Unsealing The Gate - Chapter 3

BOOM!

After the explosion, silence permeated the entire city. Everyone was looking towards the loud explosion.

Merl was stunned, he was really shocked! ‘What happened to him?’ But he immediately snapped out of it and dashed forward towards the mansion without even caring about his current enemy.

Unexpectedly, Fox didn’t attack him and currently, he is wearing a shock expression and looking towards the mansion.

‘What happened!? Zadicus! Why can’t I feel his aura anymore!?’ Fox thought.

He then immediately bolted towards the mansion just behind Merl.

As for the city, the madness was stopped and everyone in the city was still silent, and one by one the civilians fell into an unconscious state, and after a while, all the civilians were sleeping.

Threl (The young captain) was wearing a shocked expression immediately snapped out of it and he looked to the unconscious civilians. ‘What happened?’ he had many questions inside his head but he needed to take action immediately.

“Healers! Look out for the civilians!” Threl immediately gave out orders to the men!

“As for the remaining men! Search for that b*tch!” Threl snarled as he gave orders to the guard!

Almost all the guards have done all their assigned task but 3 guards remain beside the young captain.

“You three, follow me!” He then runs towards the mansion with the 3 guards.’Let’s just hope that everything will be fine’ Threl thought as he went towards the mansion.

*****

Beside a cliff, two almost identical figures are cross-legged facing each other, the only difference is that the one is wearing a white trench coat and the other one is black. The white one has a serious expression but the black one is wearing a lifeless expression as the whole world left him.

“Brother, we should return now.” The white one said in a dull voice.

There was no answer. The black one suddenly looks towards the beautiful night sky. Nobody knows what is currently inside his head.

The white one slowly stood up and silently looked towards his younger brother.

“Lenuc.” The white one said in a low voice.

“Little brother, Life is unpredictable, you don’t know what will happen in the future, even those wise prophets can only see a little glimpse of the future, and they can’t even read their own future, because every course of your action today will affect yourself and around you in the future.” The white one said in a dull voice.

“The Past is something you should learn from but something that you should not put much of your attention because it already happened and can’t be changed, the Future is something you can’t truly predict because your actions today will lead you towards that future of yours. If you choose to drown yourself from the sorrow of the past, you will just eventually die in the future.” He spoke in a serious voice, he walks out and didn’t look anymore towards his little brother.

“But you know Lenuc, life is unpredictable because not everything revolves around you. Maybe the sea of sorrow will lead you to somewhere else, I’ll just hope you make it.” The white one muttered in a low voice.

After a long time, a lonely figure is still gazing on the horizon.

And dawn breaks the lonely night.

And the light shined towards that lonely figure, his eyes closed suddenly snapped open.

His expression was determined and he slowly stood up.

“Don’t worry, Brother.” He muttered.

“I WILL MAKE IT!!!!” he roared, like a clap of thunder that could be heard in the entire cliff!

In a long distance away from the cliff, a human figure slowly walking in the forest suddenly stops.

“Lenuc, you really have a strong heart,” he said and chuckled as he continued walking.

***

The darkness of the night has already gone, The sun has started rising from the east.

The entire city is mourning the death of their loved ones. Some guards are traumatized when they realize they killed many civilians by their own hand.

Some civilians are crying, some are complaining about what happened to them, and even went mad and started attacking the guards and riot occurred.

“YOU DAMN MURDERERS, YOU KILLED MY ONLY FAMILY!!! MY PRECIOUS DAUGHTER!!!” A middle-aged man screamed as he charged towards a guard near him.

The other guards are now trying to pacify the citizens by telling them to calm down, but to no avail. Chaos started to reign again in the city.

In the mansion’s backyard, a bloody old man is currently laying in green grass, near him are five people.

Everyone is silently looking at the duke. The Duke is like sleeping peacefully but he will never wake up.

“Sleep peacefully old man, I will protect this place for you,” Merl said in a deep but sorrowful voice.

The young captain is sitting under the tree, his expression is undecipherable.

Nobody knows what he is currently thinking.

After a long silence.

Merl suddenly walks towards his son.

“Threl, are you okay?” Merl worriedly asked his son, Threl and the duke are very close,

After a few seconds of silence, Threl took out his badge in his uniform and put it to the ground.

He slowly stood up meeting his father eye to eye.

“Father, I will be going,” he calmly said as he walked out of the mansion.

for visiting.

Merl just silently looked towards his son for a few seconds before he said “Son, Don’t waste your time on revenge. Those people will eventually face their own karma. You should currently focus on making your self stronger, and protecting the nation.”

His son walked out and didn’t look further towards his father.

“Threl, success is the best revenge,” Merl said in a deep voice.

Threl suddenly stops from walking but he didn’t turn back to face his father. He didn’t say anything and continued walking again.

“Before you embark on a journey of revenge, better dig two graves, one for yourself,”

***

A black carriage is being pulled by two black horses. A young male is driving it and inside the carriage is an old woman in her 70s and in front of her a sleeping figure. A young teenage boy around 14-15, his body was like a stick, it was like he didn’t have any muscle, his face was pale and his lips were purple, he was like a dead person, but if you look very closely, you could see that his breathing.

