Reincarnated as an Energy with a System

Chapter 459: Undying Fort

”AAAH!” People cried out when they heard the gunshot and saw Ning fell to the ground.

Reeves was stunned for a few seconds, not understanding what had happened. When he realized Ning was on the ground, he immediately got down to help him.

Ning was slowly turned around to reveal that he was shot in the chest.

”Urgh!” Ning cried out in pain in front of all the people.

Fionaʼs eyes went wide and immediately turned around to her guards. ”Go find the assassin!” she shouted.

The guards ran away to look for someone in the direction where the attack had come from.

Ning showed an incredibly pained expression, but on the inside, he simply understood that Sam couldnʼt get out of killing the princess, so as he had told him, he had shot him.

ʼDammit, that man. He couldʼve just shot my arm or leg. How the hell am I going to explain being fine?ʼ Ning thought. He was getting a little annoyed, but thankfully, he had prepared the fake blood in advance all over his body just for this.

”Iʼm okay,” he cried out and slowly stood up. He put his hands inside his shirt and pulled out a metal plate with a hole in it.

”I was wearing armor on the inside just in case today,” he said. That was the best lie he could come up with at the moment.

”But youʼre bleeding,” Fiona said.

”Itʼs just a flesh wound. Iʼll go get it checked right now,” he said.

”Let me help you, brother Ning,” Reeves said.

”Thank you, brother Reeves.” Ning grabbed his shoulder for support and walked away from the crowd.

After walking a bit far away, Ning stopped relying on Reeves and stood up straight. ”Tsk! My shirt got ruined,” Ning said.

”Wh-what?” Reeves was surprised to see Ning acting perfectly fine.

Ning pulled out the pack of blood that he had put on his body. ”What?” he asked when he looked at Reevesʼ face. ”Oh yeah, this was fake. Donʼt worry. I had to act like I got shot so the assassin would run away.”

”You planned all of this?” Reeves asked.

”Yes,” Ning said. ”We have to keep your wife safe, so we do what we can.”

Reeves felt gratitude towards Ning that reached almost sky-high. He had done so much for them, and yet he kept on doing even more.

Ning took out a bandage from his storage and put it around his chest. ”Letʼs wait here for a moment before we return,” he said.

After a while, they returned back to the feast and saw that nothing had changed except for the security being a little tighter.

”Iʼm so sorry. We checked everything this morning. I donʼt know where the assassins came from,” Fiona spoke.

”Itʼs alright,” Ning said. ”Iʼm not really hurt. How are the princes and princesses doing?”

”Theyʼre fine. Although, the 5th prince asked to return back to the palace,” Fiona said.

”I see,” Ning said. The 5th prince was the last prince aside from Gillian and Elizabeth to have a claim to the throne.

Ning had wondered once that he might have been responsible for the assassins, but given how introverted and anti-social he was, as well as having an extreme love for arts and crafts, Ning gave up all suspicions he had.

So it really could just be the 2nd prince that was absent today.

The feast ended about 5 hours later around noon. On the way back, Ning used his analysis to check on the smiling faces of the slum folks and saw that they had indeed become an aether user now.

ʼThat worked quite well. Now I hope they put it to good use,ʼ he thought.

The group returned back to the palace. Reeves was now walking next to Lisa, along with the other royal family members.

Just as they were entering the palace, they stopped when they saw someone walkout.

It was a relatively young man, about 30 years old. He was wearing a military outfit, one that belonged to someone in high rank.

”Good Afternoon, your highnesses,” The man bowed towards them all.

”Mr. David, what are you doing here?” one of the princes asked.

”I just came to give the report to the emperor,” David said.

”Report?” the princeʼs face changed a little. ”No way, is the Undying fort in trouble again?”

”Haha, no, your highness. My report was that there is no trouble,” David said.

He then turned to Lisa and said, ”I heard that you were alive, your highness. Itʼs good to see that the news wasnʼt a lie.”

”Thank you, Mr. David,” Lisa said.

”If you will, I need to return back to the fort by sundown, your highnesses,” David bowed a little and left them.

ʼUndying fort… isnʼt that the place next to the forest where the main war with the Aether beasts took place? Do they still wait there for caution?ʼ Ning wondered.

”Who was that?” Reeves asked Lisa softly.

”Thatʼs David. He used to be a Vice Commander of the Defense army, but now I suppose heʼs the Commander of the Defense Army,” Lisa said.

”Oh, a commander huh? At such a young age,” Reeves said.

”Oh, heʼs not young. He just looks like that because heʼs an Aether genius. He reached a very high rank at a young age, so he kept his youth.”

”If Iʼm not wrong, he should be around 150 years old this year,” Lisa said.

ʼThatʼs still considered young for an Aether user right?ʼ Ning thought from behind them.

Once the group entered the palace, Ning waited for Reeves to come out of the palace again.

Reeves told Lisa what he was doing, so she gave him her approval without a single thought.

”Alright, brother Ning. Letʼs go,” Reeves said excitedly.

”Letʼs go,” Ning said with a smile. They walked out of the palace, and Reeves started looking for a carriage.

”Uhh… brother Reeves, donʼt tell anyone about this okay?” Ning asked.

”About wha—” halfway through Reevesʼ words, the scenario changed from a road and wall, to a desert.