บท 1976: Becoming a Magus (Part 2)

The King sounded sincere, but Lith knew that the request to summon his Demons was just a ruse to check how much free will they retained.

A wave of his hand and the shadows in the room merged into the forms of the former members of the Queen's Corps.

"What's going- Your Majesty!" The two soldiers acted aloof until they noticed the presence of the Royals and then fell onto their right knee. "What are your orders?"

The ritual salute was so deeply ingrained in their being that their mouths spoke before their brains could remind them that death had relieved them of their service.

"At ease." The King ordered. "How are the clouds today, Captain?"

Locrias recognized the code words for the assessment of the threat at hand, but Lith was there as well, and answering would have meant revealing one of the Kingdom's secrets.

"I don't know. I haven't materialized in days." Locrias shrugged.