George was standing in front of the young man in the room that was completely white and didn’t look to have a begin or ending. The man had a bright smile on his face and didn’t give any pressure like the others which made George a little bit more comfortable.

“My name is Lucas, I’m the ninth prince of the Qedor empire and ruler of the city of Keenan. But as you can see there is not much left to rule. The reason I brought you here is because I have a proposition for you.” Said Lucas with a calm voice and a smile on his face, the white room started to change and George was standing in a room that was familiar, it looked like one of the rooms in the castle George had searched for clues. It was full of color and decorated with many paintings, flowers, and vases.

“To tell you the truth I can make you do whatever I want because your soul power is almost nonexistent, I can even make you believe that you are acting on free will but in reality, you are doing what I order you to do. I understand why you think that Marie’s ability is to read minds but her real skill is to share everything she sees with the people she is connected too, Marie has a strong soul search ability for someone who has only lived around ten thousand years but her ability doesn’t compare to mine. I have been able to see your entire life without you even noticing yourself.” Said the prince with a proud smile on his face, George didn’t know why he was telling him this, was he trying to show George how powerful he was or was he trying to make George believe that he couldn’t deny him?

“Ooh you can deny me if you want and I won’t do anything to you, in a matter of fact I want you to deny me if you don’t think you are up to it. But before I make my proposal I want to share a little bit of my past with you.” The prince moved his hands and the room around him started to come alive and a past memory started to play, it looked like the memories George himself had but the only difference was that the prince was in total control.

George was a little worried because the prince seemed to be able to read his mind but it was not something he could do anything about and he wanted to focus on what the prince wanted to show him.

The prince was sitting behind his desk working when suddenly a man with a mask entered the room and appeared behind the prince and had two daggers in his hands. George did his best to follow his movements but it was hard for his untrained eyes and he only saw the man when the dagger dropped down both entering the prince's shoulders, after the daggers hit the daggers started to shine blue and the prince was hit by electricity, and for a second it looked like the prince had died. Then something unexpected happened, the prince’s eyes and what looked like his blood vessels started to glow dark red. Energy started to gather in the room and the man with the mask was pushed back against the wall.

The prince got up and without any trouble got the daggers out of his body and walked towards the masked attacker. The attacker tried to run away but was pinned down against the wall by the prince in a matter of seconds and didn’t have the power to move. The prince removed the mask and clearly had a look of shock on his face.

“To think that once I considered you my friend, why would you try to kill the man who is your only blood relative left, who bribed you, was it the fourth prince of maybe the Zuki’s?” The prince tried to look calm but George could clearly see the sadness in his eyes.

“I gladly sell my honor and life to the people who killed our family if that means getting rid of you, even enslavement of our people is better than the fate we will suffer under your rule, I know what you really are and today I take you to hell with me.” When the man said that he bit his tongue and fresh blood started to surround the whole area. The prince didn’t look worried and made sure there was some distance between him and the attacker.

George was getting a little sick seeing the blood surround the man and starting to tear his body apart and slowly turn everything into a big ball of blood. George had never seen anyone go to such extremes before to kill someone. When the man’s body got fully absorbed the ball of blood started to get smaller until it was only as big as a baseball and started to shine blue.

“It’s going to destroy the whole castle with it if I don’t do anything to stop it.” Said the prince while moving with high speed towards the ball of blood. George could notice the prince’s skin starting to tear apart after he tried to hold it in his hand and the dark red aura around him started to expand until George could see nothing else in the room except the dark red aura and the ball of blood. George couldn’t exactly tell what the prince did but the explosion only damages the room and the prince was shot back against the wall with blood coming out of his mouth and missing his right arm.

“That was the day my last blood relative and one of my most trusted commanders who had been by my side for thousands of years killed himself by blowing himself up using the lightning energy, at the time I thought he wanted to kill me for status or power but the suicide made me wonder if he there was another reason. The way he killed himself was permanent and there was no way coming back so I decided to look for answers, I even send spies to the Zuki empire but wasn’t able to find anything so I started searching for answers at home.” Said the prince while he moved his hand and the room changed into what looked like an underground cave. George saw Luke standing in front of a door arguing with Eli about something he couldn’t hear and the prince walking towards them.

