Chapter 344 - The Ministry

Isidorus looked at Adrianna's shocked expressions. "What so shocking about it? Don't human send spies in different countries within their own realm?" 

"Y- yes they do? But it must be very difficult for the wizards or witches to hide themselves in the human realm?" she stuttered as she asked him. 

"Nah! It is easy to hide in human realm. It is most difficult to hide amongst elves. They can see what you are easily. You should see the kind of training the children are given who are chosen for elf realm. Those children not only have to be master of the martial arts of human realm but they also have to know the way elves fight, which incidentally is the most difficult thing to learn. As of now only a handful eight have been successful."

"Where did they learn the ways of the elves?" she asked curious about it.

Isidorus looked out the window and pointed to a small house at the far corner of the training grounds, which looked deserted. Surrounded by green grass all around it, it looked lonely. "Do you see that house?"

Adrianna nodded. 

"That's where he stays – the only elf that ever came to the Wizard Kingdom. His lady love got married to someone else and he left the kingdom vouching he would never see her face. He was picked by the tenth ruler of the Wizard Kingdom, and stays here from that time. He is now over seven hundred years old."

Adrianna was astonished. 

"He teaches the art to these children and has never stepped out of the training grounds." Isidorus looked at her. She was lost in the thoughts. "Well, that's it my Queen! Let me introduce you to all other things in the room of the ruler."

Adrianna smiled. Ziu had left them soon after they had seen the aquarium. He was scared of Seashell. 

Once Isidorus had introduced her to how things worked there, he started to leave. "Remember that if you want to ask for help, you have shout "Peonies" and a servant would appear." Saying that he left. 

"Peonies! That's funny," Adrianna chuckled. But as soon as she had said that a peony appeared. Her eyes popped out when she looked at the peony. It was a cute fragrant flower that had two wings that were fluttering around it at a high speed to stay airborne. It circled Adrianna and suddenly a mouth opened inside it. "Yes my Queen, what can I do for you?" 

"I want a glass of water…" she gulped. 

The peony returned with a glass of water, which was held by its wings. It was now walking on the floor. "Anything else?"

"N- no, you may leave!" 

The peony flew away. Seashell looked at him and growled, "These pests!" 

Adrianna went to the table and looked at all the documents that looked as if they were neatly arranged on the table. She started reading them one by one. Once she finished them, she started reading the manuscripts. Even though she hadn't read that ancient language earlier, she could understand it easily. Those manuscripts were a treasure of spells and potion-making techniques. She was so immersed in them that she didn't realize that it was time to leave. Isidorus came to her room to escort her out. He looked at what she was reading and asked, "Can you even understand all that?" 

"Oh yes!" she exclaimed. She pointed to a page and said in excitement, "Look this spell is just like an experiment we did back in my Chemistry class!" 

Isidorus looked at page. He had never been able to understand a letter in those manuscripts in his twelve hundred years of existence. He was baffled, stunned and surprised at Adrianna. She was reading them like she knew everything about it! 

"It's time to leave," he said as he swished his wand making those manuscripts fly back on the shelves. 

Adrianna pursed her lips and left along with him. Her experience was simply too good on the first day and she couldn't wait to tell it all to Dmitri. She couldn't forget the sumptuous lunch that was served to her during the day. Dmitri would totally love it! 

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Neotides had already gathered in large numbers now. The last batch had already left and was about to reach the outskirts of the Wizard Kingdom. From past five days Reese had been waiting for them. She was regularly roaming around all the hideouts and seeing if they were all well prepared or not. She couldn't afford any lagging at this moment. The last batch, headed by Cy's man arrived a few hours before the attack. As soon as he arrived, the wizard started working on removing the spells from the walls of the Wizard Kingdom. 

He knew that there were multiple spells in layers that had to be removed before they could even think of breaching the walls. The layers of spells were so thick from out one could only see haze. It was as if a thick cloud covered the wall but in fact they were spells. 

Slowly, he started removing them like layers from onion. He was removing only spells of the area enough through which the neotides could enter in small hordes. As he started working on them, all those around could see flashes of lights bursting out every time a spell broke. It wasn't easy because the lights that were emitted out from there were falling on the grounds of the jungle causing small fires here and there. The dampness of the jungle and the ground was in their favor and hence the fire didn't spread otherwise if it had been dry, the fire would have spread rapidly. 

Reese had asked the neotides to stay away from the place where the wizard was working. At last only a few more layers were left. They could all see the insides of the city through the thick barbed wires. There was an excitement amongst the neotides. The first batch started preparing to attack.