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Chapter 225: His Mother

Chapter 225: His Mother

Chapter Two Hundred-Twenty-Five – His Mother

If the Grand Witch was still alive somewhere, why hadn’t she come for her child?

Ella suddenly looked down, as she remembered. "The dead woman by my side was Zeldris’s mom. She helped me heal the injuries I got before she died."

Zeldris’s eyes softened. "Really?" his voice was low, he rubbed her head. "It’s good then. It’s good you survived."

Darren was speechless. Now the revelations had turned dark. The woman had a lot of claw marks on her body and she seemed to have died from blood loss.

Darren placed a hand on Zeldris’s shoulder. "I made sure I buried your mother properly. Don’t worry."

Zeldris wiped something that fell off his eyes. "T-Thank you." He wrapped his arm around the little girl. "Thank you for saving Ella too." The little girl rubbed his head.

Laurel had been quiet since. She didn’t know there was more to her knight. He always seemed so jolly and excited.

Was it an act? Or maybe he moved on?

Laurel turned to Darren. "When did this happen?"

"I found Ella roughly three years ago." Darren replied.

The incident should have happened few days before he found her, the corpse hadn’t completely decomposed yet.

"I’d send a letter to Prince Kiad. He’d help search for the Grand Witch around surrounding packs. Surely she’s safe somewhere." Darren added.

Laurel sent him side glances. Sir Darren knew Prince Kiad personally to send him letters? He must really be someone very important at Damancas.

She guessed that he had been at Damancas all those years he had been banished.

Darren gestured for the Princess to follow him. They could leave those two for a while. "You came for something, right?"

Laurel followed, but looked back at Zeldris. "It’s about Zeldris. He recently stopped using his magical item and he’d been having headache pangs."

She assumed that since Sir Darren had knowledge and access to magical items, he might know how to help him.

She couldn’t have known that there was an actual witch in his pack. That must be what Slime came for.

"Magical item? Do you mean the cloth on his eyes." Darren nodded. "My ring that detects magic, it detected it, but I didn’t read meaning into it."

Laurel looked at the ring, it had a similar stone to the one on Beta Ferdinand’s sword that had detected Zeldris’s magical item. "You don’t wear it all the time, do you?"

If it glowed around a magic user who was trying to stay hidden, they could kill him to hide their identity.

Darren nodded, as they sat down on a table at another room. "Indeed, I brought it to your pack because I was almost sure they’d be no magic user. I wore it now because I went to Damancas. I should be able to detect a witch and show respect. They get cranky if you don’t."

Laurel smiled. That made sense. "The magical item on Zeldris’s eyes helped him to see. It was his mother’s last magic for him. It burnt off recently."

"Only recently? Did he use it all through the years? Wait, he really used it all the years?" Darren raised a brow.

Laurel felt something was wrong and slowly nodded.

"He should’ve used it for a week. Healing magic is quite instantaneous." Darren sighed. "His eyes must’ve bled. When a non-magic user absorbs too much magic—"

"His eye did bleed." Laurel interjected. So that had been why? It had scared her that magic was that dangerous to the body, but if it was a misuse, then it’s fine.

Zeldris would be really saddened to know he’d have been able to see a long time ago. He had been scared to see the darkness and probably affect the potency of the magic.

Laurel sighed at those thoughts. She’d not tell him then.

Zeldris came to Laurel and Darren afterwards. He peered into Sir Darren’s face. "Hmm. I’ve been looking for you and the Princess, so you were here?"

Darren seemed confused. "Yes?"

Zeldris squinted his eyes. "Alone?"

Sir Darren looked around him. Was the boy expecting Ella to be in here too? She could be in her room.

But Laurel understood what Zeldris meant and smacked his head again, her face heating up. How dare Zeldris think that Sir Darren was like him, a shameless pervert?

"W-We will be heading back to Green Valleys! Thank you for the time!" Laurel dragged Zeldris as she left the place.

"What about the medicine for his headache pangs?" Darren hurried after them. "I think I have some—"

"He doesn’t need it." Laurel glared at Zeldris. "He likes the pain, I bet. He should enjoy it."

Darren watched her drag him out, feeling a bit worried. For that young man to bring out the cold side of the Princess, he must be really annoying.

At the Silent River border, Finn watched in disdain as the Princess dragged the weirdo out of his pack. He hoped he never see him again.

Laurel noticed the boy’s expression and paused. "Once again, I’m so sorry for his unexpected hug. He’s not mentally stable."

Finn sighed. "Isn’t he supposed to be your bodyguard, your highness? We have a lot of good warriors here that’d be willing to serve you. You should change him."

Laurel nodded. She really should. She pulled him past the border. She only released him when they were in the middle of the path to Green Valleys.

"Zeldris, you should be in your best behavior or I’d—"

"Sell me?" he held his chest.

Laurel shook her head. "Leave you at Silent River to learn from hard seasoned warriors how to behave."

Zeldris smirked. "I’d just escape and come back to you."

Laurel exhaled. Of course he would.

If he was this active, and strong enough to be on par with her in that fight, why didn’t he escape from that old Elder? The young man didn’t really think.

"Maybe he had no where else to go."

Laurel paused walking as Elma said that.

That could be why. He didn’t hesitate to glue to her when he was given another option.

Also, the fact he went through loss of companions and lost his mother, then got sold into slavery, he’d feel unmotivated to do anything, even survive.

"If you come back to me, I’d hand you over to Beta Cade." She smiled when she noticed his body tense up. "That’s right, so better be good."