Location: Demon Palace, Throne Room | Demon Realm
Time: 28 Frostforge, 9938 AZI | Day 489/187
Realm: Upper Realm (Demon)
"She's dead, Ren. Your truemate has been dead for ten thousand years. Her soul was eaten by a Soulreaper—there's no coming back from that. She's gone. Forever."
The jade pendant against Ren's chest burned.
The beast inside him screamed.
And something in Ren's ironclad control shattered.
"ENOUGH."
The word wasn't shouted. Didn't need to be.
It detonated.
The marble floor beneath Ren's feet cracked, fissures spider-webbing outward in perfect geometric patterns that spoke of power barely contained. The aura stones in his crown blazed with purple light so intense it cast shadows that moved wrong—writhing, alive, hungry.
The temperature plummeted.
Not gradually. Not over seconds.
Instantly.
