The Deal That Punished The Tyrant

32| Sacrifice

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"You haven't specified the execution time for Duke Agneto and Lady Irian, Your Majesty?"

Rahid was busy wearing simple plain white clothes while nodding his head. "I intend to execute her when Gaia is conscious."

Highlight Eslan's eyes turned sad as well as Argio who was only submissive, reluctant to see the look on the face that Rahid showed lately. Since the news of Gaia's death spread, the tyrant seems harder to touch, but this time Rahid no longer thinks about the past about revenge and focuses on building Retkan, creating peace between humans and witches.

"Your Majesty ... Didn't you know that someone who is gone is impossible to live kem—"

Eslan's words stopped in an instant when he saw the tyrant smiling sincerely and confidently as he said, "He will wake up, do you believe me?"

Rahid looked at his two aides and at that time Argio saw Rahid's face beaming and looking happy despite tucked pain in his smile but Argio replied to the question with a small smile and a nod of the head.

"If Your Majesty says so, then I will believe."

"Then take care of the palace as long as I'm not around." Rahid touches the shoulders of his two aides.

Argio and Eslan looked confused at each other, their expressions full of question marks.

"I'll be in Sanctia a few days or maybe the moon, I don't know. So during that time please take care of Retkan and everyone, I've also talked to him to help if there's a problem."

Rahid then threw a glance at the balcony whose door was wide open. Haetric sat on the balcony railing waving guiltlessly and Argio and Eslan looked heartless and gave a witty look of annoyance. They already know that Rahid and Haetric spent time chatting lately but who would have thought to be quite familiar.

"What about this?"

Haetric approaches after removing the mask on the face, showing a face that is exactly like Rahid, the disguise magic will help cover up Rahid's absence during her time in Sanctia.

"Ah, more handsome the real one." Eslan immediately turned to look at Rahid who was ready to leave the palace.

"Huh?" The corner of Haetric's lips twitched.

"Didn't you see His Majesty's gallant body? Your powerful aura alone is absent, I can't even smell the fragrance of Your Majesty's wealth, good looks and prowess, I'm sure everyone hasn't been deceived for a long time, right, Argio." Eslan elbowed the burly arm of the commander of the knight force standing nearby.

"Yes, you're right." Argio nodded his head as he folded his arms around his chest, turning his face away from Haetric who used Rahid's face.

"Hey."

Haetric called out to Rahid who was holding back a laugh in the doorway with eyes watching the three people who were arguing small.

"Damn it, who are you calling hey?"

Argio's neckline was raised but Eslan hastily silenced the man's mouth seeing Haetric's hand bring up a blue flame, he forgot that this man in front was the main culprit who almost leveled Retkan.

"May I use your power to rule these two men?" Haetric pointed at two of Rahid's aides with irritating looks, his upper lip slightly tapering irritated.

Rahid smiled and gave a thumbs up until his two aides shouted and wanted to protest but the door was closed first by Rahid and the next second sounded a roar full of complaints, well, well, Rahid did not have to think too much about it most Argio and Eslan were plagued with magic.

Arriving at the Sanctia Temple, Rahid meets Sain first and there is Wysia. It seemed that the girl was crying every day until her eyes became swollen with the red base of her nose.

"I've heard from Sain. Are you really going to do it?"

To be honest, even though Wysia is happy to know her brother will wake up with the sacrifice that Rahid will make, but at the same time Wysia felt she was selfless and shameless because she thought she couldn't do much.

"I couldn't have come if I didn't."

Rahid then asked Sain to lead him to where the holy pool was, in a room at the end of a long hallway that rarely passes through the Sanctia guards. When the door was split, a white room with high ceilings and had windows with ornate and complicated stained glass was immediately presented in front of the eyes, a very beautiful room.

Each large stained glass window has a deep story and meaning but more cradling eyes is the accent of light that arises making anyone's eyes will shine.

"This is one of the rooms that holds holy water, the place I like the most when communicating with gods."

Sain said while giving a dagger wrapped in a clean white cloth on Rahid, it was a sacred artifact that would be used in this sacrifice.

"thank you. Then please don't let anyone come in and see me, whoever it is."

Sain smiled and nodded his head and then came out while closing the door but in a blink the priest ducked while covering his face.

"100 times ... Isn't that some kind of punishment?" Sain could not hide his sadness since Rahid told him what the gods wanted to bring Gaia to life.

While inside, Gaia continued to watch the man who had now stepped into the pond, allowing the water to sink her to the navel. As the dagger was raised high with both hands pointed at the left chest, Gaia shouted while closing her eyes seeing the man pin the dagger to the left chest.

Slowly bleeding profusely from the left chest that the dagger had dipped in, Rahid lost a lot of blood until the oxygen flowing to his organs thinned as blood began to stop circulating in the yoke, making him pale cold, cold, damp and panting. The pain makes the whole body convulsed, Rahid felt sick and very thirsty then gradually very dizzy followed by a blurred vision.

The clear water began to darken by blood and Rahid's body sank into the pond, lying with blood constantly dancing to pollute the water.

"ah! N-no! Uh!"

Gaia roared with strong tears, her face soaked with a sore chest as if to be forcibly taken away.

"Please, stop this! I don't want to come back to life! Don't torture this man, please!"

Gaia shouted at void space, hoping that the gods who witnessed the sacrifice would be moved, but there is nothing to say except that the pool water is slowly returning to clear and the consciousness of the uterus begins to collect as the wound on the chest recollects.

When appearing and returning to stand with a body that is almost dazed, Rahid smiled while wiping the water on the face. The pain of the first stab was still throbbing clearly in the left chest, but Rahid insisted on maintaining his determination even though now the two hands holding the dagger were shaking violently. This was obviously very frightening and painful, but he was used to living on the brink of death, he was sure it would not be as painful as it was at the beginning.

"I'm sure I'll get used to it. I'm sure I can do it, I'm sure ... " After the second sacrifice was made, at that time Gaia also pegged, her view became gamang.

Blood again polluted the holy pool and Rahid rose again with a facial expression that was unable to hide the pain, plus every time the sacrifice was made, Rahid always encouraged and strengthened himself by imagining that Gaia woke up and could smile again, seeing how he kept the promise to build a better Retkan and give prosperity to the nation of witches.

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