Courting Death System-Chapter 58: Marriage Ritual

"Lucius my boy, now that you’ve grown up and become so strong, there’s a matter I’d like to discuss with you."

"Master, please speak freely."

"Okay then, I’ll get straight to the point, I want you to take Anya as your second wife. Are you willing to marry her?" asked Old Yezi in a serious tone.

"Grandpa, what are you talking about? Who said I wanted to get married? I’m still young and..." Anya chimed in.

"I agree." replied Lucius.

"Grandpa!"

"It’s good that you know I’m still your grandpa. Anya, I’m doing this for you. To tell you the truth, with your personality, no man would be willing to marry you. Your personality is very similar to mine, arrogant, foul mouth and a complete disregard for etiquette. Other men won’t want to love you, instead, they’ll want to conquer you and try to knock you down a peg. I don’t want you to experience that, I don’t want you to doubt who you are just because of the partner you’re with. Apart from me, Lucius knows you best."

"But grandpa..."

"I know what you want to say but feelings can be cultivated slowly. Now, don’t try to change my mind because I’ve already made it up. Now, the both of you stand together, I’ll perform the Marriage Ritual right now."

"Anya, do you not want to marry me, say it right now and I’ll respect your decision." said Lucius. He didn’t want to force Anya into being his partner for life if she didn’t want to. Anya looked at Lucius and remained silent. Lucius then stood next to her and waited to see what Old Yezi was going to do next.

Old Yezi’s appearance changed, his eyes turned pitch black, long deer-like horns grew on his head and tattoos appeared on his forehead, around the eyelids and cheeks. In each palm, there was an eyeball with pitch black eyes.

[I call upon the Ancients, the Dark and the Cursed Ones. I call upon the Evil Spirits, Tainted Souls and Magi. I, Evil Witch, Dark Magus, Yezi Volkmora, join the Fates and Destinies of Anya Volkmora and Lucius Lothra to be one. Their Bond shall withstand Life, Death and the Test Of Time. No matter what happens, they’ll remain Husband and Wife for All Eternity. Witness with me the conjoinment of their Past, Present and Future!]

Old Yezi started to chant, Anya couldn’t understand what he was saying but Lucius could. The ground cracked open and Evil Spirits and Ghosts flew out and floated around the three. Space cracked open and numerous eyes fell on them.

[Lucius Lothra, do you agree to take Anya Volkmora as your Wife? Are you willing to share your Past, Present and Future with her and also accept her Past, Present and Future? Shoulder all her burdens, protect and lead her as the head and husband for all eternity?]

"I, Lucius Lothra, agree to take Anya Volkmora as my wife and I’m willing to do anything for her."

[Anya Volkmora, do you agree to take Lucius Lothra as your husband? Are you willing to share your Past, Present and Future with him and also accept his Past, Present and Future? Are you willing to submit to him and support him as the neck, respect and be loyal to him for all eternity?]

"I, Anya Volkmora, agree to accept Lucius Lothra as my husband and do whatever is expected of me as his wife."

As soon as these two accepted the vows, a crimson string confessed from Lucius’s Soul and extended outwards and connected with Anya’s Soul.

[As witnessed by all, I now label you Husband and Wife!]

BOOOOOM!!!

The string that connected both their Souls turned red, then black and then released a powerful force and spread throughout the Apocalypse Shop’s domain.

...

[Shoppy, what was that just now? Why can’t I see through it?] asked Jeff but he didn’t receive an immediate response.

[Shoppy! Shoppy! Talk to me, tell me what happened?!] shouted Jeff. Two minutes later, Shoppy finally resounded.

<Jeff, it’s bad! The contract that we made with Anya and Yezi has been renewed! The terms and conditions have been completely changed!> answered Shoppy.

[What?! But that’s not possible! The Authority... Your Authority shouldn’t be something that can be altered by anyone, so how?!]

Jeff was also shocked by what Shoppy just said. He knew how powerful the Apocalypse Shop System was, especially after upgrading it again and again over the years. Its Authority and Power should be Absolute within the Apocalypse Shop Domain. Yet, someone or something managed to infringe upon it in its own domain.

<Jeff, I’m gonna say this just once. Don’t ever mess with Yezi’s disciple ever again! That guy... that guy is an Absolute Monster! An Absolute Monster!>

[What do you mean?! Speak clearly!]

