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{Ciril’s POV}[ ~ Three Days Later ~ ]It felt like the days were jumping by.And for some reason, it felt like the burden on me was getting lighter as the days went. And finally, it felt like I was making improvements with Prince Landon. Just three days ago, I had met him in the fields, after the Guirgon Moon Orientation and I had discovered something after making a couple of risky interrogations. He didn’t hate me so much as to want to inflict physical pain on me. This meant something.Right?I had felt like it meant something but then I wasn’t sure. But then, just yesterday, I had confirmed that that instance had meant something as Prince Landon had asked for my audience in the courtyard. After I had gone to meet him there, he had told me that he wanted me to be one of the maids serving at the Banquet the next day— today. Princess Anita was being celebrated for graduating to Stage 3 of her Princess training— whatever that meant, and Prince Landon had asked me to abandon my dai
{Ivanka’s POV}Today is the day…I was walking towards the Banquet Hall now and I loved how my dress was fitted perfectly on my figure. My body was something Prince Landon would fancy a lot once he’s finally mine.I turned to one of my handmaids now. “My ass is getting fatter, isn’t it?” I asked her and she stuttered. The idiot stuttered. “I.. uhm. It’s-it’s re…”I sighed. “Leave!” I yelled at her. “Get out of my sight!”The idiot immediately left the line and I turned to another. She trembled before I even started speaking but then she impressed me by responding without stuttering. “My ass is getting fatter isn’t it?” I asked.“Yes, Mistress. It is.” She said immediately and I smiled as I turned back ahead. My ass and my entire body would belong to the Prince once I get rid of that menace called Abasha. Today is the day…Today is the day I get rid of her by poisoning her wine cup. Abasha thinks she is all wise and invincible but let’s test how invincible she is when she cooks to d
{Ciril’s POV}I stayed. I didn’t know what the hell I was doing here but I stayed on the Seer’s request and continued my serving duties as a maid.The attention on me persisted for a moment before everyone slowly continued what they were doing— eating and chattering. The Banquet and feast continued as they continued celebrating Princess Anita and I made it a caution of mine not to go near the Royal table until the function ended. Two people glared at me while the process continued; The Headmaid, which was a minor glare compared to Ivanka's glare. Ivanka was literally scowling at me and it intensified anytime I shifted towards her axis. I wondered why. I had only spilled her wine— and I had spilled it on Abasha who wasn’t even at me as Ivanka was doing.Maybe she’s a wine lover now?Nonetheless, it was the warning label I needed to keep off that zone. The last thing I wanted to do was to embarrass and put myself in that ridiculing spotlight again. I paced around for several more
{Ciril’s POV}[ ~ Two Days Later ~ ]If I say misfortune is after my life, I mean it.Misfortune is after me.Unlike Prince Landon, my fate and destiny are hateful towards me. I don’t get to become the Queen of the Reigns or have the moon goddess give me a chunk of her soul to make me powerful.I am destined to keep suffering and suffering. — Ivanka catching me smiling at Prince Landon was proof of this fact. My fate literally made her appear from nowhere just so I could be more wretched. But now, two days later, something weird was happening. Ivanka hadn’t done anything cruel to me yet. I mean, she hasn’t punished me more, attacked me physically, or said anything harsh to me. She hasn’t reacted in any brutal way towards me.It was as if she had seen that instance with me and Prince Landon and had chosen to ignore it. It scared me now, but then I was elated that she hadn’t done anything to me. Maybe she realized that I’m no longer a hindrance in her mission to gain the Prince no
{Ciril’s POV}“I, Anika Ensayva, am a witness to that crime, Your Majesty.”I was breathing hard.I didn’t understand what was going on in the slightest.In fact, what I had heard from Anika’s mouth threatened to make me go nuts. It was so sudden and random that It made no sense.I was confused and I stared at her in disbelief now. She still avoided my gaze. “I didn’t say the truth all this while because I was scared of what she would do to me. But now I’ve come out to say because I don’t want her to hurt anyone else!” Anika added and then she finally looked at me with a scowl on her face.“She’s evil!” She roared at me with her finger arrowed in my direction. I trembled. I was stunned with shock and this made tears gloss up my eyes now.Anika... What are you saying?“Is this some sort of joke? Friend betraying friend?” The Alpha Queen chortled now. Although she sounded amused, she looked confused by the randomness of this instance and I looked at her to see the confusion plus the h
