“Is that so?” a cold voice said. 

“Who is there?” The Lich King flinched and tried to find the source of the voice. Nothing. There was no one. He could not find where the voice came from. He could not tell where the speaker was. He could not tell how he entered—but he could tell the person was ‘very’ strong, for he could not even determine his location.

As the lich was looking around Kadyn exchanged a shocked glance with his sister. They had recognised the voice. Though the duo was surprised and confused. They didn’t dare to show any emotions.

“Don’t hide if you dare!” said Lich King when he failed to find the culprit. Then, he lifted his head, and the space ripped like a paper and two figures appeared from within. A man and a woman.

“Who are you?” asked the lich.

The newcomers, however, paid him little to no attention. They were gazing at the two youngsters on the ground. However, when they saw Kadyn’s condition, a glint passed through their eyes. Especially the woman, she clenched her knuckles until they turned white and started to make sound.

“How dare you ignore this king?!” The Lich King became furious when they treated him like air.

“I will treat him,” the woman said. “Capture that bone frame.” Before the man could reply, the woman was already beside Kadyn. Kadyn’s eyes widened, such speed was unheard of. He had never seen anyone move so swiftly. 

Even though he could use teleportation, it was nowhere close to what this woman had done. He looked at the woman in front of him; she looked no more than twenty years old. Her beauty was incomparable. A kind of noble aura surrounded her.

“Mother?” Though she looked far more beautiful—and younger—than before and her face had changed somewhat; there was still some resemblance.

“Don’t worry, child.” Sylvia said with a motherly voice. “Mother will protect you.”

As soon as Kadyn heard those words—he didn’t know why—his tears started to flow. He might have not been that emotional if it was only him, but this time, Elora almost lost her life. 

“Mother…” he muttered once more, fearing that it was just an illusion. A kind of dream that people see before dying.

Then he felt a warm sensation all over his body. He could feel his body recovering rapidly. His wounds healing, tiredness vanishing. “I—is that really you, mother?”

“Who else, child?” said Sylvia, and caressed his face lovingly.

Kadyn looked at her and then embraced her tightly. He had no words to describe his feelings. He just feared that it was all a dream and his parents would vanish in a next second. He didn’t even realize; he was crying, all this time, drenching his mother’s shoulder.

“It’s alright,” Sylvia patted his back. She clenched her teeth in fury. She never thought the next time she would meet her children, it would be like this. She felt as if she had failed her son and daughter. She lifted her head and looked at Elora, who was looking at her, smiling.

Kadyn also controlled his emotions and separated from his mother. “Wha—what are you doing here?” he asked. “You should not have come here. The Lich King is very strong.”

“Strong?” Sylvia sneered. “Look at him. He is nothing but a weakling.”

Kadyn lifted his head and frowned. The Lich King was still standing, at the same spot, he had seen him the last time; and it has been quite some time ever since his parents had arrived. “Why he…”

Then he found his father. He was also a lot younger than the last time he had seen him. He looked just as young as Kadyn’s mother. 

Sylvia eyed the Lich King and fury burned in her eyes. “A frame of bones like you dare to touch my son?”

“Let me go!” shouted the skeleton. He was frozen due to some kind of mysterious power that Kadyn could not fathom. Though he knew that it was not magic, as he could not sense change in mana in the surrounding. “Or you won’t live, either.”

“Oh,” Sylvia smiled, coldly. She looked at her husband who was standing with Elora. “Can you put some sense into his thick head, honey?”

“With pleasure, darling.” Darius vanished, and when he appeared he was already in front of the skeleton. He grabbed one of his skin—and muscle less—hand and pulled them off his body. The skeleton screamed and fell on the ground helplessly, screaming. Kadyn frowned. Lich were undead creatures, they felt no pain, so why the Lich King was acting as if he was in so much pain.

“You father is using his bloodline,” Sylvia replied when she saw Kadyn’s confused face. “He had sent a special energy inside the gem of the lich. That’s why the lich is feeling so much pain.”

Though Kadyn didn’t understand what his mother was talking about, he nodded, nonetheless. 

“Crack!”

“Haaaaaa!!!”

The skeleton screamed miserably. Even Kadyn felt goosebumps. Though he had seen Khrom torturing Mayor Palius in Avibria City, he could feel that Lich King was feeling far greater pain than him. His screams were too pitiful, but Kadyn felt no pity. Lich King would have not shown him any pity either, if his parents made it a bit later.

“Stop!”

However, at this moment, a thunderous voice sounded. Kadyn turned around and found that a group of people was standing not far away from them. He could feel a pressure that surpasses Lich King hundreds of folds. They were at rank 6. Around ten people. All of them rank 6. Kadyn felt a lump inside his throat. 

“It’s fine,” Sylvia said when she felt uneasiness on Kadyn’s face. Only when he saw his mother’s confident face did he calm down. After looking at Lich King’s condition he could tell his parents weren’t ordinary people.

“You want me to stop?” Darius grinned, and then penetrated the skull of the lich and grabbed a shining gem.

“You dare?!”

“Why wouldn’t I?” Darius said—

“Kacha!”

—and then crushed the gem.