After the conversation with the King, Rose had instead left the balcony. She took the coat from her room, wrapping herself in it. As much as she wants to be beside Dominic now, she also know finding a cure to his curse comes before anything. The woman had not given her a time for when they have to meet but her heart tell her the longer she pushes it, the slimmer her chance to heal Dominic was. She stepped down the staircase, leading herself outside of the mansion without anyone’s noticing. As she reached out the gate, she managed to slipped out of the gates seeing how the guards didn’t see her as she slipped out due to her small structure. She, who had known the insides of the mansion due to Lady Catherine also knew there was another path to leave the mansion without needing to use the gate. She had gone to the garden for it, making her way through the heavy bushes and bent down to crawl out of the gate.As she slipped out, Rose walked down the lonely path until she saw the wagon. Sh
The hands grabbed her by her hair, her arms, and her legs. Rose immediately cast away her fear and tried to shake the hands around her, yet somehow the grips on her body was stronger than a touch of a human’s. It instead felt like the grip of an iron that no one could shake off from. The hands mercilessly pulled her inside the well even as Rose tried to scratch the hand that had pulled her golden hair. With its force, Rose fell to her knees, falling to the ground, and dragged by the hands around her. In panic, Rose looked around her, urgently searching for anything that would stop the hands, grasping the ground for an item when she found the sharp branch of a broke old pine tree. Holding to it tightly, Rose stabbed the hands with the branch, over and over again for a dark purple liquid to drip out from the hands. She could then hear ghastly howls and cries from the bottom of the well, the sound of a being suffering from pain that she guessed must have been her doing. Yet despite the
Rose prepared what was about to come to her, she knew that it wouldn’t be easy to eliminate the curse that had haunted Dominic. But to make a contract with demon? It was far from what she had ever imagined. Her heart sunk to the bottom of her stomach, knowing that this was the only method for her to save her beloved. She hesitated but not because of fear, but because she didn’t want to make decision without telling Dominic about it. She looked at the woman after a brief contemplation, “What will happen if I do form a contract with the demon?”“Many things, but I will tell you in order,” the woman patted the crow gently, “First, in the contract, there will be something that the demon will take away from you. The first sorcerer, she had signed the contract with the demon in exchange for power she could use to help the people she wanted to protect as well as giving those power to her friends. This was her pure wish and it’s why many sorcerers have the power like her.” “So our power ste
Rose who had gotten back to Dominic’s room sat down beside the bed. Her fingers trailed on his bigger one that felt icy now. Her eyes slowly closed as she tightened her grips around his fingers. She then rested her head on the bedside, bending her body in a way for her ears to settle on his chest without putting her entire weight on his body so she wouldn’t disturb him.Her eyes closed at the contemplation running in her mind. From her conversation with Mona, she found out that the demon always win whenever they had made a contract with the human. They win as, the human would be the one to suffer the most from the contract they made. The demon loses nothing and instead could enjoy the pain and misery the human suffered under them. The first sorceress who knew this had asked her friend to take her life when she had lost sight of herself. Meaning, she knew that she would lose the moment she made her contract, yet she still formed the contract, similar to Mona herself, who had no choic
Dominic gently patted her back, loving her by giving her kisses until Rose could calm down. He knew she was shaken and he would do anything to calm her down. Seeing her pecking his lips only had him chuckle as it felt like a pleasant tickle on his lips. A knock then resounded from their room where slowly Starvos made his appearance into the room. His shirt was donned in his black knight uniform that made him appear no different than the inky black crow that she had seen with Mona. But his sharp eyes was a breathe of the wind to her dark appearance.He looked at the younger ones, looking comfortable as Rose was on top of Dominic who seem to have allowed her to straddle on top of him. He cleared his throat to awaken the two and Rose who didn’t expect anyone to come so suddenly quickly moved beside, closing tight her eyes in hope that she could fix the mistake she made. Her cheeks felt so hot from the embarrassment but Dominic appeared to be quite chill. “It’s alright you two can contin
With a wide smile, Dominic showed the man a sincere side of him as well. “Thank you for your advise, but don’t worry, I am sure this isn’t anything temporary.” Starvos was quite startled pleasantly to see Dominic’s sincere side and returned his smile while from outside was Rose who had never once left the door. Once she had stepped out of the room, instead of leaving, she had chose to stand near the door, eavesdropping to their conversation through the small gap she created. She leaned on the wall, sighing as it appears that sooner or later the truth about Dominic being cursed will be known to everyone. But deep in her heart, she would have wanted everything to end without anyone knowing about it. Her fingers reached out toward the ruby on her neck as she thought of how she need to discuss about the contract more in details with Mona soon. The faster it is, the better. Meanwhile, in the next morning of Essex. In rush, the maids rushed in the castle of the duke, they all were busy w
He recalled how her cheeks turned slightly pink from his words and watched as the corners of her lips softened into a smile. When he thought about it all, he thought of how much better if Josie had not find out the truth about him and his actions. If she was always kept in the dark, she would never once left his side, just like now. And even though he had ordered for Isaac to search for Josie, truthfully, he wasn’t sure what he would do upon seeing her. His heart needs to see her face but he didn’t know what he truly want from her. Isaac who saw his face then spoke, “I know of a magic that I could teach you.” Shawn looked intrigued by what Isaac had to offer and nodded his head, “What magic?” “Brainwashing magic. This magic will allow the person you want to always follow your order willingly,” Isaac didn’t have to continue to reason why he had offer the magic to Shawn and for who it could be used to but Shawn understood his reason well. He immediately shook his head, “That’s not w
The maid then knocked the door, entering in after she heard Shawn’s permission. With her hand in front of her waist, she announced, “The Duke have arrived back home, sir.” Shawn looked at his mother who looked beyond joyful, “See, he arrived. I will make sure to talk to him about you,” Shawn then pushed himself from the side of the bed, making his way down the hallway and the long staircase before finding the carriage that he could see from the foyer. In the brown carriage then walked out the old man whose face was no different than a statue. He didn’t appear similar to him at all even though they were father and son but then again the Duke didn’t look similar to Dominic either, thought Shawn. He walked forward to his father and instead of exchanging embrace as they haven’t met each other for years, Shawn had instead given him a bow akin to what a servant would do when meeting their master. This was the preferred way of his father that the man had taught during his childhood. When
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