“Did you find anything?”

El asked her husband after he entered the house and put his bag down.

He shook his head with a defeated sigh. It’s been well over a few weeks ever since the mysterious “Divide” incident occurred. This name refers to what happened to the kingdom and some of its people. Half of all the kingdom’s property and lands has disappeared from the face of the earth. Many people also disappeared along with it.

Clyde Astley. Arielle Luxembourg. Third royal princess Charlotte Rosemary Colchis. These are three of the many that disappeared without a trace.

“Hic... hic...”

Eleanor held her hands on her face as she cried. Her two six year old daughters, seeing their mother sad, went up to her and patted her hair with their small hands.

They’ve already thought about the worst possibility. What if he’s dead? What if he’s in a land that’s impossible to reach through normal means?

The current king is also going through the same turmoil as El and her husband. Charlotte’s mother’s illness has even worsened after she heard her daughter disappeared.

Duke Luxembourg gave George multiple soldiers to aid in finding their children but it bore no fruit. It would take months to get permission to cross the Republic’s and the Holy City’s lands. Even the king has to wait that duration because of the damn republicans. If anything ,they are happy that a potential successor to the throne is missing and that the Kingdom lost half its land.

Philip Colchis received help from the Britain Empire’s matriarch. The two of them have been friends since birth so she wasn’t reluctant to aid the kingdom. She also owes him for helping her through her turmoil.

Due to that aid, the kingdom managed to recover, albeit slowly.

Thankfully, not a lot of their military was damaged by the “Divide”. The human members of the Order explained to the public about what happened.

Eleanor and George went to attend the event.

Clark, the Spear God informed everyone of an enemy even they could not defeat. It was a blessing that the rest of the Order’s members from the Elves and Dwarves arrived. They managed to overwhelm the villain and made him escape.

Although they couldn’t catch him for his deeds. It is now the ideal time for everyone member of the Order to undergo their training to improve themselves. They estimate that it’ll take three white stage mages to match Zero. Iris and Clark excluded. Entering white stage is already rare in this world.

Every nation consider training important if there are more enemies like Zero in this world.

**

“This is her...?”

In the Royal Palace’s throne room.

Philip Colchis was reading a report of the ‘incident’ that recently took place. The sword ‘Heaven Piercer’ has finally found its wielder.

It was a boy named Arthur. He comes from Duke Luxembourg’s house and underwent training at the knights camp.

For some odd reason his gender changed right after he took the sword. After the surrounding witnesses looked at the boy glowing with a bright light, a beautiful maiden wearing a white robe and a golden tiara was holding the sword.

Breath-taking. That was the word to describe her beauty. The girl looked about 18 years of age compared to her previous gender which looked 13 at the most.

“What is this...?”

Philip had a look of disbelief on his face. Not only has someone finally managed to wield that sword, but they even switched genders? Magic to change your gender must be ranked in the Upper High rank. That is magic right below God Rank.

There are no mages capable of casting magic like that in this kingdom.

Transformation magic exists but it still has flaws like being unable to copy another person’s voice. It also has many limitations.

“That’s concrete evidence supporting what happened, your majesty. She is currently resting at my manor.”

Duke Luxembourg was the one in front of the king. After he heard what happened to the kingdom, he hurried to the palace to offer his help and resources. And yet another incident happened which involved that boy that came to his residence years ago.

“What is she doing at the moment?”

The king put down the documents.

“He–She is currently resting so I couldn’t get out any information. Her physical condition is good even though she’s been asleep for a whole week already without receiving food or water.”

Many of the nobles of the court whispered amongst themselves.

Even the White Order’s two leaders Eredhel and Iris are interested in this mysterious woman that took the boy’s form. The sword is in her possession which means she is the one worthy of it.

They don’t know how to react to this incident. Many suspect that it’s a fluke and that she’s an agent sent by the Republic.

Many others disagree with this since the boy grew up in this kingdom and even trained under the Knight Corps.

There are a lot of arguments over what is the truth of this incident.

A communication crystal was on the cushion held by a maid. The link is connected to the HQ of the White Order which is the Sky Fortress above the skies of the Red Abyss Labyrinth.

“We’ll have to wait until she wakes up before questioning her. We’ll have Iris conduct a thorough interrogation.”

–Certainly.

Iris’ voice flowed through the crystal.

Is she an enemy? That’s the question on everyone’s minds right now.

Chances are that she’s as strong if not stronger than some of the members of the White Order. If she managed to lift the sword of legend and she’s not an enemy of their nation then they might have already found a new member of the White Order to fill in the 9th seat.