Chapter 4 : The Shardborn Prince

Elric woke up and started walking towards the east of us. We started quitely following him. Casper told,"There are over 5000 corpse in this room"

Kade asked,"Why doesn't this place smell so horrible then?"

Elric said,"This Hall is directly connected to the outside".

And finally we saw a door on the wall. We were confused.

I asked,"We had to go down right?"

Elric answered,"Yes,this is the one"

Elric opened the door and jumped in horizantally. Everyone else followed him,only to realise we had landed but we were being polled towards the roof. And we landed on the roof. In the inverted hall we saw the horrific acts done to Varkos the previous head warden. Several muscular appendages had grown out of his slender body. Those appendages were hammered to the ground.

Varkos was a soft and kind man. He comes to check on us once every month. He raised us till our teenage years. We all used to call him Father.

Everyone were terrified to ses Varkos in that condition. Elric wanted to free Varkos, but when hr pulled out a nail, Varkos screamed in pain.

"I'm more comfortable with 3rd person perspectice"

Theo(the previous narrator) asked,"Would you go back to your normal condition,if we kill Orvell".

Varkos muttered,"No, it cannot...please kill me".

Varkos started to beg theo to kill him.

Every once in a while Orvell would come to the inverted hall and ask for information, if anyone had found out about the horrible acts committed by them. When any student talked about it, they were captured and murdered. Every time Varkos gave a useful information, one of his appendages were removed by Orvell.

Theo was trembling as he took a sword which was kept as an ornament in the hall. Novody tried to stop him. Theo sliced Varkos' head and relieved him from the pain. Theo took Varkos' head in his hands and started crying. It was his first time comitting such horrible act. Theo placed the head on the lap of the corpse. Theo turned to Elric,"Shall we go?" and Elric shaked his head.

We went back to the way we came from. Elric comforted Theo by holding his hands. They all finally escaped the Vault and came to the Forbidden forest. They started walking towards the Verdaneth Haven. They entered it and went to the hall. In the hall Orvell was sitting on a throne, with his face covered in a veil. Orvell told,"I have been waiting for y'all?"

Elric asked,"What did you do to all the kids?".

Orvell answered,"We used them for entertainment and threw them away"

Elric yelled,"You are lying. You did something else to the children".

Orvell breathed,"You must to pretty smart,Yes i indeed did sonething else".

Elric demanded,"Who are you searching for?What is that pendant you had".

Orvell said,"Well,You know more than you should".

Orvell possess a glass pendant with the Blood of the Blood Monarch of Octavia. Even after his death, his body did not disintegrate and was divided to the all his 12 children. Those parts were passed down through the bloodline.

Orvell said,"I'm the descendant of the Blood Monarch and the 3rd son of the Shardborn Emperor".

Everyone were perplexed.

Orvell continued," A divine being in the form of a male was speculated to be born in the Capital of Erythos by the Oracle. On that day every male baby born in the capital were separated from their parents and Brought to Verdaneth".

Theo asked,"Why does the king want the divine being?"

Orvell replied,"I wanted to find out that too. I wanted to find the divine being before my father did".

Kade asked,"How?"

Orvell," I fed the blood to the students forcefully, i'm tired of talking i should kill y'all"

When the blood is fed to the divine being his sould gets to meet the Blood Monarch but only when the Factor of the divine being is unsealed.

Orvell started walking towards us. Elric rushed to punch Orvell, but Orvell grew some muscular appendages and caught Elric. He started crushing Elric,Elric was struggling to escape. Theo sepped forward and sliced his appendages with the sword from inverted hall. Thei tried to slice Orvell's head in the same strike but was caught . Elric freed himself and punched Orvell in the face. Orvell grew larger appendages and hit both of them in one strike. Elric and Theo were thrown across the hall and hit the wall. Orvell tried to pierce Kade with his tentacle but Kade's bubble was impenetrable and exploded his tentacle. Kade created a ring of bubble and exploded it. Almost all the tentacles of Orvell was blasted, Casper blitzed towards Orvell, grabbed his head and crushed it towards the ground. Kade jumped on Orvell.