Ren appeared in Urah's castle's courtyard after walking for a while.
King max was away at the venue for the exams which could be concluded at any moment so he knew he had limited time to hunt his prey.
A prey whose scent he wasn't familiar with would be difficult to find,he had once seen her with the king but had no memory of her scent.
But he had been here on several occasions and knew the exact location of the prey's nest.
The Royal chambers had been built in such a way as to keep soul sight users from seeing through them.
If she was away from the royal chambers then he could easily spot her with soul sight.
The white hood he wore did a good job of hiding most of his face and the most peculiar feature about him,his scarlet hair.
Even those who had never met him had heard of the strongest general infamous for his scarlet hair and eyes.
Deep down Ren felt no fear or hesitation at the crime he was about to commit,a capital crime worthy of death.He only felt rage,the feeling which propelled him,he would ensure to move unnoticed,that was something he was good at doing.
The maids and ladies in waiting in Aries's chamber paused to stare at the white dressed figure in a hooded cape that had appeared out of no where briefly before a few walked on.
Ren ignored the stares and raised a hand above his head to summon a magic circle,his eyes glowing bright red.
"Sleep!"he commanded and they all stumbled to the ground immediately,laundries,liquids and dishes spilling from all corners of the place to paint an awful sight.
He had spelled the Queen's entire royal chambers to put every living thing in it and any that would come into it in a deep slumber,this would earn him a faster kill.
Ren removed his hood and shut his eyes in search of the presence of magic energy in the chamber.
Except the Generals,knights and royal guards, royals and Semonios in high government positions,every other positions in the royal palaces of Delvin were occupied by magic deficient Semonios and king Max had married a semonio with magic ablities.
He sensed magic outside the Queen's chambers,those he assumed to be the guards,but there was one inside with a huge amount of magic energy and that he assumed would be the queen.
Ren followed his senses to turn open a door knob for his eyes to settle on a pregnant woman collapsed on her side.
Her blonde hair was spread around her with one hand stretched out and the other on her protruding stomach.
Ren glared at her stomach with eyes void of empathy.
He pointed a finger at her,his eyes glowing as he muttered a spell.
Queen Aries's fingers moved slightly before she opened her eyes.
Her gaze fell on both courtladies who lay at a corner of the room before she slowly sat up,holding her head but then froze at the sight of who stood Infront of her.
The scarlet eyes and hair,a familiar sight with a blood tasty glare and a hunger only blood could contain,there was no mistaken who stood Infront of her.
Queen Aries found herself trembling.
Although she had no idea what he wanted,those eyes told her he thirsted for her blood.
She slowly backed away,crawling with her buttocks against the ground.
"Wh...why are you here?"Aries said finally finding the voice to speak.
"I thought to let the face of the one who would take your life hunt you in the dregs for eternity".Ren smirked, exposing a pair of sharp canines.
Despite knowing it was useless to do so,queen Aries tried telepathy but just as she expected it had been blocked.
Suddenly,she felt her own tears wet her face.
The tears flowed freely,drenching her green robe as the greed of a mother overtook her and she thought to make the request every mother in her situation would.
Aries swallowed and boldly stared into the General's eyes.
"I am near my due date....if you must kill me please spare my child"She pleaded,the tears flowing even more from a deeper part of a broken soul.
Ren streched out a hand as he watched her plead for her own child,the smirk on his face had now turned into a dark grin,he had never felt this delighted in ages.
"A monster births a monster, unfortunately that is life's own design and one I will not entertain".
Aries felt herself choking.
She placed both hands on her neck,gasping for air but the air only ,slowly leaving her lungs and gradually her mind was going blank,her vision blurry.
"Plea..."she wanted to say but couldn't utter the word.
Her tears flowed even more,as she prayed for a help she knew would not come.
Aries felt her consciousness draining as she fell to the ground,lips open with saliva drooling from one side of her mouth.
Soonafter,she gave in to the darkness,into nothingness,a world without sound.
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Tyran found himself atop a mountain in a strange land with an otherworldly glow and aura home to different forms of spirit guards.
Most spirit guard here that had not yet been assigned to Semonios as life companions while others had been sent back by their own masters, unable to return to Delvin for many decades.
Here they wondered,in a land where time didn't matter,a land without day or night, ruled by the qu fairy of the mist as told in myths and legends but none had memory of it.
Countless small strangely shaped structures floated which Tyran thought to be their homes with no ground in sight.
He had once read that the underworld was connected to the spirit guard and the deeper one fell,from the spirit guard world,the closer he was to the underworld but that was just another myth.
Tyran had summoned Encar his spirit guard,a small black white bearded scorpion shaped creature with wings whom he rarely allowed by his side.
Encar was a creature with an grudge against the Emperor simply because Tyran never summoned him since his teens.
His father had taught him to trust no one,not even Encar because 'betrayal was a shadow at every ruler's heell and the words from a Semonios's spirit guard,his weak point.
Because of this, Encar never got along with him,the centuries old spirit guard whom Tyran summoned only on rare occasions missed him and had been stuck in the unclean realm for a long time.
It glared at him while Tyran stared back with a wide grin.
"Believe it or not... I missed you Encar".
"I don't want to hear of it!"it snapped"Take what you need and begone!".
Tyran laughed.
"Watch your words!"he teased with a crooked smile"I am still your Emperor!".
The old Scorpion everted it's gaze.
"It's not just me,the Emperor before me never kept their spirit guards by their side_"
"I don't care!.."Encar cut in "I must warn you,that which you seek here remains a myth even in our world,you must brace yourself to return disappointed".