Queen Without Crown

Chapter 38 The Battle In The Palace

"What's going on?" Queen Gita's face looks panicked. With great difficulty he tried to get down as his body trembled.

"The army of King Bharata suddenly attacked this palace. Your Majesty should immediately get ready to go to the shelter!" Esme helps Queen Gita to get off. Meanwhile, Talitha prepared clothes.

In haste Queen Gita changed clothes and put on her coat. Outside, the guards were already preparing to take him away.

"Where's Eldrige?" Asked the Queen with a gasp of breath.

"Eldrige was fighting alongside the soldiers to defend the gate." Esme answered while holding the hand of Queen Gita who walked slightly stung.

"Through here, Your Majesty!" Two bodyguards lead them to an abandoned multi-purpose building.

Inside the pitch-black building there are a lot of items stored to organize an event or party. There are also things that are no longer used such as chandeliers and other obsolete furniture.

They walked in the darkness only by relying on the dim moonlight through the air hole. After walking slowly dodging the pile of items, they finally arrived in front of a worn-out closet attached to the very end of the wall.

A guard opened the door wide, inside which was a row of worn out dresses hanging. Then the bodyguard pulled up in the middle of the hanging dresses. There was a door behind him.

Queen Gita looked at him in disbelief. Is there a secret door behind this closet, as in the stories he once read in books?

"Please come in, Your Majesty."

Queen Gita carefully began to enter the closet and follow the bodyguard who disappeared from behind the door in front of her.

Behind the door was a long, dark tunnel. The bodyguards in front of him had already lit the torch as illumination. The five of them walked down the narrow tunnel carefully. The sound of their footsteps echoed in the tunnel.

Then they turn a few meters and then go down a rather slippery staircase. The queen held on tightly to the iron buffer attached to the wall. They're down pretty far down.

Suddenly the bodyguard in front of him stopped, apparently he had arrived at the end of the stairs. The sound of a key being opened. The guard pushed the door in front of him. Queen Gita followed the bodyguard.

Now that they were outside, the secret door was covered in shrubs and vines. From where it stands, the palace walls look towering a bit far from there. They could hear the sounds of battle breaking the silence of the night. Queen Gita stared at her palace with nanar.

"Come, Your Majesty. Our journey is still far away!" The voice of the bodyguard ripped his daydream.

Queen Gita again walked down the dark streets with her entourage. Then they arrived at a rickety hut, in front of which were moored five horses. They each rode a horse.

Queen Gita rode her horse not too fast because she was pregnant. His bodyguards and loyal servants stood by him.

They rode all night through the countryside on the edge of the dark forest. The shadow of the trees looks like a giant herd chasing each other in the moonlight.

Queen Gita felt the cold night wind stabbing the bones all the way to her joints. A few times his calf cramps made him pause for a while, then continue the journey again after applying the balsam given by Eldrige.

Finally they arrived at a small house in the countryside. There were no neighbors around, the last house they had met about ten minutes ago.

"We've reached His Majesty." A bodyguard helps Queen Gita get off the horse.

"Thank you." Her speech.

Queen Gita entered the simple house. There are two bedrooms there. Queen Gita occupies a room and the other room for Esme and Talitha. While the two bodyguards named Galih and Anjas, they stood guard alternately in the living room.

Queen Gita laid her weary body on a small bed. Tonight still feels like a dream and not yet fully digested. But if this is the reality, he must try to survive for the sake of the baby in the womb.

Queen Gita remembered her husband who had not returned to war for several months. He misses that guy very much. The difficult situation he was in now made him feel helpless.

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The situation in the palace is very precarious. Arrows darted out from two directions. The clinking of the clashing swords filled the air. The sounds of screams, blows and incisions echoed throughout the palace.

The Dewanata Royal Army continued to rush in and corner the Elfian soldiers. The head of the Elfian Kingdom guards and his men with all their might tried to defend the palace.

"But what about you?" He said as he swung his sword towards the enemy. Blood dripped from the tip of his sword gleaming.

"Trubs..Trangs..The sreet!

His sword collided with the enemy's sword and ended with a slash on the enemy's neck. Fresh blood splashed from his gaping wound. The person immediately fell down and floundered on the ground.

"Don't worry about us, the most important thing is to bring the King back to the palace!" Shouted Atmaja who was dodging attacks with his shield. Then at the right moment he hit his enemy.

Eldrige immediately ran in search of a safe place to teleport to the place of King Satria using the dimensional hole. Immediately shredded the air with a finger, then immediately entered the dimensional hole that had been opened.

Eldrige arrived at the Elfian army camp. The elf looked at the soldiers who were on guard. He then searched the King's tent.

"Your Majesty, there's an Eldrige outside to meet." A young soldier reports to the King.

"Send him in!" The King's forehead wrinkled, his mind becoming unsettled.

"What are you doing here, Eldrige?" Ask King Satria.

"Sorry Your Majesty, tonight the palace is suddenly invaded by the Royal army of Dewanata. King Bharata himself led the attack!" Eldrige said with glittering eyes.

"What about the Queen? What happened to her?" The King's heart became very anxious.

"Queen Gita has been successfully evacuated. While it's safe." His answers.

"Thank God." King Satria breathed a sigh of relief.

The king then summoned a commander and told him to replace him here. King Satria will soon return to the palace. The bodyguard whose body was as tall as Eldrige nodded. He then went out to talk to his troops.

"Come, Eldrige. We're leaving now!"

"Good!"

Eldrige immediately moved his finger and opened the dimensional hole. King Satria then entered the pit followed by Eldrige.

They arrived at the palace, the battle was still ongoing. There are even some places that are burning. Black smoke billowed into space. The tongue of the fire shriveled and licked the buildings of the armory and the archive building.

Eldrige immediately helped put out the fire so as not to spread on other buildings. He released a cold energy which made the burning place freeze instantly.

"Why don't you freeze King Bharata's army with your power?" Asked King Satria in surprise.

"There are rules that don't allow the indiscriminate use of magic!" Answer Eldrige.

"For God's sake, Eldrige! It's a precarious situation! Can't you do something?"

The elf seemed to think for a moment, then nodded her head.

"Well, I think there's something I can do without breaking the rules." Eldrige said, at last.

Eldrige pointed his hand upwards and twirled around. There was a surge of energy coming out the longer it got bigger and radiated into the sky. Suddenly the air got colder. The energy waves in the sky seemed to be getting wider. There was lightning snatching within that wide circular energy wave.

Suddenly a hail of ice fell from the sky like thousands of spewed nails. King Satria ordered his troops to immediately retreat and take refuge inside the building.

The army of King Bharata who belatedly realized the coming danger from the sky immediately ran in an uncertain direction. Some of them died from being stuck in ice that was pointed like a spear eye.

"Clap.clap.clap!"