Soooo; apologies for not uploading yesterday. As a form of apology, I made this chapter longerrrr. And also, apologies for the grossiness at the end. Haha. I had to introduce our new Character!! Clod. Let’s welcome Clod!!! lol… See yA!
{Ciril’s POV}The Guirgon Full Moon was just three weeks away now. I was uninterested in its rubbish tales of power and destiny but I knew about its coming because literally everyone in the Palace was freaking talking about it. The fighting Pit tournament had provided enough exposure for the Guirgon Full moon so now it was the most trending topic.Everyone was yapping about it and the people were particularly excited because they knew who their Champion was going to be. Prince Landon.According to the stories I’ve been hearing, he had been destined from birth to birth to be the one to receive the Moon goddess’s soul and essence, as the moon goddess always chooses her Champions from the Royal family— the bloodline of Kings. Why?I don’t know.I’ve said all I know on this topic. “Wow. I think we should attend the orientation today.” Anika told me as we strolled through a pathway in the Common Grounds. I was sent to go get some herbs The Common Grounds was the train of settlements— b
{Ciril’s POV}We made eye contact.After so long, I was once again staring into Prince Landon’s electric blue eyes. They showcased warmth and gentleness as they always did. And I missed staring into them.He soon looked away from me as the people trailing around started to creep up to him to greet him. He responded to their greetings with a gentle smile on his lips. It was obvious that he hadn’t come here for me. And I wasn’t crazy not to know this. I also knew that he was no longer in love with me. He was fully mated to Abasha now and as her mate he was bound to start loving her even though he didn’t before, and I wasn’t blind not to admit this to myself even though it hurt me. But then over these past few days, Prince Landon has been lenient on me. He seems to have lost interest in tormenting me as he said he would as now, he had handed that duty fully over to Ivanka.And even though Ivanka still does her best to make my life as wretched as she can despite her loss of interest in
{Ciril’s POV}“Okay.” He said and that word made me intensely uneasy. It was a harmless word but then it made me nervy because it meant that he was finally paying attention to me— and because it had been long since he had done that, it was I stared at the ground now as I tried to arrange my words right. I didn’t want to mess this up. I didn’t want to say the wrong things. “How.. how have you been?” I asked as I looked back up at him. I struggled to maintain eye contact as he had a frown on his face. Nonetheless, I kept looking at him.“What do you think?! How do you think someone should feel after their father gets killed?!” He asked me, taking offense at once. “You have guts talking to me.” He told me harshly and I sighed, driving my gaze away from him.He was still very angry. His anger hadn’t subsided. It was a warning label for me to leave before things could get even worse, but then I didn’t want to. I had an agenda I needed to carry out. I looked back up at him and momenta
{Ciril’s POV}[ ~ Three Days Later ~ ]It felt like the days were jumping by.And for some reason, it felt like the burden on me was getting lighter as the days went. And finally, it felt like I was making improvements with Prince Landon. Just three days ago, I had met him in the fields, after the Guirgon Moon Orientation and I had discovered something after making a couple of risky interrogations. He didn’t hate me so much as to want to inflict physical pain on me. This meant something.Right?I had felt like it meant something but then I wasn’t sure. But then, just yesterday, I had confirmed that that instance had meant something as Prince Landon had asked for my audience in the courtyard. After I had gone to meet him there, he had told me that he wanted me to be one of the maids serving at the Banquet the next day— today. Princess Anita was being celebrated for graduating to Stage 3 of her Princess training— whatever that meant, and Prince Landon had asked me to abandon my dai
{Ivanka’s POV}Today is the day…I was walking towards the Banquet Hall now and I loved how my dress was fitted perfectly on my figure. My body was something Prince Landon would fancy a lot once he’s finally mine.I turned to one of my handmaids now. “My ass is getting fatter, isn’t it?” I asked her and she stuttered. The idiot stuttered. “I.. uhm. It’s-it’s re…”I sighed. “Leave!” I yelled at her. “Get out of my sight!”The idiot immediately left the line and I turned to another. She trembled before I even started speaking but then she impressed me by responding without stuttering. “My ass is getting fatter isn’t it?” I asked.“Yes, Mistress. It is.” She said immediately and I smiled as I turned back ahead. My ass and my entire body would belong to the Prince once I get rid of that menace called Abasha. Today is the day…Today is the day I get rid of her by poisoning her wine cup. Abasha thinks she is all wise and invincible but let’s test how invincible she is when she cooks to d
{Ciril’s POV}I stayed. I didn’t know what the hell I was doing here but I stayed on the Seer’s request and continued my serving duties as a maid.The attention on me persisted for a moment before everyone slowly continued what they were doing— eating and chattering. The Banquet and feast continued as they continued celebrating Princess Anita and I made it a caution of mine not to go near the Royal table until the function ended. Two people glared at me while the process continued; The Headmaid, which was a minor glare compared to Ivanka's glare. Ivanka was literally scowling at me and it intensified anytime I shifted towards her axis. I wondered why. I had only spilled her wine— and I had spilled it on Abasha who wasn’t even at me as Ivanka was doing.Maybe she’s a wine lover now?Nonetheless, it was the warning label I needed to keep off that zone. The last thing I wanted to do was to embarrass and put myself in that ridiculing spotlight again. I paced around for several more
