A few hours later.
Graven woke up from his sleep, feeling refreshed.
He exited the room and went outside to find Grandpa. He found him feeding his chickens on the ground outside the house.
"Grandpa, can I talk to you for a minute?" he asked.
Terros nods his head. "Sure! Let finish feeding the chicken first," he said and continue throwing the feeds into the ground.
A few minutes later, he finished with his task and joined Graven on the wooden bench. He looked at him. "What is it, son?" he asked.
"Grandpa, let's administer the dicine to the rest of the n," Graven said.
"Okay, no problem. I'll bring the herbal dicine to the headquarters and administer them to the infected n," Terros said.
"Thank you, Grandpa! I'll go ho first to check on my wife. Then I'll drop by in the headquarter this afternoon to check on the progress there," Graven said.
"Okay. Leave everything to . You can take a rest in your ho with your wife as much as you can. Horace will make sure your businesses and the South Pond Town is well taken care of," he said.
Graven sighed. "I've been away from my duties and responsibilities for a while," he said forlornly.
"Don't over-stress yourself too much. Your sister-in-law is already back ho and we already find the cure to the black liquid. Just enjoy the few victories you had and leave the rest of the problem later to solve. Take a break and take a breather beside your wife," Terros told him.
"Thanks, Grandpa!" Graven said.
"You go now and visit your wife today and sleep there for the night. Tomorrow you will stay here so that we can continue your dication the whole day. We can't let Laura witness your vomiting and high fever. It will alarm her greatly. You will only go back to her side if you're finally cured," Terros said.
"Okay, got it!" Graven said. "I'll go now. See you later in the headquarter!" he said. He looked at Veronica and nods his head.
She waved goodbye at him.
Graven initiated the teleportation process in his mind and disappeared from the place.
Veronica went to Terros's side. "He's gone ho back to his wife?" she asked.
"Yes. He instructed to administer the black liquid to the rest of the infected n. And tomorrow he will also take the dication the whole day," Terros replied.
"B-but you didn't tell him about his twin brother yet? Why?" Veronica asked.
Terros sighed deeply. "I want him to have a rest first before telling him about his missing brother. I will tell him after he finished taking the dication," he said.
"Okay. So, do you want to go with you to the headquarter and help you administer the herbal dicine to the n?" she asked.
"Sure! That would be better," Terros responded.
"Alright, I'll just return to the Windless Mountain after the n finished taking the dicine," Veronica said.
"Thank you for all the help, daughter!" Terros said.
Veronica smiled. "Don't ntion it. Helping you is a pleasure of mine," she said. "I'll go back inside and prepare the dicine to bring to the headquarter," she said.
"No need to do that, leave it to . Just prepare the dishes for lunch, so that we can go to the headquarter early," he instructed.
"Okie Dokie," Veronica said and turned around going back to the house to prepare food for lunch.
One hour later.
Terros and Veronica gathered around the table in the kitchen to eat their als.
"What do you think Graven will do to save his n from the clutches of the deranged King?" Veronica asked.
Terros took a deep breath. "I have no idea. We haven't talked about that yet. But I'm planning to go with him next ti to the castle and et the King," he said.
Veronica's eyes widened in alarm. "Huh? Are you still not dropping that stupid plan of yours?"
Terros shook his head. "I just can't stand on the sideline and watch Graven tornted by that King over and over again! I need to do sothing to end it!" he said in a serious tone.
Veronica sighed. "Grandpa, all I ask from you is never go there unless you have a concrete plan! Rember that place is the King's territory! And he had Graven's n imprisoned inside that place as a bargaining chip. It's not easy to kill the King unless Graven is willing to sacrifice the precious lives of his n just to kill the King!" she reminded him.
Terros nodded his head. "You got a point. The only thing standing between the King and his ultimate death is Graven's n that he had imprisoned inside. Without the n, it's easy to finish him for good!" he finally said.
"So... the main focused right now is how to rescue the imprisoned n? Get them out of that basent and destroy the King's place? And deliver a painful death to the King once and for all!" Veronica said.
"Exactly! But that is the most difficult part. How to rescue the n? There got to be so other way!" Terros said.
