Saving The Abandoned Empress

180 “Escape”

“Damn! It’s all because of Eleanora!”

Mendel yelled with anger as he stood up from his chair, with the alcohol bottol in his hands.

“Your highness, Where are you going?!”

Zachary spoke as he chased after Mendel with a bad feeling.

“I have some buisness with her, Do you have any problem?”

“YOU CAN’T, YOUR HIGHNESS!”

Mendel frowned as Zachary stood infront of him to block his path.

‘I can’t let him to meet Lady Dalton like this. No matter what, i have to stop him!’

“Zachary, Are you going against me now?!”

.....

“You’re very drunk, Your highness... Maybe next time,”

“DIDN’T YOU HEAR ME?! I SAID MOVE!! OR DO YOU WANT TO DIE?!”

Zachary gritted his teeth as he failed to convince Mendel and looked at his superior with a dark expression.

“You can’t visit her! Lady Dalton maybe a war captive but she is still the first lady of the empire!”

“On a night like this, i don’t think it’s a proper idea to get this drunk and then visit a lady!”

“...Hahhahaaa!!!”

Bam!

Zachary fall backward by a brutal force as Mendel punched him on his face.

“Say that to my face? Would you be even alive if i didn’t showed mercy to you... The eighth prince of Rua?!”

The soldiers started to murmur among themselves as they heard the news, and Zachary looked away with anger.

Among the whole royal family, he is the only one who was spared by Mendel.

Because he was just like Mendel, a illegitimate prince from a concubine.

Who was treated worse then a dog in the royal family.

Even after that, he stayed low just to live peacefully and then he colluded with Mendel as he had sense the upcoming changes in the royal family.

He wanted revenge against the royal family, those people who had watched his mother die pitifully in the deadbed.

Where Mendel wanted the throne.

He faked his death as the eight prince, Jeremy and become the king’s aid, Zachary.

‘No, We are already losing this war. I can’t let him make anymore mistakes and bring loses. We need to think about the people here...’

Zachary thought as he stood up again and blocked Mendel, who was about to enter Eleanora’s room.

“DON’T OPEN THE DOOR, NO MATTER WHAT, LADY DALTON!!”

He shouted to warn Eleanora and Mendel looked at him with disbelief.

“No matter how superior you are, i can’t let you act like this...”

Zachary spoke again with determination and courage, as he was firm to stop Mendel from doing something bad to Eleanora.

Click!

“YOU! DO YOU WANT TO DIE THAT BADLY AND ACCOMPANY YOUR MOTHER?!”

Mendel pointed his gun at Zachary’s head as he spoke.

“Wrong is wrong, Your highness. It won’t change even if you kill me.”

“WAIT!”

Eleanora spoke as she slammed open the door and pointed a gun, which she took from Cathain; on Mendel.

“Mendel, Don’t you have buisness with me? Don’t drag Colonel Zachary into this and settle with me!”

“Milady!! Please stay inside!!”

Mendel smacked Zachary harder one more time for speaking and walked towards Eleanora with anger.

“COLONEL!”

“Hahaa... You are right, You are the one i need to speak with, not him!”

Mendel spoke as he grabbed Eleanora by her neck to strangle her.

“DON’T COME CLOSER, Ugh!”

But Eleanora still kept her gun pointed at Mendel firmly.

“How about i defile you and then sent you back to your emperor as a present, huh?”

“It makes me happy just by thinking what kind of expression he would have after seeing his beloved moon like that!!”

“You will shoot me? Come on, Princess. Shoot me!”

Mendel’s threat made Eleanora shudder with disgust and right before she was about to pull the trigger to shoot him;

Someone had already slashed his hands, which was strangling her.

“YOU DARE TO TOUCH MY EMPRESS?!”

“AUGH!!! C-Cathain?!”

Not only Mendel, but the whole team of soldiers was surprised to see Cathain there, in Rua’s soldier uniform.

Cathain kicked Mendel backwards to separate him from Eleanora, as he launched himself on Mendel.

Bloods slide down from his sword, on the ground as he looked fiercely at the shocked person lying on the ground.

Who just thought about touching Eleanora.

His aura was so strong that no one could move, including Mendel.

‘No- He is out of control!’

‘He will suffer from a backlash of magic if he uses this much mana at once!’

Eleanora once again become terrified of Cathain, who released her and stomped towards Mendel.

Grabbing him by his shirt, Cathain started to punch him hard and no one was even able to stop him as they wasn’t even able to move from their spot.

“Your Majesty!”

Eleanora called him to stop as if they doesn’t leave right now and the other knights gets alert, it would be hard to make it out alive.

‘There are more then 20 thousand soldiers in Penduline’ we both alone couldn’t be able to defeat them and leave unharmed!’

