"Yes, my lady!" Oliver walked forward from behind. Dressed his face with a devilish grin and drummed his fingers on his golden artificial hand.
"Who did that to you?"
"Why? Do you feel pity for me?"
"No, I will thank that person."
She shouted.
His grin turned to a twitching pout, "Easy, Lady!"
"What do you want?"
"You will give up on this case, the criminal is caught. You will declare the name and we all will be happy."
Her eyes rolled on the dim face of Maxima. Was she an idiot for following Livia?
"Then, you want me to send an innocent into a grave."
Oliver shrugged in her response.
"If you speak, my daughter and you will die."
Maxima alerted.
Elenore shook her head, it was a nightmare, wasn't it?
Gritting her jaw, she looked at Oliver, "what about the King's mistress and Captain Nemo!"
"Every mistake has consequences, those who attacked you were thieves and she had valuable jewels with her."
Her mouth dropped, tilted her head and her tears fell, "Maxima, since when did you become this daring? He is your husband's son. You raised the kid! You can't even smash an ant."
Her response was just a gloomy pestering muteness. Oliver widely smirked and strode out of the room and Maxima quickly left afterward when Elenore began to scream.
He walked inside another room and pointed to the assassin who was sitting on the chair, the man's blue eyes gleamed, and stood up, walking to the woman, he bared his sword.
"What are you doing?"
Nemo shouted.
"Calm down, you are the next."
"No, Lady Narayan!"
The Lady closed her eyes, this wasn't just the princess, she had no enmity with her.
The sound of a sword slicing the air and a whimper reached Nemo's ears.
"No!" He shrieked and his forehead fell on the cold floor.
Master Gaven found Captain Bryant in the village and halted in front of them.
"They are not here!" The dwarf informed before they would start to search around.
"There is an isolated mansion near the mountain."
One of the guards indicated.
"I saw it a long time ago, I can take you there." The dwarf stated, he didn't want to waste more time.
Bryant wasn't aware of him being this skilled while growing the thoughts in his head, he felt a switching burning in his tummy but it came across it wasn't just him, all of them dismounted and poked out.
"Damn!"
"Well, sometimes it is happening."
"You could have warned us."
Bryant growled.
"You could not avoid it."
When they become better, they saw the mansion, the cart was in this place.
"Marcus, you keep the horses. We are going inside."
He didn't pause and held his pistols and sword. Storming down to the mansion, they noticed the trace of another cart.
"Someone was here."
Bryant murmured to master Gaven.
Right after that he moved inside and saw the bodies on the floor, no raider was there.
"Help, please help!" It was Elenore who begged, trying to stop the blood.
"They are alive, please help us, captain."
Master Gaven hastily walked to the woman and Bryant flashed to Nemo.
"Find those bastards." He shouted at his men.
The faerie used his magical potions to stop the blood from leaking out. Going to the young man he poured the potion on his back and whispered spells.
"We must take them out to the castle. They need blood and a human physician."
"Transport them, Gaven! I am searching here to find those rascals."
The dwarf nodded and before moving them Bryant asked Elenore, "who were they?"
"Thieves, I guess, they separated us."
As she said that the dwarf transported them to the palace but not everywhere, they appeared in Luna's chamber and she just looked at the people, startled.
"Lady Narayan, Nemo..."
She hardly wrapped her mouth and surged to them.
"Luna, Luna, send someone to bring Daniel Remington, he had settled in the central."
She quickly obeyed then returned to the faerie. Luna hated this place, all she witnessed in this cursed tower was blood like it was craving blood.
~
Kate was driving crazy, Livia was having dinner with those mistresses, but she didn't see Oliver the whole day, the weather made her blood frizz and her concern made it double.
She saw Oliver's horse and Livia's guard, her well-trained assassin. This man always was the high-ranked one of her assassins. While she was killing time there, she saw captain Bryant and his men who arrived, and behind them was the royal cart that the Ladies left with.
"Hell!"
She stormed to them and forgot to uncover her face and the guards let the pistols out on her.
"Shush, easy boys!" She surrendered her hands up.
"Kate?"
Kate bowed her head in reply and slowly her hand neared her mouth and uncovered her face.
Bryant dismissed his men.
"What the hell are you doing?" Aggressively, he clawed her arm, but she released herself.
"I was spying on princess by the King's order but she was in her place the whole time but her butler and personal guard arrived now."
"Nemo and Lady Narayan are wounded, the dwarf was sent by the king. We didn't find them in the infirmary."
"Left tower." As she breathed out, both of them thundered to the left tower. The King was already there.
Kate knelt on her knees, "your Majesty, she didn't leave her residence."
"It seems they were thieves." The King replied; he was like a walking dead, pale, and sick.
"We searched the tracks but missed them because of the heavy wind but they continued to the town."
Bryant answered, he hated failure and because of Oliver, he missed it this time. Next time he would cut his head not just a piece of him.
"She is about to die, physician Remington sees no hope for them."
Master Gaven came out of the bedroom and bowed to his King. The blood on his hands belonged to the woman the king loved too much.
"Your highness, there is hope."
"What is it, except magic?"
"The purple flames, Lady Clara can help us! That flame has a healing essence that I can use to repair their organs if their hearts handle it."
Luna came out of Nemo's room. Her hands were shaking, she couldn't lose all of them in a few hours.
"I'll talk to her."
She volunteered, for saving them, she would beg Clara.
"I leave it to you daughter."
The King would claw on every possible way to save them.
Luna turned to Bryant and Kate.
"I need you two."
They stood on their feet and Luna followed the captain to the secret way. He knew where she was.
~
The King went inside the bedroom as the physician was done.
"Elenore, stay outside, I will talk to you later."
There was no life left in her veins, for now, she headed outside and the King went to the bed, holding his mistress's hand.
"Can you save her?"
"We were lucky that two of the guards had their blood types. But I can't assure you. The wound needs too much care, she lost too much blood and her brain might have damaged."
"Please stay here and protect them."
Dan had no other option as it was an order from his king.