33. The lower gods

Yue stood up tall, walking out of the room into daylight. His clothes were in tatters, and stained with blood.

There were officers out front who had been watching over the hall, they now stood in shock watching the sight before them, their jaws down in surprise, when they heard a commotion coming from afar.

Zarc walked briskly through the officers who lined up and were saluting him. He had just been informed today that the men chosen were being used as test subjects for the creation of a select army.

He didn't know how to feel, but he wanted to see how it had ended. If Yue was still alive.

He saw Yue standing in front of the hall, squinting his eyes which were adjusting to daylight.

His jaw dropped at the sight of him, in tattered clothes that were stained with blood, and the large burnt black wings that stretched out from behind him.

The pain had released, and he was fully in his senses, only that his muscles were badly sore. Zarc walked up to him, "follow me" he said, and walked away.

Yue had bathed, and changed his clothes, but he remained shirtless, as he didn't know how to withdraw the wings which were a nuisance to him. He tried sitting on the chair he had been offered, but ended up standing.

"I've talked to my soldiers, and they will remain silent" Zarc said pausing " you have become something they did not expect, and it would not bode well for you" Yue studied Zarc for some time and then asked "what have I become?"

Zarc sighed heavily shaking his head in confusion and distress "what you did there, how you melted that door, and even part of the building, its something that even some of the most powerful of the realm heads can't even do, and you are just beginning"

He was confused, and Zarc could see it.

"This is the realm of lower gods, and here, not only the commoners almost never able to activate such even in our thousandth years, even most of the royals and nobles are never able to, and you just did.

Except you have royal blood, or a way to protect yourself, you must leave"

Yue nodded in understanding wondering what was next for him.

"You should leave by night, and find a way to get rid of those wings" he nodded his head, and turned to leave when he was signaled to.