The knight's destiny

Episode 33

His dark blue eyes stared at the terrace facing towards the city. A 178 cm tall man wears a black doublet with a royal coat. His short, unraveling black hair seemed to match the golden crown he was wearing.

"Hooh, is that it?" said the Fugitive without anyone in front of him.

"Princess Lithia wants a peaceful abdication of the throne and releases Morgan" replied Kruxy who stood behind the Fugitive and was covered in shadows.

"Where does he know I'm just locking up that traitor?"

"That's –"

"Good idea."

"Master?"

"Tell the princess, stop her plan of attack with the animals and I'll guarantee Morgan's freedom. But remember, come here as an agreement. It's not polite if you don't meet in person,” said Buron with a grin on his face.

"All right."

"And so, I'll give him another bonus" Buron said handing over a piece of paper to Kruxy.

***

"Trap."

"Trap."

"It must be a trick."

Various responses were made when Kruxy conveyed the intent of the Fugitive. Fsosa, Flowy, Luragorn, and Lithia noticed the message sent by this fox beastman courier named Kruxy. In a room filled with scribbles of strategy, these five people discussed the actions to take before the war.

"Daughter, this is very clearly a trap," said Luragorn looking at Lithia.

"Your knight is right, miss Lithia," Flowy continued.

"We attack in one strike. It will get it done faster" added Fsosa.

"I know, but uncle Morgan was arrested because of me" said Lithia somewhat confused.

"That's crazy, you only kill yourself if you go," Fsosa replied quickly.

"Daughter is right, we don't need to hear her words" Flowy continued.

"But I still want to leave," said Lithia cleanly loudly making everyone speechless then sighing.

"Listen to me, you're the core of the assault. If you die, everything is useless" Fsosa said in a flat tone.

"I know, but –"

"I will accompany him," Luragorn interrupted Lithia's sentence and silenced everything.

"Lura! Why are you even following along? You should have convinced him,” said Fsosa in a high tone.

"Even if we forbid it," Luragorn looked at Lithia with a slight smile, "i think the Princess will still go. Then, instead of banning it, it's better to accompany her."

Lithia looked back at Luragorn with a smile while Fsosa scratched her head in confusion and made Flowy laugh.

"You're both crazy. It's up to you," when Fsosa left the room, Flowy chuckled slightly behind the beastman queen.

“Why is he glad to follow Lithia's orders? It's obvious it's a trap,” grumbled Fsosa out looking for fresh air.

“Princess Fsosa is very cute when jealous,” said Flowy who immediately turned the face of Fsosa into redness.

“I'm not jealous!”

Flowy just threw a thin smile without a word and Fsosa immediately turned back to continue her steps to get around trying to relieve the stress.

***

"Sorry to make you follow my selfishness," said Lithia somewhat humbled.

"It is also my duty to protect you, Princess," replied Luragorn.

The two were riding on a horse-drawn carriage provided by the Fugitive. The carriage was quite luxurious without any warriors watching them. Luragorn wears a full armor with a red cloth as her robe, while Lithia wears a graceful blue dress.

"Actually I don't really like blue, but if we attend the invitation we must remain polite, hehe," said Lithia staring at her dress.

"Daughter, I'm –"

"It's not Lura's fault, it's my taste that's too weird" Lithia quickly replied.

"The taste of the Princess is not at all strange."

"Hehe, thank you."

A horse-drawn carriage travels into the kingdom of Midia, the main kingdom of the human race with the Fugitive as its king. People seem to do their own activities normally. The further in, the more people.

Trains continued to move in towards the main palace and the class of society became increasingly visible. The people dressed luxuriously here and there, as well as the beastmen who were made slaves. Some of the beastmen looked to be beaten up and there were even some who were lying on the streets from exhaustion.

In Midia, such a status gap was not a strange sight. The policy of the Fugitive king that demeaned the beastman race made it natural. Slaves who were ordered and tortured became commonplace and not a single society denied it.

The longer the carriage walked, the closer the palace these two people were to. Just a few meters before reaching the palace gate, the carriage stopped and suddenly opened, revealing Luragorn and Lithia who were in the middle of the crowd.

At first the citizens just silently observed these two people, carefully scrutinizing the nobles inside the open carriage.

"That's the damned princess!" shouted one of the residents who immediately changed the atmosphere to tense.

