The Deal That Punished The Tyrant

21| Behind the Haetric mask

...HAPPY READING...

Gaia tightened the bag that was draped over the shoulder, looked at the luxurious residence of Viscount Viren before finally actually entering but the surprising thing for Gaia was that everyone in this residence had been affected by magic.

Gaia's arrival here is not without reason but rather wants to meet with Haetric and a little explore the life of the masked man. From the beginning, Gaia had been suspicious of seeing Haetric's eyes that slightly exuded purplish, typical of witches but who would have thought it was true.

Even more frightening to Gaia was how Viscount Viren welcomed her with a blank look, her brain and body already controlled just how it looked. Despite trying hard to hide, Gaia could still see black magic and curses shrouding faintly all over the bodies of the residents of the Viren residence.

"Me-horrible .. if this big ... Let's not say he's ancestral."

Gaia retreated slowly while silencing her mouth, suddenly nauseous but exactly five steps back, her body hit Haetric's body. The masked man looked at Gaia without a smile tucked on his lips.

A moment of looking up to see who the young man behind him was, Gaia's body shuddered in horror, her eyes clarifying shock after seeing Haetric's face without wearing a mask. The face ... Erick's. The prospective fiancee and former royal sukesor Retkan.

"P-prince ... no. k-you're Haetric, right?"

Gaia muttered, even though it was Eric's face but the man's eyes were not brown but purple, the typical eyes of witches.

"You're always hard to guess, Gaia." A moment later Haetric gave a smile, though not entirely friendly, that was better than his previous murderous gaze.

Haetric then exhaled while looking up, looking so careless because at first he did not want Gaia to know too quickly plus the negligence that the children did make the initial plan advanced.

"Why are you wearing Erick's face?!"

Haetric let out a discordant laugh then stood behind Viscount Viren's silent back like an undead.

"Hm, the story is so long, it's gonna eat up late at night, you want to hear it?" Haetric smiled and flicked his fingers at some waiters to serve tea and some cookies.

At the same time, Rahid's movements in the instantaneous group investigation and the curse embedded in an ancient object or artifact have been sniffed by Duke Agneto. Therefore, Duke Agneto began to prepare troops if at any time there was a surprise attack.

However, Rahid is still not enough evidence to know who the duke agneto made a partner to commit many crimes, especially when he wanted to kill Gaia. Therefore, today he took the time to invite Irian to enjoy a cup of tea during the day at the gazebo in the park.

"You know Irian that your father was involved in something terrible? If you just shut up now, are you ready to see your father's head under my feet?"

It was no longer the kind enough words that Irian found but the condemnation that made his guts shrivel. If so, should he tell me what he knows?

"I promise you a higher position. What you want right now, I will fulfill. You deserve this cause you're innocent of any crime your father committed."

Rahid's large fingers grabbed a few strands of Irian's hair, making the woman meet with a racing heart. Iriana who is crazy about Rahid certainly can not refuse an opportunity of this magnitude. His father always promised but he was always used as a tool to achieve all goals, both before the Rahid era and now. If he could get everything without the help of his father, Irian would do anything.

Eslan who was standing guard not far from there clenched his hands, his feelings became irritated to hear Irian's insolent request, but Rahid actually boasted a sarcastic smile wrapped in fake obscenity.

"Of course."

Irian then showed a smile of pride, if she later became queen, her father would not be sentenced to death at least only a life sentence. But to strengthen his request will be fulfilled, Irian again made a request that made Rahid slightly jerked.

"Then, the hunting event that will be held in the royal forest, I want the results of Your Majesty's hunt to be given to me."

"Lanca—" Eslan was about to snap but Rahid raised his hand with an open palm, gesturing that Eslan was silent on the spot and that made Irian throw a sarcastic smile at the viscount's son.

"Of course." Rahid's smile then faded and Irian looked at with seirus. "Then let's say what you know."

"That's ... I always meet a young man in the middle of the night. I watched him every night and eavesdropped, the young man's voice sounded familiar and I kept guessing who the young man was."

"What are they talking about?"

Irian was silent for a moment, of course he would not say that he heard the plan to kill Gaia. "About magic and curses, that's it."

"You sound familiar, is there anyone you suspect?"

"That's ... Viscount Viren's bastard son. The young man's posture and voice were very similar to him."

"Eslan's." Rahid immediately glanced at Eslan, understanding what Rahid was trying to say, Eslan then resigned to investigate the background of the man Irian meant.

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"You know .. when it's spring, our days should be pleasant and warm, though they've been hunted by humans for hundreds of years. Then our existence was snorted by the queen, of course we will be executed but the queen offers an agreement that we can survive if we want to use magic and curses to become a weapon of war to control the entire kingdom on this continent, Retkan wanted to become the all-controlling superpower empire, but my mother who was the leader in the remaining group of magicians did not approve of that. Although the mother hates humans, it is not terbesit in the slightest to use force as a weapon of mass murder that in the end the queen is angry and shows her power. We were dragged in front of civilians, burned alive, I saw clearly how my mother and brothers screamed as their bodies were slowly consumed by fire and they asked me to run away and stay alive, they used their power to make me run away."

Gaia's tears were shed unconsciously. How could that cruel queen, then what should she do now? Just looking at Haetric's eyes he was already ashamed of the guilt.

"You think I'm gonna be a witch of mercy after all that? Of course not, I started to sow a lot of chaos, but I did not expect that Rahid was actually smoothing out one of my plans to kill a member of the royal family without remaining, but my grudge was not extinguished. Every time I look in the mirror, this wound always makes me remember that sad past." Haetric's palm moved to rub the face from the forehead to the chin and along with the stroke that ended, slowly Haetric's appearance changed.

A pair of Gaia's eyes then glared, her pupils wobbly looking at how Haetric's real face, full of burns and incisions. It was so horrible that it made Gaia nauseous and almost vomit.

"So, I skinned Erick's face and combined it with magic. Isn't this better?" Haetric smiled faintly after returning the face as it was but his smile looked painful in Gaia's eyes.

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