Summoning the Holy Sword

The situation is getting out of hand.

 Sonia frowned as she strode across the silent palace. She didn’t notice before when she headed out, but now she discovered that there was no one else except for her around the palace, not even the guard who notified her of the meeting. This left the nervous Sonia even more uncertain. She approached Lilian’s room hurriedly, knocking on the door.

 “Your Majesty, are you there? Your Majesty?!”

 “Huh, Sonia? Come in.”

 Sonia let out a long sigh of relief after hearing Lilian’s carefree voice. She pushed open the door quickly and saw Lilian lounging on the table, reading a book with both hands supporting her cheeks. Lilian blinked curiously at Sonia.

 “Is anything the matter, Sonia?”

 “Your Majesty Lilian, may I know where Madam Serene and Sir Boulder are? Where are the Battle Angels who are accompanying you too? Where is everyone?”

 “Huh?”

 Lilian stared blankly at Sonia who suddenly asked the ridiculous questions. But she quickly gave an answer.

 Although Lilian displayed a dubious expression, she detected that something terrible had truly happened through Sonia’s serious gaze. Lilian nodded, while Sonia wasted no time. She hurriedly grabbed a few clothes from the closet and dragged Lilian out of the room by her hand. At this moment, Sonia heard footsteps from the end of the corridor. It was apparent that the soldiers had entered the palace. Sonia gnashed her teeth. She thought that she could return to the room and grab the crystal ball to contact Rhode, but she knew that she would be walking right into the trap if she did. She was confident to take down bandits with her strength, but as for the well-trained soldiers, it was an entirely different matter.

 “Your Majesty, let’s go!”

 Sonia hesitated for a second and eventually decided to forgo the crystal ball. She held Lilian’s tiny hand and they scampered toward the inner courtyard. There was no one. Even though Lilian wasn’t respected in the palace, she was the Light Dragon, after all, and there would more or less be guards standing around. But now, there were no traces of patrolling guards by the corridors and gardens. Not only that, but the female officers and servants who took care of Lilian were also missing. Sonia didn’t know what Nakvard and the parliament did exactly, but judging from this fact, it was apparent that this was premeditated for a long time. Besides, Sonia didn’t hear any rumor about it at all. Nakvard was just too terrifying!

 Sonia and Lilian arrived at the garden in the inner courtyard. Of course, they weren’t there to appreciate flowers of the late autumn. Instead, there was a hidden passageway that was connected to outside the palace which only Lilian and Sonia knew. This secret passageway was first discovered by Lilian and after Sonia gained her trust, Lilian told her about it. The duo would occasionally head to Casabianca through this passageway and now, it had become their only route to survival.

 As they fled, Sonia informed Lilian about the situation as much as she could. Lilian was baffled. She didn’t expect the parliament to do such a thing. Besides, according to Sonia, it seemed like Lilian’s power was sealed by the parliament since she was young.

 Lilian was aware of her own powerlessness. She knew that she didn’t possess powerful strength like Nalea, Siena, Ion, and even Rhode who had just awakened his power. But deep down, she didn’t carry too many doubts as she thought that it was due to her young age. She believed that after she grew up, she would become as strong as them. But never did she expect that her body would be messed with by others.

 “Sonia, what should we do?”

 Scrambling their way through the path covered with greenery and shrubs, Lilian asked worriedly. This was also the question being asked repeatedly in Sonia’s head. She didn’t have the answer to it. Even though the best solution now was to hide in a safe place with Lilian and wait for the two archangels’ return, where exactly should they seek shelter? Sonia was well aware of politics. As soon as the parliament found out that Lilian wasn’t around, the parliament would have sufficient reasons to seal up the whole city and begin their search. Although Sonia was confident of hiding from ordinary people, she was no longer confident of dealing with Nakvard. If it were in the past, Sonia would still treat Nakvard as an ordinary human. But now, she couldn’t think of him as one anymore. A person like him should have his own ways to track and find them. If Sonia and Lilian continued to stay within the city, they would most likely be captured before the archangels returned.

Sonia’s family was also out of the picture because she knew that her family valued benefits more than anything else. For enough benefits, they could even sell their daughter. There was nothing that they couldn’t do. As for the foxes who exploited the tiger’s might like the Royalist Party, perhaps they might resist successfully for the time being, but they would surely fall if the parliament took serious actions on them.

 In this case, the choices left were very limited… Sonia gnashed her teeth at this thought. After a few moments, she said.

 “Your Majesty, I suggest that we leave Casabianca.”

 “Huh?”

 Lilian stared blankly at her.

 “Leave Casabianca?”

 “Yes, Your Majesty. We can board the floating boat to the Munn Kingdom and seek Her Royal Highness Lydia’s protection. It is too dangerous for us to stay in Casabianca and even the Country of Light. After the parliament finds out that you and I are missing, they will definitely search for us in Casabianca and the entire Country of Light. We have to leave the Country of Light before that happens!”

 Sonia said as she made her decision.