297 Searching The Blood Mountain (2/2)

”Very good!”

Elizabeth clapped her hands together and gave them another look before asking, ”Who among you had the highest official rank in the kingdom?”

There were shuffling movements among the group of officials as they separated, and glanced at a single person among them. The person subjected to their stares was the person who blamed himself for persuading the late king to lead the forces up the Blood Mountain, the royal advisor.

”Ahem.” The royal advisor coughed. ”That would be me, Your Majesty. I was the royal advisor for the late Valaran King.”

”I see. You shall be in charge while I am away. The army will be left here for you to command.”

”Yes, Your Majesty.” The royal advisor bowed.

Elizabeth turned to the rest of the officials and said, ”The rest of you will work with him to return stability to the kingdom and record every problem you encounter. I want to see a complete report the next time I return. Is that understood?”

”Yes, Your Majesty.”

”Good.”

Elizabeth prepared to take only a handful of troops from the army and head up the Blood Mountain with Aria and Lynne.

”Hold on, Your Majesty.” The royal advisor said after a slight hesitation.

”What is it?”

”Are you returning to Capital? Will you not stay for a bit longer? What should we do about the Durham Kingdom?”

”Leave them be for now. You have the army to help you stabilize the kingdom and guard the Valaran-Durham borders. Deal with things accordingly in my absence, understood? I need to return for some urgent matters, so no, I will not be staying.” Elizabeth said decisively.

”Yes, Your Majesty.” The royal advisor complied with a slight bitter look. After the Queen left with her small group, the royal advisor glanced at the group of idle officials. ”Well, you all heard the words of her Majesty. Time to get to work.”

”Yes, sir.”

Everyone scurried back to the palace and became busy at once as they begin looking into matters that needed attention.

After Elizabeth left with her company, she headed straight to the Bloodfiend Sect headquarters on top of Blood Mountain.

There were no corpses on their path, and only dried bloodstains left behind amidst the peach blossom. Everyone wore heavy looks as they passed numerous stake-impaled skulls along the way.

They quickly found them were to the main square where a large pile of scriptures and scrolls laid among other items used by the Bloodfiend Sect.

After a quick skim through one of the scrolls, Elizabeth tossed it back into the pile and ordered the troops to burn everything.

Perhaps there might have been something useful amidst the pile, but Elizabeth did not entertain any thoughts of taking any of these filthy techniques and treasures back. She did not want to see another Bloodfiend Sect.

”Search the area and see if there's anything left hidden. Report back to me if you find anything. Go, be quick!” Elizabeth gave out the orders to the 500 soldiers that followed her.

Noticing the impatient tone in Leon's mother, Aria asks, ”Is there something troubling you, mother?”

Elizabeth gave her a slight warm smile before she nodded with a solemn look. ”En, the Sect Master of the Bloodfiend Sect is still alive and missing. I have this nagging feeling that something bad will happen back at home. We have to hurry back after we are done here.”

”What are we looking for here?” Lynne asked, thinking they would have already left if they were not searching for something in this place.

”I'm not exactly sure myself. I have this feeling that there may be some deep secrets contained within this place. The technique practiced by the Bloodfiend Sect is very diabolical and harmful to human life. Considering the current situation of the Human Domain, who would create such a technique? This is something worth looking into.”

”Come, we will head to the library to look. We might be able to discover something there.” Elizabeth said to Aria and Lynne.