337: A DOWNFALL

A DOWNFALL

"Are you trying to say there are more traitor within your rank? Just how many your magic users, who had turned into dark sorcerer?" Cane asked him bluntly, his words were sharp enough to make the head sorcerer gasped in shocked.2

"There is no way I condone a betrayal act within my rank!" The head sorcerer cried, he was extremely agitated and then turned to the king. "My king this is not true, my people and I are loyal to the throne!"

However, instead of listening to his grievances, the king barked angrily. "Still not moving?!"

Startled, the head sorcerer immediately recoiled and shut his mouth, as he lowered his head. He couldn't afford to aggravate the king further.

And not long after that, all of them headed to the East Palace, where princess Osana had been staying for weeks ever since she got the curse.

Right now, as a creature with a keen sense, where they could smell the faintest scent, all of them could smell an acrid odor lingered around this palace and the more they walked into the palace, the stronger the odor was.

Iris could smell it halfway to princess Osana's bedroom, but even so, she already felt the sense of the black magic stone that was put around this building.

"In the garden next to this chamber," Iris said, as she walked toward the garden next to princess Osana's bedroom. She came closer to a big window, under the balcony, where the princess could see her garden and the beautiful sight from her vantage point in the second floor. "Here." Iris pointed her finger at a certain spot on the ground and two guards started digging it up to find a piece of folded white fabric

Once they unfolded it, they could see the small stone.

The guards gave it to the head of sorcerer, who then confirmed it was black magic stone after around ten minutes of observation.

"Yes, this is dark magic stone," he mumbled in distress, because it was proven the witch under his tutelage had performed black magic.

It was still unconceivable about the fact how Iris could sense the black magic stone when the head of the royal sorcerer needed a few minutes to figure it out.

Beside the king, lady Cyan narrowed her eyes at the luna, she didn't look stand out, aside from her peculiar color of hair and eyes and the fact she was a runt.

She had been trying to feel Iris, but there was nothing about her. She couldn't sense whether she was a magic user or not. It was either because she had a very powerful power that could conceal it or she really had none of it.

Both options didn't sound right with Cyan, because there was no way a runt had a powerful magic power, but the fact she could sense the dark magic proved she was not ordinary.

"My king, have you looked for her background?" Lady Cyan asked the king beside her, while the people around them, that followed to the East Palace murmured in amazement how Iris pointed out yet another magic stones that had been buried near princess Osana's chamber. Currently, she had found the fifth stone and the head sorcerer confirmed all of them.

"What should I? She is a runt, the daughter of Gerald." The king had seen her a few times in the past when she was little, but because Gerald always made her stayed inside her bedroom, it was a rare occasion to be able to see this auburn girl.

Lady Cyan didn't please when she heard such answer. "I want a background check on her, you need to dig out more information about this luna." That was not a plea, it sounded almost like an order when she stated it, an attitude that was not proper for someone with status like her to show in front of the king. She was a mistress after all, even the queen should treat the king with the utmost respect.

However, the king said nothing about such rudeness, instead he talked to his advisor through mind- link and gave the task to him. He would start to investigate Iris's background deeper because his mistress said so.

"That's it," Iris said after she pointed out the eighth stones, which the head of royal sorcerer collected it with trembling hands.

The poor old man kneeling in front of the king with the evidence laid in front of him, he couldn't deny the involvement of the witch within his rank with the dark magic.

"My king, the witch has nothing to do with me, I don't know about it at all!" The head sorcerer cried out loud. "The other royal sorcerers and I have nothing to do with this, we don't know about this!"

"There are not many dark magic user and black magic has been banned for decades, thus for one of royal family to be cursed under your watch is a big crime! It was a neglect of your part that had caused this and made the princess suffer!" Cane spoke before the king could utter a single word, but no one stopped him, they listened to him. "It's crime for the royal family!"

On the other hand, Iris grimaces, she was still not used with the way how smooth Cane spoke about it. He was the person, who had asked Haco to curse the princess, but there was no trace of guilty conscience in the way he spoke those words.

Lou watched the entire things unfolded, but he couldn't put his finger on the flaw of the situation, everything that Cane said made sense and the merchant felt what the alpha said was the truth, yet deep down, he knew it was his scheme, knowing how cunning Cane was, but he couldn't see how he put this monumental plot into his plan.

Since when he had everything was planned out?

Not only Lou, lady Cyan also observed the whole thing unfolded and was on alert, she could feel her plan would meet a stalemate and the situation slowly out of her grasp.

"Ask him about his plan," Lady Cyan said to the king in low voice, which none of the people around them could notice it. She looked at Iris and wondered whether she could sense a dark magic user as well or not. She should have pointed her out if she could, right?

And the king did ask the thing lady Cyan wanted to know.

"I want to investigate the royal sorcerer first," Cane said, he had everything under his thumb, even the head of the privilege family in the capital city looked at the alpha in different light. Before this, they only saw Cane as a former slave, who raised into power.

Lady Cyan gave a subtle agreement before the king said he agreed with that, while the head sorcerer was trembling in fear. Dark sorcerer was hard to be found, but they would leave a few things behind that indicated they were one, since black magic was a crude magic.

She wanted to feel Cane. Who he targeted? With this whole mess, she wanted to know, who had become his target to have a downfall.

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