Chapter 343

GRAND KING DAEMONIKAI

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Daemonikai found Vladya in Blackstone’s training grounds. The clang of steel rang out over the open yard over shouted commands, and the dull thud of boots.

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When Vladya sighted him, he signaled to Yaz, who immediately continued giving instructions to the soldiers, before striding toward him.

Something in his face made Vladya wary at once. “Are you well?”

“When am I ever?” Daemonikai turned on his heel and began to walk. “It’s coming again, soon. Tonight.”

Vladya did not ask the usual, Are you sure? “I’ll have Yaz prepare the chamber.”

“The voices have been relentless,” Daemonikai ground out. “This one will be stronger.”

Vladya stopped. “Daemon.”

He halted as well, turning to face his old friend. There was no mistaking the pity in Vladya’s eyes.

“How do you bear it?” Vladya asked at last in a low tone. “It cannot be easy. Knowing your pregnant female believes you are bedding others, sick with sorrow over it. Enduring the voices at every hour. Fighting to separate their lies from truth. Being unable to let go and truly enjoy the child you have always longed for because you are terrified of hurting it. Investigations crawling at a snail’s pace, the Oracle’s absence from Urai.”

Daemonikai said nothing. The clang of weapons and barked orders filled the quiet stretching between them.

“I don’t know how much longer I can do this,” he revealed in a fractured voice. “Every day feels like I’m walking a blade’s edge, one step away from falling over completely. The urge does not stop at blood and sex, Vladya, I want to kill and destroy. I want to ride into one of my villages and burn it to the ground just to hear dying screams.”

Vladya listened without flinching. No judgment, only understanding.

“Perhaps Zaiper was right. Perhaps I will always be the Mad King.”

“Zaiper is a bastard, and if he is truly behind this, we will nail him!” Vladya hissed.

news on him? That male is more scarce these days

him meeting with mages, no travel to Mysticaria, but the

of this was Vladya’s

all I can manage is to keep my distance, because when I’m near her, the voices scream for me to hurt her.

not satisfied Sexlust in four months.” Vladya’s lips thinned. “You are starving yourself, Daemon. Even without feral hovering over your head, no Urekai should

“She’s not ready.”

you stopped initiating

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to hold her when the memories come,” Dacmonikai snapped. “Not the one who hears her apologize as if she’s to blame for what you did. It’s not you who has to watch her walk through the halls for days

memories only come to her during intimacy? You really believe

Daemonikai looked away.

whole again. You both need that.” Vladya glanced toward the soldiers training on the field. “I worry for you both. In her condition, she should be getting your seed

are right,” Daemonikai admitted. “After tonight’s episode, I will try again. Perhaps… do something different.

a wise

has to give. We cannot continue like this.”

hush settled

broke the silence. “About the missing females in heat, there’s been

was not particularly interested in that right now, but he waved him

female from her dwelling at night. It was the last

the males if he sees them again?”

next step. I have already given the order to bring him in.” Vladya nudged Daemonikai, his

his line of sight.

just beyond the plantation rows, Emeriel and Aekeira had emerged, each carrying a hand basket filled with fresh vegetables. Their heads

as he tuned into the sound. Watching her like this–carefree, at peace,

have been

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