(A Few Hours Later, Planet Yu Pri, Yu Kiro's POV)
It was only a few hours later that Yu Kiro finally received Yu Rulo's last ssage, which he listened to with a somber expression as the recording echoed through the silent chamber, carrying the desperation of a dood man.
"Please co save us, Lord Kiro... the Cult has a Demi God within their ranks, the stories about General Sparrow were not rumors but truth, and if you do not co soon we are all going to die..."
The voice cracked beneath panic before dissolving into static, as the connection with Yu Rulo's flagship had vanished from that mont onward.
*Sigh*
Yu Kiro let out a deep sigh, as he weighed those final words with ancient patience.
Deep down, he already understood what the broken transmission implied, as there was almost no chance left that his descendant still lived, and although that realization stirred anger within him..... the disappointnt he felt was even greater.
"Rulo... my child, I entrusted you with two orbs carrying my power and you still managed to fall.....
This is not how a Patriarch of the Yu Clan should ever perform under pressure.
You carry the Yu banner.
Which ans you are responsible for its pride."
Yu Kiro muttered coldly, as he clicked his tongue in disgust.
"Tsk. You are fortunate you died there, because had you returned alive after such a disgraceful showing, I may have killed you myself,"
he continued, as harsh judgnt ca more naturally to him than mourning.
His words sounded rciless, yet beneath that severity lingered insult deeper than grief, because while the death of a descendant mattered, the public humiliation of a Patriarch dying before the universe mattered even more.
"But the more pressing matter right now is.... How did the Cult even gain a new Demi God?"
He muttered next, as his thoughts shifted away from Yu Rulo entirely and locked onto the true problem now erging before him, because the existence of this mysterious Sparrow disturbed him far beyond the battlefield failure itself.
"This doesn't make sense.... We all agreed to let no new Demi Gods erge all those years ago," Yu Kiro muttered, as suspicion began overtaking anger.
Because a Demi God did not simply appear by accident in this era, not under the structure of the divine pact, and certainly not within an enemy force that the Righteous Alliance had spent centuries suppressing.
Slowly he rose from his seat as mories stirred regarding the oath the Gods forged when the Righteous Alliance first ca into being, where they swore no new Demi Gods would arise unless bound in service to the Alliance.
That agreent had preserved balance for ages, which was why only Clarence and Terrence had erged in recent centuries through sanctioned approval, while the rest of the universe had remained locked beneath that ceiling.
And yet over the last few decades alone, cracks had begun appearing in that order, because first the Su Clan Patriarch sohow reached Demi Godhood through suspicious ans, and now the Cult had produced Sparrow.
That was no coincidence in Yu Kiro's eyes, but rather the pattern of a hidden betrayal slowly surfacing, as too many anomalies were beginning to align in one dangerous direction.
Only one path should have existed for soone like Sparrow to reach that realm, and it required him to have access to both the flowers of the Eternal Garden and the waters of Granada, while technically neither should have been accessible to the Cult.
"Unless Mauriss, Kaelith, or perhaps both of them have broken the oath and begun enabling this madness behind the Alliance's back," Yu Kiro muttered, as divine pressure leaked unconsciously into the chamber around him.
Because if another God had secretly aided the rise of unauthorized Demi Gods, then this was no longer rely a story of Cult resurgence but rather treachery unfolding inside the divine order itself, which enraged him far more than Yu Rulo's death.
Soone was playing a dangerous double ga, and worse, soone was feeding strength back into the Cult against the shared interests of the Great Clans and the entire Righteous Alliance.
And what unsettled him most was not Sparrow as an individual warrior, because even a Demi God could be killed, but rather what Sparrow's existence implied about hidden forces moving beneath the universe's visible order.
If the Cult could now produce beings at this realm again, then the threat before them was no longer insurgency but restoration, and restoration ant war on a scale the younger minds who had not lived through the chaos era of old could not yet comprehend.
"I will report this matter before the Great Clan Alliance," Yu Kiro muttered, as he already began calculating how accusations of betrayal would be frad before the other Gods without making himself appear reactive or uncertain.
"But before that, Rulo's death cannot go unanswered, because if I approach the Alliance now without avenging a fallen Patriarch, I
appear wounded, weakened, and unfit to command respect."
That outco was unacceptable.
Because weakness among Great Clans did not invite sympathy.
It invited predators.
And so he could not go there looking weak.
However, if instead of going there while having just taken a loss. He instead appeared before them carrying Sparrow's severed head, then every Clan and every God would understand the Yu Clan had not
been humbled.
It had answered.
And that was the ssage he intended the universe to receive.
*Crack*
*Crack*
Slowly Yu Kiro cracked his neck and stretched his arms as though
preparing not rely for battle, but for judgnt itself, while his thoughts sharpened from suspicion into lethal certainty.
The objective forming in his mind was no longer simply recapturing
Planet Satoru or punishing a Cult fleet for killing his descendant, because those were now only surface consequences of sothing
much larger.
This ga had now beco about reputation, power, fear, and reminding the universe that the Yu Clan was not a na to challenge without inviting extinction in response.
"It is not Sparrow himself that troubles most, but rather what his existence ans," Yu Kiro muttered, as his gaze grew colder while the deeper implications continued unfolding before him.
Because if one unauthorized Demi God existed, then perhaps there
could be more, and if more existed, then the Cult was no longer a force they could take for granted even after Soron's death.
Which was why he decided to act now.
Before the enemy had even more ti to create even more monsters and threaten universal order.
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