2026-02-02 13:02:37The sound of commotion could be faintly heard from outside the palace, echoing ever closer. God Megarana, who was sitting on his throne, felt unease creeping into his chest.
"What's going on?" God Megarana rose from his throne, fear suddenly gripping his heart. "Why is it so noisy outside?"
Suddenly, a soldier ran in, panting heavily. "Report, my Lord! Our kingdom is under attack by foreign forces!"
"Foreign forces? What do you mean?"
Before the soldier could answer, another soldier approached with a deathly pale face. "God Megarana, God Mervous has arrived! He... he demands revenge for the Goddess Mother's death," his voice trembled with fear.
"Damn it! Quickly summon the other Gods. God Mervous is in a dangerous state."
God Megarana looked anxious. After all, when God Mervous was in this condition, it meant nothing good was happening.
"Where is he now?" God Megarana asked one of his soldiers.
"He-he's on his way here." The soldier appeared to stammer, showing just how terrified he was at that moment.
God Megarana tried to control himself. He didn't want to show his fear. As the kingdom's ruler, he had to be able to control everything. Whatever happened, he would defend his kingdom. A great war must not break out.
"Has anyone gone to notify the other Gods?"
God Megarana looked increasingly anxious when he saw that none of the troops gathered to defend him had left.
One of them then spoke, bringing calm to God Megarana's restless heart. "The General has already departed. He will notify them all."
Before long, the sound of a tremendous explosion was heard.
BOOM!
The kingdom's gates were destroyed, forced open. God Mervous's true power had now been unleashed, making God Megarana feel even more anxious.
"This is bad! This is bad! He's coming!" one soldier shouted in panic.
God Megarana closed his eyes, trying to draw in the calm energy around him. "Let me speak with him first."
God Megarana stepped away from his throne, hoping to control the situation so nothing unwanted would happen.
Drip! Drip! Drip!
Drop after drop of blood followed the footsteps of a muscular man resembling a Greek god.
His handsome face matched his name—God Mervous.
The figure most feared by anyone in this land. Because when he was angry, there was only vengeance and retribution.
"I swear! I will destroy that murderer! I will annihilate them all!"
The fire of vengeance now blazed within God Mervous. The hard look on his face showed just how full of rage he was at that moment.
"Forgive me, my Goddess. I failed to protect you. I failed to be your eternal lover. I swear, I will avenge every drop of your blood on that murderer!"
Now, God Mervous had arrived at the palace—the place where the figure who had killed his beloved resided.
One of his hands was clenched tightly, showing how great the anger filling his chest was.
"GOD MEGARANA! COME OUT!"
God Mervous's shout thundered.
He knew someone heard his cry. But they deliberately ignored his warning because the soldiers would try to protect their master's safety.
Without thinking twice, God Mervous immediately struck the closed gate guarded by dozens of soldiers.
His power grew greater as his rage intensified.
He didn't care about the dozens of soldiers lying on the floor, crushed by the gate's rubble.
"GOD MEGARANA! COME OUT!" God Mervous shouted again with all his might.
Just as God Mervous stood at the kingdom's entrance, a man came with powerful steps.
"Oh... God Mervous? You've come? What an honor for you to visit my kingdom." God Megarana smiled with an innocent face.
God Mervous grew more disgusted. "I don't need your pleasantries. Enough of that cheap charade!"
God Mervous's anger intensified further. Moreover, God Megarana now wore a face as if he knew nothing.
"Calm down, God Mervous. I truly don't know the reason for your visit. Come, we can discuss everything in a private room." God Megarana invited, about to lead the way.
God Mervous, increasingly disgusted with God Megarana's innocent face, threw the dagger he was carrying.
Whoosh!
The dagger pierced right through the neck of one of the soldiers protecting his master.
"What are you doing, God Mervous!" shouted God Megarana, unwilling to let his soldier be killed.
