My Ultimate Sign-in System Made Me Invincible

Chapter 770 Fighting The King

The royal guards in white and gold stood like silent statues all around the low carved walls of the Hale estate. In the pale silver light of the four moons, their long swords stayed in their sheaths, but their crimson eyes never left the windows and doors of the manor.

Inside the sitting room, Felix paced near the hearth with his hands clasped behind his back, while Clara sat beside a low table spread with old hand-drawn maps of the city.

Clone One stood near the tall window, looking out through the glass at the still line of guards. "The King has Mortimer," he said. "And Mortimer is the only one who knows how to open that door back to my world. So I'm going to take him back."

Felix stopped dead in his tracks. "Are you out of your mind? He's inside the royal palace! You can't just kick down the palace gates like you did to Mortimer's manor!"

Clara looked up from the map and met Clone One's gaze with steady crimson eyes. There was no fear in them. She reached out and tapped a slender pale finger against a small square drawn behind the main spire of the palace.

"The King doesn't keep traitors of high rank in the common cells," Clara said with a quiet, measured voice. "He holds them in the cells under the east tower of the palace grounds. There's an old service gate along the north wall that leads straight down to the lower stairs. If you move fast, you can reach the cells before the guards inside can seal the tower."

Felix stared at his sister in disbelief. "Clara, if the crown finds out we gave him the layout of the palace grounds, House Hale is finished!"

"We already chose our side when we walked into that throne room with him, Felix," Clara said as she folded the map and handed it to Clone One. "We might as well see it through."

Clone One took the map, gave Clara a short nod of thanks and stepped out through the back terrace into the shadows of the garden.

***

Ten minutes later, the north wall of the royal palace shook with a dull, heavy thud.

Clone One dropped into the narrow stone courtyard behind the east tower and skipped the main gates altogether. He moved with blinding speed and slipped down the winding stone stairwell that led into the cold cells below.

Two dozen royal guards in spotless white-and-gold armor stood outside a huge gate of black iron bars. The moment Clone One rounded the corner at the bottom of the stairs, the guards drew their long swords together in one flash of steel.

"Halt!" the captain of the guard barked. "Intruder in the palace!"

Clone One didn't break his stride. He let a heavy wave of Primordial Essence drop over the underground corridor.

Crash!

The stone floor cracked under the guards' boots. All twenty-four royal guards hit the flagstones face-first in an instant, pinned flat by the crushing weight before they could swing their blades.

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