Chapter 112

112 The blood of the family

The noon was in high gear; the sun came up strong, and everyone was tense. This is not the ideal time for an ambush, but they need to do it now. The first victim will be sacrificed sooner. Justice was getting ready, along with Vale and Xavier.

“Are you ready?” Asked Justice to the other two.

“Well, we need to be ready. What can we do about it?” Xavier let out a sigh. He punched Justice and Vale into their arms. “Don’t die on me yet, alright?”

“Shut up, the second garrison, you will be getting our leftovers, anyway.” Vale teased his friend by grinning ear to ear.

They separated right before the troops go into two garrisons, the first garrison where Justice and Vale are the leaders, and the second garrison where Xavier, Xander, and the old man are getting ready to attack after the first garrison brings the victims into the safety.

“Remember, the cloak spell only holds for five minutes, so get ready on your position as soon as the magi cast the cloak spell on you.” Vale begin to instruct the troops while Justice called for his flame sword.

“I’ll wait here until all of you are in the position, make sure to get all the victims. There are ten victims, including the first kill,” Justice tells Vale while he tried to hide in one of the bushes.

Vale nodded his head, and begin to cast a cloak spell on the troops. There are almost a hundred troops. The magi cast the cloak spell as fast as they could. It wasn’t a problem for Brom and Vale, who got a crazy amount of magica inside them. Martin struggled a bit, but he compensated by steadily giving the knight and the werewolf a good amount of cloak spells.

Half of the troops were in the position. Justice saw the victims being caged in three different areas. The lycans choose the young girl who they met at the inn near Wolgala. The young lycans eye the girl who cries in her own individual cage, the cage for the first kill. Their plan is to extract the victims first and get them into the carriage that will bring them to the healer’s tent.

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The hard one to save, of course, is the first kill. The altar is in the middle of the stage where all the lycans already line up to taste the flesh of the poor girl. Finally, most of them are already in the position and when the five minutes are up, one by one they appear behind the lycans, beside the cage, or even trying to hide for another sneaky attack. Justice runs with a small group and attacks the nearest lycan from his path.

The lycan is big, with broad shoulders and dark skin. He is probably already a big man without his lycan power. Justice jump and tried to slash the lycan, but got short out and just slash into the wind. The big lycan seize the opportunity and tried to claw into Justice’s body. Thankfully, Vale was already there, helping his friend. He cast a thunderbolt and send the big lycan into the air and then drop to the ground with half of his body charred by the powerful lightning.

“Good one, now. Can you do it for the dozens of them on the stage?” Asked Justice, while trying to get up from the ground.

“That some powerful sh*t, you *ss! I need to do it because apparently we almost lost our dear crown prince.” Said Vale, mocking Justice, “You good now?” He still asked for his welfare, and when Justice nodded his head, he run into the stage and cast the full reflection on all the cages of the victims.

One by one, the knights were fighting the lycans and the magi assist. Vale was focusing on the extraction of all the victims at the moment. He begins by the nearest cage with five people inside, two elders and three young men. There are three lycans in front of the cage. Vale and Justice collaborate and seize the opportunity to attack the three lycans. Justice, although not a magi, has the potential to be a fire element. He called for a twin dagger with a flaming edge. Vale was smiling. It’s been so long since Justice uses his twin daggers in the fight.

Justice’s movement is more agile now using the twin daggers. He jumps and slashes every surface on one body of the lycans. Vale knew when Justice uses his twin daggers, he meant it as real as it can be. Justice has the power whenever he used the broadsword, but he could also become so fast and sneaky when the twin daggers were in his hands. The flaming surface of the twin daggers makes a burn sensation all over the lycans.

Seeing the opportunity to make more damage, Vale cast a flame tornado toward the three lycans. It’s not a great fire, but enough to inflict more damage from the burn in their body. The charred bodies of the three lycans fall to the ground. Justice immediately opens the cage and called three knights to bring them to the healers that were waiting behind.

The second cage successfully being opened by Brom, Martin, and two werewolves, their cooperation was superb in tackling four big lycans. The last cage where the first kill is being held is now empty. Vale cursed while Justice looked around to find the girl.

“I think they took the first kill away. We need to find her!” Said Vale to Justice.

Justice nodded his head and gave the signal to the second garrison, the second garrison where Xavier was being held, came right away and join the fight. The lycans were almost overwhelmed. They will certainly succeed and now only need to find the first kill. A huge brown werewolf with golden eyes came to be beside Justice and Vale.

“Xavier, we need to find the first kill. They took her away!” Shouted Vale to Xavier while he dodged one lycan claw.

Xavier grab the lycans hand and bites it until it was separated from the body, he then viciously gnaws into the neck of the lycans and when he was done, he sniffed around the cage and howled to his two friends to follow him. Vale called for Brom and Martin to follow suit, while Malek and Junjin also join his huntsman captain. The six of them followed Xavier in his werewolf form into the abandoned building not far from the stage.

They entered the building and heard a scream coming from the third floor.

Vale looked into Brom. “You stay here with Junjin. If they ran, killed them immediately.”

Brom agreed with his captain’s request. He waited with Junjin on the first floor, blocking the door. The others go upstairs as fast as they could. Xavier reached the third floor and looked in every room to find the first kill. So far, he didn’t smell any blood, and it was good until another scream came from the middle section of the third floor. Justice, Vale, Martin, and Malek arrive on the third floor and hear Xavier growl at the middle section of the third floor.

“Let me open the door. All of you, get ready to fight right away.” Justice orders the others that immediately prepare for close combat.

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When he opened the door, Xavier lunged in front of Justice. What they saw was something unexpected. Five lycans, with one of them being the matron of the orphanage. But the most shocking thing was the first kill was being held by another, not a lycan, but a man with long red hair, pale skin, with black eyes. Justice and Xavier recognize the man. It was the main host of the vampirism, the man who bites Justice.

“You! What are you doing here?!” Justice asked him, the grip on his twin daggers tightened. Xavier was growling and ready to attack at any time.

The man looks at them and pretends to be surprised by their presence. “Oh, fancy seeing you here. Care to join me? The first kill of maybe their last kill for these poor creatures.”

“We are not laughing here! Why are you here?!” Justice frustratingly asked the man once again.

Man throws the first kill to the floor, Vale cast his full reflect on the girl immediately, protecting her from the lycans. The lycans growl, furious when they couldn’t even touch the girl anymore. The man just laughed and steps forward to Justice.

“So, how does it feel, lusting for blood?” Asked the man for Justice.

Justice was nervous. Vale gave a signal to Malek and Martin. But not before they saw Bernard come rushing from the first floor.

“Your majesty! I am here to assist you!” Bernard shouted and go to protect the crown prince by the man.

Justice, Vale, and werewolf Xavier got their surprised by the sudden appearance of Justice’s chief guard.

“Bernard? what are you doing here? You’re supposed to help Jason.” Asked Justice, ignoring the man in front of them.

Bernard wiped the sweat on his face, while his right hand still firmly grip on his sword, “I came here right away after I noticed something from the portrait that I saw on the palace, and when I saw him now, my suspicious came true.”

The man smirked. He tilted his head to his audience. “Oh, so this old man recognized me? Was it my family portrait? I hope I still look as handsome as before.”

Bernard chuckles at the man, “Oh you do, you still do look the same after hundreds of years. The resemblance is uncanny, sir Drake Beyor.”

Justice’s heart leaped. He was shocked to get the revelation from his chief guard. “What did you say?”