…And Prince Landon… One of you in the comment hoped that this was going to happen as it truly happened. The tides just shifted in this chapter… See yA!
{Ciril’s POV}It was noontime.And I was surrounded by darkness.— sweating and clothed in poop.I was back at the Dungeons and I stinked. I stinked badly and had a foul look on my face, but then the stench of the dung wasn’t the reason for my foul mood. My foul look was brought about by the realization that today had brought upon me.What Prince Landon had done to me had broken me in so many ways. What he had done to me had killed whatever sell-worth I had left in me and for this I loathed him. He was on the list now and in truth and at this moment, I wanted to kill him more than I wanted to kill anyone else on that list. I wanted to yell curse words at him while I stabbed him so many times in his face and chest with a knife.— I wouldn’t hesitate by even the slightest bit if I was given the chance to do this.Yeah. That’s how much I hate him now. I had found the ring. After almost an hour, I had found the damn thing but not until poop had almost diffused through my skin.People
{Ciril’s POV}I was outside the Revel Hall like they said I would be.And I was tied there to the post as they said I would be.But then as an added compliment, I was stripped naked. Every worker or servant who passed by now seemed to have fun with their eyes and talk about my body and appearance before leaving.It was still the early hours of the day so the Reignile people hadn’t started coming yet. From what I had heard, the Guirgon full moon visits a few hours before midnight which meant that the people of the Reigns who had been invited would begin coming in during the evening.And so I was left out there in the open for the sun to dry and make harder the fecal matter that was on my body and for the wind to blow specks of dust into my eyes.I saw some of the maids and slaves I used to work with back then when I wasn’t tagged as the Kingslayer yet. I saw some of them pass by and gaze at me with clear disdain and irritation on their faces.Normally, this would break me but now, I di
{Ciril’s POV}“Just hang in there for a little more time.”The Hencher Mistress had said and left me with those words. But then she had stopped at a short distance away and chipped in a line.“I’ll be back.” She had added and now, she was gone.She was gone… and I needed her. I needed her to be here because I had grown scared.— scared of dying. Yeah…The people’s ridiculing words had broken through my defenses and made me gloomy and vulnerable. And now that I was thinking of how close I was to the hour of my death, I was scared. And it was made worse by the fact that Taka had told me how everyone would be competing to be the one to take off my head after the Guigon moon’s arrival. Hence, I needed the only friend I had left, the Hencher mistress, here with me but then because of how she had been acting and the statement she had made, I hadn’t been able to tell her.“Just hang in there for a little more time.” I repeated the words now and then tears glossed up my eyes as realizatio
{Ciril’s POV}My chest started heaving as my heart started to beat threateningly fast.I was not on the public post anymore. I was free. I was literally free to roam about, free to go anywhere I wanted to.— free to leave this place.But then I heard from the Hencher Mistress that we weren’t escaping anywhere… but going to her room. I was confused.Her room?I had been bound to heavy chains for more than two weeks just for her to set me free and want to take me to her room?I bombarded her with questions now as we raced through the shadows. The Palace lights and lamps were off so that the full Moon was the only light source which gave us the grace to move about sneakily, but then I was almost jinxing it with my restlessness and questioning.“But we’re not going to stay in your room, right?” I asked. “Did you forget something in your room?” “Does your room have a secret doorway that can help us escape secretly?” I asked again when she didn’t respond to the first two questions. She
{Ciril’s POV}I saw the Hencher Mistress claws out for the first time ever.I had never seen her looking so aggressive.I had never seen her so enraged. The hairs on her body rose and grew thicker as she shifted into her werewolf form and I stared at her with a mixture of dread and shock.I started to hear a loud banging sound now. Taka and his cronies were attempting to kick the door down.I trembled back in reaction but the Hencher Mistress stood her ground as we both stared at the door that was slowly budging to their brutish nudges. I could see the hinges of the door gradually giving in to their physical demands as they started to pull out from the walls and the way my breath grew very heavy in that moment was agonizing.Breathing almost felt painful now. Several kicks were being dumped on the door and all the structural reinforcements the Hencher Mistress had made were slowly giving out and I didn’t know what to think or do.I only knew that death wasn’t far away from me now. I
{Prince Landon’s POV}~ Few Minutes Earlier ~ Everything was ready.The scene was set and everyone was here to witness my magnification by the moon goddess. Everything was perfect. Although I didn’t understand what happened with the whirlwind and sandstorm that had attacked the Palace earlier, but then it had calmed down while I trailed about the Palace and performed the Guirgon rituals with the Half elders. Without that ritual, I wouldn’t be able to earn and receive the moon goddess’s soul so I had done it with the half elders earlier during which the whirlwind calmed its currents, making my entrance into the Revel Hall more divine. There was no other proof I needed to know that I was definitely the destined vessel of the moon goddess and the candidate for the Guirgon full moon. This had made me really confident in myself but while we waited now, my confidence sprouted a bit of a scuffle.My mother wanted Ciril’s head to be brought here to the Hall as a gift from the congregation
{Princess Anne’s POV} The lucent light left the Revel Hall and all its vile bodies behind.I was outside the Hall and I felt its presence before it passed me by.I was blind but I could see it with my senses.The Prophecy from years ago was finally about to come to pass..The light left my axis and then it trailed through the Palace grounds directly over the heads of people around— not interacting with them but claiming their attention as no one could resist not looking at the bright and beautiful glow that was traveling the night sky. This glow was the Moon goddess spirit and although she was just in the form of a light, she was very conscious of her movements and orientation. The moon goddess’s soul traveled through the stretch of the Palace until it got to a secluded room in one part of the Palace.Her vessel was in there..Her gentle soul hovered over that room for a moment and then, at its own timing, it entered and sank into the body of the one who she had Chosen right from th
{Ciril’s POV} I didn’t really understand how I got outside the room but I raced back inside now. I raced back and crashed on the ground before the Hencher Mistress who was surrounded by a pool of her own blood. I held her face— her beautiful face, as she blinked almost unconsciously and I shook her up a bit so that she focused her gaze on me. She smiled. “Ciril.” She called my name gently and shook my head as more tears poured out of my eyes. “Are you okay? Please tell me you’re not dying…” I muttered as I stroked her cheeks and then I looked around to see all the bodies that littered the ground. “Tenn… he stabbed you.” I muttered as I recalled and then I looked at the knife that was still in her belly. It was buried deeper now and seeing that broke me. “Ciril.” She called me but I ignored her as I tried to lift her up. She groaned with my attempt so that I immediately left her and panicked the more.“I can’t let you die.” I shot you to my feet. “I’ll go and get help.” I sugges
{Ciril’s POV} All my sessions of training and learning from my mistakes have really paid off as I now knew how to control the Celestial State. In contrast to weeks ago, I now knew how to shift into the State whenever I wanted to.And now that I wanted to, light poured into my eyes and I continued on my journey towards the Palace. I didn’t exactly know my way back to that wretched place but then with my powers, I felt like I suddenly understood the layout of the entire Reigns… and so I could locate the Palace.I continued trudging away now, allowing my rage to take over me. “Ciril!” Feryt’s voice became louder when she realized what was happening. She started calling after me.“Ciril, wait! Stop!”“Ciril!” Clord joined her in the beckoning and I ignored both of their calls.Only the intention I bore in mind mattered to me and the only thing that mattered more was the execution of that intention.The Alpha Queen was the General reason for all my distress. Everything that has ever happ
{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 aw
{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 li
{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 compla
{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