“Your Majesty… please wake up… your Majesty…”
From outside the emperor’s personal room, the treasury master and servants were calling the Emperor with loud cries.
Every single one of them were shaking like leaves as they felt fear of consequences they were going to face.
As this was still morning, and the sun was still half appeared, the emperor Ryon was sleeping happily on his king-size bed.
Due to yesterday’s late night battlefield experience, he was sleeping happily with a loud snore.
Treasury servants and the master keep shouting for Ryon with sad faces of fear.
Their cries finally made a result as the emperor Ryon woke up from his drooling sleep. At first, he felt very frustrated at the noise, which disturbed his happy sleep. But soon his frustration turned into anger.
“Stop your nonsense… Did the sky break?”
With a frustrated face, Ryon shouted at the outsiders with an angry roar.
The noise stopped in the next second but the emperor Ryon already lost his sleepiness.
With an angry groan he stood up from the bed and adjusted his clothes before going out.
Just as the emperor Ryon came out, all the treasury servants and masters fell on Ryon’s feet with tears rolling down their faces.
“Your Majesty, please spare our lives. We don’t know how this happened. All of us have family and kids.” The treasury master, who is close to the feet of the emperor, cried out in a sad tone.
Emperor Ryon was taken aback by this sudden action of the treasury master and the servants. He did not understand why all these people fell before his feet.
But their sad cries made him more irritated and angry.
“Stop your idiotic drama and tell me what happened.” Ryon roared with a frustrated look.
“Your highness, first say that you spare all our lives, then only we will get up from your feet.” One of the servants cried out, with tears rolling down his cheeks like a kid making a tantrum for ice cream.
“Tell me what happened now. Or else I will ask the soldiers to execute you by crushing your bodies with mountain elephants.” Emperor Ryon threatened with a serious look.
After hearing the threatening tone of the Emperor, the treasury master lifted his head and replied, “Your Majesty, all our treasures have disappeared from the treasury. Not a single coin was left in the first six rooms of the treasury.”
“What?” Emperor Ryon exclaimed with a stunned look. All his sleep gone in one second.
“Yes, your Majesty. No locks were broken or no signs of theft. We didn’t find a single trace of invaders. But all the six rooms of the treasury were empty without a single coin. I swear on my life, Majesty… I don’t involve myself in this treachery. This seems to be a Demi-God doing.” The master of the treasury said with a nervous look.
“What nonsense are you saying early in the morning? Let’s go, I want to see the treasury. If there is any mistake, I will throw every single one of you into the fire pits.” The Emperor shouted loudly in an angry tone and moved towards the treasury with long strides.
The treasury master and servants followed behind the emperor. The soldiers also joined after seeing the fiery look of the emperor.
Everyone reached the treasury and all the doors of the six rooms were opened, wide as already the treasury master inspected them.
Emperor Ryon moved from one room to another with stunned silence. With each passing movement, his face went pale and his hands began shaking.
Controlling his racing heartbeat, emperor Ryon placed his seal on the seventh room door of the treasury. As the seven headed snake made movement, he waited for the doors to open.
“Boom”
Emperor Ryon staggered back as an empty room appeared before his eyes.
“H…how… how could this happen?” Ryon muttered while staring at the seventh room of the treasury with wide open eyes.
He couldn’t even think how anyone could steal the 7th treasury room which can only open with his seal.
Like the treasury master said, not a single lock was broken and there is no sign of any thief.
More than anything, not a single coin was left behind in the entire treasury. Like someone sweeped the floor with a broomstick, all the treasures disappeared.
“How could anyone steal all the treasures which were protected with enchanted tantric threads? It will take days to break a single enchantment forcefully. This doesn’t make sense. Is it really the doing of a demigod like this treasury master said?”
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Several questions filled the mind of emperor Ryon. He did not understand what action he needed to take now to bring back all the treasures.
One after the other, several mysterious things were happening in the palace. At first, it was the prison break, then the five mountains and now this empty Royal treasury. On every occasion, things happened in mysterious ways and Emperor Ryon couldn’t understand how all these things happened till now.
“Immediately shut the gates of the Palace. No one should speak about this treasury matter to any outsiders. The matter of theft stays in these walls. Behave like nothing happened.
From now onwards, no outsiders were allowed into the palace and increase the Palace security by ten fold. If I find any single servant of the Palace involved in this theft, I will annihilate all their clans with my own hands.” Emperor Ryon declared in a fierce tone.
Instead of making a big scene like a prison break, Ryon decided to handle it more cautiously. He understood that whoever participated in the burglary, definitely knew about all the secrets to the treasury.
And he strongly felt there must be an insider helped the invader to finish the task. That’s why he decided to start an internal investigation to find out the culprit.
Following the command of the emperor, the entire Palace was soon closed down. 1% of the forbidden army soldiers came out from their hideout which is the underground of the Fire mountains in order to protect the palace.
Emperor-Ryon called for an urgent meeting with all Palace-masters.
Meanwhile, all the servants of the palace gathered before the estate of the Emperor as commanded by Ryon.