Chapter 149: A Parchment with Secrets
"They only attacked the Portal Halls in the Mortal Realm and the Seelie Empire, stole the Wish Jewels and kidnapped the guardian families." Ezra summed up something that was more or less clear to everyone at this point.
When his team and the Crown Prince’s team reached the second Portal Hall in the Mortal Realm, they found the place in a total mess. The state of the building seemed like there had been a fight and clearly, the mortals lost as no one was left behind there to tell the story.
The same condition was seen in the Portal Hall of the Seelie Empire, the only difference was the state of that place was even worse than that of the Mortal Realm’s Portal Hall. The fight there was definitely way fiercer as both parties had control over magical elements unlike the mortals. But even there, the enemy won and left nothing behind except for total destruction.
"Who can be behind these attacks?" The person who asked the question was none other than the King of the Mortal Realm.
"Forgive me for my boldness, Your Majesty, but we are the ones who should be asking this question and Your Majesty should give us some answers." Annalise decided to bring the focus of the hot topic toward none other than the King. It was time to get some answers from the royal family.
The King’s gaze moved toward Annalise and he questioned with a frown decorating his face, "Princess Annalise, what exactly are you trying to say?" He didn’t seem angry but the look in his eyes told that he was clearly not happy with the unwanted accusing attention.
Annalise didn’t faze at all, probably because she felt her husbands’ support through the bonds and knew that they were encouraging her. She looked directly into the King’s eyes as she spoke, "What I’m trying to say is that Your Majesty should know more about whatever is going on with these attacks. Didn’t you investigate the case when the first Portal Hall in the capital was attacked? What did you find back then and why did you suddenly give up on the case?"
There was a long silence following her questions and only after several minutes had passed did the King reacted. He let out a deep sigh before he signaled toward the Crown Prince who immediately left the Throne Hall.
Turning his attention back to Annalise, her husbands, and the Dragon shifters, the king spoke, "It’s true, we did investigate the case back then and later stopped the investigation when we noticed that no matter how hard we were trying, we were just unable to find out any answers."
"But we got the news that you found some sort of clue and only after that did you abruptly stopped the investigation." Annalise pressed further, not allowing the King to get away so easily.
Once again there was a long silence and it seemed like the King was in some sort of dilemma.