Interlude 1: Birth Of A Monarch

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He was walking.

He didn't stop walking.

He refused to stop walking.

Those damnable chains finally caught up to him and they wouldn't let him go.

There was only one solution.

And it failed him.

"Oh well." He muttered as his mask shattered into tiny pieces, tears dripping down his face. "Could be worse..."

His voice disappeared into the darkness and nothingness.

His body collapsed.

"LIKE HELL!" He roared into the non-existent skies as his fists smashed onto the floor – barely denting the fabric of reality – as his skin cracked slowly into tiny rivers with blood beginning to drown his body.

"If only..."

His voice was faint as it suddenly burst out.

"IF ONLY I HAD CONTROL OVER FATE!"

His raw emotions exploded like an unstoppable avalanche.

"IF ONLY I COULD PROTECT EVERYONE!"

His voice was beginning to fade, and he knew that.

"But no..." He chuckled "It seems like I can't protect anyone but myself."

He could no longer expend anymore effort, because it seems even that was beginning to fade in this blank nothingness.

However, a crystal condensed into existence as it slowly dropped onto the solid lake of nothingness and the resulting effect was ripple, and soon waves.

DO YOU DESIRE POWER?

"Yes..." Fuck...

DO YOU WANT TO HOLD THE REGINS OF YOUR OWN FATE FOR ONCE?

"Yes.." Don't do this...

EVEN AT THE COST OF EVERYONE YOU HOLD DEAR TURNING AGAINST YOU?

"I SAID 'YES' GODDFUCKING DAMN IT! DO YOU NEED A FUCKING DICTIONARY?! GO TO NEPMART! ONLY 9,99 CREDITS BUY ONE GET ONE FREE!" Shit, even you of all people.

FUHAHA!

"TWAT!" Refuse now.

WHAT AN AMUSING MORTAL...

SO BE IT.

SCREAM MY NAME!

I AM THOU...

"THOU ART I!" So the die has been cast?

THE PINNACLE OF EXISTENCE...

SLAYED BY MY OWN KIN...

BENEVOLENT THAN NO OTHER...

KINDER THAN NO OTHER...

SELF SACRIFICING THAN NO OTHER...

I AM...

"CHRONOS!" He screamed aloud, it seems it's left to him.

INDEED... I AM HE WHO DEFINES FATE, DESTINY, LUCK, POWER...

I AM ALL AND YOU ARE NONE.

WILL THIS BE AN AMUSING TALE?

WHO KNOWS?

WHAT DO YOU THINK...—

Huh? Shit, it noticed me.

--UNIVERSE?

Better scramble before they send even more. Need more information on the enemies.

It's all up to you now...

Trickster.