Chapter 1988 Single Name

Chapter 1988 Single Name

In a distant corner of the mortal plane, a young man of average looks sat on a boulder silently, his gaze unmoving from a piece of shattered jade in his hand.

Though his expression gave away nothing, the depths of his eyes flickered with an unceasing torrent of emotions.

Rage, sadness, confusion... He simply couldn't understand.

Someone of her standing would most definitely have a life saving jade, why hadn't it activated? Even if it didn't active, who could have laid a hand on her to begin with? She was too smart... to highly valued...

The young man didn't even notice when his frame began to tremble. He was unshakeable, a sturdy mountain that had stood for millennia, nothing had ever affected him to this extent. Most matters simply rolled off his shoulders, met by his carefree smile and nonchalant demeanor.

Yet she, the only person he cared about in this world, was dead.

'Show me. Show me what happened.'

The shattered jade crumbled to dust, whirling into a vortex of light green gold that grew steadily in momentum. Soon, the image was projected for him to see. novelbin

However, he was astonished to find that there was nothing there. It was as though something was obstructing his vision.

'That's impossible...'

He knew well the level of treasure that was in his hand. There was nothing on the mortal plane it couldn't see through. Aritzia herself had never even known he had attached such a thing to her. Yet, the very thing he trusted so much had actually failed.

But he seemed to want to feel every bit of the emotions racking his core right now. He never wanted to forget it. He wanted to be able to remember how every fiber of his being reacted in these moments.

Soon, he entered a grand space. Unlike what one might expect, the room was poorly decorated. Or, rather, it was more accurate to say that it hadn't been decorated at all.

The walls were a plain grey, there weren't any lights or fixtures, even making it here in the first place was inconvenient beyond normal circumstances.

However, what this hall did have were 13 pedestals... The last of which seemed completely out of place. Not because it was drastically different, but because it was the only of the 13 that didn't have a single thing placed on it.

Aside from these last 13, the first 12 could be considered the only drawing attraction of this room. Valiant treasures, heroic tales, long lost legends... they seemed to incapsulate them all. One could get lost in a sea of knowledge despite the fact all the 12 pedestals held was a single statue and a single name.

However, the young man ignored these 12 pedestals completely. He didn't even spare them a single glance after walking into the room. Instead, he focused on the 13th empty pedestal...

Though it had no statue like the other 12, what it did have was a name. The young man stared at it as though he was trying to sear it into his mind.

'Dyon Sacharro, I will kill you with my own hands. What you've made me feel today, I will make you suffer through tenfold.'

The pedestal's name glowed brightly, flashing a bright light. By the time it faded, the young man was gone.

All that was left was that single name.

Emytheus.

[Author's Note: I keep forgetting to find a place to slide this in because it never seems relevant to the plot at hand, but Dyon's left eye is still missing. It's just that he's covered it with an illusion type array. Any attempt to heal his eye or even replace it with an artificial one ends it in bursting in flames once more. Anyhoo, back to our regularly scheduled program.]

"That guy always ruins all of the fun."