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The aberrant tree suddenly grew twice as large and completely consumed the glowing crystal. -----Thanatos watched in silence as the crystal's contents rapidly moved upward through the twisted branches and flowed straight into the flower at the top.
The flower's single eye slowly bloomed open, shifting and changing forms until it finally revealed a clear human face.
"A-Ahhh…"
He muttered in pure disbelief. Black miasmic tears began falling from his empty eye sockets as he reached out and gently touched the petals, only to pull his hand back a moment later.
That face reflected so clearly in the flower was…
"My beautiful… Eleanora…"
His dear wife, long dead after the Four Kingdom Alliance stormed his Kingdom and destroyed everything he held dear.
When he lost everything and everyone that day, he had sworn to the heavens themselves that he would take revenge for her and for every single person he had lost.
