Time lost its colors, the days giving way to weeks that dragged on into somber months. For me, for my parents, for the entire lineage of mages, despair settled like a cold cloak. Every dawn without a solid lead, without a certain indication of my sister's whereabouts, plunged us further into anguish. The tireless search consumed us from within, exhausting our physical strength and shattering our spirit. Our faces reflected the lacerating pain that tore at our souls as we imagined Zoe in the clutches of a ruthless monster, a destiny that chilled the blood and foreshadowed a terrible end.
The moment we feared most struck us with the fury of all cataclysms combined. A video reached our hands, shattering our souls into splinters. In it, my sister... or what that despicable spawn had made of her, is unrecognizable. Her spirit was broken in so many ways that death became her only desperate liberation. Seeing her last breath extinguished on that cursed screen shattered me, brought me to the brink of collapse. But, damn it!, I couldn't break down.
I couldn't mourn Zoe's death at that instant, despite witnessing how her body surrendered, seeking peace in nothingness to escape that monster's tortures. Perhaps I was the most affected, although it took me a while to understand. I had to remain firm, because while my pain for the loss of my sister is immense, my parents... they had lost their daughter. I remembered then a cruel and true phrase: children are born to see their parents die, that is the natural cycle. But a father, a mother, is never prepared to bury a child. My burden became even heavier. I had to support my parents, continue to be the king of the mages, and not succumb to the vision of my sister choosing death as the only escape from her torment, without allowing my own pain to drag me into the abyss.
We couldn't even give her body a final goodbye. That monster never returned it to us. We could only create a beautiful garden in her memory, a sanctuary to remember her as she really was: happy, radiant, full of life, with a deep desire to change the world and unite people. A place to erase the last cruel image that that misbegotten warlock wanted to engrave in our souls to inflict more pain on us.
After Zoe's death, I gagged my own pain, erecting a shield to support myself and be the pillar of my parents, who barely managed to breathe, moving in a painful inertia. So as not to be dragged down by depression and silenced feelings, I focused all my energy on being a just king, an exemplary son, giving them another reason to move forward. But, above all, my thirst for revenge against the one who took my sister's life became my driving force. The espionage network that I had created on the borders of each lineage, initially with the hope of finding Zoe, mutated its purpose: to hunt down that cursed one, iGnar. However, that misbegotten one demonstrated a somber cunning, erasing his tracks meticulously. But giving up was never an option. Even if revenge consumed every second of my existence, I was willing to pay the price.
My espionage network proved to be a useless tool against iGnar's cunning. Neither the most skilled mages of my kingdom, nor I myself, could trace his elusive essence. Finding him had become an almost ghostly mission, as if his trail had vanished completely, perhaps hidden behind a veil of dark magic or consumed by the magnitude of his own evil. The frustration of not finding him was a constant weight, but in that fruitless search, my network began to reveal a tapestry of disturbing events that, individually, would have gone unnoticed. They were small loose threads that, when put together, revealed a chilling plot. What began as a curiosity, a way to maintain my sanity in the absence of clues about iGnar, was transformed into a crucial investigation. I discovered dark secrets that, if not brought to light, could alter the destiny of the supernatural world forever, chaining us to the tyranny of the Demon King until leading us to annihilation.
With a half-assembled puzzle, I felt the urgency to expand my espionage network beyond known borders, focusing especially on wolf territory, which had become the centerpiece to prevent our annihilation. After weeks of surveillance, I found Astrid: sane, sensible, cunning, and with the necessary strength to be my ally in those lands.
My initial plan was to approach Aylin, the chosen one of the Moon Goddess and soulmate of King Alpha Dante. However, after observing her for weeks, an invisible wall prevented any approach. The reason was revealed in a dream, when the Moon Goddess manifested, giving me a considerable fright. She explained that, although she had chosen Aylin to free Dante from the manipulation that had tormented him since childhood, their union was impossible. A dark and powerful force had damaged their soulmate bond before it could even form. Her only option was to send her chosen one with someone equally strong, but with a darker and more ruthless aura, someone who inflicted harm without flinching to those who tried to harm her lineage, her family and territory. Thus, the first alliance would be forged through a soulmate bond between different lineages, after Dante's inevitable rejection of Aylin.
The first predestined union had been that of my sister and iGnar, but he had resisted the bond, allowing darkness to prevail over love and destiny. The words of the Moon Goddess left me stunned, with more questions than answers. She warned me that her time to visit me in dreams without being detected was running out, but that she would return to clarify my doubts and give me more instructions. Evil still outweighed good, and our failure would mean the destruction not only of the supernatural world, but also of the realm of the gods. Unable to ally with Aylin, my only option was Astrid, the one indicated by the Moon Goddess herself for this crucial mission.
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Good night 🌃🌃🌃.
The puzzle of the manipulation of Alpha King Dante begins to be assembled in search of the intellectual author of this event.
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