Knight 'n Gale

Chapter 17

(A/N: Hello! I apologize for the delayed chapters. T.T I got sick. [fever and all that coughing and sneezing. Ugh...] Plus my rl work got piled up so I needed to finish those first.)

Anyway, here's Chapter 17! There's no fixed sched for now. TT.TT)

"When did you have a change of taste?" Alexander flashed a grin as he walked towards the purple cladded man. "You're now using women and children?" As the Crown Prince uttered the last sentence, his killing intent leaked for a moment.

"My, my... are you perhaps, angry?" the necromancer was unperturbed as he lightly smiled and tilted his head.

"Lato Rhesia." Alexander didn't yell but he said the latter's name with such authority that could make an average soldier's knees weaken.

Hearing the Prince's earnest tone, the curly-haired man's playful manner also turned serious, although he still kept a subtle smile on his lips.

"My apologies, your highness." Again, he bent down. "Reporting to your highness, those corpses weren't from me. However, a few days ago, these undeads and zombies raided a small village not far from here. I didn't have a choice but to overtake them and avoid additional casualties."

"...and to lure the one who summoned them?"

"Yes."

Alexander nodded as he understood Lato's intent. After all, necromancers hates it the most when their 'children' was taken over by someone else. Even if it wasn't a common occurance for necromancers to fight each other, it wasn't unprecedented.

As they were talking, Lato glanced at the observation mirror and asked, "Your highness, it seems like those magicians are now showing their fangs."

"Yeah. I can see that." Alexander turned his head to look at the mirror as well. "Aren't they cute?"

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The magicians had already stopped their attacks towards the zombies and undeads, causing their numbers to rise once again.

And because Yrhan had already retracted the barrier, the knights were now having a difficult time dealing with the monsters yet no one noticed that even though the knights were inconvenienced, none of them had lost their lives and if one looked closely, their eyes hinted boredom.

"Hill, you traitor!" Cedar bellowed out as he unsheathed his dual-sword, ready to cut the mage's head.

However, Hill, the mage's leader, was a second faster in chanting a short teleportation skill. He took advantage of Cedar's weakened condition.

He knew that if Cedar was on his peak condition, their plans on killing the Crown Prince and his envoy will fail. However, a few days ago, a very fortunate thing had happened.

The Crown Prince's most loyal dog had been poisoned. Knowing that, they were ordered to execute the plan.

Hill agreed to take on the job as he was a supporter of the second prince's faction.

Moreover, the Crown Prince was an eyesore for him because he knew that the selfish prince was always hindering his promotion to be a noble. This caused him to have a grievance against the prince and when he learned about his mission to finally eliminate Alexander, he took it as a chance for him to retaliate.

"It seems like you haven't realized the predicament that you're in?" Hill sneered at Cedar with a laid-back manner. "Your prince had probably ran away out of fear. Poor you."

Hearing Hill's provocation, Cedar couldn't help but to chuckle lightly.

In his memories, the Crown Prince's true nature were carefully hidden from other people since he was young.