Across Eternity: Book 5 - Chapter 4 - Sex Stories

Across Eternity: Book 5 - Chapter 4

... of his brothers’ sins made Lupin and his subordinates gasp in shock. “My God, to think they could be so heartless.”

“And for that, I’d say I handed down a fitting punishment. I publicly humiliated Galvin and his conniving mother, and I left some wounds that would never heal, both body and mind. As for Seraph, I gave him the ultimate battle he wanted, and then some. I beat him, and beat him, and beat him, until the man he was no longer existed, reduced to a bloody husk. I allowed them to keep their lives, despite all the innocent lives they had taken. It was not out of mercy, but so that they could continue to so-rightly suffer for their crimes. I would say I went easy on them.”

Lupin covered his hand over his face in despair. “How did it all go so wrong? I should have done something years ago about those two, and now our family tree is drenched in the blood of our own citizens.”

“Your Highness, none of this is your fault. You aren’t responsible for the sins of your brothers,” said Nell, trying to comfort him.

“She’s right,” said Noah. “The sins are theirs and theirs alone. Your only obligation is to be better than them, to be the man that they failed to. Regardless, that is all in the past. What matters is I am here now as your ally to help you, so tell me where I am needed.”

“Come with me, you should see everything we’ve gathered.” Noah, Valia, and Shannon followed Lupin out of the throne room, along with Reynolds, Paulman, and Nell. Walking through the ...

... corridors, Noah and the prince continued to talk. “Sir Noah, what can you tell me about these parasites? Do you have any theories so far?”

“I believe that they are replicated organisms, perhaps cultivated from the flesh of true Profane. Typically, being poisoned by the Profane is enough to turn a person into one of them. A single bite, and they are forever powerful. The parasites, however, produce a weaker, less stable form of the venom, which only provides temporary effects if not continuously supplied, and is prone to rampant disfigurement. Have you been able to extract any information from prisoners?”

“Even if we manage to take the fiends alive, interrogating them is difficult. They’re ready to die for their cause, and can use their parasites to commit suicide if we try to torture them for information, not to mention their pain threshold is far greater than that of an average person. If we try to remove the parasite, very rarely does it ever work out.”

“What I’m wondering is how they got the equipment and know-how to create these things.”

“Once I returned to Welindar after the gala, I did as you suggested and searched the palace for any hidden rooms where the king’s death might have been orchestrated. I was successful, and found a chamber with some burned documents and destroyed tools. Since then, all the clues we’ve gathered have been stored there, waiting for someone to make sense of them.”

They reached an ordinary-looking corridor, where two guards stood under ...