Chapter 276 As If It Were Fate

Gideon was a little dazed.

As he left, he couldn't help but glance at the King again.

Why did he feel that things had unfolded in such a strange way?

'The King hasn't asked anything at all and simply let me go?

'And, in fact, he has temporarily spared the Lockhart family because of this?' Gideon thought to himself.

He did not know that even his mission to retrieve the defense map was a move prearr