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Chapter 88: Prince Philip Pays A Visit

Phantasia: The Princess Knight

"Starla on your left!" Alicia yelled out. The group was currently in a fierce battle with many demonic beasts. When they had first entered the room they realized that the demonic beasts in this room were different than before. These demonic beasts were all armor type demonic beasts and they had really thick armor. Because of this, they were having a little bit of a hard time. They could not use large scale magic and could only use basic magic. With how thick the armor was on these demonic beasts it was turning out to be more of an issue than they expected since the basic magic was not doign much damage.

"On it!" Starla replied as she created a wall of water to block the left side. Starla and Loeri were on defense duty while Rose, Blake, and Alicia were on attack duty. By using wind magic to speed themselves up they were able to dodge in and out of the group of monsters as they did their best to strike the weak points of these demonic beasts.

Alicia charged forward with sword in hand deflecting and dodging attacks as they came at her. Seeing a chance she dropped to the ground in a sliding motion and stabbed her sword out at the stomach of a demonic beast. A painful roar sounded out as blood splashed on the ground. It was the first time she had a chance to attack one of these demonic beasts stomachs. She was very happy to see that there was no armor underneath. With this knowledge, she could quickly dispatch most of the demonic beasts here.

"Everyone back up and defend!" Alicia yelled out. Everyone quickly did as she asked allowing Alicia some room. When everyone was clear, Alicia waved her hand and the whole tunnel rumbled then a second later sharp spikes made of rock came up out of the floor piercing into the demonic beasts. All the demonic beast except the ones that were being held off by her group all died instantly.

Seeing all the demonic beasts die the rest of the group moral quickly shot up as they finished off the rest. "Ever one okay?" Alicia asked as she walked back to the group.

"Fine here!" Starla said as she sat down on the ground breathing heavily, sweat dripping down her neck.

"We are good over here too." Loeri yelled out. Both her and rose also sat down on the ground.

Only Blake was still standing as he walked over to Alicia. "It's good you found their weakness so quickly otherwise some of us might have been seriously injured."

Alicia rolled her eyes at Blake as she thought: 'You're a god, can you even get injured?' But she knew he was only saying this to keep up his facade. "If it was not so dark we could have found out sooner. But with these demonic beasts being completely black it makes it hard to tell. Anyway, let's rest up a bit and get our strength back."

"Alicia is that anomaly still there?" Blake asked.

"One second." Alicia said as she waved her hand making a map appear. "Yeah, it has not moved at all. I wonder what it is..."

They all rested for a good fifteen minutes before cautiously making their way over to where this anomaly was. On the far side of the area they were in, the group stood in front of a strange looking tall statue.

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Back In The Capital…

"Have you still not found her!?" Philip yelled.

"Your highness we might have! It's just that we do not know for sure if it's her or not." The young guard answered, wiping the sweat from his brow. For the past few months, Prince Phillip had been searching high and low for Alicia. He had not been able to get that young girl out of his head since the day she was slapped by him.

"If it's a possibility then let's go! Where too!?" Phillips' eyes shined with excitement of being able to see Alicia once again.

An hour later a carriage with the royal emblem on it pulled up in front of Alicia's estate. When the guards who were guarding the gate saw the emblem they quickly notified Alfred. Alfred, who was a bit confused about why the youngest prince would show up to the estate, quickly ran to notify Berlin.

"Oh? The little brat is here?" Berlin asked.

"Your Majesty he is here. He is being escorted into the main hall now." Alfred answered.

"Then let's see what this son of mine has come here for." Berlin stood up and snapped his fingers. His tall body suddenly shrank down in size and before Alfred's bewildered eyes, the young miss of the house was now standing in front of him. "What do you think? I came up with this magic a few days ago."

"Your majesty if I did not know it was you I would say you are the spitting image of the princess." Alfred couldn't believe such magic existed. He knew that His majesty could change his looks but this went above and beyond that. Since his once tall body was now a small little girl! Not only that but even his voice had changed to sound just like the young miss's! Such magic was truly amazing!

In the main hall Phillip was sitting in a chair next to a small table drinking a cup of tea. His left knee was going up and down as he nervously waited for 'Alicia' to come out. His palms were sweaty just thinking about meeting 'Alicia' again after so many months had passed. He wondered if 'Alicia' would even remember him.

When he saw 'Alicia' walk in he quickly stood up and adjusted his clothes. With a bright smile on his face, he said: "It has been a long time Miss!"

'Alicia's' Brow furrowed as she asked: "You are?"

