[I WILL TAKE HER FROM YOU]

Pearler dressed up in a hurry and went out of Marcus's bedroom, immediately he was done satisfying himself. She had no idea what to make of the situation she was in, and her heart felt cheated. In her room at the Abuafour palace, where she could be herself and not worry about who was watching, she cried out her sorrows.

"I'll be okay." She comforted herself.

She had done everything womanly possible to make Marcus love her since they got married, but all Marcus wanted was Azura who never loved nor cared about him. His obsession for Azura had blinded him from seeing anyone, not even his ambitions and mission that got him to the kingdom.

"One day you'll value me." She said to herself and lay on her bed as sleep carried her away in no time.

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Few seconds after Abesselom disappeared from the sight of Azura's men, he reappeared some meters away from the clearing in the same forest. He did not understand why his senses got him there, until he found a heaped dried leaves under a tree.

Close to the huge roots of the trees was a covered hole which he thought to be an underground hideout for the men who attacked Azura. "Those men wouldn't hide here right?" He asked no one in particular. One thing he dislike the most was being underground, or having to stay underwater for long.

It makes him feel weak and powerless, because water and sand was the greatest element to quench fire. Maybe that was why Azura had so much effect on him, but for Chesa, he could not tell why she had greater effect on him.

He entered the hole nonetheless, and to his surprise, it was not a hideout as he thought. It was an underground tunnel which looked as dark as the darkness in him. But thanks to his flamy red eyes, he could see clearly in the darkness.

To where it leads, he had no idea, but he was sure Chesa was taken that way. "Even under this muddy ground, I can still feel your scent. Why?" He said to himself as he walked ahead to continue his search, not knowing what to expect.

After what seems like forever, his red flamy eyes sported rays of light, peeping though what looked like a wooden covered passage out of the tunnel. He got closer and forced it open, and found himself surrounded by many rocks and bones of all kinds, some of animals and other of humans.

He pushed himself up to the surface of the earth, and gasped as he took in fresh air. Thankfully, it was still daytime and the sunlight burned his pale skin and eyes. He walked to the plan land from the rocks as he looked around, but he couldn't tell where he was.

"Am I in a different kingdom?" He asked. He had used the time he was separated from Azura to explore the lands of the continent, and the only place he had not been to was the kingdom behind the boundaries, Dewan kingdom, where he was from. and he was sure this wasn't it.

He looked at the shabby wooden town ahead of him and wondered why it smelled like filth and smoke, with an overwhelming greenery and rubbish. He removed his masked from his face and changed his appearance to that of a noble man. "Good day mister." He said, calling out to a man, near a lake which was close to the town.

The man stopped his doings and turned to him with a smile, a piece of straw dangling from his lips. "I haven't been called mister this properly before." The man said. "What can I do for you?" He asked.

"What town is this?" Abesselom asked.

"Why? It's the town of Selom." The man said with a questioning gaze.

Abesselom looked at his appearance and compered it to that of the man's. He quickly turn to the man and smile as he bowed to him. "Thank you mister, you have been helpful to this traveler." He said.

The man weaved him with a laugh and left. Abesselom placed his mask on his face and entered the town, and a feeling of familiarity spread within him. There was a major supernatural energy that lingered over the place, energy that he knew affiliated inside him. It touched his skin teasingly as if it had a mind of it own. "This town." Abesselom thought as he pared at the people on the street, with most of them in-between dead and alive.

He followed the alluring energy that pulled him to the middle of the town, it felt as if a part of him was there. Above the door of the only good building he found was 'Selom Lord Temple'.

"Does this place really belongs to you? I certainly hope you do not have a hand in this." He said frantically. He knew who Selom Lord was, and he would never want such a horrifying tower to stand on a shabby town as a temple.

He pushed the doors opened and walked in with confidence like someone who owns the place, and he arrived to see it full of people. The doors closed loudly behind him, and he saw dozens of rudely faces turn to look at him. All in black robes and some covered in hoods.

In the hand of a huge bodied man was a small girl who was tied in ropes with her hand behind her, and most importantly, bound to heavy stones and metals. "What's going on here?" He asked, withholding his judgement.

" Non of your business. Get out of here." The macho man said with an indifferent gaze.

