Benjamin ran at maximum speed, dodging the bodies of the dead knights.
'The Grand Knights are guarding Father, he should be fine... He should be fine...'
With that in his mind, he rushed over.
As for the ladies, only Han Ying and Hong Yu were affected by the sight. However, they persevered and followed the group to the second floor.
When they reached the second floor, they saw Heero standing in front of the door. The children had closed their eyes.
Seeing this, Benjamin had a bad premonition. Nevertheless, he braced himself and looked towards the throne room.
"Urgh!" He grunted heavily at the sight of the throne hall. But he faced it with his eyes open, followed his gaze to the throne, and his eyes opened wide at the sight of the dead body on the throne.
He saw a lifeless body on the throne. His eyes opened wide and tears began to fall naturally from his eyes.
Anger and grief mixed together, and Benjamin's blue eyes turned red at the sight. He saw ten black cloaked figures, the most likely culprits who had killed his father.
Just as he was about to rush over, a hand slammed into the back of his head. Heero knocked his student down and caught the body before it fell.
Benjamin could not let Benjamin fight in his current state or it could lead to his downfall. Words would not enter the boy's head even if he talked to him. After all, Heero had experienced such a state once.
"What are you doing?" Alexa yelled at Heero as the group caught up. She saw Heero knock her brother-in-law to the ground.
But as soon as the group reached the door, they froze at the brutal sight. Han Ying and Hong Yu vomited at the gruesome scene. They could not handle such a scene.
Alexa was the same, she naturally threw up whatever was in her stomach when she saw the horrible scene in the throne hall. Bai Xin Yue and Kang Seo-Yeon just frowned while the two knights turned away from the brutal sight.
Heero just shook his head at Alexa and put the children down. He whispered something to the children and they nodded their heads. Then he handed the children over to Bai Xin Yue and Kang Seo-Yeon.
After that, Heero entered the throne hall alone.
"Huhu... Alone, are you sure? We are quite strong, you know? Even the five Grand Knights could not do anything to us!" A playful voice sounded.
Grand Knights were the highest rank of an active knight, just below the Guardian Knight. Five of the Grand Knights guarding the king were brutally killed. Their mutilated bodies lay just below the throne.
Heero remained silent as the room next to him distorted. He took a halberd from the storage room. Two of the ten black cloaked figures were Emperor Level Specters. That was what they were called in Dramonia. A figure that was only below a god-level being.
But after hesitating for a moment, he pulled out another weapon. A sword left by his best friend, Musashi Miyamoto. He placed the halberd on his back.
He bent his body slightly and held the sword with his left hand while his right hand was on the hilt.
Swoosh!
Heero's figure blurred for a moment before it dissolved into ten figures. The ten figures blurred towards the ten black-cloaked figures. At the same time, a blade made of Ki slashed at the ten black figures. Eight of the black-cloaked figures could not react to the attack.
However, the two Emperor Level Ghosts reacted quickly. Their figure blurred into a shadow and dodged the blade.
From the looks of it, the two figures managed to dodge the sword, but then the black-cloaked figure on the left had his body split into two.
"Arghhhh!" The black-cloaked figure screamed as his body collapsed, and black gas erupted from his body.
Along with the scream, everyone's eyes turned to where the scream came from. There they found Heero holding the halberd with both hands. Yellow lightning buzzed out of his body and his form was shrouded in lightning.
Like the other nine heroes, he disappeared. He combined two techniques into one, Draw Sword and Mirage Step.
Swoosh!
Heero's figure jumped into the air, leaving a trail of lightning behind it. The figure lingered in the air for a second before swooping down on the black-cloaked figure.
Bang!
Lightning burst out, enveloping the two figures. But then a shadow rushed out of the lightning. The shadow broke the window and escaped.
Heero wanted to run after the shadow, but then he stopped.
I am no longer a hero, I am a father to my children and a husband to my wives! My job is not to protect the world, but to protect my family!
With that in his mind, Heero turned to the remaining black-cloaked figures. Since the biggest threat was no longer in the throne room, he smiled at the remaining black-cloaked figures.
"Hello, friends! It's time for your funeral!" Without the black cloaked figures noticing, the halberd in Heero's hand changed into a sword.
He held the sword with both hands.
"Musashi Sword Technique - Invisible Sword!"
The sword blurred and after that, Heero's figure also blurred and disappeared. This time, he combined the Invisible Sword and the Vanishing Step.
Once again, Heero appeared in the middle of the remaining eight black-cloaked figures. This time, the eight black-cloaked figures fell, their bodies split in two.
Heero put the sword back into the scabbard. After that, he put the two weapons back into his storage room.
While there were two emperor-level Specters among them, the remaining Specters were just weak ghosts, about two to three levels below the emperor-level Specters he was targeting.
Just like that, one man killed nine ghosts that the Elite Knights and Grand Knights could not handle. The fact that the battle lasted less than a minute was enough to shock Alexa and the two Knights who were escorting the Crown Prince.
Even Heero's wives were surprised, but they were used to seeing such unexpected power from their husband. They got over the shock easily.
As for the children, they kept their promise to close their eyes. But they certainly heard the sound of the battle.
"What's wrong, Mom? Did Daddy beat the bad guys?" Miao Miao's hand tried to reach Han Ying.
"Yes, the bad guys are gone, but you have to close your eyes a little longer, okay?" Han Ying's face was still pale from the sight of the corpses in the throne hall.
The children would be terrified if they saw the gruesome sight.
But then, as Heero walked back to the group, he burned all the dead knights with his flame. The knights were burned, even the heavy armor they wore melted under the intense heat.
Alexa's eyes were wide open as the dead knights were burned.
"What are you doing! You can burn them like this! They deserved an honorable burial for what they did to the kingdom!"
She was angry because Heero had burned the knights. They deserved to be honored and buried properly, not burned like that.
"And why didn't you go after the shadow? Why did you let the killer of the king escape?" The angry Alexa lost her composure as she pointed her index finger at Heero.
Everything was a mess in her mind. She had never expected that the kingdom would face such a huge crisis. She shouldered a huge burden that almost made her lose her mind.
"Why should I? I am not a hero and I am not the knight of your kingdom. I am just a father to my daughters and a husband to my wives! My job is to protect my family, not your kingdom! It's your job as a subject of the kingdom, not mine! It's the knight's job, not mine!"
Heero pointed at the two knights.
"Besides, instead of making a fuss about the dead, you should be thinking of a way to stabilize the kingdom! Your kingdom is under attack, you should get your head straight and put things in order! Not make a fuss about the dead knights!"
The words went through Alexa's head and she snapped out of her anger.
"All right, enough. The kingdom is under attack and she is stressed! Don't push her" the gentle Han Ying stopped Heero to continue scolding Alexa.
Even though she knew that her husband was right and touched by his words. But Alexa was not in the right state of mind to think clearly.
Her husband was still unconscious, the king was dead and the kingdom was facing a huge crisis. It was enough to put Alexa in a difficult position.
"So where shall we go now?" Hong Yu asked Alexa. The two sisters softened the atmosphere.
"The Queen! We have to check the queen!"