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The darkness opens, stopping a silver ray of light and a sweet scent of flowers penetrates my nose, tears gather in my eyes as the scene opens revealing a crystal coffin with the most beautiful woman I have ever known, my mother.
Her burial in the sacred grounds was an ancient tradition, but neither my father nor I said anything, there was nothing to say.
Every mont I spent with her was without regrets, I was always clear about how much I loved her and how important she will always be to .
But my father, on the other hand, was silent for another reason, he had nothing to say, since the day she died I have not heard his voice as if the silence was his response to the world without her around.
I knew my father, he was always wise and intelligent, at so point he will co out of his mourning, but until then the best thing is to just be there with him, any words of comfort or anything similar will be ignored by him.
Ti seed to pass by in seconds, accelerating as the entire day and night passed until the evening of the second day, I was the only one in front of her tomb.
"I'm sorry, I couldn't find the wife I always wanted to show you... I couldn't give you any grandchildren that you always asked about... I'm not like my Father, I know I couldn't be a good Father to any child, at most I would be an example of a King..." ()
Tears
"I don't regret anything, but I would like to show you so many things, discover so many things with you and visit so many places in your Kingdom by your side..." ()
Tears
"I love you... I'm going to miss you..." ()
The pain of that day was one of the greatest of my entire life, but it was only the beginning of the nightmare, it was as if the Gods knew what was coming and took my mother so that her kindness wouldn't be destroyed by the terror.
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Once again I was in the darkness, but it was as if I was getting closer to sothing, the path I was following now was clearly visible even though I couldn't see my hands.
"Are you scared of the next part?"
"No, but it's still not sothing I like to rember." ()
"All this ti you skipped the parts where your na was spoken."
"I didn't skip anything, I don't even know where I am, I don't even know who you are." ()
"You know where you are, you just don't want to admit it, just like you try not to look at knowing what you'll see."
"..." ()
"You never change, you can't be honest with yourself."
The darkness once again gives way to rays of light, this ti it was a golden light, I rember that day, a few months after my mother's death.
As the darkness faded, the path I was walking on faded along with the one speaking beside , what was revealed was a column of golden light covered in Divine Runes, the Power of the Gods invading my body, destroying all limitations and rebuilding everything.
It was the worst physical pain I had ever felt, I don't even know how long it lasted, but it was horrible, when it finally ended the pain turned to euphoria as a power far beyond anything else flowed through my body, heat gathered in my hand with an ancient Rune-shaped symbol being engraved.
< Why do you fight? > (God Gael)
"..." ()
It was such a simple question and one that had been asked to on so many occasions, each ti I answered sothing different.
When I was in the army proving my worth by hiding my identity, I was asked this by my commander at the ti and I answered.
"(I want to fight for my kingdom, to be the one who protects your peaceful lives.)" ()
When I was receiving the crown from my Father, this question once again arose and I answered.
"(I want to fight for the future of our nation, to pave a path for everyone to walk safely.)" ()
When my mother was sick, it was her last night and she knew this, she spoke to and my Father separately, it was at that mont that the question arose once again and I answered it sincerely.
"(I want to fight to protect you, my Father and everything you have created.)" ()
I have answered it in different ways in various situations, but being faced with this question once again before the eyes of a God, I am unable to answer it so simply, it was as if the answer was in the middle of a tangle of acceptable excuses.
The truth is that all the previous answers were only half-truths, I am not as wise as my Father expected of , I am not the smartest either, but my will to put myself ahead of everyone has never wavered since I was a child because I knew that one day what would be behind would be too important to stand still.
"I fight to protect!" ()
< So fight like a Guardian King God and keep the fla of hope burning. > (God Gael)
That day I did not understand what was being handed to , but my will to protect everyone exploded in my heart.
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I was once again walking in the middle of the darkness, but this ti the darkness was empty, changing with every step, stars appeared with every step I took forward and strangely I could not control my feet, all this ti I was walking forward without wanting to as if there was sothing propelling my steps.
"You wanted so much to protect everything, but in the end, what did you manage to do?"
"I did my best, I did much more than my best..." ()
"But it wasn't enough, was it?"
"..." ()
"You still don't know who I am...?"
At this mont there was no more darkness, the stars surrounded everything while the path I now tread seed to be a crystallization of these stars and in the midst of these stars my world opened like a curtain revealing a battlefield where my Kingdom once stood.
