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Agent of Darkness
Author: Jummy
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The battlefield did not heal, instead it listened. Julius stood at its center, golden light still lingering around him like fading embers. The sky above had cracked open earlier, but now it was slowly stitching itself back together as if reality itself was afraid to remain broken in his presence.

The Titans remained still kneeling, waiting,not as enemies,not as allies but as something older.

Julius slowly lowered his hand.

The moment he did, the pressure in the air eased slightly, like a world finally allowed to breathe again.

Behind him, the Deen was still on his knees.

His voice came out hoarse.

“You really did it.”

Julius didn’t respond immediately.

His eyes were distant, full of things he could not yet name.

“I didn’t do anything,” he said quietly.

The Deen shook his head.

“You commanded them.”

A pause.

“The Titans obeyed you.”

Julius looked toward the horizon.

The kneeling Titan closest to him lifted its head slightly.

Its voice was calmer now.

Marcus’s voice suddenly broke the silence from behind the ruins.

“So what now?!”

His tone was sharp but underneath it was fear he couldn’t hide.

“Are we just supposed to accept this?! Titans kneeling to him?! The Royal Army destroyed?! The kingdom collapsing?!”

He stepped forward, shaking.

“Who is he supposed to be now?!”

No one answered immediately.

Because no one knew Julius finally turned.

Marcus froze the moment their eyes met.

The golden glow in Julius’ pupils had not fully disappeared.

It wasn’t threatening but it was impossible to ignore.

Julius spoke calmly.

“I’m still me.”

The words were simple but the battlefield reacted anyway.

A faint pulse moved through the ground.

The Titans shifted slightly in response not aggressive, but attentive.

Marcus swallowed hard.

“That doesn’t explain anything…”

Julius looked down at his hands.

For a moment, he hesitated, then spoke again.

“I think I was something else before.”

The Deen stood slowly.

“Not something,” he corrected quietly. “Someone.”

A silence followed.The wind finally returned but it felt different now.

***

Far beyond the battlefield, a new sound echoed across the continent, A bell.

One that had not rung in a thousand years.

In a forgotten city buried beneath stone and sand, massive chains began to break.

In the depths of the earth, something stirred.

Eyes opened, not Titan eyes or human but something in between.

A voice whispered through the darkness.

“The Sovereign has returned”

And something answered.

“Then the seal will fail faster than expected.”

**

Back at the battlefield, Julius suddenly staggered.

“Ah”

Pain shot through his head again, but different this time not burning but divided 

As if multiple voices were trying to speak through him at once.

The Deen rushed forward.

“Julius!”

But Julius raised a hand slightly.

“I’m fine”

His voice trembled.

But he was not fine.

Visions began flashing rapidly in his mind.

Not controlled like before but broken.

Fragments of places he had never seen. A vast city floating above the clouds. A Titan chained beneath a glowing ocean.A war fought in silence, where entire continents disappeared without sound.

And then, a figure standing in darkness different from the silver-haired man.This one was covered in shadows. Its voice was wrong and sounded hungry.

“So you’ve awakened again”

Julius gasped.

His vision snapped back.He fell to one knee.

The Deen grabbed his shoulder.

“What did you see?!”

Julius struggled to breathe.

“Something is coming.”

The Titans all reacted instantly.Every single one lifted their heads at once.

The kneeling Titan spoke urgently.

“The Broken Seal is reacting.”

Marcus stepped back.

“Broken seal? There’s MORE?!”

The Deen’s face tightened.

“There was always more.”

Julius looked up sharply.

“What does that mean?!”

The Deen hesitated.

Then spoke the truth he had avoided.

“The Titans were not the only things sealed in the First Age.”

Silence fell instantly.Even the wind stopped again.

The Deen continued.

“There were three seals.”

He raised a finger.

“One for the Titans.”

Another.

“One for the Sovereign.”

Then a third.

“And one for the darkness that ended the First Age.”

Julius felt cold.

“So that's what I saw “

The Deen nodded slowly.

“was not supposed to wake yet.”

A distant roar echoed across the horizon.

But this time, it was not Titan.

It was something deeper. Something beneath the world.

The ground trembled.The kneeling Titans suddenly stood, not in attack nut in warning.

The first time they had moved without Julius’ command.

The kneeling Titan spoke quickly.

“It is approaching.”

Julius stood up slowly.

“What is it?”

The Titan hesitated.

Then answered.

“The thing that devoured the First Sovereign’s first war.”

Silence.

Marcus whispered.

“We’re dead.”

Julius ignored him.

His gaze sharpened.

“So what do we do?”

The Deen looked at him.

For the first time, he didn’t have an answer.

But the Titans did.All of them turned toward Julius again.

Waiting.

The kneeling Titan spoke softly.

“You command us.”

Julius frowned.

“I don’t know how.”

The Titan responded.

“You already do. Remember.”

Julius closed hi

s eyes.

The pain returned again but this time he did not resist it, he let it come.

Memories surged.

A command, a battlefield, a final decision,a voice saying:

“If the darkness returns, do not fight it alone.”

Julius opened his eyes.

“I wasn’t alone before.”

The Titans shifted.

The Deen stepped forward.

“What are you saying?”

Julius looked at him.

“I had allies.”

A beat.

“And I think I sealed them too.”

The horizon split open again but this time, It was not the crown. It was something else entirely,a second gate, black.

And from it, something began to crawl out.

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