The Second Life Liliana
Chapters 154. The price to be paid

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Every time we live, we have a choice. The choices we make have an impact on our lives. Whether it's good or bad.

Now Max must take the toughest decision of his life, the choice of the opportunity the great wizard gave him. He's lost, but Max has to make a choice.

Liliana had to live, that was her current thoughts. But apparently the price he had to lower was not cheap.

"Is there no third choice?" Max hopes there's a choice where he can't choose both. Why was it that when he had the choice to save Liliana back, it was so hard?

Heavy not because he was afraid of death, but because he was afraid that everything could not happen according to his plan. It's really complicated both choices and it's not easy.

"Your Majesty, I don't know that you are a bargainer." The grand witch joked with a grin on her lips.

"Aren't you lying to me? Are you being honest? If you lie to me, you'll feel the consequences!"

"My god is the noble bet" the great wizard bowed his head.

"You're definitely a destination, why would you help me? Say it! What do you want from me? Money, power, status, honor, women? I can give it all to you, just tell me what you want?"

Max knows that everything in this world is not free. There is a price to pay, let alone Max is a person who does not want to owe others. He was a King who had the highest status in the kingdom even he was respected by the crowd.

"I want someone's life, I mean two people." The great witch smiled grinningly, no matter whose life she wanted.

Not asking for money, position, status or territory? But the great magician instead asked for the lives of two people instead? Whose life did he want to take?

"You want life? Whose life do you want? Are they one of my people?" Max asked with a sharpened look at the great witch.

"True, I want the lives of those two people. I want to finish off the lives of both of them with my own hands, your majesty just needs to give them up."

"Say who??"

"I want to eliminate the same person who killed Miss Liliana,"

"What's? WHO?" WHO??" Max was astonished to hear the great magician say about that person. He was getting curious as to who it was.

The great witch only smiled with a grin.

"Say who is that guy?!"

"He lived in this palace as the King's noble concubine,"

"My concubine? I don't have a concubine."

"Am I wrong? I guess that black haired lady is your concubine because she's always around you."

"What's? Black hair woman?" Max dumbfounded.

Julia Norton's! Is that him? He killed Lily?

"True, he was a black magician.his father was also from the demon sect." Said the great witch.

"Hahaha.you want his life? All right, I'll give you. Right now!"

"Thank you before, your honor,"

"You'd better keep your promise or you'll die!" Threaten Max to the great wizard.

Later that night due to less time, Max and the great witch go to meet Julia in her palace. Before that, King Istvan ordered one of his soldiers to pick up duke Norton from his house to be taken to the palace.

Max just remembered that he had no reason to eliminate the father and son. Then quickly the great announcer gave evidence that Julia was a black witch and her father was a demon.

The great witch has a ball called a recording ball, the recording ball shows how Liliana died from her magic. How the pregnant woman died at the hands of Julia who was then disguised as Doris the loyal servant.

"Lily.." the man shrieked as he watched how the news he loved hurt as he put his life in Julia's hands.

I should have gotten rid of you a long time ago.

She was heartbroken to see the woman she loved stretch Java in such a horrible way, let alone her current state of being pregnant. The cry suddenly became a rage and wrath.

"Your highness, miss Julia and Duke Norton have arrived at the palace hall." Adrian reports to his king.

"Have all the ministers gathered there as well?" Max asked as he wiped his tears.

"It's your honor,"

What the hell is it? Why did his majesty gather everyone these nights in the palace hall? Is he going to announce something important?. Adrian thought in his heart.

"Good, in two hours it should be done." muttered Max in a soft voice and grinned. "Duke Geraldine, is he coming too?"

"He was already in the palace hall with the ministers" explained Adrian, bowing his body as usual.

"Great magician, come with me!" Max said to the great wizard standing right behind him.

"Yes, your majesty." replied the great witch.

The three of them entered the hall space of Istvan's royal palace, all saluting Max. Laura and Eugene were also there, they wondered why Max had gathered everyone in the palace hall.

The king sat down on his throne, without much pleasantry he asked the great magician to play the recording of his magic ball.

"Here you will witness the unraveling of a criminal behind the nobility, a man of black magic in this kingdom. Initially... I didn't expect that these people turned out to be part of the black magic people."

Julia and Duke Norton immediately gulped as soon as they heard the king's words so loud in front of all those people.

Does your Majesty know everything?. Julia and the father looked at each other restlessly.

"Great magician, show me!" Max's word to the great witch.

The great witch showed the footage of Liliana being killed. Everyone who was in the palace hall witnessed it.

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"You..you're a black witch?"

"True and only you know about this. Therefore, the others cannot know." Julia approached Liliana, she saw blood flowing from her body to Liliana's feet and soaking the floor as well. "What does it feel like to hurt so much? How's it?"

"You...re absolutely savage! You can do this to me and my son, what exactly? I never even cheated on you. I even left the Istvan kingdom with my son, but you..." Liliana was not able to move much nor stand up, her legs were limp and her stomach ached as in crumbs.

Julia sat down squatting, she looked at the woman cynically. "Yes, you're gone but your shadow never left my life! I love His Majesty, I only want to be with him as Queen in the land of Istvan, to be number two after him. Then last night, she said she would re-appoint you as empress? It's ridiculous, isn't it?"

"You shall not and shall not be empress. Black magician, a dangerous person like you is not worthy to accompany the King and you have no right to be Queen. I won't let it go" Liliana said with her sharp eyes on the woman.

"Maybe you should be a little self-aware, Liliana. You won't be able to stop me if you die, will you?" Julia smiled sarcastically, she was happy to see that her rival was helpless.

