Nox could no longer stand on both his two feet, with no choice but to kneel on one knee as blood continued to stream from his mouth and nose. His body trembled so badly, making him splurge out too much blood: the size that shouldn’t leave a person’s body.
“He’s dying,” Froh commented with a shocked expresssion on his face, even as he looked at his other brothers with a wary expression on his face.
First, Rurt had been the one to die. Then they were all teleported to an ancient hall and Nox suddenly spits out blood and chokes on his own blood.
Coincidences are never truly coincidental.
In a split second, Froh hurriedly distances himself from the group and the other brothers instantly did the same, with each of them having drawn their swords from their sheathe’s, prepared to use it.
Karh found himself standing at the top of the stairs and watching Nox die was more exhilarating than he thought he would be.
‘Two down…two more to go’ Karh thought to himself even as he hurriedly tried to figure out how he was going to deal with Kon and Roe, who he hadn’t been able to poison.
{System initiation Quest- Kill all six brothers (Two dead)}
System reward- All stats are increased by one
Health- 41
Strength- 5
Agility- 4
Intelligence- 12
Charm- 3
Luck -{-9998}
Magic ability—
Weapon-
*A Silver Dagger
Properties- Sharp and invisible.
Weapon Skills-
Dagger wielding- Use daggers with ease
Other skills—
Magical ability-
Other Abilities-< no extra rewards at this level>
‘Wha…what?’ Karh mentally exclaimed seeing the set list of rewards he suddenly got in his mind, which happened to be absolutely nothing.
‘What about weapons….skills…abilities’
{You have only killed two brothers…moreover you haven’t even been initiated into the system yet. Why should you get anymore rewards?}
Hearing it’s response pissed Karh off but all that was instantly forgotten when he raised his head up to see Froh suddenly fall to the ground in the same condition Nox had been in before he died.
His eyes instantly shifted to Drue his sixth brother, impatiently waiting for him to also follow suit especially since he had poisoned all three of them.
“IT’S POISON!” Roe suddenly growled moving closer to Froh who was now crawling on the ground closer to him in a pool of his own blood.
“Nonsense! How could we possibly all be…”
“The truth conception. ITS ORVIAN…” Drue instantly responded resisting the urge to wipe away the sweat that was increasingly appearing on his face.
Realizing that if it was truly Orvian then he had most likely been poisoned if not all of them.
“ORVIAN? He would never?”
But Kon had only just spoken when Roe opened his mouth to disagree.
“Why not? If he manages to kill us all and father then he becomes ruler. And obviously he’s the one person none of us would even suspect. Rurt is dead and what ORVIAN is one of the people that can get the closest to is without any of us drawing our swords since he’s a healer…”
“He’s also extremely knowledgeable in poisons. All he had to do was poison Rurt and lie that it wasn’t poison since he’s the only healer we have…” Kon said, speaking his thoughts out loud with a huge expression of shock on his face, surprised that none of them even suspected him.
“Please! Please! HELP ME!” Froh groaned in pain as he scrambled on the ground bleeding from all the holes on his head, having long abandoned his sword which became nothing more than extra weight.
“Fine…I’ll help you…” Roe suddenly responded with an aggrieved expression on his face stepping closer to him with his sword drawn in a way that showed that he was prepared to use it.
Karh was beyond terrified, knowing that if Roe delivered the final kill then he would fail the death quest he had to fulfil to win.
{Tsk…looks like you really have shitty luck}
And Karh could’n’t help but agree as he watched Roe, his second brother raise his sword to the side, about to cut off Froh’s head and give him a painless death.
“THE HALL HAS TREASURES!” Karh suddenly screamed at the top of his voice ensuring that it boomed loudly enough for everyone there to hear.
With his gaze firmly fixed in Roe’s direction.
“We were all teleported here. Does it have something to do with one of our ancestor’s inheritance…” Karh asked, shifting his gaze around the hall with a curious look in his eyes, although he kept on glancing back at Froh while praying heavily for his quick death.
‘Just Die…DIE ALREADY YOU PIECE OF SHIT…’ he cursed him over and over in his head, knowing that the moment Roe brought down his sword on Froh’s head he would also die.
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“Even the trash has heard about the inheritance…” Roe responded staring right at Karh with a complicated look in his eyes one that Karh couldn’t really understand even as he stared right back.
“Even I can’t help but wonder how you got to know of it,” Kon added his gaze also fixed firmly on Karh who had no idea how to respond but also didn’t dare to say anything that could implicate him.
It wasn’t like he could say that he simply guessed it.
