Chapter 1153 The Price Of Peace



Lily's heart ached not only for her grandfather but for her entire family as to what happened to her older brother her grieving father blamed her grandfather for not complying with the S.A.I.N.T organization's wishes. His father accused her grandfather of putting his greed before his grandson's life.

Although Lily had tried to convince her father that he was wrong to think that way, she even ensure her father that the person sent from the S.A.I.N.T. organization has ulterior motives but her father doesn't want to understand nor did her mother so what else she can do.

"Then what should we do Grandpa, we can't let Ethan's situation drag on," Lily said helplessly.

"I see, that's why I asked Justin Thornberry for help" Hugo replied.

Lilly looked at him in surprise she subconsciously exclaimed, "New director of N.I.M.S! King Harland Archknights!"

Hugo nodded decisively "Yes, King Lucas Archknights," the old man's expression became extremely heavy, "There is no one I can trust nor have the power to save Ethan other than King Lucas Archknights"

There was a spark of hope in her brown eyes, but she couldn't celebrate just yet before hearing their reply "Have you heard from Mr. Thornberry?"

Hugo let out a deep sigh and the shade of disappointment flashed on his wrinkled face he then shook his head weakly "Not yet..."

Her heart automatically sank like a stone in the ocean, Lily turned her gloomy eyes to the magnificent view in front of her that failed to comfort her.

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Hugo is left alone in the living room he walks to the balcony he stares at the breathtaking view before him then he places his hand on the wooden reeling with inexplicable looks.

As the Sun began to set the clouds to be dyed with red and gold which then brought his memories back to the past when the sky was covered only by endless darkness,

No one could ever imagine that the light that everyone took for granted could ever be lost and replaced by eternal darkness, and no one could ever think their easy life could change so drastically in a blink of an eye and everything they have destroyed right before their eyes.

Luckily because of their wide connection, Hugo managed to get prior news about something catastrophic is about to happen even though he doesn't know what it is but it gives him time to store their precious gems and crystals in a secret bunker and that's how the Hamilton family managed to rebuild their family faster than everybody else after the Dark age war over.

However, even though he managed to hold on to their precious wealth, he was unable to save all of his family, and friends so many of them had died during the Beast horde which eventually forced him to move from their hometown to a military refuge camp in the south and they temporarily survived though. in a difficult situation after food supplies slowly ran out as well as medicine, this was compounded by the absence of sun, the remaining government could not grow crops to support the refugees and the remaining soldiers, as a result, everyone had to try to find food on their own, including himself.

Hugo remembered that time he was forced to go looking for food with some of the remaining hunters, but they were trapped in the siege of strange monsters who were ready to kill them mercilessly.

Hugo thought the time had come but to be honest he wasn't willing because he didn't want to leave his wife, grandchildren, and children, he wasn't ready to die before seeing his granddaughter at least get married.

But he has to accept those hopes are futile as the hunters he's been with are one by one horribly killed, Hugo knows his turn will come.

Hugo closed his eyes waiting for the inevitable fate but a cold wind appeared out of nowhere and the ground he was standing on was suddenly covered with ice soon after hundreds of ice spikes burst abruptly from the ground and pierced all the demon beast just like meat skewer all those creatures were ripped apart and later the parasite beast inside them dispersed into black dust.

Hugo and the remaining people stared at their surroundings in confusion as a gale came from above, Hugo and the others subconsciously lifted their heads and there they saw a dark figure floating in the air with gigantic black wings that remind him of the color of ink were cover their sight from the dark sky.

Everyone quivered in fright they were convinced it was another creature that come to kill them but Hugo didn't think the same.

He was certain it was a human, a girl…a young girl in fact! but who is she? then Hugo saw her messy bluish hair fluttering as it was blown away by the strong winds.

'Princess Lorient?' he gasped in disbelief.

Hugo told himself he must be wrong, how could Princess Lorient is here when she was supposed to be at the L'markieth and why did her wings become black also her eyes....why is it so hollow?

Hugo never knew Princess Lorient personally but he had met her when she was a child, the young princess was only twelve or thirteen years old then and she was accompanied by King Marcus attending international events, and in Hugo's memory, the young princess always has the brightest smile that could light up a room, and a pair of enigmatic purple eyes that looked like thousands of stars twinkled within her beautiful, jewel-like eyes. 

So how could this woman be the same as the excited little girl he had met before, even if one could change, it wouldn't be this drastic.

"RUUN!" One of them suddenly screamed and everyone started running frantically for their lives, Hugo didn't know who was holding his hand as long as he could remember he was dragged into one of the remaining vehicles, as their car sped away Hugo couldn't hold himself back to look back, and the woman remained in the same place.

Her expression at that time struck the strings of his heart for it was an expression of someone who has abandoned the world and herself.

It was after the world returned to peace that Hugo decided he would not make weapons anymore because he did not want to become one of the contributors to the world's violence after so many sacrifices were made to get their peace.

The people cheered happily as they celebrated their victory after a long war which they finally won, the King had slain the Calamity Dragon, the King had won…yet Hugo wonder if the young King felt the same but then again Hugo remembered King Lucas never said that they had won the war he just said the darkness was over.

The old man stared at the sky that had become dark not long after a deep frown formed on his forehead, he had fallen into a dilemma and he didn't know what to do.

Only after the war is over Hugo finds out that the woman he met is indeed Princess Lorient, he doesn't know what happened but a lot of rumors circling about her and what had happened but one thing Hugo knows for sure is that Princess Lorient died for them and she's not even thirty when she died.

A lot of people reckoned the Lucient family's sacrifice as if it was natural but everyone forgot how young they were even King Marcus was considered to be still in his prime when he died so why did they have to sacrifice themselves for them when they owed them nothing...nothing at all.