A month had passed peacefully ever since Cheng became Simon's master.

And Cheng was really brutal when it came to remaining like right now he was harshly training Simon while leisurely sipping his alcohol.

Simon was taking rounds of the huge ground while Cheng sat at his place, a few minutes later he heard a voice behind him, "I am going to kill you for being so brutal."

Cheng smiled when he heard Yibo's voice, "Well it was you who came after me right? please great Cheng accepts him as your disciple."

Yibo slapped his head, "You Brat!"

Cheng laughed, "What are you here for?"

"I am taking those four people to the court tomorrow."

"All the best." He said, "And take my brother with you."

"Why? you think that I cannot handle them alone?"

"No, I want you to spend more time together."

Yibo gave him a smile which was not a smile, "If you were no my son's master I would have hung you upside down from the tree...."

Cheng rolled his eyes and spoke, "You would have beat the hell out of me, yeah yeah I know now get lost."

Yibo laughed and so did Cheng but before anyone could say anything they saw Zhan coming towards them, he looked pissed.

"Woah..." Cheng spoke, "What happened?"

Zhan sighed, "the news that you are Simon's master has spread and people well...they are anything but happy."

Cheng rolled his eyes and drank his tea while Yibo was worried, "What are they saying?"

Cheng spoke, "Obviously they are worried that Duke's heir is being treated by a madman."

Zhan looked at Cheng he hated when his brother called himself a madman, but before Zhan could say anything Cheng said again, "Go, go, pay those bastards a visit in the royal court...I am sure those four people will hardly get any attention."

In the meantime, the servant came to tell Yibo that his ride is ready.

"I will come with you," Zhan spoke as he walked away with Yibo, Cheng was left alone with his thoughts, a few minutes later Simon came to him huffing and puffing, "Master I have taken the rounds."

Cheng was bought out of his thoughts once he saw the kid and smiled, "Go and rest."

Simon nodded but he saw the look on Cheng's normally it was very bad to invade someone's thought but with someone like Cheng who always get eaten by his thoughts, Simon does not mind.

Hence he focuses his mind and his eyes slightly glowed red, he had made Cheng drink his blood and it stays in effect for at least two months but if the host gets hurt and bleeds a lot then the effect will vanish.

As long as Simon's blood stays in the body he can read minds as well.

Yibo and Zhan are going to face a lot of questions and trouble because of me and this little monkey will judge him harshly his every step every action will be judged and his one mistake will be blamed on his master did I really did a good thing by accepting him?

I have my own problems to deal with, how can let a child be dragged into it, but then without any support or belief how can I do anything with no one by my side?

I want to hunt down the cult of Mithras but where do I even start? And if it puts my life in danger Yibo and Zhan will become my biggest obstacle.

Simon suddenly felt dizzy and he stopped reading Cheng's mind.

"What the!!" He heard Cheng speak before he was picked up by Cheng and made to sit on his laps, Simon realized that blood was coming out of his nose and Cheng wiped, "I will take you to doctor..."

"No, Master it's not needed."

"Don't tell me what to do or not to do..."

"Master doctor won't be able to do anything, it's because my body is weak and my soul is strong."

Cheng remembered that Yibo had told him about that and it turned out that it was really true not that Cheng didn't believe him after seeing it with his own eyes he believed it.

Cheng let Simon sit on his lap for some time, while Simon leaned in, not because he was tired to scared but because his heart ached for Cheng.

In his last life, it was he who had ruined Cheng's plans, Cheng had trusted him and shared so many things with him he was the only one after Zhan and Yanli Cheng let him in.

And what did he do? he made Zhan's life hell, he killed his own father Yubo and he even exposed Cheng's plan which resulted in him getting burned alive.

Simon shivered as he thought about that day and hugged him even tighter at the same time controlling not to cry, it was one day before Cheng's execution when Simon had gone to meet him in the dungeon and Cheng had asked him to bring alcohol and he had done that because he wanted to fulfill his last wish and when Cheng got drunk he broke down and said everything that was in his heart.

That day he had cried his heart out and told each and everything was in his heart, and then Simon realized what a blunder he had committed he wanted to take Cheng out and save him but Cheng refused, he chose death and refused to listen to Simon.

In the end, he died while Simon helplessly watched.

In this life, he will not let that happen.

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Yibo and Zhan along with the four members of the village had arrived at the royal court.

The four members were afraid and cowered but they had the duke if north with them.

They walked towards the court and as soon as they had entered the room every eye was on them, but Yibo and Zhan didn't seem to mind they didn't even spare the others a glance they went to their seat and sat down while the four members stood behind them.

"Welcome duke..." one of the court members said and Yibo finally looked at him and gave him a small nod.

The person didn't know what else to say to this poker-faced man so he walked away.

A few minutes later when everyone was seated the queen Arrived as well every one stood up and bowed before the queen.

The queen was a beautiful well-maintained middle-aged woman, with a charm, She wore confidence like an accessory her green eyes were like a shining emerald. Her purple dress and the beautiful shiny crown on her brown hair, and the calm small smile on her face everything about the queen spoke authority and respect, her aura made everyone bow down and follow her.

The queen Cassandra

The queen went to her throne before she sat down and raised her hand to signal others to sit down as well.