{System Initiation Quest- Kill all six brothers( Three killed)}
System reward- All stats are increased by one
Health- 42
Strength- 6
Agility- 5
Intelligence- 13
Charm- 4
Luck -{-9997}
Magic ability—
Weapon-
*A Silver Dagger
Properties- Sharp and invisible.
Weapon Skills-
Dagger wielding- Use daggers with ease
Other skills—
Magical ability-
Other Abilities-< no extra rewards at this level>
Karh couldn’t even pretend to be surprised at that point, even as he watched the list of his non existent rewards.
How was one point to his strength going to help him kill Kon and Roe?
Still, he was delighted that Froh was now dead, impatiently waiting for Drue to follow suit even as he opened his mouth to finally speak after a couple of seconds had gone by without him responding.
“Rumors…I heard rumors about it from the servants…” Karh responded, bowing his head slightly in shame with a very conflicted look on his face as he did so.
By then Drue, Kon and Roe no longer paid any attention to him as they instead stared at Froh’s dead body, their eyes shifting from Nox to Froh with each of them thinking of their own fate.
If they all ingested the ORVIAN’s poison then what were the chances of them not dying.
At that moment, he needed Drue to die but before then he still needed to figure out how to personally kill Kon and Roe, while making sure that they didn’t kill each other.
The worse thing for him would be if they ganged up against him together.
Karh was still heavily thinking while listening to the sounds of their footsteps as they moved around when suddenly, a loud voice boomed across the hall right before a red ball appeared one that slowly but surely hovered above Kari’s head before dropping into his hands.
{DO YOU ACCEPT THE INHERITANCE}
For a split second, the tension around him was palpable as he spotted how tightly his brothers gripped the swords in their hands, with one foot in front of the other prepared to dash in front of him and end his life before he could even say a word.
Kon even dared to take a couple of steps forward up the stairs before he finally stopped.
“You’ve always been smart…now is not the time to start. Pass the ball to me,”
Roe wasn’t about to stand by and let it pass over him as he also closed the distance until he was standing a foot in front of Kon looking straight at Karh with a huge smirk on his face.
“Toss the ball to him and I swear you’ll die the most horrible death you can ever imagine…”
Karh’s entire body trembled in fear as he stood there with a horrified look on his face which was completely different from the calm state of his heart as his eyes wandered to Drue, wondering why he still looked fine even if he looked slightly pale.
Noting Karh’s gaze on him, Drue simply smiled and shrugged without opening his mouth to speak. Almost like whatever happened wasn’t really any of his concern.
{Allow me to remind you that if any of them kill each other, then you fail the quest and you’ll inevitably die}
Karh couldn’t even think to offer his thanks as he watched Kon and Roe slowly and inevitably move closer to him one step at a time.
The sound of his heart thundering in his ears filled his ears and he could barely get his thoughts in order.
If he spent any more time thinking, Kon and Roe would get close enough to attack him before he can think any longer.
The very next second, he made his decision.
He shifted his gaze to look at the ball in his hand. He raised it up in the air right before he flung it right into the air, a few distance from where he stood.
He watched it sail slowly through the air, past where Kon and Roe were and directly opposite where Drue stood, not surprised to see each one of them dash towards it the second it left his hands.
Now, what he couldn’t figure out was how he was going to ensure that they didn’t kill each other but the thought had only just crossed his mind when he suddenly watched Drue freeze, and bend in his head to cough out a handful of blood.
‘FINALLY!’ Karh sighed, only for him to jerk back in fright to hear the sounds of Kon and Roe’s swords collide right before any of them could touch the ball before it dropped to the floor bouncing closer to Drue than Karh would have liked.
However, Kon and Roe didn’t seem to notice as they played a very serious game of “who can quickly kill the other first,”
Karh though ran straight towards Drue who although seemed deathly pale with streaks of blood on his mouth, didn’t seem to be on the verge of death like Nox and Froh had been which was while Karh realized that he had to help push him towards it.
Drue needed to die for him to figure out how to Kill Kon and Roe, but the big problem was that the second he killed Drue it was certain that they would come for his head.
‘...but will they?” Karh wondered watching them seriously fight with all their strength to be the first to pick up the ball.
The very next second, Karh moved closer to Drue, with a heavy look of concern on his face, keeping enough distance between them.
“Are you alright brother Drue?” Karh carefully asked, knowing enough information about his brother to know that after Kon, Drue was the one he should he the most wary about.
Roe was too straight forward but his sixth brother was a wolf in sheep’s skin.
“Kurgh..kur..Karh…” he groaned.
“I feel terrible. Come! Come and help me up onto the platform,”
Karh knew that something felt off, yet he couldn’t just say no. Any deviation in his character would only have to draw more attention to him.
