Scepter of Thorns

Edward will never forget the expression on Edmund's face when he saw him wearing women's clothes and Senna coming out from the secret passage of the study. The quill pen in his hand fell with a "click", smearing ink on the scroll.

Senna greeted generously, "Meet you again, Master Spade."

Edward turned and left, he needed to change out of this awkward clothes.

"Stop." Edmund said coldly, "Where have you been this night?"

"Don't you already know?" He took off his mask without looking back, "Let the honorable Ace of Spades explain it to you first."

Edward walked into the bathroom in his room, he looked at the person in the mirror, and the woman in the dark golden skirt also stared at him expressionlessly.

Dim lights were cast from the corners, casting shadows on his deep facial features.Edward pursed his lips tightly, and his dark blue eyes were stained with anger, but this was only the thin ice that had frozen on the outermost layer, and there was something deeper sealed inside, which was the madness and ridicule of a successful plot.They were well hidden, and no one could tell from those eyes that he was actually in a good mood.

He even wanted to open a bottle of red wine.

The sound of birds chirping from far to near, Edward stretched out his hand to appease the spotted owl that flew in, it stopped on his shoulder and began to comb its feathers.

He smelled perfume and powder on feathers.

"Do you remember the route?" he asked softly.

The spotted owl flapped its wings in response, then rubbed its limp body against his face.

"Good boy."

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When Edward opened his eyes, he saw Hollow Valley.

It lies on the ground in a graceful but majestic posture, just like the skeleton left by an ancient giant beast, every curve is full and round.A stream meanders from a distance, and the sound of the splashing water is like the blood flowing in the chest.

It is breathing, and its life is woven into the green onions of the mountains.

Edward had never seen such wild beauty, even though he knew it was an illusion, he couldn't help but go to the heights.This was the first time he had such a strong desire for something other than power and knowledge.

And as he expected, Kylos stood on the top of the mountain, his long hair fluttering like a gourd in the wind.

"You're here." He smiled back.

Edward didn't know how to answer, and he didn't want to.

"This is a beautiful place." Kylos didn't care about his indifference, "I think you will like it."

Edward walked to the front, overlooking the entire valley. On the more distant land, it was the opposite of barrenness. There were huge boulders everywhere, flamboyant and full of twisted and grotesque beauty.

"Is that where you killed me?" he asked.

Kylos' smile faded, and he stared at Edward, "Maybe I want to do the same now."

"Come on then." Edward spread his arms and laughed mockingly, "Push me off and my bones will break and my blood will flow into that stream. If you want, you can even draw me and put it on display In your closet."

"Then how do you know that I haven't done this before?" Kylos put his arms around his waist and held him in his arms, "If you are just a painting, then I will not be satisfied. Maybe I will put Your body is stitched perfectly and freezes your time so you can stay in my bed forever."

Edward's back stiffened, he felt that the other party was serious, and he was not discussing, but just telling.

"You're afraid." Kylos hugged him almost threateningly and approached the edge of the valley step by step, but seemed to be joking with his lover, "Because your clumsy provocation excited me."

"And at that time, you won't resist or threaten. I don't have to worry about being stabbed in the heart with a scepter during sex, and I won't see you take a knife and hurt yourself bloody afterwards. Your body is It's cold, but it will soon take on my heat."

When Edward realized what he wanted to do, most of his body was already hanging off the cliff.To make matters worse, the other party's words seemed to awaken some kind of hidden memory, and his mind became blurred, which made him completely lose his vigilance against danger.

Kyle Ross stared at the confusion in Edward's eyes, smiled and let go of his arms——

He reacted suddenly, and clenched the opponent's wrist reflexively. As a result, his body was pulled and tilted, and he returned to Kairos' arms.

"Actually, you are not as determined as you appear, El."

Edward leaned on his shoulders and panted violently, the fear of falling made his breathing even more rapid.He understood what Kylos was trying to tell him, and he didn't care if he was alive or not, because it didn't make any difference to him.What he really wanted was a surrender, to belong entirely to another person, both mentally and physically.

Maybe an unthinkable corpse would be more pitiful to him than the current one covered in thorns.

"You finally realized." Kylos bit his earlobe affectionately, "I'm very happy, so... I prepared a second gift for you."

Edward, who was still tormented by the first gift so far, did not want to accept it, but it was obviously beyond his control.

"...what is it?"

"I moved the time axis between the heaven and other realms for you."

- Timeline! !

The time between the heavenly realm and other realms is year by year. If he stayed in the heavenly realm for more than ten days, then the human realm would last for more than ten years, and the forces he secretly cultivated would have been completely dispersed.

The cautious and suspicious character is destined to make Edward keep a hand in everything to prevent future troubles.

"When was it adjusted?"

"It's the third day since you came."

Three years, fortunately not too long.

"But you have to hurry up, El." Kylos reminded, "Caesar is about to complete the final siege of the Black Queen through traitors; The matter of colluding with the demons has begun to appear; the elves have migrated to the remote northern kingdom, and under the blessing of the goddess of ice and snow, they have gradually adapted to the cold environment; the black widow, who pretends to be a guide of the demon world, is valued by the god of the dead in a different dimension , awakened a long-sleeping lich bloodline of the undead tribe... everything is moving towards the final track in an orderly manner, and we are only waiting for the heavens."

