On the fifth day after the prince disappeared, Gilneas City was already gripped by panic.
Over the past three days, all sorts of unreliable rumors had spread rapidly throughout the city. Somehow, news of Prince Liam's disappearance had reached almost all of Gilneas City overnight, and the common people were saying that King Genn had sent the prince abroad to seek refuge.
They believed the king no longer intended to hold the city. Sending the prince away was only the first step!
The royal family immediately denied the rumors. King Genn, whose health had been very poor lately, even appeared in the city square himself to tell the frightened people that he would never abandon the city. Afterward, the guards protecting the royal court were deployed throughout the city. Only then was the panic, which had nearly erupted into a riot, barely suppressed.
The upheavals throughout Gilneas over the past five years had thoroughly terrified these poor people. The slightest disturbance would pluck at their fragile nerves. Although order still existed on the surface, after three days of brewing in the darkness, an inevitable storm had begun to surge through Gilneas City.
The rats hiding in the darkness extended their claws, seemingly intent on snatching a piece of bread for themselves from the ruins left in the storm's wake.
Yet even with the city in an uproar, the royal court of Gilneas, at its easternmost edge, remained as steady as a mountain. It was like the last pillar holding down the earth between a heaven and earth about to fall silent. As long as it remained undisturbed, the entire city would remain secure.
"Lord Godfrey has arrived!"
"Lord Walden has arrived!"
At the court attendant's loud announcement, King Genn, who was receiving treatment from Royal Physician Krennan, gripped his scepter