Chapter 278 - 278

"I am sorry Allias, I am really sorry about what happened to Mark but listen to me. Maybe, I think, we can fix this." Theseus whispered in his ear.

After he had heard these words the elf king crumbled, lost in despair. How would they ever bring a human back from the dead? It was impossible and if there was a way it would simply go against the laws of nature; the balance would be lost. No one knew what could happen to Mark if he did return.  Theseus had helped him up and led him carefully to the meeting room where he invited Asmodeus too. 

After his outbreak it was as if the shinning king had lost his voice, his blank was stare and the only thing he could do was ask Ea with tears in his eyes to bring Mark's body inside. The whole palace was restless, their king looked like he had been struck by an insufferable illness. There was nothing that could help him. As they sat around the table, the three men Theseus was the only one who looked truly alive. 

"How could you do something like this?" Allias asked Asmodeus once more, this time his voice was low, filled with despair. The demon shook his head, he had no answer to his question, he had no words to explain what had happened, he didn't know of the feelings that had possessed him at the moment. All he knew was that he made the worst mistake of his life and all he wished to do was find a way to fix it, no matter the cost. 

"I…I just want to help bring him back, I will do anything. I swear and afterwards I will disappear. I get it. Mark shouldn't be around me, not when I am like this." 

"I can't help but wonder what did he do to you that caused you to kill him? I can't believe that Mark would ever hurt anyone. He is one of the kindest people I have ever seen." Allias said. His face was pale and his royal act had completely disappeared. Theseus was sitting next to him, he attempted to take a hold of his cold hand, touching his thigh slightly but Allias moved further away, he didn't even look at him. Theseus had already realized it by what he had told him when he saw Mark, the tone in his voice, the look in his eyes. Allias was blaming him. He was blaming him too for what happened to Mark. 

The white haired general rubbed his temples as he heard Asmodeus explain everything. About who Mark was in his previous life, about the Academy and their escape together. He told them about how he had been exorcised and how he really wasn't intending to kill him, he had faith in Mark, he trusted him but as he continued to feed him lies he somehow lost it. The instincts he had been suppressing for so long just took over and simply ruined everything. Allias listened to everything, his stare lost somewhere in the room as he tried to fathom the whole situation. Mark was dead, truly dead, the demon in front of him had really killed him, like this king had predicted. 

"I was right." He mumbled. "You really did end up killing him. You are a murderer." He said, a piercing pain paralyzing the demon and Theseus sighed. Suddenly he felt tired, exhausted even as he kept thinking what was about to follow when they were left alone. 

"It's not like you didn't rip a man's head off a few days ago." Theseus muttered and wished he had bit his tongue this instant. Allias stopped moving and his head turned around, almost mechanically as if he was some kind of rusty robot and he stared at him.

"You fucker…" he said between gritted teeth and the feeling of an upcoming fight, the friction and the exhaustion were almost visible in the air. "I don't want to hear that from you! I don't want to hear that from any of you! Mark is dead and you…"

"You said there is a way to bring him back. Please, let's talk about this. I want to help." Asmodeus said. This was the first time anyone had seen him so docile. He did not have that crazy smile on his face anymore and the glow in his eyes was gone. He didn't care about seeming strong, none of that matter now that his so called power was used to kill the only person he had ever cared about. He was powerful, strong, undefeated and for what? For him to use this power, those hands to just take away the most precious life he had ever encountered. 

"I won't talk about anything with you!" Allias attacked him. "Did you think that I would want to work with you?" 

"We might need him. I don't think that it will be easy for us to do this?" he said and Allias stared at him like he was fed up with him even breathing. The general seemed to make the situation worse by the second and Allias was barely able to sit in the same room with the murderer of his best friend. He couldn't understand how all of them expected him to work with them like nothing happened. 

"Let me do this with you. I just want to know that whatever it is it will succeed and later on I will disappear. I will go back to hell. I have a few things to deal with. I…I want to find who killed Mark in his previous life." He announced and Allias scoffed. He wanted to take revenge for what? A death in another life? Very ironic, if you thought that he was the one who killed him now. 

"Promise us you will never see Mark again. Swear it." Theseus said and looked at him with a threatening expression. Allias was sitting back, his arms crossed over his chest as he looked dissatisfied Asmodeus nod eagerly and smile faintly once he realized he could participate. This bastard, he kept swearing at him in his head. 

"So, tell us Theseus, the man who knows everything how will we get Mark back?" Allias asked him, his tone obviously filled with spiteful irony. Theseus didn't say anything, he didn't wish for things to become worse, he only revealed to the king and the demon his idea, knowing that Allias would immediately object to it. 

"We could visit the Chaos Sisters. They would be able to bring Mark back." He announced and Allias gasped, surprised that he heard that name come from Theseus' lips 

"We will not mess with Necromancers. It's a law." He told him strictly.