At this moment, after hearing Princess Tiana's explanation, Leo could only turn his attention towards Elizabeth, who was currently wearing a solemn face which was really curiosity-inducing.

'Why would she even be wearing such a serious face, she wanted me to die all this time, right? So, she should be joyous that the second son of the Crystal Skull Noble Household, Richton Skull, was keen on killing me!'

"Can you explain to me Princess Tiana about this so-called 10 years of secretly protecting me? Please honor this humble Viscount with the explanation Princess, I'm really curious about when, how, and why it all started." Leo said as he bows his head a little towards Princess Tiana to show that he begs to know from the Princess the reason behind this so-called 10 years of secretly protecting him.

"Since you don't know about it, then let me explain." Princess Tiana said while looking up at the sky before finally turning her head to face Leo.

"10 years ago, after your parents died and hearing the news about it in Silver Kingdom. My father, the King, and also your father's friend, quickly ordered some soldiers to secretly protect you and your brother to honor their decades of friendship. Unfortunately, though, the people tasked to protect your brother didn't reach him in time..."

"After that, those people that were supposedly going to protect your brother were quickly ordered to just focus on protecting and assisting you. At that time, you were still 8 years old, losing both your parents and brother, you were obviously lost and were wandering around aimlessly. No clear path yet, unable to make a step, and was clouded in judgment due to the devastation. So, we arranged everything to make your life easy!"

"Contrary to our expectations, though, we actually don't need to assist you. You didn't lose your hope at all and had instead risen back on your own two feet and was quickly able to become the rightful ruler of Heart city!"

"Although, through cruel methods and the likes...

"However, seeing your growth, still made my father pleased and happy. So, he quickly called back all of his men that was secretly protecting you back at the time. He had already understood that you don't need anyone's help at that point, hence no need for him to interfere about."

"3 years later, my father was already expecting that you will send out a case about your brother's death the moment you fix everything in the Heart city, which he had long made preparation about," Princess Tiana said before pausing and turning her head towards Elizabeth.

Instead of showing anger on her face though, Elizabeth was actually showing a face of sadness and secretly whispered something only she and Princess Tiana know, which the latter could only shake her head in pity as a response.

"When you reached 10 years old, which was the said year that you will be married to Elizabeth, the Crystal Skull Noble Household had suddenly blocked the Snow Noble Household's path to Silver city, causing them to delay your predestined marriage. It was also the day that you have submitted the case about your brother's death..."

"Choosing between sending assistance to Snow Noble Household or to assist your investigation, my father, the King, had actually chosen none. The help that you receive in the investigation was already a planned help that was long been set to happen, which includes making you catch the perpetrator's tail and cutting the help out of nowhere..."

"Helping the Snow Noble Household was also not possible, since as a King, it would be showing bias to a Noble Household. So, father didn't send out any! And assisting your investigation any further was useless too since your still blinded by your anger at that time..."

Hearing the explanation about 8 years ago about when the Silver royal family cut the help they provided out of nowhere and using the excuse that they can't afford to lose a pillar of support, Leo finally understood the reason why and which pillar of support the King really meant about.

He was indeed clouded by anger back at that time! In fact, even up until now...

So, if the King had indeed assisted him in his brother's case until they finally catch those criminals, then he would have recklessly attacked those people who had killed his brother the moment he found out about them. In the end, he would just die since he was absolutely not a match to them.

Hence, what the King had done was the best solution.

The reason was very simple. Just let Leo catch the tail of those killers before suddenly stopping and just simply let him do the rest about it. In such a way, Leo would see that it was impossible with his current capability at that time, hence it would become the reason or purpose that will drive him to become much more powerful.

Unfortunately, though, the tail that Leo had caught on was his fiancée's, which has then led him to blame his Brother's death to Snow Noble Household, specifically Elizabeth Snow.

The King's plan has then unfortunately failed...

Although the solution was just simply to explain to Leo that the real people behind his brother's death was the Crystal Skull Noble Household, specifically Richton Skull. However, doing that would still be the same as showing bias, and on top of that, it might even cause friction between Silver royal family and Crystal Skull Noble Household. Worst, it would start a war between the two behemoths of Silver Kingdom.

"So, my father didn't choose any of those two choices and had instead chosen to secretly protect you! To protect you from the Crystal Skull Noble Household that was planning on taking your life to stop the predestined marriage, which they did in order to propose marriage to Elizabeth Snow later on."

"At that time, a rumor had started that numerous assassins will attempt to take your life, which just then further affirmed my father's decision to secretly protect you, instead of between the two choices presented in front of him..."

"Curiously though, the assassination attempt vanished out of nowhere... We really wonder where all of those assassins hide to?" Princess Tiana paused and asked herself, before turning back again to the story while showing an embarrassed face, "Sorry about that, hehehehe.... However, the missing assassins didn't make my father feel at ease, at all. Instead, it just made him further worry about your life. So, he had sent out men to protect you, again. That secretly protecting you lasted 10 years and until this present day..." Princess Tiana finally finished her explanation, which was then followed by multiple rustle sound from the bushes.

Dozens of men in ordinary clothing appeared out from the bushes.

"We didn't know that the Sixth Princess was actually going to reveal about our secret whereabouts..." A man that Leo had met when he just exited the Yellow Forest appeared and suddenly said to Princess Tiana.

"Karl?!" Leo exclaimed, dumbfounded at the sudden situation.

"Yow buddy, sorry for hiding my real identity..." Karl said, scratching his head awkwardly. He wasn't really expecting that Princess Tiana would 'sing' and reveal their whereabouts. So, since it was already revealed, then they could only show themselves.

"Oh, I didn't think that the Noble Royal Magical Knight Karl would actually also reveal himself, hehehehe!" Princess Tiana said, unknowingly revealing a shocking description of Karl.

"He... he is a Royal Magical Knight?!" Leo muttered in disbelief. He really can't believe that the ordinary poor farmer with a really wreck wheat wagon back then was actually a Royal Magical Knight! A Magical Knight in direct command of the King of Silver Kingdom.

"Well, circumstances have changed. Your father has ordered us to start withdrawing. Hence, unfortunately, we can no longer stay and protect Viscount Leo, since a power capable of possible contending against Kingdoms has already started hiding in the dark, protecting him in our place, hehehehe" Karl said solemnly, before turning to look at Leo. What he meant about 'a power capable of possible contending against Kingdoms' was actually not Sword and Magic, but something much more shocking about Leo.

The only thing Karl and the others had found out was a little information about an unknown organization, and they aren't even sure whether Leo was really related to that organization. All they knew about is this organization was the one that ruled the dark-zone of the Southern region of Silver Kingdom.

It was a really capable unknown organization, because despite existing for 8 years or more, only now did Karl and the others found out about its existence.

No! In fact, they had already heard many things about this unknown organization that secretly ruled the dark-zone of Silver Kingdom's Southern region, but they only thought of it as mere myths. Hence, what they just discovered was a confirmation that changed these myths into a reality.

The King of Silver Kingdom, after hearing about this piece of important information, immediately ordered a withdrawal to those people secretly protecting Leo, and to begin a new investigation related to this unknown power at the Southern region of his Kingdom.

"That's too bad~ Then, will the Royal Magical Knight Karl be protecting me starting now? Hahaha!" Princess Tiana said with a laugh. Her 'That's too bad' was obviously not showing a pity that Karl will no longer protect Leo, but something else...

Hearing about a power capable of possibly contending against Kingdoms', Leo suddenly wore a grim expression at the side, "Did they already found out something?" He thought to himself.