"That traitorous fake Dragon promised to call me in the case he faced a Horseman, yet he kept Night for himself. He called Faluel instead of me because she lacks the guts to merge with a powerful relic. Isn’t one omni pocket enough for that bastard?"
Actually, Lith had promised to call the Wyvern if he met Dawn again. With his family at stake, Lith had called only those he knew that would focus on killing the Horseman rather than worrying about taking her alive.
"An omni pocket?" Scarlett was flabbergasted.
Back when she had met Solus, she had a yellow core, making the Scorpicore assume that a cursed object that weak had to be some kind of failure. Yet only the most powerful artifacts, like Baba Yaga’s Horsemen, possessed an omni pocket.
Suddenly, Lith defeating Dawn didn’t seem impossible anymore.
"Hi, aunt Scarlett. Long time no see." Sedra, Faluel’s youngest son and Xedros’s apprentice, said.
The young Hydra was now over six meters (20’) tall, with three fully developed heads and judging from the space between the necks, a fourth was about to grow.
Yet it wasn’t the sudden development that Sedra had undergone during the past year that turned Scarlett’s shock into outrage so much as the sight of his blue core now Awakened.
"By the Great Mother, Sedra, I always knew you weren’t as smart as you thought, but I would’ve never guessed you could be this stupid!" Scarlett roared at the Wyvern while spreading her wings in an act of defiance.
Xedros inwardly gloated, hoping that the Scorpicore would be so stupid as to attack him inside his own home while surrounded by enough arrays to take down a small battalion of Awakened.
"What do you mean, stupid? Unlike you and my mother, Master Xedros recognized my talent at first sight. He Awakened me right after taking me in as his disciple and since then I’ve grown stronger than you can possibly imagine."
The eyes of Sedra’s three heads glowed each with a different color, showing the early signs of Dominance.
"No, you idiot, he turned you into a slave! For the next one hundred years you belong to him and even your mother can’t oppose his judgment. The reason why no one offers their apprentice to be Awakened right off the bat is that anyone with half a brain would refuse." Scarlett said.
"That’s not true, that Lith-" Sedra attempted to say.
"Lith was already Awakened, you moron. Your mother only judges him as a member of the Council, but she has no power over his right to live. If she kicks Lith out, he can ask another Emperor Beast to take him in whereas if Xedros kicks you out, you’re dead." Scarlett cut him short.
"M-Master Xedros would never do such a thing! He even offered me to become his Harbinger and teach me the secrets of Light Mastery." Sedra tried to sound confident, but he stuttered the entire phrase.
"Why shouldn’t he? That way, Xedros gets a permanent slave who cannot disobey any order nor hide anything from him, including all the powers of your bloodline, you moron!" Sedra’s stupidity kept shocking Scarlett to the bone.
"After her death, her apprentices scattered throughout Mogar to hide from the monster who had stolen the Fury, fearing that the creature would come for them as well. No one knows where they went. Even I found the Eyes by chance." Scarlett said. freewebnoveℓ.com
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