"Your Majesty." Zhan was the one who stood up first and the queen gave him a smile.

"General, you have done an excellent job on the battlefield yet again, on the behalf of this empire thank you for your bravery."

Zhan smiled and bowed before the queen, "Your majesty it is my duty to serve the empire, however, I am quite disappointed with the things inside the empire."

"What do you mean?"

"What I mean is your majesty that I and my soldiers work hard to protect each and every citizen of this empire from royalty to the lower caste but seem like the guards inside the empire have failed at this job."

There was an uproar in the court and many people stood up to point out Zhan but Zhan only looked at the queen who raised her hand and told everyone to sit quietly.

"Elaborate general," she spoke.

Zhan asked the four men to come forward and they did, however, they were shivering, "Your majesty these four men belonged to a small village Nolani.

A month earlier that village was attacked and these four are the only survivors, when they reached the duke of the south he mercilessly beat them and even imprisoned them...while they were there to ask him for justice...

And these people went through all this because of their caste...so Your majesty while I and my soldiers are out there protecting this empire it is termites like bandits and cults that are eating it from inside and the authorities are not able to do anything..."

The queen looked at the four people, "I would like you to narrate everything that happened in the village no need to be scared."

The leader of the four people said, "Your majesty we belonged to a small village, and one night, while we were celebrating our traditional festival our village, was attacked and our homes were burned horses ran over our people.

The children were taken the woman was killed and men were burned alive it was very scary, and all of those were for no reason we are a peaceful village...and when we went to the duke of South he imprisoned us and tortured us and accused us of lying."

The four people started crying.

The court heard everything before the queen turned to the duke of the south, "Duke of south what do you have to ay on this?"

Duke of south Callum stood up and eyed the four people with disgust, before he looked at Yibo and Zhan and then addressed the queen, "Your majesty these people deserved what happened to them."

The four people were shocked after they heard that and so were Zhan and Yibo.

Before Yibo spoke, "May I ask why Duke of the south?"

"Duke of north these people were celebrating the festival that was foreign to our religion and culture they knew the danger and yet they gathered to celebrate meaning they were ready to face any danger..."

Yibo was dumbfounded at this ideology, "duke of the south you mean that they deserve to be brutally punished because they were worshipping their gods? what's wrong in believing the gods and thanking them?"

"Duke of north our religion has no such tradition and festival or those form of worshipping...how can we believe that they were worshipping?"

"Not our religion but theirs does duke of the south, and it is our responsibility to make out people happy."

"I apologize duke of the north but people around the empire know about the crisis we are facing because of bandits...and many other villagers have listened then why didn't they? duke of the north I have the responsibility to protect my land as well, and how can I protect people who themselves want to get hurt"

Duke of south then turned to the queen, "My queen, the villagers have gone against my order, and these four lower caste people have also conspired against me, your loyal subject I request the court to punish these people.

Your majesty, these people have also tried to go against our religion by performing devil worshipping."

The four people cowered and fell to the ground crying hysterically, "No your majesty, we were worshipping our god to thanks them for the good harvest this yeah it isn't devil-worshipping."

Zhan and Yibo watched before Yibo spoke, "your majesty Devil worshipping is a serious crime and Duke of the south is blaming innocent people pf devil-worshipping without any proof."

The duke of south smiled, "I have proof, duke of the north," Callum then turned to the four villagers, "Tell me the rituals of your worship."

Zhan and Yibo glanced at each other, while the head of the four men spoke, "it's a festival to thank the rain god and we do it every year, in the festival, we dance around a hugely lit fire and throw rice in it as an offering, under the full moon."

The duke of the south spoke, "Your majesty here, in our religion, this kind of worship is often used as the devil worship and black magic, and they have also missed a detail, they have also performed a sacrifice."

Yibo and Zhan looked at the four men who were on their knees, "Your majesty it's a tradition to sacrifice an animal or a goat to the god to thank him, it's nothing demonic your majesty please have mercy."

The duke of south spoke again, "But how do we believe that? what's the proof? where are your religion s scriptures to back up your claim."

"Our religions scriptures were burned when we were captured..."

"See your majesty these people are now blaming us for their misdeeds, their entire religion is about devil worshipping."

"Your majesty." Zhan spoke, interrupting the duke of the south, "Your majesty we are getting distracted the main reason why we are here is that there are some people here who think they are above law.

This isn't about religion this is about the massacre they have done and what proof des duke of the south has that these men are devil worshipers? duke of the south hasn't read their scripture and I am sure he dies not even knowing the name of their religion then how is he si sure?

Moreover, even if they are devil worshippers then only the ruler of this empire has the right to give them punishment and not some hooligans, and why didn't the duke of south bring them to you in the first place instead of punishing them on his own?"

"I agree with the general your majesty, devil-worshipping is a serious crime if the duke of the south had suspected something like that then why didn't he brings it to the court, and moreover....why didn't he do anything to look for those culprits?"

Author's note: Guess what everyone, I finally talked to my mother and told her that I was feeling down so she asked me to narrate my stories to her and I did that, lol.

And guess what she actually likes them I was like they are BxB mom you don't have any problems and she was like no problem right what you want. And after reading the comments from you all I was motivated.

Never been happier in life. Here is an upspree

Don't forget to comment. It keeps me going.