Chapter 1644 Missing Princes

Chapter 1644 Missing Princes

"What? No prince here too?"

The golden mountain of the legends shook violently as a man kicked in frustration.

This was the seclusion grounds of a genius prince, one of the few bestowed with a number.

The 363rd prince.

A powerful high rank 1 in just a few thousand years, he's garnered a great reputation during his ascent.

With exquisite control over gravity, he was touted as the top ten in the sub-rank by many.

As with all ranked princes and princesses, he was given the sliver shard once he passed the ranking trial.

"Sliver shard..." Varian clenched his fists and looked down at the golden island floating in the chaotic inner space with a frustrated expression.

This was his fourth hunt of the ranked princes this week and like the first three, this too ended in failure, not because he was weak and got defeated, but because he didn't even find the target!

"How am I supposed to get any shards if they all just disappear?"

The island twisted naturally as powerful space-time currents swept the region.

Varian allowed himself to be swayed away by the winds, too immersed in deciding his next step to care.

Just a week ago, the 31st family meeting finalized this plan.

The reason for his reckless entry into Jai Empire was naturally his status.

[Dragon: 45/100 (+5)

Titan: 45/100 (+5)

Phoenix: 45/100 (+5)

Order: 45/100 (+5)

Chaos: 45/100 (+5)

Space: 21/100 (+1)

Time: 21/100 (+1)]

"That's why I don't want my children to be fatherless. Their mothers will only focus on revenge. It'll be a terrible childhood."

The hunt continued.

Fifth. Sixth. Seventh.

To Varian's utter disappointment and confusion, all of them were missing.

Since killing any high profile princes was practically a call for the intelligence agencies to hunt him down, he'd been only looking for the low-profile princes who were in long seclusions all alone.

Now it seemed that the information was outdated.

But weren't seclusions supposed to happen in one place for several hundred years atleast?

"Should I go for others? Their location should be upto date."

After all, not all princes go to seclusion alone.

Seclusion didn't strictly mean closing your eyes and focusing on your divine path until you broke the bottleneck.

Some would take their partners. Others, their friends. A significant number of princes would take their loyal guards for security during critical periods.

These were unfortunately the majority.

No matter how well he made it, killing a whole bunch of people was more risky than killing a lone prince no one saw for a few hundred years.

But if he had no other choice.

"I want power, power and power." Varian muttered.

[Then hunt down the shards.]

Varian rolled his eyes. "Do you think I came here to grill chicken on a dying star? I'm on my fucking way to the eigth candidate already! He better not be mysteriously missing like the on besefore him! This guy is the last solo man in this region."

Unfortunately, even the eighth was missing.

[My condolences, host.]

"Did you screw up my luc—eh?"

Varian took out a glowing crystal with a surprised expression and tapped on it.

A hologram popped up but before the form even solidified, an anxious voice rang. "Brother-in-law! Change your plan!"