Chapter 272: A Man Covered in Blood
The message from the Emergency Contact Token was also too loud; Yale and Revgen thought that they needed to order to those in charge of creating these tokens to fix them a bit.
“A man covered in blood has appeared at the gates of our Imperial Palace asking to meet Princess Nurvey. He seems too suspicious, but we didn’t dare to chase him out without the orders of the Princess. Right now, he is still in the door begging to meet Princess Nurvey.”
Usually, anyone who dared to act like that would be expelled, but since that man covered in blood had mentioned Nurvey, they didn’t dare to be negligent. If that man didn’t have any relationship with Nurvey, the guards would punish him, but if that man was an acquaintance of Princess Nurvey and they block his path letting him die from his injuries, their fates would be surely worse than the man who was begging to meet Nurvey.
“Who?”
Nurvey couldn’t reply to those guards with the Emergency Contact Token, and she didn’t plan to contact them either; that question didn’t expect any reply.
In a situation like that, she needed to see the man personally to ensure that was someone she knew. After all, even if she asked the guards for a description, the description might be imprecise, or the man could be under disguise and fool the guards.
“I need to go.”
Nurvey bowed towards her grandfather and then to Yale and Ange. Then, she walked towards the door.
“Wait. If this is some kind of trap, you may die. Let me go with you. You know about my power, it will be impossible for anyone to kill you under my supervision.”
Nurvey nodded to Yale’s words because she still remembered how Yale saved all the group back then in the special realm.
Revgen also agreed to Yale’s suggestion because he didn’t want to expose himself to the outside world until a critical moment. Moreover, he had full trust in Yale, so since Yale had offered himself to protect Nurvey, Revgen didn’t have any doubt his words.
“I can control the formation, come here, I need direct contact to teleport you with me towards the door.”
Yale had the same authority than Revgen in the Imperial Palace, so he could use the formations freely to teleport to any place without problems. However, he didn’t want to bet to teleport someone who wasn’t in direct contact with him for fear of some problem happening in the teleportation to the other party.
Nurvey neared Yale, and the later held her hand before manipulating the teleportation to disappear from Nurvey’s room and appear in the gates of the Imperial Palace.
After appearing there, Yale let go Nurvey’s hand. In fact, both only held their hands for a few seconds, and Nurvey didn’t even have time to react to Yale’s actions.
The guards were surprised by the sudden apparition of Yale and Nurvey. They almost wielded their weapons towards them, but after seeing Nurvey, they stopped before pointing their weapons towards her.
Pointing a weapon towards Nurvey was seeking death even if it was unintentional.
However, although Nurvey had a certain degree of authority regarding the formations in the Imperial Palace, she didn’t have enough for teleporting using the formations, that was a function that only Revgen could use or at least that was the common knowledge because Yale also could use it due to his previous life’s identity.
Thus, no one expected that Nurvey would appear so quickly after they had sent that message to her.
“Who is he?”
One of the guards asked that to Nurvey, but he wasn’t speaking about the man covered in blood outside the gates, but about Yale who appeared together with her.
“He is someone respected by my grandfather and me, disrespect him and would be the same that disrespecting us.”
Nurvey didn’t want to speak about Yale’s true identity after she had learned it, but she couldn’t let those guards disrespect him by not saying anything.
In fact, given that Revgen said that Yale was the ruler of the continent disrespecting him was even more serious than disrespecting Revgen, but if Nurvey said that to the guard, no one of them would have believed her.
The guards doubted about Yale’s identity, but they didn’t dare to argue with Nurvey. If Nurvey said that Yale should be respected, then he should be respected, the reasons didn’t matter to them.
“Let me see.”
Nurvey didn’t lose time before going to the main point and asking to check the identity of the man covered in blood.
The gates were closed, and the places where the guards checked the outside was inside the Imperial Palace. There were some formations manipulating light to transmit images from the outside to those inside the palace.
Yale and Nurvey walked towards the light screen that was showing the outside of the gates, and both saw that there was indeed a man covered by blood lying on the floor at some distance of the gates, but the man wasn’t speaking or begging, like if he had already lost the strength to that.
Moreover, that blood was clearly from the man himself, and he was heavily injured; even if no one attacked him, he would still die after some time if he didn’t obtain a treatment with healing magic.
The fact that the man was covered in blood made recognizing him a bit difficult, and although the light screen had high quality, the man was at some distance, so it was difficult recognizing him in just a few seconds even if someone was acquainted with him.
However, after some seconds, Yale and Nurvey recognized that man; he was someone that both of them knew and their faces turned grim after recognizing him.
“Hurry! Open the gates!”
The guards were shocked by Nurvey’s shout because she was usually calm and didn’t lose her temper even when others had offended her; in those cases, she would just punish the offender, but she would remain calm even if she were sentencing someone to death.
However, after seeing that man covered in blood, all of them understood that probably that man was a friend of Nurvey or she wouldn’t have lost her temper after seeing him covered in blood.
After all, Nurvey wasn’t a saint and wouldn’t help any random citizen who was on the verge of dying just because he appeared in the gates of the Imperial Palace. However, she valued her friends a lot, so everyone thought that the only way for her to lose her temper was that something had happened to one of them.
The guards proceeded to open the gates at the same instant that they heard Nurvey’s orders. However, opening the gates wasn’t a matter of seconds. They were designed in that way to give some guards time to reach the gates in case that someone infiltrated the Imperial Palace and tried to open the gates to let others enter.
Every time that the gates were opened, the elders and the chief guards would be informed, so it would be difficult for an intruder to use that gate to help others to infiltrate.
When the gates opened, Nurvey rushed towards that man covered in blood and Yale followed her while he activated his Life Bloodline and used it to use the Divine Life Eyes to check the state of the injured man in front of him.
“Hyrk!”
Nurvey exclaimed while running because he had never expected that her good friend would appear in the front of the gates in such a miserable state.
Hyrk Hyeran, one of the members of Yale’s group in the special realm and a member of the Hyeran Clan. As a member of a noble clan, it was difficult to believe that he ended in such state. However, given the situation of the continent with the True Empire hidden even inside the noble clans, the reason for Hyrk’s injuries was easy to guess.
The guards were quite shocked when they heard Hyrk’s name because he was one of the few friends of Nurvey and had gone to the Imperial Palace before. However, the guards didn’t have an intimate relationship with him, so with the blood covering him and the fact that he wasn’t near in the imaged of the light screen, they were unable to recognize him.
Nurvey was running towards Hyrk because even though he was in front of the gates, there was some distance from the place where Hyrk fell to the ground and the gates. That distance seemed shorter than it truly was when looking that light screen and Hyrk’s injuries were too heavy, so Nurvey didn’t want to lose even one second.
However, before she reached the place where Hyrk was, she was suddenly stopped by Yale.
Yale had already received the information from his Divine Light Eyes, and that information made him stop Nurvey from going towards Hyrk.