"Keep your voice down—Devil's Queen."
The man's cold and rough voice rang in Lucian's ears. His thin blade was close to Lucian's throat, just a little bit away from cutting the artery under the fair skin.
"I'm being held at knifepoint again." Lucian said to the system, "Why do these people always hold knives against me when they come to look for Wade?"
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Unfortunately, since he was captured and imprisoned by Wade, Lucian's magic power has been sealed by the anklet on his ankle. He can't cast spells to fight against this assassin. And this assassin is obviously also a very professional person.
He was able to sneak into the depths of the mansion silently, ambush here, and find the opportunity when Lucian returned to look for the earrings...
Lucian held the earring in his hand. He was about to speak when he heard Vader's footsteps. The assassin didn't waste any more words and crushed the teleportation crystal in his hand.
That crystal is a special magical tool that can teleport the caster to a place within a five-kilometer radius. At the moment of teleportation, the assassin whispered in Lucian's ear: "Your husband is collecting your body on the city wall."
At that moment, Lucian suddenly felt that this person's voice sounded familiar.
The scenery in front of him flashed, and in a blink of an eye, Lucian saw himself in a dim little house. The assassin Arthur forced the queen with a knife, asked her to walk to the foot of the wall step by step, and took up the rope and used it to tie her hands.
Even though he was on the enemy side and wearing a mask, Arthur had to admit that the queen was indeed a beauty - no wonder she was obsessed with a devil like Wade. He knew that the queen was locked up in the deep palace by Wade and was not easily shown to others. So today Wade took the queen out, which was a good opportunity.
But he thought about it for a long time and still couldn't understand why Vader brought his queen to the mansion where the Duke of Rhine used to sell succubi... Maybe this is the dirty interest between the devil and his woman. Arthur didn't want to comment on this.
It just happened to give him an opportunity to take action.
The assassin grabbed Lucian's wrist and stopped there.
Those hands were white and soft, but they definitely did not belong to a woman... Then, he heard the Queen's voice: "Who are you? A member of the Church of Dusk City?"
The voice was gentle and moving, with a hint of seductive laziness, but it was definitely not a woman's voice.
But... a voice he was very familiar with.
"Who are you?" the assassin asked in fear.
"Take off my mask, Arthur." The Queen's voice was soft, but with absolute calm control, and she called out his name accurately.
The assassin reached out and took off the mask with trembling hands. At that moment, Lucian's perfect face like moonlight appeared in front of him. The cold expression of the ascetic monk collapsed. He looked at the wine-red magic pattern on Lucian's forehead, and finally uttered three words with gritted teeth: "Lucian, it's you—"
"Don't be so anxious." Lucian uttered a few words.
Lucian didn't know the twists and turns between Arthur and Bright and the others, but he knew that what he needed to do at this moment was to stabilize the assassin's emotions.
Arthur was an extremely loyal ascetic, and the reason he came to kidnap him was obviously for the Church... Now, he obviously seemed to be acting alone.
Thinking of this, Lucian had a plan.
Arthur looked at Lucian with hatred, the son of God whom he once regarded as a god. The white-haired succubus also looked at him coldly.
"Arthur." The former Son of God said coldly, "You have always been smart. Who told you to act alone and do such a stupid thing?"
Arthur was stunned: "What?"
Lucian's reaction was not at all what he had imagined.
"Go to the palace, kidnap Vader's queen, kill her, and intimidate Vader? How could you come up with such a ridiculous plan?" Lucian's usually gentle tone became heavier. "Have you ever thought about how to retreat from the royal city after completing all this? Have you ever thought about the uncertainty that this will not harm Vader's own power at all, and may even only anger him and accelerate his revenge on Dusk City? How did Shelly and the others manage it?"
"Lucian, you... could it be..."
Lucian's tone was so natural, and he was also so familiar with Shelley when he talked about the upper echelons of the Church of Dusk City. At that moment, Arthur suddenly had a terrible guess.
This conjecture was further verified by Lucian's next words. Lucian sighed and said, "... Now that Wade has finally established trust in me, if you kidnap me at this time and he mistakenly thinks you are trying to make a connection... forget it."
"Lucian, you really are..." Arthur seemed to understand something completely at that moment. He frowned and said, "Why didn't I know about this? No one I know knows about this. Could it be that you appeared beside Wade and became his queen just to..."
"You haven't reached that level yet, Arthur." Lucian said coldly, "Stop doing things you are not qualified to do."
After seeing Arthur's slightly depressed expression, Lucian sighed again and said in a slower voice: "This is for your safety."
As he spoke, he reached out and slightly lifted the hem of his skirt.
A silver anklet flashed in Arthur's sight. Lucian raised his chin slightly and said, "He has restricted my magic power. I can't carry out any assassination activities against him for the time being."
Silence spread in the hut. Finally, Arthur said, "Lucian, how can I believe what you say?"
"Don't you think the person next to you is the best bait?" Lucian tilted his head slightly and smiled, "This is much better than the assassination activities you randomly organized. Now, right now. Take me away from here first, let's get out of the city first, and then find a way..."
