Chapter 166 - Orchestra

"Happy birthday, Julius," the glowing figure said as he appeared in Julius' head with an evil grin on his face.

"This is the exact second you were born. How unfortunate for you to see something like this when you were supposed to be having fun instead," the glowing white figure said in an insincere tone.

"Now, let me teach you how to use real magic. After all, you have reached the age requirement to learn magic," the glowing white figure spoke to Julius. What the glowing white figure spoke of was the truth as no one who was under the age of 18 could learn magic. It was only when they had reached that age that people could use magic. Hence why Spike and all the other subjects of Julius couldn't use any magical spells but could use secret arts.

The reason for this being that secret arts were the kid's version of magic. Due to them not being able to use magic, the children of the magic era were taught how to use secret arts for the time being until their potential for magic was unlocked. That said, those who reached the age of 18 would completely forget about secret arts and move on to learn magic and become great magic users.

While Julius was being spoken to by Liz and the vice captain of the royal guards along with the glowing white figure all at the same time, Julius kept quiet. His head had gone completely blank as it failed to process what was in front of him. He had been completely played and toyed with. There was no coming back for him.

"Julius this isn't what it looks like! You've got the wrong idea, he forced me to meet him. I had no intention of getting back with him. He's just a monster who likes to torture me because of the power he has in this kingdom. Please Julius, do not hate me. Instead, please save me! I need your help!" Liz lied to Julius as she was even willing to allow herself to escape while letting the vice captain get executed because that was what would happen if word got out about the plan which they had. The same plan which would cause the death of Julius along with Roger who the vice captain and Liz thought to be the real Henry. The only way for them to escape was to blame each other so that they could survive while the other one dies.

"She's lying! She's just a maid who's been holding resentment because she was forced to take care of you ever since you were a kid! She had been planning to murder you for a while and I am currently investigating her! You can trust me right prince Julius? After all I'm part of the trusted royal guards. I'm even the vice captain of it. Who would I be to betray you my future king?" the vice captain lied to Julius as well so that he might have a chance of survival.

Julius' heart continued to pound at an exponentially increasing rate while his breathing got quicker as well. Julius' eyes seemed to be that of a dead person which they tired to wipe what they had seen away from Julius' head.

"Move away Liz! I'll kill him right here! There's no way we can let him live," said the vice captain of the royal guards before bringing out his sword and attempting to slash Julius' neck right off his head.

It was at that moment that he knew, he messed up. Right before the vice captain of the royal guards could slash off Julius' neck, everything came to a stop. Not just the movement of the vice captain but also the mouth of Liz who was telling him to stop since it was too early to kill Julius. Even Henry stopped speaking while the crowd stopped cheering. It was as if time had completely stopped while everyone was still able to see and think but not move. The only one who was capable of moving around was Julius who just continued to cry from the pain and agony he was feeling.

Suddenly, trumpets began to play as if they were announcing the coming of an important figure. A few moments later, a sad yet fear evoking song began to get played all across the kingdom. All that had listened to it could only describe it as the song of death itself.

While that song played in everyone's heads, a black and dark shadow began to consume Julius from all directions as it smothered the crying prince until he was placed inside a perfect sphere.

Within the span of only a few seconds the black began to heat up and it went from black to red then orange, next was bright yellow before it finally turned pure white. However instead of exploding like man would have thought, the white ball began to decrease in size as it wrapped itself around the body of Julius as if it was a white leather suit. All that remained once the transformation had come to a close was a single figure with long white hair that was pointed towards the sky which had a white jumpsuit on him. His white blank eyes with his sad and pity filled expression just added to the horror of the situation as he looked like a true monster.

The new Julius simply walked towards the frozen body of Liz before tapping her body gently with his index finger which allowed her to move once again.

"You saved me! Julius you're my hero. Please forgive me-" Liz began to speak before suddenly stopping as she felt herself get weaker and start going down on her knees.

Before she had finished her fake apology, Julius had clenched his fist and punched a whole into the middle of her chest.

"W-Why?" Liz asked as she was bleeding from her mouth as he began to lose consciousness.

In her final moments, Liz was embraced by Julius who only felt pity for her.

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"Blood is really warm."