Chapter 1655

“Deek!” A faded voice seemed to be trying to call me, but I didn’t want to face it. “Wake up!”

I was alone in the darkness, hovering through nothingness. It was peaceful here. I didn’t have to face it.

“Deek!”

I was alone. You couldn’t lose anything if you never had anything.

“Master!”

My eye popped open. It was still bright and blurry. No, those were tears in my eyes. I blinked as the ground shook. There was yelling and screaming. I could hear fighting in the distance.

“We need you to make a portal, Master,” Alysia explained. “We can’t escape without you.”

Escape… was that even an option.

“Cici is still getting worse.” Anne declared. “You need to fix who you can fix.”

Who’s Cici? Why does she matter?

I shook my head slowly, sitting up. I hadn’t moved far. We were under the council room. We were in the dungeon, it appeared.

“There was a hidden path to escape. They’ve already taken the council building. Everyone who could have fled down here. It won’t be long until they find us though. That’s why we need to escape while we have the chance.” First explained.

I was looking around the room. It was cramped, with perhaps a hundred people huddled in the dark corridors and empty cells, fear painted on their faces. Every once in a while, there was a boom and then the dust would fall from the ceiling and rain down on the shivering people. That’s when my eyes landed on someone I didn’t want to see.

“What are you doing here?” I snarled, getting to my feet.

The fey tribe leader let out a cry, jumping behind the merchant councilman as I approached with murder in my eyes.

“It’s not my fault! I had no clue about any of this!” She cried.

I felt several people grabbing onto me, stopping me from walking forward. It was the members of Titan’s Fall as well as Carmine.

“They’re innocent.” One of them spoke.

“The fey are calling them traitors!” Carmine added

I slowed to a stop, but I still glared hatefully at her. “How can you be certain?”

“My lord, we don’t have time for that right now.” First explained. “We need to go now.”

“Are you so eager to flee?” I snarled at her, causing First to stiffen for a moment.

“Master, we don’t have a choice. Eliana is hurt. Cici is ill. We’re trapped and I don’t know how long we can hold on.” Alysia explained. “We’re depending on you.”

“You mean like how I depended on you?”

A flash of hurt appeared in Alysia’s eyes. First and Carmine looked down, and only Anne glowered back.

“Don’t take it out on others. There is no point in blaming anyone.” Anne spoke up defiantly.

“That’s rich coming from you. You’re the one who brought the inquisitor in. You’re the most to blame.” I snapped.

Anne remained defiant though. “If you want to sulk or whatever, do that on your own time. We still need to make it through right now. You can worry about revenge later.”

“Revenge…” My eyes dropped to Eliana, and I immediately felt a spike of pain.

I kneeled next to her. Eliana was breathing steadily now, but her complexion still look feint. She also had no clue that… it was lost. I reached down and picked her up. I then picked a familiar door and walked inside. The girls looked at me, but otherwise, let me go.

The cell I chose was the cell Calypso was in. She looked up at me from her restraints. A subtle smile formed on her lips.

“I see, it seems like history is bound to repeat itself.” She started to laugh.

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