Chapter 290 - 152. The Approaching Darkness (2/2)
Charlotte followed me outside the audience chamber
The moment the dooras closed shut, I couldn’t help but blurt out soeezer!”
I couldfor just now
He probably wanted to see the person about to beconated as his successor, achieve a h his (my) own hard work
He probably wanted to witness everything happen with his oo eyes before he kicked the bucket, in other words
Before all that, though… hitting Aslan at this stage wasn’t going to be easy Sure, the on and on about independence or whatever, and theh pretexts to start a war, but even then, we couldn’t just hit them for just those two reasons
Ra spread around at the morowing distrustful of the war itself
Surely the other nations would stoke the fla an army to conquer the rest of the continent under the pretext of a war against the vao about resolving all this All the plans I ca on
‘My… my peaceful life, it’s…!’
Just as I heldelse happened
“Your Majesty!” Hans hurriedly ran up to us with a deeply pale face He dashed towards me so quickly that he actually ran out of breath by the end He then grabbed my shoulders and shook me around “Your Majesty! Sir!”
Charlotte must’ve found this scene too insolent to tolerate, because she suddenly grabbed the scruff of his neck and pulled him away froht now my mind was a complicated mess I just didn’t have the et ready for war, and come up with a way to safely rescue both the Aslan citizens and Tina
Hans flailed his arasped out “H-he’s here, sir!”
“He? Who?”
“Y-yes, you know! That person!”
I furrowed lances around us Maids,their own business, while guard soldiers were standing here and there
He scanned all these people, then shook off Charlotte’s hand on his neck before whispering in ed at the news
(TL: In 3rd person POV)
‘I feel better already Although the stench is disgusting, this healing potion is indeed the real deal As expected of His Majesty the Holy King’s potion, it’s truly wondrous’
Da the ‘wonder drug’ and fell into a reminiscence of the past He recalled the events of hied away to the Black Order’s headquarters as slaves, then the battle between Nasus the Lich and the Holy King, the intense confrontation against the black dragon, and even Aslan’s revolution, as well
‘I must inform him of the truth’
Damon had secretly slipped past the border wall and stepped into the Theocratic Empire In that process he had overcome several close brushes with death
He stole a horse and injected divinity into it When the horse collapsed fro merchants He had continued to travel without a moment’s rest
Eventually he had arrived in the capital, Laurensis, and infiltrated into the crowd of people living here He was once the instructor of the hashashi+ns, so such a thing proved to be rather simple to pull off
However, he didn’t dare infiltrate the Iuarding the palace, so he resorted to writing a letter, instead
The recipient of the letter? Hans Jerurami
Since he and Damon were acquaintances, the Alchemist would surely help hiet to , then found a quiet little street by Laurensis’s sluhness in this situation will only co labelled as the instigator of the rebellion, acting under the orders of the Holy King So hi His Majesty openly in the current situation could turn the false ru that, he heard footsteps closing in Da tall before hi a robe He was someone he hadn’t met for the past three years or so, and had shed his previous boy-like visage He was now an i man
Dauilt the ently went down on his knees “One of the twelve feudal lords of Aslan, Da a prayer “…pays his respect to Lord Angel!”
Damon then bowed his head deeply
But then, Allen suddenly opened his firmly-shut mouth “I’m sorry about this, Damon But your Aslan…”
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Damon flinched a little and raised his head
His eyes shot open wide at what he saw The Holy King and his indifferent face were now standing before him
“…will have to be destroyed now”
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