"Haha... PFut..really funny, innocent, silly what a fool huh? No one will hear you. I've limited everything with my magic" Julia said with a laugh mocking Liliana.

"Please, save my son.I promise, I won't bother you anymore!"

"What did you say? If I save your son, then I will be in grave danger. I don't want to risk it, I'll be threatened if you're still alive."

Julia snared Liliana's neck with her black magic, until she suffocated. "Ohok..."

That woman already had great intentions to kill Liliana. "DEAD!"

A black light enveloped Liliana's body, Julia's originally green eyes now turned all black. His hand was emitting a black light that was so thick.

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After the magic recording had been played out, everyone immediately looked towards Julia and also her father who looked so agitated.

Duke Geraldine was astonished to see it all, she could not believe that her daughter was killed by the black witch and that the black witch was Julia, an honorable woman Princess of the Duke family.

"You..you killed my daughter?!" The father had just lost his daughter was ignited by the flames of emotion, he strangled the neck of the woman who had killed his daughter.

"Kkukhhh..."

"Based on the black witch! Demon lady!" Duke Geraldine wrathful.

"The bodyguards arrested Duke Norton and his daughter! Bring it before me!" Max shouted in a thunderous voice.

Finally Julia who was in such a state was already very pinched, took out her black magic and attacked everyone there. He was protecting the father who was about to be captured by the palace guards.

"I can't believe this, Duke Norton turns out...."

"His daughter too.I can't believe it, I supported them both." A man said he was sorry because he once supported Duke Norton and his daughter to enter into the royal family.

"Go! Don't you dare come any closer, or you'll die!" Julia's body was emitting a black gleam, her eyes were reddened and she stared at everyone there sharply as she threatened.

However, it wasn't difficult for Max and the great magician to defeat the black magician. Max uses his binding magic to hold Julia and her father off easily.

The two of them were already in front of Max and the great magician. "Duke Norton and his daughter, from today and until their deaths! Their title will be revoked and they will be sentenced to be beheading for committing grave offences as the people of Istvan, allying with the devil and killing the King's consort!"

No one dared to oppose the absolute decision of the king, for indeed the father and son were proven guilty. The death penalty awaits them both in plain sight.

"YOUR MAJESTY! Please forgive us.please..." Julia who has high self-esteem, now she begs for mercy to the King.

Max raises Julia's head with his magic he moves the little head. "Ughh..."

"When he begs you for forgiveness, do you forgive him? Did you do that? You killed Liliana and my son so cruelly! Now you have to pay a heavy price for it,"

"No, your honor.please don't..."

Duke Norton and Julia could not escape punishment. The black magic inside Julia's body was already locked by the great magician. Now the two of them were in the middle of the fountain, preparing to lose their heads.

"Why and who are you? Why are you doing this? I don't even know you" Julia asked the great witch.

Duke Norton also looked at the grand mage in confusion.

"Maybe you forgot that you killed my mother, father and brother. You accuse them of being black witches!"

"You..." Duke Norton finally remembered he had killed a family who claimed to be black magicians when they were witches with holy powers.

"And now you will pay for everything, just like my father, mother and brother felt!" The great witch smiled grinningly. "Feel hell!"

Finally the father and son were in the law of the fountain, but not the usual law of the fountain because the great magicians bounced the tools of the fountain to burn their souls.

Their bodies were both instantly burnt to ashes, the great magician laughed to see it because his family used to be burned to death by Duke Norton.

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After the death sentence was carried out, it was only 2 hours to go to midnight and the man had to make his choice immediately. Max returns to the palace and Duke Geraldine meets him.

"Your highness,"

"Duke, I beg you for thousands of apologies.but I don't think that's enough. The cause of all this is me and I'm not gonna ask you to forgive me again." Max looked at his former father-in-law with teary eyes. There was regret and guilt on his face.

Duke Geraldine's gaze weakened looking at the man."Your Honor, I apologize and I thank you. I'm sorry that I don't understand your noble feelings, but your majesty is also grieving the loss of my daughter, but I blame you."

"No, it's my fault.if it wasn't for me, you wouldn't have lost your daughter."

"No, your majesty, I will try to seal Liliana's departure. I hope your majesty lives happily, and I thank you for being fair, for punishing them." Seen the Duke's eyes that look swollen, he cried a lot because of his daughter.

Max stared at the Duke with a teary look. "Duke, I promise.I'll turn things around the way they were. You also have to promise me that you have to keep me out of your life and Liliana's." Max said then smiled softly.

Duke Geraldine doesn't understand what Max says to her. "Your Majesty, what do you mean?"

Why does your majesty speak like this?

Max did not reply again, leaving Duke Geraldine distraught.

Duke, you don't worry, you still have a chance to meet your daughter.

After that Max went with the great magician secretly. With both hands of his own, Max dismantled Liliana's tomb. He saw that the woman's body was still intact inside the coffin. "Lilly..."

"Your Majesty, can we start?"

"All right," Max gulped, then he held Liliana ala bridal.

"What is your majesty sure about, choosing the second option?"

"Yes,"

"While you have to sell your soul to the devil?" The great wizard asked Max again about his choice.

Actually, you want first or second choice. Equally unpleasant.

"Yes, at least if I choose that, I can still meet him in this world. Or I can't live, in a world she's not in." Max looked at Liliana with sad eyes. His desire was already steady for the second choice.

It's an expensive price I have to pay because I've made you like this.

"All right, your majesty, let's go somewhere safe. I will begin the ritual" said the great wizard.

Max and the great witch go to one of the lonely places inside the palace.

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