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... avy with the damp breath of early autumn. Fires burned low in broad hearths, struggling against the chill that coiled along the stone floors.

Rich tapestries did little to warm the air. Their intricate scenes of saints and martyrs now seemed to leer down with thin smiles, as if amused by the hushed urgency of the men gathered below.

Cnut sat upon his oaken throne, a massive thing carved with writhing beasts whose jaws devoured each other in endless hunger.

He leaned one e ...

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Black String of Fate

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“Is Fate the excuse of the forsaken, is Free Will the delusion of the chosen?”Such was a question that Xavier, the Demon King, never had the chance to ask himself. As he lay defeated, awaiting his death, he wondered about the wretched life he lived.'The hero who killed me, the one who held the same ambitions as me. We both wanted good for the people, for the world. We are both two sides of the same coin, yet, fate decided that he will be the one the light will shine on.Perhaps it was me too, perhaps it was my karma for flowing the rivers of blood with my sword. But still... It was fate that squashed the humanity in me first!Damn fate, if I had one more chance, I would've lived for myself more, I wouldn't have taken this arbitrary role of being a necessary evil... This world, this game of destiny... It can burn to ashes for all I care.'As he sunk into the cold embrace of death, a certain [REDACTED] heard his dying wish with amusement and cast their die, reversing the wheel of time one last time and going all in on him on a risky gamble with the stakes of their world.