Chapter 236 - Reasons (2) (2/2)

Barefoot, Cerdina walked unsteadily through the palace.

Dirty, with disheveled hair and wearing only a thin nightgown, it was hard to believe she was the Queen Mother. Her cheeks were so tight and swollen with bruises, she couldn’t even move her mouth to speak without pain.

All the way back to the Queen’s Palace, she walked through corridors that reeked of blood. Every step sounded sticky, the floor tacky with blood as she lifted her feet.

As she walked through the corpses of her blood brothers, a laugh burst from her, and then a sob, her shoulders shaking. Laughing and sobbing, the noises echoing down the corridor, the sounds of a madwoman.

Her blood brothers had shared her dream of conquering the world, and they had all been slain by beasts. Cerdina did not understand why her spells didn’t work on the barbarian king.

She was a sorceress who had inherited the first power, the power possessed by the sorceress who created the Kurkan. That strength was powerfully significant to the Tomaris. Her failure was their failure.

All her spells had been useless. Cerdina stopped laughing at that thought.

“…He is a mutant,” she whispered into the eerie silence. It must be. The appearance of such mutation was what had caused the Toma’s downfall. There was no spell she could use against such a creature. – Posted only on NovelUtopia

She had thought she was a god. But she was wrong.

Cerdina screamed, her fingers yanking at her hair, sucking in a breath to try to control her rage. She needed more power. Power enough to destroy even the mutant beast king.

Cerdina crouched beside the nearest corpse and lifted her dagger, her face expressionless. Black smoke enveloped the blade and she plunged it into the corpse’s chest.

Deftly, she sliced through the flesh to cut out the heart and ate it, clutching the bloody dagger in her other hand. Once she had swallowed it all, she moved on to the next body. The sound of wet, raw flesh being torn and chewed echoed through the halls.

Black smoke rose around her feet, thicker than ever, writhing as if it were alive.

“I’ll kill him,” she muttered over and over as she devoured the hearts of her blood brothers. “I’ll kill him…I’ll kill him…I’ll kill him…”

And she smiled a bloody smile.

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