After everything that had happened, Zyric finally returned to the palace, unaware that a simple conversation with the soldiers would lead him to an unexpected discovery.
As soon as Zyric reaches the palace gates, he approaches the soldiers.
"Excuse me, I'd like to meet the King."
"You want to meet the King? I'm sorry, but the King and everyone else are asleep right now. They'll be leaving here early tomorrow morning."
As soon as the soldier says this, Zyric asks,
"Leaving? Where are they going?"
"Princess Elysia's eyes are damaged, aren't they? So they'll have to go to the Five Star Clan for her treatment. It's very far from here, and there could be all kinds of trouble along the way. They might even lose their lives. But the King still wants to restore his daughter's eyesight, and he's willing to pay any price for it. He's taking all his wealth with him to the Five Star Clan."
"Besides, the Five Star Clan is extremely far away, and we don't even know the exact route. Still, we'll have to travel from here to the Two Star Clan, then from there to the Three Star Clan, then to the Four Star Clan, and finally to the Five Star Clan. It's going to be a very long and dangerous journey. We're all very weak. I'm going too, and I don't know whether we'll even make it back alive. But we want to restore Princess Elysia's eyesight, no matter what. We really miss her beautiful smile. She's been crying all the time."
The soldier falls silent for a moment, looking genuinely sad as he talks about Elysia.
If I tell him that I can fix Elysia's eyes, he'll think I'm joking. As far as I know, even after saving everyone and doing all those things, I still couldn't step forward and restore Elysia's eyesight. So everyone must have thought I was lying back then. Since they realized I was lying but also knew that I had saved their lives, they let me go. That means I'll have to do something first. But what should I do now?
After thinking this through, Zyric steps aside.
He leaves the area and starts walking around the palace, unable to figure out what to do.
"Come on, do you guys have any ideas?"
Zyric begins muttering to himself, though he's actually talking to his Beasts.
"Oh, I have an idea!"
Fat Insect suddenly shouts.
"Yeah? Tell me."
Zyric waits for Fat Insect to explain his idea.
"Why don't you just go to Elysia's room?"
After saying this, Fat Insect climbs onto Zyric's head and sits there.
"Look, don't come out. Someone might see you," Zyric says to Fat Insect.
"Alright, boss."
After saying this, Fat Insect suddenly disappears.
Zyric assumes that he has returned to his Fuzan Vault, so he doesn't pay much attention to it.
"Look, if I go into Elysia's room and someone catches me, they'll forget everything I've done for them. They care way too much about Elysia. They'll come after me with huge axes and spears, trying to kill me. Understand?"
Zyric says this to the Velociraptor and Fat Insect.
However, Fat Insect doesn't respond.
"Hey, where did he go now?"
Zyric asks as he checks his entire shirt and looks around in circles.
But he can't find Fat Insect anywhere.
The next moment, Zyric sees Fat Insect emerge from the hard ground and approach him.
"Yes! I found her room. It's that room with the red curtains over there," Fat Insect tells Zyric.
Zyric looks at him angrily.
"Look, if I go into her room and she misunderstands something, then... Look, this isn't a good idea," Zyric says to Fat Insect.
"What's not good about it? Tell me one thing. Can you stay here until morning?" Fat Insect asks Zyric.
"No, this place is surrounded by... If I avoid sunlight, I can survive. But there's open sky here. I can't sit out in the open like this. Even the slightest bit of sunlight falling on me will make me teleport away," Zyric explains.
"So that's the problem. But tell me, you don't have any plan of your own, do you? Then just go along with my plan," Fat Insect tells Zyric.
"Come on, even if I agree for a moment and try climbing this plain wall, how am I supposed to do that? Doesn't it sound ridiculous? How can I climb this flat, rocky wall? Tell me that. How am I supposed to get up there?" Zyric asks Fat Insect.
However, the next moment, Zyric suddenly remembers something.
"Wait a minute! Let me try combining the Red Monkey's genes with my own. Who knows? Maybe I'll gain some skills that will let me climb up and down like a monkey," Zyric says.
As soon as he sees that the soldiers have left the area, he combines the Red Monkey's genes with his own.
Before long, Zyric's entire body transforms into that of the Red Monkey.
"Why is this happening? I've completely merged with your body. Does that mean that whenever I combine your genes with mine, I take on your entire form?" Zyric asks the Red Monkey from within the transformed body.
"How would I know? I don't know anything about this kind of stuff," the Red Monkey replies.
It's not as though it gets tamed by humans every day, after all. That's why it doesn't know anything about these things.
However, Zyric becomes excited.
Using the Red Monkey's hands, he slowly begins climbing up the wall. In the Red Monkey's body, he's become extremely flexible and agile, allowing him to reach the top quickly.
Zyric also discovers another advantage of this ability. He can increase or decrease the Red Monkey's body size, allowing himself to become a small monkey. He takes advantage of his smaller size and quickly climbs up.
However, just as he's about to cross the curtain and enter the room, he returns to his original form and separates the Red Monkey's genes from his own.
The next moment, he jumps through the curtained entrance and enters the room.
Elysia can't speak anyway, so there shouldn't be any problem.
Zyric assumes that Elysia will probably be asleep. He expects her to wake up and become frightened when she hears the noise.
However, the moment Zyric enters Elysia's room, he freezes in confusion. The bed is empty, and the princess is nowhere to be seen.