"You are nothing but a disgrace to the uniform." Locrias said. "We are the Queen's Corps. We are supposed to protect the weak and serve our country. Not to be the lapdogs of ambitious idiots like Morn!
"I've followed Verhen this entire time and even though he's far from a perfect man, he's always protected our Kingdom while your rash actions are endangering it."
"He killed you and your soldiers!" Zesker replied.
"No, Meln Narchat did. I died in the line of duty and I would do it again." Locrias said.
"I don't blame Verhen for my death. The Lutian woman sold herself to Meln and I was too naïve to notice." Valia said and the rest of the Demons nodded with her.
"We need to go." Solus said, feeling several dimensional corridors opening in the air all around them.
Lith nodded and hugged Elina before Warping the three of them to the barn.
Much to his surprise, the Demons had followed him. Also, as Locrias had predicted, Toman hadn't arrested Rena and the kids. She, Sentinel, and Selia stood guard, sighing in relief when they recognized the newcomers.
The huntress had come to rescue the children the moment that Morn's hologram had issued the arrest warrant for all the Verhens. She wielded a bow with an alchemic arrow already nocked and two short swords hung to her hips.
"Everyone is safe." Selia said while nodding toward Toman and never letting go of the arrow.
Lith could see from her posture that the huntress had positioned herself to be capable of moving her aim from the barn's door to the member of the Queen's Corps with ease.
"Thank the gods you are alright." Rena hugged them, crying her eyes out as the grip of fear finally left her heart.
"Quick, you have to go to the Desert." Toman tried to activate the Warp Gate, but it had been sealed. "Shit. I bet that reinforcements are about to come from Valeron and they will be Royal Guards. You can't stay here."If you want to read more chapters, visit pa nda-novel,c.o,m
"Mom, I want to go home. Where's daddy?" Leria started to cry.
"Mom, why did that bad guy say so many things about Lith?" Aran was angry, instead. "We did nothing wrong yet he said that we are criminals. We must save Dad!"
"Dad!" Lith echoed as he scanned the farm for Raaz but found no trace of his presence. "Where is he?"
"He said that he would go to the villages around Nenia. He wanted to see if there were barren land that he could restore with your help." Elina said as panic made her shiver.
"Thanks, Mom, but I was actually speaking with Toman."
"I have no idea." She replied. "We sent a couple of our members after him, but your DoLorean is damn fast. They need to wait for him to stop and then pinpoint his position via the tracking device to Warp next to him."
"Dammit, the tracking device. I had almost forgotten about it. Dad is likely to have been captured already." Lith cursed as he tried and failed to pinpoint the DoLorean. "Someone turned it off."
"That's not our doing." Toman raised her hands to shield herself from his fury. "If a member of the Corps had taken your father, they would have reported it already. Let me try."
She took out her communication amulet, asking for a status report from her colleagues.
"We lost Raaz Verhen way before the arrest warrant was issued, Toman." Tikrelos said. "We had just Warped to Nenia when some guys got the jump on us. We survived only because at some point they ran away.
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