Chapter 653: Gambling everywhere.
The silence was deafening. Now alone in the room with the king, the crown prince did not know where to look. So he simply chose to keep his head pointed down.
Because of the culture in Greed Dike, children and parents were generally very restrained in their feelings of affection for one another. It was a highly toxic culture, no doubt. A culture that the king had been trying to change but his efforts had been futile.
Now, even his relationship with his son had become estranged.
The Supreme Daughter did not make them wait long. She had already guessed that she might be called when she heard the harrowing news of the fallen dwarves and did her due diligence.
“Your Majesty. Your Highness.” She greeted them with a light smile and took a seat opposite the king of Greed Dike. As a supreme daughter, she was in no way inferior to the king in authority alone. However, now did not seem like the right time for the supreme daughter to flaunt her authority.
“Your Holiness, I will not waste your time with futility in such a grave moment. Do you know of the situation?” The king promptly asked, his voice grave
“I was and I made my own judgment on the matter. The deaths were unnatural. Someone twisted the laws of Time and Fate simultaneously, bringing forward the Destined Death of the victim to the present. This way of killing is unprecedented. Not even a full-fledged demigod should be able to do something of this caliber.”
The crown prince groaned out loud, eliciting a side-long gaze from the supreme daughter. But when the king proceeded to explain the common factors between all the victims, she couldn’t help but sigh.
“I am not one to believe in coincidence. Fate is a very fickle thing and as a Blessed, we need to always think of it as a force that can go against us at any moment. There is no proof, no way to know when, but I am willing to bet that the culprit is related to Theresa.” Her words were clear. Inwardly, she also decided to cut all links she had with the crown prince and wash herself clean.