Elaris said, "Which way?"
Scott said, "Which are you talking about?"
Larrith answered, "Among the executioners, we were able to capture their strongest swordsman. He is in the prison.. We can visit him… he has to have an information about the dark queen."
Elaris said, "But the prison is about half mile away. If Rafael finds out that we are out in such a condition, he will be angry on us."
Scott nodded.
Larrith said and laughed, "After all, I am the king."
They also smiled.
They went outside the castle.
Elaris said, "since we all can fly, we can just… Fly to it.."
They nodded..
Scott said, "I really want to ask William if he's bored by walking all the time."
They paused for a second. They started levitating after closing their eyes.
Then they opened their eyes and flew high in the sky.
After about two minutes of flying, they could see the prison from the sky..
They glided down. They landed in front of the prison.
It was an old fortress. The bricks could be seen. It was grey in colour. It was wide enough.
At the black gate, there stood two Royal guards in a grey armour.
They bowed before them.
They entered the prison through the main gate.
They then entered the prison rows.
They finally found the prison where the executioner was kept.
He was wearing a blackish, emerald armour. His both hands were tied to metal rods by metal chains.
He looked down. He looked towards them.
The sword of him was stuck outside his cell by a metal sword holder.
Scott said to Larrith, "ask… him?"
Larrith said, "Ah… Tell us your name" with a deep voice.
The prisoner said, "None of your business… get lost"
Elaris said, "Whose power did you utilise this time? That power wasn't of your clan.. "
The prisoner laughed at them, "Find it yourself.. You really think that I am going to say out anything…"
Larrith said, "No way… they are very loyal.. They would rather die than telling us anything.. Only a few betray.. He is not one of them."
They were moving outside. The prisoner laughed hard and said, "You three look clever but the doom is near…Flee before it arrives in your kingdom.. There will be no way to survive… The gates will be open soon.."
Larrith said, "which gate are you talking about?"
The prisoner laughed but no response came.
They moved out of the prison.
Larrith said, "which gate was he talking about?"
Scott said, "No clue. We got nothing at all."
Elaris exclaimed, "Library might help us!!"
They all nodded.
They all flew back towards the castle.
The library was near the castle.
They entered the library.
It was more or less empty due to the craze of the coronation ceremony.
A wise old man was sitting on the desk. He had a white long beard . The thickness of his glasses was more than fog. He was reading a book. He closed the book and kept it on the desk and stood and bowed to the new king…
Larrith said, "You are older than us.. You never had to bow."
The wise man said, "It's a law.. Even though I don't obey the laws.. What's the need for a chair when you can sit on the desk. But I respect you all… that's why.. So which book do you need."
Larrith said, "Books of history… history of Arcanthys…"
The wise man said, "Hmm…" and he moved from the rows of the shelves.
They followed him.
Scott and Elaris were shocked at the sight of the huge library.
There were over hundreds of shelves on the ground and at the back, the entire wall of the library that's about twenty feet long is an entire book shelf that's full of books."
Scott said, "How great it is!"
Larrith nodded and said, "You both never visited it, right?"
They both said, "Yes.. We never visited it. "
The wise man flew high in the huge library… he moved from right to left to find the perfect books from history..
He finally found a shelf…
There were hundreds of books from the history of Arcanthys section…
He paused for a bit and looked down towards Larrith . He wiggled his ears and tightened his ears and eyes… He instantly understood what information he is trying to get… And picked a red book from the shelf that's about twenty centimetres wide. He flew down to them. He then handed it over to Larrith…
They thanked him and they sat on a table to go through it…
"How did he choose one single book from hundreds?" said Elaris.
Larrith said, "He can read minds… but still he asks which book we want for fun"
Scott said, "That's interesting. "
Larrith went through the pages… At page thirty three, he found something about a war called the ending war…
Scott said, "what war?"
They went through the page and came to learn about a war that almost ended the clan of dark magicians…
It says, the war ended with Rafael defeating the prince of darkness.
"How dare you all !" shouted Rafael with anger.. His lips trembled and his eyes burnt with anger as his pupils became shorter"
They all stood up.
"You all are definitely aware that none should go out of the castle in such a condition when the dark could easily invade.." said Rafael..
Scott's levitating ring turned pale yellow in fear..
"I hope you didn't forget that I am the king…
If you were unwilling to tell us about the dark queen… we had no other choice except finding it ourselves.. " said Larrith with confidence..
Rafael's lips tightened even further…
He said, "I made you the king… remember it! Don't dare to defy the laws! "
Larrith said, "I really don't care… you could have made others the king or queen or you could have yourself became the king but why didn't you? Because you want to establish your supremacy!"
Rafael blinked and turned back. He then said, "I can't be the king… and whatever you read from that book… it's partially true.."
He left the library. They stood there still shocked..
Larrith asked the wise librarian, "what secret is he hiding? You can read minds right?"
He said, "I can indeed but I never read his mind and I won't… I tried once and failed… I can't… His magic is incomparable and so is pain."
Larrith exclaimed, "Pain?"