Chapter 99 (1/2)

Chapter 99

My eyes stayed fixed on the iron staircase aged with dents and rust, until the roar of mana beasts below shook me from my daze

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“Looks like some of the more keen mana beasts have sensed the castle We should hurry if we don’t want any unnecessary trouble,” Olfred voiced out to no one in particular

Peering down from the sky, we could faintly e mana beasts that were shrouded in the dense cluster of trees

“M but siht, that had ently loweredinto sand and reconstructing itself into a cape as it fastened itself around Olfred’s shoulder

“We dwarves always carry a bit of dirt with us wherever we go,” Olfred winked atmy surprised expression

The door closed behind us, and while I thought ould be surrounded by darkness, awith a soft, blue light

Varay dissipated the ice cuffs that shackled ether so I could walk on my own and took the lead while Olfred followed closely behind us We ly endless flight of stairs when I voiced out o up than cliht be stronger than most humans even without one through, but I was still growing iic cannot be used at all of the entrances,” Varay answered immediately, a hint of impatience in her already cold voice

I let out another deep breath and trudged along silently Stealing a glance ata lot more than usual due to her recent transformation to her draconic form Windsom had explained to me about the different for on the situation, but I never kne much of a toll it took on Sylvie to release her draconic form It couldn’t be helped, however, since Sylvie was basically a newborn in the eyes of deities who could live for what I can only iine to be thousands of years, if not hts, I hadn’t realized that Varay had stopped

“Oof,” I let out a surprised grunt as I bumped into her The female lance was just a tad taller than me but I was a step below her so my face had only hit her back However, my arms were cuffed in front of me and they had hit soht much of it, but to my surprise, Varay reacted in a way I would not have expected She let out a rather effe around to face me, I could see her face flash in e into a fearsolare that could drench so herself, she turned back around and placed her hand at the end of the stairwell beforebehindhis shoulders and nudging h the crevice of the wall that had split apart As my eyes adjusted, I could finally htly lit corridor with an arched ceiling stretched frons carved onto every visible facet and corner The engraved runes made the corridor seem more like a memorial etched with naraving and design see There were si every few htly lit, The white light gave off a cold, e me of the hospitals back in my old world

“Now that we’re inside the actual castle itself, it is best not to converse with us or any of the lances,” he whispered with an unusual chill to his voice as we entered through the rather crudely-made door

We walked in silence, with only the echoes of our footsteps filling the hall On either side were doors that didn’t match the metallic corridor; there were doors of different colors and material, all quite distinct from one another The corridor didn’t seely rando the way She knocked on the door without pause until it swung inward, revealing an armored bear of a man

I took a closer look at hiuard immediately knelt doith his head bowed

“Rise,” Varay replied cooly The guard stood back up, but did not aze was fixed on arded me both curiously and cautiously

“Tell the Council of our arrival” Olfred waved the guard away impatiently The armored man took another quick bow and disappeared behind a hidden black door that looked to be a part of the wall

After a few uard ca us in “Lance Zero and Lance Balrog have been given per with the prisoner na a brow As he walked past me, he muttered, “Bah Code names,” as if embarrassed

I couldn’t help but let out a wry s behind the two lances Whatever awaited ahead would most likely determine my future, but all I could think of hat the code names for all the other lances were

As I passed the guard and stepped through the hidden door, I could ie in the ath-rise ceiling that seelass The rooular table at the very back Six chairs, each seated with one of thethe three of us as they looked at me, every one of them with different expressions

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““Your Majesties”” Olfred and Varay both bowed towards the Council as the for what exactly the custom dictated in situations like this, I followed after the two lances and bowed as well

“Ignorant! Do you think of yourself on the same level as the Lances? You should take a knee at the very least as a sign of respect,” a husky voice boo, Dawsid Greysunders

He sported a bushy brown beard that spilled from his chin and covered is upper torso He had a barrel of a chest covered by an endorned leather ar hisat his soft, uncalloused hand twiddling the gold wine flute, I had second thoughts as to whether those muscles were ever put to use, or if they was si my face as it contorted into a look of annoyance, but before I could rebut back, I caught sight of Alduin Eralith, Tessia’s father and the forave me a quick shake of the head, with a worried expression on his face

Clenching izes, Your Majesties I am but a boy from the countryside, uneducated in the ways of propera knee

“H his arms Even as he sunk back into his chair, it was inore the sturdy fra had The veins on his arreat bristling beard and dark, heavy eyes, Even as a dwarf, he looked er than he really was

“No I’et started Varay, uncuff Arthur” Curtis’ father, Blaine Glayder was the one that had just spoken The female lance dissipated the frozen cuffs that boundSylvie inside the frozen orb, as I surveyed the rulers of this continent It had been years since I last saw Blaine and Priscilla Glayder, but besides the few extra wrinkles, little had changed about theued, but her expression did not give that away at all

It was the first ti the former dwarf queen but she was just as I had expected—manly She had a defined, square jaith sharp eyes and dark hair pulled straight back into a ponytail Her broad shoulders strained the fabric of her siht on her chair

Alduin and Merial Eralith, however, seeed the most While it had merely been days since I had last seen thehter had been the center of Draneeve’s act of terroris on ReadReadNovelFullonlinecom