Zain and Iso saw a king sitting on his throne in an audience hall. Besides him stood a Holy Knight glad in full armour and a maid that led us to the room, left shortly. It was just the king, the Holy Knight, Iso, Zain and other 12 Knights on the room, probably the other too.
Iso immediately kneeled and bowed when she saw the king but Zain just stood by. He looked at the at Iso who was kneeling and back at the king. Iso tugged him to kneel down before the king but Zain just ignored her.
Zain looked at the king and said, "Greetings your majesty, so aren't you going to offer us chairs?"
Since the hall was quite, the only sound that could be heard was metal because the 12 Knights were walking towards Zain and they pointed their spears towards the neck of Zain. Zain just stared at them without doing anything.
"Stop."
Finally, the king said one word and every knight's spears stopped an inch away from from Zain's neck. Zain didn't look scared or even slightly bit afraid. Two knights bumped into the kneeling Iso and one of them stepped on her hand but she didn't try to make a sound. Zain saw that one knight stepped on Iso's hand and stared at that knight.
"Remove your foot!"
Zain said to that knight while looking at him with an intense stare that probably felt like death. The knight shivered when he looked at them and removed his foot on Iso's hand. Iso held the hand that was stepped on her chest and the other one on top of it.
The Knights didn't remove their spears on his neck. Zain look down at Iso and asked, "Are you okay?" Iso nodded when she heard Zain. The king looked at the scene with a stern face.
"Return to your post." The king said in uncaring voice and continued to say, "You interrupted me before the introduction." The holy knight beside the king waited for the king to finish talking and stood tall to say the introduction.
"You are in the presence of the King of Ravenscar. His Majesty, King Aleric Edwyn of Ravenscar." The Holy Knight said out loud and continue to say "You must be Lucas I presume?"
Zain looked at the Holy Knight and the King before she looked at Iso. "Did you tell them?" Zain asked Iso but she shook her head. Zain finally remember that stalker that has been following him the other days.
"Well that's what I'm called." Zain said as he shrugged his shoulders.
"Is not it your name?" The holy knight said to Zain and everyone in the room turned to him.
"I never said Lucas is my name. As a matter of fact I never introduced myself to you." Zain said to them and everyone was slightly getting used to his bluntness and casualness.
"What is your name?" The king said asked with his stern look.
"You just want my name right? I'm Lucian but you can call me Lucas." Zain said
"Lucian, that's not a commoner's name?" The king said with the stern look and the Holy Knight stopped talking when the king began to talk.
"Okay. My name is Lucian Zain von Dawnbreaker. I'm an S-Rank adventurer. Is that information enough?" Zain said because he felt tired trying to go back and forth.
Iso looked at Zain in shock, the holy knight looked at Zain with his hand on his sword, the knights just looked at him but no reaction and the king just didn't react.
"An S-Rank huh? How long?"
"How long have I've been alive? A long time." Zain knew what he meant but wanted to toy with him to see his reaction and the king slightly twitched his eyebrows.
"How long have you been an S-Rank?"
"Just now. It hasn't even been a full day. Before I came here I was in a middle of a meeting." Zain said casually.
"Who were in the meeting?"
"That's private but I'll tell you since you're eager. It was me, Guildmaster Zack and that bitch Rhaelis." Zain said with a slightly irritation on the last part.
Iso forgot the room she was in and stood up rapidly.
"Miss Rhaelis of the Moonclaw? The woman who fought a dragon alone and was called [The Dragon Slayer], the woman who stood toe to toe with the demon general of the demon lord, the woman who charged on the battlefield towards the demons, the woman who stood in front of the blazing fireball to protect her teammates from the disaster, the woman...." She said rapidly.
"STOP!" The king cut her off mid sentence and said, "What is she doing here?"
"It's classified information."
"The king demands answers!" The holy knight said in anger.
"Listen you two, I'm not here to discuss about my life. I'm here because she said I needed to meet the king for me to get a house." Zain said
"Watch your words!" The holy knight said in anger.
"Watch your words!" The holy knight said in anger.
Zain said stood silent. Ever since he entered the audience hall, he felt something that carried death. No one on the room felt like that which probably means it came from the castle. He knew that something was happening in this kingdom with he did that radius search to find the bandits.
The Holy Knight had an aura of strength. He was not stronger than Rhaelis but he was stronger than Guildmaster Zack. The king felt like a seasoned warrior but he was not stronger than Holy Knight but probably the same strength as Sarah from the guild.
The Knights in the room were not strong but they were competent.
"I've got a question sir." Zain said in casual tone.
"Ask." The king said.
Zain pointed at the corner of the room near the king's throne and said, "Why did you ask him to follow me?"
The King and Holy Knight looked shocked when Zain pointed at the corner. The king tried to mask his reaction but it was still seen. Iso thought that Zain is crazy but still asked him, "Who are you pointing at?"
Zain said nothing at first and said, "The man who came at your office after I left." Iso was taken back and remembered the man that Zain talked about.
"Because you had an unfamiliar sigil on your jacket." The king said and Zain knew that what he said was true. Zain grew impatient by the sense he felt that carried death.
*INSIGHT FORCE*
Zain scanned the entire castle and located the source. A frail women was sitting beside a bedridden child or teenager who was about to die. Her heart something on it that probably can't be cured.
The child was dying.