Shadow God's POV

I shifted in the shadows, my conscious is stirring, my eyes incline upwards, slowly, steadily till I can see my palace. Everything was the same yet everything was off.

I can see the arching castle walls made of bone and black clay, the wide bleak windows infused with pictures of tortured souls, rows and rows of buttresses decorated with tiled scales of dragons. The gates made 20 meters tall, inlaid with obsidian, garnets, amethyst, sapphires, emeralds, and cobalt. Standing spires that pierce the sky.

Everything was in ruins, time was not kind and it reclaimed my domain as it's own.

The place was stained with blood, the remnants of holy energy and divine blessings covered the area like a fog. Corpses of my underlings laid scattered, open for predators, scavengers and thieves to plunder my homeland.

The sight made me boil in anger. Oh Goddess of Light you have undermine me again, yet once more I have done nothing to deserve this kind of punishment.

Not once, in all my existence have I created an army to go and subjugate your beloved "humans", nor have I cast any major curses that plague the histories of humanity.

Always from time and time again have your fellow humans have trespassed my domain, slaughter my people, create crazy schemes to conquer the world then blame it on me just because you brainwash them to believe that "Shadows are evil, subjugate anyone who follows it"

I have stood by and withstood this type of annoyance for thousands of years,

I have stood by while you initiated the demon subjugation quest world wide.

Ignored how you enslaved my people.

Forgave the fact major scuffle of plaguing my lands with magic bombs and diseases.

But defacing my place of residence and going as far as to paint it with the blood of my servants.... you have gone to far.

I wandered into my throne room and I see below my throne was a stone table of eight seats, each of them a different color. Three of the eight was dim and cracked, a pillar of orange light behind one, a pillar of yellow light behind another, and a purple light behind the last.

" Madra, Thorn, and Sable" I said to the three seats, the pillar of lights dimmed slightly and three figures emerged from them.

A young adult, with red-orange hair dressed in a long maid outfit, on her back were two giant cleavers. A women with no clothing, but scales covered her legs, her lower body, and tail. Feathers covered her arms, neck and her chest area, large claws were on her hands and feet. A middle-age gentleman with a sinister mask on his face, in his hands a crystal orb that glinted with malice.

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The three of them crouched down and murmured "Mi'lord, you called to us"

I gave them an indifferent look and answered them. "You three have died, may you inform me of what has come to past while I have slumbered." I asked them and the one called Sable spoke up.

"Mi'lord. When you have entered your slumber the Goddess of Light, Iara gave a divine revelation to assault and plunder the castle, with explicit orders to slay the Council of 8 that serve under you.

Such news reach our ears and the Council has decided to split up so as to not die, sadly they have found the three of us and we lurk here, awaiting for you to awaken"

I took in all this information and looked at each of my fellow servants in turn.

"And since you three were killed, who, how, where, and what did it take for them to slay you?"

Sable spoke again "Madra and I stood our ground here, we could not simply leave your castle to ruin so while the others scatter, we took it to ourselves to preserve this place as much as possible, sadly our efforts were for naught and we were slain by a party of heroes, Holy Sword, Holy Spear, Holy Whip, Holy Bow. We took out two armies though"

I nodded my head and turned to look at Thorn. "And what of you dear Thorn, your berserk self wouldn't have fallen so easily now would you?"

Thorn sighed slightly and spoke. "I hide myself among my sisters, sadly we are a dying breed, Not many Dragon Harpies still exist at the time, and me being in the council and with a special subjugation order, my kind is by now extinct. Many of my siblings curse my blood, When they came for me I gave myself up so that they wouldn't hurt them, As they pierce my heart they started to slaughter my sisters and I went berserk. The Holy Bow struck me down, Holy Whip chained me in place, The Spear hero came to send me to Ioxi's land but I exploded myself, I believe in my ability that I have claimed one of the heroes or at the very least destroyed an artifact"

I only sighed at how hard Ira was trying to destroy me, I gave each of the three a sorrowful look and said "You all have done well, may you be resurrected into a better realm that this, and your souls get fair treatment in Iesdi-Maw. " I gave them a prayer and the pillars of light vanished, the three also vanished into thin air.

On the seats were three cracked pendants.

I looked toward the remaining five seats. Red, Green, Blue, Indigo, Grey.

"Where are you my children?"

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