Vol 6 Chapter 28 (1/2)

Book 6, The Road to Revenge – Chapter 28, Mother’s Life or Death

Linley cautiously glanced about the roo in a low voice, “Your Majesty, just a moment Let me order out the people who are outside” As he spoke, Linley walked out the door, then barked at the two guards outside “Both of you, stand down Without my direct orders, do not permit anyone to enter this courtyard”

“Yes, Lord Linley”

Those two guards saluted respectfully, then left Now, the only ones left in this standalone courtyard were Linley, Clayde, Merritt, and Ransome

“Creaaak” Linley quietly shut the door

“Linley, what sort of secret is this, that you even close the door?” Clayde chuckled

Linley glanced at Clayde, laughing coldly in his heart He himself knew that Clayde had already been poisoned by the Bloodrupture poison As the Bloodrupture poison didn’t actually cause any daeneration of battle-qi, it was only after a person atteenerate battle-qi that they would discover that they had been poisoned

“This affair really is quite important” Linley’s face was solemn

At this time, Ransouard of the king, Ransouely dangerous At the same time, Ransome also felt that as Clayde was a warrior of the ninth rank, and he Ransohts, nobody here should be capable of being a threat to them

But one could never be too careful

“Your Majesty” Linley stared sole”

Clayde nodded He had investigated Linley’s background, and had discovered that Linley’sbirth to Linley’s younger brother, Wharton

“I have nomotherly love, only of the strictness of my father My father was quite severe towardsas well as all the education which nobles were expected to have My father’s requireh and very strict”

Linley looked at Clayde as he spoke slowly

Clayde was beginning to be confused He didn’t understand what any of this had to do with the so-called ‘important matter’ which Linley had doly poise and didn’t interrupt

“Your Majesty, I expect that you know that onblood Warriors” A slightly proud look was on Linley’s face

“That’s right One of the Four Supreonblood Warrior clan This is an illustrious, ancient lineage” Clayde sighed with praise

Linley shook his head “We were only illustrious in the past My clan had fallen so far that even our ancestral heirlooeneration of Baruch clan leaders had desired to seize back this heirloom for centuries, but this never occurred Your Majesty, when I was accepted by the Ernst Institute and left home, do you knohat my father said to me the day I left?”

“What did he say?” Clayde looked at Linley

“My father said, if in the future I do not bring back the ancestral heirlooive htly

Clayde, Merritt, and even Ransome all stared in a to his son? “Your father went a bit too far” Clayde said

“No”

Linley shook his head soleonblood Warrior clan had been downtrodden for centuries, without a single truly powerful person appearing in all that tiest person my clan had produced in centuries Hundreds of years of hopes and desires all rested on my shoulders Tell an to understand

“My father’s lifelong desire was to bring the warblade ‘Slaughterer’ back to the clan” Linley’s voice was growing fierce “At the Ernst Institute, I didn’t dare to slacken off in the slightest I trained like mad I always remembered my father’s wish, my father’s instructions!”

Clayde and the others were beginning to understand Linley’s motivations

“Half a year ago, after I auctioned off ‘Awakening Froht the warblade ‘Slaughterer’ with her timbre

Clayde, Ransome, and Merritt were stunned

Because they all knew that on that trip, Linley had found that his father had already passed away

“But when I excitedly returned home, I elcomed by the news of my father’s death Before he died, he didn’t have a chance to see the warblade, and I didn’t have a chance to see my father one last ti my father happy…unfortunately…” All the , and the expression on his face was terrifying to behold

Clayde and the others could all understand how Linley was feeling

“Linley, don’t be too heartbroken,” Clayde sighed

Linley sneered “But, do you knohy or how my father died?”

Clayde, Merritt, and Ransome were all startled

“My father was killed, your Majesty, by your younger brother, Duke Patterson!!!!” Linley’s eyes began to turn red

“What?!” Clayde rose to his feet in shock By his side, Merritt and Ransome were both stunned as well

“Therefore…I killed Patterson!” Linley’s voice was very sinister

At this point in ti was very wrong in this rooainst Linley’s actions But suddenly, just at this ust of wind frohth rank, knew that he wouldn’t have ti his arm behind him in defense

“Crunch!”

An incredibly painful feeling…and then, Ransoer feel his arm’s existence Only now did Ransome notice, from the corner of his eyes…

A rat-likebeside hi the rat’s blood-coveredextremely fast towards him At such a close distance, Ranso at all

It was too fast!

“Snick”

The sharp claws split apart Ransoradually, the life faded away from his eyes

He si rodent-typehe had done when he had entered the room was to scan it carefully He only noticed a sround which was the size of a man’s palm

Could a palm-sized Shadowmouse pose a threat?