The rain that marked autumn had ended started to fall.
The Pope refused to exit due to his power sickness. However David was totally different; he confirmed no indicators of nervousness when the Emperor known as him right into a secret room.
Fabian was sitting on the throne in a locked secret room, ready for him, along with his sword round his waist.
“I see you, Your Majesty.”
David gave an instance with a sublime gesture. He seemed so nice regardless that Fabian was able to kill him instantly.
“You’ve discovered me…..later than I anticipated …..” His tranquil purple eyes stared at Fabian.
Fabian nonetheless had doubts about David. So, for now, he couldn’t act rashly. Fabian wouldn’t hesitate if it had been him earlier than. However now, he had many issues to contemplate.
“Don’t you dare to learn my thoughts!”
There have been so many hidden meanings behind Fabian’s resolute phrases.
“Irrespective of how crafty and depraved you’re, I do know which you can’t use your energy now.”
David recalled the determine of Emperors prior to now from Fabian’s look as he guessed precisely.
“Your Majesty, the Emperor, is at all times proper. All the time….. throughout this lengthy historical past.”
“You’re speaking as for those who’ve witnessed it.”
“Time is relative.”
David confirmed a faint smile. Fabian additionally wouldn’t be stunned if David had lived an everlasting life. In a way, he was somebody who might management demons.
“Don’t even take into consideration attempting to deceive me. Even for those who’re a God, I can tear you aside and kill you with out hesitation.”
David felt the sincerity in Fabian’s black eyes and low voice. His ancestors’ thirst for slaughter and violence nonetheless lingered in his blood. If David was an extraordinary human being, he may need collapsed proper now.
“I don’t imply to deceive you. I imply it. And I by no means meant to hurt this Empire.”
David’s informal remarks made Fabian’s lips twisted. It was a sneer at his unbelievable phrases. However David continued to spoke as if he had anticipated such a chilly response.
“I’m not Your Majesty’s enemy. As proof, I’ll inform you about who I’m, who you’ve typically vaguely guessed.”
David knew already that Fabian should have been considerably near the reality about him.
Fabian additionally had assumed David would make such a guess. Nonetheless, Fabian was arduous to consider when he revealed his true id so simply.
“You need to have investigated many issues, together with my whereabouts because the guardian of the tower.”
Fabian shut his mouth.
“The historical past of this Empire as we speak begins from a tower. The guardian of the tower exists to stability the human world after a person got here to the tower to seal his bloodlust insanity.”
“I advised you to not deceive me.”
” That man is the ancestor of the imperial household who’s additionally Your Majesty’s ancestor. And I’m the descendant of the person who guarded the tower at the moment. This isn’t a legend nor a lie. It’s the historical past and the destiny of this continent. That’s why now I’m standing in entrance of you.”
David spoke in a hushed voice, however Fabian’s eye didn’t shake.
“A guardian…In case you’re such an amazing particular person, you should know what I wish to do.”
“It doesn’t matter what the reality is, you’ll nonetheless attempt to kill me. I already felt it from exterior the door,” David stated. He appeared detached to speak about his life.
“Are you assured you gained’t die in my arms?”
“Once I die, the guardian of this world’s stability can even disappear. This world doesn’t need that, so perhaps …… I gained’t die in your arms.”
Fabian spat out a low snigger, “You appear to be underneath delusion and mistaken for one thing. I didn’t strategy you. I known as you in. And I don’t wish to stain this place with blood.”
“If my loss of life is predestined, I’m prepared to simply accept it at any time.”
David was insensitive to human feelings. So he didn’t really feel the slightest concern of the human Emperor earlier than his eyes.
Over time, he had just one factor he was afraid of the imbalance of the world.
“Actually?”
Fabian lifted his physique from the throne, and his sword touched David’s neck at an invisible velocity. Earlier than he felt ache, a drop of blood had shaped on his sharp blade.
“Seeing you’re purple blood, it appears to be like like you’re additionally a human being.”
“The guardians are principally human. Nonetheless, we stay an everlasting life till our mission is fulfilled.”
David’s voice didn’t waver a bit regardless that the knife sliced open his neck.
Though Fabian himself wasn’t an extraordinary particular person, he couldn’t let his guard down as his opponent this time was additionally not an extraordinary human.
“I’ll say you’re nice that you simply’re not afraid of me……However you tried to kill my baby.”
Fabian was barely in a position to withstand the urge to slit his throat, however David simply stared at him along with his purple eyes with out denying it, “…Sure. I did.”
Fabian nodded along with his completely satisfied eyes, “So, is there any extra motive why I shouldn’t kill you?”
David was known as to return into this room, and assembly Fabian alone was already an indication.
He purposely selected a day when Evelyn was busy and met David privately. If all his suspicions had been right, he was decided to confront the Vatican by taking David’s life first.
“Apart from the tower’s guardian, is there one more reason?”
David’s eyes caught a glimpse at him. Fabian’s chilly eyes shook with hankering now.
Was it additionally as a result of a life that wasn’t meant to exist was already born?
“Then I’ll ask you the other. In case your baby’s existence is the reason for the complete continent’s destruction …. is there a motive for that baby to stay?”
“How dare you…”
“Though he’s a life that shouldn’t exist. Ought to your baby nonetheless be alive?”
Fabian slashed his sword deeper into David’s neck, and contemporary blood flowed once more by means of the blade. “What did he do?” Fabian requested David, who was him with calm eyes.
However David was positive he had one thing else in thoughts. That’s why Fabian couldn’t behead his head instantly.
“I requested you what he did.”
However, Fabian’s endurance had its limits.
