My Angel system

After making a deal with Roy and filling him in on the first stage of their plan, he offered them a place to stay in the palace, it was necessary given that the day of the attack was tomorrow.

Festus and the two young knights didn't want to spend the night in the palace but the desperation in Roy's voice as he spoke to them was the reason why they had decided to stay.

Sure he was a bad and greedy king but this wasn't all about him and they have to do everything possible to make sure that Asaka is safe.

Roy had ordered two of the maids in the palace to lead to one of the empty rooms in the palace which had beds for the three of them.

After leading them to the room, the maids asked them if they needed anything which they replied no to.

"I just pray this works," Jude said sitting down on one of the beds.

"It will work," Carl said.

"And then you can finally be free," Jude said, turning to Festus with a smile as the light wizard responded with a nod.

The conversation between the three was cut short as they were interrupted by a soft knocking on the door.

"I'll go see who it is," Carl said, getting up from his bed.

He walked to the door and opened it to see someone he wasn't really expecting to see at least not today.

"Princess, is there a problem?" Carl asked with a perplexed look on his face.

"No, not really," Diana said quickly entering the room and closing the door.

"Hi." She said waving to Jude and Festus.

"Your father doesn't know you're here," Carl said, realizing why she had quickly entered the room and locked the door.

"Yes he doesn't and I want to keep it that way," Diana said.

"Why are you here?" Carl asked crossing his arms.

"Because a lot of things have been going on lately and I think my father is trying to keep me in the dark," Diana said.

"He is?" Jude said.

"Yes," Diana replied with a nod. "When he told me to leave the throne room today, I didn't actually leave."

"You were eavesdropping on us," Carl said.

"I heard you talking about an attack," Diana said, turning her gaze to Jude. "I didn't hear anything else because I had to leave when I heard guards approaching me."

"You don't know about the attack?" Carl asked sounding surprised.

"I told you my father was keeping me in the dark," Diana said.

"If he is keeping you in the dark princess then there must be a reason for it," Festus said.

"But I don't want to be kept in the dark," Diana said, turning to Festus. "I want to know what's going on."

"Diana," Carl called.

"Please tell me what's going on," Diana said, quickly turning to face him.

Carl didn't say anything as he slightly brought down his gaze to avoid making eye contact with her.

"Carl, please tell me what's going on," Diana said, grabbing both of his hands.

"I can't Diana, if your father doesn't want you to know about any of this then it's probably for your own good," Carl said.

"Is that what you think Carl?" Diana asked. "You know he may be my father but I've heard the complaints people give about him, most of the decisions he makes are for his selfish benefits only."

"Maybe this time is different," Carl said.

"You're not going to tell me," Diana said.

"I want to, but I think Festus is right," Carl said, raising his head to look at her face.

She stared directly into his eyes for a while before slowly pulling her hand away from he's.

"Okay, I'll just figure it out on my own." She said heading towards the door.

"Diana." Carl tried to call her back but she quickly left through the door and slammed it shut.

"She's going to get into trouble trying to figure this out on her own," Carl said, turning to Festus and Jude.

"As long as she is in the palace, she won't get into any trouble," Festus said.

Carl responded with a nod as he turned his gaze to Jude who was giving him a weird look now.

"What?" Carl asked.

"You never told me you were this close to the princess," Jude said.

"Well, you also didn't tell me a lot of things till I found out just today," Carl said walking to his bed.

"Oh," Jude said.

"Both of you should get some sleep so we can get up early tomorrow and start executing our plan before the elves start attacking," Festus said.

"What about you?" Jude asked turning to the light wizard.

"I will also be getting some sleep," Festus said lying down on his bed.

Jude smiled at him before lying down on his bed to get some sleep as Carl also did the same.

"Good night," Festus said, using his staff to put out the torches on the wall.

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It has been almost two hours since the three fell asleep, the room was very dark with the only glimpse of light coming from the rays of the moon entering the room through the little cracks on the window above.

It didn't take long before the full moonlight was entering the room as the window was suddenly pushed open.

The window was paced really high in the room but that wasn't a problem for whoever wanted to get into the room.

Two ropes flew into the room and attached themselves to the ground just beside Festus' bed.

With the help of the ropes, the person who was in a very dark hoodie slid himself into the room.

He had landed right in front of Festus and now had his eyes on the light wizard's staff which was lying beside him.

"Carl, is that you?" Jude mumbled as he slowly opened his eyes to the moonlight. "That's not right."

He quickly sprang up from his bed to see that the window was open and that was when he saw the person that had come in through the window.

"Who are you?" The young knight demanded stopping the person before he grabbed Festus' staff.

The person froze for a few seconds before he pulled out two blades from nowhere and threw them toward Jude.

Jude quickly grabbed his sword from the side of his bed to block the first blade but he wasn't so lucky on the second one which went straight to his shoulder and pierced.

"Arghhh!" Jude groaned as he fell to his bed.

The person quickly turned and tried to grab Festus' staff again but before he could touch it, white light shot out from it blasting him back until he crashed into the wall.

"What's going on?" Carl quickly sprang up from his bed to see the person in a hood a little distance away from him.

"Get him." Jude groaned.

Carl rushed towards him and tried to grab him but before he could get there, the person shot out two ropes from his hand on the window and used it to pull himself up and out of the window.

"Who was that?" Carl asked quickly rushing to Jude whose shoulder was seriously bleeding.

"I don't know," Jude replied between his groans as Carl turned to Festus to see if he had any answer to his question.

"I don't know either," Festus said looking at the open window. "But it was clear he was after one thing." He added turning his gaze to his staff.

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Mass release goals...

Normal update: 2 chapters daily

1 magic Castle or 300 power stones= 1 extra chapter

2 magic castles or 500 power stones= 2 extra chapters

3 magic castles or 700 power stones= 3 extra chapters

4 magic castles or 1000 power stones= 4 extra chapters.