Lucas now regained his sight. The excruciating pain he’d been enduring for the past few minutes had also vanished. 

That, though, wasn’t enough to bring him relief. How could he be relieved when he didn’t know his friend’s current situation?

Nothing was free in this world—every benefit had a price tag. What had his friend been forced to do, just to spare him from a world of undeserved pain and to regain his precious eyesight?

He got his answer in no time as he sat up and looked in the throne’s direction. There, he saw the king no longer seated on his throne, and what was he doing?

It was...