Hero? Are You Worthy?
Chapter 198 - 137: Princess of the Ice Country (4)

Chapter 198: Chapter 137: Princess of the Ice Country (4)

"From today onwards, you are to stay in this room except for when you must appear before Antasia or at official events," Wozworth said angrily as he stormed out of the room after throwing down those words. He instructed the guards to blockade the surrounding area, not permitting the Prince to step even half a step out of the palace unless necessary.

He also summoned the steward waiting outside the door. Lindberg absolutely could not continue to live in this world. If a future investigation ever arose, it would suffice to push all the blame onto Lindberg, publicly claiming that Lindberg acted on his own to ingratiate himself with the Prince.

Poor Lindberg, who had spent these days at the Fairy House enjoying the services of enchanting women, was completely unaware that these were the last pleasures of his life.

Inside the palace, Lance’s face contorted fiercely.

The magic scroll in his hand healed the wound on his face inflicted by his father, but the emotional trauma was far from healing.

Due to the matter of the Prince Consort, his relationship with his father had been strained over the past few years. He could not understand why the Abshen Family insisted on following a tradition that had lasted thousands of years, insisting on marrying a woman from the Meisfield family.

Yet, he could never have imagined that his father would so indiscriminately pin the crime of murdering the Hero on him.

He heard some command his father issued outside and knew what fate awaited Lindberg, but he was powerless to change it.

Just like his father’s steward, Lindberg had been a companion by the Prince’s side since childhood. Though not brothers, their relationship was closer than that of real siblings.

Qin Chu!

Suddenly, the name of the Hero flashed across the Prince’s mind.

Yes, it was definitely this damned fool who must have deliberately framed him, trying to stir up trouble between him and his father, aiming to leave him without a single person he could rely on.

He wanted to snatch Rose Vesper away from him as well.

No... Rose Vesper was his, and no one else could take her away.

A thin layer of dense, dark red scales emerged on Lance’s eyeballs, covering his pupils as if a film shrouded his vision, leaving only a blood-red sight.

"Grant me power!"

With a hoarse voice, Lance’s gaze turned to the Void, issuing a command to that mysterious unknown entity.

Soon, the scales began to spread over Lance’s body, quickly covering him entirely, and then peeled off from his body layer by layer, like shedding skin.

Once the scales had fallen off, the aura around Lance significantly expanded, appearing even more powerful than before.

Hahaha...

Inside the palace, the Prince laughed maniacally.

As the laughter continued, the scales began to spread on his body once again.

His eyes now bore madness, "Oh honorable Rose Vesper, Holy Daughter, please patiently wait. I will surely rescue you from Qin Chu’s clutches."

...

Elsewhere, at the Conrad Demon Nest.

Qin Chu, Catherine, and Violet had already reached the bottom of the cave.

The moment the big explosion occurred, Qin Chu had used the small Space Magic Array inscribed on the magic scroll to transfer all three of them here.

Listening to the continuous roaring outside and feeling the trembling underfoot, Qin Chu’s expression was somewhat peculiar: "Violet, I just asked you to create a bit of chaos so that we could split from those people, why did you make such a big scene?

Listening to that noise, it seems like the mountain above the Conrad Demon Nest is about to collapse. My goodness, that intense rumbling and trembling directly spread hundreds of meters underground, and large amounts of dust fell from above.

This power, I wonder if it’s stronger than a nuclear warhead from Earth.

It almost caused the entire Demon Nest to collapse directly. If it weren’t for Qin Chu using the teleportation magic of the scroll in time along with the power of Pseudo Immovable, he might have been injured.

However, Violet’s pretty face also showed confusion as she shook her head: "It wasn’t me. I hadn’t even begun when the big explosion occurred."

Qin Chu was stunned, and both Antia and Shaye floated out from his body, Antia holding a Long Spear, joining Catherine and Violet in being alert to their surroundings.

Shaye said while lying atop Qin Chu’s head: "I detected the presence of a Magic Bomb just now. It seems someone had previously planted bombs in the cave, waiting for you to enter and then set them off."

Shaye’s words angered Qin Chu, realizing there was an assassination plot against him. Such tactics were indeed cunning. He was generally a good person, refined and gentlemanly, and hardly ever offended anyone...

Uh... Qin Chu scratched his head through Shaye’s hair, realizing he actually had offended quite a lot of people.

For instance, Asina, but of course, since Asina believed he still had Jie Luo’s Residual Soul inside him, she definitely wouldn’t do this.

Rose Vesper... she wouldn’t either, so she could be ruled out.

After considering everything, it seemed only Prince Lance was the most likely.

Damn it, daring to target me like this, I’ll kill you later.

But the most pressing issue now was how to draw power. This was a rare opportunity not to be missed.

This was already the deepest part of the Demon Nest. Qin Chu had been here during the first week and was very familiar with this place. He could hear rustling sounds in his ears, clearly some weird creatures were approaching in the darkness.