The Messenger of Death

Chapter 208: kingly ways

After a while, Al replenished the QI in his body. "Later we will investigate all of this. Maybe I'll let Emma try the same thing that she did again." Al stated.

['This is your chance to hide that woman's ring and then hide everything important in our ring. You can keep them in your room.'] Xander suggested.

['I reckon that it won't be long before more people come here and before they remember why we were asked to gather here.'] Lex pointed out.

['I for one hope that Gustavo got killed by the leaves of the trees in the forest.'] Alex chuckled. ['From his attitude and nature, he must have hidden in the forest to watch and see what was about to happen.'] Alex added.

['No, he can't die yet, he shouldn't die yet. If he really has a special body constitution and is in fact a talented individual, I will make him pledge his loyalty to me and he would have no choice but to join my legion. But if he isn't a talented person, he should just drop dead. I have no use for normal people.'] Al thought.

['Seems like you weren't joking when you said that you were going to take over talented people and create a legion of your own.'] Lex uttered. When Al asked Alex to help him fulfill his wish of taking over a world, Lex could tell that he wanted that. 

But when it came to the part where he said that he wanted to create a legion of his own, Lex didn't think that he was serious about that. But if it what he wants, with the help of the skin crawler, that dream of Al was likely to come true.

['Nah, I wasn't kidding when I said that. I meant almost every word that I said.'] Al reassured them.

['But, will a pledge be enough? I mean, they would still be able to betray you when they feel like it, right? There's nothing stopping them from betraying you. The pledge that they are making are just words at the moment.'] Xander questioned.

They already knew what it felt like to be betrayed, and they didn't want to have to deal with things like that anymore.

"That I will have to find a solution to, either I control them with fear, or I earn their loyalty with something else. A king will find his kingly ways." Al uttered.

['Huh?'] Alex exclaimed.

"What?" Al questioned.

['You just called yourself a king.'] He pointed out.

"I know that I did, I am a king. Let me rephrase that, we are a king." He smirked after he said that.

['I think that royalty thing is starting to get to you too.'] Alex whispered.

"Maybe, maybe not. But think about it, class-1 primordial bloodline bearers are already considered to be royalty. We are a class-0, abomination class. We are higher than a class-1 so what do you think that we are meant to be called?" Al reasoned.

He smiled, expecting his logic and method of reasoning to be understood by Alex.

['We are meant to be called an abomination.'] Alex responded.

"I just can't with you." Al facepalmed himself.

He stood up from the ground and then started to remove the things that were in his storage ring.

Al removed the purple and green energy crystals from his ring, and then he proceeded to remove the bloodstones that he had. After that, he brought out most of the blue energy crystals that were left in his ring.

After doing this, all that he left in his ring were a few blue energy crystals, and also his weapons. "This should be enough." Al thought out loud as he looked at his wealth that stacked up to the roof of his room. He then proceeded to change back into his blue uniform.

Since he has removed all the evidence, there was no need for him to try and dodge the search anymore.

['Should we get Nana to remove more stuff from the tattooed ring on our finger?'] Alex asked.

['No.'] His alters refused all at once.

['Because she is our master doesn't mean that she can't want whatever she finds in that ring. Remember, even we don't know what's inside that ring. Have you forgotten the expressions that Grace and Camilla had when they saw the bloodstones that the Dragnel brothers left for us?

Bloodstones alone are something that even royal families from the celestial realm want, who knows what else is inside that ring.'] Al explained.

['I understand.'] Alex uttered.

"Now, time to wake Emma and head back down," Al mentioned as he opened the door to his room. As he opened it, Drake was standing in front of his door with one of his hands up. He looked like he was about to knock on the door before Al opened the door.

Now that the door was open, Drake was able to have a quick glance at a part of Al's wealth. He was stunned by what he saw and forgotten what he was here to say. His tongue went dry.

Al quickly closed the door. "What do you want?" He asked Drake.

"Umm, Emma is awake but there seems to be a problem," Drake remembered why he was there in the first place.

"What sort of problem?" Al asked. The person that they were speaking of is Emma, someone that Al already considered to be an important chess piece to his plans, so of course, he was concerned.

"I think you should come and see it for yourself," Drake said.

Al quickly made his way to the living room. When he arrived there, he was a bit confused, he couldn't tell what exactly was wrong. Emma was seated on a chair with her head on Katherine's shoulders, and she looked devastated like she wanted to cry.

Soon, tears started to drop from her eyes.

The first thing Al did was to look around the living room, then the window. He wanted to see if the weather and surroundings were affected by her mood again.

He sighed in relief when he saw that nothing had happened.

"What happened to her?" Al walked over to where Camron was and asked.

"When she woke up, she was a bit startled, then the next thing, she started blaming herself for the deaths of those students. She can't stomach the fact that she killed innocent people." Camron answered.

"That's why she's crying?" Al arched a brow. "Just that?"

"Yeah, just that," Camron repeated.

['Why would anyone be crying because they took a few lives. She didn't even do it on purpose so why is she acting as if she did?'] Al thought.

For someone that is so used to killing and death, he couldn't understand why she was crying for something that she didn't even make happen on purpose.

['Some people need time to process things like this. Just the same way some people will vomit when they see a dead body for the first time.'] Lex uttered.

['I wonder what our first kill was like, did this pussy boy Alex throw up?'] Al wondered.

['It was alright, a bit scary because we were scrawny, weak, and little, and also had no training. And no he didn't throw up. In fact, we went for a meal after our first kill.'] Lex recalled.

['Sick, I like that.'] Al commented.

"If this is all then she should be alright later," Al spoke. "Emma, you didn't kill anyone on purpose, sh*t, I don't think you even did anything. The trees and the hurricane did that on their own. I was the one that caused this, so why are you the one crying? Are you trying to steal the credit of my kills?" Al stated.

"Huh?" She stopped crying and faced Al.

"What? I was the one that put you in that state, I could have knocked you out early when I saw that people were dying but I didn't. You didn't kill them, I did, now stop crying." Al added.

This was a twisted way of consoling a person, not one that they were used to. At first it sounded like he was being rude, which in truth, he was. But after listening to the remaining part of what he was saying, they could tell that he was trying to console Emma.

"You pledge your loyalty to me, you crying because I made you do something, does that mean that you want to revoke your pledge?" Al questioned.

This question stunned Emma, she stopped crying and faced Al. "No, I have no intentions of doing that."

-Hiccup!

She tried to hold her hiccups back but couldn't.

"Good, then now stop crying. As a loyal subject of mine, you need to be prepared, I will make you great and in turn, you will make me greater." Al smirked and started to make his way towards the exit of the suite.

"Where are you going to?" Camron asked.

"To have my storage ring searched." Al mentioned as he stepped out of the suite.

"What!!?" His teammates exclaimed.

Just some hours ago they were trying to help him escape that, now he wanted to go back and have his ring checked. They didn't know what to say