“Lucien!” Roseline screamed as she rushed to where Lucien lay, quickly kneeling down by his head and shaking his body, “Lucien!”She held her ear against Lucien’s bloodied chest, but she couldn’t hear the beating of his heart.The others that crowded around looked at Lucien’s body with concern as Roseline sprang up.“Quick! We need to get him to a healer!”I will take care of that,” a deep voice sounded from behind the warriors.The knight wearing gold armor appeared and the warriors automatically formed a path as the knight walked forward.“Kirklin?” Roseline i

“So many people today!” a guard sighed. “I can’t wait to get another assignment. I hate checking going through a checklist with every single person that wants to enter the castle!” The guard put up his hand to stop the next person.“Name?!” he demanded. The person gave it and he began to check the person’s name on a number of pages he was holding. As he did so, the guard was bumped into as a man strolled through the gates.‘Who is this asshole? What makes him think he can just waltz in like he owns the place?!’“Hey! Where do you think you’re going!” the guard shouted after him. “You know not just anyone can enter right?!”The man stopped and looked over his shoulder.“It’s a good thing that I’m not just anyone then, isn’t it?” the man growled.The guard began to shiver as he recognized the man before him.“Sir

The door opened to reveal a rather large room with a bunch of chests pushed against one of the walls while on the opposite wall was a bookcase. The bookcase was filled half with books while the other half was filled with medicinal instruments and other miscellaneous tools. On the back wall was a set of chains and handcuffs. Within the center was a single table with strange drawings carved within the wood.The room had an unpleasant stench and was in dire need of cleaning.‘Guess the maidservants don’t get to clean this room.’As soon as Lucien walked in, he felt a very dark power lurking within. He paused as the hair on the back of his neck stood on end. Lucien decided to move slowly and keep his senses alert as he inspected the room.He first looked at the table to see that what was inscribed within the wood was a magic circle.Lucien took note of this as he moved to one of the chests. He tried to open it, but it was locked. He d

…A few weeks later, within the capital… The people of the capital were bustling around with news of recent events. No one couldn’t help but bring it up. Two women were doing this rather loudly…“Did you hear most of the guilds are signing the order that went out?”“Yes! I have also heard that others decided to just disband themselves rather than go through with the signing. But what was most interesting to hear was that for the ones that refused to do wither of those was destroyed by Sir Lucien Verglas!”“I know! Did you hear about the first city he forced into submission? Anyway, he froze up the entire town and then demolished their guilds! A bit extreme I think…”A man who overheard their conversation then joined in.“It’s not like that was the furthest he went,” the man explained. “I heard that after he destroyed a guild hall in a d

Lucien pushed Roseline, who was still crying, off of him and began to walk forward.“A-a-ah! I wouldn’t move any closer or I will have them killed here and now,” the Monarch warned.Lucien stopped as the guards pushed the swords closer to his parent’s necks, drawing blood.“Why?!” Lucien shouted. “Why are you doing this?! I’ve done everything you asked me too!”“Why? I’ll tell you. You’ve become too influential, and you know too much,” the Monarch answered simply.“Know too much?”“Don’t answer as if you don’t know anything. I saw you near that room. No one is able to get there except me due to the spell cast on it. However, you were able to. You also know about the altrite and its actual purpose. You are too smart not to but two and two together by now. That is why I am going to have you disposed of. You took away the hearts of my peo