‘I need to stop him!’

“You dare to thought about defile her?!”

“Huh? Why don’t you speak now?!”

“I let you live till now even after you eyed on her! I should have killed you before you could spout this nonsense today!”

“SHE’S ONLY MINE! HEARD THAT?!”

“NO ONE CAN TOUCH HER!”

Cathain smacked Mendel with each sentence he spoke and felt his mind going crazy.

Eleanora tried to separate them but with the handcuffs on her hands, she failed to do so.

“CATHAIN!! STOP THIS!!”

His fist, which was about to punch Mendel again stopped abruptly as he heard her calling his name with a trembling voice.

“Stop this... Calm down!”

Eleanora slowly cupped his bloody fist with caution as she observed his emotions.

His face was red because of anger as his red eyes turned more darker.

Where the unconscious Mendel lay on the ground with wounds all over his body and the knights struggled to get up.

“They are gaining their strength... We need to leave right now, Your Majesty-”

Cathain cupped her face tightly with his bloodied hands as he kissed her harder to calm down, which shocked Eleanora but she didn’t dared to move.

.....

“Mmph,”

Even if her mana flow was blocked because of the silver cuffs, but her holy powers was not.

She didn’t moved and let him do whatever he wanted, as she didn’t wanted him to go out of control again.

She has seen how fierece he becomes when he lost controls over his mana powers.

His kiss was full of dominance, rage and fear.

‘I-Is he afraid?’

Eleanora could feel his fingertips trembling as he kissed her and his mana stabling a little.

‘If i was not here, then today-‘

Cathain couldn’t even dare to think what would happen if he was not here today.

But unintentionally, a tear drop left her eyes because of his dominance and a low sob left her mouth.

“If i find you acting on your own or put yourself in danger again, you can’t imagine the outcome; My empress... Even your father won’t be able to save you from me then,”

Cathain yelled at her with anger, and Eleanora closed her eyes tightly as she felt a little afraid.

Which made him return to his sense and realize what he had done.

“D-Did i scared you?”

“Am s-sorry... Sorry... I lost control... Am sorry...”

He released her as he felt her tears on his face and apologised, before he hugged her tightly and carried her up to leave.

Cathain hurriedly picked up the bag he bought with him from the room and left quickly as he sensed the footsteps of the knights.

Where Eleanora obediently stayed in his arms, without speaking anything in fear.

The knights, who recovered a little had managed to alert the other knights and the whole place become chaotic as they started to search for the emperor.

“IT’S THE EMPEROR! GET HIM!!!”

Cathain paused on his steps a little as he was caught and started to run faster with Eleanora on his arms, on another direction.

But the knights managed to catch up to him as they surrounded Cathain from both side, blocking his path to escape.

“DAMN!”

“THIS IS WHY I TOLD YOU TO CALM DOWN AND LEAVE FIRST!!”

Eleanora become terrified as what she thought turned out to be true.

‘We are surrounded from both side... How can we leave now?!’

‘What should we do?!’

‘We can’t defeat them!’

Bang!

Bang!

The knights fire their guns against him and Cathain activated his magic shield to protect themselves from the bullets.

But he also knew he can’t hold on for long, as he felt his mouth becoming filled with his blood.

He had used too much mana to supress the knights from before, so that they couldn’t even move.

And now, he is close to having a magic backlash.

‘I need to hold on a little more...’

“We have no choice, Ele... Hold on tight!”

“N-NO AWAY!!!”

Eleanora’s blue eyes widened with shock as she guessed that Cathain wanted to jump out from the balcony of the third floor.

‘If we fall from there- even if we don’t die, our bones will get broken!’

“Aaah!!!!”

Eleanora yelled as Cathain jumped down from the balcony with her in his arms, where the knights was left speechless.

“DAMN IT!”

“PULL YOURSELF TOGETHER!!”

“Even if the emperor’s ability is overwhelming, but it has limits!!”

“CAPTURE THE EMPEROR!!!”

“SHOOT HIM ON SIGHT! NO NEED TO CAPTIVE HIM ALIVE!!”

The cheif knight commander gave orders as he proceed to chase after them but then once again, they was stopped by a overwhelming force at the gate.

“WOLVES?!”

“Why is wolves here?!”

“Wait! There is a person, leading them!!!”

Dion walked towards the army as he lead the wolves from the jungle towards the army, so that he could buy some time for Cathain to escape.

“CHARGE AT THEM!”

He commanded and the wolves ran to attack on the soldiers, and they hurriedly ran as they locked the main gates to keep the wolves away.

Dion observed the situation as he worried for the emperor and Eleanora.

‘The rest is up to you, Your Majesty... Be safe!’