Chapter 214: Locked In A Room
Later in the day when Agathe was done with the guests and had returned to her chamber, she made sure to ensure that no one would come around this path before going into the room. Aware of Marius’ temper if she failed to deliver the price he solely demanded for, she decided to speak with him one more time and beseech for another request. She was still deterred in his explicable demand for her son’s soul, but if she pleads some more, there’s a chance he would take pity on her circumstances.
What has left her feeling extremely agitated was the announcement she heard last night. If by chance that girl becomes Queen, it doesn’t matter who dies or not, but she will be officially stripped of her newfound reputation, and she would become an underling in the girl’s eyes. She will have to bow her head for the new Queen, not as a symbol of respect, but for the girl to cut it off with her own two hands.
"No, that cannot happen." Agathe slapped her cheeks with her cold hands, reviving her mind and body to the present. She should have killed the girl on the very first day she had the chance, but that isn’t possible now since Ivan is always a shadow away from her, wrapping her under his protective watch. She will have to do something about that girl, and fast!
Sitting at her dressing table, Agathe quickly opened one of the drawers and brought out the box from inside. Placing it on the table, she hastily opened the lid, but then, something strange happened. The same overpowering energy she was expecting to feel through her core was gone, and when she picked up the crystal, there was no power pulsating through it, no form of connection! No nothing! Horrifically, it felt as if the powers emanating from the crystal had diminished into specks of dust.
"It’s not working?" Her voice was a mixture of worry and bewilderment, whilst her eyes displayed her apprehension. She tapped the crystal in her palm multiple times, but it did not revive, almost as if it had lost power. She has been in the possession of this crystal for a very long time, and nothing like this has ever happened to begin with. How did the crystal lose power? Was this Marius’ doing? Was he blocking their communication so she wouldn’t contact him to change his mind concerning her son?
"Why isn’t it working?!!" Agathe rose from her chair, and it screeched back due to her abrupt movement. Staring at the crystal now, it looked plain with not a tiny trace of energy... but if she can’t contact Marius, how will she convince him to change his mind concerning her son? If she can’t contact Marius, her son will end up losing his life tonight, and that is something she cannot let happen! She had been blinded by her own quest that she gave up her son just to appease a devil.
But... but she can still stop it right? There’s still time to stop it.
"Yes!" She nodded to her own inquiries, "the contestants will begin training, and her son will..."
A gasp left her lips at the thought, her expression aghast, whilst she shook her head, unable to let that happen. When she tried to leave her room so she could meet with the organizer whom she had ordered to rub poison on Maurice’s blade, her eyes widened when she couldn’t open the door.