Chapter 10

"I am so sorry, your majesty!" The captain said to the king "I had forgotten that she was new here. I thought she knew the way to the front gates but I was wrong. Honestly, what do you expect from robots though? Nothing but metal in their heads"

Did he just blame me for his mistakes? And call me a metal head?

The king waved him off and told him to personally escort me to the gates. The captain bowed and turned towards me. He glared at me as though I ran over his favorite toy on purpose.

"Follow" he said and walked off

He was fast but I caught up easily.

We eventually made it to the front gates where he instructed the guys there to keep a close eyes on me.

One of the guys came over to me and said to stay in the back corner of the group. They said that since I wasn't wearing the proper armor and weapons, that the back was the safest. Honestly, I think they just wanted me out of their way.

We stood there for more than half an hour before people started showing up. I kept my guard up.

As they passed I felt their auras. Most were decent people but there were a couple who came with bad intentions.

I pointed towards the group who were passing to indicate that there was something off about them when one of the guys pushed it back down.

"Stop pointing! They are here for the king's meeting. They are allowed in" he said

I was confused. Why allow such people into the castle? But I let it go. No need to get so worked up over this.

The people who I pointed at stared at me with malicious eyes but made their way in.

After everyone had passed through, everything went back to normal. Eventually the bell had rung again.

I followed the gate guards back to the courtyard where we were assigned our tasks. I was to guard the door for the king's meeting. There were a few guards outside the window and only the most trusted were inside the meeting. This was only Xavier and Ezra.

We set up our posts and, as I thought, I was in the back corner. Some minutes passed by and the king popped his head out of the door. He looked around for something and eventually found me.

"What are you doing there? Come inside"

I tilted my head in confusion but went in.

Inside the room was a large table with the same people who walked through the front gates surrounding it. Ezra and Xavier stood behind the king's chair. I followed the king and stood next to him when he sat down.

There were sudden gasp that erupted from the guests.

They whispered to each other and kept stealing glances at me while pointing.

What? Never seen a girl stand before? Rude.

Ezra pulled me behind the king and said "This is where you guard the king from. That was very rude. You were giving the impression that you are equal to the king and of higher status."

How was I supposed to know?! I'm new here. Give me a break…

"Ahem...Anyways, I have gathered you all to talk about the Razaelians. I need information on what their goal is and whether they are a threat to us." The king started

Razealians? Are they a different race? I did not know that they had that here.

A woman spoke up "We know that they want control over the eastern side but we do not know how they will go about doing so."

These guys must be bad at their jobs since they've got nothing.

"We captured one of them, but he won't tell us anything" some other guy said "We have used all kinds of methods to-"

"How could you?!" Someone yelled

It was the guy from the group with malicious intent in their auras.

The guy with the hostage looked bewildered "I..uh...how else am I going to get information out of him?"

"You didn't need to kidnap my brother and torture him for information he doesn't have!" He said

The room went silent until someone yelled "Razaelians! Capture them!"

Ezra and Xavier went into action and pulled the king in front of them. I stood in place. The Razealian, the one who spoke, did not have any bad intentions towards the king but to the man who kidnapped the brother. There was no need for me to get involved. So I stayed where I was.

The group pulled out weapons and took some people captive. The Razaelian who spoke up pointed at the kidnapper.

"Let my brother go or everyone in this room will die."

Welp. That's not good. I mean, I know he doesn't mean it but his buddies...they do.

I stopped time and went to the library. Time to figure out what's happening here.