I'M THE NECROMANCER KING
Chapter 128: Meeting With the Royal Envoy

Sitting at the end of a long table, watched by many pairs of eyes, Mavis calmly bit her apple. While chewing, he spread his gaze towards those present then nodded, in order to allow the guests to convey the message.

"Greetings, Prince Asta. My name is Rafael, I represent the messengers that His Majesty the King sent to read the following letter to the Prince." Then the man took out a red parchment.

"With this marked as the King of Srivijaya, King Cornelius Dixon ordered Prince Asta Dixon to return to the main capital fortress as soon as possible. This is because the kingdom will soon start fighting, starting three months from now."

"Aren't we supposed to be five or six months away? Why has it become so fast, has something happened to the kingdom?"

"Right Prince, something big happened shortly after your departure. As everyone in this room knows, it all has to do with a former concubine who has gone missing from the royal mansion since the mysterious murder incident of the prisoner healers," rafael said with a dimmed face. Mavis only realized that the man was one of the people who was always by the king's side and was in line every time his father traveled. It was only fitting that he found out about the incident of the death of the captive healers, considering that the incident was very secretive and only known by a handful of people inside the royal mansion.

"This has to do with the woman's true identity, which is actually the younger cousin of King Titus of the fourth-tier affiliated Mori Kingdom. According to our scout experts, a rumor has been circulating outside the kingdom, saying that His Majesty King Cornelius has done bad and vile to his former concubine. So as to incite excessive hatred in the heart of King Titus, he decided to change his original plan to hasten the attack."

"So this is all that cunning fox?" Mavis smirked in satisfaction and suddenly glanced at Reus who was standing in the corner of the room, along with Sasha and Rafael's loyal subordinates. "Very good, it would be very boring if the woman died so easily. After everything he did to the queen, I will not let him die peacefully. He must feel the extreme pain, and plead at my feet for his death!"

Instantly the room became so quiet, while the sound that was heard only came from Mavis who was laughing. Then after stopping he continued, "Sorry I'm just a little excited after hearing the previous news, let's continue this conversation of ours."

"Ba-good."

The representatives of the kingdom nodded with depressed facial expressions, cold sweat around his forehead, and hands that could not help but tremble. They suddenly felt a deadly aura coming from the prince's servants, heading towards them just after they thought that the prince before him was very strange.

Rafael raised his hand, making Mavis' previously diverted focus go straight to him. "Prince, I have another message from His Majesty King Cornelius. Actually this has nothing to do with the kingdom, only this is addressed to the Prince personally because it is directly related to the territory owned by the Prince on the outer border of the Osaka Kingdom. A fairly large dungeon had suddenly appeared a month ago in the area, shortly after a few days it opened and came out by itself. The residents who inhabit the region are also many who choose to go and move to other places. In this case they went to the territory of the Osaka Kingdom to get a safer place."

"How does King Ragnar respond to this? Did the royal party send reinforcements to clear the dungeon?"

"King Ragnar respected the Prince's decision, therefore waiting for a reply from the Prince on the matter of this dungeon. Until now the Osaka Kingdom had only received well the fleeing residents and helped care for them, while the adventurers were still free to enter the wolf-level dungeon."

"Alright, then there's nothing to worry about." Mavis circulated her gaze towards the envoys present, then her gaze stopped when looking towards Rafael. "All my preparations have been completed, you guys better go to rest because tomorrow we will travel a long way back to the capital. Regarding the dungeon that is on the outer border of Osaka Kingdom, you do not need to worry. My servants will handle the matter."

"There's no need to see me wonder like that, after all I've planned to return to the capital in the near future, there's a business I want to do with someone in the capital." Then Mavis smiled seeing them sigh in relief and nodded.

After all the affairs with the prince were finished, Raphael rose up and followed by the other messengers. Then the man saluted the prince, before finally taking the others away from the room. After the door was closed, only Mavis remained with her followers, coupled with the presence of Reus and Sasha who stood hesitantly near one of the walls of the room.

"You two sit down, I want to hear the reason why the two of you can arrive at this place" said Mavis with a face full of calmness. In fact, he already had a rough idea about Reus' existence, surely the man's purpose was to come to this place because he had decided to serve him.

"You too, why did you come to this place? Didn't I tell you to take care of my mother?" Mavis was almost at a loss for words. Unlike the man before her, Mavis still did not understand why her maid had come to this border region? A servant, especially a servant who takes care of the royal family mansion should not leave the royal capital. Others will only get severe punishment and be dismissed from their jobs if they break the rules.

"Prince, like the previous envoys who brought messages from His Majesty the King, I also brought a secret message from Her Majesty the Queen!" With a slightly raised chin Sasha glanced towards Reus with pride.

"Oh, what is it?"

"Don't I tell you it's top secret, you know...." Again the maid glanced at Reus, hinting to the prince to tell the man to come out first because it was so secret.

"There's no need to tell him to come out, just tell him what the message is."

"All right." Sasha frowned bitterly as she saw Reus smiling happily to see him fail to convince the prince to expel the man. Then after he managed to calm down, Sasha continued his words that had stopped, "Actually this is all related to the disease experienced by the queen before."

"The Queen's Majesty told me that the disease originally came from a potion that Consort Juleaha gave to the queen. At that time the queen had no suspicion at all and believed that the herb could nourish her body. Recalling however beside the concubine stood a man wearing all-white clothes accompanying her. The man looked like a saint on the surface, always smiling warmly, and kept saying wise things that he was one of the faithful servants of the gods. Of course, the queen welcomed him very well and trusted that just like that."

".... Until here the Prince must have understood the meaning of the queen's message. This is not just the work of the former sneaky concubine, but there is another intervention from the mysterious man dressed all in white. Prince please be careful if later meet such a person."

Mavis nodded instead of commenting on the servant's words. He fell into deep thought, his memory returning as the night of the incident exploded the bodies of the prisoners' healers. Sure enough what he had in mind back then, someone must have been controlling the captive healers from behind, so they could not tell a secret despite having received such a painful torment.

The mysterious figure that was behind the deaths of the healers was definitely the same person as the all-white dressed man who met the queen. Only things are still not so clear, and exactly who is the identity of the man and where did he come from? And again what exactly is the motive for him harming the queen, instead of the king himself who is the sole holder of the supreme power of the kingdom?