Chapter 19 : Undercurrent part.1

In a spacious corridor 3 maids are

are carrying tray full of medicinal herbs and alchemical bottles.

Alongside they were talking as silently as possible in a freighted manner.

One of the maid was weeping in pained expression and said,

"Yesterday i was sure that they will guillotine me like my childhood friends. They killed most of the maids. Luckily Her royal concubine mulleina vouch for my loyalty. or else my fate would like them too."

Another maid added sadly,

"My childhood friends are almost all are dead too. This royal palace has become lifeless all of a sudden. I can still smell blood in the air even now.

Bless the mother goddess for her benevolence, me and a dozens of other maids were with 3rd royal prince in a weeklong tour in the principality of Rize. So we are saved from beheading. "

Thinking back those maids and soldiers beheaded corpse piled up in a form of a small mound infront of the gate. She unconsciously wanted to caresse her neck to make sure if it was intact!

But she shook her head and focus on her trays in her hands.

Thses trays are full of rare and precious harbs, medicine,alchemy delicate glass props.

If she mistakenly damages any of these, the consequences will be severe. Even if she works for her whole life without a pay, she will certainly fail to compensate. Without a doubt this debt will be carried by her generation to genration until due debt in paid.

She personally know a old genitor whom she often talks with of this palace who is repaying his great -great -great grandfathers debt for breaking a valuble mirror to this day! He said to her back than that after him, his son only have work for minimum 45 year to repay this ancestral debt. I hope he is not purged."

She prayed in her mind

Thinking so she unconscious become careful about the contents she is carrying.

An old maid in her late 60s said in a weak voice,

"Stop talking nonsense. we are all under suspicion of being in acquaintance with that vicious maid who poisoned the king . They are monitoring every living being of this palace. If they have a slightest doubt, they will kill them without any hesitation."

They finally arrived at the kings bedroom.

The bedroom was very luxurious and specious. It was specially enlarged by using a very rare space magic item.Which make this room many times bigger than it should be.

Everything is this room is made of rare and strange materials. for example, the mattress of the bed is made by the wood elves.

Now this room is full of many powerful nobles of the kingdom who seem to be busy talking with the bedridden king. dozens of nobles are standing besides the king and busy in discussion.

To not disturb them, the three maid silently keep standing with the trays full of medicinal contents.

Duke kropp said angrily to the head maid,

"How careless you are! How a assassin women faked to be a maid and success in poisoning his royal majesty! "

In the face of dukes anger she only lowered her head. The maid is an old lady in her 70s. She has served current king Ronald Hartage since he was 16 years old.

If current king can trust anyone blindly, than she will be placed in the top.She accompanied him throughout his almost all life.

The investing and prophesying magis and confirmed that she is innocent.

Seeing that duke continues to badmouth his personal maid, king Ronald mustered strength from his dying frail body and said weakly,

"Cough... Duke kropp, maid Martha i...is not involved, stop this and let's talk about.... who may be the real cul....culprit."

Duke kropp take a look of the maid and thought,

this maid is following the current king since the king was one of the 12 prince . There are always rumours about her and kings romance. Some say that because she is a lowly peasant born ,the king failed to marry her. This story is very famous among ordinary peoples.

Duke kropp replied solemnly,

"Your majesty, we are conducting various investigation throughout the capital. We have already imprisoned and beheaded many suspicious subjects. We already identified the assassins origin. That women is related to the infamous 'Shadow of melodious raves'."

Hearing this, everyone present become shocked.They knows about this assassin squad. They are notorious throughout arcadia continent. They are belived to be from the belfry subcontinent. They become known in all of the arcadia continent after a successful assassination of a rank 7 mage.

Hiring this "Shadow of melodious raves" is not easy.It can be imagined that some people wants the king dead so earnestly.

marquis kannis added,

"No wonder she can pass through so many defensive measures and quickly disappeared after an unsuccessful attempt as if air ! She killed 3 and injured dozens of magi bodyguard of his majesty. can we caught her? "

Duke kropp shook his head and added,

"Mages under my lead tried their best but didn't succeed. They confirmed that she had some internal help,but we are not sure."

Earl Grey touched his chin and said,

"mage ' salmis of the pill containing mountain of tasan' did you find out about the type of poison in his majesties body?"

Rank 4 medic mage salmis shook his head and replied frustratedly,

"Lord Grey, I tried my best, but i still failed to identify this poison origins. But i have come to some conclusion. This a type of poison which will slowly corrode internal organs little by little. It has a high resistance to medicines. Blood letting or fluid release method is also ineffective.If not for the fact that she failed to properly inject this poison in the blood system of his majesty for the valiant sacrifice of the bodyguards, his majesty would have died within a day or two! I believe a mage above level 6 of the poison path is behind It's creation.

I have already sent a sample of it to my teacher who is a rank 8 magi of the life-death salvage path. But. "

Seeing that the medic magis hesitate expression, duke kropp asked him to say.

The magi took a deep breath and replied loudly,

"He said to me that he can heal his majesty but as fees, he need magi tresure worth at least rank 7!"