Orion's POV:
Being a king has made you wary of many things in your sleep, one of them is assassinations. For these situations, the king candidates are taught to use ki, which is found in 1 out of 50 king candidates, generals. Ki is something that comes inside of the practitioners, their willpower.
The king candidates are only taught how to sense it by the king but never taught in actual battle. The king candidates learn to harness it by themselves to cultivate it to grow stronger, to use it in their weapon, physical enhancement, anything to boost their chance of survival.
But I taught myself to always use ki that no one else had dared to do, strengthening and getting control of every aspect of my body. I went through hellish training, studied human anatomy to make the hellish training fruitful. Muscles ached even when I slept. Some muscles burst in the process of trying to achieve this strength, the strength to achieve total control of every part of my body. By creating total control, my body senses spiked, to feel everyone around me within a 5-meter radius. Even while I slept.
While sleeping my body sensed that there were 2 soldiers outside my cell. They later silently came into the chamber while I slept. The soldiers checked if the crude oil was still in place, and it was. They crept closer and closer to me, I managed to wake up and just pretend to sleep. The young soldier looked at me with a smile and then lit a match.
I managed to react fast enough and took the man by the throat in a hostage position, and managed to catch the match in the air. I put the match right to the man's throat and infused ki to enhance the fire. He started to scream because of the burns. The knight with blue hair I saw in my chamber from before, drew his sword and threatened me with caution.
"Drop the prince," he demanded nervously.
"Why should I?" I retorted, giving him a piercing glare.
"Because..." he answered weakly. "Because WHAT?" I yelled, making him more focused.
"Because he is the prince." the knight said sternly.
"You forget something, I am a king. And I am about to be executed anyway so kill me if you have to. But don't forget you would get scolded, possibly killed for killing me in here and not outside in a public view." I said happily while my face cracked a smile.
"DON'T YOU DARE" the brat screamed.
Tch, another spoiled little brat.
"Now, let us meet each other in hell, brat," I said to the boy and set myself on fire while holding the prince in a chokehold.
It's starting to hurt, an excruciating pain seared on my body. I breathed heavily and enveloped my body in ki to protect myself from the burns, yet to no avail, my lungs are too weak to envelop my body in ki.
"IT HURTS, IT HURTS, IT HURTS. AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!" the spoiled brat screamed painfully.
"STOP IT!" the knight yelled and ran towards me with his sword up high. The knight stabbed me in my right side of the stomach, making me lose the grip of the boy and he managed to pull the boy off me, leaving the sword inside me.
"AAAAAAH" the brat screeched after receiving some burns over his back. The little boy walked back up to me and started to slam the sword deeper inside of me, venting his anger out. After the 5th punch, it stabbed my artery, and I started to bleed profusely. The knight stopped him and took him by the armpits to get him off of me.
"I AM GOING TO KILL THAT MAN, I AM GOING TO KILL HIM FOR GIVING ME PAIN" the boy yelled.
"Calm down young lord! Calm down." said the knight, trying to save his skin if I die here.
Everything calmed down and it felt as time stopped. Water started to pour down from the cracks from outside as we noticed a storm outside. The water started to pour down on me, extinguishing the fire revealing the red charcoal, I once called skin.
My breathing started to slow down, calming my mind, seeing every step I took to get here. I survived, I killed, I lived. Had love problems, I trained, I became a soldier in the "holy war" started by the former king of Purity Kingdom Ranash 130 years ago. Killed thousands upon thousands and then became a king. Ruled the kingdom Astrich, had prosperous years had some small famines but we were able to stay strong.
Had the toughest years on the battlefield. Our last battlefield on 129th year on February 27th. Got captured, tortured because they wished so and now this is the last minute of living. I laughed as I never believed the phrase "life flashes before your eyes'' when being in a death-threatening situation.
They wondered as to why I laughed as I reminisced. Calming my breath, I reached partial enlightenment and achieved further ki perception towards everything in my situation. I perceived the small flickering lights, wandering outside the chamber into the void. This perception comes to fruition one in a hundred million king candidates. Man what a waste for this power to be gone. I thought and then looked up into the eyes of the knight and the prince and said.
"In this accursed world, you experience a lot and a lot less than what you actually need." took a deep breath as I felt the life leave my body. "In this life, you can do many things, accomplish many things ye-".
"yet not big things. Now I k-now this request may be shame-less, but pleas-"
"Please, change this wo-rld, for a better place." I manage to crack out.
"Now why should I do that!?" the small prince retorted.
Shameless... But there is still a future possibility of a bright man, of a bright future.
"Because o-of the f-uture gen-erations to c-ome." I plead for the future of mankind. There can be no war in the future, if we want everything to advance, for the people.
“Nothing ever goes right- in this world, once you grow older and you start to r-ealize, there exists pain and death-h behind every corner. Even you-r own. Change this world, change-it, to a-better place.” I managed to say with nothing to lose.
"Fo-r t-he people'' I managed to roar out as my last sentence. I get struck by lightning and I feel everything explode in my body.
Time stopped before my eyes, I saw the lightning creeping up from the ground and I felt the ki in my body forming a core next to my heart, trying to protect my organs. Blood started to drip out of my eyes as I felt my life leaving my body with a lightning reap from death.
Please, give me a second chance.
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