Chapter 748:

High Lord Herodis was still smiling. How could he not? He had not heard that name in so long, he wasn’t even certain he had heard it correctly now.

“Process it,” the Grand King said mildly, folding his arms across his chest.

“I will wait.”

“Process what? I do not understand—”

And then it struck him. He called me Gustazlion. Dragaxlov.

Herodis went pale.

“I’m afraid I have no idea what you’re speaking of, Your Grace.”

“Oh, you do.” King Daemonikai’s voice was quiet, but implacable.

“The Oracle told me of a youngling who buried his heritage beneath another name. Who wore a new life simply to survive.”

Herod’s back went ramrod straight.

“I do not go by that name. In fact, I have not been addressed by it in over two millennia. It does not exist to me.”

“Perhaps it’s time it starts meaning something to you again.” The Grand King walked to the nearest couch, lowering himself onto it. Crossing his legs, he added, “The Northern Throne needs its ruler.”

“With all due respect, my Grace, I must decline,” Herod said flatly.

as he said it. No

thousand years past, when he had stopped caring about his ancestors’ crimes or their legacy. Time, in the end, healed

King Daemonikai

once

cross my mind,” Herod

for the Oracle, it would have remained a faded past. One that feels as if it never belonged

opposite the King,

I strove for millennia to ensure it stood on its own merit, and all that effort was not wasted. After my mother died, after the long years and harder work, I finally found the courage to return to the heart of

stating facts, he

started as a reputable farmer, then became a crop overseer, then the village agriculturist, and finally the High Steward of Harvest. I rose, rank by rank, until I single-handedly became High Lord of Agriculture. I did this without the Dragaxlov

moment in silence. Then

the reason for my visit. If, in the end, you refuse, I will understand. We will follow the sacred traditions and select another bloodline worthy

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have other engagements to

gave a

for your

when

is one question I have long

a good female like Naila abandon her bondmate—who fought on the frontlines for

were lies, begun and spread by our own clan,” Herod stated

and had she not been skilled with

of those poisons

after the first swallow. She was quick in finding an antidote. But after that narrow escape, she made the choice to run, to protect

shield us—so she did it herself, for her life

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