Valerian, The Legendary

Chapter 338: Deal With The Demon.

Valerian was holding the witch by her hair. She was dangling while making constant grunting sounds. The two witches froze in their spots. The young man asked, "Are you probably wondering why she cannot say anything?"

Mel and Krel looked at each other, and the young man continued, "You do not have to overthink. I just cut off her tongue. I have a problem with sinners who think of their actions as some glory. What I hate more than that are the ones who think all those sinful things are glorious. So just a little punishment."

The two witches could not hold back and yelled in unison, "Bastard, I(we) will kill you."

Valerian chuckled and said, "Well, you will undoubtedly try, but before you can make a move, I will destroy her clothes, ruin her dignity, and then when she has no spirit left to fight. Then I will decapitate her, limb by limb, and finally watch her bleed to death as I channel fire mana through her veins, burning her inside out."

Krel replied, "Then I will ensure that your body will be buried in fragments around her grave too."

Valerian chuckled and said, "If only you can do that. However, what makes you think I will let you get your hands off even a hair of hers? This bitch dared to waltz here and kill innocent children. She will suffer and beg me to kill her. I will not let her die so easily. Even if that means I will have her, and you all beg for death, you will not get what you want. You are family to the Tyrant. I want him to suffer the agony of losing his family too."

Mel asked, "What do you want?"

Valerian asked, "I want you to go down on your knees and beg me as a pair of bitches would ask for a treat."

His words were opposite of his image of a Knight. The Knights guarding the gates on the maze walls were surprised. They did not expect Valerian to be so hateful toward the enemies that he did not even mind his image. Mahiyan wanted to say something when Valerian chuckled and said, "No, it is too easy."

Mel yelled, "Fuck you, bastard."

Valerian smiled and said, "I do not get involved with rabid bitches."

Mel wanted to run ahead when Valerian strummed the string on his Filum Vita, making the lady stopped. Valerian said, "The only threatening capital you held from that distance was casting a cosmic shower. However, you need three witches for it. Unfortunately, this one is useless now, so kneel if you care about your sister."

The last two phrases from his mouth were so cold that the two ladies shivered from it. Valerian’s eyes were calm and indifferent. Mel and Krel looked at their sister, who was gazing at them, hoping to be saved. She wished that her sisters saved her.

Not all hopes would be answered by the people. After all, every human has selfish reasons, and some are also non-caring. Mel shook her head and said, "I apologize Telia. I will not beg this child for you."

Telia was the youngest of the two. Valerian shook his head and said, "To think blood sisters would say such a thing, I have truly seen everything now."

Krel said, "She is not our blood sister."

Valerian raised his brow and asked, "Oh, but don’t you look identical?"

Krel said, "Are you sure you want to dig deep into something that does not concern you?"

Valerian smiled and said, "I am about to kill the person, so I ought to know about her."

Mel clicked her tongue and said, "Telia has always been more imaginative. She was bought in the palace by the former Emperor ten years after us. She wanted to tag along and gradually become like us. So, she made a pill that changed her appearance to the one she had to look like us. Then she found us distressed over old age and created a magic pill that allows one to stay younger in appearance and restore physical strength and mana-holding capacity."

Valerian looked surprised at the lady in his arm and said, "You were naive."

Krel said, "We had told her to be herself, yet she never understood and instead turned out to be creepy. However, she was very talented in primal magic, and thus we decided to train her to be an asset to Gladius."

Valerian gazed at Telia and said, "I feel sad for you."

He could see Telia shedding tears, so he placed her beside him atop the tower and said, "You know, I do not hate you that much now. They never treated you like family. I feel sad. Sadly, I cannot even shed tears like you."

Telia looked at him and saw that the child had a bitter smile on his face. Valerian said, "The Tyrant poisoned my mother, and that poison left me with a disability to cry or to speak. Yes, I was born mute, and I rely on an artifact to speak, all because of people like these. Immortuous was a friend of my parents, yet he did this to them."

The witch looked at the boy with her eyes, and her emotions were everywhere. Valerian said, "You hate me because I made you like this, right?"

Telia nodded. His voice was very soft. Suddenly Valerian gazed at the two witches chanting and snapped his fingers. The ladies forgot that they were standing atop the walls Valerian had created. The walls made of vine could be manipulated, and their nature can be changed at any given moment.

Feet-long thorns grew along the vines and directly stabbed through the feet of the ladies. They fell silent at the same time. Valerian said, "Did you forget about me?"

Then he said, "Akra, stop trying to rally your warriors. I would kill you right away if you tried to be a hero. Sit down like a good dog."

Akra was trying to rally the soldiers to attack Valerian by developing a strategy. The Knights of Mercy were reduced to side-line watchers. The silver-haired young man said, "All that you did, all that you are doing, and all that you would do. What is it for? For them? For Gladius? For that ungrateful bastard?"

Telia was tearing from his words, but she could not deny that he was telling the truth. Valerian sighed and said, "Fine, let me give you a present to show that I am indeed feeling bad about it."

The young man placed his hand over Telia’s mouth. Then he channeled his mana through Telia’s mouth. His intention was simple, to link his magic with whatever was left of the tongue. Telia sensed everything he did, she was surprised, but then, she shivered as all sorts of mana attributes began to channel through her jaw and her tongue.

Then she opened her eyes wide. She could sense her flesh condense inside her mouth. Valerian did not speak because he was focusing on creating an organ. He was not repairing it but re-creating an organ from almost nothing. After two minutes, he removed his hand, and the young man said, "Try speaking."

Telia opened her mouth and flicked her tongue a few times before she said, "Did...."

She opened her eyes wide and was shocked. Telia could not tell what was happening and asked, "What sort of magic was that?"

Valerian took a few deep breaths and said, "It just combined all the mana attributes, except for light and shadow, and balanced them in a way that matches your constitution. The human body is also made of five elements. Now you can channel mana through your tongue if you feel numbness."

Telia asked, "Why did you do it?"

Valerian shrugged and said, "You are an orphan, and so am I. You were tried like scum by others, and so was I. That is enough for me. I am not a saint, but I am not a demon either."

Telia asked, "If that is so, then give me my hands back."

Valerian shook his head and said, "The crimes you committed require some punishment."

Telia shook her head and said, "I did not command anyone to do anything. It was all Krel and Mel. I was only asked to look after the things because they were away, fucking young men and absorbing their essence."

Valerian raised his brows in surprise but shook his head, "No, you will not get anything."

Telia sighed and asked, "What do you want to return my hands."

Valerian thought for a bit and then said, "Fine, I will give you a chance, but you better not fail me, or the things I gave you will be taken away in a blink."

Telia was aware of this magical rule. The caster will die and the spell will vanish. Valerian said, "You will serve the order of mercy and your first task is apprehending these people. Then you will walk through the flames of vita. If you pass, you can keep the arms and tongue. If you do not pass, you will be a mound of ashes."