Lord Protector novel (Zeke Williams) novel Chapter 1497

“What are you talking about?” Ares’s heart skipped a beat.

“Well, the Demon Slayers just tried to kill all of us,” the Prime Minister replied.

Ares’s heart sank immediately as he had never expected after all his meticulous planning, the real Demon Slayers would actually partake in the fight.

Can’t you guys appear after we have our hands on the Spirit Stones? Ares berated in his head.

“I-is that so? I guess I have to apologize for my mistake here. It must have been wrong intelligence on my side then. I really hope all of you can forgive me for my carelessness,” Ares feigned ignorance and smiled bitterly.

The leaders of Eurasia replied Ares with cold stares as the misinformation had almost cost them their lives.

They wanted to refute but were reluctant to do so as Ares was still a King Class warrior.

Ares scanned the flattened terrain and asked out of curiosity, “May I know who killed the Demon Slayers and turned this place into ruins?”

“The number one King Class warrior saved us,” the Prime Minister replied.

Ares jumped at the news. He knew that he himself could never cause so much damage even in his top condition. The scene in front of him proved that the first King Class warrior was ways ahead of him in terms of capability.

Ares finally understood why the number one King Class warrior refused to have a friendly match: Ares was simply inferior to him.

“This is all on me. I’ll take full responsibility,” Ares replied, disheartened, “Julian, let’s go.”

Just as Ares was about to leave, Zeke spoke up, “Ares, hold up. There’s something I can’t seem to understand, and I hope you have some answers for it.”

Ares rolled his eyes at Zeke; whenever the latter talked, something bad would always happen.

“And what’s that?” Ares asked impatiently.

“Since we’re now sure that the group of assassins you killed wasn’t the Demon Slayers, then who are they?”

Zeke’s question came as a bolt from the blue. Everyone quickly shifted their attention to Ares.

Ares forced a smile and remained calm despite his guilt. “How would I know?”

“Then, how are you so sure they were the Demon Slayers?”

“I...” Ares stuttered as he had no idea how to answer Zeke’s follow-up question. “Didn’t we tell you that it’s because we have been misinformed?” Julian argued.

“If that’s the case, how did you get that information?”

“From our intelligence officer, of course.”

“Very good. Could you be so kind to tell us his name? We have some questions for him.”

“T-this...” It was Julian’s turn to stutter.

In fact, there was no intelligence officer. Julian had made it all up. It was also useless for him to find a scapegoat as whoever that was would be exposed right away.

“And why would we do that?” Ares scoffed and pulled Julian away. “Julian, we are leaving!”

The Prime Minister stared as Ares left and whispered to Zeke, “Great Marshal, may I have a word?”

Zeke followed the Prime Minister to a quiet corner.