Whispers of the Gods

Chapter 2 Chuck I

"Are you sure it's him?"

Zhuo Ke Apollion frowned and looked at the sloppy man sitting on the ground in front of him, and asked the soldiers beside him.

"Yes, Your Royal Highness." The soldier tapped the man's left shoulder with his scabbard. "Hey, bastard! His Highness is asking you something."

The man sat slumped on the street, letting the excrement of the neighbors seep through his pants.

His curly black hair was disheveled, and he was wearing a simple dark gray linen gown.

The man's eyes were empty, neither the two people in front of him nor the crowd passing by on the street could be brought into focus in his black pupils.

"Hey!" The soldier squatted down and slapped the man, but he remained indifferent.

"I'm very sorry, Your Highness. He was already like this when we found him." The soldier wiped his hands with his cloak and shook his head helplessly.

The smell on the streets of Madkalin made Zhuo Ke subconsciously show a disgusted expression.

The capital of the Hastza Empire is densely populated, and the accompanying sanitation problems have not been resolved for a long time, and few people follow the ban on dumping excrement on the street.

"When was he discovered?" Zhuo Ke asked.

He shouldn't be the one investigating this murder, Chuck thought.He's the chief enforcer of the empire, not some damn royal guard.

"This morning, at dawn. It was his neighbors on Fengxing Street who reported it to us.

This man is Harry, 37 years old, a carpenter, and has a workshop of his own on Renwang Street on the other side, and the business is pretty good.There is only one wife in the family and no children..."

"It seems that the relationship between their husband and wife is not bad." Zhuo Ke looked at the scratches on the man's chest and said with a chuckle.

"This... this should not be his wife's work." The soldier said coyly, "Harry was seen coming out of the poet and the bee yesterday."

"Poets and bees? What's that place?" Drake asked.

"It is a tavern, my lord. It has the best convivial service in Madkalin."

Zhuo Ke snorted and signaled the soldiers to continue.

"I went there to ask, Harry did visit last night. He is a regular visitor there, at least once a week, and named Erica, a girl from Vivalia."

The soldier paused and added, "She has an obsessive butt."

"Skip these meaningless details," Zhuo Ke said impatiently, "focus on the point."

Zhuo Ke didn't care what the carpenter did before he killed him, or what a trick girl's ass, he just wanted to get this matter resolved as soon as possible.

"I'm very sorry, Your Highness."

The soldier adjusted his standing posture and shouted to the crowd slowly gathering around him: "There's nothing to see, get out!"

After dispersing the passers-by, he continued to report to Zhuo Ke: "It should have happened after he got out of the poet and the bee and returned home. The neighbors found him sitting at the door early in the morning, with blood on his hands. "

"I see." Zhuo Ke turned his gaze to Harry who was sitting in front of the house, pulled out the sword from his waist and raised his chin with the tip of the sword.

"Harry, why did you kill your own wife?"

Hearing Zhuo Ke's question, Harry finally had a little reaction.He slowly looked towards the house behind him, his body began to tremble like chaff.

Seeing Harry's reaction, Duck snorted contemptuously and put away his sword.

"What a disgrace to the empire."

Whether he regrets his actions or not, he has no mercy for the coward who killed his wife.

Also, what kind of pervert would gouge out his wife's eyeballs?What's the point?
If the laws of the Empire allowed it, he was more than happy to put the carpenter to death himself, as Chief Law Enforcer.

But he had to report it to his emperor father, not only this, but all the goddamn little things, he had to report them one by one.His father never trusted him.

"Take this wife murderer away." Zhuo Ke gave the soldier a look.

"Where's his wife?" asked the soldier.

"You can deal with it at your own risk." After finishing speaking, Zhuo Ke left the soldiers and walked towards the square.

Follow Fengxing Street and walk towards the city to the square.It was early summer and the sky was clear.

The sun shines on Zhuo Ke's armor, and its golden and gray interlaced coat of arms is extraordinarily dazzling. The two exquisitely carved golden dragons are around a gray star, which becomes erratic with Zhuo Ke's pace.

The square was bustling with crowds of citizens gathered in front of the vendors, who smelled of alcohol, vomit, and animal excrement.

Noticing the clink of Zhuoke's armor, people turned away, retreating to the stalls on either side of the road and huddling together, bowing their heads in respect.

Across the entire square, the arena is on the right hand side, and the inner castle of the Apolion family in Madkalin City is on the left hand side.

"Steel Fort".The castle has a name that doesn't match its material, presumably due to its impenetrable nature.

Limestone brickwork is stacked together to create a uniform gray on all sides.This is a symbol of the strength of the Hastza Empire, it is both a fortress in war and a landscape in peace.

Zhuo Ke came to the gate of the Steel Fort, and the two guards guarding the main entrance saw Zhuo Ke, and immediately stood up to let him go. "His Royal Highness."

Zhuo Ke let out a "hmm" and walked between the two of them.Just when he was about to take the next step, he was blocked by a man who was a head shorter than him.

"Alamiro?"

The man in front of Zhuo Ke was fat, with a red face and oily head, and the buttons on the tunic looked a bit difficult.

He looked like a seal all over, and he didn't look like a 40-year-old man.

"His Royal Highness Prince Zhuo Ke." Every time Alamiro made a smiling face, his eyes were squeezed in, "I want to confirm with you again your request for your maid..."

"Don't ask me about this little thing, I still have things to do." Zhuo Ke strode into the castle, and Alamiro followed hard after seeing this.

The most conspicuous main building in the Steel Fort is the Royal Palace of Apollion. Its iron gates and fences form a perfect black line, outlining the green garden inside.

"Your Highness, if you continue to follow your request, it will be difficult for me to ensure the quality of the work of these maids. After all, many women who have just given birth will decline in physical fitness, and some emotions will even become weirder..."

Alamiro followed Zhuo Ke, wiping the sweat from his forehead with his hands, and was a little out of breath when speaking.

"As long as they do what they have to do," Zhuo Ke stopped outside the iron gate. "If someone can't meet your standards, just replace them."

As the steward of the Iron Castle, Alamiro can be regarded as conscientious, but he seems to be a little too serious about some things.

"But……"

"Do as I say first." Zhuo Ke stopped him as soon as he opened his mouth. Why are the things he needs to care about are trivial?
"Okay, I understand," Alamiro breathed loudly through his nose before recovering from the short walk, "Then I will take my leave first, Your Royal Highness." After saying that, Amilaro turned around walked away.

The gardens of the royal palace do not grow vegetables, and the lawns are decorated with herbs and flowers with light fragrance and vivid colors like thyme and lavender.

Through the garden and the vestibule, Zhuo Ke came to the hall.

The limestone columns on the left and right sides of the hall are formed into angular cuboids, covered by a mosaic texture mixed with gold and blue, which is the largest area in the palace.

The open space is supported by a series of vaults, the pale gray vaults connecting and interlacing to form a series of stars.

His father held a feast here every year, and the hall was also the place where he and his younger brothers played around in his childhood.

There was a noise at the end of the hall, probably Arrowin was arguing with someone again over some trivial matter.

(End of this chapter)