1441 Baylor's Guilt
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ραndαsΝοvεl ƈοm Location- Reverse Dungeon, Yellow Plains Planet, Freedom Fighters Secret Base
“Baylor, is that you who is saying those words? Or did your wife finally get to you?” Luna mocked Baylor and his failure to notice his wife’s secret during their decades-long marriage.
“…” Listening to Luna bring up his wife, demigod Baylor’s face turned ashen.
As promised, after returning from his unsuccessful attempt to kill Sansa, Henricks revealed everything about the Matron and the Paw clan to Baylor. Then he went on to reveal how Sansa was involved in Ellen and her husband’s death and also has been tirelessly trying to assassinate Ellen’s only orphaned son.
Learning the miserable end of the love of his life at the direction of his wife, Baylor who let go of his love for its happiness, regretted it.
He began to hate the words, ‘If you love something you have to learn to let it go.’ He let go of his love and helped her achieve her happiness even at the cost of his happiness but look what happened, she was killed. If only he had kept her by his side he could have protected her. He was not going to repeat the same mistake the second time.
The reason Baylor felt that Ellen’s orphan son will be safe at the Southern royal palace was because he saw a similar love that he had for Ellen in the eyes of Anna Heatsend when she jumped head first to save the boy regardless of the risk to her life.
But now, knowing Ellen’s true and uncut fate after she left the capital, it pained his heart and he wondered why he did not force her to marry him and live a long and comfortable life. He regrets it all now.
Therefore, this time around, in Ellen’s son’s case, he did not plan to give the boy the happiness and freedom he seemed to want but to give him a safe and caring environment where he can grow without having to be worried about being assassinated.
During this whole ordeal, demigod Baylor did not seem to care about Sansa or take revenge on her for what she did to Ellen. He felt guilty for not doing what was needed. He blamed himself for ever letting go of Ellen.
‘Had I known things would end up like this I would have never let her go,’ this thought kept playing in demigod Baylor’s head over and over. His thoughts were occupied by guilt for him to spare any thought for revenge.
Rather than seek revenge Demigod Baylor preferred to focus on not repeating the same mistake with his late love’s only orphaned son.
This was why when Henricks asked him about his stance on the VR-Slime card, Baylor did not hesitate to take the road he would never have chosen before.
“I appreciate how you are finally putting our organization before your love for Ellen but step back, that is not how we operate,” Henricks was indeed impressed to see his disciple put their interest above Ellen’s orphaned son’s interest but he was also suspicious that this might be because his disciple has not digested the whole Sansa ordeal completely.
Also, Henricks did not want to resort to kidnapping the boy and forcing him to slave for their cause until necessary as doing so would be the opposite of their cause. Therefore turning to the other four demigods on the table he asked, “So, do any of you have anything else to add?”
“Leader, why are we still discussing this? Baylor is right, I bet the government is already after him. So let us not waste further time on small talk and start discussing how to kidnap the boy from within the Southern royal palace. Luna, you know the Southern royal palace better than anyone here, so do you think we can infiltrate the palace and capture the boy without alerting the royal guards?” One of the demigods sitting on the oval table proposed. Baylor and the other three demigods seemed to agree with him and waited for Luna’s response.
“I know a few secret routes we can use to infiltrate the Southern Royal place and capture Dalton Wyatt, but I do not recommend that because if we are discovered we will have no chance of retreat. It will turn into a fight till our death. It will be best if we stake out in the southern capital and wait for the boy to leave the palace,” Luna advised her colleagues to give up on the idea to kidnap the boy from within the Southern royal palace because that would mean them walking into a death trap.
“With the popularity of the VR-Slime card, I doubt the Southern Royal family will ever let the boy out of the royal guest palace. You sure staking out of the royal palace is our only option?” the demigod from earlier did not seem to like Luna’s advice because conducting a mission in enemy territory was already risky but staking out in the heart of enemy territory for days and weeks was just suicide.
“Or we can wait, in three months the boy will be leaving for the central academic region to attend Morningstar University. We capture him during his commute,” Luna proposed since her colleagues did not seem to like her other idea.
“Here I am saying that the Southern Royal family will not let the boy leave the royal guest palace, what makes you think that they will let him attend Morningstar University? I know that the central academic region has strict rules and regulations in place to ensure the total safety of their students, but there is no way in hell that the Southern Royal family would be stupid enough to let the boy attend the university there instead of just sending him to one of the Southern regions top universities or just home school him,” the demigods did not believe that Southern royal family would ever let the boy go to the central academic region to attend the Morningstar university.