111 Leap of Faith (1/2)

Your highness!

The words rang like thunder in his ears. Owen could not believe what he was hearing!

Your highness!? He scoured his memory but couldn't remember there ever being such a young figure among the royal members.

Wait a minute! The missing prince should also be around this boy's age…

Is… is he the prince?

After recovering from his concussion, Owen felt like he was doused in a basin of cold water and couldn't stop shivering in fear. He kept silent and looked up at the young figure in royal garment with trepidation.

He knew he had not left a good impression on the prince and the accumulative crimes he had committed over the years was enough to sentence him to death a hundred times over.

If the prince decides to dig into his history, his life would be as good as forfeited. That is if he was still even able to keep his life after just offending the prince.

Owen was as silent as a night owl. He did not dare to let out a single fart and awaited the prince's next words. The prince's following words would be like the edict of heaven. His life and death could be decided with a single word.

”Did my mother send you all here to defend the wall?” Leon inquired.

The return of the prince to the royal palace was already old news. Such momentous news naturally travels through the palace very fast and every palace guard and maids were made aware of this fact from an early point.

In the off chance that someone among the palace guards did happen to not know who the prince was, then that person must have been a turd with hearing problem or have been living under rock in some unknown corners of the palace.

”I want to open the gate and let all the commoners in. Are there any problems with that?” Leon said coolly.

”There are no problems, your highness. We have been ordered to save as many commoners as we can by her majesty, before defending the wall to the best of our abilities.”

”Good. Begin immediately. Much time has been lost.”

”Yes, your highness!” Isaac said proudly, before turning to the other palace guards to direct them. A total of fifty palace guards have arrived.

By Leon's calculations that was a total of two hundred guards sent to the four districts. The palace most likely wasn't many palace guards left behind to guard the royal palace.

”Go open the gates!”

Isaac issued his commands, followed by a string of instructions to control the flow of commoners.

The city guards managing the wall watched on dumbly as the palace guards took over their role. They turn their heads to Owen for instructions, but he pretended they did not see him. He wanted to silently curse them.

Don't look at me dammit!

He was quite happy when the prince didn't mention him immediately when talking to the palace guard leader.

He had this vain hope that the prince had forgotten about him, but in fact, Leon had not. He was simply preoccupied with getting the commoners to start entering the Upper District as soon as possible.

Now that it was settled and the commoners began entering, he refocused his attention on Owen coldly.

”You.”

”Y-Yes, your highness? What are your instructions?” Owen trembled.

”I order you and all your men to get out there and cover the commoners retreat. None of you can return if there is even one commoner left behind, do you accept?”

”Y-Y-Yes, your highness! I hear and obey.” Owen complied obediently, but his face still paled at the mission.

What they had to do was not much different to a suicide mission if no one else were to assist them.

His men only consist of first step to second step awakeners, and they did not wear full body metal armor like the palace guards. Thus, they would be very vulnerable to the crawler's attacks.

The city guards heard the prince's words and paled when their captain agreed.

”Y-Your highness, there are too many people pouring in through the entrance. If we forced our way through, it will slow down the flow of people entering.” A city guard protested with a poor excuse.

Leon had no intention of taking no for an answer from these pot-bellied city guards. They will do as they are told.

”Do you need me to teach you how to leave?” Leon coldly at the city guard just now.

”Y-Yes.”

When the city guard answered. The others stepped away from him in fear of being implicated in whatever the prince planned do to the person.

”Very well. Let me show you how exactly you should all get out there and help the commoners without using the entrance.” Leon said darkly.

Before the daring city guard could react, he was grabbed by the leg and taken over the fifty feet upper wall.

”AHHH!”