Anat’s Heartache

"This method is for only those who have failed awakening as if you try it you are sure to fail and hinder your future growth which I know you and I wouldn't want as we both know he will go to any length to destroy any thing that touches his son. But I know a way it could work for you seamlessly without a hitch". This last bit caused Roy's ears to stand as he was excited at this new possibility.

"Does that mean I would break through successfully?" Roy being exited asked

"It's a fifty-fifty, either it works or you die" Kop responded with affirmation. This didn't stop Roy as he quickly responded "I will take it"

"See you have to know that the consequences far outweigh the benefits if it should fail, and I do not want to add another enemy to my already long list" old man Kop said as he pulled the newspaper over his face.

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Days passed as the routine continued only this time Roy kept on bugging Kop, from when he woke up, till he was eating, to the bathroom and toilet to the restaurant. It was a non-stop disaster. Old man Kop really regretted telling the kid that day as he had been persistent. But he noticed that he didn't slack off on his personal training as the mana in the kid's body is moving a bit more fluently. He was sure that if he had just a little more push, he would break through. He still didn't know how Denwen had done it in just under a month and still broke through again a week later. "I don't know how I got my hands on these geniuses but I am sure that they would be strong pillars in the future. Hopefully whatever was happening in the empire at this current time won't shut down their bright lights like many others" he said as he sighed. "But Seth you just had to go and kill your brother after you knew what would happen if you did so, why did you have to be so stubborn" Kop said as he thought back to what had happened some weeks ago during the bloody ceremony.

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The empire had changed a lot especially with the emergence of the blessed, but the most change occurred in the royal palace itself as those who refused to yield were either imprisoned or executed. Seth quickly became an iron hand ruler pulling the resources of all seven continent for a goal that no one was sure off and to a location were no one knew. Seth was not always in the palace and a few times he would gather his strongest men together and lead them to another planet and come back some time later victorious bringing the planet under his banner. He refused to heal the arm he lost as he kept it to remind him of what he had lost. But currently he was walking along the royal passage as he got to a door that had guards who bowed to him "Leave" he said in a stern voice as the two guards faded as though they weren't there. He took a deep breathe in and then out and open the door.

"So, you have come again this week" a feminine voice spoke out from behind a white veil.

"You still speak that way to me" Seth said with a sigh

"I'm sorry your majesty" she said as she turned around from the window and bowed

"Drop the sarcasm, Anat I do know you don't mean it" Seth said as he moved closer to her.

"Oh, I didn't mean it that way my Emperor, you are the star among the stars, the one that shine brightest among the rest, why would I speak in sarcasm" Anat said as she stood up.

"How do I make you understand that he had to been done for the survival of our race" Seth said as he sat on the bed

"Yeah, right by selling our souls out to whatever being is protecting us" Anat said with a scoff "then if that wasn't enough you began to kill off your comrades and people who looked up to you, why don't you go ahead and kill me as well because I would never bow" she said with a tear dropping down her cheek.

"Listen you'd never understand my reason no mater how many times I say it, besides I spared your life because I am sentimental to you, I can't let my other side see you, in fact you can say I am saving you" Seth said

"Saving, you call this saving" she pointed round the normal looking royal room and then tried to pass through the veil only to return back at the window "You know what this is" she pointed round again "this is a prison, you placed the space construct here yourself that its intended target, me, can't leave no matter what. If I try to do so I would just return" she said as she screamed.

"Well, you can't expect me not to do anything when you kept running away every now and then" Seth yawned

"And if that was not enough you sealed my abilities" She screamed as he came close to him and slapped him.

"Well after the death of fifteen high level soldiers and some blessed servants what do you expect, besides if you won't use your powers for me, it is better off non-existent" Seth said as he pushed her back and rubbed his cheek that was slapped, he stood up and started walking towards the door once more "I have had enough for today, just know that you still have a use and once that runs out or you deem yourself not useful then…" he turned back and released his aura pressing down Anat on the floor as the pressure began to cause the building to shake "So you better know you place" he said as he opened the door and walked out as his aura receded. He snapped his fingers as the two guards re-materialized and bowed "Ensure you restrengthen the seals, she's doing something that might force my hand" he said as he walked out "YES SIR" The guards said simultaneously.

Walking along the passage he saw two figures, a man with red flowing hair and clad in white clothes and a lady with a staff and wearing a pointy hat, "are we ready for the next planet, Margret" he asked the lady

"Yes, and we are ready to move your majesty" she responded with a slight bow

"And what's the strength of planet Beruk, Alexander" he asked the man

"Well, I personally think you should sit this one out as they just have a council of 10 leaders that govern their planet with the strongest close to the Beta rank. Their strength isn't worth mentioning" he said as he gave a light laugh.

"Well, I have my own reason for coming, take with you some capable blessed and Margret and clean up the planet".