Aside from being a bustling city that could promote trade, Koruzakt had other services which they offered.
A touristic site at the far end of the town, artistic houses, hot springs, and brothels thought this one was best kept underground.
Koruzakt wasn't lacking in recreation sites, but at the moment it was severely lacking in a place to house the king of Ingrod.
Even if Koruzakt's success was multiplied by 5, what could the town offer that the king couldn't get in the wealthiest cities of the kingdom.
Right now it was like a king strolling through the slums of a village, the entire Koruzakt administration and its people had one question in their minds.
"What does he want?"
Confidently walking through the streets, no one questioned why he was all alone and without guards.
Such a question will only be silly and have a lot of people looking at whoever asked it like he was an idiot.
I mean the king was already all-powerful, carrying along guard was just redundancy as in the end they would only be a hindrance to him if there was ever a serious attack on his life, and if one argued that he needed helpers as he moved around, then they just need to see the king when he moved.
Just his aura could subdue more than 90 % of the cultivators in the kingdom, making them nod their heads and do his bidding to the utmost.
With the most important question of the town being the reason for why the king was present, everyone watched him till eventually he took a right and went off the main road, walking into a smaller but still wide path, the town's Lord quickly giving out orders that aimed to decongest the area which the king was walking into.
The Lord of the town was still busy giving orders when the king suddenly made a left turn and to everyone's shock walked into the doors of an average-looking restaurant.
"A restaurant." The lord thought as several reasons for such a move went through his head but in the end, he could only drop a few directives to his subordinates who were beside him and then dash into the restaurant alone, who knew whether it was an idiot that was manning the restaurant.
Quickly moving in, the Lord looked left and right, relief flooding his body when he noticed the restaurant was nearly empty, his eyes quickly training in on the king, watching as he moved towards a bench a little bit far from the restaurant door and had a seat in front of a figure dressed in black and wearing a hood.
"Perhaps a meeting or a visit," the Lord thought.
The king had already shown his disinterest in him, so he knew better than to walk up to him and pester him.
Not daring to use his soulsense the town's Lord was just about to move and check the Kitchen and other offices of the restaurant so as to avoid any surprise when to his shock he saw a waiter walk up to the king's table.
For a few seconds, panic gripped his heart, and when he saw the waiter peacefully leave the table, his racing heart calmed down and he quickly moved to a position quite far enough to give the king his privacy but close enough for the king to order him
Keeping his head bowed, the mayor could not help but wonder who the hooded figure was, but then he noticed the figure lift their head and then their body tremble a little signifying their shock and then the figure stood up, took off their hood, and bowed.
Well, bowing to the king was a normal thing, but the Lord couldn't help but swallow when he saw the light red-haired woman.
"It's bad enough that the king is here, but why is the princess also here, I don't want my days of pleasure to come to an end."
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"Father why are you here" Ella asked after bowing to her kingly father still shocked that he was before her.
Initially, she had felt a presence at her table but had taken it as another curious idiot who had come to disturb her but when she lifted her head to deal with the intruder, her eyes were greeted by her father's amused smile.
'Why do you look like you're fleeing, who are you hiding from"
The direct question had Ella swallowing as she arranged her thought.
Who was she, what was she, how old was she, before her father, any lie she told would be effortlessly detected by the man and that would only serve to make her fall out of favor with him, so she could only spit out the truth.
"I'm being chased by a powerful man, Minuha came with her full body to deal with him, but I don't think she succeeded.
"Minuha" the king directly called out, a black shadow spilling out of Ella's shadow, and going to the side, rising and taking on Minuha's body shape but remaining pitch black.
"Your majesty"
"Hmm, where is Minuha?"
"At the moment I just suffered a grievous defeat at the hands of Ella's pursuer my lord, and now I've split my body into thousands of pieces, and with my injuries, it would take me a year if not years to recover, and regain my full form."
"He's that strong," the king said with a chuckle, "Well now I have somewhere to stretch"
"You're going to fight him" Ella ked in complete surprise.
"Sure, he bullied my daughter, he can't just go scot-free," the king said with a smile.
"Minuha with your state would you be able to take care of Ella."
"Though a little help would be appreciated, I am more than confident in safely taking her to the capital."
"Good, Both of you go stay in the capital, I'll be heading to go meet hmm…"
"What's his name?"
"Evary Seth."
"Evary Seth, I got so many conflicting reports on him, so I guess I'll go meet him now."
With these words, the king of Ingrod stood up, and just like he came in, he began strolling out.
"Why didn't you beg for Seth's life," Minuha's shadow said after the king was gone but Ella only rolled her eyes at it.
"Well, I hate him so sorry if the thought of saving him didn't instinctively pop into my head," Ella said pulling out a necklace and stroking it lovingly.
"Besides who knows his death might just be the solution since you failed to capture him"
"Tch stubborn brat, when I get back, I'll deal with you, and also just for your information, I now have a way to fix the necklace," the back shadow said and before Ella could turn to question it, it collapsed, and reattached itself to her shadow.
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Several Miles away, Minuha had a frown on her face, groaning at how she would have to split her body for a year and stay hidden just so she could prevent the king from tracking her new aura.
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