Chapter 109: The Poison Within
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Ivery got up and pulled Luther past the crowds of people, toward the doors. The royals and nobles just gave a quick glance and ignored them, there was not a single concerned look.
Ivery quickly opened them and dragged him out of the room. Once they were away from the hundreds of eyes, including the biggest pair of eyes, Katerina, or more specifically, Xia. She wasn't able to determine if Darius was Eos. but she had a strong suspicion.
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Ivery teleported them back to her room and laid him on the bed. She pressed her ear on his chest and his heartbeat was slow and irregular. She thought it was because despite him having the poison in his system that was most definitely fatal, his black magic is what's keeping him alive. But the only downside was that he wasn't getting better nor showing any signs of healing, which meant the poison had to be removed or cured....but she had no way of knowing how to do that.
Due to his body's instability, his shapeshifting ability dispersed and he regained his original appearance.
She held her hands on his abdomen, her hands then shone with a brilliant green glow that emitted from them.
Nothing..
He was starting to sweat and his breathing became weaker and weaker. She didn't know what to do..
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"Lu-"
"Luth"
"Luther!"
His eyes opened.
"I want you to do something for me.."
"Yes, father?" He kneeled
"Kill Esther and Varon." Erdel ordered
"Your tenth concubine and my fifteenth brother?" Luther inquired
"Yes." Erdel nodded
"May I ask why?" Luther looked up at his father
"I will tell you why after they are discarded." Erdel coldly answered
"As you wish, father." Luther stood up and bowed his head before he left the throne room
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"Luther."
"Yes, father?" Luther kneeled
"I need you to kill Baron Claus and Viscount Kelen." Erdel said casually
"As you wish, father." Luther stood up and bowed
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"My dear son." Erdel widely smiled
"What is your will father?" Luther asked with dulled eyes
"Kill Duke Avans and his family, leave no one in his household alive." Erdel commanded
"As you wish father." Luther nodded and stood up
He bowed before he exited the throne room.
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"Ah, Luther." Erdel grinned once he saw his son enter the throne room
"....." Luther didn't say a word
"I need you to go eradicate a small pesky country, since they dared to cheat Fresia, death is my payment to them." Erdel ordered
"Go prepare yourself, you'll be leaving out tomorrow morning." Erdel told Luther with a haughty smile
"As you wish, father.." Luther nodded and left the throne room
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Luther entered his room and hundreds of screams echoed in his mind...
He looked into the mirror in front of him and angrily punched it. The mirror shattered into tiny shards of glass and scattered on the floor.
He put his hands on his aching head, he couldn't stop the constant noise in his head....
And despite hearing hundreds of wailing voices....there was one clear, distinct voice that he could hear on top of everything else...and all it said was one word.
"𝐊𝐢𝐥𝐥."
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"Luther." Erdel stood in front of Luther
Luther looked up at his father with cold lifeless eyes. Anticipating what his father would say next.
After 2 years, nothing changed...it was always the same.
𝐊𝐢𝐥𝐥, 𝐊𝐢𝐥𝐥, 𝐊𝐢𝐥𝐥, 𝐊𝐢𝐥𝐥.
"I need you to be the executioner for five traitors." Erdel said to him
"Don't you already have people you pay to do that job?" Luther narrowed his eyes and looked disdainfully at Erdel
"There's no one who's better than you, you know that." Erdel smiled
"Yes...you've made sure of that over the years..." Luther let out a light sigh and looked down
Suddenly blood poured from his hands and flowed down next to his feet...
"Luther?" Erdel raised an eyebrow
Luther blinked and in an instant, all of the blood was gone...
Another hallucination...
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A severed head belonging to a middle-aged man rolled on the floor.
"Very good my son." Erdel clapped
"On to the next." Erdel looked at a woman shaking in fear
"Please! Please don't do this! I didn't have an affair I promise you!" She screamed and cried
"Luther." Erdel said coldly
Luther unhesitantly swung his sword and her head slid off of her neck and plopped on the floor, her body collapsed, and blood gushed from her neck.
"I have more work for you to do later, go rest for now." Erdel tapped Luther's shoulder and walked off
"....." Luther looked down at the corpses and watched as their blood flowed from their bodies
He felt nothing, no remorse, no sadness...just absolutely nothing...
"What a shame..." Luther let out a light chuckle
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Ivery sat on the bed and had Luther's head on her lap. She was in the process of searching for an ability she possessed to remove the poison from Luther..
"Ah.." Her eyes opened and a small golden light flickered in them
"𝙀𝙭𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣." Ivery lifted her hands and they shimmered with a golden light
Luther's body glowed and very slowly the poison in his body began to rise up and surfaced under his skin, the purple patches showing up on his skin was a good sign for Ivery.
She continued to bring up the poison in his body and then it started to float up above Luther's body and gather into a small ball.
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Luther walked down the dark halls of his castle, holding a bloodied sword.
He stopped walking, he stood and stared in awe at a woman wearing a seemingly glowing long white dress that dragged as she walked down the same hallway.
His feet moved again and he walked towards the enchanting woman...wanting desperately to see her face...
Why?
"Who are you!?" He shouted at her
She stopped walking and turned around to face him..
"The light inside you." She said
He finally saw her face and felt warm inside once he saw her. Her long, beautiful, light blonde hair that reached down to her thighs looked as if it was a source of light, and her lovely ruby red eyes captivated him immeasurably.
He dropped his bloody sword and reached out to her...
"I...need..you.." Tears suddenly came running down his face
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