"The evidence will clear any doubt a member of the Royal Court may have. Especially once verified on the other end." Lith said and Meron nodded for him to continue.
"As for the judging them..." He loved the euphemism. "Are you aware of my Call of the Void bloodline ability, Your Majesty?"
"You mean the one that eradicated the Undead Courts in Derios and almost eclipsed the Kingdom on the day your daughter was born? Of course. The King had also witnessed the Call of the Void in Verendi, but he preferred not to make any mention of that massacre or 'Tyris' warning.
"I'm going to use it again." Lith continued. "Anything else would take too long and would endanger the civilians."
"Are
you sure this is how you want to deal with the problem, Magus Verhen?" Meron asked.
"Meln's message is clear. Join me and reap the benefits. My reply must be just as simple. Just sniff around my family and I will find you and I will kill you. A few thousand corpses in a single night should prove I'm serious." Lith said.
"What if it has the opposite effect?" The King pondered. "What if it brings people under the banner of the Poopie King just to escape your wrath?"
"Unlikely." Lith shook his head. "Even Ashazi knows what happened to Meln's former associates. Anyone with a brain will choose neutrality since I can't be bought and Meln can't be trusted.
"Those stupid enough to join him won't be a threat. I don't plan on driving anyone into a corner or making them so desperate that even Poopie looks alluring. I just ask to be left alone. Ashazi would still be alive if he had minded his own business."
Ashazi was still alive and would have loved to point it out but fear froze him like a lamb in front of a slaughterhouse.
"I see." Meron nodded, not even bothering to acknowledge the crime lord's existence. "I need time to rally the troops and bring the Constables to Vinca. The best way to avoid a power vacuum is to fill the void the moment it forms.
"Achieving capillary control of the information and the noble households will take a while.""
"Excellent plan, Your Majesty. Lith replied. "I can wait until sunrise. After that, the Call of the void will be visible and cause more problems than it would solve. At night, people will think they have just blinked longer than usual."
"I'll contact you as soon as I'm done with the necessary preparations. As for those two, deal with them as you best see fit. Meron out."
Lith turned to Ashazi, his smile never breaking.
"Please, I never intended to threaten your family!" He begged. "There's no need to kill me. Without my organization, I'm just dirt on your shoes."
"Indeed you are. Ekidu. One magic word was enough to turn Ashazi Gelt into a puddle of rotting flesh.
He screamed in agony as his skin putrefied and his bones shattered. Then, his tongue swelled up and his throat sagged, turning his cries into a gurgle of blood and frothing saliva.
When death came, it was a blessing. Lith kept Ashazi alive until the last moment. Even as a formless slime with no eyes or ears, Ashazi felt everything until there was nothing left that could hurt anymore.
Alinor wanted to scream but he had no voice. He wanted to faint but he was afraid never to wake up.
"You promised." Alinor said amid sobs. "You promised to let me go."
"I remember." Lith grabbed Alinor by the throat and Warped several kilometers high in the sky. "As I promised, I'm letting you go."
Alinor screamed all the way down until the sidewalk stopped his fall and ended his life. freeweɓnovel.cѳm
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