The gasps from the other sorcerers were hard to turn a deaf ear to. Although the sorcerer had expected this, he couldn't help but be surprised that he had been forgiven as the master was always the one who is strict with his rules, allowing no mistakes, and only demand for the best result."He is forgiven?" Whispered another guard to the first one."It is odd, what did you say to master?" The other one responded as he was confused of the choice that the master had suddenly made. The last time someone had almost exposed the existence of the sorcerers, the master had not only bestowed them a punishment of banishment, they were also found dead two weeks after leaving Essex, as if the master had killed him for his mistakes. "I didn't say anything! I only entered, and told him this guy had came," explained the first guard, "And master suddenly agreed to meet him.""Is that enough?" The sorcerer cut in between the conversation, feeling tired that they had not stopped talking and continued
On the day when Josephine was pulled from the duchy castle, she was settled on the horse. The man who had kidnapped her or perhaps saved her had worn a hood and fabric that covered half of his lower face. She couldn’t tell who it was by the eyes and the lack of light from the moon. She wanted to know who it is but thought it was better to stay quiet as she watched the speed that their horse had galloped at. If she were to fall now, she doubted her wound would be pretty for her to endure. As she was being brought away, although panic, Josie still couldn’t remove her thoughts from Shawn. After her confrontation she found out that Shawn had never been the person he had showed himself as. He disliked Dominic, or perhaps it was not a mere dislike but a deep hatred. He wanted Dominic to die even if it means by killing Rose, her sister. Josie ground her teeth, feeling betrayed. One side of her heart was fuming, wanting to get more explanation and a way to express her anger; but her other s
Seeing the forest that seemed to be welcoming her as she stood at the mouth of the entrance, Josie stopped her heels, deciding to lift her face and look at the sky instead. Although she had moved to the forest, it was still difficult for her to find stars with how cloudy the sky had been that night. Josie closed her eyes, recalling Shawn again, making her realize how deep his existence was in her heart, no matter how much she tried to deny it, Shawn was a close friend. But it all had to change. Josie didn’t want to make the same mistake as she did before, betraying Rose to the point where she had almost thought to end her beloved younger sister’s life. Her younger sister, who did not hesitate to give herself to marry someone she had never seen for her sake; her younger sister who was always worried for her even when she had visited another Kingdom. It was unfair for her to ever direct her hatred toward Rose. She wasn’t stupid either to not notice how Shawn was using her. She knew w
Rose was also certain that the mirror was no different than any other mirrors in the mansion. Then why was she able to see Josie when she wanted to see him? Simply asking the mirror sounded too simple to be called as magic. But then she didn't feel like she had made a ritual that might activate the magic. She had never studied magic spell either, making the possibility of her saying a magic spell by accident seem to be rather impossible as well. "I only whispered that I wanted to meet her as a joke. I did not expect to see Josie at all,” Rose replied to Starvos’s earlier question, finding the man to hum. “When I thought that I have power, I wondered what kind of power I would have. The vampires didn’t chase after me and if I am a sorcerer as he said, it would make sense why vampires won’t chase after me.” “Why is that?” Starvos questioned and found Rose slowly flipping the pages of the book, stopping at a particular page. As he went closer to read, his eyes squinted to catch the s
Rose begin to question whether Iris had been kicked out from her house or she never had one to begin with. It was surprising how a lady like her would stay at someone else’s house for a long time. Especially since she had heard from Lady Catherine that Iris had stayed in their house for a week prior to their arrival, ever since she received the news that they would come to Agios. Rose hummed when she heard the butler who spoke, “Truthfully, Lady Iris had told me that she would inform you herself and I thought she had extended the news to you, but I heard from the maids how you have been with Lord Starvos and I know how she would never come if Lord Starvos is here.”She raised her eyebrows faintly, “What’s wrong? Does Lady Iris dislike Lord Starvos?”“Not in term of dislike, I would say that Lord Starvos is quite intimidating for a lot of ladies, including Lady Iris,” the butler filled in, showing her a warm smile after filling her informations that she thought she needed. “I see, do
Iris stormed out to her room once the tea party had ended. Her heels clicked sharply to the floor and once she had slammed the door behind her, the twisted expression she had finally came to settle. She sat down on the vanity table, taking off her necklace and slamming the piece to the desk.This was more of a trouble than she thought it would be.While she had expected the human girl would be a trouble, she doubted that a human would be brave enough to go against her, especially the human from Essex from which the kingdom was only filled with humans.Truthfully, all that Iris wanted was not Dominic. While the young man had turned out to be more of a catch than she first guessed, he was simply a good addition to her plan. His handsome face suited her palate, fueling her more with her first goal which was to become the granddaughter of Lady Catherine.While Iris came from a noble family, her parents had always taught her to aim higher, which she did. She wanted to outshine all the othe