"Yes, there's got to be a perfect way. But right now, it's hard to think about it. Maybe one day, the idea will co to us like a spark of light. But right now, we have to finish eating the soup because it's getting cold," Veronica said.
"Alrighty!" Terros replied.
They resud eating their cold food.
One hour later.
They get ready to teleport to Graven's headquarter.
anwhile...
At Graven's manor.
The couple just finished eating lunch together with Laura's family and currently cuddling in the bed.
"How's it's going?" Laura asked.
"You an, the new coal mine and the thugs?"
"Yeah. I hope you settled everything already," she said.
"It's 50% in completion. My n and I are working on it peacefully. We try to remind those thugs calmly that we already bought the property, and they have to vacate the place and transfer to another area that they can call their own," he lied again. It's almost believable in his ears.
"I hope it won't end up in a bloody fight," she said.
"We're trying to be considerate... but if they will use violence against us then we can't tolerate them anymore," he explained. "By the way, is everything okay here?" he asked, changing the topic.
"Yes. Everything is okay, we're all good here," Laura replied.
"Good! I want to sleep for a while. I'll go back to the headquarter later, then spend the night here with you, because tomorrow night, I might not be able to co ho," he said and planted a kiss on her lips and another kiss on her baby bumped.
"Okay, go to sleep now," Laura said and ran her fingers through his hair, giving his scalp a gentle massage.
Graven smiled, he loves the way she massaged his scalp, it's soothing to the skin and feels heavenly. "Continue what you're doing to my head, my love, I like it! It feels so good!" he said and shut his eyes to sleep.
Laura kissed his head lovingly and continue with her massage.
Graven finally falls into a deep slumber.
Laura gazed at her husband's face adoringly for a long ti. She finally found peace on her husband's side together with his family. Luke and the vampire couple are the farthest things from her mind right now.
Inside the walls of this manor, she felt secured and well protected. She finally found her happiness, beside her husband.
A few minutes later, Laura had dozed off on the bed as well
Two hours later.
Graven woke up and found his wife sleeping beside him. He planted a kiss on her lips and got up from the bed.
Laura's eyelashes fluttered. She saw her husband taking so clothes from the closet. "Husband are you going back to the headquarter now?" she asked.
"Yes. Continue your sleep. I'll return ho tonight," Graven replied.
"Okay, take care of yourself," she said and closed her eyes to resu her sleep.
Finished donning his clothes, Graven went to bed and planted a kiss on his wife's head.
Then he vanished from the room.
A few minutes later, Graven reappeared in the headquarter.
Terros and Veronica just finished administering the herbal dicine to the n.
They joined Graven on the table.
Terros saw the sadness and worries that were etched on Graven's face. "Thinking about your n imprisoned beneath the crumbling castle, son?" he asked.
Graven nods his head. "That is my main concern nowadays, Grandpa. How to rescue my n underneath that castle? Once I'm inside, I'm powerless. Without my power, I can't fight the King and rescue my n," he said with a gloomy sigh.
"I understand your difficulties, son. How many minions exactly the King had?" Terros asked.
"I dunno the exact number. I have seen a few of them. I think not many," Graven replied.
"Good! Can you describe to the whole place?" Terros inquired.
Graven pondered for a mont.
"The whole place consisted of chambers, rooms, and pools filled with dark liquid. That's all I can see in there. And there was also this doorless room. The door only appeared if the King entered and made an exit. They imprisoned in that room. My n were in the other room. I saw a few numbers of furniture like tables and chairs..." Graven elaborated further.
Terros rubbed his jaw in deep thoughts. "Hmm... can we bring sothing in there, like explosives or sothing? Human weapons? Like guns and dynamite to blast the whole place?"
"It's easier to bring human weapons inside, but those things will be confiscated by the King's n once everyone was already inside the basent. The King is not stupid even though he was born thousand years ago," Graven said.
Veronica was silent the whole ti while listening to the n's conversation.
Suddenly, Graven rembered his brother. He looked at Terros "Grandpa... before I lose consciousness, I rembered seeing my brother in the forest? Where is he right now?" he asked.
Terros and Veronica looked at each other.
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