<It’s his #@@++#$#$##... I’ve never seen so much #@@++#$#$## before! If what we have is a small river, then what he has is an ocean of it! A vast and bottomless ocean of it! No wonder we couldn’t take it... No wonder we couldn’t take it! No Entity... can take it from him... No one!>

[AN OCEAN?! AN OCEAN?! BUT THAT’S NOT POSSIBLE! IT CAN’T BE POSSIBLE!]

...

[Ding! A new mission has been issued to the Host.

Mission: Don’t provoke or antagonise Lucius Lothra no matter what.

Mission Time: Indefinite.

Mission Reward: Life.

Mission Punishment: Death.]

...

Guack!

[Report! Report!]

{For you to blatantly barge into the council room, whatever you came here to report better be good.}

A gorgeous woman with white hair and eyes, crescent moon mark on the forehead barged into the council room where there were men and women with the same hair colour and eyes, the only difference was their moon marks on their forehead, some had half moon, full moon, waning moon, etc.

[Reporting to the Goddesses, we have finally located the Saintess’s daughter.] reported that lady who had barged in.

{You’ve located the Saintess’s daughter?! Where is she?}

[Reporting to the Goddesses, she’s in the Apocalypse Shop. One of our Clansmen just reported this news to me.]

{Good. Quickly send people to fetch her. By the way, how did you locate her?}

[Through her Bloodline Awakening. Her Bloodline awakened and resonated with the Clansmen who are currently there.]

{WHAT?! ARE YOU SURE?! THERE’S NO TIME TO WASTE! IT SEEMS ONE OF US HAS TO PERSONALLY GO THERE TO CHECK ON THE SITUATION. WHO WANTS TO GO?}

{I’ll go.}

{Malta, you actually want to go. Fine then, you can go but don’t make any detours. Now, who wants to go and tell Big Sis the big news?}

{...}

{No one? Fine, I’ll deliver the news to her. I wonder if that man is still alive after so many years of torture and suffering.}

...

Somewhere in a place where the light doesn’t shine, a half naked man with chains that pierced through his body held him the air. This man was covered in grievous wounds that had rotted and had worms wiggling around inside.

Aside from the wounds, this man was very skinny, he was SO skinny that one could see all the bones in his body and even count them without difficulty. Long hair and beard masked his actual appearance.

Suddenly, deer-like horns grew on his head and unlike normal horns which were normally white in colour, these horns were black and released ominous and vile aura.

"Mhm...?" sounded the coarse man’s voice as he slowly raised his head, his face still couldn’t be seen except for his eyes which were completely black.

"Fa...ther... So you actually... managed... to... do... it... ki ki ki... ki ki ki... cough... cough... hahaha! Ahahaha! Now, I’ve finally unfulfilled her final wish and can die without regrets! Elena, wait for me."

At first, the man had difficulty speaking but as more time passed, he got the hang of it and laughed hysterically.

{So, you’ve also received the good news I see.} a voice that caused the temperature to drop sounded out as a woman appeared from nowhere. She was like a beacon of light with her literal glowing skin. She was like the moon in the nighttime, giving light to the darkness.

"Eleanor, always nice to see you." said the man in a happy voice.

"And I did receive the good news. Which father wouldn’t be happy on their daughter’s wedding day, haha."

{I’ve tortured you everyday for more than thirty thousand years and not once did you utter a sound. Who would’ve thought that you actually weren’t a mute. I personally preferred the silent you more.} said the glowing lady who was an absolute beauty, perfect in every way, shape or form.

"Eleanor, you can’t blame me for your failures. If you had put in more effort, I would have said something. Anyways, your niece just got married, you must be happy right?"

The beautiful woman’s face became colder at the man’s words but then took a deep breath.

{You’re right. I’m so happy that I sent someone to go and fetch my niece to live here with me. As for his husband, we’ll deal with him appropriately. Who knows, he might even join you in your cosy little spot.}

"HAHAHA! AHAHAHAHA! STOP IT, HAHAHA!" the chained man burst out in laughter. He laughed so hard that he almost ran out of breath.

{What’s so funny?}

"Your statement of course. You think that my daughter married a random guy from the streets? You’re wrong. Whoever it is that married my daughter, I assure you, he’s not someone the likes of you can handle!"