Moreover, he also needed to keep an eye on Drue and figure out whether the poison he ingested would be enough to kill him or if he would have to finish the job.
“Oh…okay…” Karh responded in a sacred tone, moving to stand beside Drue allowing him to lean his left side against him as they made it up the stairs amidst heavy sounds of Kon and Roe’s fighting.
“I seem to have been poisoned too…kurgh…but thankfully I only took half of that truth serum before we were all brought here. With…kur…kurf…with luck on my side I’ll be fine,” Drue said in a hoarse voice and with obvious difficulty and Karh simply nodded along without giving an actual response.
He tried hurrying his steps since the feeling of having Drue lean against him was enough to make his skin crawl.
“It seems we were all poisoned…everyone but Kon and Roe. Of course, except you too...” He heard Drue continue and Karh couldn’t help but feel a chill run across the spine of his back as he heard Drue continue.
“...this got me thinking. Orvian would have poisoned us all and easily too. He wouldn’t make such a stupid mistake as leaving the first two in line to Carhan's seat alive. However, someone else who was probably in a hurry would have…”
‘Calm down…calm down Karh…’ He muttered in his heart, already feeling sweat pool in his armpit from the sudden anxiety he felt.
‘He has no proof just base…baseless suspicions,’
“Karh…Who do you think it could possibly be?. Someone around us who would want all the cui’s dead…all except you of course…” Drue asked raising his head high for the first time since he leaned on Karh, until he was staring right into his face.
Karh couldn’t help it, the very next second he jerked his left shoulder away, the moment he caught a glimpse of the killing air in Drue’s eyes.
However, Karh was a tad bit too late.
Drue had already his sword from hiabsheathe and slashed it right in Karh’s directions. He was weak but he was still many times stronger than Karh who was unable to avoid the attack.
Drue’s sword was instantly dyed red, cutting through flesh and even bone as it severed Karh’s entire right arm from the shoulder.
{Warning!!!}
Health- 42….41…40( obviously you’re losing blood and of course dying)
The pain was electrifying for Karj and completely unexpected. He was still screaming in pain when he watched in extreme shock as Drue instantly followed his attack with another one, intent on ending his life.
“Even if by chance you weren’t the one…you shouldn’t get to leave…” Drue yelled about bringing his sword down on Karh who had dropped to the ground on one knee, reeling from the shock and pain of a severed arm.
But Karh wasn’t about to just die like that, not if he could fight back.
He tightened his grip against the dagger in his hand prepared to take Drue with him to the afterlife, if there was indeed one.
Drue’s sword had a longer reach and although his death was certain, Karh knew he had the element of surprise.
Drue plunged his sword downwards with a cruel and nasty sneer on his face about to end karh only for a sudden cough to result in his immediate death.
Just as he was about to plunge his sword forward, he felt the urge to cough out some blood, his movements coming to a gradual pause, one that allowed Karh to plunge the dagger in his hand right into his neck without a moment’s hesitation.
Karh wasn’t about to leave things to chance as he plunged the dagger even deeper until it came out the other side. Pulling the dagger out, Karh made sure to slide it out in a way that ripped his entire neck open through the back causing extreme damage to his spine.
So much so that even if Drue was a zombie, he would be completely dead.
‘There was at least a eighty percent chance of him coughing at that exact moment,’ Karh thought to himself, having understood how unlucky he was and completely unwilling to give the glory to anyone but himself.
As much as he could, Karh gritted his teeth together and tightened and bound the huge wound at his shoulder as much as he could before looking away from Drue’s now very dead body.
His gaze shifted over to the ongoing fight between Roe and Kon, slightly shocked to see the intensity of it.
Karh was instantly sure that only one of them could survive with the way they fought even if he had no idea who it was.
‘I’ve come too far to die…’ Karh thought to himself while seriously wondering how in the world he, a tiny wounded badger, was going to single handedly kill the two lions in front of him before they discovered the bloody state of their fellow lion’s body which he had just killed.
The fight continued for a while with Karh sitting patiently on the stairs as he watched them when he suddenly jumped on his feet, shocked to see Kon suddenly slash apart Roe’s stomach in a single second of his negligence.
“Haaah…” Kon yelled happily with a gloating face, one filled with confidence that he had already won.
But Roe merely scoffed, even if his expression was that of gloom. The wound in his stomach was bad. Bad enough to have killed anyone else but him.
Karh on the other hand was extremely nervous already descending the stairs before he was aware of what he was doing.
He needed to be the one to kill Roe. If Kon did it…
‘THINK! THINK KARH!’
‘How are you going to end this and kill the two of them?’