"What do you mean?" Edward's pupils dilated for a moment, "Other races..."

"Peace has lasted too long." Kylos hugged him tightly, "The world needs to be reshuffled."

The next second, Edward was slammed onto his shoulders, and he almost cried out in pain. Behind him, a pair of huge wings spread out, leaped from the top of the mountain, and flew in mid-air.

"Look." Kylos squeezed his chin, forcing him to stare at the ground.The blond hair slipped into Edward's collar, bringing a cold tickle.

He faintly felt something, and he tightly clenched Kairos' shoulders with his hands.He heard the other party laugh lowly, and then——

Edward fell from the sky.

Something hard stroked his cheek.Edward opened his eyes, and the spotted owl stepped on the quilt and jumped around his ear, but the sun was shining outside the window.

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Celine stood behind the wall of thorns and watched expressionlessly. Serones was locked inside. She looked annoyed and terrified, and she didn't know what she was thinking.

After a few minutes, Celine turned around and left the prison.

She turned into an alley with ease, and the brand of the envoy made all the Celestial Clan turn a blind eye.Eventually she stopped in front of a door in the favelas, where two kids with dirty wings screamed and ran away.

She touched the center of her eyebrows, and gently wiped off the brand of the angel as if peeling off the curdled skin on the hot milk, and then a short-haired Celestial Clan appeared at the door, and she knocked on the door.

The door opened.

A well-built woman opened the door impatiently. She had long hair dyed dark blonde and a lipstick pinned to her waist.

The moment she saw the visitor, her pupils dilated instantly, her mouth opened slightly, and she stammered out a few words, "Sai, Celine... sister?"

"I'm back, Cellu," she replied calmly. "What, isn't your brother Senna here?"

Celu hurriedly explained, "He went to Master Spades."

Celine walked in, and her younger sister hurriedly closed the door, and found a place to sit down from the small and messy place, "Sister... you sit first, I'll get you something to drink."

Cellu poured a glass of fruit wine over, Celine did not back down, took it and drank it all in one gulp.She put the cup with the remaining juice in the center of the coffee table, "How long have I been gone?"

"Five years." Celu stared at the position of the cup with complicated eyes, "You haven't changed at all."

"It's my habit to put the cup in the middle, and it's not like you don't know it." Celine smiled, "Now you can be sure that I'm really your sister, right?"

Cellu turned her head away and didn't answer.

"I have been in the God Realm for five years, as the Goddess of Truth—that is, the goddess of the goddess of human beings. Now she is going to come to the Heaven Realm, so I will follow." Celine said, "How is Spade now? ?”

"After you left, I took your place, so I am now the king of spades, and on the surface I am my brother's bodyguard." Cellu still looked in another direction, "Edward, the eldest son of Lord Spades, came to the heaven a week ago. , won the title by virtue of the title of 'God's Favorite', and attended the joker's ball a few days ago."

"Edward..." Celine thought for a while, "Has he ever been an angel?"

"Unclear, there is no information about his identity."

"Forget it, let's not talk about this." She looked at Cellu, "How is your illusion practice?"

Celu finally showed a faint smile, she snapped her fingers, the floor and the ceiling began to intersect, the sofa was fixed above her head, the cup was turned upside down on the wick of the chandelier, and a woman exactly like her was sitting upside down by the window , I don't know what I'm thinking while holding my chin.

"It seems that you have improved a lot in the past five years." Celine praised, "You can even transform people..."

Her words were interrupted, and the phantom of Cellu came over, picked up the cup on the table and went to the kitchen.

This time Celine was really surprised, "You can create a physical illusion?!"

Her sister shrugged, relaxed and amused.

"You are the pride of our family, Cellu Senna." Celine said seriously, "My illusion talent is weaker than yours. You must make good use of it. Maybe I will need your help to do something in the future."

"Brother Sena already asked me to do something for him." Sailu whispered, "There is only one me."

Celine's face suddenly turned cold, and her smile was still hanging on the corner of her mouth, as stiff as a plaster chisel.

"Selu." She called out her sister's name, "I think you have to realize that no matter how close you are, the blood flowing in your body is different. His father's identity is unknown, and he has no Senna family at all." Bloodline, only one surname..."

"I know all this, sister." She argued, "but you have been away all these years, he has been taking care of me, and he has always supported me in learning illusion. If there is no brother Senna, I am not a spade K's."

Celine fell silent suddenly.

"Yes, you're right." She slowly covered her eyes, "If it wasn't for my decision back then, things wouldn't be where they are now."

Cello opened her mouth to say something, but nothing came out of her.

"I, I'll check the door." She changed the subject stiffly, "There seems to be some movement there."

Celu came to the door, and with the sound of turning the keys, the iron door was opened.Senna was standing outside the door, smiling, and behind him was a man under a cloak, with a strand of blond hair slanted out.

When Celu saw the man's face, her body began to tremble uncontrollably, and a vague word came out from between her lips: "Spades... my lord..."

----Chapter63. Sisters & End----

The author has something to say:

Celine appeared in the first volume, and everyone has forgotten it visually. She is the short-haired girl who reported to Serones that there was an improper relationship between Edward and Kylos. She is one of the protagonists in this volume.