Chapter 231: A King's Aura

"Don't listen to them! If you go out there, you'll be throwing your lives away. The Lordling will avenge me!" Thaddeus Wilson lay in a spreading pool of blood. When he saw Cyrus Casson and Mavis Fairburn hesitating at the gate, he forced the words out with the last of his strength. They stopped. They knew full well the two of them couldn't save him. Yet watching Thaddeus tortured to death in front of them tore at their conscience; the kind old couple couldn't just stand by. The two assassins had...