33 Risen#re

"Get out!" Lord Draco tried to yell at the people surrounding him, various healers were currently using spells and medicinal herbs to stabilise Lord Draco's condition.

A body cast was wrapped tightly around him to keep him intact, even as they continued to heal him, the healers were dumbfounded by the severity of the wounds.

The wounds were merely made by a boy, which was already shocking, but with Lord Draco's saint body, he should have been able to recover to a decent degree in a few hours, but by now two full days had past and Lord Draco had only just woken up, and his injuries were healing as if he was an ordinary person.

When Lord Draco learned of the news he grew furious with them but, he lacked the strength to even scream, right now all he wanted was to be alone, because the humiliation was still fresh in his mind.

Just before the healers left he asked, "How is Kaher?" it was important, Kaher's had a part to play in Efrideet's plans, even if he was humiliated he still needed to ensure that Kaher was fine.

The healers all seemed to shiver and looks of reluctance cover their faces, "My Lord, he will make a full recovery physically, but his mind my lord has been affected in ways I've never seen before, it's likely the effect of being pulled higher up the steps than he could bare,"

"It could also be that the prince candidate's actions have caused trauma or a combination of the two, my lord he will never be the same again," the head healer spoke apologetically.

"Get out!" Lord Draco yelled this time his voice held a little power, as they all left he took wheezing breaths, before feinting from anger and weakness.

---

"I've heard about your recent failure," a cold and aloof voice sounded in Lord Draco's ears.

His eyes snapped open with a start, and he found himself lying down in a world of white, Lord Draco climbed to his feet surprised that his body was working properly and that there was no pain in his body.

"Your Highness!" he cried out in reverence as he realised that he was in a dreamscape, his mind was being projected into the place and he recognised the voice it belonged to Efrideet.

"Forgive me your highness, but that prince candidate there is something unfathomable him, he is a monster, a monster a monster!" he screamed frantically like just the thought off what happened would drive him mad.

Efrideet appeared with her long pink hair draping across the ground as she walked and the blue lines on her body made a stark contrast with her pink hair.

As he raised his head to look at her, a lascivious light flashed through his eyes as he peered at her beautiful body.

"You still dare to have such thoughts of me after your recent failure," she snorted coldly at Draco as he grovelled at her feet like a dog.

"You're the laughing stock of the empire, you are an utter disgrace to the empire," she sneered at Lord Draco, she was truly more repulsed than ever.

In the past she allowed him to fantasise because he had his uses, but now if she didn't have one final use for this trash, she wouldn't even say a word to him.

Lord Draco shivered as he was rebuked, but then his eyes suddenly flashed with light as he remembered something, "Y-y-your Highness," he snivelled like a dying pig.

"I don't know how but the prince candidate knew about our alliance," he said.

But Efrideet shook her head, she had heard everything that happened from other sources who were at the banquet, at one point Lirian called Draco her loyal pet dog.

But there was no way Lirian could know, it was probably just a bluff to paint the person who was speaking against the empress as an agent of Efrideet, many people did the same so it was nothing new to her.

"You're such an easily scared fool," she dreuled in annoyance as she circled around him.

But Lord Draco shook his head with widened eyes, "It happened a-a-after he struck m-m-me," Draco said in a shaking voice.

"He told me, to p-p-pass you a m-m-essage," Draco said with widened eyes full of horror as he remembered that moment.

When the fist struck him he was certain that he saw a shadow of divinity, in that attack, it rendered him completely helpless, and as he thought he was going to die, Lirian gave him a message to pass on to Efrideet.

"Congratulations on recovering from your illness, live the next 86 years to your fullest, I'll repay you with interest for my eyes," Draco said in a hurry, forcing the words out his mouth, he paraphrased but he was sure that was the jist of what Lirian had said.

Efrideet's entire body stilled at what Draco said, she remembered on that day when she tried to make the empress make a blunder when Lirian's eyes had fixed on her across space staring directly at her, he mouthed a few words.

She remembered how she panicked and tried to, no she did sever his fate string, yet somehow he survived through something that was impossible to survive, then she was struck by that dreadful curse, that almost made her take her own life several times.

Twenty days ago the curse suddenly lifted miraculously she didn't even know how, only her most trusted servants knew of her affliction, the rest of the world was completely in the dark about her illness.

Yet not only did Lirian know about it he also knew that it was gone.

Her breathing started to go wild as she gnashed her teeth together, "I AM THE DIVINER!!!!!!!!" she roared in pure anger, she was unwilling to accept that a brat could know things she had kept secret.

She abandoned the road of physical might and power all so that she could have the power of knowledge and foresight, to always know more than her enemies she gave up so much to have this power, so she could not accept that a brat, could know things she didn't want him to.

She was the one destined to surpass even the mighty Quaria, so how could a brat surprise her, time and time again, never before had she been out done in a match of knowledge, no one ever knew more than her because of her greatness.

"How can you favour that bitch's child so!" she roared to the heavens in fury, her fury made Draco who was grovelling shudder in fear, never had he seen the great Efrideet so riled up and out of control.

Efrideet looked at Draco with flaring nostrils, "I will be sending you some intel, be sure that the intel can be obtained throughout every empire, I don't care how it's done," she said gritting her teeth.

When she finished the dreamscape unravelled and Draco found himself back in his body with all the pain returning.

He heard a ping from his communicator and when he looked at what it displayed his eyes widened, it was a confidential file about the prince candidate Lirian.

---

Lirian was eating breakfast with the aides all surrounding him, since he made such a big commotion they had been around him almost every second of the day guarding him.

They all ate together like always, but there was one thing that was making him groan in annoyance for the past two days.

"Must they be so loud!" he yelled in annoyance, and the aides merely giggled in response.

"They haven't been with each other for 14 years thanks to you, it's only natural that they'd want to make up for lost time," Belinda said with a smile as a world-shaking moan echoed throughout the mansion again.

"Just try to ignore it," she said lightly.

"Ignore it!" Lirian cried out, "You want a blind person to ignore the main sense he uses to get around," Lirian cried incredulous as his mother released another passionate moan.

"Let's say that I could for a second ignore it, I can't use my sense of touch through my walking cane because the manor's been shaking none stop for the past two days," Lirian complained through gritted.

"I think I know what this is about," Helene chimed in with a laugh, "Little Lirian is jealous that his mommy is giving her attention to another man," she smiled mischievously.

"Hah, as if!" Lirian said coldly folding his arms and got up to leave, every time he complained about the noise, one of his mothers aides would find a way to poke at him, and it was driving him mad.

As he walked out and headed back to his room, Anya was standing there waiting for him at the door.

"Are you still acting like I don't exist?" she asked as Lirian walked past her without a word.

Lirian sighed softly, "What do you want?" he finally asked.