Legacy of the Betelgeuse

The big guy removes his left hand and he lifts Jariel up with the greatsword in his body. The big guy then swings his greatsword and Jariel is thrown away to the ground with his body almost ripped to half. Jariel is not moving at all and all his men are standing there speechless seeing Jariel in that condition, and Rodwane's hands are trembling in fear.

I immediately grab [Max Health Potion (S)] from my inventory and I look at Avriel.

"AVRIEL! GIVE THIS TO YOUR FATHER!"

I throw the potion bottle at her.. She immediately stands up and runs to catch the potion bottle. She catches it, but the big guy's greatsword is about to hit her face. Avriel disappears and reappears immediately beside Jariel. I immediately swing my chained sickle at him one more time and pulling him as hard as I can while I'm fighting another big guy. Jariel is coughing blood while forcing himself to smile to say that he's fine. She opens the potion bottle while her hands are trembling in shock, and when she's about to pour the potion into Jariel's mouth, Jariel's eyes are fading and he's not moving nor breathing.

Avriel is trembling while gulping nervously.

"F-father?"

Avriel immediately pours the potion into his mouth, but nothing is happening and Jariel's body is getting colder and colder. A tear falls down while Avriel keeps looking at his face in disbelief. She's shaking Jariel's body and looks at the wound on his chest, but it's not healing at all, and Jariel's blood is surrounding them both. Avriel keeps shaking his body with tears falling down into the pool of blood.

The big guy suddenly falls to the ground and I think the poison is starting to affect his body. In less than 10 seconds, the big guy is dead with his body stiffed like a statue. I remove my chained sickle from him and now I can focus on defeating the big guy in front of me. Azrael leaps toward the big guy and chewing his helmet with his fangs, I can see that his fangs are fractured from trying to rip off the big guy's helmet, but Azrael doesn't care and keeps crushing his helmet. I'm slashing his body and hook my sickles in his torso, then I run back and pulling both of the chains as hard as I can. His chest plate is destroyed and I immediately remove the chains from my hands then grabs the scythe while running toward him.

"Azrael move!"

Azrael jumps off from his body and I swing my scythe into his body and pushing him down to the ground while screaming my lungs out. I pierce his body with my scythe and I keep pushing him down and make my scythe stuck on the ground with his body on it. I grab my sickles and run toward Ivonna to help her out. I run past her and hook both of my sickles on his pauldrons, then I jump over him while I keep reeling the chains and run as far as I can then pull the chains. His pauldrons break, and Ivonna immediately stabs him on his right shoulder. I retract the sickles and then swing them again and hook them on the back of his armor. I whip the chains and pull my sickles from his armor.

*CRUSH*

I look at Azrael.

"Az! Now!"

Azrael transforms into his spectral form and flies through Jahne's back. Jahne is growling in pain while trying to cover his back with his hand. I run toward Jahne and retract my sickles and then start swinging them around. Ivonna is using this opportunity and she charges at him, she jumps onto his knee and then flies on top of his head. She bashes his head with her shield while I'm hooking his spine with my sickles and then pulling them as hard as I can, but Jahne turns around and pulling my chains. Ivonna leaps toward me and she immediately helps me pulls the chains.

We both can hear and feel the spine of Jahne is moving and then we can hear his growl in pain, we can't see his back but we keep pulling the chains from his body. Then we can hear a loud snapping sound coming from his back, Jahne suddenly stops moving and he falls to the ground like an inflated doll. We both are looking at him while catching our breaths, and then we both look at Avriel is still on her knees holding Jariel's body.

Ivonna looks at me.

"I think she needs you right now."

I'm humming with understanding.

"But I don't know how to approach her. I know what it feels to lose someone precious to you, but I don't know how to comfort her."

Ivonna is looking at Avriel.

"Words are unnecessary. All you need to do is to be on her side and that alone is enough to let her know that you're there for her."

I look at Ivonna and nods with understanding.

"Okay... can you secure King Crafnell? I don't want him to run away."

