Chapter 2953 Victims and Perpetrators (Part 1)


    "Yes." Ka tapped with a w near Quy''s womb. "A boy and a girl. I missed one earlier because the boy eclipses his twin and with all the equipment the mother wears it took the Eyes a bit toplete the scan."


    Quy checked her womb with Invigoration, finding the minuscule life forces only because she knew where and what to look for.


    "It''s fine." Quy nodded and then fainted again.


    After a few minutes, several sses of water for Quy, and ps for Ka, the situation went back to normal.


    "I''m ok now. I think." Quy received a second round of congrattions but this time she refused to get up. "Just to be clear, we are done, right?"


    "Are you leaving already?" Ka asked with a jovial tone that was anything but polite.


    "No, I''m asking if we are done with the news. You didn''t spot a third baby while I was passed out, did you?" Quy said.


    Ka took a long pause, her gaze getting stern.


    "Did you?" Quy''s voice quivered at the idea of triplets.


    "I''m sorry are you talking to me? I spaced out for a moment." The Wight replied. "Yes, there''s just two of them. Also, I''m sorry for upsetting you. I wouldn''t have mentioned your pregnancy if I hadn''t mistaken you for Scourge''s wife.


    "You resemble her a lot."


    "Thanks." Quy said with a chuckle, taking it for apliment.


    The truth was that all humans looked the same to Ka.


    "Please, don''t apologize. It was an honest mistake and despite my unbing reaction, you made me really happy."


    "d to hear." The Wight rubbed her muzzle against Quy''s hand in a friendly gesture. "So, when are you leaving?"


    "Mom!" Nyka wanted to die in embarrassment while Nok''s paw hurt from all the pping.


    "I mean, to what do I owe the pleasure of this visit?"


    Lith briefly exined Nalrond''s problem to Ka and its experimental solution. Much to everyone''s surprise, she remained focused for the entire conversation without missing a beat.


    "I see. So you want to integrate Nalrond''s life forces and you want to borrow my Eyes to couple them with the tower''s and maximize the efficiency of the floors that require the Eyes to work."


    "Yes." Lith nodded. "Out of curiosity, howe you remember Nalrond''s name after hearing it once?"


    "What a silly question, Scourge. I never forget the name of my specimens, I mean, friends." Ka looked around, hoping that no one had noticed her slip of the tongue. "By the way, would you mind if I spectate?


    "To be a Lich I''m going to almost die myself and I could learn a thing of two from your experiment."


    "First, it''s a procedure. Second, you should ask Nalrond, not me." Lith said.


    "Yes, of course." Ka replied, turning to the Rezar. "Do you mind?"


    "No problem." Nalrond had just met the Wight but he couldn''t wait to get rid of her already.


    "Great! Let''s get to work!" Ka trotted toward the tower but Lith stopped her.


    "Not so fast. The Eyes are just one of the things we need. Make way, Solus."


    The only thing Lith remembered about dion''s house was that it was underground whereas thanks to her previous visit and her eidetic memory, Solus knew where Baba Yaga''sb was.


    ''I hate it when Lith acts like this. Even more when he is right.'' She inwardly crossed her fingers, hoping for the best.


    Lightkeep was built over a geyser powerful enough to sustain temporarily both Solus'' tower and Baba Yaga''s hut and dion''s house was so big that it could host them both.


    Those who had never been to the undead city marveled at the sight of the training facilities and the masterpieces of art decorating the ce. Yet nothing shocked and awed Nalrond more than the contents of the small hunting hut.


    The room seemed to be made of in hardwood and the magical equipment was simr to what he had seen countless times in Faluel''sir and Lith''s tower. The Rezarcked the Forgemastering expertise to recognize how more advanced it actually was.


    So it wasn''t a what who struck at the very core of his being, but a who.


    "You!" Nalrond went pale, the blood draining from his face in trigger response to his trauma before flushing back in anger.


    "Hi, Nalrond." Zepho Ac, former Ranger of the Griffon Kingdom and current host of the Horseman of Dawn, stepped away from the magical equipment. "Lith warned me of your arrival." n/?/vel/b//in dot c//om


    He kept his hands visible and away from anything that could be considered even remotely a weapon. Yet the bright white mana crystaling out of his chest was visible through the fabric of his shirt and that was enough for Nalrond to consider Ac a threat.


    "You did what?" He said in shock.


    "I told you that I would do everything to ensure your survival and that you wouldn''t like it." Lith replied. "Dawn is one of Mogar''s greatest experts on life forces in general and yours in particr.


    "You told me that your people sought her advice and that you''ve learned light magic from her. Dawn has studied the life force of the Rezars for centuries and she is bound to know a lot of things about it, if not even a cure.


    "Not asking her advice before risking your life on a maybe would be stupid."


    "Stupid?" Nalrond could barely contain his anger. "How can you bring me to the person who murdered my people and destroyed my life? How can you consider not seeking the advice of such a monster stupid?"


    Ac remained still and silent, knowing that everything the Rezar was saying was true.


    "You would be right, If I had brought you here with the goal of reconciliation." Lith replied. "I''m not asking you to forgive them or even to trust them. Only to listen to what they have to say and check if it matches with your theory.


    "You are thest Rezar and if you die, your species will be extinct. You don''t have to like them to take what it belongs to you."


    "What the heck are you talking about?" Nalrond felt like Mogar had be crazy and he was the only sane person remaining.


    "You are not going to ask for their help. As I see it, they owe it to you. Once we are done here-"


    "We are done here!" Nalrond cut Lith short, enveloping Elysia in a shield of light that blocked her sight and hearing. "And they don''t owe me answers, they owe me blood!"


    He shapeshifted into his Rezar form and charged at Ac. A tier three Light Mastery spell enhanced the already razor-sharp edge of his ws and made them scorching hot.


    They easily ripped through clothes, flesh, and bones, leaving four deep diagonal cuts that went from Ac''s left shoulder to his right hip. The heat cauterized the wounds the moment the ws opened them, making them harder to heal and the surrounding blood boil.


    Once it reached the nearby organs, they were steam-cooked from the inside and failed one after the other. Ac could have activated light fusion to mend the cuts, darkness fusion to stop the pain, or just the Lightspire Armor to prevent the damage, but he did nothing.