The Burning Fiend

"... War God Mountain destroyed along with all the disciples..."

"... The Royal Palace of the Yulan Empire destroyed along with all the royal family members..."

"... The Royal Palace of the Baruch Empire destroyed, only Emperor Cena survived and escaped while all his family was slaughtered..."

A different hand writing at the end of the parchment read.

"... Your mother, George and me would not have any trouble as this conquerors only wanted to show their might but would not care for managing their new territories, our lives should not be any different than before. I only worry about Linley as his name is too prominent within the Baruch Empire". - Yale

Reynolds kept reading the report on his hand while his other hand played gently with Rosarie left b.r.e.a.s.t as she rested her head on his shoulder, she seemed worried and hesitating to said something. Reynolds noticed her distress and kissed her forehead gently before saying.

"You don't have to worry, when I became a demi God, Lord Beirut explained that there were two places where he do not allow slaughter or misbehaving from deity level combatants. The first is the Forest of Darkness and our home is located within so it is unlikely that trouble came knocking to our door. The second is the Northern Duchies due to the Frozen Goddess Shrine... I don't know what relationship the Frozen Goddess Shrine has with him but he would not allow anything to happen there and I suspect that he is much stronger that we could understand." His soothing voice seemed to have calmed and her eyes were a little wet.

"Why do you think he is so strong to the point that those deities would not dare to challenge him?" Her voice was melodious and alluring making him wonder how was this woman was ever a priestess, he smiled and took a moment to answer.

"Well I do think they will challenge him and he will wait for a fool to make a move to either one of this territories to show his might and scare all the others. The reason that I'm confident about his strength is that Catherine mentioned that he was entrusted by the Sovereign to manage the Necropolis of the Gods. And I think that a Sovereign, which apparently is the maximum level of existence that a sentient life form can achieve, would not choose a weak person to serve him. So Lord Beirut is either strong beyond our understanding or he had some quality or ability that would allow him to gain the Sovereign's favor."

Seen that Rosarie was relaxed now that she knew the people she had known and protected for almost 5,000 years would be safe she smiled and turned her to face him to start biting her ear and explore her neck, his hands never letting go of her full b.r.e.a.s.ts. She instinctively put her arms around his neck and wondered curiously if she had always been so meek and obedient or if the 'slave seed' had produced this effect on her but soon her mind forgot about thinking and just responded to her Master's advances.

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The small island within the Forest of Darkness remained unaffected, the only small commotion was when Beirut voice, that seemed to fill the entire Yulan Plane but, was heard by saints and deities. "Saints and Deities who have chosen to remain in the Yulan continent, all of you, listen closely. If anyone causes trouble or commits slaughter in the area of the Eighteen Northern Duchies or the Forest of Darkness, I will definitely shatter their souls and disperse their spirits! Hmph. All of you had better know what's best for you."

This has already confirmed Lord Beirut status on Reynolds's mind, it was someone who should not be crossed. Soon life on the island returned to same track as before but the urgency of becoming stronger was clear in the hearts of the four females. Reynolds continue with his training making progress on his application of the aspect of illusion within the edicts of life, by now he was able to trap Rosarie on an illusion making it impossible to free herself and by the time he released her she was blushing and looking aggrieved at him making Windsor and Jenne curious as to what she had experienced within the illusion causing Reynolds to laugh mischievously increasing the color on her cheeks.

The time since Tarosse and the others have entered the Necropolis of the Gods would reach 10 years in a few months, he was curious as to how O'Brien would react to his hard work of thousands of year being destroyed on a single day, he knew that Catherine would not care much for the Yulan Empire and perhaps she would mourn for the lost source of faith energy she had enjoyed for thousands of years.

Over these few years Reynolds had managed to refine all the white mist and was already working on the second stept of refinement through soul erosion but failed to find the correct way to use his grey mist and spent days meditating while holding the scythe and studying the grey mist that would be the result of the second refinement trying to find the difference between the two. Finally after two months he started to make progress and managed to refine a bit of the grey mist to the d.e.s.i.r.ed level but with an extremely law efficiency and felt surprised on how much the difficulty of the process changed from one stept to the next.

Reynolds was surprised when he received the next news summary from the Dawson Conglomerate and wondered how they had managed to get the information before realizing that it was probably his third brother who sent it through them and muttered. ".. You still have a conscience... I see".

"... new ruler of the O'Brien Empire, Adkins... High God and alive for 2 billion years... three full Gods and a dozen demi Gods at his service..."

"... new ruler of the Yulan Empire, Oerph... full God... a dozen demi Gods at his service..."

"... new ruler of the Baruch Empire, Ojwin... full God... four demi Gods at his service..."

'Apparently only one High God is known to have escaped the Gebados Planar Prison, but any of the full Gods has enough power to kill any of the original deities of the Yulan Empire... perhaps Lord Tarosse would be an exception'. Reynolds thought and decided to pay a visit to Linley once the other deities returned as he was sure they would go to him to hear his explanation on what had happened.

But feeling unwilling to leave his wives alone without his divine avatar sitting on the island, so he started thinking what could he do and suddenly had a flash of inspiration. 'My soul is divided in two parts... I can exchange places with my fire elemental constructs... but would my divine body be able to change places with a fire construct created by my saint body?' His eyes sparkled at the idea and his divine body was out of the training chamber not far from his saint body.

Both his divine avatar and his saint body turned into flame bodies and were instantly reinforced with fire elemental essence, then his saint body created a purple fire feather with the fusion of the two laws and tried to make his divine fire body to exchange places with the feather.

After a while he smirked as his divine avatar finally was able to make the connection to the feather without affecting the connection with his saint body and his fire divine avatar exchanged places with the fire feather. 'It seems that as long as my saint body is controlling the fire construct and it is within my divine sense range I can establish a connection with my divine avatar and exchange places'.

His semblance relaxed as he found that he could leave the Forest of Darkness to visit his third brother and teleport back without problem if needed. 'Though I might not be able to escape if I were to met a full God as I have no idea of how the Godrealm of a full God would affect me. Perhaps it would be a similar case to what would happened when a saint is trapped within my divine sense?'

A few days later Reynolds noticed divine energy fluctuation on the direction of the Baruch Empire and released his divine sense to see what was happening. He found that Linley was facing two demi Gods while Oliver and Desri were facing one each but the three of them moved slowly while their enemies seemed unaffected by these strange phenomenon and suddenly he understood.

'There is a full God there and his mere Godrealm had put them into such disadvantage, but my own divine sense cannot find him due to the difference in power... however I'm sure that he can find my divine sense...' Reynold's heart was heavy at this moment, even if he were to go the only difference would be to add another corpse... his own.

The current him could not face a full God, he sighed and thought. 'I can not help you or your people third brother but one day I will be strong enough to avenge your death'. They should had known that the invaders were not only taking over the Baruch Empire for the luxuries it entailed but for the faith energy. "Why didn't they go into hiding? Why would you bet the lives of your family?" His found himself frowning and shaked his head.

Suddenly things changed as Desri was killed and Oliver and Linley killed an enemy each and they both seemed on the verge of death by something he couldn't see but the situation changed again as both Linley and Oliver seemed relieved... 'perhaps another full God arrived? Could it be?' He directed his divine sense towards the sea and found that Catherine, Cesar and O'Brien were making their way towards Linley but the distance was still too far. 'It could only be Lord Tarosse then, but why would he help third brother? I'm really curious now'. He smiled as his fire divine avatar flew towards the demi Gods to join them on their way to the castle.