Chapter 161: End-1

As Severus was dazed, he failed to notice a spy coming towards him. The spy swiftly struck Severus. It was too late for Severus when he noticed. He gently raised his sword to attack him but the next instant he fell on the ground. His vision started turning blue and he felt difficulty in breathing. A syringe was plunged into his body. The dark black liquid slowly seeped inside his body. 

THUD! THUD! THUD!

He heard a lot of footsteps. Soon an army swarmed inside the palace and took everyone as hostages. Consciousness started drifting and Severus fell into a deep slumber. He felt like he had been drugged. He finally woke up from his slumber. His whole body felt sore as if he had been running several laps. Barely getting hold of his breath Severus tried waking up himself. With his blurry vision, he managed to get hold of his surroundings.

"Oh my! My dear son woke up" Marquis adored Severus.

The hell!

Severus saw that he was being tied vertically on a plank of wood. It was a large cross on which he was hugged. Severus' wrist and ankles started hurting as it started bleeding. His first reaction was to look for Noworry and Desella. Inside a golden cage, Desella, Selena, and the old man Gren was locked inside. Severus searched for noworry, but he failed at establishing a connection with him. Dread started building inside him. 

He noticed that in front of him, a big circular rune was made on the ground. The iron smell inside the room told Severus that this rune was made from fresh blood. He shivered while imagining the brutality performed by Marquis. Maverick was sitting in the center of the rune with a dazed expression. He was hugging her cold body while the light from his eyes turned dark. His iris turned pitch black whereas he emitted an ominous aura. Something was not correct with Maverick but what?

Marquis caressed his beard as he spoke "Now now dear Severus. Don't behave like a scaredy-cat."

"What are you planning? And all this blood. How many innocent lives did you sacrifice?"

Hell!

"What happened to Maverick?" Severus exhaled sharply as he couldn't believe his eyes. "He. He was your own son. Fking your own flesh and blood. How could you do that to him...?" Severus had no words to argue with Marquis.

Ha!

Marquis started laughing like a maniac. "Yea he is my so and that is actually why I am doing all this with him. He should feel honored for obtaining such immense powers. After I use your soul and blood, he will become one of the strongest mutated humans ever existed in history. Don't worry, nothing grave happened to him...until now at least. He is just in a state of shock you can say. He can very well listen as well as hear us, but I doubt he will react to it since he is already reacting to his beloved's death."

"Marquis you are a pathetic human. Even associating you with the term human is derogatory. Don't tell me the blood spilled here belongs to all those innocent women?" Severus asked coldly hoping Maverick to refute his acquisition. However, life was never fair.

Marquis smiled dryly "What makes you think I won't do it?"

Everyone gasped.

Desella who was hell confused with ongoing matters finally run out of patience. "What is he saying, Severus?"

"Go on. Tell them, Severus. I know you already found out my little secret and barged inside my study. Oooof. I won't forgive you for helping my beloved to escape."

"Shut your filthy mouth Marquis" Severus raged.

"Maverick"

"Maverick"

"I know you can hear me so please do and react. I know you feel lost after Melanie's death but grip your emotion buddy. She really was not the one for you. Nothing but a selfish woman who planned the assassination of you. She killed the man she swears her love for, while she planned to kill her husband. Only the word, Whore was correct to describe her. F*king loose woman." Severus intentionally cursed Melanie. He knew Marquis had put him under magic, but he needs to make sure that Maverick listens to what he is going to say next.

Maverick balled his fist in anger but except that, he gave no other reactions.

"Maverick. Didn't you say you missed your mother? You remember telling me how sad you were without her. You always hoped for a mother. When we were children, the only dream you ever had was, to find the real murderer of your mother. Later you blamed it on Cynthia and resented anyone associated with Frost legion. You internally resented me too. I know you were burdened with my existence but believe me Maverick. Not once have I ever blamed you for anything that your father did to me. Time has come to tell you who was the actual murder of your mother, the ex-empress is. No one else but the great King Marquis himself. He was the one who staged all this. Years before, he eavesdrops on the empress and got to know that the empress had long been aware of his real nature. When you were inside your mothers' belly, my mother came to meet your mother and told her everything about him. This man not only cheated on empress but even deceived my mother. He faked his love story with my mother to obtain the hidden powers of our clan but my mother was sharp. She soon found out about his real plan and asked him to marry her to test him out. As predicted, he denied the marriage proposal since the ex-empress was the daughter of the previous onyx lord. She was a blessed child with holy light. She was well blessed with everything except a child. She was cursed to never get pregnant and if by chance she becomes, then her life would end. Marquis knew about her predicament. Knowing all this, he still impregnated her. Your mother Sylvia was a fool in love. Like every other wife, she loved her husband and bore him a son even at the cost of her life. We can say Marquis felt sad for his dying wife. He was later injured and sent to Resen for his steady recovery. There he found out about the lost art of necromancy from my mother. He became enchanted with our clan powers".

"Am I right Marquis?" Severus asked as he gnashed his teeth.

"Absolutely"

"There was no doubt that Sylvia was a good wife. Beautiful and patient, a perfect wife that any husband could desire for but at one point, I was fed up with her. She was so sweet that I felt I would soon be diagnosed with diabetes. Then Sylvia told me about her being a special child. She told me that she cannot bore me a child and if she did then he would suffer the same fate as her. Well, it would be too shameful if I get a son that cannot produce an heir. Too shameful but then she was my wife. Somethings were meant to happen between us, and things happened. Surprisingly, she became pregnant. I asked her to kill the child if she wanted to live but, how can she? A kind woman like her would never kill her child. I was distressed. Later I saw Cynthia. She was a cold beauty who still send shivers to my heart. She was a fearsome woman that every man wanted to conquer. Well, I would say I am proud that I made her fall for me. In all honesty, she was a psycho. She used to love Hades. I mean how can you even have those feelings for a deity? I will not go in deep but in Resen, I learned a lot about black magic. There I got to know about the book Ophelius. The cursed book with immense knowledge and power. Frost legion was responsible for maintaining the air of mystery on it so that no one can find it, but I did. I finally found that cursed book but alas. I did not have what it requires to open it. I need to sacrifice a child of light with a child of darkness to activate the book. Luckily that idiot woman bore me a child of light and the only thing I wanted was, to find the child of darkness."

"You…." Gren was barely able to hold his anger. To listen from Marquis's mouth how he used her precious daughter pained him to no end. 

"Calm down old man. Your turn to participate in this conversation will come but not now. Have some patience" Marquis flipped his robe in annoyance.

"Aye Severus. When I first got the news that Cynthia was pregnant, I was mad. Literally mad. Jealousy surged inside me and because of envy inside me, I asked to massacre her entire clan. I killed every single necromancer. That bitch had some luck as she was able to flee but we all know, every dog has its day. I finally caught that little cat but before I could talk to her, she died while giving you birth. Such an ill-luck child. I wanted to kill you but then the bell rang in my mind. I tried finding about your father but found nothing. I was aware of how stubborn and strong Cynthia was, so it was impossible she got pregnant with any Tom-Dick-Harry. I searched and researched a lot even investigating it personally to only come up with a hilarious thought.