Chapter 266: Victory is a Side Reward (3)
Right after Keter’s group departed from the royal palace, the knights thoroughly searched the guest room they had stayed in to make sure they hadn’t simply pretended to vanish and were hiding somewhere. Of course, they didn’t find anyone, since they had really opened a portal and disappeared. However, one of the knights found a piece of paper that was torn into tiny pieces in the trash.
“This is...”
It had been shredded too finely to read, but it was clear this wasn’t an ordinary sheet of paper. Something was written on it.
The knight who found it sniffed it. He smelled the scent of opportunity, of advancement. He carefully gathered each scrap together and delivered them to Crown Prince Rukan.
Upon seeing them, Crown Prince Rukan had the same thought as the knight. He felt certain this would be a clue to something. However, it had been torn into hundreds of pieces. Even if they called in experts to reassemble it like a puzzle, it would take at least half a year.
“Hehehe... Keter, in the end, you’re just an ordinary man. You must have thought tearing it up like this would be enough.”
Rukan immediately summoned Krona, the Lord of the West. Krona appeared clearly annoyed, but knelt on one knee before Rukan.
Rukan handed her the scraps of paper and said, “Restore this for me, Lord Krona.”
“You summoned me for something like this...?”
“It’s urgent.”
Krona let out a small sigh, then rotated her right hand counterclockwise. The shredded pieces of paper floated up and reassembled themselves, restoring the document. Krona was a wizard of time and space, so she simply reversed the time of the paper itself to return it to its original state.
“Is that all, Your Highness?”