The Girl, The Knight, and The Sleeping Princess

27. The Plan

Hope had emerged, but that didn't mean there's time to relax. The next day, after breakfast which was almost approaching lunch, the King immediately gathered everyone, including the three of them, Sir Kay and the bear Misha, of course. 

"Thank you for the willingness of all of you to come to this meeting," said King Kristopher opening the important meeting in the presence of all the remaining nobles, royal officials, and knights. 

All of them currently had only twenty people left. Four court officials, three dukes, three lords and the rest were knights. Knights were different from palace guards or soldiers. Currently, the remaining soldiers might only be around a hundred soldiers. 

"We shall not refuse any of your summons, oh Your Majesty," answered one Lord. 

"Thank you. Without much ado, I'll get to the point." King Kristopher took a moment to take a deep breath, “Our country has been in a state of emergency for a year now, unable to fix it. And the condition of Princess Ovidia Rose is still trapped in the palace by Valborga in a state of unconsciousness. We've discussed this before with the three fairy godmothers. But the three of them disappeared, so the plan was canceled due to their absence. And now, there is already an answer to our problem, three teenagers from the Java kingdom who are the third disciples of the fairy godmother. Therefore, we must move quickly. " The King explained in a dignified voice, no one dared to interrupt. "I gather all of you to discuss, what steps will we take to take over the palace which is now controlled by Valborga. Opinion?" continued the King, this time throwing bait into the middle of the meeting. 

So one by one of them, starting with the oldest, or most respected after the King, raised their voices to express their opinion. 

Starting from gathering all the guards, then they marching towards the palace, until they came out quietly in the middle of the night, headed for the palace and infiltrated it before Valborga realised it. Of course none of these ideas were wrong, it was just that the chances of success were still forty percent, as long as the only weapons they had were iron swords, shields and wooden arrows. They needed stronger weapons, while the remaining soldiers were already very limited. Besides, all of them did not want to take the risk of having their last fortress left without a single bodyguard.

Only the three teenagers remained who had not issued their opinion. Of course, because the three of them did not have adequate war tactics. 

Liam only had one, the weapon he had modified. And only need two or three more days, he would have been able to refine it again, or even make a new weapon. That's what they need, powerful weapons! 

Liam nudged Sir Kay's arm and whispered this to him. Hearing Liam's suggestion, Sir Kay hesitated a little. But he saw for himself the power of those weapons. Finally the knight was willing to raise his hand. And after being welcomed by the King, he began to speak. 

"Actually, this is not my idea, but an idea from our special guest, Liam." 

Everyone mumbled and nodded as if they wouldn't doubt any idea that the fairy godmother disciple offered. The knight  asked Liam to give him his machine arrow g*n and Mayang's aluminum stick. Even though they were surprised, Liam and Mayang still gave it. 

“At first, these were just ordinary arrows made of iron. But this young man was able to perfect it by making it the fastest and most powerful arrow-throwing weapon ever." Sir Kay explained. 

And to give a concrete picture, he ordered a soldier to take one target and placed it in the corridor. So they all had to come out of the room to see the demonstration. About twenty meters away, he drew the bowstring, with an arrow in the centre, connected to another arrow. Then with one throw, five arrows shot straight at once, hitting right in the middle of the target. 

Everyone who witnessed it immediately exclaimed in admiration. The knight handed the arrow back to Liam. Then, he grabbed Mayang's stick. Everyone present was stunned by the beauty of the staff, which had such a clear luster. Mayang did clean it before coming to this meeting.

“And this is no ordinary metal stick. As we can see, this stick has three parts. So that this stick can be folded into a shorter shape, or in other words, change its function. If we fold the end segment together with the middle segment, we will be able to see the burrow at the front end. Inside it already contains a silver bullet. And if we press the trigger on this segment," pointed the knight at the other segment, "A spring will launch the silver bullet with amazing speed." He continued. 

The knight focused on the previous target. After a few breaths, he pushed the trigger and a silver bullet shot away with amazing speed destroying the only wooden target. There was no doubt that all the meeting attendees exclaimed in shock, between fear, fascination and disbelief. Likewise with the King who continued to stare between the weapons that held by Sir Kay and the targets that were now destroyed scattered on the stone floor. 

In that instant, without thinking anything else, the King ordered all the remaining blacksmiths in the country to help manufacture more firearms, with Liam as the supervisor. 

*** 

 Being able to assemble firearms like that, even though the shape was still simple, did not mean that Liam has done that before. Luckily, Mayang always carried Liam's bag before the three of them were carried away by the blue light and stranded to this foreign land. 

