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The Forsaken Sovereign

"The veil of sanity is a lie we tell ourselves when we gaze at the night sky, hoping, in a stifled corner of our mind, that the stars aren't gazing back." — A nameless, insignificant, yet ambitious young man once attempted to rescue his family from poverty. But as he found hope, he also stumbled upon despair. After losing everything to the darkness of death, including himself, he woke up in another world, stuck in the body of an eleven-year-old boy with a peculiar appearance. He soon discovered that he was a Celestial Offering—a holy sacrifice, carefully groomed by the Temple of Stars to be given to the Gods Beyond. His fate had already been sealed, for his blood would spill under the seven-pointed star and consecrate the birth of a new era for his nation. Armed with nothing but his wit and the trail of good fortune, he would attempt to challenge this destiny, braving the countless hurdles that lay in waiting and the unfathomable horrors they harbored. In a realm of magecraft, occult rituals, madness, and prowling Eidolons, he could only count on himself to survive, as the threat of insanity loomed over everyone equally, and nothing could slow its ineluctable embrace. — Discord: Naphulae#1813

Naphulae · Fantasie
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Truth of the Trial

Laemno saw precious red ichor spill out of his severed body, unable to muster any thought other than the vague realization that he had been cut. 

"What... just happened?" 

Cephissos crouched without care before grasping his head by the hair. A few strands snapped due to the weight, rousing Laemno's sense of pain and sending him into a screaming frenzy. 

His world was reduced to nothing more than agony, filling every inch of his being with the torment of his scorched organs. 

"You seem to have been mistaken on one point," the Pontiff coolly remarked. "The Sacrificial Ceremony is no more. However, we must pretend for the sake of our people. With a few tricks and spells, I can make your limp corpse move and bleed with greater credibility than a living human ever could."

He let out a sigh of annoyance. "You just had to make me go through the trouble of dragging you all the way to the Great Sanctuary."