Ivonna nods with understanding.

All the subjects are dead and most of Jariel's men are also dead. Only 14 of them that are still alive and they're all standing still while staring at Jariel and Avriel. Rodwane can't do anything to help Avriel since he's not that close to Avriel and he knows it's not his place to comfort her. I slowly walk toward her and stand beside her. Avriel is crying silently, and the only sound I hear is her heavy breathing.

I look at Rodwane and tilt my head toward King Crafnell.

"Go, do what you have to do."

Rodwane nods and he walks past us while keep staring at Jariel's dead body. He closes his eyes and then looks at King Crafnell. Ivonna and Rodwane start to interrogate King Crafnell. I sit next to Avriel and look at her with concern, but Avriel is ignoring my presence and keeps hugging Jariel so tightly. I'm just sitting next to her without saying anything for quite a while, and then I take a deep breath.

"I'm sorry... if I knew this would happen, I should have to take care of the other guy instead of you."

Avriel shakes her head, then she wipes her tears with her arms that are covered with Jariel's blood. She looks at King Crafnell with anger and hatred, she stands up and grabs her daggers from her waist, but something comes out from her hands. I'm surprised when I see her hands are producing poison like Jariel. I immediately stand up and stop her by grabbing her waist.

Avriel is glaring at me from the corner of her eyes.

"Let me go!"

I shake my head.

"No, never. I need you to calm down."

Avriel is struggling to free herself from my arms, but she's not strong enough to do so. She then turns around and glares at me with anger and tears falling down her cheeks while raising her daggers and pointing them at me. She's about to slit my throat with her daggers but she stops before her daggers touch my neck, she's holding her screams and grunting while keeps staring at me in the eyes.

I look at her with guilt.

"You want to kill me? Is that what you want? If so, then do it. You can blame me for your father's death and I will accept it wholeheartedly. As I said earlier, it was my fault and you can hate me for it."

Avriel lowers her arms and drops the daggers to the ground. She grabs me on the collar so tightly while crying and trying to pushes me away from her, but I'm not letting her go from my arms, not until she calmed down. She's finally giving up and rests her head on my chest, her body is trembling and I can't do anything but to keep her in my arms.

All Jariel's men are approaching us and they're standing in front of us. They're all then bows down on their knees.

"Miss Avriel..."

Avriel lifts her head and turns her head while staring at them from the corner of her eyes. One of them is lifting his head and looks at Avriel.

"Miss Avriel. Before our Master ordered us to come here, he asked us a favor. Master said if one day he's gone, he wanted us to give our loyalty to you, Miss. Now that our Master is gone, you will be our Master from now on. We will give our loyalty like we gave our loyalty to our Master, and we are going to follow you, Master. If you did not want us to serve you, we will end our lives right here, right now because we have no master to serve and we have no purpose in our lives."

I can feel that Avriel has calmed down a bit, and so I'm slowly removing my hands from her waist. Avriel looks at them. I walk next to Avriel and grabs [Max Health Potion (S)] then gives it to Avriel. She looks at it and then looks at me with confusion.

"Take it..."

Avriel grabs it and I look at Jariel's men.

"You should take them with you because you will be staying by King Crafnell's side to keep him at bay. You may torture him as much as you want to make him submitted to you, and you know why I'm giving you this potion. If revenge is what you seek then I will give it to you, but not now since we need him right now. I will give you as many potions as you need, and you can do whatever to him but taking his life is out of the option."

Avriel is holding the potion so tightly then she looks at Jariel's men.

"How many of you left?"

He bows.

"There are still 294 of us out there, and including us, there are 308 of us."

Avriel looks at Jariel's men.

"From now on, I, Avriel Scarlettblood will be your new master. Serve me as you serve my father."

They all bow.

"Yes, Master!"

I look at Avriel.

"What are you planning to do with that many people?"

Avriel is staring at King Crafnell.

"I want them all to be placed in this place with me. I will make this place our new base..."