The Conqueror from a Dying Kingdom: Volume 7 [Parts 1 to 2] by Fudeorca

Author:Fudeorca
Language: eng
Format: epub

III

After we’d hurried through the night, we finally reached Ho Province the next afternoon. Upon our arrival, we found troops waiting for us near the border. Around two thousand soldiers had moved roughly two kilometers into the royal territory where they awaited us.

“Lord Yuri, we were expecting you.”

Gino Toga, the man I’d met in a forest in Kilhina, was the one to greet me. Alongside him were a number of familiar old men who were all saluting me.

“Good work,” I told him. “I’m glad you’re here.”

“Excuse my impatience, but could you perhaps explain the situation?” an old man asked. He held the title of lord-of-estates, which was one rank below lord-supreme, and governed a wide region near the border.

“I’ll explain in full during a gathering of lords in Kalakumo, but to summarize, my father, my mother, and Her Majesty the Queen were killed by a poisoned meal.”

“It can’t be...”

“It’s the witches’ doing. Expect a war.”

The hint of joy that appeared on the old man’s face for a moment didn’t escape my notice. Eradicate the witches of the royal capital and reclaim the kingdom—a cause like that was bound to pull at the heartstrings of any knight.

Our cause was a temptation that several chieftain families had succumbed to throughout Shiyalta’s history. But, in each case they’d been quickly defeated, or their leaders had been assassinated. They lived on in history books only. Uprisings had been more successful in some other kingdoms that existed in the past, but those had long since fallen.

“Then let us hurry to Kalakumo,” Gino said.

“Princess Carol rests aboard this carriage,” I said. “She’s recovering after drinking a small amount of the poison. I’d like to find an inn where she can rest before we reach the provincial capital.”

“Very well. I shall make arrangements. Please hurry onward, Sir Yuri.”

“No, I won’t leave her before she reaches an inn. Now send messenger eagles and pigeons to the lords and tell them to gather in Kalakumo.”

“As you command.”

“Oh, what about my father’s eagle, White Sunset? Where is he?”

“The bird is resting in a village nearby. He arrived unharmed.”

That’s a relief.

“Hm...?” Gino suddenly narrowed his eyes and stared at something behind me. His gaze was aimed along the road I’d just taken.

Now what?

I turned around and saw a lone knight slowly approaching us on a plainrunner. He looked like he’d bathed himself in a stream of blood. His entire body was filthy, as was the bird he rode on. Where the blood had already dried, the color had turned to a blackened red. His appearance spoke of a gruesome battlefield.

It was Soim. As he slowly made his way back to us on his plodding plainrunner, he kept glancing back over his shoulder. Once he reached me, he got off the bird.

“Soim! You made it!”

This is great news!

“Yes, well... Haaah.” Soim sighed deeply as he removed the strange mask he’d borrowed from the residence.

It wasn’t the sigh of an exhausted man finding a moment to rest. It was a sigh of disappointment. For him, there was no joy whatsoever in having made it back alive.

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