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Darian was speechless, he never wanted his theory to be true but now Zavian himself confirmed his suspicion and he didn't understand what to say.

"So they..." Darian said, "Were they really able to convert you...What did they do to try to make you give up your life willingly?"

Zavian shook his head, "My pathetic excuse of a father, Seth Gregory Zagreus, and the saintess of that time Adeena and the empress they had imprisoned me and tortured me, they wanted me to die willingly, only after dying willingly I can be converted into a holy object.

And honestly, I was very close to doing that, it was so painful and so dreadful that even today my soul shivers when I think of those days.

I was tied in a dark rook with no window, beaten, burned, my skin was chopped off and many time I was made to eat my own flesh, I was tied to a horse and dragged to a dungeon where everyone laughed at me and threw stones at me when knew nothing about what had happened.