Chapter 220: Chapter 197: Chaos, the Great War Breaks Out

"Sixth Brother? Is... is that you, Sixth Brother?!" Seventh Princess Wu Dingxiang’s eyes slowly cleared, and she soon recognized the face before her.

It was none other than the Sixth Prince of the Celestial Race, Mueller.

A flood of indignation and shame washed over her.

"Waaaah..."

The Seventh Princess burst into tears, which streamed down her face. She had almost died! Died at the hands of a despicable human—and that human had groped her all over.

In that moment, she sobbed inconsolably.

But she quickly realized something was off.

"Sixth Brother, was it... was it you who saved me?!"

"Er... me? Saved you?" Sixth Prince Mueller was confused. ’Didn’t you just dig your way into my palace?’ he thought. But then, an idea struck him.

’Could it be that the Seventh Princess was in some kind of danger?’

’If that’s the case...’

’...then this might be a good opportunity.’

"That’s right, I saved you!" Sixth Prince Mueller nodded quickly. ’No matter how it happened,’ he thought, ’if I take the credit, I should be able to win a sliver of her affection, right?’

BOOM!

Just then, another figure charged out of the hole in the ground.

A Lizardman.

And then, a second, a third... 𝕗𝗿𝕖𝐞𝐰𝗲𝕓𝐧𝕠𝕧𝗲𝐥.𝚌𝐨𝚖

"Sixth Prince, look out!"

"How dare you! Who trespasses in the Sixth Prince’s palace!"

"Protect the Seventh Princess!"

The guards cried out at once.

"The Sixth Prince? You’re the Sixth Prince of the Celestial Race?!" When the Lizardmen heard the guards, their expressions changed slightly, and their gazes turned icy cold.

"That’s right. I am Mueller, the Sixth Prince of the Celestial Race. Where have you come from?" Sixth Prince Mueller nodded, pulling the Seventh Princess behind him protectively.

"Aha! So the Celestial Race was behind this all along!"

"To think the great Sixth Prince of the Celestial Race would stoop to something so shameless!"

"I heard him loud and clear just now. He admitted it! He’s the one who abducted the Seventh Princess!"

The Lizardmen were furious.

"What are you talking about? You’ve trespassed on Celestial Race territory! Seize them!" Sixth Prince Mueller didn’t care what race they were; trespassing deep into the heart of Celestial lands was more than enough justification to capture them.

"Are you trying to kill us to silence us? Are you prepared to face the wrath of the Lizard Race?" Startled, the Lizardmen began to back away.

"Enough talk! Seize them!"

"Yes!"

"Bad news, Your Highness! A large army is attacking from outside!" Just then, another guard rushed over, shouting frantically.

"What army?" For a moment, Sixth Prince Mueller was confused.

"It’s the Elf Army, led by the Elf Queen! And... and armies from other races, too! They look... like the delegations that came to the Elf Race to propose marriage?"

"What?"

"Hahaha! Since the Celestial Race’s Sixth Prince dared to abduct the princess, you owe all our races an explanation! Don’t think we’ll let this slide just because you’re an out-of-favor prince. Even if your Celestial Race’s Clan King were here, we wouldn’t let this matter rest. And you still want to kill us for silence?" Hearing this, the Lizardmen burst out laughing.

"Abduction? What abduction? When have I ever abducted anyone! Are you saying..." Sixth Prince Mueller finally realized something was wrong.

"We all heard it loud and clear. Plus, the abductor’s tunnel leads right under your palace. The Seventh Princess is here as well. Your Highness the Sixth Prince, are you still going to deny it?"

"Sixth Brother didn’t abduct anyone, he was just saving me!" The Seventh Princess started to get anxious when she heard this. The Sixth Prince wasn’t the abductor at all.

’No, that’s not right. It wasn’t an abduction, and the person trying to kill me wasn’t the Sixth Prince!’

’It was a despicable human!’

"Are you still trying to defend the Sixth Prince, Princess? We’re not buying it! We followed the abductor all the way here. The evidence is conclusive!" Of course, the Lizardmen didn’t believe her.

"It’s true, I’m not lying! It really wasn’t Sixth Brother who abducted me... No... someone was trying to kill me, and then... then... Sixth Brother just happened to save me?" As she reached the end, for some reason, even the Seventh Princess felt that what she was saying didn’t sound quite right.

"Your Highness, you’ve been deceived by him!"

"Exactly, Princess! You said someone was trying to kill you? Then how are you still alive? And how did you end up, of all places, inside the Sixth Prince’s palace?"

"There’s no such thing as a coincidence like that!" The Lizardmen were clearly not buying it.

Moreover, they were already preparing to escape. As they spoke, one of them took advantage of a moment when the guards weren’t looking and slipped back into the tunnel.

He was going to tell all the suitor Princes from the other races.

He was going to expose the Sixth Prince’s true colors.

"Sixth Brother, where did you save me?" The Seventh Princess was panicking. She understood the gravity of the situation perfectly and knew she had to get their stories straight with the Sixth Prince.

"I... saved you... right here in my palace?" Sixth Prince Mueller’s expression changed, but he gritted his teeth and said it anyway.