Instantly everyone picked up stones and small objects that could be lifted up then thrown towards Lithia. With his swiftness, Luragorn raised his shield and spread out his robe to protect Lithia from the incoming attack.

"Daughter, this is bad. We have to retreat" said Luragorn quickly.

"We have to stay there" Lithia replied with a very ambitious face that silenced Luragorn's idea.

Luragorn protected Lithia who was walking towards the palace gate. The second step is quite certainly followed by protests and anger of citizens in the form of objects thrown at them.

After arriving in front of the palace gates, no one greeted them other than the spearheads of the guards. The two waited before the gate in a situation that was not welcomed until the Buron came out from his terrace looking at Luragorn and Lithia from the top of the residence.

"I ... don't remember having a guest today," said the sly smiling Fugitive.

"WICKHEAD! HOW DARE –"

"Lura! Stop!” Lithia prevents Luragorn craze, “That's okay, Lura. After all it's my fault for being too trusting," said Lithia cutting off Luragorn's shout with her flat voice and forced smile. "Sorry to get you involved."

A long sigh was let out Luragorn while tightly grasping the handle of his shield. Luragorn's chest felt extremely hot with anger as if he wanted to kill everyone who was there right then and there.

"Whoever, whoever made Lithia's daughter sad," Luragorn's eyes looked sharply.

Someone suddenly descended from above quickly and stood right in front of Luragorn and Lithia. A woman was almost as tall as Luragorn with a white robe and hood as a body cover. The woman smiled as she looked towards Luragorn and Lithia.

"Thankfully be on time" said the woman.

"Who are you?! Are you also going to hurt Princess Lithia!" shouted Luragorn in a tone full of anger.

"There is no time to explain" replied the woman who immediately held Luragorn and Lithia's chest.

Soon after, a bright white magic circle was created right on the chest scar the woman touched.

*WHOOOOOOOOOS!!!

Luragorn and Lithia were suddenly pushed away from the territory of the palace very quickly up to several hundred meters away. This thrown Luragorn just hugged Lithia tightly to cushion the fall so that Lithia would not be hurt.

*BHRUK!

Both of them smashed the ground with Luragorn's back as a friction reducer. About a mile away, Luragorn and Lithia were shocked.

Not long after the two of them landed, a somewhat transparent green dome suddenly appeared encompassing the territory of the palace to a radius of one km, just a few steps away from the distance Luragorn and Lithia landed.

"What's that?" asked Luragorn looking towards the dome.

Visible geometric patterns and neatness on the dome walls made Lithia convinced that it was a large-scale magic. Just a short while after that, Fsosa and the group of combat-ready soldiers came over.

"I thought it must be a trap, what is it?" ask Fsosa over her griffon mount.

"I don't know, but it covers the entire palace," Lithia replied quickly.

"To .. to. .. please ...," said a resident inside the dome who was crawling hard.

Suddenly the man was lying limp and something somewhat transparent white came out of his body. Siphoned out forming a long white rope that ends at the top of the dome forming a large estuary. Not just one long white rope, but thousands of white ropes stretched out from the unconscious.

"Their souls were sucked slowly up the dome," Lithia said frantically.

"ATTACK!" Seru Fsosa ordered his troops to hole the dome.

The attacks of the various beastmen in the form of [the release of savage] seemed to have no effect. The magic energy dome was extremely violent to withstand thousands of attacks of beastmen at once.

Lithia and Fsosa just stood in the distance watching the futile effort with dissatisfied faces.

"Ck, I didn't expect them to make such a big shield" said Fsosa biting her thumb nail.

"What should we do?" muttered Lithia asked.

"I've guessed that children like you know nothing about war" Izot said walking up to the two women.

"Grandfather, this is not the time to speak," said Fsosa quickly.

"indeed not. Fsosa, you're still a long way off to becoming a war commander. Because war is not just a simple attack tactic. And Lithia, try to be like your grandfather. There's a way if you open your eyes carefully" Izot continued.

"What is Grandpa talking about?" ask Fsosa quickly.

The huge shadow suddenly shut the sunlight making all gazed up at the sky. A dozen gigantic iron hot air balloons came and blocked the sunlight, leaving everyone shocked.

"Izot! You owe me!"

A large sound from the loudspeakers came out from one of the blimps and made Izot smile widely.

"B ... D ... D ... Dwarves?" Fsosa asked stare at the sky.

"Ras Dwarf? A very advanced race in technology," muttered Lithia pensively.