Tominus fell silent for a few seconds, staring at the raindrops behind the glass window.
"As I expected. They would definitely react after I rejected them," Tominus muttered with a deep voice.
"The positions of the princes?" Tominus asked without turning back.
Klaus stood upright with both hands crossed behind his back. He bowed his head slightly. "Prince Aldes is at the Adventurer's Association. Prince Martius is inside the dungeon. Prince Valno and Prince Portas are handling political affairs in the city of Dmier."
Tominus took a deep breath. "That person."
He narrowed his eyes. "There is a possibility he made a deal with the two kingdom envoys."
Tominus turned his body around to look at his adjutant.
"Klaus. Give an order to..." Tominus's sentence stopped instantly.
The room behind him was empty. Klaus was no longer there.
Tominus chuckled softly. He formed a faint smile on his face.
"Coward of the past," he muttered flatly.
Inside the Adventurer's Association VIP room.
Aldes's breath caught in his throat. His heart beat very fast. He gripped the edge of the marble desk in front of him tightly to keep his body posture upright.
I was actually murdered?! Aldes muttered in panic in his heart.
He regulated his breathing pattern. He tried hard to hide his panic from the officer and the guards around him. His face was covered by a white porcelain mask, but cold sweat began to wet his temples.
Wait. Wait. If the original Aldes was killed, then who will be executed in the future? In the future, this body becomes a king and gets executed! Is the cause of Aldes's death my presence here? From my memory just now, Aldes drank a beer. After that, he slept and died. It means he was poisoned! Who? Why?
Aldes swallowed hard. His brain worked to find a way out of the series of paradoxes.
Wait. If I did not come here, then Aldes would still die. Then who is executed and becomes the king in the future? Could it be that it is me in the future?! Me in the future? The future has been written and I will die beheaded? Damn it. I must calm myself down!
Aldes lowered his gaze. He looked at the card in his left hand.
The surface of the card transformed. The white color slowly faded and was replaced by a solid pitch-black color. Several lines of silver text appeared glowing on the surface of the black card.
Name:
Level: 29
Class: Telekinesis
Level 30 promotion requirement: Kill 1 living creature of a higher level.
This system. It is just like a game, Aldes muttered in his heart. His eyes read the level promotion requirement.
"Sir. Are you alright?" the receptionist asked.
Aldes snapped out of his daydream. He shook his head slowly.
"Please write your name here with this pen." The uniformed man handed a long golden pen to Aldes.
In the middle of the sky above the Elfier capital city.
The Viona Kingdom envoy floated silently tens of meters in the air. The night wind and raindrops hit his soaking wet gray cloak. He stared straight down, looking at the rows of stone building roofs in the city.
The middle-aged man opened his mouth. His voice sounded very calm.
"Seven."
"Six."
"Five."
"Four."
"Three."
"Two."
"One."
A loud buzzing sound swept the air.
The rain across the entire city stopped in a single second. The thick gray clouds vanished instantly without a trace from the sky. The night sky became clear again. The stars shone very brightly alongside the light of the full moon.
The man smiled faintly looking at the instant miracle in front of him. "You are indeed a miracle, Villavia."
The man coughed hard. Fresh blood spurted from his mouth and dripped down below.
"The effect of this power booster is starting to work," he muttered softly, holding back the pain in his chest.
The man raised both his hands high into the air. He began chanting a spell with a loud voice.
His body trembled violently in the air. Fresh blood flowed out from both his eyeballs, dripping to wet his cheeks and chin. The veins on his neck bulged out, enduring the immense mana pressure.
A loud rumbling sound was heard splitting the sky.
A pillar of white light struck down from the night sky. The light landed on the ground and immediately spread at a high speed. A wall of light tens of meters high moved surrounding the entire border of the capital, sealing the city completely from the outside world without a single gap.
The Viona envoy stared at the barrier light with both eyes continuously bleeding.
"With this, I declare war on the Elfier Kingdom."