The prince moved forward without any worries even though the circular corridor is very dark and his eyesight is not so good compared to the enemies. He is not worried about the enemies at all, he is worried about the plan he was working on!
What was it? of course a plan to escape from this place, but not by the means through which we are expecting. It was never his original plan to run away from this place by fighting enemies. Clearly, he can't... The plan was only to get back to his palace, and for how...?
"Damit! what's this place? I feel like I have almost made a full circuit, but I couldn't find a single enemy after that. I want to get out of this place right now!" The prince got frustrated at this situation and yelled.
Who will not get frustrated after getting in inside an endless circle with seemingly no way out? Moreover, he is not even sure that he is still inside enemies fortress, after getting out of the interrogation chamber the whole place is just a vast corridor with no one around. Who will believe that this is the same Fortress they were attacking in the morning?
"Was she purposely lying about letting me go? and here I believed that lie and now I'm wasting my mana when I should have reserved it for escaping." The prince began to doubt her word and slowed his pace of running.
On the way here, he again saw two huge doors. That time he tried to open them, but he failed. He then realized that the doors are actually very strong than a normal door and at least need a good enchanted weapon to break it. He left the idea about going through those doors as he is already running low on mana, which is still far less than the required mana he needs to escape at a safe distance from this place.
He only agreed on the bet because he believed it to be at least half-truth... and it's all he needed! he doesn't need a guarantee from an enemy that she will not back down on her word and capture him again if he managed to get out of the Fortress.
// Tracy's room //
// Tracy P.O.V //
Tracy is sitting on a chair after coming back from the Interrogation chamber and Seren is carefully examining the Shadow-nerf that Hugo gave back to her with the hands of a troop, he had almost forgotten about it, the weapon is very precious to her. So after suddenly remembering about the possession, he immediately returned it with the help of a troop standing beside him. While Tracy is actually looking inside a 'Surveillance crystal' is placed on the table. It is just like any mirror but what you see inside it is not you, but live footage of any corner of the Fortress it has been covering.
Right now, she is watching the movements of the prince while simultaneously switching with the site of the captured army being punished.
"Alas~ *compassion* what a fool with talent." I gave him a chance, but he is fooling around without knowing what to do. Seriously! he even tried to break those metal doors which even I can't break without any strong enchanted weapon. *facepalm*
Now I really don't care about the bet, *disappointed* I will have him capture... I ordered my guards on the ground floor to capture the prince if he comes down from the Underground chamber and be careful as he is carrying the 'Crossbow Dart'.
I glanced back at Seren, "Dear! she is still fondling with that 'Shadow-nerf'."
*Thoughts* "I can understand her, as I care about her the most. The shadow-nerf is given by her mother and she loves her mother and father more than anyone, but it was just out there for at most four hours and she is behaving like she has found back her treasure lost centuries ago. Hmph, I know it's not even that precious and helpful she claims it to be... It can't protect her better than me." *Slight envious tone*
So, I turned my attention back at the Surveillance-crystal and switched to the side of Hugo and Amzi, they are still not doing anything and the Enemies are given lashes after unarming their armours. I'm just surprised Hugo hasn't done anything even after so long time, given his nature he would be already beating the hell out of the enemy soldiers. Maybe he knows I'm watching and restraining himself for his chance to come, or he is gaining fond of his species, *smirk* though the possibility is lower than the former one. He doesn't care about species, gender, age as long as they are alive!
Currently, Chann is handling the 'Punishment Game' and he is certainly way soft for them compared to what any experienced Troop would have done to punish the enemies. Well, he is quite young so he doesn't know how much pain those brothers were gone throw who got captured by these enemies. If I tell him he will certainly get enraged and punish everyone to death. The punishment game is just a way to subdue them so they can let out lots of information from their mouth. It's actually aiming at the mass enemy soldiers at the same time and is quite faster and way better than wasting time on Interrogating a soldier at a time. The enemies are getting punished after the war an~
... and here is Seren laying on the bed leisurely like nothing happened, even after having a war with these humans. I had already told her about what happened to the prince inside the Interrogation chamber and she then instantly changed the topic halfway through my speech after confirming nothing serious happened, though I wasn't able to tell her about the little bet I had with the Prince... she didn't give me the chance to complete my word and I was also not so willing to tell her about it, She will certainly not enjoy watching the fight inside the Fortress.
Still, she believes me that I can take care of the matters without her and started to ask me about the matter, whether she should send a message to the King, her father about the capturing of the young prince of the daemon Land. Though she never told her father about the plan to capture the prince, what's on her mind? I don't know... but I already gave the information to the king about her plan one month ago. Though she strictly warned every soldier from leaking this information to her father more than her enemies, she even didn't let the informants coming from our land let have the slightest info about it.
I'm afraid she will definitely get angry at me if she finds out her plan is already known to her father, and I was the one leaking the information. I had to... still, I told her father that he should only keep it to himself. I also want to know what she wants to achieve by hiding the plan, it's not like father is her enemy and at last, she have to report it anyway. I had no choice, I'm bound by the order of the king so I had to inform everything about the battle in advance.
// Clan leaders are sometimes called kings, instead of the Head or Patriarch just as in this case because sometimes the clan of a werewolf is almost grown one-third the size of a typical Werewolf kingdom. //
"Tracy! See this."
"hmm? just say it," Seren called me, I asked her to say without turning as I'm still busy watching over Hugo and that prince, and I'm almost certain she is talking about that useless thing.
"The amount of mana this 'Shadow-nerf' caught during use is way substantial than a normal human teenager can possibly reserve within him. *curious* I was wondering why its edge is slightly brighter than usual, so it was due to the abundance of mana it absorbed during the use. I didn't know he is so powerful, I wanna spar with him!" *Seren*
*Thoughts* "Exactly! as I thought she was gonna talk about that Blackball... oh, she is talking about the human."
I replied, "Forget about it, he is strong but not that strong you can't win against... and That's not even his actual power and not something to be surprised of considering it can even absorb the 'Last Wisp' of mana out of anyone... you know, that amount of mana can't be inside him, not even an adult. He was wearing armour, maybe that's where the huge amount of mana came from." I replied with a simple explanation, without wandering my eyes from the 'Surveillance Crystal'. Maybe that armour was really a good defensive armour, Hugo shouldn't have crushed it.
// Note: Hugo crushed the armour easily because its magic power was previously absorbed by the 'Shadow Nerf'. //
"No, you are wrong! That's not possible, the boy should be very strong to get well so soon and fight back with our medical staff. " Seren contrasted my statement.
"Then tell me how am I wrong?" I asked, that's also not possible as Hugo didn't even use the 'Shadow Nerf' properly. He only used it slightly and the Prince simply fainted.
At the same moment, they captured the Prince again... What a waste of time and energy, just to get caught even before trying. If I had known he is such a fool to believe it is so simple to escape from us, but couldn't even find the exit. I shouldn't have overestimated him, I should have just beaten him down for challenging me.