"Why are you showing this?!" Yuan’s face darkened. He hated Godfrey more than anything. His hate for his sister only grew stronger after he t Godfrey.
Yibo wasn’t affected as he was stuck in his own world, still floating in the excitent of the news he was about to show them.
"Because he’s the strongest man before the dawn of Progenitors and gods! It’s been leaked that he was there in Incheon when Guild Master Alex fought the shadow demon general!"
Yibo continued. "This information is said to co from the guild master himself! He said Godfrey Daniels wasn’t affected one bit by the dark mist that has made a part of Incheon a wasteland."
Yuan sighed dismissively but his twin sister, Chu Ran, glared at him.
"This is the most mind-blowing! It’s all over the internet. They said he single-handedly cleared the Crimson Taotie dungeon and shut down the blue gate. Aweso! These feats have made him the strongest summoner of the dawn of origins. Adam was the strongest in the dawn of kings, I wasn’t born then but this ti I get to tell everyone you attended the sa school with a legend!"
Yibo’s eyes sparkled. "Big bro, please tell all you know. I need to send it to my friends, they don’t want to believe —!"
Slap!
Yuan’s palm struck his face before he could finish his sentence. The blow sent Yibo to the ground, his eyes wide and teary as he held his cheek, trembling as Yuan lood over him, eyes gleaming.
"You want to know what he was like in school? A monster!" Yuan bellowed only for Chu Ran to push him aside, glaring at him with rage.
"He was talking about the strongest of the era, not the most perfect man! Good or bad, he cleared the Crimson Taotie dungeon, our parents’ business was safe because of that. The guild master said this himself!"
"The authorities could have handled that dungeon. He killed people, fed them to his summon and went to clear those dungeons in search of more strength. Clearly only your kind will support the likes of him." While Yuan yelled back, Yibo ran out of the room, tears spilling from his eyes.
Yuan breathed heavily. "There are more dungeons, way more dangerous than the Crimson Taotie dungeon, around China, much less the entire world! Evolution hasn’t stopped. By the ti it does, Godfrey will be a thing of the past like Adam! There will always be the strongest of an era. Compared to the strength of whoever will be the strongest at the end of this era, Godfrey will be a re flicker, forgotten like others before him."
He scoffed. "At least they saved lives, it will go down in history that he’s the one of the most notorious summoners to ever exist."
"At least his na will be in history. Where will yours be? Amongst the hidden diaries of twin brothers who tortured their sister with his parents!" Chu Ran retorted.
Yuan snickered, tilting his head as he sat on his sofa. "Hurt? Get out of my room."
"Go join his fangirls. Fangirling for a Fanatic and a mass murderer, not surprising. You make want to throw up." Yuan’s face scrunched up in disgust.
"In our world, we humans are the apex, more superior than other creatures. That’s what’s happening now. Humanoid summoners, my kind, are the superior ones and you’re just animals that can speak. You feel fear. Does it hurt your pride, that they are better than you, that I’m inherently better than you!" Chu Ran shot back.
Yuan moved, grabbing her neck and lifting her up, claws growing out of his fingers. "I think you’ve skipped so of your classes. You’re speaking like one of them already. Guess what? Godfrey IS in the past now, the lilight has returned to people who will bring order. I bet he’s in a corner begging the mana tree for favours. Get out!"
He walked straight to the door and tossed Chu Ran out.
While he went to one of the most prestigious schools in the world, Chu Ran attended a normal school like soone without a summon and was subject to the Readjustnt program all her life.
Both were twins, born the sa day but their lives were starkly opposite. One walked in the light, the other cried in the dark, bearing the stigma of a humanoid summoner.
Even her own family was biased against her. Rage boiled through Chu Ran as Yuan slamd his door.
She rose to her feet and went to Yibo’s room.
Knock! Knock!
"Yibo, it’s ."
She said softly. It took a while but he opened the door, looking at her with swollen eyes. Chu Ran’s face softened as she went on her knees and hugged him.
"It’s okay, he’s just not himself. He’s still your big brother—"
"He’s not!" Yibo retorted loudly.
Chu Ran caressed his back, led him to his bed and stayed with him until he fell asleep before she went to her own room.
Her room had all that she wanted but it was a prison, to keep her locked away from the world. They just wanted her to stay here and rot.
She hated her life.
She hated being a humanoid Summoner, having barely unleashed her summon to befriend it until she found Nathan’s streams.
Chu Ran sat on her bed, took her phone and went to Nathan’s page, clicking on one of his most popular videos which was the twin red gates in Athens.
She saw Godfrey erging from the gate with rows of knights awaiting him while Greece’s top Summoners ca out, saved... by a humanoid Summoner.
