"Cough..." Blood splashed out of King Aldric’s mouth as his body crashed from the sky.
’Damn it!’
He rose to his feet, but in the next second, he collapsed to his knees.
"You have lost, King Aldric. You can’t change your fate today." Althea descended from the sky before finally approaching him slowly.
King Aldric forced himself up again, but his legs were too weak to support him, causing him to fall to his knees for the second ti.
"Goodbye, King Aldric. It was nice fighting you." With those final words, Althea raised her staff, and three earth needles erged from the void, flying toward him at an incredible speed.
King Aldric’s expression instantly turned stiff, but when he tried to dodge her attacks, his body refused to move.
As a result, all three earth needles pierced his body: one through his head, one through his heart, and one through his stomach.
At the sa ti, Ren also killed Elyse.
He had satisfied torturing her, so he decided to end her life because she had tasted the sa suffering as the citizens of Nightshire City.
*Slash...Stab...Slash...
One by one, the soldiers of the Tuiziya Kingdom collapsed on the battlefield.
Five minutes after the death of King Aldric, every one of his subordinates lay lifeless on the bloodstained ground.
They didn’t spare a single life as none of them were deed worthy of rcy.
"We won! We won the war!"
"We conquered the Tuiziya Kingdom!"
"The sacrifice of our fallen brothers and sisters was not in vain."
"We have finally brought an end to our long-standing war with the Tuiziya Kingdom!"
"Long live, Queen Althea!"
"Long Live Queen Althea!"
One by one, they celebrated their victory.
The war between the Tuiziya Kingdom and the Veneian Kingdom had last for more than one hundred years, so when it finally ended, joy swept through the people like a cot streaking across the night sky.
So of them even cried in happiness because their families and descendants would no longer have to suffer.
"Mother, what should we do to this place now?" Zaria inquired.
Before Althea could answer her question, the ssenger arrived.
"Your Majesty, I bring a ssage from Lady Scarlett." The ssenger said politely.
"What is the ssage?" Althea asked.
"The elders of Misty Palace attacked Nightshire City and Lady Scarlett asked you to let Mister Ren’s clone to return as quickly as possible." The ssenger replied.
Zaria’s expression instantly turned worried. "Did sothing happen to him?"
"What’s going on?" Ren’s clone asked as he landed on the ground.
"Mister Ren, Lady Scarlett asked you to return to Nightshire City as quickly as possible." even though he knew the man standing before him was only a clone, the ssenger still treated him with respect.
"Return to Nightshire City?" after saying that, Ren turned to Althea and Zaria. "Do you want to co with ?"
"Un." Althea and Zaria nodded.
Ren grabbed their hands and used the Void Steps skill to travel to Nightshire City.
’A dragon?!’
Althea and Zaria were shocked when they saw a big dragon in Nightshire City.
But what surprised them most was that the citizens still acted normally, as if they were used to living with dragons.
"This dragon is Ren." Scarlett explained. "One of the elders of Misty Palace used magic to turn him into a magical beast."
"Ren?" Althea and Zaria said in surprise.
Ren ignored them and turned to his clone because Luna was in critical condition. "Go to Lexie’s house and save Luna now. I can’t use any magic and skills in this form."
"Luna?" the clone finally understood why they wanted him to return to Nightshire City as quickly as possible. "Alright."
"Althea, do you know a mage who can turn back to human?" Ren inquired.
Previously, all mages in Nightshire City had tried to turn him back to human, but every attempt ended in failure.
Althea was a queen of a kingdom, so she knew more mages than Scarlett.
"I will ask my subordinates later." Althea had no magic that could turn him back into a human, so she could not help him.
"Ren, how did you end up like this?" Zaria’s face was filled with sadness as she stared at him.
"Three elders from Misty Palace attacked us earlier," Ren inford them. "One managed to escape, but the other two are dead. What is the situation with the war?"
"The war is already over." Althea replied. "We have conquered the Tuiziya Kingdom."
"That’s great news!" Ren stated.
Several minutes later, Ren’s clone returned and told them that Luna’s life was no longer in danger.
However, she remained unconscious because her body was still recovering from the magical backlash.
"Thanks, clone!" Ren let out a sigh of relief because Luna was finally safe.
"Un." After nodding, the clone lted into water.
Shortly after that, Althea contacted her subordinates through communication tool. She ordered many mages to co to Nightshire City.
At 07:00 pm, Ren relaxed in the front yard of his house.
His body was as big as his house, so he had no other choice but to rest outside.
’Hmm?’
Ren slowly opened his eyes when a grown man approached him.
Once the grown man was in front of him, he dropped to his knees and pleaded. "Ren, please... please avenge my wife and daughter. Please..."
Tears fell down his cheeks again.
He lost his wife and daughter when the elders of Misty Palace attacked them. He begged him to avenge them because he was not an awakener.
Just as Ren was about to say sothing, more groups of citizens began approaching him.
Like the mature man, they also begged him to avenge their families.
They even went so far as to kneel before him because he was the only one who could avenge their families.
"Everyone, please stand up." Ren felt sad when he saw their sorrowful expressions. "I promise I will avenge your families and I will make them pay for every life they took, a hundredfold."
There were two reasons why he agreed instantly.
First, he was their target, and second, they were his fellow citizens.
The reason why the citizens didn’t bla him for everything was that he had gone to war to avenge the families the Tuiziya Kingdom had taken from them.
"Thank you, Ren. Thank you." They thanked him because he agreed right away.
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The following morning, Althea’s subordinates arrived at Nightshire City.
Like her, they were shocked when they saw him.
But unfortunately, none of them could turn him back into a human because forbidden magic wasn’t sothing ordinary magic could undo.
Only rare skills or powerful magic could break such a curse, so the mages offered their apologies because they were powerless to help.
"It’s fine." Ren didn’t bla them because he knew Kaela used forbidden magic to turn him into a magical beast.
"What are you going to do now?" Althea asked. "Are you going to travel to the Vlizica Continent to find soone who can turn you back into a human?"
"No. I’m going to attack Misty Palace and make them pay for every single thing they had done." He would think about that later because revenge was his priority for now.
His won didn’t stop him because they understood his feelings.
"Then, we will co- " Before Althea had finished her words, she was interrupted by him.
"No." Ren explained the reasons why he didn’t allow them to follow him.
First, they had just finished a war, so he knew they were still exhausted.
Second, he planned to create an army of magical beasts, so bringing them along would only create endless conflict.
And lastly, he didn’t want to put them in danger.
Misty Palace was the strongest organization in the Sheozica region, so destroying them would not be easy.
"But..." Zaria still wanted to follow him because she wanted to be of use when he was in difficult monts or needed soone by his side.
After all, she had made a quiet vow the day they beca a couple that she would never leave his side, no matter how dark the path beca.
"Zaria, I will return as quickly as possible, so please stay here with Scarlett and the others." Ren didn’t change his mind.
"...alright." Zaria listened to him after hearing him.
"When will you leave?" Lexie asked.
"Tomorrow morning." He would be separated from his won for so ti, so he didn’t want to leave imdiately.
"Great!" Althea said happily.
Then, they kept chatting and spending ti with him.
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