" Is this not a temple?" Abesselom asked as he dragged his fingers crossed the table. The place had not been cleaned for ages, and looked nothing like a proper temple. It was disgustingly disrespectful.

"The Selom Lord should surely punish anyone who dares to pray to him in such a place." He thought. Abesselom saw the girl straggling close to an opening in the temple, she had noticed who he was and wanted to approach him, but the man gripping the girl and the ones surrounding them blocked her from his sight.

The girl was too close to the edge of the tower, and if she falls with that much weight on her, she would undoubtedly die. "What are you doing?" Abesselom asked calmly.

" She's to be sacrifice to the Selom Lord. Now get lost and let us do what we came here for." The man who seem to be their leader replied.

Abesselom refused to believe the Selom Lord wanted sacrifice, and that to of children. Infact he knew that the Selom Lord would be disgusted by such behavior, that's so disgraceful. "I believe I have every right to be here. Infact, I may have more right than you." He said. The man scoffed but remained silent.

Abesselom took a deep breath to calm himself before he said, "please give me the child."

" And what will you do if I don't?" The man said as he pushed his way though the men that were surrounding him.

" I will take her from you." Abesselom said. His voice calm and study as it was and would continue to be.

The man scoffed and pushed his way back to the girl, and pushed her on the girl on the shoulder. She stumbled and forced herself upright, and away from the edge of the opening. "I might just push her, and only the Selom Lord would have her." The man said mockingly.

Abesselom smile and nodded. "I suppose you don't know who's child she is." He asked, trying to get the little clue he can as to why they were doing that to the girl.

"I clearly know who she is, and her father personally gave her to us. She's the princess of Celestial Kingdom." The man replied with prideful gaze.

Abesselom could not believe what he just heard. Why would Marcus give his own daughter to such filthy men for a sacrifice to the Salom Lord. "Then so be it." He said and the man went to push Chesa off the edge. But as his hand came into contact with her shoulder, Abesselom continue talking. "But the Selom Lord will not be happy, he will burn you all.

" What? You are not even from here. I've served the Selom Lord for all my life. He has protected this town for thousands of years and will continue to do so for a thousand more. All he need is sacrifice." The man boasted.

With that, Chesa was pushed off the edge, and the culprit of her fall was still standing with his arm out stretched, with a 'What are you going to do' expression on his face and a smirk, waiting to be wiped off. But Abesselom wouldn't mind burning it off instead.

The energy that called Abesselom earlier, disseminated around the town and it absorbed into Abesselom's awaiting body, filling him with an emerse energy. He shook his head as he looked down. "What have you done." He whispered.

His throat suddenly tensed with the strain of the emerse power that entered him. He stared at the man as he had no choice than to gather his minions to command them. "Bring me the girl." He said. His voice was nothing like his again, it was like a thousand sounds overlapping and echoing through his throat.

He held his hand out and waited for a while, and the men in the temple started to shift with an uneasiness. Their leader got tired of the wait after several minutes, and just when he dared to take a step forward, a hand shot from the edge, pale and partially rotten.

A boney hand tossed the girl onto the floor before it climb up the edge. It skin was paler, nearly blue, and since there was no animals to feed on the corpse, the wound on it was from having fallen to the rocks, and blood pulling inside the body before it died. It was a painful death.

That was a corpse walking as if it was alive, mouth snapping and hands raised. It yellow teeth was ready to start snapping on anything. The men in the room screamed as the corpse's foot stepped, smashing in front of the girl's face before it snapped at the men, warning them back.

Abesselom pushed the men aside like he was parting gauze, and he went to the unconscious girl and held her up, trying to wake her. Chesa inhale deeply before sobbing and Abesselom petted her head as he felt so many emotions going through him with her crying.

"So you made a corpse came to life? My men can take it down." The leader said, trying to put up a strong front, but a front was all it was. His hands were trembling at his side and his foot was already turned to be the first out of the temple.

"You are mistaking, I've actually brought to life all the corpse you sacrificed to the Selom Lord." Abesselom said as he was stroking Chesa's hair and petting her back.

"You will anger him and his demons. You will be punished in the fullest of hell." The leader said with a frightened face.