Villainess Want's To Ignore Them!
Chapter 33: What happened?

Chapter 33: What happened?

They saw the knights who were now running to their directions, she even saw her father who was surprised to see her there.

"What are you doing here, Aki?" He asked as he was inspecting if I have some scratches or wounds, and when he saw none, he sighed in relief.

I looked at him with sadness evident in my eyes. "Where have you all been father?" I asked as I was trying so hard not to crack as I can still see the those people who were lying on the street dead in my mind.

The Duke looks as he can sense the sadness in my voice, "I-we" The duke couldn’t finished his sentence as he looks at her with so much regret on his eyes.

"Duke, we have problem." One of the knight’s said as he was panting as he calls for the duke.

"What was it?" The duke ask as he turn to the man.

"There are many people who had been killed, and there were still more monsters coming out from nowhere," He said as reported the situation.

"What about Empire’s knight? Did the palace already send them here?" The duke asked as he looks around and couldn’t see any knights beside them.

"T-they are still yet to arrive, " The poor knight said as he was afraid of the duke who looks angry now.

"Did they also went to the place that the enemy sent to lure us?" The duke asked and Acantha was listening.

A trap? does that mean, the reason why there aren’t any knights in the market was because, they were sent some traps to lure them? How can they let theirselves be deceived with something?

They could’ve use their magic to see whether it was just a trap to lure them or not?

"Yes, the crown prince went there to save Lady Noraya, who has been captured when she was in strolling in the market awhile ago.

"But if there were no knights here, who the hell defeated some of the monsters and saved these people?" She heard the duke asks as he pointed to them.

"E-excuse me, Your grace. Lady Acantha was the one who saved us from the monster." The elder lady who she picked and save on the street said as she looks at her.

The duke looked at her like he was surprised by what he heard from the elderly woman, and he looked back to the ladies again, and Acantha knew that he already noticed the barrier she set around the people she saved.

"You did ?" This time he turn to her and ask her. Acantha noticed that duke wasn’t as surprised anymore as from his reactions when the elder woman told him.

"You knew didn’t you?" Acantha asked as she looks at the duke.

"I knew about your mother sealing your core, as Klartis has some gifts that were blessed to them by their goddess," he said as he looked down. "I didn’t know that you can use it now, as I thought it would take you time before you could even wield it," the duke said, but Acantha can sense that he was still hiding something from which she didn’t know, and she will find it in time.

She was about to say something, when they heard a loud explosion.

"Just stay here, " The duke said as he looks at her worriedly as he runs away from her and went to where the explosion was.

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Meanwhile~~~

Helion went to rescue Lady Noraya as she was abducted by some of their enemies. He was wondering how Tenebrisayan men can enter their place when they already put up some barrier to keep them from entering their kingdom.

They had arrived in a mountain where there were no people who were living there, as it was haunted by some mountain monsters, and the villagers had abandoned the place for so many years.

"Your highness, I can feel the Lady’s energy in that direction, " Jarnus said to him, which made him go to that direction.

His knights also followed him, and when they got there, they saw an abandoned house. They went inside to check whether there are some traps that was set for them, and when Jarnus checked there was none.

Helion advances and get inside the house. There he saw Noraya binded with magic on the chair and her mouth was also shut by the same magic that he can sense, the caster must be a good magician because, when he tried unbinding it using his magic he felt something like his hands has been electrified that if he wasn’t strong he might be lying on the ground.

When he finally succeeded on breaking the magic, Noraya woke up.

"H-Helion!" She cried as she hugs him.

Helion stiffened and wanted to brushed the woman off as he was not comfortable when someone was hugging him, but he just let her as he knew that she was scared.

"I-I was so scared that their gonna hurt me," She continued to cried on his chest , and all Helion could do was to tilt his head to look at Jarnus who was just standing beside him.

The other knights were outside trying to watch if there’s danger coming.

"I thought, no one’s gonna rescue me as they said, " Noraya said as he looked at him.

"Did they said anything else?" He asked. He knew he was rude not asking if she was alright or not first.

Noraya just looked at him as she was still cling on his neck.

Helion sighed, he brushed Noraya’s arms on his neck and get up to face Jarnus.

"Tell one of our men to take Lady Noraya back to their home," He said as he was about to go outside when one of his men, enter.

"Your Highness, we received a message from the capital," The man said as he handed him the mana stone which served as their communication tool.

Helion look at the stone and listen to the man who was reporting on what was going one.

"Damn," He heard Jarnus said when they heard the news.

This was a trap! They ate the bait and was lured to a place far from the capital!

Helion clenches his fist when he handed back the stone to the knight who handed it to him.

"Jarnus, Ernie, gather the men, and we will teleport there," Helion said as he walks again to the door, the two already went out to follow his command, when he heard Noraya speak.

"W-what about me?" She asks as she points on herself looking pitiful.

"You, take her home." Helion said as he points one of the knight’s in front of him without looking back.

Ernie and Jarnus already gathered the men when he got outside. He uses his power to transport this time as he didn’t brought any extra mana stone with him.

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Helion looked at the chaos in front of them, Just what happened to the place?

The place was quiet no shouts nor screams he can hear aside from the continuous explosion from the fight as he was sure, that the duke and his men were already fighting the monsters.

Helion points some directions as he gives command to his knight while he goes forward to where he can hear some explosions.

He was running along with Jarnus and Ernie when they bump to many people, who seems to be in march as they were walking fast but they were also seemed to be waiting for each other. They were also escorted by some knights which he was sure from the Solaris as he can see from their uniforms.

"Y-your highness"

"Your highness"

"Your highness"

The people greeted him, he can recognized some noble ladies and he frowned.

Why are there a flock of young ladies here? shouldn’t they be on their own houses? Oh, right. He remembered that these young ladies here loves strolling in the market and buying things in the shops there.

" The duke would probably kill us if we just let lady Acantha," Helion snap his head as he heard one of the knight’s who were escorting the people.

He walked towards the knight who said those words and he was stopped. He tried going near again but it seems like there was a barrier stopping him from getting near them.

"We’re sorry , Your highness, but Lady Acantha was the one sets the barrier up," The knight said as he kneeled before him.

Acantha? As far as he know, Acantha can’t even produce any magic so, how come she can set this strong barrier?

"Lady Acantha?" He asks as he was trying to confirmed if he heard it right or not.

"Yes, Your highness." The people said in chorus confirming what he heard was right.

"Mind if I ask what happened in here?" He asks as he looked at them again.

"We were having some tea party hosted by Lady Roys when we heard a loud bang followed by screams from people outside," One of the ladies said as she was holding to the other woman beside her.

"Yes, we were so scared, we were lucky that Lady Acantha was protecting us, if not, the were probably one of those people who died, " He recognized this one this time, it was Lady Constrin who was holding Lady Roys on her arm.

"Yes, she also found us in the street and offered some protections, " One of the woman who was holding her baby in her arms said.

Everyone agrees at what she said, still it was a mystery for Helion to found out that Acantha can use a power, and base on her barrier , she didn’t just possess a power, but a stronger one.

He nodded at the people as he went away from them to find where Acantha is , and to fight the monsters.

Monsters, where he didn’t came from as the paths had been already sealed with barriers, there’s only one thing that monster from Tenebrisaya can enter the empire.

If someone had made a deal with them, and served its house as its base where they can send a monster by making the house itself as a portal.

Helion was near where the explosion was and he can even see the duke from a far who was fighting with a monster.

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