Chapter 235 Take your place

ASHER

I had never expected the condition to be so dangerous for me. Of course, expectation was one thing and reality was another.

I stared down at the killer whose throat had just been slitted. He was the third killer we’d been forced to take the life of this week. Though these would-be assassins were not very skilled, they all seemed to be loyal to their master. None of them had said who sent them here to kill the king before their deaths, but Kane and Silas had their theories. My stepbrother thought it could be just about anyone, but the Beta assumed the man who hired these assassins was his own father.

Though Oliver was the most suspected of the bunch, Kane suggested that it wasn’t just him who wanted to use this chance to take the crown.

The second and third killers came only half a day apart, which meant our whereabouts had been exposed. It came as no surprise to me that our route had been compromised. Since we had taken command of the Myriad and taken a few elite soldiers with u