are very smart and fun.

"Sister Juwita, just stay here with us." Princess Wulan with her childlike voice tried to hold Princess Juwita back when she said she would soon return to Elfian.

"Right sister, we are very happy to be accompanied by brother," continued Prince Lintang.

"I would love to keep you company. But my parents only have me, so I have to go home." Reply Princess Juwita.

"You'd better stay here because the great war is about to start." King Sagar's voice echoed in the room as the man entered.

"What does uncle mean? "

"All the kingdoms are preparing to send troops to the Gornerbahn plains to prevent Daemonie troops from approaching."

All over Princess Juwita's body was goosebumps because she did not expect to hear the news. The Gornerbahn Plain is only a two-day drive from the Elfian Palace. That meant the war was already very close to his birthplace.

"What about my parents? "

"Don't worry, the Elfian Kingdom is the largest Kingdom among the Royal League. Their army is also very tough. "

"But I want to meet my parents. Eldrige can take me home through the dimensional hole."

"Dimension holes are being heavily guarded and should not be used carelessly for a while because the Daemonies some time ago managed to break through them."

"So I can't go home? "

"Let's stay here, nephew. If the path of the dimensional hole is safe, I will have one of the fairies escort you to the Elfian. "

"Good, Uncle."

*****

Queen Gita let go of her husband and his troops with a gloomy face. Her stomach began to look distended with her pregnancy which had entered the fourth month.

A convoy of troops passed through the streets of the capital and continued out into the border region. King Satria led them through long and steep slopes. They continued walking until dusk came and the sky became red as the sun began to set. Their figure is now a gray shadow on the rocky slopes.

The twilight is getting late. The mist hung behind them and floated on the edge of the valley. Fortunately, the sky was clear and the stars began to appear. And the crescent moon is seen hovering in the eastern horizon.

They have now reached a large rocky plain. Some fig trees grow between the rocks.

"Tonight we camp here." King Satria cried, and then he got off the horse. A soldier immediately took the king's horse and took care of it.

"Eldrige, do you think we can get there in time? " King Satria thrust a twig into the bonfire.

"Yesterday Queen Malea said that Daemonie troops were already in the Kemuning mountains, it meant they would reach Gornerbahn no later than tomorrow afternoon." Answer Eldrige.

"Hopefully Gaurav and the Norman King could get there early." The view of King Satria was far to the north, towards the darkness of night.

That night they laid their bodies on the rocky ground. Eldrige closed his eyes, trying to gain strength by imagining the gentle face of his lover. This time he fought to fight for the future of his loved ones.