Chapter 126 - 12: Predicament
Lion King City.
The bright sunlight spread freely.
The once bustling streets had become desolate, with only a few scattered pedestrians left. Less than half of the shops were open for business, the streets were chaotic and no one bothered to clean up. The entire Lion King City looked rundown.
The situation inside the Lion King Palace was even worse, almost to the point of being described as a complete mess.
Almost all valuable items had been moved out. There were no carpets on the floor, no famous paintings on the corridor walls as there once were, and some rooms didn’t even have furniture. The King’s private library had its bookshelves taken away, though the books remained, scattered all over the floor.
Previously, the palace was full of candlesticks, everywhere you looked. By nightfall, with all the candles lit, the palace would be brightly illuminated. Now...
The lighting in the palace depended on oil lamps, each person was allocated one lamp to carry around. In fact, there weren’t many servants left in the entire palace, only fifty people.
The cracked outer walls were unattended, the plants in the courtyard were untrimmed, and even the weeds on the King’s windowsill grew unchecked. The broken door from the previous unrest still had its pieces lying nearby, now moist and growing mushrooms, with no repair in sight.
A fallen leaf lay in the corridor until it completely rotted into dust, with no one to sweep it away.
The Lion King Palace now felt like a deserted haunted mansion, eerie due to its vastness. Because it was so large, some places even had squatters living in them, unnoticed and unchecked.
The main hall was one of the few places in the palace that had been slightly refurbished, though it still looked rather shabby.