"I'm going......you........fine........rry..."

-Hey? what- who's talking? I don't understand...

I'm in bed? no, I'm floating... no, where am I?

***

The stench of blood and rotting corpses completely fills the city.

At the gates of the capital city, you can see a large red dragon with golden spots, or rather, a golden dragon covered in blood.

Fireballs land on the dragon, damaging it but not knocking it down. Like a strong gust of wind, the dragon violently smashes into a group of soldiers, the large golden body disappearing into nothing.

Corps after corps of soldiers suddenly fly out and crash on their fellow loaders. Among the surviving soldiers of the dragon's impact, horrified screams can be heard. Among those, a particularly disturbing scream stands out.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAH MY SON, MY ONLY SON AAAAAAHG

HOW CAN THESE BALLS OF SHIT TREAT HIM LIKE THIS?!! KILL THEM, KILL THEM ALL AAAAAH WHYYY"

Following the heart-rending scream, a noble man could be seen dressed in a knee-length lilac shirt, a thick black belt with gold clasps, white pants, and a dark blue tunic with a dragon embroidered on the back with gold threads surrounded. patterned with pink and yellow flowers. Except for the blood and the burned and torn clothes, he didn't look like someone dressed for war at all.

From him you could hear the cry and crying inconsolably. But, except for his red eyes, not a tear, not even the movement of his lips was seen on his face. Still, the closer you were to that man, the louder the cry and the more heartbreaking the scream was heard. At the same time more furious were the cuts made by his sword.

***

"Do you think that's true?"

"I don't know, and I don't care. If that really happened, then our army would never dare to enter the capital of the Kove kingdom, but they have currently settled there. I don't understand where the rumor really comes from."

"Still, it's crazy that the soldiers themselves betray their commander like that. Could it have been their own King's doing?"

"It may have been the work of some prince, that commander was raised by the King of Kove himself. I doubt he intended to kill someone he raised himself."

"You never know, people with power are always extremist and distrustful even of their own blood."

"But did you hear the description of how the Kove commander's body was left?"

"No, they only told me about the massacre in the capital."

"They say that during the peace negotiations, he was tortured and then handed over to his soldiers. They broke his legs, raped him and then he was burned alive covered in excrement."

"......"

"Well, that's what they say. I don't know how true that is. But the betrayal thing is real."

Throughout the Raira empire there was talk of the conquest of the kingdom of Kove. Following the insurrection led by the princes against their brother the King of Kove, the Raira empire took advantage and attacked the country at its most unstable. The empire had allied itself with the princes of Kove to kill the King's right-hand man. They had been preparing for this moment for years. But unexpectedly no prince survived the insurrection. Not even the concubines were left alive. They say that the King of Kove went mad when he was given a shapeless lump of burnt meat, and he killed anyone who crossed his path.

When news of the massacre reached the Raira empire, they couldn't wait to mobilize their troops and invade. The kingdom of Kove was in chaos, all the princes and senior commanders of the army were massacred in the capital. The border troops did not know what to do. When the army of the Raira empire arrived, they directly surrendered and made way for it. They saw no reason to resist if the country was already falling apart on its own.

Without even entering the capital of the Kingdom of Kove, just 1 mile from the city gates, the Raira soldiers couldn't help but vomit. The stench of putrefaction permeated the air, it was difficult for Raira's soldiers to advance.

Arriving in the city. They began to gather the bodies and burn them, they had already been rotting for days and were full of worms. The people of the city had already fled or died a long time ago, currently the city only had corpses and carrion birds.

Nowhere was the body of the King of Kove found, nor was the body of the betrayed commander. As the imperial sword of the kingdom of Kove was not found, it is believed that the King fled and took with him the corpse of his adopted son.

For many years the body of the King of Kove, whether alive or dead, was searched for, but he was never seen again. It was as if the earth had swallowed him.

***

"ha-...what?!!...you! WHAT IS- cough cough"

In a room meant for cultivation seclusion, a young man was going through his first tribulation to ascend to a nascent soul. Outside the isolated room, the desperate cry of a man could barely be heard.

Javi looked around him desperately trying to run away from that man who was absorbing his core. After being in like unknown time, Javi wakes up with the feeling of the life being drained from him. He couldn't move an inch of his body, Javi was scared to death. He could only scream and scream desperately for help.

The young man in front of him who was concentrating on passing his tribulation, was scared by his shouting and couldn't bear the tribulation. Him dying miserably with blood flowing from his eyes, mouth, nose, and ears.

Javi lay motionless crying and screaming in pain, his energy was no longer being absorbed but he was still hit by the tribulation rays of that already dead man.