"Stop that act! I'm here to avenge everything. A life must be paid with a life!" God Mervous declared firmly.
God Megarana was anxious. He sensed the atmosphere in his kingdom was no longer conducive. God Mervous's arrival with uncontrolled rage clearly made everyone's hearts feel uneasy.
"What do you mean, God Mervous? Whose life are you referring to?"
God Megarana wouldn't confess. God Mervous grew angrier.
"I know you killed my beloved, Goddess Mother. And... now I've come to avenge the death you caused her."
WHOOSH!
God Mervous raised his hand, directing a fireball attack toward God Megarana.
"DESTROY THEM ALL!"
God Mervous raised his hand, thousands of troops previously reinforced by an invisible portal now appeared.
A great battle could no longer be avoided. God Mervous in his rage continued to release fireballs, hurling them at the soldiers trying to protect God Megarana.
He then raised one of his hands, his mighty crossbow seemingly appearing in his hand. As he pulled the bowstring, a flaming arrow appeared to launch.
The flaming arrow, when released, seemed to contain thousands of other arrows. All of God Megarana's soldiers were killed instantly.
God Mervous grinned. Finding God Megarana left alone.
WHOOSH!
God Megarana released his power—easy for God Mervous to evade.
"Your power... won't work on me," God Mervous sneered.
Now, it was God Mervous's turn to counterattack. God Megarana almost got hit by God Mervous's fire attack.
"You think I'm that weak? I never wanted to start a war with you. But you're the one who started all this. I will welcome this war!"
God Megarana spoke loudly.
God Mervous's grin widened. This was what he'd been waiting for.
WHOOSH! CRASH! BLAST!
Various types of attacks appeared to be launched by God Mervous. In rage that kept remembering how he lost his beloved forever, God Mervous lost control.
God Megarana's death—that was God Mervous's sole purpose now.
The relentless attacks delivered by God Mervous overwhelmed God Megarana. He struggled to face God Mervous's power, which felt so tremendous.
"Prepare to meet your doom, God Megarana! Because I will be the angel of death taking your life today."
God Mervous spoke firmly. God Megarana's exhausted, labored breathing made God Mervous unwilling to waste the opportunity.
He then raised one of his hands. The sky that had appeared blue instantly turned dark.
The sound of lightning striking together with rows of thunder appearing in the sky became the climax of all the emotions enveloping God Mervous.
A sharp grin etched at the corner of God Mervous's lips.
"Afraid? Do you have any last words? Confess, but it won't change anything."
God Megarana looked at God Mervous with bated breath. "I didn't do it!" God Megarana tried to convince him.
God Mervous grew more disgusted. It was clear that God Megarana had done it and it was witnessed by God Mervous's closest people, yet he still denied it.
"No criminal will admit his crime. Farewell to your life, God Megarana. Thank me for being the angel of death taking your life!"
God Mervous raised his hand higher, a large orb appeared ready to be directed at God Megarana. Before finally...
BOOOOM!
A tremendous explosion was heard. God Mervous fell. A great light suddenly came along with a fierce wind that swept through the place.