Chapter 89: The Overprotective Father

Phantasia: The Princess Knight

Philip stood there stunned upon hearing 'Alicia's' question. 'How can she not remember me? There is no way she could not remember me!' "Miss, we met in Parith. You even slapped me across the face for bullying a commoner!"

The guards next to Philip both face palmed wondering why the young prince had to go and remind her of his misdeeds! 'Alicia's' brow raised as she wondered why this stupid kid would even say such a thing like that. But now that she was reminded that Philip did indeed cause a lot of trouble by harassing the citizens 'Alicia's' face turned ugly as she walked step by step towards Philip.

As 'Alicia' moved forward Alfred appeared behind the two guards startling them. But when they turned and saw who it was their mouths dropped. Alfred put his finger to his lips to tell the two to be quiet and slowly led them away. As soon as they exited the main hall Philips mournful cries could be heard along with a smacking sound. If one were in the room at that time they would find Philip bent over 'Alicia's' knee with his pants slightly pulled down and two red buttocks shining brightly.

"Miss! I'm sorry I will never do it again! I swear!" Philip's pleas filled the room.

After a good five minute spanking, 'Alicia' finally let Philip go. The poor boy could no longer sit because his butt hurt so bad. 'Alicia' turned to him and asked: "So why did you come here to find me?"

"Miss… I came to find you be-because I can't stop thinking about you..." Although Philip was embarrassed about being spanked by the girl he could not stop thinking about, he still honestly said the truth.

Of course, 'Alicia' was in no way happy about this confession of Philip's as she stared coldly at him. 'Alicia's' body suddenly started to get taller. Philip looked on at the sight in front of him in absolute horror because the girl in front of him that he had even dreamt about now looked just like his father! "I must be dreaming..." This was the first thing that came to mind seeing such a sight in front of him.

"Philip you dare have designs on your sister!" King Alastine roared out. He could not believe his trouble making son was trying to court his dear Alicia!

"Ro-Royal Fa-Father!!??" Philip was completely confused. 'Why is my father here!? What did he mean by sister!?'

"You brat! I can let you do whatever you want but there are two things in this world that you are not allowed to even think about doing! One is harming and bullying the citizens of the Alastine Kingdom! And second and this is the most important you are never ever allowed to think of trying to do and that is courting, my dear Alicia! She is your third sister and my dear daughter! No one in this world is good enough for her! She will stay by my side until I die!" King Alastine roared. Not caring how his words sounded.

Philip did not know what to say! His little heart was suddenly crushed. The girl he had been dreaming about and was searching for so painstakingly was actually his sister!? "Royal Father… You are saying the girl with golden blonde hair around ten years old is my sister?"

King Alastine suddenly froze. He realized his blunder. In his rage, he revealed the truth about Alicia being his daughter. Letting out a sigh he said: "Yes... Alicia is your third sister. But she doesn't know this yet. I adopted her after taking her in as my disciple. You are not allowed to say a word to her. Better yet you are not allowed to even speak to her, meet her, or even look at her!"

Philip was stunned. He was still having a hard time grasping the situation. But there was one thing that Philip did get out of all this. "So she is not related by blood?"

"You brat do you want another spanking!? Do not even think about it!" King Alastine once again yelled out.

Philip instinctively covered his butt. He couldn't help but grumble: "I was just asking, geeze..."

"What was that!?" King Alastine glared at Philip.

"Nothing!" Philip said while quickly shaking his head.

"You need to take an oath right here and now that you will never reveal any of what you heard today to anyone, even Alicia herself. Since she does not know that I adopted her or the fact that I am the King of Alastine. "

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Back in the cave the Alicia and her group were standing in front of the strange statue when Alicia suddenly sneezed and shivered violently. "Alicia are you okay?"

"Huh? Yeah, I just suddenly felt a cold chill run down my spine… It's nothing really." Alicia said. But in her mind, she was thinking: 'Is someone cursing me?'

Alicia looked at the statue that was some kind of humanoid figure examining it. But she could not remember seeing anything like it in any books. "Anyone know what this statue is of?"

"The Subterranean race!" Blake exclaimed.

"The Subterranean race?" Alicia asked. Everyone looked at Blake in interest. It seemed that it was not just Alicia who had not heard of them before.

"They are a race that lived underground. They were accidentally created by the Gods race and once they were released not much else is known about them. There were very few records of them. I had only by chance stumbled across a small paragraph that mentioned them in the library at my family's house that had a drawing of them. Blake said as he went into deep thought. "I see… I see… This makes sense now. Why did they not think of this back then!"