Book 16: Chapter 22
“What happened?!” asked Lucia.
The unarmed imperial guard answered, “Imperial Princess! Please stay indoors, and do not come out! The white deer in the imperial palace have started a riot! We are all doing our best to capture them, but Her Highness’ order stops us from killing them…”
Lucia worriedly stole a glimpse of the chaos nodded: “Understood. I won’t come out. I shall entrust the white deer to you, then. It shouldn’t be anything serious, right?”
Lucia perceived white deer to be nothing more than a cute group of deer. After all, she killed one every month in the past to offer it to the wind elves for a buff. Consequently, she didn’t think the matter was too serious. That was until a white deer sent the imperial guard in front of her flying.
White deer were just white deer, but the force behind a charging white deer was tremendous. The white deer literally catapulted him. He grimaced before he crashed into the wall and slid down the wall. He didn’t move again.
The white deer then turned to stare at Lucia with its blood-red eyes. It lightly stamped its feet on the ground then charged toward Lucia. Lucia quickly evaded to the side and then jumped onto its back. Lucia hadn’t trained in a long time, but over a decade of training gave her the benefit of muscle memory. She, therefore, still had keen senses even after a long time off duty. She rode atop the white deer as it desperately tried to shake her off. Lucia tore off her dress sleeve. She used the torn material to strangle the white deer’s neck. It didn’t take a long time for it to suffocate and drop to the ground in despair where it convulsed.
“Geez, just what in the world happened?”
Lucia sat up from the deer. Then she took the sword of the limp imperial guard. Lucia wasn’t actually used to using a long sword. Daggers were her preferred weapon of choice, but she didn’t have the luxury of being picky in the heat of the moment. She flipped the guard over to allow him to lie in a more comfortable position. He wasn’t dead yet, but it was uncertain if he’d be in a vegetative state or not if he survived.
Lucia spun around and headed to the end of the corridor. She never expected the white deer to have overrun the entire floor. She had no idea when they barged into the imperial palace grounds. Due to not having received orders from their Queen, the imperial guards didn’t dare to harm the white deer, either. Thus, they couldn’t do anything but defend against the attacks. The maids shrieked one after another. The deer charged toward the maids who tripped over. Some even chased down fleeing maids and pinned them to the ground. They’d then beginning tearing away at their dresses with their teeth or lick the maids.