Phantasia: The Princess Knight

Chapter 206: Royal Father You Idiot! Part One

The Elven King looked on as the area in front of him that showed a tear in space. Two figures stepped through. causing the elven king's eyes to open wide as fear crept up his spine when he looked at the cold expression on the little girl's face. He did not dare to underestimate the two since they were able to tear space. Being able to do such a thing meant that they were a lot stronger than they appeared. "Who are you!?"

"Me? Oh, just the Third Princess of the country you tried to invade but failed. I have come here today to dish out punishment on the crime of invading my Alastine Kingdom and killing its people. You have two options, you can either die here and be annexed by Alastine or unconditionally surrender and still be annexed by Alastine. Which do you choose? Do hurry, I still need to go to your basement and retrieve my Royal Father. So I will only give you five seconds to answer." Alicia was not in the mood to play word games. It was a simple question and all he had to do was pick a choice. She wanted to hurry up and get her royal father before heading to the Empire, she would seize the Emperor and the Empress and annex the Blackstone Empire as well. 

"One!"

Hearing Alicia start her count down the Elven king was in a panic. He knew if he said no he would die this day. He treasured his life and did not want to die! "I surrendered! The lands of Mytheth Lenora now belong to the Alastine Kingdom!"

"Good choice! Now time for your punishment." Alicia began cracking her knuckles and walking towards the elven king. The eleven king's face paled as he saw Alicia's little fist appear right in front of his eyes. 

Ten minutes later

Alicia stood up and wiped the sweat off her brow. "I feel refreshed now. Blake, stay here and guard the Elven King for me. I need to go rescue Royal Father" 

Blake looked at Alicia who now had a smile on her face then at the black and blue Elven king who was on the floor wailing out in pain and chuckled. 'My little wife has a naughty side to her.' 

Alicia did feel better after releasing her anger out on the eleven king's face. Alicia walked out of the room and was surprised to see no guards at all. She really had to give it to the elven pride of theirs. They truly thought too highly of themselves. Lost in thought Alicia made her way down towards the basement. She had only come across about five guards which she knocked each of them out. 

Alicia was actually amazed at how the castle was made. It was completely cut out of the giant tree, so from the walls, the ceiling, and to the floor were all made of wood. Even the lifts between the floors were made of wood. One thing she did find annoying was that the lifts were like a puzzle. Some went between two floors while others went between three to five floors. And once they reached a floor you had to take another lift to get to a new floor because the one you were in would stop working altogether! In a way, this was a defense system in its own right!

After almost two hours of trying to find the correct pattern and still not getting to where she wanted to be, Alicia started getting impatient. So she called out Loeri hoping maybe she would help some. "Is it time for I, the Great Loeri to shine!?" 

"Loeri, use your dragon nose and tell me how to get to the bottom floor." Alicia's words garnered a strange look from Loeri. 

"Alicia, I am a dragon you know?" 

"And? Can't you smell things from far away? See if you can smell my Royal Father." Alicia was already in a bad mood, with Loeri questioning her at this time, it was not making her mood any better.

Loeri wanted to say that she was not a dog but seeing how Alicia seemed to be upset she decided not to say anything and obediently started sniffing the air. Sure enough, it was faint but she did smell King Augustus. After a short while, Alicia was able to find a lift that went straight to the basement with the help of Loeri's nose. The lift was well hidden and seemed to stop at every floor.

Loeri and Alicia made their way down to the bottom floor. The door to the lift opened revealing a long dark hallway with a dim light at the end. Alicia continued forward with Loeri behind her. The hallway was long and took them almost five minutes to reach the end. 

At the end of the hallway was a wooden door with a barrier on it. Alicia waved her hand, shattering the barrier easily. She pushed open the door and entered the room. Her eyes teared up when she saw her Royal Father placed in the room like a statue. "Royal Father, Alastine is going to be just fine. I even expanded our territory and made Grogandon a vassal country." Alicia placed her hand on King Augustus's frozen hand that was as cold as ice. More tears rolled down her cheeks as she gazed upon him.

"I just wish I knew how to unseal yo..." She stopped her words as she looked at his hand and noticed that he was still making some kind of hand sign.

"It couldn't be that simple could it?" Alicia thought to herself as she copied the hand sign King Augustus was making. A sudden flash of bright light shined from King Augustus's body forcing Alicia to cover her eyes. When the light dimed she saw her Royal Father standing there grinning ear to ear. 

"I knew that old idiot wouldn't figure it out! HAHAHAHA!"

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