Chin The Conqueror

Chapter 6:Afterwards

Deep within the Southern Hills palace, the Ice King rested in his private chamber.

His body was badly injured from the recent battle, but his mind was in a worse state because his magic was now tainted. His frost energy used to be strong, but now it felt weak and corrupted inside him.It made his heart ached.

The royal physician knelt next to the bed and carefully removed acupuncture needles from the king's leg and hands and the king didn't miss the look of visible stress on the physician as he worked.

"My ice capabilities have reduced and I can feel it," the Ice King growled with a stunted sigh. "I lost a great amount of my Qi during the fight."The physician stopped moving and held a needle in his hand.

"My lord, the amount of energy you used has affected the volatility of your Qi," he said. He paused right after that, because he did not want to tell the king how bad the situation really was.

The Ice King did not like the hesitation. His brow furrowed and his face darkened, with that also a trace of disgust laced his voice as he looked down at the healer. He gave the physician an imperious look—the exact kind of harsh glare he always used whenever people failed him.

."Well," the physician quickly stammered, trying to fix his mistake, "if you had concentrated more of your energy instead of spreading it out, the wave would have pinned the enemy down safely."Outside the h chamber doors, a very young eunuch of the king stood waiting. He narrowed his eyes and shared a nervous look with the palace guard,as he was very much unwilling to enter the room right now because everyone knew the king was in an atrabiliar mood.

The physician continued his tense explanation, while his voice trembled slightly as he placed the silver needles back into his velvet pouch. He explained that if the King had scattered his remaining energy so way recklessly during the battle, the rogue frost magic would have turned inward. It would have solidified the natural water inside his own body and frozen his vital organs from the inside out.

Under that kind of normal circumstances, the ice lord Lu would have succumbed to the deadly frost disease, which was a fatal condition that usually killed lesser cultivators instantly.

However, the royal family possessed a rare blood entanglement. This unique genetic trait to the ice people, granted less immunity against the frost disease to anyone who wielded high-tier ice magic. Also the strange part of this circulation was that it functioned exactly like the blood flow of ordinary people who could not use ice magic at all.

In short, having this normal human blood circulation inside an elemental cultivator was actually pernicious to his specialized ice bloodline during a magical crisis. Because he was lucky enough,his life was saved from the frost disease, but it was now actively working against his injured elemental pathways and slowing down his natural recovery.

Suddenly, a sharp clicking sound rang out from the doorway and immediately captured the attention of the King and his men. The royal advisor, who had been standing silently in the darker side near the corner of the room, shifted uncomfortably as the noise disturbed the palace silence.

The Ice King did not say a single word, but his gaze hardened instantly and his face stiffened with pure annoyance. He leaned back slightly against his silk pillows and turned his eyes toward his subordinates. He did not need to shout or bark orders to show what the gaze mesnt.His eyes had passed the succinct message that they knew they should weary of.

At once,the physician and the advisor understood that silent look and so they both scampered away very soon and left the private chamber in a hurry.

The strange noise sounded from the hidden corridor once again, but this time the footsteps did not stop at the threshold.

The king stood up from the outer waiting chamber and walked directly past the private study without shifting his gaze once. And when the ice Lord Lu stepped into the room in the secret chamber,a beastly figure with an arrogant stride approaches and looking down at him.

"Oh now, tell me it is not true that you and your wild army got defeated," a brusque voice said, cutting through the air of the place.

"What a profound pity!"The thing snarled with a stunted sigh of fake sympathy, his eyes locking onto the injured Ice King with a very much mocking amusement.The creature's eyes glowed and blinked in the low light and left a faint trace of movement in the dark corners of the room.

"You know what ? I... I do not tolerate mockery," Lord Lu snarled as his brow furrowed deeply. His face darkened with immediate anger and he stepped forward to confront the slightly hidden figure.

"You are in no position to speak to me as you please!"

"You may be right, Your Majesty, but this much I believe you can overlook because you are surely not that petty," The smug voice said out confidently and audible from where the presence stood.

The beastly figure finally stepped out from the shadows and came into full view. The creature spoke with a mocking arrogance that only made Ice lord Lu more furious because the sight of the monstrous entity offended his imperial dignity."Do not dare speak to me while you are in this hideous form," Lu snapped with a stunted sigh of disgust.

He paused for a brief moment and turned back toward the hidden door where he had entered the secret room. "When you are ready to show your face or a more tolerating one ,then we will talk."The Ice Lord turned his back on the figure and returned back to his private chamber where he hoped to recover his strength.

After the Ice king Left....left alone in the solace of the secret room, the beastly figure stared at the empty doorway. "Poor King, I warned him about his choices, didn't I?" the creature muttered to itself while wearing a perfidious smile which spread across its 'not so much fun to look at'face.

"But there is no need to worry because I have something in my possession that you will gladly sacrifice your entire army to obtain." The voice trailed off into a suspiciously low laughter that could never be possible heard by someone outside.

Meanwhile, back in the royal palace of the Fire Nation capital, Chin sat in his bath basin and stared at the entrance with a look of funny dread.

He already knew that his mother was coming over to his quarters to make a fuss about the rumors she might have heard regarding what took place with the enemies flank .

Honestly, he was not at all in the mood for her at the moment what could he do?

There was very little he could do as if he did not allow her, she'll force her self in anyway. That much power she had.