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“What is this place and why do I not know about it? ” Said the prince with a mad look on his face, Luke and Eli both got really nervous when they saw the prince and started to panic.

“Your majesty, please leave this place, please do not ask questions that you don’t want the answers to. We would never keep anything from you without a good reason so please trust us.” Said, Eli, taking a bow, Luke seeing Eli bow did the same and both waited for the prince's reaction in suspense.

“And what good reason do you have for making an underground laboratory that was kept secret from me? Now get out of my way or ill remove you.” Said the prince with anger in his voice, George didn’t know why but he had the suspicion that the prince knew more than he was letting on too.

Luke and Eli seeing the prince angry hesitated but eventually moved out of the way. When the door of the laboratory opened George saw thousands of people lying on small beds while the nurses were working.

George didn’t know what was going on but he could tell that the people were not well and that most of them would just stare at the ceiling while some others just kept moving back and forward without saying anything.

The prince was staring at the situation in front of him with shock that turned into anger and he looked at Eli standing next to him. “I give you one chance to explain what is going on here, I hope for your sake that the answer is to my liking or this will be the last day you breathe air.” The aura around the prince started to get heavy and even George felt his heart skip a beat.

Luke got on his knee and started to explain. “Your majesty.” Eli seeing Luke start to talk turned towards him and tried to stop him. “Luke!”

The prince seeing Eli act against his command got angry and his eyes turned dark red and the whole laboratory started to shake and crack, the energy coming from him was so powerful it hit Eli against the wall. George had a feeling that if Eli wanted he could have dodged the attack but didn’t want to.

Luke tried to walk towards Eli to help him up but Eli stopped him and stood up. He didn’t seem injured and walked back to where the prince was and went on his knee.

“I was the one that suggested to keep this from your majesty and I want to be the one to tell you the truth today. This is the result of your sacrifice ability you used on the people when the third battalion of the Zuki empire attacked. I was the one that decided it was best for the people and yourself to hide this and if you think I did the wrong thing I will accept any punishment you see fit.” Said Eli not moving or saying anything afterward.

The prince turned around and looked at the people in the laboratory, he was staring at the people without blinking and after a while tears started to roll down his face.

Even George had to admit that the scene was not pretty, the people were alive but they could just as well have been dead, they looked like he did when the principal gave him the poison.

The prince next to him moved his hands again and they appeared back in the white room everything started.

“The ability I was born with is called sacrifice, it’s an ability that gives me power in exchange for inflicting excruciating pain on people. At first, I always used it on my enemy’s and didn’t worry about it, but when the Zuki’s send a battalion and the main army was at the front I had to use it on my own people to recharge my powers to face the enemy. I thought it was called sacrifice because the people had to sacrifice for their country, but it was at that moment that I understood that it was not about them, it was about me sacrificing my humanity in exchange for power.” Said the prince shaking his head and continued.

“When I found out that my ability damages people mentally and that a lot of people were not able to come back to consciousness when they experiencing that much pain I vowed never to use it again. But there are always new ways to justify your actions and in no time I started using it on prisoners and later when the final attack came to our borders I even used it on civilians that were what I called expendable. That’s why when the big move was announced I decided to humiliate the king and make sure there was no way for me to join them. Even though the world was a peace for years there would always be another war and I didn’t have the confidence I could resist the power.” Said the prince with some sadness and shame in his voice.

“But I didn’t expect the king to lock up my most trusted generals and friends with me, my only wish is for their last wish to be fulfilled and their legacy’s returned to their clans. The only way to do that is for me to pass my legacy on to someone and I will give it to you if you are willing to accept the challenges that come with it.”

George hearing the prince got surprised and didn’t know what to say, he didn’t wish for powers to shake the world, all he wanted was to wake up, read a good book, talk to his friends and eat delicious food.

“That’s why I want to give it to you, not only do you not desire power you also rejected it in the past.” The prince moved his hand and a playground appeared, George was standing next to Vincent and they were talking to a boy that was almost twice their size.