What if such Igraine leaves the kingdom?

A shiver ran down her spine, and she felt eerie.

One thing was certain.

The kingdom wouldn’t enjoy the current peace and prosperity.

The wind sharply brushed against his cheek. Holding on while riding a horse at full speed was not easy at all.

He wanted to grab his painful buttocks, but if he let go of Giovanni’s waist, he felt like he would turn into a fluttering piece of paper.

From behind, he heard shouts like, “Run faster!” and “Chase them! It’s close!” Making an evil sound, he had no choice but to endure quietly.

‘No, why did they hurry me to leave so quickly!’

The leaving path was this rugged.

At first, it was smooth. Having gathered wealth generously, there was no lingering attachment to the kingdom.
Huebert and Aris wanted to torment them more.

‘That part seems like something I don’t need to touch.’

Stole one pillar root, didn’t I?

Just thinking about it made me smile involuntarily.

Thud thud thud thud thud thud!

The sound of hoofbeats chasing us snapped me back to reality.

The first to realize that we were being chased was Giovanni. From then on, he increased the speed.

There was only one day left until we reached the desert.

However, no matter where they came from, the tightening noose from all sides prevented us from taking a break.

Although I hadn’t slept at all for a day, the heightened tension kept me from feeling tired at all.

“Your Highness! We’re about to enter the plain zone!”

Kichep shouted.

It wasn’t good news from the perspective of fugitives.

In a space without cover, speed is crucial, and we were already quite tired.

In a chase, the one being pursued consumes more physical strength, and with Jenny, our side was at a disadvantage.

Soon, a vast plain without a place to hide appeared.

The horses ran hard. Giovanni and Kichep’s horsemanship was extraordinary, so even now, after running quite a bit, the horses’ speed was still fast.

The problem was that the ones following from behind were no pushovers.

Thud thud thud thud thud!

The tremendous sound of hoofbeats didn’t stop but continued and seemed to get closer.

I glanced back for a moment.

The soldiers from the kingdom only looked like tiny figures.

A bit closer, and their faces would be within identification distance.

‘This seems like a big problem, doesn’t it?’

I wasn’t the only one who thought the situation wasn’t good.

Kichep brought his horse close.

“Your Highness, I will stay behind.”

Giovanni’s hair fluttered in the wind of the knife-like cold. It seemed to imply that if things went wrong, he would stay behind to deal with the soldiers.

It was almost equivalent to saying that he would die.

But Giovanni didn’t say a word. It was as if it were an implicit promise.

My heart sank heavily.

In a way, it was my responsibility for the situation to turn out like this.

But if Kichep were wrong, wouldn’t he feel guilty?

‘Even my abilities need to be used.’

At that moment, I made up my mind internally.

“Aaaah!”

A desperate scream pierced my ears. I quickly turned around.

The soldier who was leading the charge fell while screaming. Flames surged in front of him.

Another incendiary bomb fell onto the grassy ground.

Boom!

Rrrr!

Flames erupted on the spot.

Being a plain belonging to the western zone, the grass was quite dry, and the fire that swallowed up the prey spread rapidly and fiercely.

“Who is it?”

The fire spread in an instant. When the frightened horse couldn’t advance, the soldiers, with eyes wide open, looked for the perpetrator who threw the incendiary bomb.

Their gaze soon turned to the sky.

A large bat was hovering there. No, it was a human who looked like a bat.
A human with a black cloak that looked like wings threw an incendiary bomb and swiftly flew away.

“What is that?”

One soldier exclaimed in confusion.

I squinted my eyes and stared at them, as they hid one by one, seeming to finish their business.

‘Amtein’s bats?’

They were a group that could be controlled with money.

Like Kay, who was crazy about medicine, they were obsessed with science. Amtein allowed them to conduct experiments that couldn’t be done openly on the surface, so they hid underground.

To commission them, you need a lot of money, and they use all that money for research or something.

‘Who could have hired them?’

Thoughts about someone who could spend a fortune for me didn’t come to mind at all. Actually, not a single person came to mind.

There are many wealthy people with a face, but there are no close ones.

It can’t be Kay, right? Maybe someone with a grudge?

‘I don’t know who it is, but I’m really grateful.’

While the bats’ incendiary bombs hindered the kingdom soldiers, Giovanni and Kichep urged the horses faster.

The horses jumped over the fence that marked the village’s boundary in an instant and hid among the complex buildings.

“Wow, my heart almost dropped.”

When they couldn’t see the kingdom soldiers anymore, Kichep held his chest. Sweat trickled down his grimy skin.

“But what was that?”

Jenny weakly murmured in response to Kichep’s question.

“A bird, wasn’t it?”

Kichep, looking like he could vomit at any moment, lowered her from the horse and shook his head.

“It was a human.”

“A human? But it flew in the sky.”

“A bat.”

Jenny and Kichep stared at me.

“A bat?”

“A group living in Amtein. They’ll do anything if you give them money, typical of an Amtein group.”

“How do you know that, miss?”

Smirking, I looked at the puzzled Jenny.

“Because I’m from Amtein.”

“Really?”

She only knew that her father was a thief; she didn’t know the fact that I came from the underground world.

I gently lifted her drooping jaw.