{Ciril’s POV}[ ~ Two Days Later ~ ]If I say misfortune is after my life, I mean it.Misfortune is after me.Unlike Prince Landon, my fate and destiny are hateful towards me. I don’t get to become the Queen of the Reigns or have the moon goddess give me a chunk of her soul to make me powerful.I am destined to keep suffering and suffering. — Ivanka catching me smiling at Prince Landon was proof of this fact. My fate literally made her appear from nowhere just so I could be more wretched. But now, two days later, something weird was happening. Ivanka hadn’t done anything cruel to me yet. I mean, she hasn’t punished me more, attacked me physically, or said anything harsh to me. She hasn’t reacted in any brutal way towards me.It was as if she had seen that instance with me and Prince Landon and had chosen to ignore it. It scared me now, but then I was elated that she hadn’t done anything to me. Maybe she realized that I’m no longer a hindrance in her mission to gain the Prince no
{Ciril’s POV}“I, Anika Ensayva, am a witness to that crime, Your Majesty.”I was breathing hard.I didn’t understand what was going on in the slightest.In fact, what I had heard from Anika’s mouth threatened to make me go nuts. It was so sudden and random that It made no sense.I was confused and I stared at her in disbelief now. She still avoided my gaze. “I didn’t say the truth all this while because I was scared of what she would do to me. But now I’ve come out to say because I don’t want her to hurt anyone else!” Anika added and then she finally looked at me with a scowl on her face.“She’s evil!” She roared at me with her finger arrowed in my direction. I trembled. I was stunned with shock and this made tears gloss up my eyes now.Anika... What are you saying?“Is this some sort of joke? Friend betraying friend?” The Alpha Queen chortled now. Although she sounded amused, she looked confused by the randomness of this instance and I looked at her to see the confusion plus the h
{Ciril’s POV} The air was calm. I was holding my mother in my arms..I was staring into her eyes..And then we were both shedding tears, making this the best feeling or moment in the entire world.I felt this heavy sense of relief upon me that she was finally here with me, that she wasn’t dead— that I hadn’t been too late in my attempt to save her. I wouldn’t have been able to live with myself had it been otherwise.She had her hand on the sides of my face and it felt like the most warming gesture ever… and the way she stared at me?I felt like I was made of gold because she was staring very lovingly so that I could see compassion in her every gesture. Seeing her shed more tears broke me so I attempted to make her stop. “Mum. It’s enough… you can stop crying now.” I said, trying to wipe her tears from beneath her eyes even though it was an overwhelming attempt as her tears were more than my hand swipes could handle. But now, she shook her head in refusal to stop crying and then sh
{Ciril’s POV} “Mother.” I shot up to my feet and the word left my mouth even before I could even think of saying it. I immediately shifted close to her and with my sudden motion, the others gathered around.I was breathing heavily now.I was sure I saw something— or at least I hoped I truly did.I stared at her eyelids for a moment and that time continued to stretch as I kept staring and waiting for something to happen. — waiting to get a confirmation of what I thought I had seen. Kiba and Kora were still licking her fingers and face respectively and I watched intensely, not trying to stop them or interfere.After a moment, tears glossed my eyes as I was beginning to realize that the fluttering I had seen was just something my mind created out of my intense hope, but then… just as I was about to claim disappointment and intense melancholy, I heard Clord’s voice.“Her eyelids twitched.” He voiced and I shook my head in rejection. “They didn’t…” I muttered in my despair. “No, Ciri
{Ciril’s POV} People had been dying around me, but then I had no other choice than to escape. I had to save the people I cared about— the people that mattered to me.Plus I had been holding my mother in my arms, someone who was barely breathing so there had been nothing else that was more important to me than her life.We had raced towards the north gates of the Palace and I had gone into Celestial State after handing my mother to Feryt for her to carry. I had done this so that I could break down the gates that were never open.I ended up breaking through the thick Palace walls as brick was easier to punch through than metal. So I successfully created a path and we all escaped, but not before I had killed a fair number of Ferals that had sniffed us out. Afterwards, I had sent the group running and had stayed back to make sure no Feral would follow us. Fortunately for me, the Ferals around that axis weren’t that many so I was done dismantling them in little time, but then I remembe
{Landon’s POV} I couldn’t rip my attention away from the fact that I had just seen her. That I had been standing so close to her.She was gone now and we were currently surrounded by doom in the form of fierce and breathing dead bodies. They were storming the Palace and tearing it down and still my mind was ruminating over Ciril. She had been so fearless— so majestic and I just couldn’t stop thinking about her and the things she had done here today. I sound crazy. She had killed a lot of my warriors today. Heck, she took my mother away but then I wasn’t angered by that. I was only hurt.— hurt because I couldn’t have done anything to make a difference— hurt because I truly deserved all that had happened. I had tried to apologize to her but then she had made it strictly clear that she didn’t want to hear any of that. She had made it clear that she wanted to kill me instead— and I had seen it on her face that she had meant it.That she had truly wanted to kill me. It was hurtful
{Ciril’s POV} I was the first one to see them because I had gone into the Celestial State and my sense of vision had been heightened. But about some seconds later, I didn’t need the sense of the Celestial State to see them— Everyone could see them now and realize that a huge wave of Ferals was the cause of the earth's trembling.But even with the realization and the dread that claimed us, we were all frozen. Our feet were glued to the ground and we remained staring like that because we were stunned.The Ferals weren’t coming from just one direction.They were coming from every direction— racing towards the Palace in wildness and brutality, giving no room for the slightest hint of sanity.I could already hear screams of the inhabitants around filling the air and Landon’s men were equally befuddled as they were all panicking and contemplating their next move. No one was on their knees again. My heart was beating fast and I was struck with the highest measure of confusion and shock.
