Chapter 48 - Redemption - Trust

The woman's voice quivered as she confessed, "I am a member of the Death Tree Organization. Our plan was to eliminate Skalain and his friend, creating chaos between the Tower of the Black Sun and the Void Star. We aimed to exploit the resulting conflict to strengthen our own position and seize control."

Aldar's eyes narrowed, his voice laced with understanding: "A simple but effective idea; I am not blaming you guys?"

Skalain let out a breath and said nothing.

"I can understand that there was no anger in any of them—Jareth, Aldar, or Allie—at all."

"They know that they live within the dark mage borders, and they are themselves dark mages, so such behavior should be usual in their lives."

Skalain thought as he kept his silence.

The woman lowered her gaze, a mixture of guilt and fear washing over her face. "The Death Tree Organization is ruthless. We are driven by our desire for power and control. We were willing to do whatever it took to achieve our goals."

Jareth's voice cut through the tension: "Yeah, It is a simple way of living for dark mages and organizations."

Skalain felt different, as he noticed that he was not feeling any anger towards the woman or the man he killed. In the end, he is starting to understand that this world is like this. These behaviors by women or organizations may be selfish or evil, but they are understandable. It is a dog-eat-dog world. If you are not strong, you get eaten by the strong, and if you are strong, you eat more to get even more power.

Alia's voice rang out, filled with both anger and disappointment: "To think that an organization like Death Tree would use such simple methods to manipulate two big organizations like Void Star and The Tower Of Black Sun."

The woman, realizing the severity of her actions, pleaded, "I was merely following orders. Please, you must understand."

Aldar's voice hardened, his tone firm: "You made a choice. And now, you will face the consequences of that choice."

The woman smiled helplessly and murmured.

"It was worth the try."

She closed her eyes and said nothing more.

Jareth's gaze bore into the woman, and his voice was cold. "Your organization's twisted ambition ends here. For the time being."

Skalain's eyes turned to Jareth, and Jareth looked at him as he nodded.

"Skalain, I will be honest with you. I was not expecting you to solve this problem like this."

"But I have to say that I am happy to work with you in the future."

Alia's voice softened as she too looked at Skalain and started talking.

"I too would like to apologize to you. I believe you should understand that we did not trust you much as you were nobody and there was nothing about your name."

Skalain looked at two people talking to him and then nodded.

"I understand, and it can be expected."

"I feel nothing against any of you, but I will be adamant on the matter of not connecting to any kind of organization."

As Skalain and others were talking, the woman who was tortured and defeated was silently listening.

As the weight of her actions settled upon her, the woman fell silent, understanding the magnitude of the consequences she would face.

"I guess this is the end for me."

The woman thought in her mind and then remembered her past life. The time when she was an ordinary woman with an ordinary life with a family, a father and mother, and a brother

It has been twenty years since she saw her family, and now it is just a distant past to her, and it feels weird to remember those things.

But regret will not change anything, especially in the world of dark mages, where there is no redemption.