Benjamin rushed with his maximum speed, avoiding the dead knight's bodies.
'The Grand Knights are guarding Father, he should be fine… He should be fine…'
With that in his mind, he rushed over.
As for the ladies, only Han Ying and Hong Yu were affected by the sight. But they endured and followed the group to the second floor.
When they reached the second floor, they saw Heero standing in front of the door. The kids had their eyes closed.
Looking at this, Benjamin felt a bad premonition. Nevertheless, he braced himself to come over and looked toward the throne hall.
"Urgh!" He grunted heavily at the sight of the throne hall. But he faced it with his eyes opened, he followed his gaze to the throne, and his eyes opened wide upon the sight of the dead body on the throne.
He saw a lifeless body on the throne. His eyes opened wide and tears started to fall from his eyes naturally.
Fury and grief mixed into one and Benjamin's blue eyes turned red from the sight. He saw ten black-cloaked figures, the most likely culprit who killed his father.
Just as he was about to rush over, a hand hit his head's back. Heero knocked his disciple down and caught the body before it fell down.
Benjamin could not let Benjamin fight in his current state or it might lead to his doom. Words also would not enter the boy's head even if he talked it out with him. Heero once experienced this kind of state, after all.
"What are you doing!?" Alexa yelled at Heero when the group caught up. She saw Heero knocked down her brother-in-law.
But as soon as the group reached the door, they were frozen up at the brutal sight. Han Ying and Hong Yu puked out at the gruesome scene. They could not handle such a scene.
Alexa also the same, she naturally puked out what was inside her stomach at the gruesome sight inside the throne hall. Bai Xin Yue and Kang Seo-Yeon merely frowned while the two knights turned away from the brutal sight.
Heero merely shook his head at Alexa and put the kids down. He whispered something to the kids and the kids nodded their heads. After that, he handed the kids over to Bai Xin Yue and Kang Seo-Yeon.
After that, Heero entered the throne hall alone.
"Huhu… Alone, are you sure about this? We are quite strong you know? Even the five Grand Knights could do nothing to us!" A playful voice rang.
Grand Knights were the highest rank in an active knight and only below to the Guardian Knight. Five of the Grand Knights that guarded The King were killed brutally in the process. Their mutilated corpses were right below the throne.
Heero remained silent as space next to him distorted. He took a halberd out of the storage space. Two out of ten black-cloaked figures were Emperor Level Specter. It was what they called before, in Dramonia. A figure that was only below God-Level Being.
But after hesitating for a moment, he took out another weapon. A sword left behind by his best friend, Musashi Miyamoto. He put the halberd on his back.
He bent his body a little and held the sword with his left hand while his right hand was on the handle.
Swoosh!
Heero's figure blurred for a moment before it broke to ten figures. The ten figures blurred toward the ten black-cloaked figures. At the same time, a blade made of Ki slashed toward the ten black-figures. Ten exactly the same images, making eight of the black-cloaked figures failed to react at the attack.
However, the two Emperor Level Specter reacted fast. Their figure blurred into a shadow and avoided the blade.
From the view, the two figures managed to avoid the sword, but then, the black-cloaked figure on the left had his body split into two.
"Arghhh!" The black-cloaked figure screamed as his body fell down and black gas came out of the body.
Along with the scream, everyone turned their gaze toward the scream. There, they found Heero was holding the halberd with his two hands. Yellow lightning buzzed out from his body, his figure was shrouded in lightning.
As for the other nine heroes, it vanished. He was combining two techniques into one, Draw Sword and Mirage Step.
Swoosh!
Heero's figure leaped to the air, creating a trail of lightning behind. The figure stopped for one second in the air before it arched down toward the black-cloaked figure.
Bang!
Lightning burst out, enveloping the two figures. But then, a shadow rushed out from the lightning. The shadow broke the window, it escaped.
Heero wanted to chase after the shadow, but then he stopped.
'I am no longer a hero, I am a dad of my kids and a husband to my wives! My job is not protecting the world but my family!'
With that in his mind, Heero turned around to the remaining black-cloaked figures. As the biggest threat was no longer in the throne hall, he made a smile to the remaining black-cloaked figures.
"Hello, friends! It's time for your burial time!" Without the black-cloaked figures realizing, the halberd in Heero's hand changed into a sword.
He held the sword with his two hands.
"Musashi Sword Technique - Invisible Sword!"
The sword blurred and after that, Heero's figure also blurred and vanished. This time, he combined the Invisible Sword and the Vanishing Step.
Once again, Heero appeared in the middle of the remaining eight black-cloaked figures. By then, the eight black-cloaked figures fell with their bodies split into two.
Heero sheathed the sword back to the sheath. After that, he put the two weapons back to his storage space.
While two Emperor Level Specter mixed in, the remaining specters were just a weak specter, about two to three levels below the Emperor Level Specters he targeted.
Just like that, a man killed nine specters that could not be handled by the elite knights and the Grand Knights. The fact that the fight did not last even a minute was enough to shock Alexa and the two knights who escorted the Crown Prince.
Even Heero's wives were surprised, but they were used to seeing such unexpected power from their husband. They easily overcame the shock.
As for the kids, they kept their promise to close their eyes. But they certainly heard the fighting noise.
"What's wrong, Mom? Did Daddy defeat the baddies?" Miao Miao's hand tried to reach Han Ying.
"Yes, The baddies are gone, but you have to close your eyes a little longer, okay?" Han Ying's face was still pale from the sight of the dead bodies inside the throne hall.
The kids would be terrified if they saw the gruesome sight.
But then, as Heero walked back to the group, he burned all the knights that died with his flame. The knight was burned, even the heavy armor they wore was melting under the strong heat. All the knights were burned.
Alexa had her eyes wide open when the dead knights were burned.
"What are you doing! You can burn them like that! They deserved to be buried honorably for what they did to the kingdom!"
Yes, she was furious because Heero burned the knights. They deserved to be honored, getting buried properly, not burned like this.
"Also, why didn't you chase after the shadow! Why did you let the King's killer escape!?" The furious Alexa lost her calm as she pointed her index finger toward Heero.
Everything was a mess in her head. She never expected the kingdom would face a huge crisis like this. She shouldered a huge pressure that almost made her lose her mind.
"Why should I? I am not a hero and I am not your kingdom's knight. I am just a Dad to my daughters and a Husband to my wives! My job is to protect my family, not your kingdom! It's your job as the kingdom's subject, not mine! It's the knight's job, not mine!"
Heero pointed toward the two knights.
"Also, rather making a fuss over the dead, you should think of a way to stabilize the kingdom! Your kingdom is under attack, you should get straight in your head and get things in order! Not making a fuss over the dead knights!"
The words entered Alexa's head and she snapped out her fury.
"Alright, enough. The kingdom is under attack and she is stressed about it! Don't pressure her, " The gentle Han Ying stopped Heero to continue scolding Alexa.
Even though she knew her husband was right and touched with his words. But Alexa was not in the right mind to think straight.
Her husband was still unconscious, the King died, and the kingdom was facing a huge crisis. It was enough to put Alexa in a tough spot.
"So, where should we go now?" Hong Yu asked Alexa. The two sisters smoothen the atmosphere.
"The Queen! We have to check the Queen!"