{Ciril’s POV} My guise switched at once.If I wasn’t furious before, I was furious now. Landon was walking towards me with an army behind him and all I could think of was ‘kill’‘Scourge’‘Rip apart.’I had no other longing. My growling grew louder as he got closer and Feryt and the others joined me in readiness since they knew I was preparing to attack. Landon should be crawling on the ground before me— shedding blood and tears after all he has done to me.My countenance became more fierce now and I was heaving furious in my pending attempt, but just as I was about to storm at him, he raised his hands slowly in the air and halted.“Ciril.” He said my name.He said my name and I was momentarily distracted by the sound of it as his voice and intonation sounded like how he used to regard me calmly once upon a time. And so, my scowling disappeared for a moment but then when it returned, it came with an aggressive pump of energy.I trudged up to Landon with ready claws in order to wip
{Ciril’s POV} [TRIGGER WARNING: This Chapter might be a bit too violent and Gory… maybe.]The night was here and the crescent moon lit up the skies— along with the fairly numerous Palace lights.The wind was in the air and there were random cries of agony being heard. And I felt good.I had three hands with me instead of two and it felt amazing. Dolores's hand was in my grip and I stared at her now as she cried in pain. It felt so satisfying knowing that I was with the body part she once-upon-a-time used to smack me, pull my hair, punch me in the face, and so on.Just this body part— her hand, had caused me so much pain and tears at nights when I would go to bed bleeding, and now I looked at it with such amusement seeing that it had been this fragile all along.“You’ll.. you’ll suffer for this!” Ivanka yelled at my face now as she poured out heavy pants before me. I took my gaze off Dolores’s hand and looked at her.“You’ll pay if you hurt her or me!” Her voice came out even louder
{Ciril’s POV} I lunged at the Alpha Queen, wanting to grasp her and begin her own sequence of torture but then these idiots jumped in the way. These weak idiots who swore their loyalties to her. Her warriors.In her defense, a whole lot of them stormed at me even though it was pretty obvious they didn’t want to. They were scared but did it nonetheless and I saw it as bravery.I was impressed by it but then I was going to teach them a lesson for it.I bashed some bodies to the ground with two arm swings now and then I growled as more warriors came at me meanwhile the Alpha Queen was escaping. She ran further away towards the Alpha building. I hadn’t thought this through. I had wanted to scourge the Alpha Queen but then I had forgotten that I was greatly outnumbered and would have to kill my way through.Well, I’m not complaining.Killing has recently become my new and persistent hobby. The warriors surrounded me now and were spread out over a great distance, and taking in the sight
{Ciril’s POV} “Hi.”You know, I once quivered anytime I spoke to the Alpha Queen or Ivanka or any other esteemed bitch in this Palace… but now?I’ve never felt so confident. It felt amazing knowing that they dreaded my presence and not the other way around. It was a really incredible feeling. It felt amazing seeing Ivanka, the same vile Cunt that always reigned her devilry and aggressiveness upon me— it felt amazing seeing her tremble before me now.One word, “Hi” and I felt all their pulses rise. I decided to be as slow as possible in order to enjoy the moment to the fullest. I decided to take my time.— go to them one by one.I rested my gaze on Ivanka now, and I smirked. My first specimen. She was scowling at me and breathing heavily in her attempt to hide her uneasiness. She looked stupid. I wished I could tell her that. Oh, wait. I could.“Hi, Ivanka. You look stupid.” I said now and she tensed at me addressing her before she scowled.“You think being the Champion means an