Not just for navy functions, however the good prince had all the time been enthusiastic about journey and exploration. If he weren’t the Crown Prince of Abetha and slowed down by tasks, he would have absolutely traveled to all of the identified kingdoms throughout the continent. In truth, earlier than he joined the navy, he loved touring to different kingdoms along with the envoys for diplomatic functions. He even had made his personal maps for a few of these attention-grabbing locations, which had been principally coded, and solely he may perceive them. 

Their group continued to march forward after crossing nearly all of Hatha’s territory. When the solar shone within the sky, they made a brief keep association the place Cian took them to at least one small cave to keep away from being found by their enemies. 

Slayer was nonetheless unconscious, and the doctor was attempting his finest with what he may do. After touring your complete night time, their group was each drained and hungry. Cian and Arlan divided their males to patrol the world whereas the others hunted and gathered meals. Quickly, their group consumed the rabbit and deer meat in addition to some wild fruits they collected alongside the best way, like berries and plums. 

“What is the standing?” Drayce requested the doctor who simply got here out of the cave after attending to Slayer.

“His physique must relaxation. Steady touring on such a troublesome path will preserve affecting his wounds. It might be higher to relaxation right here till his physique stabilizes sufficient to journey once more,” the doctor replied. 

“Nonetheless unconscious?” Drayce requested shortly.

“Being unconscious is nothing when It is a miracle that he’s nonetheless alive,” the doctor replied.

Drayce had seen Slayer’s situation and agreed with what the doctor mentioned. He talked to Cian, they usually thought to relaxation there for a while extra. From the final intel they acquired concerning the struggle, Thevailes and Hatha had been on the brief finish of the stick. Towards the mixed may of Abetha, Griven, and Megaris, the enemies wouldn’t have sufficient workforce to take care of their small group. 

Additionally, as they had been close to the frontier of Abetha, it could be all proper to decelerate their tempo. With Cian guiding them for the remainder of the journey, they might make small stops in between, and they might solely transfer in the course of the cowl of the night time. 

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On the opposite aspect, the vice-commander of the royal knights of Megaris had completed coping with the Thevailes common and his troopers. 

Azer and his males continued to march in direction of Megaris. Though they rested and ate alongside the best way, they paid no consideration to the previous man tied to a horse, aside from making certain the prisoner remained alive.

Simply because the solar was about to set, they stopped in what seemed to be an deserted village was a brief navy camp of Thevailes. It was a abandoned place crammed with skeletons, trying extra like a graveyard than a village. The disagreeable and unhappy air would make no sane individual wish to keep there. these skeletons, one may solely think about the painful deaths these folks bought earlier than being unnoticed right here. 

With a chilly face, Azer appeared on the previous man who had fallen asleep on the horse. He pulled out the wood water service hung to his waist and splashed the water on the previous man’s face. 

Marquis Percy shivered and groaned in ache. He opened his heavy eyes and located himself at a well-known place. If his tongue weren’t reduce, he would have cursed out loud at sight. 

“You might be dwelling, Marquis Percy,” Azer knowledgeable.

The marquis checked out Azer when he known as it his dwelling, however he did not want to know what they might do with him. He pretended to not hear the knight.

“Do you keep in mind, Marquis? This place the place you killed these harmless children and ladies. Your military attacked our unusual villages, killed the able-bodied males and took the remainder as slaves, and introduced them throughout the mountains to this place. However as an alternative of promoting them, you additionally killed these harmless folks and threw them right here to rot. I can hear their souls screaming for vengeance, eager to tear you aside.” 

After saying these phrases, Azer signaled his males. 

Two troopers dragged the marquis down from the horse and threw him in between the skeletal stays. The marquis tried to maneuver, however the troopers pushed him down. The troopers organized dried logs of wooden to which they tied the previous man so he would not be capable to transfer even a bit. He may solely lay on the bottom whereas going through the sky, his damaged mouth with dried blood round it unable to make a coherent sound.

“Your dying is in entrance of you.” Azer pointed in direction of the sky, the place the large flock of scavenger birds roamed within the sky looking for meals. 

Marquis Percy shook his head as if asking Azer to kill him with a sword as an alternative of doing this, however Azer ignored him and pulled out a tiny metallic whistle from his pocket.

The 2 troopers bought on their horses, leaving the marquis on his personal. Azer blew into that whistle which made no sound. However quickly, the birds roaming within the sky took a flip and dove in direction of the place they might odor blood and flesh. Azer and his males rode away whereas the flock of scavenger birds lined your complete physique of the previous man to present him his share of painful dying. 

The place the place the Marquis loved killing the harmless folks mercilessly and dumping them with out care had lastly was his personal graveyard, the place his physique stays would find yourself rotting until they flip into the mud eventually. No funeral could be held for him as nobody would know if he was useless or alive, and if useless, then the place his physique was. 

As soon as, the famend Marquis, Godfrey Percy, lastly had the tip to his life, precisely what he did with the others. Justice was served, and he bought his share of painful dying.