Chapter 266: General's love

Baron Baron strode through the marble-floored corridors, his steps heavy with the pressure of loss and his strained relations with the North. "Why now?" he asked himself as he clenched his jaw, continuing down the corridors until he reached the outside of his castle. The trip to the parlor was not long, but it was fraught with many questions in his mind. "There has to be some form of correlation," he thought. "That is, of course, if the gods meant me to fall instead of what they had claimed when I was young. 'We will stand with you,' they had said through the lips of Melissa Sandra. 'You are our favorite,' they had added." Either way, he hated them right now and wanted nothing from them, which was a sharp contrast to when he was younger and all he wanted was to please them. The air around him felt thick, almost suffocating. His mind raced back to his last encounter with General Urutak. For some odd reason, the general seemed to forget the times they had stood by each other in war an