Lady Catherine raised her hand high and somewhere seeing it above her face made Rose to squeeze her hands together. She wondered if she would be hit. Yet more than the pain of being hit, she was more frightened by how their relationship will affect Dominic. But contrary to her thought, Lady Catherine had instead pulled her hands, squeezing them tightly. Her eyes looked back at Rose’s green ones, giving her a gentle smile, “I know you are worried, but my thoughts on you would not change, Rose. I am sure you know what happened to my daughter and I do not want to repeat the same mistake.”“Mistake?” Rose asked. She couldn’t tell how Lady Catherine had made a mistake. She knew what had happened wasn’t a mistake. It was the matter of choice. Lady Elizabeth had chosen the Duke, but that didn’t mean she had made the wrong choice. Instead, she did made the correct choice only for her choice to be betrayed when the Duke had driven her to madness. “My mistake wasn’t that I had accepted Starvos
Rose noticed the sadness coming from Dominic’s face. He was someone who deep down long for the warmth of family. Although he had never showed it by his face, truthfully he wanted to feel the life of a normal person like any others. The family he had back in Essex had never shown him such a love and with Rose it convinced him to the future possibility of having a family like all others. When he found out he had a family in Agios, he didn’t expect much of a welcome but now that he felt their love, he couldn’t help but feel the want of staying in Agios instead of Essex.Rose noticed this all from his handsome face without needing to ask. After placing her hands on her laps, she turned her body to the position where she didn’t have to look for him from the mirror. “Dominic, you will stay here even after you have finished your revenge?” She showed her beloved man a gentle smile. “I know you are worried but when this is all done, we could spend the rest of our time in Agios.”Dominic stil
The guests had filled the entrance of the castle faster than how a fire would spread. Colors filled the white walls as not a single place inside was missed from being decorated. Some of the guests gladly greeted Dominic and his wife, Rose. They had acknowledge her soon and even called Dominic “duke”. As soon after the incident, Dominic ruled out is father’s death and take over the duchy, being the new ruler of his fief. “Congratulation on your marriage, I apologize for being late with my words of happiness, Duke Dominic,” said one of the guest, Mr. Hanggs. “It’s nice to see you too, madam Rose.”“Pleasure to meet you,” Rose greeted the man’s words back. “How is the land now to you, Mr. Hanggs?” Dominic asked the wise man who seemed to be quiet. “It does feel different now. I gradually found people who could suddenly fill empty barrel with water as miracle instead of fearing them. I’m also glad to see how wise our King is as he had rooted off all the corrupted royals. Now Essex fee
The ground shook and the impact of the explosion launched both Dominic and Rose backward. When Rose couldn’t hold him tighter anymore, she almost slipped from his back and fell. Seeing that, Dominic changed to his human form, capturing her body even though he was on air and shielded her in a tight hug as they roll down across the cold floor with a harsh thud. Both Shawn and Gallahan was thrown backward. They tried to nail their feet on the floor to no avail as the extreme explosion would had destroyed the entire land if not because of the shield that Gallahan had perfected for years from his life. The entire world turn black for a moment and by the time it turn brighter again, Shawn saw Gallahan who had sprawled across the floor and Balbazor who had been reduced into a scorched human corpse. Even after that however, Balbazor didn’t stop moving. He crawled with his body like a snake, disregarding how his fingers had been turned into ash. No one could ever see his features anymore, o
Gallahan faced off Balbazor alone. It was a crazy feat to not even die after receiving the harmful attack that was made to eradicate humans and Gallahan’s performance so far have shocked everyone including Balbazor himself. “You are agile,” commented Balbazor. “But if this tentacles weren’t around me, I would have destroyed you in seconds by now.” “Making excuses now? When you killed my family with your curse, you were extremely silent. I’ll put that mouth of yours to rest too,” Gallahan quirked a smirked, urging anger and fuming Balbazor. The ancient demon opened his mouth again but this time, Gallahan had a smarter option. Rather than shielding himself, he rushed forward. Balbazor smiled, thinking how foolish this human is for coming on to him face to face but he was startled as he saw Gallahan had dodged his previous explosion attack. This time, Gallahan murmured a spell and a sharp blue light appeared from his hand which went straight directly to Balbazor’s thick neck. The an