Maybe he wasn’t perfect, maybe he did so wrong she couldn’t agree with. He still did so good that affected millions positively.
Beyond that, Godfrey was the missing piece that finally made Chu Ran see her summon differently as she realized... this summon that had been bound on by the authorities, that had been kept weakened, might not be hers at the end of the day.
"He was the strongest of the dawn of origins. Will he vanish or still shine in this coming dawn?" She bit her lower lip.
Then, Chu Ran turned to a golden diagram. A portal she opened.
At the top of the portal was a flail. A sharp-faced woman, twelve feet tall, stepped out.
She was muscular yet a sight to behold. Her short white hair had an asymtrical cut with the left forward fringe covering her left eye.
The top was packed like a high ponytail but her hair wasn’t long to make a proper ponytail, even a short one. This summon looked like soone who didn’t prioritize appearance yet stood out.
She wore an asymtrical cloth wrap. Tunic-like. A single piece diagonally across her chest, a tight-fitting structured leather piece around her midsection. It was reinforced with vertical seams and studs.
The leather piece extended from just under her chest to her waist. A bulky tal plate mounted her shoulder and her left forearm was wrapped in cloth bandages.
A heavy tal chain looped across her hips, hanging down. Below it was a short battle skirt. Overall, she was dressed like a gladiator.
A knight that had fallen to the ranks of a slave.
During the Ruination, she left after her troop lost a battle. The scene where she stood in a battlefield littered with corpses reflected in her eyes.
She once fought for the unknown king but he wasn’t even real. The knight that buffed them, he who carried the flag of the order, the one that had great faith in the unknown king, had died, and few generals had left.
With all these clouding her mind, she ripped off her armour, stripped off her identity and walked away.
She ended up as a slave, a willing slave, fighting in the scorched lands yet death refused to co. So, she allowed herself to be killed by another.
Once, this knight dreamt of kneeling before the unknown king and being bestowed a true na. That dream made her rise to the rank of a Grand General. That honour was all. To kneel before the greatest being in Pathan.
Yet now that being who she thought a lie was before her eyes. He lived. So it was all a test.
Those in the video must have gotten their true nas, aning they were on the path to becoming royalty.
She failed.
She was nothing more than a slave now.
"Do you want to go to your king? Help him maintain his strength?" Chu Ran asked.
"I won’t. Breaking my connection with you might kill us both."
"But you belong there, with your king!"
"Not anymore." This knight had died a slave and now lived as a slave. This was punishnt. At least she would accept this faithfully.
Her only wish was that her brothers and sisters who left would see this. Would see the unknown king.
The one prophesied to begin the imperial rule, Pathan’s first emperor, he who would raise them from nobility to royalty wasn’t a lie.
She had seen him and he... was truly majestic indeed.
***
Ronald heard a knock and opened the door, his eyes narrowing at the sight of Saul and two towering knights by his side.
Ever since Saul ca, he did a little research about this great Captain the entire Paradise was excited about.
It turned out Saul was a Quad Summoner. A man with four humanoid summons, all of which he set loose, rarely retrieving them to his soul space.
A Quad Summoner was beyond rare and in cases like this, a summoner who had four powerful summons with the last one never being seen was more of a threat than his summons.
But what was this man whom he had rejected several tis doing at his ho?
"I had to co in person to request your aid. The cohort is about to set out. We’re going to open a gate into the world of orcs and I would like soone that knows the terrain more than the rest of us to co along."
"I’m sorry, but no." Ronald was about to close the door but Abaddon held it, his eyes clashing with Ronald’s.
With a soft grunt, Abaddon ripped it off when Ronald wasn’t willing to let go.
"This isn’t a request. I had a feeling you wouldn’t understand. You’re a hero, you can be welcod back to the world at any ti but the rest of us are fugitives. If you want to contribute to this society, join this raid." Saul said to him.
Ronald’s eyes narrowed.
"You’re attacking worlds. I’m against that."
"You have two days. You don’t have a choice, your wife is coming along." Saul tilted his head.
"She’s the best healer around. And she’ll need her husband to defend her against those brutish orcs, won’t she?"
Saul turned.
Abaddon and Apollyon exchanged looks. According to the law of the Golden Order, invading other worlds was forbidden. They were knights, they were defenders, not those that started chaos.
That ideal went deep but... they were not of the order anymore.
The Black Order eliminated all threats no matter the cost or whatever it would take.
They had done this for decades, then just why did the Golden Order law spring up in their hearts?
Abaddon knew, and despite Apollyon’s coldness, the sa thought in his heart burned in hers.
"What are you doing?"
Saul’s voice rang and both of them turned away from Ronald who expected a fight.
User Comments
0 comments from readers