TIME FOR A NEW PARTNERSHIP
"I am curious too. How did you destroy the Sun Tree?" Iras asked me.
"I've revealed too many of my secrets to you today. Let me keep this one for the moment", I told Iras, refusing to divulge my secret to them.
"Huh, what is all the secrecy about?" Iviar asked.
"I survive to this day because I keep my secrets close to me", I replied to them.
Those conjurers who went down to the Sun Tree village were actually my Malevolent Slaves.
They took the appearance of conjurers to fool the villagers, making them think they were conjurers or knights who came to seek the Lich King.
The villagers tried to kill my Malevolent Slaves and allow the Sun Tree to absorb their blood. But my Malevolent Slaves do not have any blood on them. They were Malevolent spirits.
"Malevolent Slaves"
Unknown to the Sun Tree, when its vines went into my Malevolent Slaves to draw blood, the magic of the tree was taken by my slaves instead. Soon, the Sun Tree withered and died after all its magic was taken by my Malevolent Slaves.
Once the Sun Tree was gone, the Lich King appeared.
It was at this time that we descended on the Sun Tree village to kill the Lich King.
"I am curious why the villagers are expecting conjurers to come to the village to be captured and sacrificed?" Illiwyn asked me.
That was a question that I could answer her without revealing the secret about my Malevolent Slaves.
"If I didn't guess wrongly. Someone is drawing the knights from the academy to come to the Sun Tree village with the A-rank mission. The Sun Tree needs sacrificed blood to empower the Lich King and Knight Templars have the nourishing blood for it", I explained to her.
"Who will do that? The Lich King?" Iras asked me.
"Probably not the Lich King himself. He must have some allies who gave the report about his emergence from the dead to the Knight Templar Academy", I told him.
"So, there is a spy of the Lich King in the Knight Templar Academy now?" Anitor asked.
"There are spies everywhere even in the Conjurer Court. The more interesting question is who does these spies work for?" Iras told us.
"That is a question I would want answered too", I replied to him.
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"How can this happen? Who has the might to kill the Lich King? The High Apostles?" a lord with pointed elven ears asked.
"The killing of the Lich King spoils my plan. I was planning to raise an undead army with the Lich King commanding them", a woman wearing a golden mask replied to the elven lord.
"We already have a demon army, we don't need another undead army to conquer Drachia kingdom", the elven lord told the masked woman, the Queen of her army.
"Zesgumath and his army are busy fighting the apostles in the Gate of Elis. I cannot draw their forces here to fight the war with Drachia kingdom. I need new allies", the Demon Queen replied to the elven Dark lord.
"This is a real waste of all our efforts. We revived the Lich king and grew a new Sun Tree for him using so much energy and resources. We even went to post missions in the Conjurer Court and the Knight Templar Academy to draw volunteers to come here to offer their blood to the tree. But everything is lost now", Dark Lord to the queen.
"Your majesty, we captured someone spying near the village", a Demonlord told the masked Queen before bringing a character to her, tied and restrained.
"Who are you?" the Dark lord asked the man, a young man who was about twenty years of age.
"I am Kolgane, Bulgane the Lich King is my father. I came to look for him after hearing about the resurrection of my father", Kolgane told them.
"You really are the son of the Lich King?" the masked Queen asked him.
"Yes, by blood", Kolgane replied to the Queen.
"Just kill him, he is useless", Dark Lord told the Queen about Kolgane.
"No, I just thought of something", the Queen replied to him.
"What do you need this useless boy for?" Dark Lord asked his daughter.
"I was wondering how to recover the remnant magic of the Lich King. Now I know how", the Queen replied to her father.
"How can you recover the Lich King's magic? All his corrupted blood is gone," Dark lord asked her.
"Magic doesn't contain only inside blood. The Trogdol kingdom practices a unique magic that extracts magic from bones. The magic of the Lich King still remains in his bones", Queen Emerald told her father.
"Do you know about the Trogdol kingdom's unique bone magic?" Dark Lord asked Kolgane.
"I know a little, but I can ask my father's advisors to teach me", Kolgane replied to him.
"Kolgane, Prince of Trogdol, will you partner with me? I will help you regain this kingdom and together we can march to the end of the Ten-Kingdoms and conquer it all", Queen Emerald told Kolgane.
"Yes, I will submit to your majesty", Kolgane replied to Queen Emerald before adding, "But you must give me strength to beat that accursed Oriese, the Earl of Kaleon. I will never forget the humiliation that I received from him".
"Who is the Earl of Kaleon?" Queen Emerald asked Dark Lord.
"I know him. He is a rich noble who has been foiling our plans in Eloora city", Dark Lord replied to her.
"Agreed. We shall be partners then", Queen Emerald told Kolgane before releasing him from his restraints.
"We still do not know who killed the Lich King", Dark Lord told the queen.
"I know who killed my father", Kolgane replied to them.
"How do you know?" Dark Lord asked him.
"When the Control Freaks took up the mission to arrest my father, I followed them here. I came here early even before they arrived and I witnessed everything from a distance", Kolgane told them.
"What did you see?" Queen Emerald asked him.