{Ciril’s POV}I had just two weeks. I had just two weeks and some days left to live. Yesterday had taken a turn that I never believed that I would ever experience, and even now that I’m hunger-stricken, shackled, and stained with dirt, I still didn’t believe that what had happened had happened. I still didn’t believe that Anika could betray me like that. I still didn’t believe that she had said all those things she had said naturally. I was emotionally bruised by that instance but I held onto the hope that there was an explanation waiting for me somewhere.I was in the Dungeons now, and in the same cell I had once visited. Prince Landon had instructed that I be kept here during the night and dragged around in chains during the day as I did my duties— which would be times two of what I did before. Because of Anika, Prince Landon now truly believed that I killed the King hence the chains. He seemingly doesn’t want me to kill anyone else. Meanwhile, I had never even taken a life in
{Ciril’s POV}I had been whipped. Ivanka had made sure she dug into the flesh on my back with the metal-striped whip.She had made sure my blood spilled but all this wasn't the worst part. The worst part was that Prince Landon had been there to witness the whole.He had witnessed the whole thing and had done nothing but stare. I had been stricken with aging and pain and it had been for his entertainment. I was emotionally bruised by that fact and it hurt me more than any level of whipping could.My skin may tear and get bruised but my heartache was what broke me now. And even now that I was being dragged on the ground, it was the worst pain I was feeling. I didn’t have energy in me so I couldn’t rise to my feet, and these cruel Sentries had to transport me whether I liked it or not. And so they pulled me by the chains shackled to my hands and I groaned softly as my body slid across the hard, uneven ground, leaving a trail of my blood behind. I was being taken to the Garrison now to
{Ciril’s POV}The first day had gone and today was the second. I was down to thirteen days.With the way things are going, I don’t think I will make it to day 10.I know I had assured the Hencher Mistress yesterday that I was going to live— want to live, but I had said that for her sake and not mine. She’s grown to love and care for me so much and I could see it, this was why I agreed to want to live. I did it for her sake when in actuality, I wanted to die. I didn’t understand why the Hencher mistress believed I could not die, but this was too much torture for me to join her in that belief, especially since the torture was weakening my body soul, and spirit by the minute. I had almost died from hunger and exhaustion yesterday. That would have been the case if not for the piece of bread I had found in a pouch of the dress. The Hencher Mistress had whispered into my ears to tell me about it before she left me to do my duty, and I munched it down later on when those Assholes weren’t
{Ciril’s POV} Dylan was dead… and my thoughts made me seem sinister. Never would I have thought that a time in the future would come when the death of someone would fill me with so much glee and satisfaction.Never would I have thought that I would be hunting for lives to end— and actually ending them.I had created a list, born out of my anger and bitterness while I had been a tortured slave. And it was a list of people I hoped to kill, but then, at the point of the list creation, I never really believed that I would actually be able to satisfy the list. I never actually believed I would one day be strong enough to actually kill someone on that list. I had just kept adding names to that list as my bitterness and anguish kept rising and I never knew if I would ever be able to fulfill that list.But then my fate had unexpectedly changed… and I was chosen by the Moon Goddess to be the Champion of the Reigns. And now, here I am with the power to thrash my enemies and reign over them.
{Ciril’s POV} I paced towards him and stood before him, waiting for him to gain full consciousness so I could make him lose it.— Slowly and painfully. This was not going to be easy for him.We made eye contact and I realized that the amount of hatred I felt for this man was intense. The scourging memories came pouring back and they only made me heave more than I was already doing. He became fully aware of my presence now so that he started to tremble and crawl backward… while I paced forward.“No.. no. Stay back!” He voiced but I kept creeping forward. “Stop coming close!” He bawled in his fright and then I stopped walking.And then I bent down to pick up a fairly thick branch from the tree that had fallen. I broke the branch into two and then I swiftly spun and threw both of them simultaneously away into a distance at an angle to my right. Both pieces of wood went streaking furiously through the air… and then slammed into the bodies of the two warriors who had been getting a
{Ciril’s POV} I wanted to storm at him with everything in me.I wanted to lunge at his face and peel it right off from the skeleton underneath.I wanted to tear open different parts of his body and lacerate his organs.But I couldn’t.I was raging and panting, but standing in a position. “Come close and the fucker dies!” He had Rowan in his clutch and he had his claws to his throat as he glared at me.The men he had around him trembled at the sight of me as they shifted away and hid behind Dylan but then Dylan had his reassurance right there in his arms so he was solid. He knew I would value the life of my mates and he used that against me.I was growling. I was growling furiously and trudging angrily where I stood as I was contemplating my next move and simultaneously trying to control myself. I was crazy furious but then I was conscious and I didn’t want to do anything that would cost Rowan his life.“I don’t know what sort of power this is but I’m not dying today. You hear me?!”
