Chapter 68 - Soft Sorceress

"You brought a guest this time?" Rachel walked back in after opening the door for Julia without looking back at her and Michael.

Julia cleared her throat to attract her attention but she still didn't yield.

"Will you stop gurgling, Julia?" she scolded her and turned around. She opened her mouth wide on seeing Michael.

"The Prince of the Kingdom, what are you doing here?" she whispered. "And why are you dressed like this?" she checked the clothes on Michael.

He was dressed in tatters like some poor farmer working in ranches.

"Mother!" Michael bowed slightly.

"No, no. I should bow for you" Rachel held his head and ran her hands all over his smooth and fresh face.

"Why are you stressing yourself around with your maid. You should have sent her to bring me for you and I would have rushed to the palace" she said with pity in her voice.

Julia folded her arms and watched. She remembered how Rachel used to act like she didn't care about those in the palace. She even said she adored the King because hating him would be treason.

But everything she was doing now was the opposite. She was caressing Michael like he was a baby.

"No. I should be here. We need you to help us save the king. He is riding to his death as we are speaking" he begged her

"Me? Save the king? I was just an ordinary butler. Where are all those soldiers?" she asked him in amazement.

"The King doesn't want anyone with him. We want someone that can watch him discreetly. And she said it is only you that can do that" he explained.

"My Lord. Do not let her fool you. I can't do anything like that" she denied.

Michael turned to Julia, with a face full of questions. Julia only smiled at him.

"I already told him who you are and what you can do. Mother" Julia said slowly. "I told him you are a very powerful sorcerer" she chuckled.

"I didn't tell you that to tell it to people" Rachel retorted furiously.

"I didn't it tell it to people. I told Michael, my master" she corrected.

"My Lord,I would say you have indulged my daughter too much. I seek your forgiveness for her for calling your name" Rachel bowed.

"That's nothing, we are more intimate than that" Michael smiled.

"He has indulged me more than you can imagine" Julia placed a hand on his shoulder.

"Are you two...." Rachel stopped and nodded her head.

"Yes!!" Julia replied. She knew what she obviously trying to say.

"So what do you want me to do to the King?" Rachel seemed to have decided to help them.

"He is riding to somewhere we don't know to engage in a fight with Quentin, Wookah's master. You should remember Wookah" Julia inferred.

"Yes, very well. I remember both of them very well" she shook her head. "You want me to kill this sorcerer?" she asked and both Julia and Michael were silent.

"Yes, if you can" Michael stirred out of his cluelessness. "We will pay you any amount if you can do that" he promised her but Rachel made no movement or reaction

"She doesn't like talking about money" Julia whispered to Michael.

"I'm sorry, we won't give you anything" Michael quickly added.

"Michael! You are still talking about money" Julia cautioned him again.

"Okay, no money" he said to Rachel but it seemed she didn't care about both of them standing close to her.

"He is riding to the west and he is very fast. We should leave right now to catch up with him" Rachel was obviously talking about the king.

"I don't think we need to catch up with him. He must not know of our presence. We just need to help him get something from Quentin and return alive" Michael explained again.

"That means we have to cloak ourselves so that he won't know we are following him" she asserted.

"And the sorcerer must not know too. That might cause a problem and we have caused enough already" Michael let out again.

"You want me to cloak our presence for a sorcerer. I can do that anyway but it is not going to last long" she surmised.

"We don't need long time. All we need is a time long enough to get this remedy from him" Michael produced happily.

"Then we should leave at once" Rachel walked outwards immediately.

"Your mother is a very nice person" Michael whispered to Julia and they all walked out.

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Quentin watched from his big earthen pot as the Alpha King continued riding out to his destination where they would meet.

"Henry,I know you always have a hidden plan. What is it today? Is it in the direction you have faced?" he talked to himself to reason and find out anything that didn't seem alright.

"You must be foolish if you are really coming to me alone or you are ready to trade your life for your son's" he still couldn't fully believe he was doing as he had directed him.

"Anyway, you are making it easy for me. Let's be quick and get this done with. I will kill you now and do what I want with your most cherished. The Kingdom of Darnley" he laughed loudly.

He watched as the Alpha King slowed down his horse and was looking around. He was definitely looking for him. It seemed he had covered the ten miles he told him.

"Are you scared, Quentin? If you are afraid ten miles is too close. We can make it twenty. I'm not a coward like you and I always make sure I keep my words" the Alpha King ranted as he kept circling around.

Quentin looked around in his house. The Alpha King really knew a lot about him. He must have known he could hear him with the way he was waiting for his response.

"Why are you not answering me? Are your little tricks from talking and listening from far away already failing you? Maybe sorcery is not that good as youu make it seems" he taunted him and Quentin was raging up.

He dipped his whole hand up to the elbow inside the earthen pot and stirred up the water. He brought out his hand and watched as the Alpha King was attacked by a cyclone wind. He was blown off his horse.

The Alpha King bowed his head until the wind ceased. He drew out his sword.

"I think you are going to come here and place the remedy right beside us and we will fight and I will take it after I finished you off. But your cowardice was growing as you age. You can not come out and face me" the Alpha King boasted slamming his chest.

"How could you? You are just a commoner and I am a king. An Alpha King" he shook his head and laughed.

Quentin became more angry. He knew that was what the Alpha King wanted and he would give it to him, all his wrath. He would go out to meet and that would be after he had tormented him.

"You are a king under my foot" he roared.

"I like that. You have found your tongue" the Alpha King talked from the earthen pot again. "Come out here with what you promised and let us put an end to this two man war" he swung his sword.

"I will show you what a commoner is made of before finally taking your life" Quentin said angrily.

He put his hand into the pot and ruffled it vigorously. He watched and laughed as the Alpha King was thrown into fuss and hubbub again.

"Is this all you get?" the Alpha King battled to remain on his feet.

"Have you outlived this little one?" Quentin made mockery of him.

"Of course" the Alpha King gnatched his teeth. He focused on the cyclone wind swirling around him. He stabbed it with his sword.

Quentin cried in pains. Blood streamed from an opening in his hand. He covered it with his other hand.

"I heard that" the King Alpha laughed. He seemed to be enjoying this time around.

"I will kill you for this" Quentin threatened. He put his bleeding hand on the pot and mumbled some chants.

Blood dripped from his hand into the water in the pot.

"The sky is turning bloody here. That must be your blood spilling, right?" the Alpha King continued laughing.

Quentin screamed in rage. He felt like killing him right away. The Alpha King just kept making him more angry.

"Come out here! And come with that remedy if you are a honorable man. A man of your words" he screamed.

Quentin laughed hysterically. He believed the Alpha King would be very much hurt if he knew that the son he was defending so much had a hand in what he was going through.

He would save that for the Alpha King last moment. He would tell him the truth when he is dying. He would feel the pain and heartbreak in his grave.