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Maya stood near the large oak table, her small frame shrinking into itself as if she could somehow disappear into the cold stone floor beneath her feet. Her hands were clasped tightly in front of her, knuckles white, fingers trembling so violently she feared she would crush the fragile nails she had spent weeks on.The flickering lanterns overhead cast vast grotesque shadows across the war room, each one dancing like a specter taunting her. Every creak of the floorboards, every whisper of wind against the tall windows, made her jump as she pressed herself closer to the wall, wishing she could melt into it.Sweat glistened along her temples despite the chill, and her palms were already slick from fear. She wiped them frantically on her apron, but it did no good. The cold metal of the devices she knew were coming would only make her hands tremble more.When General Jack turned towards her, the weight of his gaze pinned her in place; she almost couldn't breathe, her eyes darted nervously
The unknown mask man
CHAPTER 8: THE UNKNOWN MASK MAN"Who could he be? How did he know about my rebirth?"General Jack's thoughts battered him like unforgiving waves. Every time he closed his eyes, he saw the first assassin waiting for him in this new life, blade aimed exactly where his old heart had failed. Someone knew he had returned. Someone who wasn't supposed to know anything about rebirth, reincarnation, or the shattered timeline."Is it Damian? Or is it Captain Morgan? They are both too sharp to be trusted at this end. "Captain Morgan had promised to get back to me; I hope this isn't his way of doing it?" He mused thoughtfully, "Could he be Ryker, whom I had once attempted to kill but escaped? Or is it the God of War?"A coward, but cowards survive by knowing hidden things, but one name he rules out immediately: "It's definitely not the God of War; he doesn't whisper, he destroys." The room's silence twisted as a coded knock tapped at the door; Jack straightened immediately. "Enter!" Richard, the
The Assassins
"I've always wanted to join you, if you had..." General Jack was cut short. "I don't believe the humble general himself is standing before me!" Captain Morgan uttered, "You never once gave us an audience; you never accepted our offer; our voice was muted from your world." Morgan spoke confidently. His face aimed directly at General Jack and Fabian, sitting at the left corner of his cave, both swallowed in darkness at the same time.General Jack's dressed in his casual black attire, matched up with his trousers and black shoes, clinging to his warm feet."Captain, my visit today says much of what hasn't been said before." Jack adjusted his gaze towards him. "My presence is to form an alliance with you!" He dropped the stone in the water.Captain Morgan's mind was melted in shock; he wasn't expecting a man of his magnitude to form an alliance with an assassin leader.What's hidden about this sudden relationship between an assassin and a truthful general? As he awaits Captain Morgan's
God of war
You are such a waste, Ryker."The words cracked across the marble hall like a whip. King George rose from his obsidian throne, every inch of him radiating the fury of a deity long forgotten by mercy. The torches trembled from the pressure of his aura. The God of War disguised in mortal flesh, now letting fragments of divinity leak through.Ryker knelt on the cold floor, arms trembling, chin bleeding from the blow he'd already taken. He tried to lift his head, but the weight of the king's wrath pressed him down like a hand to a dying flame."Jack wasn't supposed to know you have any connection with me," the king spat. "He should have died ignorant, blind, and useless." Ryker swallowed hard. "My king... I don't know how he learned anything about me or you, I swear it." Ryker bowed his head, his eyes etched with regrets. "I'll correct everything; just give me one more chance." Another blow cut him short; blood splattered across the glossy floor, dark and thick. King George stepped clos
BLOOD ON THE LANTERNS
The night had begun in pure splendor; silk banners drifted from the carved warm glow of a thousand lanterns. Perfumes of sweet jasmine, lotus, and midnight plum layered the air until the entire hall smelled like a palace. Stringed zithers were in a corner, guests laughed over cups of peach wine, and servants carried trays of gold-plated delicacies.Ashina's appearance was a shocking one to General Jack; he wasn't expecting her presence at the party. Ashina is the only sister General Jack has, the only blood left by their parents before they died.Ashina had never looked happier; her cheeks glowed pink with warmth and laughter, and she moved lightly through the crowd, whispering to her sister, sharing knowing glances with Miller, her fiancé, and touching her belly with an unconscious tenderness she thought no one else had noticed."Ashina is still pregnant!" Jack's memory flashed briefly to the last time he saw Ashina in a pool of blood of her and her child, but now it's just her pregn
Silk before the blade
Mooresville Palace had not known such feverish activity in years; silk banners unfurled like tongues of flame from the stone balconies, servants scrubbed the courtyard marble until it glimmered like a still lake, and soldiers tightened their formation around the gates in lines so sharp they could cut sunlight.The peace treaty party, the one that didn't exist in Jack's previous lifetime, was becoming a spectacle vast enough to drown an empire. Behind every peaceful act there's always a hidden problem.Jack oversaw it all from the high terrace, hands clasped behind his back; the wind was cold against his bloodless knuckles. Kao was gone, the first wrong from his previous life righted, yet the weight in Jack's chest didn't lift, because the next traitor wore his blood: Damian.Jack's younger brother, his smile was soft, his voice warm, and in Jack's last life, the dagger he drove through Jack's heart was the last warmth he left before dying.Now Damian walked across the courtyard laughi
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