Arthur and Norman walked towards somewhere in the castle where no one was around and started talking. 

'Norman, I have to ask you something, weren't the necromancers just bandits who wanted to raid the town for money?' 

'As far as we are all aware of, yes, though you were probably right, they could have just been doing it for Juliet, they might have just been searching for a certain artefact that she wanted, it's all possible.'

'But really I was just thinking out loud, they really didn't have anything to do with it? That Count Silverwood guy seemed to just believe everything I said, it's like my word is law or something!' 

'Don't worry Arthur, the main thing is that Count Silverwood seems to be on our side, that's what we came here for, we don't know for certain whether or not Juliet was involved with the necromancers, but all it takes is a casual conversation, and only Juliet herself would know that.'

Suddenly a man came out of the blue to interrupt the two of them, it was Count Silverwood's assistant, Raymond Crowe. 

'There you are!' he exclaimed, Arthur looked at him in both shock and confusion `Count Silverwood wants to see you in person, follow me!' 

'OK... whoever you are...' he started whispering to Norman `What's his name again?' 

'I don't remember. Something... Crowe I think.' Norman whispered back. Arthur was taken to Count Silverwood's office, of where he was waiting.

'Hello Prince Arthur, it's good to finally meet you in person, I never had a chance to formally introduce myself to you, my name is Count Henry Silverwood, I want to talk to you personally about matters with both the Rosethorne Kingdom and my city, and by that I mean I want this meeting to be between just me and you' Once he said that Norman and everyone else other than Arthur left the room. `Arthur, you said you'll help me attack the monsters attacking my city, but I have a question for you: how do you intend to do that?' Arthur started thinking, and shortly came up with an answer. 

'I'll have a group of knights with me and I'll fight them myself' said Arthur. Henry Silverwood appeared to be impressed by what he heard, though at the same time he looed worried and confused. 

'You want to attack them yourself? You do realise you're the only heir?'

'Yes I know, but I'm a powerful fighter, and with the magic spells that I have, I'm like a superhero. Besides that a long time ago me and Edward sealed a similar sounding monster den, and it wasn't that hard' 

'Right... I assume that was before Edward was exposed as a murderer, correct?' 

'Yes it was'

'OK Arthur, I hope you know what you're getting into, but anyway, I'll have some of my finest knights to escort you, though only a few of them have these magical powers. Use those ones wisely'  Arthur sat down for a while in silence, he looked a bit worried 'Is there anything bothering you, Arthur?' 

'What has happened to Lydia?' Henry had a confused look on his face  

'Do you mean that girl you came in with? Her name's Lydia you're saying? Not a very typical Rosethorne name if you don't mind me saying. Anyway she volunteered to work with the other female servants of the castle. Before the debate I had a conversation with her: she's a really nice young lady and she speaks highly of you, you're very lucky to have her.' 

'Well, thanks... I just... hope she's OK! You know!' 

‘Yes Arthur, she'll be fine, don't worry. Is there anything else?' 

Arthur sat in silence for quite a while 'All right then... I'll inform the general that you'll sort out our monster problem' After that Arthur left the room of where Norman was waiting for him down the corridor. 

‘So, what did Count Silverwood have to say to you?’ 

‘He's accepted that we'll help take out the monsters that have been attacking this city, I've told him I'll go and take them out myself.' Norman looked at him with a look of both admiration and shock 

'Very brave of you, Arthur.'

 'Apparently I need to see a general' Suddenly Henry Silverwood came out of his office running straight towards Arthur, he noticed him and immediately started talking to him

'Arthur, there's something I forgot to tell you, and I don't know how you'll feel about this.' Arthur started to look nervous, and so did Norman as a result. 

'Go on then, what is it?' 

'Your father has sent me a message, he'll be over here in about a day.' Arthur just stood there and sighed, he sounded frustrated.

'OK...' said Arthur. 

'That's... annoying' said Norman, sighing. 'I thought he was too fat to ever travel again... oh well'

'I take it you're not a fan of King Richard.' Henry remarked 

'Oh no, he's the... best king ever!' 

'It's OK, I won't tell him.... who are you by the way?'  

'I'm Norman Linfield, former general, current military advisor and Arthur's assistant... on this mission anyway' 

'Nice to meet you, Norman'

'And you, too' Henry stopped talking to Norman and went over to Arthur 

'Should I take you to the general, or do you want to do all of this tomorrow?' Arthur then started conferring with Norman 

'Should I just get this over with?' 

'Clearing out a monster lair can take days, and it's not like they're attacking us right now'

        'But wait, what if...’ Arthur just stood there clearly not knowing what to say, then he decided to whisper to him `What if the Vampires decide to attack the monster lair before we do?' Norman was a bit confused, and whispered back:

'Didn't you say that the monster lair was created by them?'

'Did I?' 

'I'm pretty sure you did' Arthur went up to Henry and announced his decision, 

'We're going to attack the monster lair right away, take me to this general.' Henry didn’t appear to be particularly impressed to hear this, but accepted none the less. 

'OK you two, follow me' Arthur and Norman were lead to a hall downstairs on the first floor. It was a large, moderately decorated hall with table that had a map of the Rosethorne Kingdom in the middle. There was a man sitting at a desk to the right of the room. Henry went up to him, and started explaining things to him. 

After about ten minutes, Henry left the room and the man walked up to Arthur, he was a muscular man of average height, he had very short dark brown hair and piercing brown eyes, Arthur looked a bit scared upon looking at him in the eye. 

'Greetings most noble Prince Arthur, I am General Gilbert Vilbur, commander of the Silverwood army, I hear you want to deal with the monster lair, well I have a few things to tell you.' Arthur was still intimidated by him despite what he said.`The monsters that we've been up against are skeleton warriors, undead soldiers and undead beasts. We know where the lair is,  it's north east of Silverwood. The lair itself by the way is a cave. Unfortunately we don't know what's inside because... well...' Norman went closer to the General. 

'What? Did you run out of troops?' 

'Ahem... yes I did... well not really, my soldiers found it harder and harder to attack the cave since... there seemed to be more of them somehow.' 

'Looks like you have a pretty big monster problem, I'm... pretty worried to be honest.' said Arthur 

'Well... you're pretty much our only hope' said Gilbert in a gruff voice. 'Oh yes, did you bring your enchanted armour?' Arthur was taken by surprise by hearing this and then started thinking

'I don't think I did... great. What am I going to do?' 

'Well...  you're out of luck. One hit from an arrow and you're dead meat, Prince Arthur.' 

'Oh come on! I never thought I had to do this!' Arthur shouted. 

'Calm down Arthur, you might be able to borrow someone else's armour' said Norman, Arthur was still panicking though.

'Does anyone in this castle have similar armour?' asked Arthur desperately. The General paused for a while and said: 

'I think Count Silverwood has something similar.'

 'Well let's go to him then!'