Chapter 1846: Follow the swirls

Even though I told them that I wanted to meet with her alone, the royal guards just didn’t listen at all.

Even though the other side was a little girl who didn’t seem to pose any threat at all, they just didn’t let their guard down.

So in the end, I met with the little girl while being surrounded by these royal guards.

I did give them a look showing that they were worried over nothing, but they didn’t seem to back down no matter how I looked at them.

That was just the loyalty that they had towards me, so it wasn’t as if it was a bad thing.

After sitting down, it didn’t seem like the little girl was going to say anything.

I could see from her face that there was something that she wanted to say, but it didn’t seem like she knew where to start.

In that case...

"What is it that you wanted to talk to me about?" I took the lead and asked her this question.

The little girl seemed a bit caught off guard when she heard me ask this, but it also seemed like she gained the courage to speak when she heard me ask this question first.

"Big brother, do you remember the thing that I told you about before? The thing about the black swirls?"

When she said this, I immediately knitted my brows.

It was impossible for me to forget about this since this was quite the important thing.

Based on what she said, it seemed that this was very likely destruction energy that she was seeing.

While I had no idea why she was able to see destruction energy, it didn’t really matter. The main thing was that she was able to see destruction energy and was able to follow it.

Though it would be a lie to say that I wasn’t a bit skeptical of all of this.

If she really was able to see destruction energy, then there was no way that the forces of Destruction wouldn’t have taken her. After all, she was considered a danger to them that they just simply couldn’t ignore.

After all, she was able to track them down by following the flow of destruction energy.

This definitely wasn’t something that they would want out there.

"Why are you suddenly bringing this up?" I asked after a moment of silence.

The little girl seemed to hesitate over something before slowly saying, "It was strange not seeing the black swirls for a while, but then they suddenly appeared again. I thought that you should know about this."

I immediately stood up and moved closer when I heard this.

Even though the little girl looked a bit afraid when she saw this sudden movement from me, I still went forward to say, "Where did you see it?"

She looked around for a bit before pointing in a certain direction.

It was just that there wasn’t anything in the direction that she was pointing at.

Or at least there wasn’t anything that we could see, but there was clearly something that she could see since she was pointing in that direction. As for what it was that she could see, we had no idea at all.

Still, it didn’t seem like she was making this up and it wasn’t as if there was anything to lose from following her.

"Can you lead me to the source?"

The little girl gave a nod in response and stood up before leading the way out.

While this was happening, I heard Klein say from behind me, "Your majesty..."

I just looked at him and said, "If it really is this, then is there anyone that can investigate this more confidently than me?"

There was a strange look that appeared on the faces of the royal guards when they heard this, but they didn’t stop me this time.

After all, they knew that I was right.

If it was something that was related to the forces of Destruction, then I really would be the best person to take care of it. There was no one that could fight those with corruption energy better than me.

So in the end, they just followed me without saying anything.

They had determined looks on their faces as if they were prepared to sacrifice themselves to buy time for me to run away.

Though I knew that it wouldn’t come to this.

After all, it wasn’t as if there was anything that powerful that could have suddenly appeared.

The little girl wandered away from the camp that we had set up for the prisoners that we rescued. After walking away from the camp for a bit, she suddenly pointed forward and said, "There’s something in front of us. It’s the source of the black swirls."

I gave a nod before saying, "Move back, let me take a look."

The little girl gave a nod as well before moving behind me, but it didn’t seem like she was going to where the royal guards were. It was almost as if she was afraid of going near the royal guards.

The royal guards couldn’t help narrowing their eyes to look at the little girl when they saw this, almost as if they were suspicious of her.

When I saw this out of the corner of my eyes, I couldn’t help giving an internal sigh.

But for now, I didn’t do anything as I went forward to see if I could find anything.

It was just that I wasn’t able to find anything...

It didn’t seem like there was anything that was related to the forces of Destruction in this place.

It almost seemed like this little girl was lying about what she saw.

However, I didn’t believe that this was the case since I could see the look in her eyes as she said this.

That was why I suddenly closed my eyes and focused on the divine energy inside of me.

I was using it to scan the area around me.