Chapter : 11

In a huge royal palace, there were many horse carriages parked.

It seemed like there was a big meeting going on in the royal palace if these many people have gathered that means it is an emergency.

Inside a huge hall, there were around 10 seats in which 10 people sat.

They all looked like they were the head of their respective families.

All of them wore a mask, and at the center, the king sat.

"Is the Ishtart family and Lancelot family present," the king shouted.

"Yes my lord," two men who wore masks answered in unison.

"Zenith, I heard that Christopher sent one of his best spies to your place to investigate the matter right, how have we gotten any information?" the king asked.

"Yes, although not huge we have some information.

1st and foremost, the Zephrons do not have any involvement in this holy knight incident. This seems to be done by some other group. The name is not known.

Secondly, the ember stone seems to have been stolen, although the intruder killed one of the knights according to the report given by your majesty, he seems to be very heavily injured, which means his teammate might come to help him so catching him might also be possible.

Thirdly, the strength of the group is unknown although we speculate it to be the level of the holy knights.

The main information is that there seems to be some mole which infiltrated our household." Zenith finished his report.

"What hmm, so he is after 'that' which is present in your cellar? who do you suspect Zenith?" the king asked.

"I and Christopher have talked about it, although the spy in our house belongs to him and is one of the best, both of us have become very of him so we are keeping an eye, there are others but those I will send you by my messenger," Zenith said.

"What about others, do you guys know anything?" the king asked.

Most of them told that they didn't get anything, and it was understandable as the terror activity near their area was very less.

"My lord" a voice spoke.

As everyone heard the voice their expression turned serious, and all of them thought of one and one name only 'Xylark'.

The Xylark family was one of the most influential noble families. Their help in the 2nd war of the underworld was so huge, that it might be compared to or even more than Zenith's father.

The current head was Ken, Ken Xylark.

He is said to be a very high-level mage. Not much is known about his personal life, but he is very strong that is known.

"You may speak," the king said.

"Although I don't know their objective I know the location of the ember stone, along with your majesty's holy knight, my men also went. The threat is very high my lord. The family heads or the high knights may need to go. According to what my men reported, the intruder seemed to be very strong, strong enough to kill a higher holy knight, If he and his teammate unite, then they might have some way to completely heal themselves, which would result in a great number of losses on our side, which we cannot afford, so we have to send the family head and the high knights your highness." he spoke.

As the king heard his report he quickly ordered, "Ken, Zenith, and Christopher you three take lead, I will send another 3 high knights. If you cannot take back the ember stone leave it, all of your life's important, I will send as much backup and support, if the situation escalates too much I will arrive, and the other members will also send out any help you need and keep all your guards to be ready. Today might even start a war, but we wouldn't want that so try to kill them off fast or make them leave our area, " the king spoke.

He furrowed his head, 'what a troublesome group' he thought.

"Dismissed," he spoke.

SCENE CHANGE..-

There seems to be some kind of tension, around the house. My father went somewhere, but they wouldn't tell me where.

Ever since he arrived back, there was a huge tension present in the air. He quickly took a huge backpack and left again. Behind my father, his butler, and one of his guards went with him.

'Some kind of a huge emergency, hmm what is going on outside?' I thought.

I noted down this in my diary.

"Jenny," I called.

"Yes, my lord" she replied.

"What is going on outside, is it very dangerous?" I asked.

"I'm sorry my lord but I cannot tell that" she answered.

'Tch, something very dangerous is going on, I don't why, but I feel like something very unfathomable might happen I thought.

'Is it a war,?' I thought. I had never seen anyone behave so restlessly in the house before. I knew that something big-big was coming and that this is only a small part of the beginning.