33 Risen#re - Chapter 380

Jasmine and Lily grabbed the dress that had been pulled of Lavender’s body.

Lavender extended her long and intoxicating legs and dropped and slipped through the dress, she even managed to make put her clothes back on look sexy, as she slowly brought it up to cover  ample bosom and slipped her hands back through the short sleeves.

“Relax Lord Rupid,” Lavender smiled, “We aren’t here to kill you, we simply have some questions to ask of you,”

“You see, your actions over the years have garnered quite a lot of attention from the nobles in Proge, and I imagine that the same holds true for Riverfall, our Lady simply wishes to know what resulted in your banishment from Riverfall?”

“Do you really think that I’ll answer you?” Rupid asked coldly, as he pulled up his pants.

From their attacks he was able to gauge their strengths, they weren’t at his level, meaning they were still adepts only they were strong, much stronger than any adept his house possessed.

If he were at his best he would have been able to handle them, but currently he couldn’t be sure, and that was probably why they revealed their power now.

They knew that this was their only chance to beat him if the need arose, the fact that they chose to act meant that they had some degree of confidence.

Lavender merely sighed at his response it wasn’t unexpected, “I swear, we owe that silver haired fellow for the number he did to you, but he just had to kill our hostage in the process,” she said with a sigh.

Rupid’s eyes widened in realisation, they were planning on using Stanley as a hostage to extract the intel out of him.

“But lucky for us, our lady is nothing if not scrupulous in her planning and anticipated that Stanley might be assassinated,” said Lavender as Jasmine pulled out what appeared to be a cube.

Rupid’s eyes dilated at he looked at the black granite like cube.

“So, you recognise what this is,” Lavender commented with a pleased look in her eyes, “Then you know what it does,”

“We’ve already attached the receiver to the cultivation chamber your family ancestor is in,” as she spoke the black cube started to light up with a series of circles that glowed in a blue light.

“All that it will take is a thought and the breath filter on the cultivation chamber will lose its effects temporarily,” she informed Rupid.

“Tell us what we want to know, or your family ancestor and your last hope to salvage the situation will be subjected to the poisonous breath of the world,” Lavender threatened all the while maintaining a perfectly calm smile.

No one could have possibly understood the emotions running wild through Rupid’s mind, everything that he had ever done, had literally collapsed all around him.

The best heir he fathered was given the most humiliating death a man could ever receive, all the careful plans that he laid out fuelled by his ego to one day raise his house to the status of high noble, had been effectively crushed by a single unknown entity.

A person with no known status, or any renown, it was humiliating beyond all compare, one that his house would likely never recover from, and now to kick him while he was down even some lowly whores were pushing him around.

It was a humiliation like no one could possibly imagine, one that filled him with grief and anguish yet there was nothing he could do against it.

As things stood he could imagine how his ancestors must have been spitting in their graves and cursing for his failure, now he had to make a choice reveal the truth or risk the death of the only person who could salvage the fate of his house.

But revealing the truth was just as bad perhaps worse.

If they learnt of the whole truth then his house would never recover, no it was likely that his house would be flattened and not a single member would be spared.

‘No,’ Rupid thought ‘I can tell them the truth I simply have to omit a few details,’ he realised.

“Which house do you hail from?” Rupid asked first.

Lavender smirked, “Answer my question first, then I’ll answer yours, you have no reason to fear that I’ll lie to you, we have nothing to fear from the likes of a lowly noble house,” she spoke confidently.

“I was never truly banished from Riverfall,” said Rupid, yet he noted the lack of shock on the three women’s faces, it seemed that they already guessed that much.

“It was just a part of the plan to quickly take the region,” Rupid explained, “In my early days I stepped on a lot of toes and made a lot of enemies, I made even more when I came into power in my expansion and seizure of lands,”

“The plan was to make everyone believe that House Mantis severed our all ties with me and use their connections with the Crusader King of Riverfall to have me exiled from the city,” he started, House Mantis was a high noble family in Riverfall, and in terms of power and influence they were only beneath the Crusader King Lord Egbert Fallion.

“With my collapsed status it was only a matter of time before all my old enemies decided to attack and attempt to force me to surrender, taking back all that I had taken from them and more,”

“You planned to allow them to slowly take all your lands and lay siege to your city and that was when you were going to use the ballistae, to take them by surprise and commit a slaughter to cut down their numbers once all their forces were gathered together,” Lavender guessed.

Rupid nodded, in acknowledgment, “At that point he losses would already be too high on both sides to continue the war, to avoid further losses I was to propose that each side chooses a champion and a battle to the death between champions would determine the outcome,” Rupid finished, everything that he said was the truth.

“That’s a risky last resort you were going to propose, what would you have done if you lost?” she asked.

“To achieve something great, risk is a necessity, those who avoid risk will never achieve greatness,” Rupid quoted, words he had heard from many.

“That is a great quote,” Lavender applauded, it was one she heard many times, that was because it was more than just a quote it was a truth, a truth that inspired so many people to cause trouble in their pursuit of something more.

“Now then for the real question I need answered, it’s more a three-part question with only one right answer,” she said with a charming smile.

However, Rupid shook his head, “I answered your question now you answer mine, who do you serve?”

“I suppose that is only fair,” Lavender replied, “Lily show it to him,” she said.

Lily nodded and raised her bare arm, as Rupid looked at it, it started to shimmer with light then like it was an illusion the light vanished to reveal her hand, only this time their was a marking that covered her entire arm.

A white marking that resembled vines and thorns, stretched all the way from her palm and up to the shoulder.