"Your palace? That’s impossible. That human knocked me unconscious outside the Elf Royal City. How would I have ended up in your palace? Don’t tell me you didn’t send someone to rescue me from outside the Royal City?"

"I didn’t..." Sixth Prince Mueller shook his head vigorously.

"Princess, he really has fooled you!" a Lizardman interjected again. "We all saw it clearly. The one who attacked you was from the Celestial Race! We chased them from the Elf Royal City all the way into the forest, and we saw it with our own eyes! It was definitely a member of the Celestial Race—they had wings and could fly! Plus, they admitted it themselves, said they were under orders to carry out the abduction!"

"Ordered to abduct me? He... he had wings?"

"Yes, Your Highness! You can choose not to believe us, but you can’t possibly disbelieve the eyes of all our Princes, can you? The one who attacked you was, without a doubt, from the Celestial Race!"

"A member of the Celestial Race attacked me?" The Seventh Princess was confused.

’But wasn’t it a human?’

"How dare you falsely accuse me! When did I ever order someone to perform an abduction?!" Sixth Prince Mueller was enraged. He couldn’t tolerate such a blatant frame-up.

"We saw it with our own eyes, Sixth Prince. Your excuses are useless! Princess, you suffered a head injury, so it’s normal that you can’t remember certain things. But the one who attacked you was definitely a member of the Celestial Race!"

"Outrageous! Seize them already!"

"Yes, sir!"

The guards immediately moved to attack.

The men from the Lizard Race tried to run, but only two managed to escape.

The remaining few were immediately surrounded.

Just then, the Seventh Princess finally turned to look at the Sixth Prince. "Sixth Brother... was it really you who sent someone to kill my personal guards and bring me here?"

"I didn’t! Seventh Sister, you have to believe me!"

"But you just admitted with your own mouth that you saved me. If these Lizardmen hadn’t followed the trail here and told me all this, would I have been completely deceived by you?" The Seventh Princess was clearly no fool.

"I just... I just thought..."

"Sixth Brother, if you really did abduct me, I... I would still be grateful. That you would take such a risk for me... But... why did you have him kill my personal guards?"

"What abduction?! What killing personal guards?! How could I, Mueller, be so reckless about the grander scheme of things? I knew perfectly well that this was all a plot to get the other races to attack the humans..." Sixth Prince Mueller trailed off, then abruptly stopped.

’Oh no!’

’I let it slip!’

"Hahaha, he admitted it! Bravo, Sixth Prince! And bravo to your Celestial Race! You dared to set us up? I will report this to our Prince! No... we will announce this to all the races, so everyone knows the vile intentions of the Celestial Race and the Dark Night Elf Clan!" The Lizardmen laughed, their voices laced with fury.

"Kill them!" Sixth Prince Mueller’s gaze turned cold.

"Your Highness, you can’t!"

"Kill them! That’s an order!"

"Hahaha... You want to kill us? With just these guards? Don’t you know... we are the most elite soldiers of the Lizard Race’s Guard Army!" The Lizardmen finally understood the whole picture.

’He’s trying to kill us to silence us!’

’It won’t be that easy!’

Among them, four were fifth-tier and two were sixth-tier.

If it really came to a fight...

...the Sixth Prince’s guards here wouldn’t be enough to take them down quickly.

"Kill!"

"Hahaha, now that the truth is out, brothers, there’s no need to hold back! Let’s give it everything we’ve got!" The Lizardmen began to fight back, their desperation lending them surprising strength.

RUMBLE!

RUMBLE!

The Sixth Prince’s palace itself began to tremble.

The guards all charged forward.

The Seventh Princess had no choice but to retreat.

And just then, another figure emerged from the tunnel. This was also a Lizardman, but he was different from the previous ones.

His skin was a silver-white color, covered in faint golden markings.

A High-tier Lizardman.

"Your Highness the Sixth Prince, is this how the Celestial Race treats its guests? In that case, don’t blame the Lizard Race for being unreasonable! Charge!" The High-tier Lizardman’s presence was overwhelmingly powerful.

He threw a punch.

A dozen palace guards were instantly brought to their knees.

What’s more, as the High-tier Lizardman appeared, even more Lizardmen swarmed out of the tunnel, drawing their weapons one by one.

"The Fourth Prince has given the order: no one may bully the Lizard Race! We do not fear even the Celestial Race! They have their Strongest, and so do we!" The races that dared to come and propose marriage were all independent, and they shared one common characteristic.

They each had a Strongest protecting them.

They feared nothing.

And so, a great battle erupted within the palace.

「Meanwhile, outside the Celestial Race Royal City.」

The armies of over twenty different races saw the Lizardmen fleeing from the Sixth Prince’s palace.

"It was the Celestial Race’s Sixth Prince who abducted the Seventh Princess!"

"We saw it with our own eyes! The Seventh Princess is in the Sixth Prince’s palace right now! And the Celestial Race’s Sixth Prince tried to kill us to silence us!"

"It’s a good thing we ran fast!"

This was the second group of Lizardmen to escape, and they had heard more.

Then, a third group of Lizardmen emerged.

They brought even more shocking news.

"The Celestial Race’s Sixth Prince admitted it himself! This was all a plot! They deliberately arranged the marriage proposals to lure us into attacking the humans, while they seized the opportunity to abduct the Seventh Princess!"