"So, you want to kill her," Jeas said, blandly. "You do understand that I am not leaving Dorothy's side, right?"
"I am certain you have a way to deal with the situation," Victoria responded.
"Since you have yet to confirm the news then why not hire so people to take care of her first?"
"Do you really think we can take care of soone that is inside the Rothley Estate?"
Jeas frowned, clearly unimpressed by the fact that they were going to deal with soone related to the Duke of Wugari. Until now, Jeas could not forget the Duke's smirking face. He hated the man since the first ti he saw him.
"Then you want to take care of it myself?" Was this woman insane? If the rcenaries, who had been trained to kill people, could not handle it, there was no way that soone like him would be able to! It is not that Jeas did not trust himself, it was just that he knew what he was capable of.
Moreover, he did not want to leave Dorothy's side right now.
"Use other thods to do it," she said. "Dorothy was able to co back because of your help. I am certain that you could deal with anyone using your own thods."
Jeas' eyes narrowed. So, she wanted him to find a sorcerer to deal with that woman nad Rosie. "Because of the beasts, the sorcerers have left the empire. Those are selfish creatures who want nothing to do with the empire's people."
He had heard about rumors on the streets. The sorcerers left the Empire. Because of this, many people had assud that the Empire was in trouble. The Unbelievers and the people from the slums chose to leave for the neighboring kingdoms as well.
"Can you not handle it?" Victoria asked. "Are you willing to take a chance on this matter?"
He said nothing in response. He thought about Dorothy's suffering before he nodded. "I will take care of it."
"Good," Victoria smiled and handed him a pouch full of gold. "I knew I would be able to trust you on this." With that, Victoria left him alone.
After leaving Dorothy's quarters, Victoria went to hers, only to find Martin inside her room.
"Why have you co?" she glanced at him. He was sitting on the couch inside her room, enjoying 'her' tea. She narrowed her eyes at the servant next to Martin and reminded herself to punish the servant later for serving him her tea.
This man was no longer soone that she wanted to be with. While they were currently inside the Lux Mansion, she had already changed her room and refused to share anything with him. Victoria had already realized that Martin Lux was soone who did not deserve her.
This ti, she wanted to focus her attention on her daughter and just forget about this man who broke her heart.
"I am still your husband. Or did you already forget about that?"
"You have other wives waiting for you to visit them." It had been months since Martin accepted those won. While he sent so of them out of the estate, there were still a few remaining won around. Although, none of them were pregnant.
Still, she heard that Martin would always frequent them hoping to get one of them to bear his child. Obviously, this was not going to happen because of Victoria's intervention. He already replaced her with so many won. Was she going to let him replace Dorothy too?
Never.
That will never happen as long as she lived.
She lifted an eyebrow at him when he did not respond to her words.
Martin frowned at her nonchalance.
"Do you need sothing?" Victoria gestured for her maid to start removing her jewelry.
"I am here because of Dorothy."
"She refused to leave or help out. She said this was the Goddess's will."
Martin's expression beca worse.
"I never thought that you would think about this now, considering the number of wounded people that you heal every single day."
"With the appearance of the Blessed Individuals, the number of wounded has decreased. However, the tide is not showing any signs of slowing down. I have wondered if sothing inside Aster is luring them."
"You think soone intentionally lured them here?" Victoria could not help but be curious.
"It would be easier to think that this was intentional."
"An intentional attack? Who would"
"The Dark Lord."
"You" Victoria's face turned pale. "The Dark Lord?"
"In the past, the tide happened because of the Dark Lord. He could control the beasts. This was his greatest weapon." Martin took a sip of his tea.
"Are you telling that another Dark Lord is born?"
"Perhaps. All mbers of the seven families have decided to talk about it together with the representative from the North."
"The North? Why would you include them? They are irrelevant."
"The Duke of Wugari was able to end the tide in Rakha," Martin said. "We needed to know how, we needed to know the specifics. So, we decided to summon him."
"You are going to let him co here?"
"We have yet to decide the empire that will host the eting. However, it will be decided as soon as this tragedy that chose to strike Aster ends."
Victoria's expression grew serious. These were indeed very uncertain tis. The tide had caused so many problems and unrest among the people. Moreover, there was currently dissatisfaction growing everywhere. Many people believed that this was so sort of reckoning from the Goddess Herself.
So rumors on the streets were saying that this was the fault of the Blessed Families.
Victoria and Dorothy needed to leave this place to keep themselves safe. She needed to convince Dorothy to leave no matter what happened!
"Do you think the Duke of Wugari can really end a tide?" While Victoria had not seen the tide, she had heard horror stories from those who had witnessed it. These stories had flooded the streets of Aster. It would be very hard to ignore them.
If those words were true, how could soone like the Duke of Wugari end sothing so catastrophic?
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Today, I went to the mountains. I shared an image on my insta: @bmitchylle
It is so refreshing. T.T
A/N: I already released EVE's GAMBIT! Please check it out and add it to library please....
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