Chapter 43: Destroy Them All
Mirelle had investigated and tried to salvage the damages done in the engine room to the best of her ability. She even expanded quite a lot of her mana in hopes of restoring some key elements.
Unfortunately, the enemy was too ruthless and merciless. They had installed complex anti-magic barriers throughout the engine room, so intricate that even Mirelle struggled to unravel them.
Under any normal circumstance, the removal would have been possible. But the current situation was too drastic for her to focus on the removal process.
Without the support of the engine room, it wouldn’t be long till the other defensive tools become useless.
"I don’t get it." Suddenly, Leonard clicked his tongue and turned to the two of them.
"How can such an important room be so easily infiltrated and attacked?" He found it hard to believe that such a critical room would be so easy to access.
Upon hearing the question, Number 13’s face twitched a bit. Their pupils constricted, almost as if they wanted to explain themselves but found it hard to voice it aloud.
"Speak! Stop dilly-dallying. The ship’s being bombarded still, and you want to keep your mouth shut?" Leonard’s patience was running thin. Time was of the essence now, and this supposed bodyguard was trying to conceal information still.
What was the point of having this kind of bodyguard?
Almost immediately, Number 13 went to his knees and kept his head very low. "Apologies, Crown Prince, but all the corpses lying in the engine room are capable fighters on the same level as me. Our rotation of protecting you came from here."
As if a bolt of lightning had struck the scene to a deathly silence, Leonard’s expression turned complicated.
His eyes slowly darted to the small mountain of corpses. Their corpses were beyond recognizable, and now he was told that these unrecognizable corpses were the fighters assigned to protect him through rotation.