Previously, because Liam had a video game project, which involved fighting, he had to research various kinds of weapons, store data about the parts of firearms, even how to assemble them, and saved it on his laptop. From hand g*n models, stunt guns, machine guns, shot guns, to riffles. With his genius brain, even with limited facilities, Liam was able to adjust it, so that the two weapons were created. And now, he had to mass produce those weapons.

Only one problem, the laptop battery would not last forever. Therefore, the King immediately commissioned the palace technicians to pay attention to all the draft drawings on Liam's laptop, then had to put them back into drawing paper. 

They were all blown away at the magic item Liam was carrying. Several times they asked how the picture got in it. They intended to check, but Liam prevented it because there were so many secrets in the laptop. There was no time to play around, the laptop battery was only 50% left. 

Liam only replied, if it was a magic item that belonged to him and could not be held by anyone other than himself, or without his supervision. Between being scared but at the same time enthusiastic, Liam came to the blacksmith's workshop almost every day to check the progress that had been going on, accompanied by the knight occasionally. 

Meanwhile, Mayang, who once had wushu martial arts skills, taught Troya several fighting techniques. The technique of parrying, hitting, kicking, and slamming the opponent's body. Those were the daily activities they did while waiting for the weapons-making process and all preparations to reclaim the palace and saved Princess Ovidia Rose. 

Every now and then, the knight joined the fight with Mayang, and taught her how to fight with a sword. With the foundation she already had, it would not be too difficult for her to learn about it. 

But not with Troya. Even though Troya's body was fit, her hand dexterity was not fast enough, so that every time she practiced the sword, she would lose easily. Let alone practicing the sword, when practicing using toya or just a wooden stick, she always lost, even her butt hurt because she always hit by Mayang.

"You're cruel," she scolded. 

Mayang apologised, but her happy smiling face showed no regret at all. Troya was annoyed. So she was cheating by tying Mayang's arm with a magic rope. Even though Mayang could cast magic once when fighting the hand that appeared from the gap, it didn't mean she had the same magic as Troya. 

But Troya thaught that Mayang and Liam still had the same potential as her. So that once a day, she guided them both to concentrate the warmth at the bottom of their stomachs, after that channeled it all over their bodies, or any body they desire, and passed it through their fingertips. But no matter how hard they tried, they were only able to emit light in the palms of their hands, without causing any significant reaction. 

Apart from the three of them practicing martial arts and swordsmanship, they were also taught by the knight to ride horses. Of course, in this case, Troya was in the first place, Mayang was second, and Liam was the one who was the worst at mastering this dashing animal. 

"I'll ride a horse-drawn carriage or just sit back and relax in it," said Liam annoyingly. 

Troya and Mayang only laughed at the behavior of their friend. 

Well, the day passed, but they tried to enjoy it. Then one day when they were having breakfast.Troya and Mayang walked together to the dining room which was located on the very ground floor, adjacent to the throne room. 

It turned out that the knights, kings and other princes and princesses had gathered there, including Sir Kay and Liam. They seemed to be talking about something very important. The spontaneous presence of the two girls made everyone fall silent and turned their attention to the two of them. But how shocked they were when they saw Troyas's appearance. Especially King Kristopher, who was having a serious conversation with Commander Stefan and Queen Anna, who at that time ordered some of the ladies in waiting to change the water from the rose vase. 

 "Hi, sorry if we were late for breakfast." Troya and Mayang smiled. 

The two of them were self-conscious so they took another empty table a little in the corner of the room. Troya called one of the servants to ask for breakfast. But just like everyone when looking at the girl, the maid was a little dumbfounded. But she quickly regained consciousness and started taking food in the form of oatmeal porridge with a little meat and a glass of milk for breakfast. After the night's party, the retrenchment was starting again.

Troya thanked the waiter and began to enjoy her breakfast. Until finally she realised that everyone was still silent.

 "What is wrong?" she asked, dumbfounded. 

 Suddenly the Queen had appeared near her. Staring at her with disbelief. Realising this, Troya and Mayang immediately got up as a sign of respecting the Queen. 

"Your Majesty ...," said the two of them half bowing. 

 Queen Anna just nodded softly, then she reached out her hand to Troya's face, touched her left cheek, as if it had been a long time the two of them had seen each other. 

Seeing the Queen's slightly strange attitude, Troya just stood still. 

Until finally Queen Anna spoke, "You look a lot like her," whispered Queen Anna. 

 "Wh-who do I look like?" asked Troya, not understanding.[]