Chapter 82

**Tzalmon Point of View**

Should I call Vizac a fool or pretentious?

If he really fell into my trap, then I would say he is truly a fool but then again, he is not as easy prey as well. Not to mention, with the support and knowledge my dear father gave him, I'm more than surprised that everything was going smoothly as per my wish.

A little too smoothly!

Although Vizac did not completely believe Eblilis lies about my father being imprisoned in his own territory, the claim did give raise to suspicion in his heart.

Over the past couple of months, he has been extremely vigilant with everyone around him and was fully occupied with picking out the spies and betrayers from his nest.

As a result he killed some of his own loyal men while my spies were mostly out of his radar.

However, when I deliberately let him know the real location of my father, I also made sure after putting him almost on the death's threshold; I let him succeed in taking away dear father.

Only, not only I deprived my dear father of his magical properties and aura, I also made sure he was in a comatose state for the next several days.

Either way, for the curse to break it is enough to have his presence and blood. Even if he was not in conscious state, it was alright for them.

Except, they don't know that the time they set to break the shackles of the curse was also the time I set to end them together.

It's only pity that I somehow offended Eblilis unintentionally.

I don't know why she thinks I was a terrible man. Although I used her, I also took care of her, protected her and provided her with best in everything.

It must be because of that issue that she agreed to help free them from the curse willingly.

I narrowed my eyes at the figures of one beautiful female and one child who were standing to side as they were waiting for the ritual to start.

Over these past several days, I never initiated to look for her but the news of her still reached my ears. Once the whole thing was over, she will still have to follow me back to Oudad so I was not in a hurry to talk out with her.

According to what Azar said, it was not bad to give some time for her to think, understand and realize that I was right in putting the welfare of the kingdom first and still chose to protect her closely.

It was finally the day of holding the ritual to break the curse and in an hour.

At the prime of midnight, when moon is full and powerful is when Vizac, dear father, Eblilis and Igses will strive together to break the curse.

Although Eblilis is the main source to break the curse, Igses has the active royal bloodline and also considered the main source.

With dear father who started the mutated tribe of Shadow spirits with his core strength and blood and as the first ever mutated shadow spirit, Vizac is as much needed in the ritual as dear father is.

The preparations for the ritual were completed and the last quarter before the midnight has soon arrived. From where I was standing, I could clearly see the rare excitement in Vizac's eyes.

In the middle of the large clearing where it was held, there was a platform on which father's body was placed on bed on one side.

Eight pillars stood in the middle of the platform, each pillar indicating eight directions each and in the middle is one pillar representing the upward direction.

Beside the middle pillar, on the floor, was an empty crystal bowl which shall be used to collect blood.

When it was only moments away from midnight hour, Eblilis along with Igses, Vizac along with the unconscious body of father surrounded the middle pillar.

Lerno handed a long strip of thin golden rope to Vizac which the latter put it inside the crystal bowl. He first cut his palm and let the blood flow into the bowl, he then cut the palm of my father and did the same.

He then passed the bowl to Eblilis. When Eblilis was about to cut her palm, Azar spoke, "Majesty, if the holy rope is touched with her blood, then half the ritual will be finished. Are we not going to take action?"

"Not yet." I stopped him from acting impulsively.

Even after Eblilis's blood touch the rope, it is not certain they will succeed in breaking the curse.

Eblilis cut her palm as well let a few drops of her blood fall on the golden rope. Since Igses's birth itself was half the reason the curse was broken, he doesn't have to give his blood.

Once the golden rope was drenched with blood of the three, Vizac tied the rope around the eight outer pillars from outside as a boundary.

Once the rope is tied, the pillars were lit in bright red while the middle pillar was lit in white. As the hour of midnight closed by, the pillars brightness increased. When the night finally reached the peak moment, all the pillars of eight directions linked with each other with intricate web on thin light line and finally came in contact with the middle pillar.

Once the web was complete and came in contact with the middle pillar, a light shot up from the middle pillar into the sky.

While the light produced waves of energy in the sky, the bodies of all the shadow spirits produces a small halo of brightness from within their body.

This means the curse was broken completely and they are free after being tied down for centuries.

I smirked at the scene where Vizac was being proud of himself for finally breaking the curse.

If only he knows...

"Tzalmon Ebernus, I am finally free and you will not live to see another day." Vizac roared as he looked in the direction where I was standing behind a large tree.

Hearing Vizac, several shadow spirits hollered and cried in support as they chanted for my death.

My smirk widened when he caught me.

"Majesty?" Azar narrowed his eyes at the present situation.

"There is no need to be tensed." I mumbled back to Azar and came out from my hiding spot.

"You did recognize me even in my disguise. Indeed, my mortal enemy." I walked casually in a relaxed manner towards the clearing.

Eblilis who was looking serious and detached suddenly turned to look at me with expected hatred.

"When you find out?" With my hands on my back, I strode towards them like a King I am.

No matter what they turn to, they are still under me and below me.

"You think I cannot sense you in my own territory? Even when you covered your aura and changed your face, you cannot hide from me, cousin." Although I knew he was no lesser strong even when he was under half the curse, it still surprised me that he indeed detected me a long time ago.

"Cousin?" Eblilis mumbled to herself but we heard the surprise in her voice.

"Cousin who sat on the throne that belongs to me." Vizac is still the same old shameless. "Now that I'm completely free, both the thrones and kingdoms will soon belong to me."

"You knew he was in your territory all along?" Eblilis asked Vizac to which Vizac nodded with a smirk.

"Of course."

"Were you playing me all the time as well?" She asked to which he frowned slightly.

"Not really but I will certainly fulfill my conditions of our deal. After all I will be the ruler of both the territories soon." By now his infamous psychotic smile on his face. His eyes were crazed by now and reddened with greed.

Just then we heard shuffling on the platform and saw that my dear father was finally conscious. Although he has no power inside him, he did not look any less greedy than Vizac.

"No wonder. I was thinking whether you were a fool to fall in the trap I laid. Seems like dear father has acted his part very well to support you." I scoffed but did not show any fear.

Their threatens will not work on me.

"Son, didn't you realize it yet? With the nature and heavens giving a way of breaking the curse, the restriction of shadow spirits is now gone. When the shadow spirits were created it was against the rules of nature so a curse was placed on us. But when time and fates provided with a solution, the shadow spirits has already become a part of balanced nature which was unbalance due to its creation. Now we are as powerful as you are."

With that my dear father and Vizac launched an attack at me directly together.

Looking at the two men, one using his power and the other using his body to take me down I couldn't help but chuckle at their naivety.

I did not do anything to escape or fight back, with a smirk I just waited until they reach me and when are just few meter away from me, they suddenly stopped in their tracks with a painful expression on their faces.

Finally, the showdown time is here.

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Hello Sweeties,

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