Chapter 188- The Prelude of Darkness

The great civil war waged on as the rebellion army fought against the Zahard's royal army while the two unknown members also sometimes fought personally against the king of the tower himself.

In this war, many of the native ones decided to support the two unknown members in the war.

Unfortunately for them, king Zahard was much more powerful than both of them combined and his army was also much greater, even with the help of the native ones. Thus, they decided to seek more allies by persuading their close friends among the leaders of the ten great families.

King Zahard saw this and arranged his own countermeasures.

The record didn't explain how he managed to do it but the king managed to completely thwart their plan as it backfired on them. And instead, driving the ten great families to join the war on king Zahard's side, making the already weak rebel group fare even worse in the war as they started to lose more and more battles over the period.

However, since the leaders of both parties had the contract of immortality from the guardians, killing them wasn't possible. So, a long period of wars was inevitable as instead of a battle between life and death, it was more of a battle of minds.

They would wage war to see whoever would lose their will and spirit and retreat from the war as the casualties of their allies that didn't have the contract of immortality started to pile up bigger and bigger, especially from the losing side.

According to the record, King Zahard was a callous and ruthless person. Just like most of his companions. He wouldn't care how many people in his army died in the war. To him, they were simply small pawns for him, a king, to use as he saw fit.

As long as he managed to crush their spirit and win the war, the population that he sacrificed in the war would eventually recover over the years. He was immortal, after all. No matter how long it was, he would always have all the time in the world.

However, that particular sentiment wasn't shared or adopted by the two unknown members.

They were the odd ones among the companions, after all.

Seeing that their close friends, their family members, and those who believed and supported them dying in droves, it was as if their hearts were stabbed repeatedly and they bit their own lips to bleed while witnessing the massacre.

Witnessing how their army was massacred again and again made them realize one thing, their war against Zahard was not winnable anymore.

They realized that they… had lost the war.

But the great civil war didn't stop until the last final nail in the coffin finally came.

It came in the form of king Zahard personally tracking and hunting them. And finally, the two leaders of the rebels and the king of the tower confronted each other.

The record didn't explain in detail other than the two unknown members fighting a desperate battle against the mighty king in a final, decisive battle.

The result was obvious, the two didn't stand a chance even with their numerical advantage.

And so, king Zahard delivered a decisive blow in the battle that crushed their spirit once and for all, finally ending the great civil war and cementing his reign as the king of the tower.

The ending for the two wasn't as beautiful, however.

After losing the civil war, although they could still live and not be killed by Zahard due to their contract of immortality, the two could only run away from the central tower where Zahard and the leaders of the ten great families had built their forces and influence and had to be content to live in the outskirt part of the tower, the outer area.

There was not much detail as to how it happened, but after losing the war, one of the two unknown members apparently became psychologically troubled as they slowly, but surely descended into madness.

The blow that Zahard gave them at the final battle was apparently too much for them to be able to endure.

Watching very closely as their only companion descended into madness, the other one of the two unknown members couldn't take it anymore and decided to end their own life after giving their companion a last message.

It turned out, for some unknown reason, only one of the two took the contract of immortality from the guardians so, in the end, they did succeed to end their own life.

And after that, the record didn't say anything more about their story.

However, it did tell more about the story of a certain man who followed them.

The story of Grace Mirchea Luslec, a powerful and glorious warrior who reached the top alongside Zahard and his companion, but then ended up going against the Zahard Empire and the ten great families.

After the rebel lose the war, even though he managed to escape and keep his life, life was far from easy for him despite him having a vast array of incredible skills that were only second to leaders of the ten great families and Zahard.

For his treason, he was shunned from living in the light and could only live in the darkness forever as a fugitive. Once he appeared in the places that were controlled by the Zahard Empire and the ten great families, he would be immediately hunted to the end of the tower.

After all, he was an important officer and a warlord of the rebel army in the war.

He killed and massacred many soldiers from the Zahard Empire.

His sins against the Zahard Empire were so great that it was impossible for him to receive an amnesty from the king, not that he would ever try to get it.

Unlike those who had given up and surrendered to the Zahard Empire, he chose the opposite of it.

Although they had lost the war and one of his masters was dead while the other one turned insane, Luslec was someone who would give in so easily.

Carrying the will of his now-dead master, he gathered the remnants of the rebel army and those who were willing to stand up against Zahard and his elk and created an organization that would soon become the darkness of the tower.

An organization that would terrify and inspire hope to those who heard its name.

An organization that would always haunt and terrorize the Zahard Empire and the ten great families.

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