"I love you, Chaol." she pressed her lips against his forehead. He gazed at her but he couldn't find any light and mercy from her bright tangerine eyes. "And farewell."The woman's words were strikingly painful and difficult to hear. Before, she would always run to him and shower him with hugs and kisses.But he never thought that the day would come that she will raise her sword against him and take his life instead.Chaol had never once understood the feeling of dying. He had never experienced it. From the souls that he would comfort, they would always tell them how painful it was or how joyful it was for them to die.It depended.And now that today, he was fated to get the gist of what truly death felt like, he didn't think that his soul would be this terrified of closing his eyes to see nothing but the darkness of the empty void.Years ago he wanted to die. He wanted to finally close his eyes and rest, but then, she came.Suddenly,

It all made sense why the man was so similar to Chaol now. His movements, his choice of words, his laugh, his traits. Everything about him resembled Chaol and only a fool could deny it.“Tenth moonchild. What is he trying to say, milord?” Lana asked him, completely bamboozled. “I… don’t understand. I’ve seen this man many times inside the castle for the span of many years that I have served you, and yet deep inside me, I know he wasn’t you. What is this feeling that I’m having..?”“He is what he had said.” Chaol answered. “He is me and I am him. He is the last persona of the previous moonchild that I am.”Chaol lowered his head. “My… tenth self.”Asty’s throat became dry. She reached for Chaol’s hands but they were cold and shaking. “C-Chaol…”“I cannot remember of who I was back then

The wind continued to how and the explosions were heard from almost every corner. All the villagers had been evacuated to a place where the silverhounds won't get to them. Still carrying their rakes, shovels, and lances, they tried to fend themselves off the silverhound that tried to reach them from the water. They were all mixed. Soldiers, maids, villagers. But they were not as many as the minutes before all these chaos happened. Some of them have perished from being crushed by the rocks and debris of construction materials. Some of them were eaten by the silverhounds. Some of them were impaled by Polo's ice glacier magic. Everything was covered in blood, sweat, and night hallow dust. Most of the night hallows were killed by the silverhound and turned into dust. Asty could see all the violence before her eyes. This was the real world. The real world that they needed to protect. For so many weeks they saw that they were protecting it f

Chaol showed no mercy to him anymore. He was tired of hearing his maniacal laughter and defying the truth of his existence and death. "I think this is where it ends for you, Polo the Tenth. I will put you to sleep and make sure that you will never wake up again." "That is quite terrifying to hear." he chuckled. "Why don't you try, then?" "I guess I don't have a choice then. If you continue to be like this, then I won't hesitate to take your life myself." "I have no more life!" he told him. "I am just a ghost, and therefore you will not be able to kill me! I will continue to roam this world wherever and whenever I like. I will kill people and night hallows whenever I want. I will seize the entire world until everyone knows my name. Until the gods will fear me!" "The gods will never fear and stoop down to someone as low as you," he told him. "I've had enough of this pointless conversation, hearing about your whining against the gods. Why don't w

Yuran stayed on the ground as it shook tremendously. All of them grabbed to whatever their hands could."What is she doing?!" the captain yelled at them while grabbing onto a miraculously standing pole."I don't know!" he yelled to him.Vaughn covered his face with his arms, while advancing himself against the raging winds."Your Majesty! What are you doing?!""Robynn! We have to get to Asthenosthene quickly! It won't be good if a Sunchild on our side dies too!""I know it, dammit!" he responded and takes the hilt of his sword towards his mouth. He clenched his jaw making sure that his sword wouldn't slip out because of how strong the wind was. "What's the plan?!""I'll take the other side and clash with him while you take her away, we can't let her die!""Aren't we going to die ourselves?!""No!" he looked at him. "He hasn't been casting his ice spell since earlier! It must have been emptied out because of casting that