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Chapter 241: Desperate Strategies
Jacob forced himself to stand despite ribs that screamed protest with every breath. The First Betrayer was still advancing slowly, giving them time to recover because it knew recovery would not matter."Different approach," Jacob gasped to Anna. "The artifacts together are not working. We separate them. Hit it from five directions simultaneously."Anna nodded despite obvious pain. They split the artifacts between them—Jacob taking three, Anna taking two. Moved to opposite sides of the creature and attacked in coordination.Five different beams of energy struck the First Betrayer from multiple angles. Not a single concentrated force but five separate assaults that should have been impossible to defend against all at once.The creature grew larger.Actually expanded, its form swelling to encompass the space where the attacks landed. The energy was not hurting it but feeding it, making it more present in physical reality rather than less."Interesting try," it said, its voice deeper now
Chapter 240: First Assault
Jacob stopped listening. The First Betrayer was still talking, still explaining the depths of its manipulation, but Jacob could not hear it anymore over the rage building in his chest.Everything. His father's death. His mother's sacrifice. Fifteen years of training and preparing and hunting for vengeance. All of it had been following a script written by something that viewed human lives as tools to be used and discarded.The artifacts blazed in his hands. Not the creative light Anna had helped him discover but the old combat energy—raw destructive power channeled through weapons that had been designed to fight entities exactly like this."Jacob, wait—" Anna started to say, but he was already moving.He attacked with everything he had learned. Every technique his ancestors had passed down through the artifacts' memory. Every strategy that had defeated supernatural threats across millennia. The five artifacts blazed together, their combined power creating effects that would have levele
Chapter 239: Bishop's Unwitting Service
The First Betrayer seemed to be enjoying itself now, relishing the opportunity to explain just how thoroughly it had manipulated everyone. Its form settled into something almost fully human—tall, angular features that might have been handsome before corruption twisted them into something that hurt to look at for too long."Let me tell you about Bishop Nico," it said, walking slowly around Jacob and Anna like a teacher giving a lecture. "A greedy, ambitious man who believed himself clever enough to seize power through careful planning and ruthless execution."The creature laughed, and the sound carried genuine amusement rather than malice. "He thought the idea to eliminate the Krigg family was his own. Spent years planning it, recruiting allies, arranging circumstances. Never once suspected that every inspiration, every strategic insight, every moment of clarity came from me."Jacob's hands tightened on the artifacts. "You are saying Bishop did not choose to kill my family?""Oh, he ch
Chapter 238: Failed Sealing
The First Betrayer gestured again and new visions formed. These were older, hazier, like memories that had degraded over millennia of imprisonment but still carried enough detail to tell their story."You want to know why your ancestors sealed me instead of killing me?" the creature asked. "Let me show you what they tried first."The vision showed a battlefield that looked like the end of the world. The sky was torn open in places, revealing void beyond. The ground was scorched and shattered, entire mountains reduced to rubble. And in the center of it all, two forces clashed.On one side stood the First Betrayer—not yet transformed into the massive entity Jacob faced now but still clearly more than human. His body blazed with power that made the air around him burn, wielding mystical energy on a scale that should not have been possible.On the other side stood dozens of guardians. Jacob recognized some faces from ancient family portraits—his own ancestors among them, along with Anna's
Chapter 237: Political Manipulation
The First Betrayer's hand stopped inches from Anna's face. Instead of touching her, it gestured and the air between them rippled. Images formed in the distortion—visions of the past playing out like memories made visible."Let me show you what three thousand years of imprisonment teaches," the creature said. "When you cannot act directly, you learn patience. You learn to whisper."The first vision showed a throne room Jacob did not recognize. Ancient architecture that predated anything still standing in Seron, and sitting on that throne was a king whose face was twisted with paranoia."This king ruled wisely for thirty years," the First Betrayer narrated. "United the eastern territories, brought prosperity to millions. Then I whispered to him in his sleep. Suggested that his advisors were plotting against him. That his own children wanted him dead to claim the crown early."The vision showed the king's descent into madness. Executions of loyal advisors based on fabricated evidence. Hi
Chapter 236: The First Betrayer
The creature's form shifted as it straightened to its full height. The inhuman aspects became slightly less pronounced—eyes reducing to a more manageable number, teeth rearranging into something closer to human configuration. Like it was remembering what it used to be before transformation twisted it into something else."Let me tell you a story," it said, its voice still carrying power that made the air vibrate but at least no longer threatening to shatter Jacob's eardrums. "About a young guardian who lived three thousand years ago, before your civilization had writing or cities or any of the structures you take for granted."Marcus was backing away slowly, trying to reach the other survivors. Smart—getting away from whatever was about to happen. But Jacob and Anna could not move, pinned by the creature's attention like insects under glass."This guardian was brilliant," the First Betrayer continued. "More talented than any who came before or after. He discovered the artifacts not th
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