Rosie's Games

Chapter 201: Saving Denys

"The Count needs to die," Baron Teri continued. "We need him and that boy to die for the plan to succeed."

"I agree," the Crown Prince said. "I am going to tell everyone else to find them." Then he turned towards the Countess. "Are you certain that we already checked the rest of the rooms? Perhaps there is a secret passage somewhere? We need to find them before the Duke arrives."

While listening, Rosalind's face turned uglier and uglier. Where was Lucas? Why was he not here? Did something really happen to the King of Lonyth?

"What if they left?" Countess Marchiana asked. "What if the Duke took him away?"

"Impossible. They were just there."

"They must have found a way to leave, perhaps through teleportation. That is the only way."

"We also need to know how they healed the Count. Someone that can heal a curse is not someone that should be taken lightly. That could change everything." Crown Princess Freda said.

"Are you certain that the Count was successfully infected with the curse?" Baron Teri asked.

"Do you think we are fools? The Count was poisoned and was stabbed by a needle with a dark curse. How could someone survive that?"

"Perhaps, the Duke is working with sorcerers."

"Sorcerers cannot do this. They have the power of the darkness, but they cannot remove the curse."

Silence permeated the room. While no one was speaking, Rosalind took this opportunity to examine the room. Sadly, the box with her cake was not there. She could only frown in anger.

Where was it?

"Go call the knights," the Crown Prince ordered. "Tonight, everyone must check all the rooms. We need to find the Count."

Hearing this, Rosalind took the opportunity to leave the room along with some maids.

Left with no choice, Rosalind started stalking a maid. It did not take too long for her to find out how to capture the maid using her illusion.

She immediately acquired the location of the dungeon. Then she asked the most important question.

"The cake inside the Duke's room the box. The box that the Countess took, where is it?"

The maid trembled, her eyes had already turned white from the illusion that Rosalind chose to let her see. This maid, despite being someone coming from the North, was just a human with a weak mind. It was very easy to fool her with illusions.

"She"

"She what?" Rosalind hissed.

"She asked them to throw it away."

The maid's words echoed inside Rosalind's head. She gritted her teeth.

"Say it again," she ordered.

"We threw the box away under the order of the Countess. We believed it was poisoned."

"Poisoned" Rosalind's lips thinned. "Very good. Just " she did not know what to say. How could they do something like that to the cake?

She snapped her fingers, taking back the illusion, before pushing the maid inside another room. It would take the woman a couple of seconds to recover. Using that time, Rosalind went to the dungeon to take the Duke's maids away since Tabatha and the rest should be inside.

Just as the maid had told her, the dungeon was located in the basement. The absence of heat inside was fatal, and most people died within a few hours. However, Wugarians had different bodies.

The maid said that it would take a long time for the cold to penetrate their bodies as they were acclimated to the cold.

'Strange,' Rosalind thought inwardly. Still, the cold could kill them once they were exposed to it for too long of a time. With this in mind, she quickly went to the dungeon.

Opening the door, the smell of iron, feces, and urine was thick in the air. It was wet and cold, and a drop of something liquid echoed in the quiet.

"Tell us where is the Duke!" a rather small voice interrupted Rosalind's stupor. She frowned, the voice sounded like a child's. She continued walking towards the voice, there were no bars or walls separating the prisoners.

This place was just a large space with chains that were meant to restrict the prisoners.

'How cruel,' she thought inwardly. After a few seconds, she finally saw some candles.

"Tell us the truth! Where are the Duke and the Count!"

"I I don't know!" It was a woman's voice.

"Tsk. You really want to suffer, don't you?"

"No. Please. Stop. It hurts. Please"

"No! Get away from her!" Rosalind froze when she heard Tabatha's voice. "Let her go! She still has kids! Just hurt me instead!"

'What a brave girl,' Rosalind thought inwardly. Finally, Rosalind laid eyes on Tabatha and the rest. Even Denys was there.

As if sensing her presence, Denys looked up and stared at where Rosalind was standing.

Did he see her?

'Impossible,' she thought.

Perhaps, Denys sensed that someone was there.

To her surprise, however, Denys shook his head. Then he lowered his gaze again.

Unlike the rest, Denys's body had been bound by large chains. These people knew that Denys was strong so they made sure that he wouldn't be able to escape this place.

"We should tell the Countess that no one is speaking," the other guard said. "They told us not to hurt them yet. Are you sure this is alright?"

"These are prisoners, we are going to hurt them anyways, it is only a matter of time. However, we are looking for the Count and these people know where to find him! It is only right that we use force to ask them these questions," snapped the man who was interrogating one of the maids. "These people will not last long in this place, they will die very soon."

Rosalind bit her lower lip. They were right.

They actually did not let the maids and the coachman bring coats or anything that could protect them from the cold. The women were only dressed in their chemise while the men were shirtless. They must have done this to make sure that these people were not hiding a weapon somewhere.

Still, this left a very bad taste in Rosalind's mouth.

"And this one is a little pretty," the man chuckled as he walked towards Tabatha. "Shouldn't we enjoy ourselves before she dies?"

"Just kill us!" Tabatha said. "No matter what you are going to do, we will never tell you where the Duke and Miss Rosie are!"

"Oh? Ho ho! It seems that we found a brave one! Why don't you say that again once you are taking us in both your holes!?" the man chuckled. Hearing this, the other guard also started laughing.

"Should we do her first? She looked like she's the youngest."

Rosalind narrowed her eyes, she did not want to hear any more. She left her hand as anger started coursing through her veins.

'This is not good,' she thought inwardly. Those people are inhumane and it was making her angry.

An angry Rosalind was not a good Rosalind.

With one wave of her hand, the two guards stopped moving.

"Roy?" one of the guards yelled. "I I cannot see a thing!"

"I I cannot see anything either!"

"What is happening?"

Rosalind's eyes narrowed, then she thought of her daggers. The two daggers appeared, one in each of her hands. Not long after, the two men fell on the wet and sticky ground, trembling. Both of them were yelling profanities at each other. Whatever they saw in that illusion was something that they would never forget until they died. However, that was if and only if they survive the night.

Without having a second thought, Rosalind used the dagger to cut the tendon in their ankles.

"That" Tabatha looked at the now bleeding men who had just been attacked out of nowhere. Then she looked at Denys, who seemed to be just as surprised as her.

'Who was it?' Tabatha asked inwardly. 'Was it another one of the Duke's people?'

She was just about to ask Denys when her vision blurred. Without warning, she lost consciousness and fell to the ground.

"You can lift them right?" Rosalind asked Denys.

"You did not have to save us," Denys replied instead of answering her question.

"And just allow those men to play around with the maids?" she asked. She was not that heartless. These maids might have done things to bully her in the past, but those actions were not enough for Rosalind to let them suffer like this. Moreover, she was not in a very good mood. Her cake had been stolen and thrown away, and now, some men wanted to humiliate the maids?

Preposterous!

"That one is already dead," he said. He was talking about the coachman not that far away. "I can carry the four of them."

"You can?" Rosalind could not help but be a surprise. Denys said he could carry three maids and the other coachman. "Oh I I will help you out." She could partially boost his strength so it would be easier for him to lift them.

"No need," Denys said. "I am not as weak as the others." With that, he got up and exerted some force on the chains. Slowly, the chain broke its small little pieces echoed as it hit the ground.

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Today, I was scheduled for another mass release but got into an accident. Someone bumped my car and there was a little damage but we had to settle everything inside the police station. It took us about 4 hours to settle everything and I was just too stressed and tired to write. I was shaking and I thought I am going to die from a heart attack. This was my first incident ever! Gosh! I am traumatized!