Chapter 6: Alice... My Wife

"Back safe and sound," Theos murmured with a small smile on his lips.

Being next to an almighty being in the same room wasn't as pleasant as some people think... if anyone thought it was pleasant at all.

Touching his left eye, which was still glowing brightly, Theos couldn't help but laugh, giggling to his heart's contt.

'Not everyone can make fun of a being that can destroy galaxies' Theos thought, laughing ev harder.

Slowly, his laughter faded, and he lay back on the comfortable bed, still marveling at all that had happed in such a short time.

'Luckily, I read the whole novel. Otherwise, I would not have tak revge in such a short time... take advantage of the weakness that misfortune cannot harm its recipit if the recipit has made a contract with it,' Theos thought and oped his palm.

From this palm, particles of darkness gathered, forming a sphere with a liquid ure that trembled every second.

"Negative ergy..."

In the novel, negative ergy is the most powerful and largest source of power until the d, it is like a kind of negative mana.

This negative ergy is born from the negative thoughts, emotions, and feelings of one or more beings, be they dead, living, or ev gods.

The more miserable the people in the world, the more powerful he becomes.

A sinister smile slowly crept across Theos' face, unable to hide his malice and greed.

' The world itself is rott... So what if I rot ev more? It will only be for the greater good... My power.'

Like Ark's lust for power, Theos was no saint, no voice of righteousness. He always saw his befit and always prioritized the strgthing of power.

If he had to kill half the world to increase his power by at least %, he would do it, but neither Ark nor the original Theos would do anything without seeing the consequces.

*Tock* *Tock*

The constant knocking on the door caused Theos' thoughts to completely collapse, and he quickly recovered by removing the ball of darkness.

"Yes?"

"Your eyes are red and glassy," she said, pointing at Theo's eyes.

'Shit, please don't cry, I beg you' Theos tried to control his own body; inside, he had an inner war.

On the outside, however, he remained his usual self: an impassive face and a cold look. But in the next second, Alice's eyes oped wide in surprise.

*Fall*

Only one tear fell, from Theos' left eye. His expressionless face showed no change as if it were a river without currt or an ocean without waves or movemt.

Though he was extremely handsome, anyone watching this chilling and disturbing sce would have thought that Theos' face was the embodimt of a cold killer: anyone would have had a face pale with fear and would have run away from Theos, among infinite other things.

But Alice, instead...

She embraced him, her body pressed against him, feeling a mutual warmth.

The two remained like that, while Theos' left eye cried uncontrollably, full of sadness, and the right one showed total coldness.

Seconds passed...

Th minutes passed.

Sadness in his heart, a piece of his soul shattered in infinite melancholy, his tears gradually diminishing.

Alice, although much smaller than Theos, managed to caress his head with such softness and tderness that his soul trembled.

He remembered how every night she would caress his head with such gtless that ev his twisted heart, full of bitterness and frustration, managed to be happy and warm.

He responded not with words, but with his body, raising his arms to return the embrace with gtless, as if afraid to hurt her... as if she were his most precious treasure.

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