1 Prologue

Smoke of destruction can be smelled all around. The golden caramel sands of Western Dessert were soak with thick red fluids. Structures from negligible to colossal can be seen damaged and destroyed. People were running from different directions, carrying the necessities they can still save. Children with no knowledge about the events can be seen crying while being held and dragged for their safety.

"Evacuate the area and move to the safest place you can find! Gather all the living and leave those who're fallen!" the Emperor commanded, trying to save his remaining people from the unexpected attack.

Those who are weak and slow were being captured and enslaved. Only the lucky ones escaped the attack.

In just a few moments, Kuuma Empire had been conquered. The Tyrant have gained triumph once again.

"All of you have no match for my great power!" he said with full of conviction and laughed hysterically.

After ordering his cavaliers to settle the prisoners to the chambers underneath, a young beautiful lady approached the Tyrant. She then held his arm and watched the troops as they work, she was his lover.

"You've conquered another empire once again" she said in a low voice.

Her eyes were roaming around the ruins of the Empire city. Pools of blood and lifeless body can be seen everywhere. Her heart and conscience can't take the scene.

"Yes! They're too weak and foolish" said the Tyrant woth a wide arrogant smile plastered on his face.

"Maybe it's time to stop, don't you think?" the lady asked. His smile slowly vanished and turned to look at his lover.

"I am giving you all the Kingdoms, I am doing this for you. Aren't you happy?" he unbelievably asked.

"I am not" she honestly replied. There's a long pause and the tension between the two is rising.

"Khufra, all I want is to live peacefully with you while guiding and protecting your people, our people" she said.

"One empire is enough with me as long as you are by my side" the lady honestly stated, hoping she could change the Tyrant's mind.

"Even with just empire, you can prove to others that you are a great king!" she asserted.

"Nonsense, Eslora!" he shouted making the lady abruptly stopped.

"A number of empires being conquered bu the ruler are the basis of being a great powerful King!" the Tyrant pointed the demolished empire around them.

"But you've already conquered almost half of Western Desert!" the lady said, raising her voice.

"That isn't enough!" he shouted.

"What's the use of power if you don't make a use of it?" he greedily asked, playing sparks and smoke of magic in his hand while his eyes turned into red emblems.

"If it weren't for me, you wouldn't have those great powers of yours!" the lady yelled, shedding a tear.

The Tyrant groaned angrily and turned his back to her.

"Fool!" he yelled back before marching away venting his anger on the things she encounter in his path.

The sun sets down and the moon lit the whole ruins of Kuuma Empire. The Tyrant is enjoying enslaving and opressing the people who he have captured.

After a long day, he thought of resting. As he reached the quarters, he found his lover waiting for him, standing near the balcony while staring at the bright shining stars above the dim sky.

"Get out" he ordered still remembering their quarrel earlier.

The lady surprisingly turned her head. She then walk towards the Tyrant's direction.

"Khufra" she called out his name.

"I said get out. I don't need a fool like yoi" he harshly said, overtaking the lady.

Without any words, she turned herself and quickly wrap her arms around his body. She then buried her face on the Tyrant's bacj as she began crying.

"I'm sorry" she said while sobbing. The Tyrant didn't utter a single word.

"I'm sorry, Khufra" he removed her arms around him and turned to face her.

"Please forgive me" she continue to wipe her tears aways.

"Hush, you're forgiven" he asserted, encircling hid arms around her body.

"I'm deeply sorry" he made a sound to assure her.

A sudden light beamed on the emblem which is embedded in the Lady's forehead crown. The Tyrant was blinded but sooner recovered.

"Is this a peace offering?" the Tyrant asked. He knew, when the emblem lits up, the lady is casting a spell, a spell that gives him more power.

"I'm giving you the great power that can save you" the Lady whispered, tightening her embrace.

The Tyrant then smiled and closed his eyes as he felt thr power rushing aggressively inside him.

"Please forgive me for I have been foolish" the Lady said while shedding batches of tears.

"Foolish to give you all of me and didn't see what you might have become" the Tyrant grew confused by the Lady's words.

A few moments. he felt a stinging pain from all over his body. He tried moving but he can't.

"What are you doing, Eslora?" he asked trying to break free.

The Lady were chanting words that can't be understood, she then parted with him. She made gestures as her eyes were directly looking at him.

She took her palms and point it towards the Tyrant's direction. Blue glowing chains began appearing everywhere, wrapping each wrists, ankles and neck of the Tyrant.

"Let me go, Eslora! What are you doing?" the Tyrant exclaimed trying to break free from the said chains.

"I hereby call the astral power, " she continued chanting.

"Obliterate his sorcery for he is devoured!" small crescent moons started to show and lit up on her cheeks. Her hands were shaking and so as her knees.

"Moon of the stellar silver wane," her eyes turned white and her emblem started glowing even more.

"Take with you the destruction and bane," tears continue to stream down her face. Every word, she let out a tear.

"Eslora, stop this!" the Tyrant pleaded with full of anger.

"By this emblem with its charm," the Tyrant began to act aggressively. He tried reaching the Lady but failed.

"I banish those who cause them harm!" the wind outside become wild.

"Let cruelty, pain and evil ways,"

"Follow this felon through all his days!"

"Eslora, wait 'till I lay my hands on you!" she then looked away, pausing for a while before finishing her chant.

"As you fade into this very night," she sobbed and reach for her chest to feel the relentless pain.

"A beam of new hope will rise in sight" loud high pitched mysterious noises can be heard around the area.

The wind became more vigorous and harsh. The rocks underneath began to rattled causing an earthquake. The sky became dark and the moon lit up so bright.

"This is for your own good, Khufra" the Lady said.

"You traitor!" yelled the Tyranr.

The chains got loose that he immediately charged at the Lady. She closed her eyes and waited for his merciless attack.

As he inch closer, his body lit up and he then vanish creating a thick black smoke.

She let herself fall down and cried uncontrollably. It is against her will but it is the only way for her to save the Tyrant from greediness.

The Lady chose to personally seal her lover in the ancient city and build a grand monument.

She believed that it is better to end him before his people despise him with the inhumane things that he had done and for the king who love nothing except for power.

Since then, the smoke of war in the Western Dessert disappeared and was never been seen again.