Everyone was shocked speechless at that moment. No one could react in time to that sudden attack and all of a sudden, just like that in a flash, the prince of Kylaf was dead.
Johan Olson was the first one to move after that. He raised his sword and cut off the head of one of the guards of Troy nearest to him. Robert Muller, marshal of the Gervaland kingdom was the next, as he too moved in a flash and killed two of the remaining five guards.
The three guards, before they could raise their voice to call for help, for Mikhail, were beheaded on the spot. It was chaotic at the place. Johan and Robert along with two warriors from their respective kingdoms made a round around the dead bodies of Troy and his guards. The warriors to the back couldn’t see and make out what had happened in that instant, as it took only a few moments from after Troy had tossed his magic tool to when the last guard was beheaded.
There was a commotion after a few minutes as the blood started to flow outwards from that little circle. However, before anyone could make out what it was about or what exactly had happened in there, the warriors were dispersed by the orders of Johan and Robert.
Ingrid was standing a few paces away from there, from Rose’s tent. There was a thin smile on her face. It, the smile, looked a little proud as if she was really enjoying herself. She took a long breath and started to walk away, walk towards Mikhail’s tent.
“Pardon my intrusion…” Ingrid entered while muttering that to herself.
Inside the tent Mikhail was lying on the floor, black blood dripping from his lips. He was shivering while trying to get up by holding on to the edge of the bed.
“Oh, Sir Mikhail, what happened here?” She asked in a concerned voice but, didn’t do anything to help the wheezing Mikhail.
“It’s you!” Mikhail said before he coughed a mouthful of pitch black blood.
“What are you saying, Sir Mikhail? I don’t understand…” Ingrid widened her eyes as if she was gravely offended by the implication in his words.
“You are the one who poisoned me! You won’t get away with this…”
“You have got it wrong, sir. And I’m offended by these severe accusations when clearly the truth is that a death squad from the Empire attacked us in the night and managed to poison your great self. How could I, a feeble and pious healer, ever have the guts and know how to poison someone as powerful as you?”
“You…!” Mikhail had a pained expression on his face. It appeared he was deeply impacted by the words of Ingrid. “How? When? Why?”
“The poison was of considerable might to go undetected and able to affect you. We were helpless to deal with it and couldn’t rescue you in time. The death squad was fierce and they committed suicide before we could deal with them to get out the information, they killed all members of your party and, especially Prince Troy, he was their main target from what little we could gather.” Ingrid’s voice was apologetic and sad.
“I see… it was a long time coming… how careless of me…” Mikhail said before being assaulted by another wheezing fit.
She walked closer to him and then muttered in a low voice, it was so low that even if someone else were to be inside the tent they wouldn’t be able to hear it. “We’re truly sorry to lose a warrior of your capacity. However, there have always been collateral damages amidst war. Don’t take it personally, it wasn’t your fault. Now for the prince…”
Mikhail slowly breathed his last as he listened to her. His body gradually went limp and the shivering finally ceased. It was the end of a famed awakened warrior.
Ingrid walked out of the tent and gazed up at the setting sun. It was a beautiful sight, however, her mind was not so calm. “I hope Suzanne is right about this…”
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Thanks for the chapter!
Its a good story with intriguing world building and magic system.
I look forward to the MC getting stronger (and thus more chapters...). Will he be able to use more elements in the future I wonder? Did he gain anything from the delayed awakening? Was it his love for Lily that helped him awaken, and will similar things happen in the future? Just some things I'm curious to see answered.
My personal preference is against relationship tension based on misunderstandings, but hopefully the problems with Miranda and Samantha will be resolved soon. That's not to say that the romance should be quickly paced though; slow, significant developments can be more meaningful.
By the way, something just occured to me and is really bothering me now that I've thought about it, what the hell is the situation with the fathers of the 4 kids? Are they absentee father's? Are they dead? Are the kids bastards? Does this world not have a concept of bastards? For some reason it's never mentioned and it seems like something major to be ignored, especially since one of them should be the god-damned king of this country. If they are bastards there should be issues that stem from that. If they are both dead that's a huge red flag for Ray since apparently Suzanne/Samantha could have killed their partners. If the concepts of bastards don't exist than lineages likely wouldn't matter as much.
Anyway, I know your goal is to create an incestuous harem for the mc, but it's not good to ignore obvious things like this just to make it easier on the mc to conquer them.