The conversation continued for a while, and Lucian finally convinced the skeptical Arthur through the art of language.
"I will temporarily believe you, Lucian." Arthur finally said, "I will temporarily believe that you have always been our Son. You are trapped by his side only because you can't escape from him from the beginning to the end. This is really... But I know, how can you be willing to be his lover?"
"I stayed with him just to wait for an opportunity to kill him, that's all." Lucian said, "But your impulsiveness made my situation worse."
"Maybe I should take you away now..."
Arthur was about to speak when he suddenly felt a chill.
Then, there was the sound of wood exploding!
Wade walked towards Arthur and Lucian. His face was gloomy, and Lucian didn't know how many conversations he had just heard. He stared at Wade in a daze, and Wade curled his lips and smiled.
"Where are you going to take him?"
"How come you are so quick..."
Lucian really wanted to say, "Why did you come so soon?" If he had known that Wade would come so soon, he would not have wasted his time trying to trick Arthur Gibran into taking him out of here. Then, things went beyond his control.
Vader didn't look at him, but immediately attacked Arthur. Arthur immediately used magic and fought with Vader.
After all, this hut is Arthur's base camp. In order to come here to carry out the mission, Arthur also took away several special items with divine power from the Holy See. But Wade is more skilled after all.
Standing behind Wade was Lilith of the Undead Clan, holding an umbrella and silently watching the fight inside.
It seemed that she had discovered Arthur's hiding place.
After meeting Lilith's eyes, Arthur's cold expression trembled slightly.
At that moment, Vader pierced his shoulder. Arthur fell to the ground, staring at Vader.
"Come in and kill him." Wade said coldly.
He was talking to Lilith. Lilith lowered her eyes and walked towards Arthur. Wade walked towards Lucian, who was standing at the innermost part, and roughly grabbed his arm, trying to drag him out of the room.
The change happened at this moment.
There was still an arrow hidden in Arthur's throat. When Wade and Lucian were about to leave the room, he raised his head and the deadly arrow shot towards Wade.
"Your Majesty!" Lilith exclaimed, "He is attacking you—"
Lucian also saw the arrow that was heading straight for Wade's vital point. He immediately attacked, gathering the air wave in his hand and using magic to wave it away.
At that moment he seemed to have forgotten something.
—Now he can't cast spells.
Wade used his fastest speed, but it was too late. The arrow grazed Lucian's palm and drew blood—and the toxin that exploded entered Lucian's blood at that moment.
Arthur was stunned for a moment, but finally laughed and coughed up blood after seeing Wade's panic. He was about to die, but he finally completed his revenge at this moment. With red eyes and spitting blood, he said: "Wade... I hate you, and I want you to taste the feeling of losing someone important..."
At that moment, Arthur knew that his death was near. He no longer cared about the life or death of the Church, nor did he care whether Lucian's statement was true or false. The only thing he saw was Wade's unwavering protection and persistence for Lucian.
He couldn't kill Vader, but he wanted to make him feel enough pain.
Just like the pain his biological brother felt when he was killed by Vader while escorting him to exile.
Both Bright and the Church were too arrogant to think that he went to the capital alone just to swear his loyalty to the God of Light. But that was not the case.
What made him choose to take revenge regardless of everything was not simply the opposition between camps, light and darkness, faith or not. They all took it too seriously, and only he knew that he was just doing it for his brother...
After that, the messages were suddenly cut off and no longer sent back to the capital.
Letter from home.
"... God of Light." He murmured at the end of his life, "Please forgive my revenge... But..."
Even if you don't forgive me, I can't watch my enemies sleep in peace.
Vader suddenly waved his hand and stabbed the magical ice blade into his heart.
He hurriedly left the cabin carrying Lucian, who had collapsed from the poison, without even thinking of taking revenge on Arthur.
Then only Lilith and Arthur were left in the room.
Arthur fell to the ground, the blood rushing up his throat. He was dying.
In his last blurry vision, he saw Lilith kneeling beside him. Her always cold silver eyes were now bloodthirsty red. At that moment, he remembered his first meeting with her.
If it hadn't happened in such an identity, perhaps the ending would have been different, he thought.
"... Why?" Arthur said with his last bit of strength, "Wade wants you to come and kill me..."
Lilith shook her head and said nothing.
As long as they kill their loved ones with their own hands, the undead will no longer fear the sun. Arthur remembered this rumor at the end of his life.
He closed his eyes and whispered, "... Kill me."
"... No." Lilith said softly.
She watched the cold, hateful monk finally close his eyes in front of her. All the blood in his body was drained out, and he was heading towards complete death. Before he died, a trace of despair finally appeared on his face.
A hint of despair at knowing the truth.
Lilith didn't kill him herself, not because she couldn't bear to do it.
It was because of his betrayal and her past stupidity.
-If killing you can make me no longer afraid of the sun, then doesn't it prove that I once loved you
—In that case, I might as well watch you bleed to death in front of me.
"... Lilith." At the end of his life, Arthur finally said softly, "When you go out next time, don't forget to bring an umbrella."
He was completely dead, and even his soul was completely cut clean by the blade thrown by Vader.
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