“Brother, are we not related?” Young Shawn’s voice echoed against his ears. Dominic looked down at the child that had overheard the conversation of the adult. Gently he wrapped his fingers around his brother’s little ones and gave him a gentle smile, “Does it matter? Nothing will change even if we aren’t related, you will always be my brother.”Back to the present, Dominic found himself yelling at Shawn’s name as Balbazor had thrown a powerful magic at them. Rose’s eyes snapped open, showing the glistening green eyes of her had changed into purple. At the same time she uttered her spell, the wall broke. Dominic took no chance. He jumped from the staircase, landing down his two feet as a wolf and ran after Shawn. Surprisingly, Gallahan had stood in front of Shawn, shielding them both from the explosion. “I told you to stay away child!” Gallahan yelled to Rose who had rebuilt the wall.“I can help you ease the miasma,” she said, convincing the man only to see him frowning in disagre
When Dominic and Rose arrived at the foot of the door, they found that the glow of purple light had stopped and was quickly greeted by the roar of a monster. “It’s Balbazor, the ancient demon,” Rose explained, jumping down from his body. Dominic shook off his fur and turned into his human form, standing right beside her fully clothed. Although there are other pressing matter she couldn’t help and pointed out, “You can be clothed now?” “Hm?” Dominic looked down on himself, “Right I got taught by the other werewolves how to do that the last time we met.” Rose smiled, thinking how surely the relationship between him and his father had evolved into something closer where they could teach and talk to each other eye to eye. Seeing the progress, she felt moved. “Well what is with this Balbazor?” Dominic pushed the door open for her, they both entering the mansion only to feel the ground beneath them shaking. “He is the ancient demon who had formed contract with the first sorceress. She
Gallahan wasn’t daunted by the fact that Balbazor was more than fifth fold of him, looking even bigger and monstrous. Shawn could feel that demon had no pity or hesitation on him, willingly killing anyone who stood on his way. For a moment Shawn questioned how he could ever kill this monstrous being in front of him, finding it abhorrent that his entire instinct yelled that killing it would be close to impossible. Even coming near the monster he could feel the brimming heat that would burn his skin. “Shawn,” Gallahan called his attention to make sure the younger man wouldn’t feel daunted and eaten alive by his own fear. Shawn then watched Gallahan who in comparison seemed to be eagerly waiting for this chance to come his hand. It was something he had been waiting for a long time… finally he could avenge the death of his family who all ended due this demon’s twisted curse! “I want to kill you, you won’t even believe how much I have been looking forward to this day. My heart is beati
Dominic’s silver eyes also noticed the swirl of purple glow from the black mansion and turned his head again to the view before him. “What did you and the Master talked about?” Inquired Dominic while they run through the forest. “I told him that I will do something about the demon inside Isaac if he could help me end my curse but then he surprised me by saying that he doesn’t need help.” Rose responded. “I trust him.” “I do think he is someone who wouldn’t hurt his fellow sorcerer, you weren’t wrong in trusting him,” Dominic encouraged her. “But that sound too good to be true. He always ask people for payment if he help them.” “He did ask for something, he said to continue fooling my demon, Babylion,” uttered Rose. “I asked him why and he told me so he could use Babylion to kill that ancient demon in response.”“So this entire charade is because of him.” Dominic narrowed his eyes. They can’t seem to trust the Master completely, that man would do anything if it means to fulfil his
Shawn’s eyebrows furrowed as he saw a bright purple glow appearing from the room where the master and Isaac had fought in. As the master’s hand had been touched, Isaac had fulfilled his promise to erase the curse that plagued the Master. This should have call for a celebration regardless of the Master’s wish of never leaving the cave. But by fulfilling Isaac’s promise, the demon in him finally demanded for his reward and that reward was… for him to manifest into the world inside his body!When something suddenly clicked in his mind, Shawn bubbled out of anger.“Damn it! Damn it!” Shawn yelled, finally realizing the big mistake that he made by trusting that damn sorcerer king! He rushed out of the room, questioning everything that the sorcerer had done. He first of told him to imbue his magic on the crystal ball as if doing that would help. He said that by calming Isaac, he could convince him to drive out the demon inside. He also claimed that he wouldn’t kill Isaac thus why he had
Rose could feel the dark magic that entered her skin, crawling in such a disgusting way that she wanted to hurl but she couldn’t. There was something that was stopping her from moving and she couldn’t understand it as it felt slightly different when compared to the demonic magic that he uses on her. “Rose, make my life more colorful, won’t you?” Whispered Babylion. “Now go and betray your beloved. I want to see his face twisting in pain. From your memories, he seemed to the most fun to mess with.” Rose wanted to say no, she wanted to yell and disagree with Babylion’s words but she couldn’t move. She then had the sudden idea to play by what Babylion wanted and nodded her head slowly, agreeing that she would betray Dominic while her eyes turning unfocused, looking exactly similar as to someone who had just been bewitched.“Good, now play with me.” Back to the present, Rose run through her thins hands between her hair and pushed the golden locks to the back of her head, she sighed hea