221 Kyro (1/2)
As soon as she saw Lord Winter and Lord Julian about to leave the room, she used her magic to shut all the doors and the windows in the room. Then, she created a powerful barrier around the chamber to make sure that no one could enter and leave the place.
”Aunt Luna!” Winter complained. ”Please let us out.”
Julian nodded in agreement. ”A god must be too much for Mother to handle on her own.”
”Even if that's the case, I still won't allow you to leave the room, young masters,” Luna said firmly. ”The Supreme clearly ordered me to protect you, Lord Winter and Lord Julian.”
The two young lords obviously didn't like what she said.
But it seemed like they understood that they needed to follow their mother's order.
”What happened to dad, Aunt Luna?” Winter asked nervously. ”I can barely feel Dad's presence.”
”And it's corrupted,” Julian added. ”Father's presence is being corrupted by something else, Miss Luna. Just what is happening to our father?”
”Duke Nystrom is currently being overpowered by his father,” Luna informed the children the truth about their father's condition. The young lords weren't really kids and they deserved to know what was going on. They would only get worried even more if she tried to keep them in the dark. ”Lord Winter, Lord Julian, let's just hope that your mother can kick the Moon God out of your father's physical body.”
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AS SOON as Roarke spotted Elis Ripperton flying towards his direction, he prepared a transportation spell. He went to the rooftop after the Supreme ordered him to 'welcome' the Blue Dragon. He knew that the Beast God would came flying like he used to do in the past.
It was still raining outside, and the rain brought by the Moon God would weaken the flame of the Fire Mages. Thankfully, he was 'created' after his mother– the Moon Priestess. That meant out of all the Keepers, he was the one who could use spells well.
If I can't kill the Blue Dragon, I should at least send him to somewhere far.
He didn't want to waste too much time on Elis Ripperton when the Supreme was alone with the White Snake and the Moon God.
”Ah, the Keeper with the weird eyes,” Elis Ripperton said while looking down at him as he floated above him. ”As far as I remember, you're the youngest one, the last Keeper that Winchell created before he left his clan.” The Blue Dragon smirked as if he remembered something funny to him. ”I heard you were Winchell's 'son' or something.”
”Shut up,” Roake said, then he got down on one knee and planted his palms on the wet roof. The puddle from the Moon God's rain prickled his skin but he ignored it. ”Nobody told me that the Blue Dragon is this talkative.”
”I hate to do this but I guess I need to borrow Crawford's words,” Roarke said, his palms getting warmer by the second. That meant his transportation spell was finally complete. ”F*ck off, f*cking Blue Dragon.”
***
”AH, I should seriously stop calling you 'Father' because you don't deserve the title,” Tilly said, trying to find the Moon God's soul or any trace inside Kiho's body. That was the reason why she stabbed her husband's physical body. ”I'd call you by your name, but unfortunately, I lost Soleil Rosenberg's memories again.”
She just knew that the presence inside Kiho now was her father-in-law because Yumi once again called for her 'darling.' Second and the most obvious reason was when the presence called her 'daughter-in-law.'
Of course, she didn't have to be a genius to figure that out.
”I am Kyro,” the Moon God said as he pulled his hand out of her bleeding stomach. ”Only people who are close to me are allowed to call me by my name. But since you're my precious son's wife, I should give you that honor, shouldn't I?”
”How generous of you, Kyro,” she said sarcastically when she pulled her hand out of Kiho's stomach. She wouldn't kill Kiho just to drive away the Moon God inside him. That wouldn't kill Kyro anyway. ”I'm sure you're not only here to help Yumi.”
”I wonder about that,” Kyro said, then he put his hand on top of Kiho's stomach.
In just a few seconds, it stopped bleeding and the wound closed on its own.
She was relieved that the injury she caused Kiho's physical body was easily healed. Of course, it was disadvantageous for her to know that he could heal right away.
Don't worry about me, Kiho.
She assured her husband because she knew that he would get worried once he came back to his senses.
I'm fine.
It took a few seconds longer than the Moon God's regeneration ability. But the flaming red feathers that covered the wound on her stomach was enough to heal her. Unfortunately, her healing ability only worked for light wounds. Since Kyro didn't damage her vital organs, she was able to heal it easily.
”You've changed a lot, daughter-in-law,” Kyro said in amusement. ”In the past, you couldn't even scratch Kalel. But now, you didn't even blink when you stabbed my son's body. You know that even if you killed him, I still won't disappear. Don't you?”
”Well, I know that. But I don't want to die and I'm sure Kiho wouldn't want to end my life by his hands either,” she said. ”I won't hesitate to beat the daylights out of my husband's body to bring him back to his senses though.”
He laughed softly, his red eyes glowing in amusement. ”Harsh.”
”Kiho is partly at fault for this so he deserves the beating,” she said while summoning her flaming red wings. ”If he's too weak to be taken over by his father just like that, then how can he protect our family?”
”Hey, cut my son some slack,” he said in an amused tone. ”In his defense, how can he protect himself from a god?”
”God, my foot,” she said. ”Gods are supposed to watch over humans and other weak beings. But in this life, the only thing I've seen the likes of you do is corruption.” She moved her shoulders and her flaming red wings appeared. When she opened her left hand, the ancient dagger appeared. She grasped it as soon as it manifested. And then, when she opened her right hand, her beloved flaming iron crab mallet appeared. Of course, she also grabbed it tight. She knew that her fight with the Moon God would be a close combat one so she didn't choose her flaming bow and arrow this time. ”I think it's better if we talk like this, right?”
Kyro laughed and it was annoying that he was using her Kiho's voice to act like a lunatic. ”Red flame? You must be kidding yourself if you think you can kill me with that puny red flame, my dear daughter-in-law,” he said while shaking his head. ”Where's your Black Flame, Daughter of the Sun?”
She knew that she shouldn't trust anything an enemy say during a fight. But she couldn't help but get confused by the Moon God's words. That was the first time she heard about the 'Black Flame.'
Nobody mentioned the Black Flame to me before, not even Solaris.
”The children of the Rosenbergs have hair colors that match the color of their flame. Winchell's flame is red, and so is his hair color,” the Moon God continued. ”You have jet-black hair, my dear daughter-in-law. Why do you think so?”
He let out an exaggerated sigh. ”The Rosenbergs have sheltered you too much.”
Okay, that piqued her curiosity.
But she didn't want to get distracted so she made the first attack instead.
It wasn't her goal to kill the Moon God because she wasn't that arrogant to think that she could kill a god that easily. Plus, her priority was to kick Kyro out of her husband's body. And she just had come up with a plan to do so.
I hope it works.
As soon as she reached Kyro, she put her dagger on his chest– on the very part where Kiho's heart was. Then, faster than lightning, she used her flaming iron crab mallet to hit the tip of the dagger's handle.
But alas.
The dagger didn't pierce through Kiho's body because it turned into water.
So, Kyro's dominant Mana is water, huh?
When she felt Kyro's presence behind her, she used her wings to hit him. But much to her shock, he felt him grab her wings instead.
No!
She made the flames of her red wings grow bigger and hotter but it didn't work.
When Kyro grasped her wings tighter, she felt his cold hands turn into water– successfully extinguishing her flame so easily.
”Why are you imitating Winchell's puny red wings?” Kyro asked in a disappointed voice. ”You have your own black wings, Daughter of the Sun.”
Then, without further ado, Kyro clipped her wings as if he was just breaking a twig into two.