Lacking Emotion

Chapter 9

It was a time of peace and prosperity when King Luis II ruled over the Oiph Kingdom. He was a great ruler, the best there was. He led his people to victory and had made alliances with many other Kingdoms.

He was a great King and an even better husband. But that was nothing compared to what a great father he was to his son.

He was praised by many and had slim to zero foes. Though those who opposed him wasn't a lot, they still posed a threat to the Kingdom and it's people.

King Luis II tried reasoning with them, he tried to persuade them to give up their evil plots to harm his people and join him. But all his efforts was in vain.

His foes joined together and formed what was known as the 'League Of Dark Souls'
They gathered under one roof and did what was considered inhumane. The night of the prince's fifth birthday, they
somehow managed to enter the castle unnoticed and kidnap the prince himself.

The people of the Kingdom had a ruler, why couldn't they have one?

Somewhere deep within the dark forrest of the Kingdom, they sacrificed the child as part of a ritual of summoning. The ritual to summon someone was by far a tricky task. One must have a vast amount of mana to support the magic circle while one must place the sacrifice inside. The sacrifice will then be deemed as a vessel for the summoned till the sickle of four moons have past.

The ritual was powered by dark magic, the most evil of magic there is. Only those with 'wounded' souls and minds could wield it.

They have barely started the ritual when the King got word of it. He rushed over there as fast as he could after insuring the safety of his wife, 80 men in total accompanying him. He searched for days without any result.

But how could give up hope when they have the heir of his Kingdom? His only child? Not only that but his foes were planning on using their new found ruler to wage a war against the Oiph Kingdom.

He couldn't and wouldn't let that happen. Not while he was still alive and breathing. Not a single one of his people will be harmed. That he vowed.

Little over week later that his son had gone missing, a man from the League Of Dark Souls, who claimed he had seen a vision where their ruler brought catastrophe upon them, tipped him off to where he might find the prince.

King Luis II rushed there and found that the man did not lie, nor were there a trap set for them. They infiltrated the League Of Dark Souls' base where the ritual was taking place and launched their attack.

The battle didn't last that long for they were merely fighting mages who's mana was already drained from the magic circle. They searched the base for his son when three of his men called him over to a hidden room.

He gasped when he saw the state the prince was in. He was hovering a few feet above the magic circle with dark purple chains, that seemed to be have been made out of magic, coiled around him. The chains went through the circle as if it were a port. The chain vibrated once, and purple symbols appeared on the boy's body.

The King yelled for his mages to get the chains off of his child. It was said that once the summoned is read to board the vessel, three stages must be passed before they can pass into this world.

The first stage was what was just witnessed.

With great difficulty the mages freed the price from the chains, but the same could not be said for the magic circle. Only just before the third stage has passed will there be no more barriers that will cage the boy inside.

So just before the ritual was completed, King Luis II made the ultimate sacrifice and leaped inside, pushed his son out of the way and got caught in the spell.

The King's best friend, also his advisor, who was present at that time tried to stop him, but it was to late. The magic circle exploded with a bright light, causing the ground to shake.

Some mages ran to help the price out of there, but as they were only mere inches from him a claw shot out of the pillar of light and sliced at one of the mages.

It was like a hot knife through butter.

The man fell apart as his blood began to stain the ground.

The figure stepped further out of the light as a choir of gasps followed.

There before them no longer stood the King they loved so dearly, instead stood a demon.

Of course his majesty still looked the same, he was simply just a vessel for the demon. They fought the being with all they had and yet they were all slaughtered, of course there were those who held back since they were attacking their beloved ruler.

Only a few escaped with the prince, one of them being the King's most loyal and trust worthy friend.

They planned on returning to the castle and was fleeing toward it. But when they arrived only ruins where waiting for them. The castle was up in flames and there were beasts rampaging in the royal capital.

They were left with no other choice.

They had to leave the royal capital. The decision was made, one of them would go insure the safety of their Queen while the others would flee with the price.

No one knows where they went. Some say they never left, others say that they went to one of the neighboring Kingdoms.

But one thing was for sure, no one ever heard from them again.

After their escape the summoned being made himself known as the new ruler of the Kingdom. People suffered for years and had eventually lost all hope of freedom. This new ruler treated them poorly and even waged war with all their former allies.

The youth —including the children—  was forced to fight against their own will in the war while the elderly was forced to work overtime to provide weapons for them. Some of them died while makeing these weapons, simply because their bodies couldn't take it anymore.

Others died due to being tortured as a result of how slowed they worked.

Many children, women, men and elderly died at that time.

After battle, the wounded would be brought back to the royal capital and treated. And that is exactly what happened. They were brought back but as they were one particular woman caught the eyes of the new ruler.

A witch. She had the perfect body and her beauty was unheard of. She was still weak when she was dragged to the newly rebuilt castle and became what all woman feared.

She became his toy.

He would torture her and rape her after that. Hence she became pregnant. But don't fool yourself in thinking that he let her be after she became pregnant.

His lust only doubled as he became possessive of her, not in a good way.

The witch became worried for the sake of her child. His father would most likely turn him into the same monster. She might not have been strong enough to put a end to the continuous treatment she received but she could do something about her child's future.

So after she gave birth, she sent her child away to live with a close friend of hers, knowing she would never see her little Soma ever again.