{Ciril’s POV} The circle grew wider.Everyone around me trembled away when my scowl went from fierce to fiercer… and my eyes went from plain to glowing rage…I glared directly at Dylan. I hadn’t spoken or responded to his utterances all this while because I hoped to make a statement with my killing him so I motioned to do that now.But then with my gaze on him, he realized and swiftly jumped into the crowd of his warriors while someone yelled attack. With that, Dylan disappeared from my sight while bodies stormed at me from all sides.Some of the fighters were hesitant to attack since they were frightened by me but then some others weren’t so they stubbornly came for me.MistakeI could hear a hundred heartbeats..I could perceive a hundred scents.. And I could practically sense everyone around me as they moved so I knew every angle everyone was coming from. And with this, when they got to me, my actions spoke louder than theirs.All I needed was one blow— one blow to end their l
{Ciril’s POV} “Bring me her head!” “Check over there!” I heard Dylan’s voice… and I tensed. I couldn’t mistake it. He was my first mate ever and because of this, I had familiarized myself with parts of him during that little moment before he had rejected me that day in the Alpha Mansion’s grand Hall here at RawHowl several months ago.And one of the parts I had familiarized myself with was his voice… and so I was sure to my bones. Rowan, Feryt, and Clord panicked now. I could see it in their expressions and in their movements as they raced about the room, contemplating the next move they would make and measuring how dreadful our predicament was.I just stood there, motionless in the middle of the room… and I clenched my fists. “Ciril!” Feryt came up to me and poured on me her dread. “What are we going to do?! They are burning the whole place to the ground and will soon get to us!” She voiced in her trembling.“We can’t hide here! We are going to die!” Clord joined in the compl
{Ciril’s POV} ~ Three Days Later ~ I was standing in an open space. It’s been two days since that incident at that Neighboring Pack, Grayvel and I haven’t stopped thinking about it.— Or feeling good about it.Lives had been lost but it felt good knowing that I had made a difference.Yeah. Another thing to feel good about was the fact that I was beginning to make improvements in my training…“Okay, Ciril. Are you ready?” Clord asked me as he stood before me in the open space, wearing so many layers of clothes to the extent that he looked like a fat mannequin. He couldn’t even move properly. He was scared of me and emotionally scarred by me and Rowan had bid him to train with me today so that I could gain his confidence by not losing control and killing him once I went into the Celestial State. I was learning how to control myself. After almost killing Feryt and realizing I might mistakenly kill someone else in the future, I made it a must to have control of my powers so Clord h
{Ciril’s POV} It started to rain… and it took me a moment before I could register this.I was panting. I was panting hard.And then I was raging. Nothing was happening anymore but I had a sea of anger bubbling within me. The water started to splatter on my skin now and I threw my gaze up to glare at the skies like I wanted to attack it… but then I realized that it was just rain so I calmed down, and then I sighed.I poured out a heavy breath and stared at my body as the rain started beating me more furiously, washing all the blood that bathed my skin and clothes. I was still heaving and my claws were still out, but soon, with the chill of the rain, I calmed down and my eyes went back to normal. I blinked. I looked away from my claws now as I retracted them and I looked up to see all the dead bodies of Ferals before me— presented as disintegrated rotten flesh, splattered at random points on the ground.I drove my eyes about the scene as I took the sight in and then I heard voices s
{Ciril’s POV} I didn’t want to go… but I had to.People were in danger. And even if I wasn’t the Reignile Champion, going to help people in distress was the right thing to do, so this was the reason why I got up.Clord?Closed felt like he had no reason to go. He was strictly hesitant until Feryt poured on him one of her death glares and threatened to come to him. And so now, we were all darting through the woods, being led by Rowan towards the Pack in question. As we drew close, I started to hear screams that made my heart quicken its pace at once as I realized how serious the situation was.We took some turns and soon the Pack came into view. My heart…I saw people racing helter-skelter and then I saw some other people dead so that I tensed in fear. Clord, Rowan, and Feryt were several paces before me now as when I had caught sight of the scene, I had slowed down and started pacing slowly instead.I was overwhelmed with the sight.I knew I was to do something to help but at the s
{Ciril’s POV} I saw Abasha and I instantly trembled. She was someone I would never expect to see out here, but there she was standing at a fair distance away from us, smiling. My heart started to race…… and all the traumatizing memories of my doleful past started to come back to me.Fear claimed me.— Its chilly claws seized my lungs as I stared at her instead of helping Feryt or checking how badly she was injured. She rose up to a sitting position some seconds later before I realized that I had totally forgotten about her. “Feryt. Are you okay?” I promptly asked her now, forcing my gaze away from Abasha but still conscious of her presence.“I’m not.” Feryt complained while I helped her up, my eyes now back to monitoring Abasha. I didn't pay attention to what Feryt had just said and I ended up letting her go untimely as my entire focus was on Abasha. I had a scowl on as I stared at her but then my heart was really racing fast. Abasha soon noticed this as she stood defensively b