A Highest Rank in Another World!

Another hour passed and a large number of humans were inside the prison just below the mansion. The king's brother in one of the cells could not quite understand what was happening.

He looked at the armors bringing in those humans but didn't dare to say anything.

He continued in silence as he watched a few humans wake up confused and start screaming.

"Why am I being arrested?!"

"What's going on?"

Many of them started shouting that kind of question.

But the only armor left inside the prison did not answer any of them. He was standing still as he seemed to be waiting for some order. Everyone was apprehensive until the six other armors appeared.

After the seven armors talked a little among themselves, they went directly to the prison cell where a group of 20 humans was. They were "squeezed" in there because the prison cell was too small.

As soon as the armors opened the door to the cell, the men and women seemed happy to be released.

Or they thought they were being freed.

For soon after they stepped outside.

Slash~~

A sword sliced through the head of one of them.

Without being able to understand exactly what had just happened, everyone there looked at the body of the woman falling to the ground already lifeless. Then they began to scream in despair.

But the screams became less and less with time.

Perhaps less than 20 minutes passed before the prison was bathed in human blood. 

Outside nobody could hear the screams of agony, pain, and despair of the humans who were killed as if they were animals.

Only the king's brother. He stood there as he watched everything. Cold sweat was beading on his forehead as he held back from vomiting while he watched. He was not feeling well.

The armors passed him by and he walked away as he rolled his eyes and sat up in his bed.

'Shit, these guys are crazy.' He thought as he tucked his head under the blanket to try to avoid seeing the bodies of people all over the floor, and also avoid the stench of blood getting to his nose.

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"So, the humans in the capital have all been killed?" Ward asked as he looked at the seven armors in front of him. Only the seven were in front because armor number 1 was next to the throne.

"We were able to find many of them, but it is still hard to be sure they are all dead. The population is very high, and the humans may have gone into hiding when they realized that everyone of their race was disappearing."

"That makes sense. But in any case, the gates are closed, so there won't be a problem. What remains now is to wait for the letters to be delivered to the other cities in the country. I think it should take three days before that happens."

Ward rose from his throne.

"It's time for lunch. You guys can do whatever you want now. Number 1, come with me."

"Yes, sir."

Ward left the room along with the armor and went to the dining room. Arriving there with the armor, the maids inside the room felt their bodies shaking and were quite frightened.

But still, they tried to remain calm and act as professionally as possible in front of the new king.

'If I disrespect him, he will end up executing me.' One of the maids inside the dining room thought as she looked apprehensively at Ward.

Ward noticed the woman's gaze and smiled at her.

The woman felt her stomach turn in that instant as if she was going through the scariest moment of her life. But she controlled herself and kept her usual neutral expression.

"All right, what do we have for lunch today? Hmmm, very good, I never thought I would eat food as good as this. I thought the coffee was good, but this here is much better." Ward excitedly took everything he had available and threw it into his plate.

He began to devour everything quickly until he remembered something important.

"That's right, I have to bring my sister to the mansion soon. What do you think about it number 1?"

"That would be good to do. Leaving her at an inn might make her a target for the soldiers."

"That makes sense. I think I'll go there today. And you'll go in my shadow in case something happens on the way."

"Sure."

Seeming to forget about the conversation they just had, Ward shoveled another large amount of food into his mouth.

"Hmm, that's so good." He said sounding like a happy child.

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Finishing his lunch, Ward walked down the halls and passed the guards who were looking at him angrily.

'Looks like it will be a while before they accept that I am the new king.' Ward smiled and walked out of the mansion through the front door.

As soon as he left, he was greeted by the stares of a few people standing nearby. But most of them thought he was just a nobleman paying a visit to the king for some specific reason, so they ignored Ward.

'These nice clothes kind of help me.' He looked at the clothes his sister had bought for him.

'But I need more clothes.' He thought as he walked down the main street towards the inn where he had dropped his sister off.

And when he got there and entered, he was greeted by the same hostess who was here the day they arrived. She was probably the owner of the inn.

"Ara, you're back. What happened for you to be gone for a whole day like that? You seem fine..." She seemed a little worried about Ward. Ward couldn't help but be a little happy about that.

"I ended up meeting a friend and stayed at his place, I'm completely fine." Ward smiled at her.

"Good. Your sister seemed pretty worried about you."

"Got it... Where is she now? I don't see her around here."

"She's probably in her room. She just goes out to eat and then comes back to the room."

"Okay, thanks."

"You're welcome."

Ward went upstairs to the second floor and went straight to the room he had rented to stay in with his sister.

Knock~~~

Knock~~

He knocked on the door a few times.

"Who is it?"

"It's me, Ward."

"WARD?!"

After his sister shouted from inside the bedroom the door was quickly opened.

"It's you, what took you so long?! I thought your plan had failed and you had been arrested! You had me so worried!" Luna cried as she hugged Ward.

She is such an idiot, she was practically shouting compromising things in the middle of the inn's hallway. Because of that Ward needed to slap her upside the head.

"Ouch~~'' She made a cute sound as she received the slap.

"Hey, don't talk about it here, you idiot," Ward said sounding annoyed.

"Oh, sorry." Realizing what she was doing, Luna looked both ways to make sure no one was listening to what she said.

"It's okay, let's go inside, I need to talk to you for a bit about everything that happened." Ward pushed Luna into the room and then closed the door.

After they entered, he began to tell her the details about what had happened. Of course, he had not told about the deaths of the soldiers in detail as Luna was not very strong when it came to nasty things.

And after a few minutes, he had told her everything.

"So you mean you managed to take the mansion?"

"Shhh, Don't talk so loud."

"Oh, I'm sorry."

"No problem. Yes, I managed to take the mansion and now I am commanding all the soldiers in the capital. At the moment I'm planning a few things before I go ahead with my plans."

"Got it..." Luna looked a little despondent.

"What?"

"It's just that I'm not doing anything to help you... I feel useless."

"I'm taking you to the mansion today. When we get there we'll find a job for you, what do you think?"

"I guess it could be..." Luna still looked discouraged, but Ward smiled at her and encouraged her.

"Don't worry, you'll still help me a lot, I'll find an important job for you."

"Right!" At her brother's words, Luna finally gave a smile.

"Now come on, I intend to take you to the mansion now. When we get there I will introduce you to the place and also ask the maids to serve the food for you. Everything is so wonderful."

"Have maids?"

"Of course, it's the king's mansion! You can't imagine how luxurious that place is."

"Now I'm quite looking forward to it."

After that, Luna took her purse that she still carried with her and that was full of money and left the inn together with Ward. They didn't even get to say goodbye to the hostess of the inn before leaving.

"I ran into a rather suspicious woman yesterday," Luna said as they walked toward the mansion.

"A suspicious woman?"

"Yes, she was hiding her whole body, she was strange."

"She's probably of some race that doesn't like to be seen. The half-elves for example don't like to show themselves."

"I wonder if she is a half-elf. I wish I could have seen her face, she must be so beautiful!"