Chapter 120: Cold-blooded Man

"Please, I’m begging you, doctor! Save my daughter! Oh please, she is just a child!" Helena cried on her knees.

Lauren stood still as she looked at Helena begging for her child to be saved. She remembered the young her who begged all those physicians to do everything to save her mother. But none of them listened to her. They did nothing because they were obeying Thalia’s orders.

Those useless physicians were now six feet under though. She could only hope they enjoyed the fortune they got from earning Thalia’s favor in hell.

Alec appeared behind Lauren and asked in a quiet voice, "Was the healer unable to save the girl?"

Lauren turned to him. Alec could tell from her face that it didn’t go well. He brought his gaze to the child lying in a small bed. He could still hear the young girl’s heartbeat but it was faint.

"I can only try to slow the spread of poison, but apart from that I can do nothing. I haven’t seen this kind of poison before. The council doctor, Bentley, is the best healer mage in town. Better ask him to conduct tests on the poison used to prevent this from happening again," said the physician while looking at Lauren and Alec.

Hearing the council doctor’s name, Lauren turned to Alec with a hopeful look. She pulled him out of the house.

"Dr. Bentley is the best in town, right? Perhaps he can help, Alec." She leaned closer to him, her voice toned down. "How about you bring him here? If we don’t do anything, the child will die soon." She knew he could travel in just a matter of seconds and Dr. Bentley was the only person she thought could help.

"I can’t just drag anyone to my portal, Lauren," he said. "Only a few people know my ability and I don’t want to share it with just anyone. Besides, I doubt if Bentley can save the child. If it is a new poison, it needs to be examined first which will take time."

"But-"

"People die every day, dear wife. If it’s the child’s fate, we can do nothing about it," Alec said like the cold-blooded man that he was.

"How can you say that so nonchalantly?" The words barely left Lauren’s lips. Her eyes were full of disdain as she glared at him. "A young girl is lying on her death bed and her parents must be in so much pain watching their child barely living, and you will just tell me that crap?"

Oh right, he couldn’t sympathize because he didn’t care. He didn’t care about the people at all. He only wanted to be the King because of the power the throne holds, and these, hunting the black mages, fighting off the rebels, he wasn’t doing it to save a life but because it gives him the thrill that he wanted. Because he was so freaking bored with his life and he saw this world as his little playground.

"Good job, Your Majesty."

Lauren couldn’t help but snap at Alec’s apathetic words. She went back inside the house without giving him a chance to say a word. How foolish she was to expect that he’d spare the dying child some pity.

However, when she saw Ericka’s situation, she froze. The girl was squirming in the bed with her eyes wide open. But this time she could not see her irises. Ericka’s eyes had turned all black and dark veins popped out of her neck and face.

The doctor stood and moved away, terrified of the sudden changes in the girl, while Ericka’s parents went to hold her despite not knowing their child’s condition. The councilman who stayed in the house, Fred, stood in a defensive stance.

Lauren was reminded of the deranged little girl she encountered in the town back then. Ericka was a human so she couldn’t be turning into a black mage.

It meant the poison in the rose was not an ordinary poison but the one used to corrupt humans.

"Move away from her," Lauren demanded to Ericka’s parents, thinking that the child would become a deadly creature soon and might kill the couple.

When she and Alec went to the mage priestess, Lady Priscilla, based on the first deranged human’s memory, it took him a few days to turn into a complete savage. But this time the transition took less than an hour and the thought that the mastermind of this must have improved their ways of corrupting human hearts frightened Lauren. She couldn’t imagine how many innocent people would die.

"I said move away!" Her tone raised when the couple didn’t listen.

Alec who was disturbed by Lauren’s outburst and was contemplating if he should just give what she wanted was alarmed by Lauren’s voice and rushed inside. The physician almost bumped into him because the old man was in a hurry to leave.

When he saw what was happening inside the small house, Alec realized why the physician looked terrified.

His eyes went to Lauren who was standing frozen five feet from the bed where the weeping parents continued to hold their child. He could see nothing but coldness in her eyes but somehow, he knew that deep down, a part of her was hurting for them.

Suddenly, Ericka stopped squirming. Her eyes remained open but her heart had stopped beating. She looked like her soul just left her body.

"Oh, my poor child!" Helen took her daughter into her arms and her loud sobs resonated in the house.

But after a few seconds passed, Ericka’s fingers moved. Then she blinked which made Helen stop crying. However, the young girl’s eyes remained black and the dark veins around her face didn’t disappear.

The look in the girl’s eyes was no longer the same, and by then Lauren knew that she had become a deranged human.

Before the girl could attack the woman, Lauren pulled away Helen.

"She’s no longer your daughter. She had become a savage who kills people without mercy."

The girl whose eyes could no longer recognize a person in the room stood in the bed, baring her teeth and ready to kill her first victim.

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