Burning Soul

…

They were taken to the hall by the sentinels.

As they had heard of, sentinels were really giant armored beastmen, that armor looked like the toughest thing in the world.

Being hauled by them, no one had a chance of escaping.

At his palace at the heart of Arnor, all the intruders were presented in the main hall in front of their overseer!

One could tell from long who was the lord here.

As per tales, he surely was quite charming and taller than others in the hall.

He wasn’t wearing any crown, but he didn't even need one.

“Here, father! One of them was carrying this.”

Duvrion’s younger son Eric handed Aeneas’s sword to him.

Unlike Duvrion he looked very average, though he carried the same hair trait, silver-white.

“You dare to intrude in my territory and cause trouble!

You people seem no normal to me! How come you possess such a weapon!”

He spoke looking at Aeneas who didn’t give a crap about it and ignored his call!

Seeing his ignorance Duvrion was even furious,

“Did you steal it?”

Hearing it again Aeneas couldn’t control his anger,

two sentinels were holding on to his chain, yet he pulled it so hard that those two sentinels were sent flying as he pounced on Duvrion!

He was so quick that the guards couldn’t even move!

Even Eric who was standing next to Duvrion was startled by his sudden move,

fortunately, two more sentinels jumped in and pulled the chain refraining his moment just a few inches away from Duvrion.

“Too slow!”

He angrily scolded his guards who had disappointed him gravely this time around.

Looking at his desperation, Duvrion took a glance at one of the swords, the black one!

As he held it his expressions sank.

The will of the sword spoke to him, “Thou shalt not dare to use a legends weapon! By thy will is not so strong!”

This was a legitimate artifact blessed upon Aces.

He suddenly let go of the weapon as he understood that the man standing next to him was not just any man.

…

“Lightning Flash!

Legendary Ace of lightning strikes, Aeneas!”

An old man’s voice echoed in that quiet hall.

It was Duvrion’s father and The Ruler of the Arnor kingdom, Dimitri!

“Huh!

An Ace?

Weren’t they all dead?”

Eric arrogantly replied to Dimitri to which he received a sharp glare by him putting him to silence,

“Not dead!

...

Murdered!”

Aeneas replied in a deep tone as his anger was still not calmed!

Others had a confusing expression!

“Hmm, you are quite right!

Who are these people then?

And what are you doing with them?”

He asked pointing towards others!

To his question Aeneas stayed quiet, looking at his silence Dimitri ordered,

“Get them in prison! I want to know who they are, use any method you might!”

Hearing this Eric had a wicked smile on his face as he dragged the chains on them commanding them to move!

Theo, Vivian gave a final glance at him,

Aeneas too gave a look at his allies with wet eyes!

“Unchain him and bring him to the sacred chambers!”

He then ordered which seemed to have baffled Duvrion as he replied,

“Father, you sure?

He’s a troublesome guy!”

Hearing his objection, he looked back at him and answered,

“You doubt my opinion!”

His words were filled with an indirect pressure under which even Duvrion was crushed in a moment.

He didn’t even have to order Sentinels to let him go.

Though Aeneas was planning on something! As his chains were loosened, he directly pounced on Dimitri as he was obviously the weakest looking guy there, while pouncing he took out that worn-out sword from his storage.

He was faster than Duvrion could react, he skipped a beat as this happened, his father was looking the other way and he thought he’d be captured.

But to his and everyone else's surprise, his father turned back and stretched his hand, catching the blade of his sword in his two fingers!

The impact was so huge that the shockwave was felt by everyone in the hallway

“Calm down!

Don’t you want to know what really happened?”

His words froze Aeneas right where he was.

“What…

Wh..

Wh….

What did you say?”

He was startled by his words as he hadn’t anticipated him saying such a thing!

“Yeah! I mean it! You need to come with me to the tower of wisdom to understand what happened!”

Saying this he let go of the sword and began walking. His fingers had a small cut through, ‘looks like he hasn’t lost his calm yet! ’was on his mind as he wiped it.

Aeneas was still standing aloof!

“You know who killed Hina?” He said in a very low voice.

“You’ll know!” Dimitri didn’t even look back to answer him.

…

In the prisons where everyone was locked in, there was a guy who walked in with a set of swords to interrogate them one by one!

Seeing him there with his intimidating posture, it was sure that he was no good news.

Theo was not sure of what was going on anymore as it was all so sudden, and he had not recovered from Aeneas’s transformation yet.

‘Why did he act so reckless out of nowhere?

And who is this Hina?

Someone he knows.

Or that weapon is the key to uncover the mystery!

Arlo! Why did he call grave robber!

But,

we have to deal with this guy first!’

Theo was thinking about all this as Duvrion’s younger son walked in.

“Okay!

Now let’s not make this one difficult!

Why don't you just tell me who you all are, and we walk as nothing happened!

Or you might not know but I’m sent here for a reason!”

He looked at all of them with imitative eyes while taking a chair to sit on.

“I can make even dead talk!”

He spoke in a very low tone as he licked his knife!

In that dark room where there was not a single ray of sunlight coming in, his white hairs as his golden eyes were shining, giving off a very haunting aura.

“Pff!

Have you ever tried to threaten someone?

Kid, you are no good at it!” Naue let out a burst of laughter as he said so

Eric didn’t take it well as he looked with an obviously angry look at him.

Ember who was there locked up was no ordinary person and she was able to escape without a hick, though as per Luna’s suggestions she was on guard and was acting as if she was locked up just as others.

“He’s not that dangerous but for some reason,

I don’t feel it right!

He’s clearly threatening even though we have told him that we came from southern territory!

Is it some personal vendetta?

You need to be careful, just in case if he tries to harm Theo, free yourself and take him with you!

I’m sure Aeneas will notice all this ruckus and head right here!

As for Duvrion, we’ll just have to avoid him.”

Clearly a great escape plan! But desperate times call for desperate moves.

She just kept her eyes closed and acted as if she was still very weak to even reply.

“You want to talk or what?” He pounced on Theo and asked him while putting his knife on his neck.

His actions were not so fast but were nimble,

“I told you we came from Ephesus!

We are on a very important mission we can’t really tell you everything but hear us!

We are Royalties!”

Theo spoke while keeping his eyes shut as he could feel the cold blade of the knife on his neck.

“Leave him alone!

Why don’t you pick on your size punk!”

Naomi shouted out; others were also giving him glares as no one really understood his reasoning!

“Shut up you filthy rat,

I know your kin very well.

I ain’t talking to you yet, this one is my prey and I decide what to do!

You liars, Low life, you haven’t learned your lesson I see!

First, you invade our territory, then you attack our guards, and now you run your mouth like you own it all!”

Somehow his words felt empty as if forced.

Hearing him,

Vivian shouted, “Cut the Crap!

Attacked!

Whom?

We!

We didn’t even get close to anyone to attack!

If you don’t believe us why not try and contact Athena herself and inquire about us?”

Hearing this he got silenced for a while!

...

“Huh!

You are bluffing wild girl!

Let me teach you a lesson on how to not talk to others!”

He then took his knife off Theo’s neck leaving a scar there.

…

Just as he was about to get to her a guard came in running!

“You’ve been summoned by lord Duvrion, prince!

Right now,”

“Tck!

I will deal with you loads later!”

He left cursing as his father calling him was no joke and he knew the urgency of the matter!

Though someone had freed themselves which went unnoticed by him,

“Damn,

he was getting on my nerves!”