It didn’t take as much force to mentally invade those without the king’s strength and power, but the situation still annoyed the proditors because most of their victims were shutting their eyes and refusing to follow through with what they wanted them to do.    They began putting fake sounds into the manipulations just to get their victims to move towards a particular direction. Everyone ended up running into trees and each other rather than letting the fabricated knowledge make them give into their urge to attack and kill.   Some of those who were manipulated by more skillful decipios did end up attacking Lucianne and Xandar, who had to watch each other’s backs as they tried to channel their Authorities again.   Right before one sneaky discretus-hybrid could plunge its

At Vent’s inn, Greg barged in without batting an eye for anyone present. Two of his followers took Vent, and the rest followed him to the kitchen. Even the chefs with choppers and knives didn’t dare attack the duke. They merely watched in shock. When Greg shoved the cheese off the shelf, the chefs sprinted out of the kitchen, not knowing that his followers were already stationed outside to lead them into a truck for a torture session. Jade did his thing with the keypad that was recessed into the shelf layer and got the hidden wall to open. The moment the triplets heard the freezer door open, Ourelia shouted while looking into the test tube in her hand, “We didn’t ask for you, Vent!” The scoff they heard in response sent a shiver down their spines. Only one creature possessed a deep, dark scoff like that. Before any of the siblings could take another step or say another word, the duke’s followers dashed forward to hold each of them in place, slamming them to the walls and pinning th

The mavericks carried the triplets’ bodies out of the lab. On his way out with them, Greg said, “Finish up, Alissa. We’ll wait for you outside. Make it quick.”   “As you wish, Your Grace.” Arson Arden embraced the name given to her by the media, took out the lighter from her back pocket and set the whole lab on fire, leaving no book or poison unscathed.   They left ten of their own to put out the fire and to make sure that everything was thoroughly burned as the remaining twenty royal mavericks headed to Ruby Lyworth’s factory. Greg gave the guards at the gate two choices: stand in his way and die a slow death; or let him in and spend maybe a few years in prison and have a chance at freedom. It didn’t take a lot of thinking for them to choose the latter option.   Greg made a

Maddock explained, “You have, but you may not have known what you were reading about. The courts didn’t call the victims ‘hybrids’. Because they were merely infants, almost no description was given about them to protect their identities and families. Cases like Re V, Re Q...” Pellethia asked in disbelief, “Those were hybrid cases? From the way the ambiguous way the judgments were written, it sounded as if the victims were children who were victimized and subsequently killed for being…different, like being homosexuals.” Maddock nodded. “That was the whole intention - to mislead future generations.” “My father ordered this?” Pellethia asked in dismay. 

The administrative hybrids and those who fought at Bordure weren’t given as much freedom or luxury as those who weren’t involved in executing the plan. The administrators who were left after Chong’s death were Saxum, Regina, Gerella, Rudolpho and Zepine.   Regina was placed on house arrest since she had Michael to care for. Gerella was confined to her apartment as well, escaping dungeons because she warned the empress and consort about the Bordure attack. The other three were kept in the dungeons until trial. Unlike the other prisoners, they weren’t allowed to leave their cells for meals or walks. It was a safety precaution taken to avoid starting prison riots.   On a trip that Lucianne dreaded, Deputy Chief Laurent and Officer Laila escorted Kate when they boarded Xandar’s jet with the queen to leave for the empire. Once they landed