It's not a plot hole, don't worry. It will be addressed later in the story. There is a big secret behind it. All I can say right now is, the reason MC is special and has all these expectations resting on his shoulder is because he is the link between...
well, i'm liking the story thus far. i'm glad to see MC character growth and not just power level growth. it was a bit dis-jarring to see MC and others act like pre-teens for the longest while. but it's barely within reasonable limits seeing as their background is pretty sheltered until their awakening then send off to the fortress city for independency...
thus far my two favorite characters are miranda and suzy. despite their flaws they're well balanced people. but at the same time we know too little about both of them other than their general characters and capabilities. however i very much like the complexities that have been shown with them. seems very humanly flawed but all of it reasonable with them not emotionally acting out excessively. well... aside from miranda being dumb in showing her affections and actually talking about anything other than business with MC. but again, reasonable flaw that i can easily see her getting past at some point. pretty much the same with suzy. though one big question remains in the back of my mind regarding the secrecy and info withholding. if they don't trust the MC enough to confide in him, why do they like him? what drives their affections towards him?
i'm on the fence about lily. her 'prank' of telling MC to switch off using swords could've gone very very wrong... but otherwise i find her to be somewhat close to the same likeability as the two mentioned above. that said i feel as though her development was quite rushed. ideally i would've liked to see an established character before romance is involved unless some love at first sight cliches are used. which i don't think applies on MC's pov... heck i would've preferred some lily POV with her reflecting on her initial affections for her own twin before the s*x started... but whatever.
i hate rose though. rivalry is one thing, that i could even get behind if she had done it well. tomboys are hot. but forever on their period bit*hy cunts are NOT! i genuinely feel she shouldn't have earned sh*t with MC for brownie points. buying him nice things to bribe him and only f*cking recently showing an ounce of care or affection tells me that she's likely to pump and dump MC like everyone else in her 'love life'... if you can call it that. and her obsession with a partner with strength is... shallow, really shallow. as much as i'd like to see her grow some basic level introspection... i just can't see it. her character is too established. she would have to actually lose someone important to her out of her own mistakes to learn. and i currently don't want any of the main cast to die aside from rose atm.
MC pretty much was pretty close to making that same mistake as rose with his ex, though was just a little bit different with his mistakes. (actually talking in a relationship and some emotional reciprocation not just sex/sexplay) still wonder if miranda or suzy was the reason for the breakup/trope moving out the city. but that's besides the point. she made her choice to move on from MC regardless of the circumstances. which kinda shows just how 'deep' their affection actually was with each other. might as well just be s*x friends at that point. but anyways, i like the MC actually going back and forth on some of his introspections about his own character flaws the best out of all the characters and their respective developments. i HIGHLY encourage playing on that for his future growth and molding himself just slightly to his partners.
for the overall story i'm enjoying the direction of MC and lily are somehow required to be strong for a good future due to some prophecy. but more so it has to be them due to the choices they make as the individuals they are. so i hope it goes that path more than the other. i like the character biases and some of the personal flaws as mentioned, but also most of them regarding the minor characters. simplistic yet ties in just enough to their base character traits to be realistic.
keep up the good work, and i hope this obviously bias feedback helps your writing to improve even more!
edit: btw i'm also with suzy in that MC should make a male friend at some point. he really could use a friend that he can trust, de-stress, and shoot the sh*t with. ideally this could have been rose... but she's on my sh*t list still. i'd rather her dead then in MC's bed. (unintended pun but i'm rolling with it!)
f*cking love it. He needs more awakening skills. One from each lover
God dam amazing. I sure as sh*t didn’t expect that. It makes total sense now that Mc won’t get in shit. Good work I’m very interested in more. Is this just uploaded here or somewhere else?
It was first uploaded on Literotica. However, this is the last uploaded part. I haven't uploaded the new parts anywhere else, waiting for reception.
@shaqtin hopefully people like it because I really do.
@shaqtin
are we going to get some new chapters soon? or rather what is your typical update speed like? ideally i'd like to not get my hopes up for just another novel getting abandoned. so really it's just an inquiry as to how fast or slow we can expect things. if you have a habit of chapter dumping after your satisfied with an arc or more, then feel free to continue. i (and presumably others) just wanna be kept up to date, and know what to expect. *flashbacks of slime breeder novel drop*
@loshi1505 I’ve noticed there’s so many novels lately that get dropped.
It always seem to be the ones I really get invested in or enjoy. It breaks my heart snd make me go crazy.
I personally love chapter dumps, so I’m for either either regular updates or chapter dumps
@shaqtin
Next update ~ October 20. Expect at least a dozen chapters.
so... i'm guessing some delays? any idea how long they'll be?
@loshi1505 Hey! The next chapter is up on my site!! I will post it here soon. The link to my site is down at the bottom of this chapter!
@shaqtin
hmm? i only see chapters 1-6 on your site for this series... but i noticed they contain consolidated chapters... did you change the chapter format at some point? because that's extremely annoying to find where one left off at...
as much as i am pro-author's own sites. i think i'll wait to read it here. this site has a lot more tools to make reading easier.
@loshi1505 Yeah, the chapter numbers are different. Let me see if I can't upload it here within a hour or two...
@shaqtin
thx!