84 Celebration I (1/2)

”No!” Sander became frightened and hastily reacted. Then he was worried that if he denied her entirely, she would be angered or irritated, so he added

”How do I know it's not a poison or even you've been sent by the king of Everlight?”

Sander wasn't going to drink an unknown liquid just because she said so. Occasionally Sander would gamble if the odds are pretty good but in this scenario it's not as there were many variables like the obvious what if the liquid is a poison? and even if he drank the liquid what's the outcome would be?

”It won't kill you immediately after you swear your allegiance before my lord, he will give you the antidote as simple as that”

despite Sander's disapproval the woman before him didn't get angry, rather she still continued to talk with him in a calm tone.

”So this is a poison or sort of” Sander's inner voice reminded him. Even after hearing the woman, more questions appeared in his mind than the answers. He couldn't help but remember the master-slave bond because he thought that what if he needed to take the antidote in regular intervals to live, that way he would be similar to a slave to the king of Everlight.

”What about this, I will come to meet with your king as a first thing in the morning and we can talk like civilized people ” he was dreaming about taking the throne for himself and had enough of working under a king after working for King Hedor so how could he accept to being someone's subordinate again.

Noticing the woman didn't reply he realized talking won't do much good for him now and looked at the doorknob in the dim candlelight as he calculated the distance between him and the door. At this point Sander cursed himself for not learning spells that could have gotten him a few precious life-saving seconds.

However, he couldn't afford to think anything else at this moment

”If you let me go now I promise I'll swear my allegiance to your king” Sander started to bluff as he slowly stepped to his right side towards the door

Seeing the woman standing there without making any move as he's just a few feet away from the door, Sander's lips curved in an arc

”Wrong move Minister”

but his smile disappeared when he heard the woman and wanted to shout for his guards but no matter how hard he tried he couldn't even make a sound as a sharp pain appeared across his neck as well as felt something wet running through his chest.

Intuitively Sander grabbed his neck hoping it will reduce the pain he's feeling only in a second to realize his throat was cut. Still, he was unable to digest what's just happened, he remembered the woman speaking but he was sure that he didn't notice she's cutting his throat but it doesn't matter now as his legs gave up on him and the dim light became full darkness before he hit the ground.

Minister Sander's corpse lay on the ground in a pool of his own blood. Killing Minister Sander, Arrora didn't feel any remorse or regret and she had one more thing to take care of before leaving. Arrora controlled the bound energy running through her and gathered a portion of it on her hand. With the bound energy on her hand Arrora turned it into a dark purple flame, it was not as dark as Don's hell flame but when Arrora threw it on Sander's corpse it did its job just like Don's as in a flash there was nothing on the ground where Sander's corpse was a moment ago.

After Arrora's figure disappeared from the room, eventually the candle slowly burnt out but before the candle died, its light reflected on a drop of red liquid on the ground beside one of the bed's legs.

The following day was uneventful except for many guards running around the city asking and questioning people about the whereabouts of their noble employers. Some of the veteran mercenary groups were called out by the nobles to give the task of finding their family members who had just vanished overnight.

Aside from the vanishing nobles the common people got ready to celebrate the coronation ceremony of Warren. When the people heard about this, many were glad a commoner like them is taking the throne and some felt a tiny bit disappointed that the king of Everlight isn't taking the throne for himself.