"Meanwhile I have an important job for the three of you and" as he said Don called Catalie through his Khal."Brother?"
The little girl"s projection suddenly appeared just after Don called her
"Cat tell Dhursir and Stodemar to come here"
The girl nodded her head with a smile and disappeared. A few breaths after Don saw the Old dwarf and Stodemar walking towards him and bow their heads
"Follow me you guys should see this" as Don said he started towards the corridor. Eventually, after a few moments of walking followed by the dwarves and the energy working trio, Don reached the teleportation hall.
This is the second time the dwarves and Reghys were in the teleportation room, when their first time they were not in the mood to study the room.
However, for Benedict and Arya this is the first time they had seen the teleportation room. Before even Don could say anything Benedict already started to study the big circular teleportation array, he was fascinated by the array.
"Go check the array" Don looked at the dwarves, Arya and said as they nodded and walked to join beside Benedict with Reghys.
"Brother, do you think they can fix it?" The girl"s face didn"t hide her worry as Don could see Catalie knitting her brows and looking at him with a worried face.
"Even if they can I"ll find a way to fix it" while he was thinking about alternatives way Dhursir waved his hand at Don
"me king some parts o" tha array be damaged but if ye can give us some achils an" potril we can try to fix it" as he was saying Arya walked forward
"Even if you do that the array won"t work" Dhursir looked like he wanted to argue with the girl but Don stopped him with a raise of his hand
"The runes on the array is the real problem they"ve been deteriorated with the time"
"You can fix it right?" Catalie seemed like she was on the verge of crying but Don could see a wry smile appearing on Arya"s face
"I have some knowledge in runes I can temporarily make it work but for completely repair it you need a runemaster"
"Alright Cat tell Uncle Dior to go to Virnam and buy whatever Dhursir ask him to, he can get the coins from Amaryll"
Even though Arya said she could fix the Array temporarily Don knew its a dwarven technology and he should value Dhursir"s suggestions as hearing Don Dhursir looked relaxed thinking about his King value"s his idea.
"Brother is it safe to send him alone?"
"Yes I have to cultivate, besides he has Khal to contact me if anything goes wrong Arya how long it"ll take for you to fix it?"
Arya rubbed her chin and adjusted her gla.s.ses
"Hmm two days three days maximum"
"It"ll take him two days to reach Virnam if he departs today and we"ll be able to teleport him away if he faces any dangers"
Catalie sighed heavily when she heard Don as she disappeared.
After leaving the training of the dwarves and the elves in the hands of Knight as well as the training of Arrora, Don went into close door cultivation.
Before sending Uncle Dior to Virnam Don explicitly told him to contact Catalie immediately if he faced any kind of danger. Uncle Dior seemed startled when Catalie told him to go to Virnam alone but after she told him that she can teleport him away he was relieved.
During the close door cultivation, Don didn"t even open his eyes as he was cultivated with full concentration. He chose not to micromanage everything and take time off. Gladly no one disturbed him, Amaryll sorted and accounted everything in the castle treasury with the help of Catalie while Arrora trained herself according to the scroll Don gave her.
The dwarves were the busiest during Don"s absence as they trained under Knight in the morning and worked in their construction project. The bound energy device was completely sealed with the hall by Catalie and in the meanwhile, Benedict and Arya worked with Dhursir and Stodemar to fix the teleportation Array.
However, Don"s peaceful close door cultivation didn"t last long as on the third day Catalie appeared before him with tears flowing on her face.
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Somewhere else an a.s.sembly of people stood at the front of a huge monumental. Everyone"s heads were down. Some of them looked like they were showing respect while others couldn"t get their heads up to look at the monumental as they looked too afraid to look at what was coming.
However everyone had one thing in common, they all wore black clothes and their faces were pale, every one of them had puffed red eyes. After a while, a group of people descended before the monumental
"Today we are opening this monumental as a sign for the lives we lost a year ago, hundred and sixty good souls were taken away from us"
The man in a black robe with red hair said. The man"s face looked like he was grieving but his eyes turned red in anger.
"But we avenged every single one of them, we killed the devil incarnate who was responsible for our loss and showed the world that our Heavenly Sword Sect will always pay their debts"
At the moment the people heard the man they started to shout their sect name with all their might as some of them started to shed tears.
Far away from the scene, two figures stood inside a gla.s.s room looking at the crowd shouting.
If a man was there in the room his heart would beat faster seeing the beauty of the girl before him.
She had long wavy blonde hair, eyes dark, and a figure of a perfect hourgla.s.s.
She wasn"t just flawless in her bone structure, her skin was like silk over the gla.s.s and she radiated an intelligent beauty. The golden robe with small swords engraved on it added another layer of charm to her.
However, her emotions were not easily hidden on her innocent face. The pain in her heart was evident in the crease of her lovely brow and the slight down-curve of her cherry lips.And her eyes, her eyes showed her soul as they were deep pool grief and anger.
"Do you think he"s really dead?" the girl beside asked her
"He should be " the girl asked the question and had a shake when she heard her friend"s answer. She couldn"t help but shiver in fear
"No you killed him right? I saw you put a sword through his heart" the girl"s voice was breaking while she asked
"Yes but I still feel like everything that happened is my fault"
Every time she closed her eyes she could see him sitting on top of a pile of lifeless bodies of her brother"s and sisters with the sword on his hand that took their lives.
She could see clearly the anger and grief he had in his eyes that day, the blood-soaked body of his, even though it was a rainy day the blood on his body didn"t wash away . The cries she heard overcame even the sound of the thunder and lightning. Even to this day, she gets nightmares thinking about that day.
At the same time on a lonely mountain peak, a man stood there wiring empathy like his overcoat. He didn"t look like a cold person, quite the opposite but if anyone knew him was there, they could see he"s trying to find a way not to show the grief in his heart on his face. He"d seen more bodies returned to the earth, more souls returned to heaven or h.e.l.l than most people saw sunrises.
"Rest in peace kid, maybe one day you will be reincarnated into someone else and we will meet"
As the man said he knelt and placed a white wildflower before a tombstone.
After leaving the flower the man looked at the tombstone one last time before took off from the ground.
While after the man left the tombstone seemed lonely on the mountain peak, It was not a fancy stone or made of marble but a simple gray stone with simple three words engraved on
"Here Lies Don"