It took a while for Gayle to comprehend what Dezgar was actually talking about, but once he did, there was this fear in his eyes.
Dezgar was right about that. Khaos didn’t have any plan to attack Great Lunar Kingdom, because only that place could provide Khaos with the drug that he needed for Zuri.
“He might have another plan to occupy the kingdom and control the drug distribution.”
Dezgar shook his head. “No, I don’t think so.”
“Why?” Gayle was trying to be positive here.
“Just like any other war, it will cause life, and there is no telling if Bairone has another plan for himself. He could die in the war, or he could leave this place and never return. Which means, the drug distribution would be cut off and Khaos wouldn’t get the drug that he needed for Zuri, this will not be good news for the other people.”
“I know it has been bad news all this time.” Gayle sighed deeply, he spatted the leaves after he felt better.
And three days later, they arrived at Great Palace. It was very late since Zuri had been asking to stop every now and then.
Currently, Zuri was enjoying herself. She adapted to this place very fast, especially with the freedom that Khaos gave to her.
At first, she didn’t look weird at all. She simply enjoyed this palace so much because it was a big place for her to venture around.
But then, things started to go very bad.
In the beginning, people only saw her as a a drug user. It already gave them an irk to have their queen, the mate of the lycan, was in constant state of being high but, things only got worse from there on because one day Khaos found Zuri was bleeding.
“What happened with you?”
Khaos immediately came to her. Gayle was also worried because she entered Khaos’s study room with blood all over her face and dress.
“What’s going on? What happened with you?” Khaos asked Gayle to call for the healer, since they knew that Zuri couldn’t heal as fast as a normal shifter.
It could be said she had lost her ability to heal herself. That was why even a simple wound would make Khaos went berserk.
However, before Gayle could leave, Zuri was giggling to see Khaos’s reaction, she enjoyed the attention so much when she saw Khaos’s expression.
“Relax. It’s not my blood, though.” Zuri looked happy.
Raising her hand, Zuri cupped Khaos’s face and smeared the lycan’s face with blood. She was smiling playfully at him.
“You don’t need to worry about me, I am fine, this is not my blood,” Zuri said casually. She was beaming.
That statement made Gayle felt dread. The way Zuri spoke, the way she smiled, the way she didn’t feel any regret or anything made him felt ill all over his body. He knew whose blood was that.
If it was not Zuri’s blood, then it must be someone else’s and he was right about it.
“I killed my maid,” Zuri said easily, as if she was stating the fact.
“Why?” Khaos’s expression didn’t change even after he heard what happened. He tucked strands of Zuri’s hair behind her ear.
“She combed my hair too hard. That’s why I killed her. I don’t like it.”
Gayle swallowed down so hard when he heard that. This was not Zuri. This was completely not her. Khaos would have known that it was not Zuri, right?
However, Khaos didn’t give any reaction, he simply nodded and then took Zuri’s hand.
“We need to clean you up, you can’t go around with blood on you like this.”
And that was all Khaos’s reaction when he heard what Zuri had done to the poor maid girl.
Gayle knew this was not Zuri. There was no way she would be so care less and heartless like this. Zuri always had this urge to kill anyone around her, especially when she was being too emotional or overwhelmed.
It was because of the side effect of the curses that was inflicted on her and they couldn’t completely blame her for that. Even Gayle thought they had been very cruel to Zuri and ruined her life.
However, Zuri would try to fight it back, she knew that it was not right. She would feel disturbed and bothered whenever she had the urge or even fear of herself whenever she felt the urge to kill someone else.
Yet, this Zury in front of him didn’t even feel an ounce of regret at all. She looked like she enjoyed it. And what made things even worse, was the fact that this wouldn’t be the last time.
The death of the maid was the beginning for Zuri to kill someone else. Her first journey to her killing spree.
A week later, they found a warrior was dead. The brutality of the attack was flabbergasted. His intestine was out. His body and limbs were being cut out and he was half burned from the waist down. It was a gruesome scene to see and no one was be able to stand the sight of it, even though most of them was a battle hardened warrior.
“We need to stop this,” Gayle said to Dezgar. He looked at the man with horror in his eyes. The discovered for the dead body of the warrior was yesterday and the palace had been shrouded by dread.
The magic user knew the situation was dire, he knew that Zuri wouldn’t be the same, but he had never thought that she would be like this.
Her urge to kill increased, it became even more and more apparent.
“You need to stop this.” Gayle felt like he was losing his mind.
“You know I can’t stop this. Only Khaos stands a chance to stop her. If I am going to stop her, it means I have to go against Khaos and you know what the result for going against him right?” Dezgar glared back at Gayle when he gave her a sharp look. “I am not going to put my life in danger like that.”
Dezgar refused to do anything with Zuri’s condition.
“We can’t keep ignoring this. All the warrior are restless right now. They wanted to know who have killed their fellow warrior.”
“They already know about it, but they are too afraid to say it,” Dezgar pointed it out the truth and once again, Gayle knew that was true.
They actually knew who it was.
“It wouldn’t be good for Khaos in the long run if the warrior lost their faith on him.”
“Why don’t you talk to Khaos if you cared so much about it? You can just go and talk to him about Zuri’s behavior. You know he is the only one who can stop Zuri.”
“I know.” Gayle looked frustrated. “But he didn’t want to listen.” He had tried to talk with Khaos about it, yet all the effort was a waste when Khaos didn’t see there was anything wrong with it.
He might as well watch and pamper her to the void, while he patted Zuri’s head when she killed his warriors. Gayle was almost certain that Khaos wouldn’t do anything to stop her at all.
Things only got worse right now, not only because the restlessness of the warriors, but also because the killing had increased.
Before it happened only twice a month, but right now, every week they would find another dead body of Zuri’s victim, in such brutal and disturbing sight.
They feared Zuri now. They couldn’t fight her, but then they had to protect their lives too. All the warriors had been increasingly anxious. They avoided to patrol around the main palace. They were afraid of the great queen, which was very understandable. Their fear was justified.
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