Rosie's Games

Chapter 231: Dark Veins

Siluria, Lonyth's Capital

"The coronation is about to start," Crown Prince Baltazar said as he paced around inside his study. "What about him?"

"He will be sitting next to you," Duke Moller replied.

"I do not trust him."

"No one does. Isn't that why he needs to sit next to you? He would do nothing unpleasant in front of everyone who thinks of him as their hero. Unless, of course, he wants the North to dislike him."

"I want my wife to be with me."

"And she will… once we finish crowning you king, she will receive her crown and become the Queen of Lonyth," Duke Moller assured him. "I understand—"

"He is not doing anything," Prince Baltazar said. "And that is what's making me anxious."

"Duke Rothley is not exactly as powerful as you think, he is just like us humans. You are thinking too much. I am certain that he is already at his wits end by now. The fact that we targeted the King must have been a surprise to him."

"Your Highness, His Grace, Duke Rothley, is waiting outside. He said that everyone is ready and the Cardinal said that the Southern Empires are already here."

"Ah, yes. We will be there." Duke Moller smiled. "I personally called the Cardinal to represent the Southern Empires." The Cardinals were simply people who facilitated the worship of the Goddess. They were powerless and had no political power — the Seven Families made sure that they stayed like that since the temples had been created in the South.

Because of the atmosphere in the North, there were no temples to the Goddess. The nearest ones could be found in the Rakha Kingdom and the Aster Empire.

"Shall we get going?" Crown Princess Freda smiled at her husband as she got up. Her red dress seemed to dance as she approached him. "My King?" she asked.

....

Rosalind

She was almost done.

Just one more orb and she would finish absorbing everything.

The sound of the screams inside her head had become a norm since she started absorbing all the darkness, but even that was not enough to mask the current state she was in.

"Lady Rosie, your hands…" Magda said.

"It's alright, I will finish this and take care of it."

"But— I can see the veins in your neck."

"It won't kill me."

'Won't it?' the voice inside her head chimed in, but Rosalind said nothing in response. In the depths of the despair that the souls experienced before they died, was this dark being that had been speaking to her inside her head— or at least that was the only explanation she could come up with.

It had begun when she started absorbing too much darkness so it stood to reason that the voice should be something related to that darkness, she thought inwardly. Once she gots rid of the darkness, the voice would disappear too.

"Lady Rosie, you should stop this," Magda said. "The dark veins…"

Rosalind opened her eyes and stared at the large dark veins in her arms. They look sinister. Without saying a word, she teleported a few feet away from the orb, then she started teleporting just a few meters away. By now, Magda was already used to this.

To make sure that she did not lose too much time, she had been teleporting just around the room, hoping this would lessen the darkness inside her body and, in turn, let her absorb more of it.

Once the veins on her arm vanished, she started absorbing the darkness again.

"The coronation has started," Magda said just as the tolling bell reached their ears.

Rosalind frowned.

After a few more minutes, she said, "It's done!" and then smiled.

"Really?"

"Yes."

"Then…"

Just as Rosalind was about to say more, her consciousness turned dark. She heard Magda gasp before her body started falling to the ground. josei

'No,' Rosalind thought. She could not faint now, not now!

Lucas would be with the Prince and she had yet to check the stage and plaza. She needed to see if they had added a few more orbs around them.

"Lady?"

Rosalind could hear Magda's voice.

"Lady, I am going to bring you to the inn…" Magda continued.

"No," Rosalind muttered.

"Lady—"

"R— Rest… No inn." Rosalind whispered. She just wanted to stay like this for a few more minutes. Right now, the bell had already stopped and the proper coronation must have already started. No matter what, Rosalind did not want to go to that inn. She needed to stay in the plaza where she could see Lucas.

The fact that those people could even put an explosive in the dying King's chambers made their intentions very clear. They wanted to get rid of the King. What would stop them from getting rid of the man who was known as the King's greatest supporter?

"If you are worried about His Grace, then perhaps you are underestimating His Grace too much," she heard Magda say.

Magda was wrong, she was not underestimating Lucas. She knew that the man was very powerful and capable of killing the enemy. However, she had seen the future. She had witnessed the wars and betrayals. She just wanted to be as precise as possible.

She only shook her head in response as she neutralized the darkness that settled inside her chest. She knew that the dark veins were from her chest and they were slowly moving towards every inch of her body.

She bit her lower lips.

Not long after, the heaviness in her chest slowly disappeared. Relief washed over her.

She opened her eyes and sat down.

"Lady Rosie—"

"What is it?"

"Your face," Magda said.

Rosalind said nothing. The veins must have covered her face, too. How unfortunate.

However, this would disappear once she started using the darkness. She got a robe and used it to cover herself.

"We should leave now," Rosalind said. Then she used the darkness to survey her surroundings. Because of the coronation, only a few people were walking outside of this abandoned place.

She heard Magda follow her as she started walking towards the Plaza.

Just as she expected, it was packed with people from Lonyth and Cirid. She narrowed her and stared at the stage where the new King was standing. Then her face turned ugly.

There was indeed another orb.

And it was hidden underneath the stage.

...

I had problems with my stomach today. I drank some laxative because I feel really bloated and then boom! Hahahaha I feel so silly.