“Fox! can this carriage be any faster! I can’t hold him too much anymore! The old woman shouted, and she coughs hard! You could see a long streak of blood on her left wrist. It was like roots and it covered the entire body of Zadicus. It was pulsating and beating like a blood vessel.

“Miss Velorina, we will reach the portal tonight.” The young man said in a nervous manner. He then heard Miss Velorina, had a long sigh under her breath and silence permeated the entire place, and even the movement of horses couldn’t be heard. You could see the entire place near the carriage is covered with mist.

“Are you alright Miss Velorina?” he suddenly asked.

“Why would you ask such a stupid question, Do you really think that I am ok?” The Old woman spoke venomously! and now Fox wanted to slap his face for asking such a stupid question.

“I just managed to attain enlightenment in my blood magic and I just needed to digest it, but for now I don’t have the time to digest it, we first need to save Zadicus,” the woman sadly said.

“Miss Velorina, how about your condition? Can you still make it?” Fox worriedly asked,

“I can still make it if you can make this carriage be faster, so we could reach our destination before all my blood is dried up!” The old woman angrily said. She was really getting annoyed and anxious right now.

“Prince Zadicus’ injuries are extremely severe and if we were just a minute late before we could even save him, he would already be dead, Almost every hearts are destroyed and I just use my blood right now to sustain his dying body, we could just hope that we could find a way to save him,” she said in an anxious voice.

Fox was shocked when he heard Velorina.

“All his hearts are destroyed! Then how is he still alive?” Fox was startled! No demon can be alive if all his hearts are destroyed!

“Not all his heart are destroyed, he still had one but it was very slowly dying and not regenerating so I am using my blood to forcefully pump out of that heart, but it was last much very long because my blood is limited but even if I did have enough blood to sustain his heart, the question is…

Can his heart still make it? Remember that almost all his hearts are destroyed, and I am forcefully using my blood to pump it out that final heart! So we need to be fast!” She anxiously explained it to Fox.

“Yes, Miss Velorina!” As he started driving the carriage faster!

***

The place was very dark and no light can be found but you can hear footsteps, slowly walking in the darkness.

“This place has already been consumed by darkness and all the suns and moons are been devoured by the Abyssal Dragon. A world without light is like being blind even if you have eyes.” An old raspy voice sorrowfully said.

“How long it has been? This place turned something very different than it was before, The once beautiful and prosperous Ajotiam, filled with many races, discovered many revolutionary inventions and many other amazing histories but everything is lost. No one will tell our story anymore, we are already been forgotten, Almost all of my life, I tried to fight for the light but we still failed in the end, The Gods died one by one, I even saw a god that was slowly falling down the sky, Like a falling star, slowly disappearing from this world.”

“I failed everyone, The hero they put all their hopes, I already did everything I could but you know,

It was still the end, no matter how I struggle and fight, it was the end of this world.”

“It was the end for me too.”

***

Every part of my body hurts and I can’t even move a bit. It was so painful that I wanted to die!

I felt one of my hearts is being gripped by something and I felt something very peculiar yet familiar energy being poured towards my heart, Velorina trying to hold me up, even though I was supposed to be dead now, All of my hearts have already been destroyed. I can’t even regenerate anymore, thanks to that damn old man!! YOU PIECE OF GODDAMN SHIT!! IF I DIED! I WILL FIND YOU IN AFTERLIFE AND GOING TO TORTURE YOU THERE!!!

I slowly opened up my eyes but I can only see darkness, I know that I opened my eyes but it looks like I lost my sight. I tried to speak but it was hard.

“Vel-or-in-a.” I tried to call out for her and I felt the pain in my throat amplified after I called out for her.

“Prince Zadicus, Please hold on, we are now close to the castle.” I heard her old raspy yet still beautiful voice. Looks like she is giving all of her life force, it’s a good thing to have such a loyal and useful subordinate, If I survive this ordeal maybe I should reward her something. Let’s not think of that first and I should try to hold my remaining heart until I reach the castle, let’s just hope there is a way to save myself, but what if there is no way.

My memories flashed like a river in my head but almost all of my life, I could see those despaired faces, I feel extremely satisfied, but you know my most favorite part is that when I give them hope and expectation, I saw those faces and suddenly changing into a shock and horror expression when I crushed their hope.

My life is pretty much fun, even though it was short but don’t worry, I will find that old man in the afterlife and give him eternal suffering.

I felt my heart is slowly giving up, and I even felt my consciousness is slowly losing but I am still fighting for my life, and I am starting to eat more of Velorina’s mana.

I heard her grunt from pain when I started to greedily suck her magic but she didn’t argue and let me.

“Prince Zadicus.” I heard her call out to me, and I felt her caress her hand towards my cheek.

I know she is dying but I had no choice but to do this.

What a waste of a good dependable subordinate.

I suddenly thought of Fox.

HAHAHAHA, I ALMOST FORGET THIS BASTARD!! thank god…

I sent a telepathic message towards Velorina about what to do.

I MAY DIE WITHOUT REGRETS BUT IT DOESN’T MEAN I WILL NOT FIGHT FOR MY LIFE!