Reincarnated to switch places with a princess (PART 1)

Chapter 22

"What are you guys doing here?"

Kicking the now unconscious guard away, the trio then faced the next group. One who looked at least in a better condition than they themselves would admit. 

" The advisor trapped us here under the pretense we were going to hurt them."

(Kevin POV)

There goes diplomatic relations

As Julius continued to tell us of the current situation, I couldn't help but grit my teeth. All because of that man, William was now being a simple puppet.

What the hell would you do?

So far, Reius and other royal members still don't know about anything, Lidel hasn't returned and William's conditioned was worsening. 

"Let's get out of here before the guard wakes up." I said as I dumped the guard in the cell, bound and gagged. Everyone nodded before proceeding into the passageway, Alexander's light spell and a torch grabbed by Claude leading us through.

(3rd POV)

As they ventured on, Alfred couldn't help but asked, " Does anyone here have any weapons, in case for emergencies?"   This caused the group to stop in their tracks. 

"Currently, we already have a gun and some knives but how about you three?" asked Alexander as he remembered the explosion stunt.

Searching through their pockets, Julius, Claude and Maximilian produced, a small dagger from Maximilian, a revolver from Claude and both from Julius.

"At least, we'll be able to protect ourselves for a while."

Walking along, they found themselves at crossroads, turning left they find themselves in a dark room. Concentrating, the ball of light brightened some more till the whole room could be seen. 

"What the heck."

Before them, was a single pit. Blocks with different inscription floated within. Each one of them glowing  softly with blue light. At the other side was an entrance, green moss covered the walls making the entrance harder to see.

(Julius POV)

"Looks like we have to get over this pit to continue." commented Claude as he examined the area.

I couldn't help but twitch, geez how many traps did the al Abbas royal family set.

Carefully, each one of us slowly jumped over each one of them.

"BE CAREFUL!"

The moment my foot landed on one square, a loud creak could be heard as the block started to fall. Extending his arm, I grabbed onto Kevin's arm, pulling me up in the process.  Who the heck makes such a mechanism, are they crazy?!

"Your highness.."

"Yes?"

"Please go on to another block. You're too close to me."

Stopping my thoughts, I looked. Indeed, we were only inches away from each other that it kinda looked like we were hugging.

"Are you two done acting lovey dovey." taunted Alexander as he looked at us amusingly.

"Of course! After all, I'm not married yet!"

With that, I removed myself from him before skipping towards one right next. However, another loud creak could be heard, this one much louder than before.

Damn I hate my luck

The blocks all stopped glowing, everyone's eyes on me as the blocks started to crumble causing us to fall into the pit.