At Last The Devil Awakes…

The next day Alex was shifted to Miandrake's inner courtyard where only the main elders could enter. But this time Byron, Neshag and even Galstorie tagged along. Emmy was asked to remain outside the courtyard by Byron .

Yes, he was scared… the cure which could awaken Alex from this state was called the blood ritual, not the one in which two or more people, typically male,intermingle their blood in some way to symbolically bring the participants together into one family. 

In the Zucathore clan, blood ritual was only done to retaliate against the unknown power. This unknown power was only  known by the clan head and was never meant to be mentioned. The early king of the Zucathore clan had once disclosed the details with Byron as he felt something was going to happen sooner or later. But the king never must have thought that it shall be used for Byron itself.