Chapter 65: Negative Corruption (1/2)
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In the demon king's castle, standing before an invisible wall was six figures, one of which laid flat on the ground and Jarret couldn't believe his eyes. He had just imagined Kaz falling face-first just like the chief and the scene in his head had played out almost exactly as he had imagined it.
He tried to control his expression but that was broken when Raz and Lora lost it. Raz was holding his stomach from laughing too hard and Lora did little effort to hide her amusement.
The only ones not laughing seem to be Gail and Tarka who had almost exhausted themselves being on high alert the entire trip with Gail rubbing her eyes having missed the show and Tarka not caring much for the scene. Jarret was finally able to control himself as he didn't want to disgrace himself before Lord Ty. He walked through the barrier and the others finally got themselves together and followed him, Jarret turned his head around and to his surprise, he found no one there, aside from the two sentries in the tower waving at them, he also didn't see anyone near the barrier.
He had expected to see Lord Ty and captain Cronoff standing there with Lord Ty's hand through the barrier but he was not. He decided not to dwell on it anymore and just head into the castle where they met Albert and he took them to a room on the ground floor of the north wing. The room was of moderate size and just like the rest of the castle it was splendidly designed.
The room had several empty cabinets in it, and two long metal tables that formed the shape of an 'L' in the center. Albert then asked them to leave the dead scouts there. They were also to meet up with Azar later and give him the full details of their mission.
He told the others aside from Jarret to leave first, Lora felt a bit curious about the bodies but the creepy feeling she felt previously caused her to leave without any arguments. Gail on the other hand was exhausted and just left listlessly behind Jin and Raz who was also trailed by the hovering Tarka who seemed to have recovered some energy already. Albert then sealed the room and Jarret brought out the bodies from his small storage box.
The two deathly pale corpses laid on a long table in the room and Albert proceeded to inspect them thoroughly. They were a contrasting pair of tall and short men, both demons. One was not so thin but wiry, he was dressed loosely like a magic caster and he was a bit short for a demon around 5'5. He had green spiky hair and green eyes that were still open most likely because he died so suddenly.
After inspecting his body they found a small storage box that was easily forced open by Albert. Generally, only the owner of a storage box could use it unless they permitted someone else.
However, they could still force through the encryption depending on the person's strength. Obviously, Albert was a formal demon lord so forcefully opening a small storage box was easy.
The box contained a few robes, ordinary magic staff, and scouting equipment. It also held weapons that probably belonged to the other members of his scouting party, like swords, axes, and gloves.
The other body was a tall well-built man with short black hair and a short beard. He had grey eyes and just like the other one they had ordinary-looking features. The guy had a large battle-ax still frozen to his hands and going by just the look, it was well made, probably an extraordinary magic item.
Albert made a rough inspection on their clothing and appearance, before activating his skill and proceeded to make another round of inspections before Tyler walked into the room with the three girls in tow as they were quite curious about what had happened and Tyler had no reason to deny their curiosity. He may also require their inputs and advice so why not.
Jarret immediately fell to one knee upon seeing him enter the room and Tyler tried to stop him but failed. Once he had gotten the greetings out of the way he went to see what was so strange about the bodies. As he got closer Tyler felt something strange oozing off the body and froze. He activated his magic vision only to almost facepalm himself.
He had figured it out, it was him, he had somehow killed two people he didn't even know existed and had wasted everyone's time worrying about what happened, there was even a chance that these two were not the only ones.
Albert saw the look on Tyler's face changed slightly and understood something. ”I was planning to report what I just learned but it appears Lord Ty has already figured it out with just a glance.” Tyler was wondering what the hell this guy was going on about again when Albert suddenly continued.
”Well, I supposed I should explain this to the others, with your permission of course.” Tyler nodded quickly as he was also interested in what this old guy had to say. Albert happily continued as he had spent a lot of effort trying his best not to miss anything in other to impress his master.
”Well, starting from their origin, they wore the insignia of the Zorak family, one of the Great Five. I am not sure why there are only two of them but, I think something major happened in the Darknar forest sometime within the last week, and one of the four kings that ruled a section of the forest died.”
”This had left a vacuum of power within the forest and the other kings are trying to take more territory for themselves before another king is born within the next decade.”
Rain and Liz's face darkened when they heard those words as they had a good idea of what happened. Tyler was fascinated by the story of the four kings and wanted to hear more on that but unfortunately, Albert had already moved on so he would have to ask him later.