Undead Beast Master: Living Solely for My Desires

A manic laughter echoed around the halls of the ruined castle as Solara Virelia enjoyed every second of her slaughter.

'So many days I have spent in that fucking prison,' she thought as she burned the women before her to ashes.

"Now I have to pay you greatly, do I not?!" she shouted as she looked around if there were anybody left.

General Hadrik stood a few steps away from the princess.

He had thought it wasn't a good idea to enter the castle and that they should have just run as fast as possible from enemy territory, but Solara Virelia insisted.

And now he was glad that she did. Due to the battle outside, the castle had been left mostly empty as all of the guards had gone out to fight,

Meaning that the royalty that had been left were defenseless, and now Solara was getting her revenge for being in isolation for so long.

Pretty much all of the emperor's wives were here, and all of them had been killed, as well as most of the heirs of the throne.

"I think there isn't anybody left." Hadrik spoke as he took a step toward the princess.

She in turn didn't answer as she began to count the bodies.

"There is one missing," she spoke.

Hadrik raised an eyebrow in confusion.

"There must be one more queen left, I am not leaving until all of the emperor's wives are dead. He is going to regret keeping me in isolation below the castle."

As Solara spoke these words, she began to enter and check each room that had yet to be cleared out.

"You will regret it. You will regret it," she hissed, her gaze darkening with each word.

Truthfully, Hadrik wanted to stop her—but knowing she had spent so much time locked in a cold cell, likely without food or human contact, he understood the deep resentment she must carry toward the entire empire.

As such, he didn't stop her. She deserved to get her revenge.

*****

Taking a few steps back, Zack took deep breaths as he looked at his uncle.

"Is that all the two of you have?" Alexander mocked as he prepared to strike again.

Roran too needed a few seconds to take a breath so he couldn't stop him.

Alexander's smile disappeared, however, as he felt a golden thread stop his right arm from moving.

"I thought I might have to come help, duty and all, but I didn't expect to find my boyfriend in a fight with one of the family heads," a woman's voice echoed from the darkness.

A few seconds later, Grace walked into view with a smug on her face.

"Grace?!" Zack exclaimed in excitement as he saw her.

"We can chat later. For now, we have a man to deal with," Grace replied, blowing him a playful kiss.

"You brats," Alexander remarked, only to be pierced by a levitating sword.

Roran smiled as he spat a mouth of blood, "Let's get this over with."

*****

Lily collapsed on the ground as her mana core was seconds away from shattering.

She didn't want to, but she had to call Shifter back. It seemed that attaching the spirit to another person had made her mana burn very fast.

A moment later, Shifter had returned by her side.

Now the strain on her core got a bit lighter as she was able to take a breath without feeling like she was about to die.

"I hope that this was enough," she exclaimed as she glanced at the night sky.

She had done everything she could. Now, either Draconis was dead and she and Roran were safe, or he had won, and their days would be numbered.

The only reason Lily kept using Shifter to make everyone around her forget about her and Roran's past was to keep Draconis from trying to kill them, as they were witnesses to Draconis murder of Lily's father.

Exhausted, she rested her back on the cold ground.

"Now that there's no point in using Shifter to alter memories, I guess it's time to start learning how to integrate him into my fighting style," she sighed. The screams of pain around her, coupled with the explosions, made her reluctant to look at the chaos unfolding.

Surely the family heads were going to get rid of the Crimson Sun forces. Surely Zaroth and Elysia would kill that thing that seemed to make the world shatter around it.

"It's hot..." she couldn't help but complain. With fires raging around her, the temperature in the area had risen sharply.

Just as she was about to wish for it to rain, a drop landed on her cheek.

Lily wasn't one of the people that liked the rain, nor did she hate it, as she was neutral toward it, but at the moment, it was welcome.

"...Ah, I can finally cool off a bit... but I wish Roran was here..."

*****

Elysia was exhausted. Now that the entity supporting her seemed to have disappeared, she felt her will weakening. Thankfully, this only happened after the Demigod had died.

The horrifying part, however, was that once the Demigod died, it released a devastating explosion, which blasted Zaroth when they were close to each other.

Usually, Elysia would have to search for the Demigod's body, as it had been sent away from the capital due to the blast.

Sure, the Demigod might be dead, but its body was still more or less intact, and she would have to destroy it. If it landed in the wrong hands, it could prove disastrous for the world…

And yet rather than running off to the corpse, she was using the last of her strength to fly toward Zaroth who was falling down the sky.

At this moment, Elysia felt that he was her number one priority, outweighing even the recovery of the Demigod's body.

Moving as fast as possible, she managed to catch Zaroth's body… or what was left of it.

His armor was gone, completely destroyed along with the clothes beneath it, leaving him fully naked. However, not much of his body was visible, as the burn marks were so severe that parts of him looked like charcoal.

His face was almost destroyed. His eyes were missing, as were his ears. The nose had been burned off, leaving only a hole, and in some places, even his skull was visible, as his skin had been burned to that extent.

It was safe to say that Zaroth looked like a corpse, yet his chest still faintly rose and fell with shallow breaths. He was alive, though barely.

As soon as Elysia saw him and caught him in her arms, she tried to use her will to freeze him in time so he wouldn't die, but all she could do was slow the dying process.

If she didn't bring him to a healer, he was going to die.

As such, she quickly flew into the capital and began to search for a healer that was available.

She didn't pay any attention to the widespread destruction of the houses around her or the death of civilians. Zaroth took priority over everything else.

As she searched, the only thing that indicated Zaroth was alive, other than his shallow breathing, was that he was weakly gripping Elysia's forearm with his right hand.

He was unwilling to die.