21 Nest of Vipers

Two months have passed since the murder of the women of the Fersa family and in a dark alley of the neighborhood belonging to the Red Circle, a drunk and reeling Tark Fersa falls to the ground. It's dirty, it stinks of piss and alcohol. His beard has grown enough that he looks like an inmate who was recently released. He's constantly drunk, drugged, and delusional. When the drunkenness or drug frenzy wears off, he looks for money to continue his vices. Sometimes he begs or steals. On that occasion it was his family's turn. In a temporary and aggressive state of unconsciousness, he attacked his wife and invalid daughter with a kitchen knife and stabbed them both to take the money and jewelry that they had both worn and stored. He fled as soon as he found what he was looking for and since then he wanders aimlessly, notifying himself to forget while pedestrians avoid him when they see his decadent appearance.

-Sophia ..... my Sophie .... I'll kill that brat my love-

Her decline began when Sophia sent for him to address the issue of the Prince's damaged arm. He thought that it could be news that the boy would return to training and that she would be requesting that the boy be given a heavy hand. He went to the queen's private cellar where he usually enjoyed carnal and sadistic pleasures with his lover. Nothing further away. Sophia asked him to take off his uniform and any weapons he brought with him, he was simply excited by the request and tried to pounce on his lover but Ashley had quickly placed a slave collar on his to start the macabre torture show. They bound him with mana suppressing chains and Sophia told him that today would be his last day as a sword master.

She hung him by his arms, and took out the entire collection of whips that she kept for occasions like this and whipped him with a "Scorpion" type whip with iron tips, a "Half Death" to cause injuries to vital organs, then she tied it to the colt to stretch it and dislocate its joints while marking it with fire, burned its feet with the weight of a brazier while it was hanging from the pulley, immediately afterwards, it nailed hooks in its back to remove the living skin, Blind in one eye, she castrated him and inflicted other humiliating alienations so that Sophia could reconcile her anger while also getting horny to see a stream of blood, viscous and torn flesh mixed with broken bones. As a finishing touch, she imprisoned Fersa in a stock and tore off his left hand. Once the torture of almost a week was over, a pleading and dying Fersa crawled on the ground for an answer:

-Soph ...phie... why ... why ...-

-Ah! Now you want why, well it was because I told you not to damage the merchandise to the point that it was no longer useful to me, what part of what I said did you not understand useless cowardly? -

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He was thrown naked and half dead into the training grounds as an example for those who dared to go against the queen. The rumor spread that he had gone against his vows and betrayed his Lord. No one would dare to look at him from now on due to sin and they would let him die alone in his misery.

Espin was in deep anger, he had Fersa secretly brought in and granted him an elixir of superior restoration that he jealously guarded and that was delivered by Saint Helena 170 ago to the monarch of that moment. Since then, that information was only passed on to those who would become kings and no one else. After using it in Fersa there were only 3 bottles left. He gave it to him due to all the "services rendered" previously but the elixir could not cure all the aberrations to which he was subjected and he let him go with the warning not to set foot on the castle or its surroundings ever again, otherwise it would kill him in front of Sophia, he was also stripped of his title of Commander and Master of the sword.

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Tark Fersa had grown up in the favelas. These were moving away from the city very close to the walls. Fersa inherited the art of the sword from his father and that led him to excel over the years as a teacher and knight, gaining the support of the poor and commoners. There came a time when the situation became untenable and the mayor asked the knight Fersa to intercede for them with the king. The popular movement had established itself by allying itself in the favelas. The corrupt government had pushed the poor farther and farther from the sight of those with money. Hunger, despair, and resentment were growing in scale. No one would dare to say that a revolution would be near or far.

For that reason, he requested an audience before the king and he granted it. He went with his wife and children to the meeting.

Unbeknownst to them, the hearing would mark the end of the Fersa family.

At first glance it seemed like a regular meeting at court, but something began to emerge within the sword master. An unhinged love desire for the queen roared within his as soon as they exchanged glances. For the knight it was a feeling that he had never experienced before and he wanted more, completely forgetting the reason for his initial mission. For her part, Sophia was smiling at having found a new toy.

As for the king, he was leering at the knight's wife. He wanted to make her his and nothing and no one would stop him. The King and Queen agreed to do whatever they wanted with both people and it was done.

Espin convinced the knight to hand over his wife to him and in return would grant him the opportunity to be Sophia's personal knight. Tark spoke to his wife who ran most of the hospices and tricked her into telling her that the king was willing to discuss the issue of shelters and would sign up to be the main investor, but needed to speak to the person in charge of that issue personally in the evening. after Espin finished his meetings.

Karen Fersa headed for the meeting. They guided her and as she entered the dark room she realized that it was not an office but the king's bedroom. Espin was naked in a robe waiting for his prey. He got up and fell on her. The woman tried to get away but Espin was lost in his lust and began to beat her. He raped and beat the woman until dawn. Before leaving her on the bed, he approached her and told her that she already belonged to him, would be his personal whore from now on and if she only made him angry his children would pay the price, then, he licked her face and left another hickey in the breasts. She was with a collapsed mind and couldn't think.

From that day on, Mrs. Fersa was the source of mockery and whispering inside and outside the palace. Her husband had betrayed her and sold her as a cheap prostitute to a sinister monster and thus her hatred for both men began to blossom. The nobles made advances to her and others even managed to take her to bed by force and threw money at her to insult her.

To finish destroying the little hope that Karen Fersa had, one day when her little children Rebbeca and Darius were playing in the palace, someone had kidnapped the girl. As much as they searched for Rebbeca, she was nowhere to be found. After a week the girl appeared in the stables. She had been savagely and mercilessly abused, showing signs of torture and beatings all over her body. She was bloody, her jaw was dislocated, she had been shaved, her arms and legs were broken to prevent her from fleeing.

Karen was destroyed inside, her only daughter Rebecca had been sacrificed as a sex doll by who knows who. In her pain, she did not hesitate to blame her husband and Espin. The girl was left paralyzed, mute and mentally disabled for life. She constantly looked at nothing and did not move unless someone helped her, she could not control her sphincters and had constant seizures. Karen transmitted all her accumulated hatred to her little son Darius and in order to protect him from the claws of the vipers that took her daughter, she did not hesitate to send him with distant relatives with the excuse of entering him into the Academy of Knights, leaving her in the care of Rebbeca.

Darius was sent with his grandfather and maternal uncles to the west and constantly received letters from his mother but after a year they stopped arriving. When his uncle went to find his mother and sister, he returned with devastating news. He informed her that her mother was prostituting herself for money and drugs in the Red Circle and her sister was abandoned on the brink of death but could not get close due to Espin's guards who were there to watch that this scenario continued. Her uncle told Darius that both the mother and the sister she knew were no more and she should bury them in her heart if she wanted to move on. Darius agreed to mourn for it along with resentment that he could not have helped his sister and mother. He vowed to become stronger and ruthless so that he could take the head of both his father and King Espin at all costs.