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The God Mervous followed the guard without a word.The corridor they walked through was familiar — he'd memorized it without meaning to over the past few days, every turn and every shift in scent and every different pattern of light in each section. But this time the corridor felt different. Longer. Somehow narrower, even though its dimensions had to be the same.Or maybe it was just his mind making everything feel heavier than it should.The guard stopped in front of the main hall's door — a large door he'd passed through once before, on the first day he arrived at this palace with his hands forced behind his back and a prisoner's robe thrown at his feet. This time no one dragged him. This time he stood here on his own account, or at least on account of Libradon summoning him.The door opened.And the first thing he saw inside the hall was Teresa.The woman stood in the middle of the room — back straight, chin raised, in the manner of someone who wouldn't let her posture say more tha
Chapter 23
Libradon hadn't been awake long.Teresa knew that from the way her servants had startled when she asked for an immediate audience — from the way they exchanged glances with expressions that said this is unusual, this has never happened before without needing to say a single word. Teresa had never asked for an audience this early. Never come with steps this quick, with eyes this hard, at an hour when the sun hadn't even fully decided to rise.But they let her in.Of course they let her in.---Libradon was in his private chamber — not the great hall he usually used for formal audiences, but a smaller room where he ate breakfast and signed documents and did the things that needed no witnesses other than his closest servants.He was sitting with a cup of something steaming in his hand when Teresa entered — and one eyebrow rose slowly at the sight of his guest."Teresa." His tone hovered between surprise and amusement — a mix that was distinctly Libradon, one that never let anyone truly k
Chapter 22
"So will you free Edrick?"The question came out quietly — not demanding, not pleading. Just a question set carefully into the air, like someone who knew the answer could tip heavily either way and chose not to push it toward one.Teresa didn't answer right away.She still stood in the same spot, her eyes no longer on God Mervous but not fixed on anything specific either — at some point between the two of them, where there was nothing that needed to be seen, and precisely because of that, it was easier to think."It will be difficult," she said finally. Her voice was quiet, measured. "Asking something from Libradon always has a price." A brief pause. "And after I asked him to give you back — using what's left of his trust in me for something like that..." She didn't finish the sentence. She didn't need to.God Mervous watched her profile from the side."But it's not impossible," Teresa continued — not as comfort, but as a fact stated in the same tone she used for every other fact. Fla
Chapter 21
Teresa spoke in a flat, measured tone — her usual way of speaking, one that never gave more than necessary. But tonight her words were more than usual. About the corridor that smelled damp. About the cramped cell. About the thin man who tried to rise when the door opened and failed. About the wounds that were clear and deep even in such poor light.God Mervous listened without interrupting.Sitting on the edge of his bed with both hands on his knees, his eyes fixed on some nonspecific point on the floor, he absorbed every word Teresa said in a way that felt like someone weighing the burden of something he wasn't yet fully prepared to carry.Teresa told him how Edrick had asked about Kayrus, with eyes that still held hope even though his body barely had the strength to hold anything at all. How he closed his eyes upon hearing that Kayrus was fine, how a long breath came out of his cracked lips like something that had been held too long.How the man had said, I'm always fine in the end,
Chapter 20
Teresa didn't know why she was still standing there.Her feet should have carried her away by now — away from this corridor that smelled of damp air and rusted iron, away from the swaying lantern light and the shadows it cast on the stone walls. The sound of the guard's footsteps she'd heard earlier had faded, whether turning down another passage or heading back to their post. No one could see her here.This was her chance to leave without consequence.But her hand was already on the cold iron bars, and her eyes couldn't tear away from the body lying in the cell — from the slow, uneven rise and fall of that chest, from the wounds that were clear and deep even in this poor light.Teresa took a long breath.Then her hand moved to the cell key hanging on the wall — the guard who'd brought her here apparently hadn't been careful enough to take it with them. Or maybe they hadn't expected anyone to come down here at this hour.The key was heavy and rusted, creaking as she fit it into the loc
Chapter 19
The candle had long since gone out.But the darkness filling the room didn't put either of them to sleep — it only made them more aware of each other's presence on the two sides of the same room, at a distance not so far but that felt like a chasm with no bridge across it.Teresa was still sitting on the edge of her bed.Her mind wouldn't settle. Not because of the argument earlier — or not only because of that. Something kept nagging at the corner of her awareness, something that had been there long before tonight but tonight felt increasingly urgent to answer.That man.Kayrus — or whoever he actually was.Teresa had seen many slaves in her life in this palace. She'd seen men broken by a system that gave them no choices, whose eyes went hollow long before their bodies gave out. She'd also seen the stubborn ones, the rebellious ones, the ones who tried to survive by whatever means they could find.But none of them were like the man now sitting on the other side of her room.The way h
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