Princess Veronica was fuming, her plan to get the Summoner alone and kill them completely backfired, the Kingdom of Askr have joined forces with the Kingdom of Nifl, and that annoying little fire king keeps looking down on her. She only joined forces with that oversized fireball just so can have a bit more of an advantage on Askr.
She left her army at the front of the castle and made straight for the royal library. Maybe there was something in the ancient texts that could help her. There was a book sticking out of one of the lower shelves that caught her attention. She'd never seen this one before and she found it rather odd that it was sticking out like it was. It wasn't there earlier and with the amount of dust that covered the book, it looked like it hadn't been touched in at least months. But she decided to flip through it anyway. Looking at the book, she figured it was a spell book, there was a page bookmarked and she opened up to that page. Her eyes widened once she read the single spell on that page. She couldn't help but smile, this could be the advantage she was looking for.
"Prince Xander, we are heading out!" Princess Veronica said as she walked toward the castle doors.
"Princess, where are we going?" the prince asked as he trailed next to her.
"I found the perfect spell that could very well lead us to victory."
"Very well, I shall go fetch my horse," Prince Xander moved ahead of her towards the stables.
"Just you wait, Heroes. Once this spell is cast, I won't even need to fight you, you'll be doing it for me."
To say that the Askr army was surprised to see only Princess Veronica and Prince Xander was an understatement. Veronica would never confront them without without more than a few more Heroes than just Xander, but she looked very sure of herself.
"Everybody be careful, we don't know what she's hiding up her sleeve," Anna warned everyone.
"Don't worry, Heroes. This will only take up a moment of your time, then you can go back to your castle." Veronica smirked.
"What do you want, Princess Veronica?" Alfonse asked, hand already on the hilt of his sword.
"All I have to say is this-" and Veronica opened the book to the bookmarked page and began to recite the spell in a language the Heroes did not recognize. As Veronica kept speaking, a light came from the book and blinded the Heroes.
When the Heroes regained their sight, both Veronica and Xander where gone. They looked at each other with confusion.
They did as much searching around the area and of themselves, but the couldn't find anything that may have been affected by the spell.
"She may have done this to psych us out, keep an eye out for anything suspicious, but I don't think there's anything to be worried about," Anna said to her allies.
However, Kiran couldn't shake the feeling that there was something wrong and was on edge the entire way back to the castle.