Chapter 339 They are in Danger!

Proofreader: M_W Miss Fierce

It didn't take long for Leo and the other to arrive at where Jeffrey, Matt, and Venice had found the Chaos stones.

In front of them was like a small lake caused by the overflowing water from the destroyed sewer system. A lot of things were floating on the water, even including both soldier's and civilians' dead bodies. But that wasn't the most important thing right now, because the most important thing is that they quickly saw dozens of Chaos stones just floating around the places.

Without bothering about anything, Leo immediately went to a nearby Chaos stone. Arriving in front, he then put his hand and sent a wisp of his own Mana inside.

The moment his own Mana got in the Chaos stone and began the process of turning the Chaos Mana inside into his own, he soon after noticed a trace of Mana that he wasn't familiar with but knows clearly what it was all about. A Mana other than the Chaos Mana simply means a connection to a person who is called the holder of the so-called button. Fortunately, his own Mana was able to destroy it.

Moments later, Leo hurriedly came back up and put the Chaos stone on the ground as he said, "I don't have enough time to explain. Just gather as many Chaos stones as you can and put them around this Chaos stone. As for those you can't reach, just do all you can to push it as far away as possible!"

After saying that, Leo then runs away towards the direction of the Silver royal family's castle.

Cassandra and the others weren't able to ask why, but seeing how serious Leo was, they could only assume that it was something urgent, hence they followed his orders.

Cassandra, Ash, Ethan, Crown Prince Edward, and Chief Lago immediately took the position of Leader before they began delegating the responsibility of the others.

A minute and a half later, a few soldiers immediately began getting on the water to gather the Chaos stones and soon after putting them to the Chaos stone that Leo has said to them where they should put it. At the same time, Mages went to the roof of the houses and soon after began casting Magic spells to push the Chaos stones far out of their reach even farther away.

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It only took a few seconds for Leo to understand what the Black organization was really aiming to do with those Chaos stones.

The Black organization wasn't only setting-up a Lesser Chaos Magic Array, but a much bigger plan. It wasn't much more powerful than the Lesser Chaos Magic Array, but it's even more destructive than the former.

First, and the most surprising of all but was understandable at the same time, was the rain. It is surprising because no one really expects that the Black organization would actually use the rain for their secret trap. And it's understandable because it's possible using Magic. Though he doesn't really know yet what kind of Magic spell did they exactly used to cause such heavy rain. As to how he found out about this, it's because of the flood he's seeing right now.

Second, and the most inconspicuous of all would be the pile of Chaos stones they have found right beside the Lesser Chaos Magic Array. No one would really expect anything from that pile unless they saw with their own eyes those floating Chaos stones.

And lastly, the only reason why he was able to deduce his assumption, was the information he had learned about the Chaos stones. If he didn't know about this information, then he would have only thought that those floating Chaos stones were some defective products, considering the reason why they did a double check on each Chaos stones before taking them to the cave where they were setting-up the Lesser Chaos Magic Array.

He finally understood why when he arrived in the cave at the south sewer system he found 100 piles of Chaos stones not embedded into the walls. It wasn't because they weren't able to finish the Lesser Chaos Magic Array because the place was getting flooded, in fact, that was what they were intending to do from the very beginning because it would be the flood itself that will spread those 100 piles of Chaos stones.

To make the long story short, Queen Olivia, Queen Maria, Madam Silva, and Elder Rain are now in danger!

In order to move faster, Leo was jumping from one house to another with the assistance of a Speed Increasing spell. But at the same time, he also stayed away from those Chaos stones floating nearby, in case the Black organization suddenly decided to detonate them.

"I hope I won't be too late!" Leo exclaimed inwardly.

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"Where did King Erskine go?" Queen Olivia asked while observing around the place. They were already walking and looking for thirty minutes or so inside the castle, yet they still weren't able to find any sign of King Erskine.

"Did he perhaps holed up somewhere hidden, trembling and scared?" Queen Maria chuckled.

"I hope so..." Madam Silva replied while smiling wryly. After witnessing the Black organization's secret trap, she can't help assuming that King Erskine might have also set-up a trap somewhere around this castle.

"There is still one place left that we haven't search yet, so let's hope that King Erskine is over there." Elder Rain said. The last place that he meant about was the Throne Room, the room located at the highest floor and center of the inside of this huge castle.

The reason why they didn't search that place yet is simply because no one would really think of hiding over such an open place. Normally, aside from pillars, a wide-open area, and a throne, nothing could be used as a hiding place over such a place. Unless of course, if they thought of hiding a secret tunnel underneath the throne.

However, with the Throne Room's location, they doubt of that being the case. First, its location is on the highest floor of the castle, not on the ground floor or underground. Second, they have already analyzed the entirety of this castle except for the Throne Room, and though they have indeed noticed a few secret tunnels, there was none connected to the Throne Room. And lastly, why bother adding a secret tunnel over there when there are already a lot of good secret tunnels all around the castle, like for example the one behind the library, or that storage room they have stumbled upon which they easily assumed leads to the sewer system.

If King Erskine is really not in the Throne Room, then the only thing they could conclude is that guy has already escaped using one of those secret tunnels, which also means this war is completely over with the King of the Silver royal family running with his tail in between his legs.

Moments later, they finally arrived in front of a huge door of the Throne room.

"I can feel three people behind this door, though one of them is slowly becoming faint." Queen Olivia warned.

"I can't help doubting my sense, but why is that I feel like the three of them are familiar? One of them is definitely King Erskine, but who could the other two be?" Queen Maria can't help asking.

"One way to find out!" Madam Silva said before slowly opening the huge door of the Throne Room.

The Throne room of the Silver royal family's castle was just like every Throne room of typical castles.

A total of 6 big pillars were neatly lined up with 3 on each side, with a red carpet in the middle leading towards the throne.

Six statues of King Erskine was located right beside the big pillars, either riding a horse, holding a sword, or standing on a stone. Commonly depicted on the statues though was how heroic, brave, and mighty King Erskine was.

There were also a lot of paintings located on the surrounding walls of the Throne room. The majority of them were paintings of the Silver royal family, specifically King Erskine, Queen Triana, Crown Prince Edward, Second Prince Edson, Third Prince Edmon, Fourth Prince Ethan, Fifth Princess Fiona, and Sixth Princess Tiana. And the few remaining paintings were the four Commanders of the Silver Kingdom, of course, along with King Erskine, since a standalone painting of the Commanders would definitely not be put in the Throne room but rather on the Commander's Palace.

In the very front of this Throne room was the throne. There was a long stair to climb first before finally reaching the throne.

However, what was very shocking right this moment is, they soon after saw with their own eyes that rather than having King Erskine sitting comfortably on the throne, it was actually Fifth Princess Fiona, with King Erskine simply standing below the stairs and his sword stabbing straight at Madam Triana's stomach.

Madam Triana's face was of complete disbelief while looking at her husband, King Erskine.

"Wh... why?" Madam Triana asked with difficulty.

King Erskine didn't bother answering Madam Triana's question, but rather he slowly turned to look at Fifth Princess Fiona. Despite that throne supposedly his, the emotion his eyes were showing right now was actually... nothing... Yes, just nothing...