But just after General Nicholas came out for a few seconds, he came back, showing his head inside the camp before saying toward Randy, "I heard you were here to raise your rank to gain The King's trust,"
"For what you did yesterday, you will get punished too. I will reset your rank back to Wood Rank," General Nicholas grinned before saying, "Don't think you won't get punished because you are not in the wrong,"
After saying those words, General Nicholas left the camp for sure this time as he didn't come back again. Randy and the other three were delighted instead being dejected despite having their rank back to Wood Rank.
This meant they would face more beasts later, the more beasts meant the more EXP. So it was a reward rather than punishment, of course, the four delighted.
But Randy wondered how General Nicholas could intervene in the Ascension System? The rank itself was in the Ascension System, yet General Nicholas could intervene in the term of the rank.
Even though Randy didn't mind having his rank was getting reset back to Wood Rank, but the information to intervene with Ascension System itself was important for him. But soon, Shana poured cold water on him, "Don't daydreaming, Uncle. You will not be able to do that, at least not now,"
Meanwhile, The ten Major General along with Ronmald, and Ronmald's father overjoyed when they heard the trialers' punishment received, but looking at the four trialers are showing a happy expression, making them confused.
'Why are they happy being punished?'
...
Meanwhile, in the King Andreas' camp, there were eight people inside the camp. King Andreas's camp was the mini version of the throne hall in the Crimson Cloud Kingdom's castle.
There was a throne and red carpet stretched out from the throne to the entrance. The different was the camp was less luxurious than the Throne Hall.
The eight people were King Andreas, Queen Cecilia, Crimson Princes Alden, and the missing Crimson Princess Audrey also inside King Andreas' camp.
Meanwhile, on the right throne, there were three people, one was General Nicholas, and the other one was a middle-age with a fierce, bloodthirsty, and oppressive aura around him. The next from this middle-aged man, there was another man wore crimson heavy armor. The man was about in the middle of his 30s.
While on the left throne was a man wearing black clothes, from the top head to the tip of the toe was black.
The atmosphere inside the camp was solemn as they were discussing something. After some time, there were three men entered the camp. One was an old man with a long white beard and the other two were middle-aged men.
The three knelt down before going to stand on the left side of the throne. They were standing with a solemn look too. If Randy was here, he would recognize one from the three who just entered the camp, it was the noble who had dispute when the first time he met The King.
After the three arrived, they started discussing the current predicament of the Crimson Cloud Kingdom. The discussion lasted for three hours before they finished discussing.
"All right, This King will use my own hand to take the traitor's head," Even though The King's voice sounded calm, but it was clear he was angry from the way he spoke. After saying those words, The King said to the three in his right, "You three will stay here to defend the northern border,"
Hearing The King's order, the three general on the right side knelt down, accepting the order with respect. No one objected The King's decision.
King Andreas was chosen as King was not because the royal family's blood was flowing in his vein, it was because King Andreas was the strongest warrior in the Crimson Cloud Kingdom. That was why no one worried or objected when King Andreas said he would clean the traitor himself.
But from the beast kingdom's movement. It looked like the two beast kingdoms in the north made an alliance with the beast kingdom in the south Crimson Cloud Kingdom and the war in the northern border was the scheme from both sides.
Over 40 waves of the beast horde sent and forced to the Crimson Cloud Kingdom to transfer the Crimson Bear Battalion in the southern border to the north, weakening the defense in the south.
After that, three Archdukes rebelled against the Crimson Cloud Kingdom and marched to Capital City with the beast kingdom on the south after The King transferred 100.000 Crimson Bear Battalion to north border.
There was no need for them to discuss further this. It was clear this was a scheme from the beast kingdom.
Meanwhile, the plan to counter the scheme was simple, King Andreas would head back to Capital City and would bring his 500.000 Blazing Cloud Battalion, and flattened the rebel, including the beast army from the south while the 80.000 Blazing Cloud Battalion, the 100.000 Crimson Bear Battalion, the 20.000 Vanguard Battalion, and over 250.000 Border Army would stay here.
After finishing the discussion, King Andreas didn't rush to go back to Capital City, instead, he relaxed a bit after knowing the clear scheme which aimed to his kingdom.
"Nicholas, what about the four trialers? I heard they make a fuss?" King Andreas asked General Nicholas with his deep voice.
King Andreas Liam Barnaby Lynch, 56 years old. Even though he was over fifty, but his look was like a man in his early forty. He was the idol of every people in the Crimson Cloud Kingdom, not only he had a title the strongest warrior, but he also had a handsome look.
Hearing The King's inquiries, General Nicholas lifted his head up, looking at The King's eyes before answering, "Indeed, but it was our people were in the fault. But I already solved the issue, there will no more incident would happen again,"
King Andreas nodded his head, "Then what about their strength? How strong are they?"
"They are strong, even the Major General which had been awakening their bloodline was no match for even one trialer. Especially for the princess' private guard, maybe, if he gets through the second Bloodline Awakening it will be even more difficult for me to defeat him…" After that, General Nicholas recounted yesterday fight.
"As for the other three, I know little about them. They only fight for a while before getting beaten by me. I guess they already have their first Bloodline Awakening and they have higher grade bloodline than the Major General's bloodline,"
"Hump, it's because your subordinate is too weak. The Vanguard Battalion has just been established, you subordinate is simply too weak to test their strength," Minister Farhar retorted in displeasure after hearing General Nicholas praised the trialers.
Actually, inside his heart, he was surprised a little after hearing one trialer managed to beat ten Major Generals, but he didn't want to admit it.
General Nicholas didn't mind with Minister Farhar's words. He looked at The King, waiting for the next instruction.
"Indeed, it's not normal for a human from the lower world to get sent here for the trial, except they have an exceptional strength. Based on your story, at least, those trialers have Mythical Bloodline within them," King Andreas held his chin as he concluded.
"All right then, it's decided. Let them work on their mission after they reach Silver Rank. There is no harm to get more protection for This King's beloved,"
Just as The King finished his words, the three ministers knelt down.
Putong!
"Your Majesty, please think thrice!" The three said in unison. From their voice; it was clear the three ministers were anxious and didn't agree with The King's decision.
Looking at this, King Andreas frowned, but he said nothing, waiting for his three ministers to finish their words.
"Have Your Majesty forgotten the incident 80 years ago? How those lowly trialers almost destroyed our Kingdom? We should not let them move freely as they please, lest the incident 80 years ago repeated,"
"If Your Majesty doesn't want to kill them, we can have them get locked until for them to go back to their world before we can release them free,"
The one who spoke was the old man from the minister. His face was a full wrinkle, with pale white skin, and had slanted eyes. The old man became anxious after hearing The King's decision until he banged his head to the floor, pleading to The King.
Hearing this, King Andreas hesitated. What the old man said was not groundless, it happened 80 years ago, the Crimson Cloud Kingdom was in the crisis because of 5 trialers.
"Report Your Majesty. I have them to sign a death contract, so there's no need for us to worry about the four trialers. Also, we need not groom them, just let them finish their mission under our control,"
General Nicholas said in his calm tone.