In the Sky two creatures fought, one of them was a knight wearing golden armor and a silver spear, a long tail full of Scales cos out of his back as well as 4 pairs of tallic wings, his head carries a helt made in the shape of the head of a beast I don't know and large golden horns rise out of the helt, its size was colossal to a point I have never seen before.
His face was visible even from this distance due to his size, a face I saw every day in the Palace, his portrait hanging in the throne room, the Founder of the Empire and my ancestor who disappeared long ago.
The creature I was fighting was the height of brutality, his body a monstrosity with arms much larger than they should have been, black armor covering his body and a mass of liquid energy flowing inside.
It was horrible, but it was not the only one, around an endless number of people were destroyed, dead beyond any salvation, but there were also two of these creatures that I managed to kill, my body covered in wounds being held together only by the Divine power flowing from the symbol in my hand.
"I must... keep... FIGHTING!!!" ()
"< The God of Nature has failed, but my hope will not while you exist >" (God Gael)
"< As long as the Will burns in your Soul, Hope will not die, I give you the future! >" (God Gael)
"< Divine Heritage >" (God Gael)
Suddenly the great knight fighting in the skies shouted at his neighbor being the sa as God Gael, but my Ancestor did not carry that na.
Soon the creature he was fighting grabbed his spear during an attack while another creature appeared from behind my ancestor piercing his chest with its claws, golden red blood flowed out, but did not fall, all the blood flowed into the spear while its wings expelled the two creatures away, all its power and blood flowed into the golden Spear that gained golden red lines before being thrown towards .
I couldn't move when the spear pierced my body or more precisely disappeared when it hit my body, then the whole world around beca before I woke up in the middle of the desert, just and the sword with which I fought that battle still in my hands.
I was safe, there were none of those creatures around , there was no blood other than mine on my feet, there were no ruins in my vision, just an endless desert of a world I visited in my youth.
That's when the pain in my head returned, mories and information that weren't mine erging, as well as a purpose to keep fighting.
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Before I realized it I was once again walking down that path, this ti seeing beyond the stars, two celestial bodies appeared, a large scary Purple Sun and a Moon surrounded by colorful fragnts, a strange sight with each one being on one side and moving slowly in the sa direction.
"Did you like what you saw?"
"No, but you know that, don't you?" ()
"Do you already know who you are?"
"Gael, a na inherited along with the power of the Gods, any other na you call would be an insult to those who ca before and fought tirelessly until the end." ()
"Congratulations, you finally rembered, it seems that the centuries of fighting and decades of inactivity didn't break you so much after all."
I had forgotten part of myself after being injured, but now I rember, after that battle, many others followed, this ti fighting against those creatures that I learned were called Dragon Eaters.
The God Kings are worthy vessels for Divine Power and Divinity, inheriting when the previous vessel dies fighting and is no longer worthy, along with the power cos the responsibility that one assus and that is why they all carry a single na as their resolutions to maintain their will.
I looked up, the Purple Sun and the Shattered Moon were colliding, but there was no explosion, in fact they were slowly rging together.
"I had been injured, my mory affected, my power dormant..." ()
"Yes, but now that you rembered who you are..."
"My power and mory have returned." ()
"And do you know who I am?"
"Yes, yes I do." ()
I didn't look back, what happened was that the voice coming from my side stepped forward to stand in front of , it was a ruined sword, the edge of the blade was shattered, cracks ran all over the blade and even the hilt was worn, blood stains, bites and burns could be found in several places, the Runes engraved on the blade and magic circles inside it had already been destroyed after many battles, yet the sword was still here.
Not just any sword, but the sword my mother handed to on my first day joining the army, hiding my identity as a prince, the sword that was in my hands when I beca Commander years later, the sword that hung at my waist when I was crowned, the sword that was in my hands in that battle where my ancestor fell along with the entire Empire.
Suddenly an image of a silver spear overlaps with the sword before being sucked in, the sword shines, all its imperfections, marks, broken and cracked parts disappear, leaving only a sword that represents my journey stuck to the ground in what seems to be the end of the path where I stop taking the sword in my hands.
I look forward and up, it was where the Shattered Moon and the Purple Sun rged into an Eclipse that seed to be the core of this entire place, I finally noticed countless paths like mine where an uncountable number of shadows walk, but my eyes focus on the Eclipse where a pair of eyes look at as if from far away, one eye purple and the other golden.
"Who are you...?" ()
"< I am Zenos... >" (Zenos)
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