“Are you anxious concerning the destiny of this continent? If something occurs to my son, I’ll destroy this continent with my very own arms, and I’ll discover that rattling tower and sink it into the bottom lined in blood. After all, I’ll allow you to stay till then so you may see. As a result of I’m very beneficiant.”
The sharp voice of threats deafened David’s ears. Fabian had calculated, if he had been a tower’s guardian, David wouldn’t do one thing reckless since he was afraid to interrupt the stability.
“Have you learnt, the Imperial Emperor is rarely improper? Whether or not it’s ruling this continent peacefully or making this continent a battlefield to vent my anger, the whole lot shall be justified. Within the first place, if I kill half of the people exterior the Empire…..Wouldn’t the stability that you simply so exalted be damaged?”
David’s eyes trembled barely for the primary time. Being a guardian was a destiny he couldn’t escape.
Aside from that, there have been different causes. David was an individual who additionally returned to the previous after witnessing Fabian’s bloodbath after Evelyn’s loss of life. In different phrases, he had already seen the hell-scene that Fabian was speaking about.
“The Emperor by no means adjustments.”
There’s a bitterness in David’s voice. He recalled Fabian’s black eyes, which had been stained with blood. Even David had performed the whole lot he might to cease that horrifying sight.
“Don’t you consider what I stated?”
“No, I consider. Quite… I already know. The countdown to the destruction of the Continent begins whenever you start the bloodbath. When you’re overwhelmed by insanity, the blood of your ancestors will awaken, and you can’t cease.”
Fabian frowned at his phrases.
“I can’t kill a human in addition to the flexibility to cease you.”
“My baby. You tried to kill my baby.”
After an extended sigh, David shook his head as Fabian’s sword was nonetheless threatening his neck, “Proper now, this world is on the improper trajectory by mistake. So …… There’s a life that shouldn’t exist.”
Sadly, Fabian appeared to know who David was referring to.
“Sure, your baby is a baby who shouldn’t exist within the authentic world. He’s a life that was born into this world and died with out even seeing the sunshine.”
“The unique world……don’t blur my argument with that nonsense.”
“In the long run, the whole lot will go based on destiny. Even when I die right here, in your arms, I can’t cease destiny.”
“There isn’t a such factor as a destiny for a kid to die.” Fabian glared at him. However David didn’t keep away from his eyes.
“I feel there’s. In case you’re a helpless assassin…… Your Majesty, your instinct should have exceeded human beings, so why are you pretending to not know.”
As he stated, Fabian had the identical instinct as a sixth sense handed down from era to era of Emperors. And proper now, he was attempting to disregard what his instincts shouted.
David’s phrases had been like scattered items, so he would get some terrifying outcomes if he set them so as. However Fabian didn’t wish to admit it.
“My baby is harmless.”
“That’s proper. That baby didn’t do something improper…..It’s Your Majesty; It’s due to you that your baby should die.”
From David’s mouth got here a relaxed and weird reply. Remarks that he didn’t wish to consider caught in Fabian’s ear.
His hand holding the sword shuddered arduous at one level, however Fabian managed to beat his confusion and threw the sword away.
“I gained’t kill you right here simply. I gained’t be fooled by you both.” Fabian roared low.
“Who’s on the market!”
As he shouted out loud, Serus and the Black Hawk Knights who had been ready got here into the room.
“Your Majesty, what’s happening?”
“The Vatican Paladin tried to assassinate me.”
As Fabian calmly made his prearranged assertion. David didn’t resist in any respect when Serus approached him, making him knelt on the ground and tied him up.
“This shall be an enormous downside,” stated Serus.
Fabian nodded, “Inform the Pope about this. This incident have to be dealt with based on imperial legislation.”
“Sure, Your Majesty, I’ll additionally ask the Elders for assist. Now we have to interrogate and discover out what his intentions are earlier than he’s executed.”
This was a part of Fabian’s plan. Coincidentally, the Senate elders had been on the Imperial Palace due to Adrian’s issues.
Fabian tried to uncover the reality by utilizing the knowledge and energy of their sacred relics that had been handed down from era to era. Then he determined to chop David’s neck as quickly because it was cleared up.
“Let’s wait and see who you’re and the reality of all of your phrases.”
Fabian’s voice in direction of David sounded chilly.
“Your sin for daring to harm my baby, you’ll by no means see the sunshine once more with sanity.”
After he had succeeded in suppressing the Pope’s energy and discarded Duke Metis, now, David was additionally already in his arms with no hitch.
“There’s a dungeon on this palace. I’ve by no means even gotten to the underside of it. “
It was a horrible place. That bunker was so dangerous that it hadn’t been recorded in historical past. The Emperors used it as a torture chamber for his or her political enemies. They made them confessed and advised their secrets and techniques by tormenting their psychological well being.
“I…….”
“Don’t speak nonsense anymore.”
David checked out Fabian in silence. He might solely bear in mind what he noticed throughout the eyes of the particular person earlier than him—the black eyes filled with insanity. And infinite screams of life and despair inside it.
“I’m not on anybody’s facet.”
Buuk!
On the finish of his speech, David handed out after Fabian couldn’t stand it and kicked him within the abdomen.
“Your Majesty…You stated we shouldn’t kill him.”
“I haven’t killed him but.”
Serus secretly quivered at Fabian’s reply and instantly ordered the Knights to take David away as he was afraid that if left like this, Fabian would by accident kill him.
“However as soon as he confesses all of his guts, I’m going to tear him to loss of life with this hand.”
“Sure, I consider you’ll.”
Serum might see, Fabian should have killed David dozens of occasions in his thoughts. So he felt that his resolution to take David out was the proper factor to do.
The remainder of the function would now be assisted by the Elders.
The Duel of the Fact* was about to start.
No person might lie within the battle, and no person might final with a sane thoughts.
( *Chapter 81 )