Chapter 596 Reporting (3)
Looking at the fourth prince, I calmly said, "It really isn't a secret that these Blood Worms were here. As long as one looked at the surrounding area carefully, they would have known that they were here."
The fourth prince slightly knitted his brows before saying, "Explain."
I gave a nod before waving at General Killock to come over.
When he did, I said, "Bring me a map of the surrounding area."
General Killock slowly looked at the fourth prince and only when he saw the fourth prince give a nod did he head off to grab that map.
It took him no time at all to come back with the map that he quickly spread on the table in front of us.
When this map was placed, the fourth prince looked at me as if he was waiting for me to explain.
I just casually brought my hand forward and tapped it a few times on the map in front of us.
The places that I tapped were all of the villages that were marked on the map, as well as places that villages had been before. The villages that were gone now had been destroyed for various reasons, but not a single one had been attacked by these Blood Worms.
The fourth prince just raised a brow as he looked at me.
Taking a small breath, I explained, "There's a reason why all of these villages are built like this. Even the villages that were destroyed before all have an area that they are avoiding."
The fourth prince looked down at the map and he realized that this was indeed the case.
It didn't seem like it at first, but when he followed the line that the villages and past villages created, it seemed like it was circling a certain area. This was the area where the Blood Worm nest was.
But this was something that no one from the kingdom had noticed before.
Was it because they didn't do their jobs properly or was it because of something else?
No matter how the fourth prince looked at it, this kind of oversight shouldn't have been possible...
After all, it only took him a single glance to figure this out.
"How did they not notice this before? What are we paying those people for?" The fourth prince said in a cold voice.
General Killock and the other officers immediately looked away, out of fear of the fourth prince.
They were an army that was under the fourth prince, so they naturally knew things about the fourth prince that others wouldn't. That included what happened when the fourth prince lost his temper.
So they wanted to stay out of the way as much as possible.
But the fourth prince didn't lose his temper in the end as he looked up at me and asked, "How did you know about this?"
I just gave a shrug and said, "Like you said, it just takes a single glance to figure out. Not to mention, I have access to reports from all over the kingdom because of my connection with Shadow Garden."
As soon as they heard this, General Killock and the officers immediately looked at me in shock.
Since they were high level military officials, naturally they knew about Shadow Garden as well.
They just never thought that I would be connected to Shadow Garden.
The fourth prince gave a nod in response to this and when I saw that, I continued by saying, "The reports stated that there was a legend that was spread in the villages around here."
"A legend?" The fourth prince repeated in a confused voice.
I said with a nod, "The legend says that the God of the Earth's holy land is in this area and any who dares trespass will face the wrath of the God of the Earth."
"God of the Earth…" The fourth prince repeated with a look of thought on his face.
Then all of a sudden, the fourth prince slapped the table and said, "So that's it! The shaking of the ground caused by the Blood Worms attacking was misconstrued as the wrath of the God of the Earth."
However, he then looked at me with narrowed eyes and said, "How did you know about the Blood Worms though?"
I gave him a faint mysterious smile without saying anything.
The fourth prince narrowed his eyes even more as he looked at me before finally saying, "Alright, I understand that you have your secrets."
I let out a secret sigh of relief when I heard this.
After all, my secret was that I had knowledge from the game. Without that knowledge, I wouldn't have known about these Blood Worms either.
But it was also because of the game that the location of this Blood Worm nest wasn't known until now.
This was a special event in the game, but it was also a hidden danger for this kingdom and the Midra Kingdom. It was not something that the governments would have ignored if they knew about this.
Since it was a game before, it was easy to set it so that neither kingdom knew about this matter.
However, once this game became a real world, the only explanation for neither kingdom knowing about this was incompetence. That was the only way to explain why no one had known about this before it was exposed.
So that was why the fourth prince was so angry.
But this wasn't something that I could explain…
At the same time though, it didn't seem like the fourth prince was finished.
The fourth prince once again revealed a serious look as he looked at me and said, "You can have your secrets, but I want to know…what do you intend to do with them? Do you mean any harm to this kingdom?"
This time, he didn't use the indirect method.
This time, he directly asked me whether I was loyal to the kingdom or not.
But in response to this, I already had an answer.
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