Walking back towards Li, who lies on his knees, Sovanant grabs the man's head and taps on his forehead again, and again saying, "Stand."
In an instant, Li Zhu stands up with his eyes swirling as if they're stuck in a daze. "Now bow your head to the ground."
In an instant, Li smashes his head against the floor, and as Zhu's soldiers see this action and quickly follow suit.
Looking forward at this sight, I say, "His Legacy Bodhidharma has the ability to force information into other people's heads, the most common of which is the 9 years of silence the Bodhidharma spent in meditation. Their ability to process information can't keep up, freezing them in place and making it so that they can't even deny simple instructions. What a terrifying power."
Turning to my direction, Sovanant says, "TO MY SOLDIERS ANOTHER BEAST HAS FALLEN, AND HE IS JUST THE FIRST IN THE LINE OF FOOLS WHO SHALL REGRET EVER CROSSING THE EMPIRE OF DÁ!!"
His words make their souls burst with energy, and staring at me, Sovanant sticks his finger up, forming a giant V, and SHOUTS, "YOU BETTER GET MY GOOD SIDE YOU GENUIS!"
-Break-
Those words he said to me, the feelings that rose within my heart, the reality that I have turned the tide of this battlefield with my strength alone, lit the fire in me to burn bright, and from that I wrote the miracles that took place that day down, and put them into words that spread across the country, deciding battlefield after battlefield. It was an adventurer I had never faced before.
And through it all their were hard times
Location: The Bastion Kingdom, Dá; Eastern Battlefront
Rushing through the battlefield gripping General Baji back, as he rides on his tiger-like wonderbeast, I scream from the bottom of my soul as he carves out the path in front of us.
Laughing, he says, "What are you crying about? This is the kind of stuff that gets the soul pumping!"
Feeling the swarm of blood, heat, and flesh fly against my body, I say, "I ENJOY WATCHING FROM AFAR!"
"We only have a little longer till we break through, so don't cry yet. Besides, what better way to see my glory than up front. Having my name feared through the land like how you've done for Fu with those fiendish stories is something I desire."
"I only write the truth about that corpse-eating monster."
"I see. Then it seems I need the story of my existence to rampage further! We're speeding up!"
"NOOOOOO!"
There were calm times
Location: The Bastion Kingdom, Dá; Western Battlefront, Camp
Lying under the shining stars, with an omega butterfly between my fingers, I read through it, saying, feeling anger swell within my soul, causing the other soldiers trying to get a rest around me to ask, "Is everything okay, Captivant?"
"The bastard who writes these articles of the Collaition war is constantly insulting my books, calling them misinformation, and oversensational. Almost as if she is trying to make me out to be a propagandist."
"Umm, aren't you?"
"NOOOOO! I write what I feel emerges from my soul, and that grants my words and pictures the power to reach people's hearts, engrave my ideals into them and see them thirst for our victory. I will end this worm!"
"How do you even know it's a woman?"
"It's only a woman who would ever see what I've written and have written nonsense like this against me. And the handwriting of whoever makes these articles covering the Dá war is very pretty, and her choice of language is exceptional in regard to framing this slander as digestible as possible. This meticulously calculated evil and skill could only arise from the endless pits of darkness that lie within the soul of a woman."
"That would almost sound like a compliment. But don't you think you're being kind of a baby, letting this bother you so much? Wouldn't such skills be better looking out for threats or going to help the night watch?"
Smiling, I say, "You underestimate me. I have been trained by that demon in human skin known as Fu, my spirit energy detection has risen to a level where no one could ever hope to sneak up on any of us while I am her-."
Seeing a bloody head appear in front of my eyes, I jump back and yell, "NOO! MOMMY!!!"
Feeling my head hit against something, I look up, and there I see a face covered in black feathers, and I jump out of the way. In front of my eyes lies a man with his body made from a large collection of black feathers that cover the majority of his body, with the exception of a section of his body on the left side that has white feathers instead. On his back is one large black wing and a tiny white one. Across his waist is a form of skirt that is similar in shape to extended coat tails that mainly cover his back, and down to his knees at his front.
Gritting my teeth in anger as I see the soldiers around me hold in their anger, I say, "General Tianshi Shīhéng, I know you're a Nightmare, but you don't have to give me them. What the hell was that for!"
"Fu told me that if I want to contact you, I should do that. Did I do something wrong?" He responds in a polite tone.
Looking at the large series of severed bleeding heads he holds in his hand, I say, "No. Just stop following the bastards Fu's advice."
"I see," he says, nodding his head with a stream of thick innocence roaring out of his body. "What are you here for, General? Given the current state of the war, shouldn't you be in Western Dá monitoring the Guardians of the Lotus?"
"I recently finished my mission and decided to take out the leaders of the opposing army. The battle is over. You can all take the rest of the day resting."
Some of the men who were lying on the ground, beaten and battered, quickly run up to him and start layering on hug after hug as they cry from the bottom of their souls.
Staring at me, he asks, "Did I do something to make them upset, Captivant?"
"No, you idiot. They're happy."
There were intriguing times
Location: The Lotus Kingdom, Western Dá; Eastern Battlefront
In front of me lies a short woman with short twin-tailed orange and blue hair. She wears a fusion between a qipao and a series of long flowing red and jade garbs, as she stares at me with innocence in her eyes that could enthral even the Messiah himself.
Staring into her eyes, which are a deep black with white circles spinning through them, I get on one knee, and say, "To drag me off to the corner here after you successfully broke into the Guardian land, there can only be one reason for that, isn't that right, General Héqi. I promise you my skills of the night should not be underestimated."
She smiles as she slowly walks up to me, and I reach out my hand hoping to grab her, yet I feel a large thumb on my head, and raising it, I see a large, bladed and reinforced Luopan is smashed against my head, and soon I feel my body begin to blaze like fire.
Rolling around on the ground, I spread spirit energy throughout my flesh, but I hear her say, "You know that flames use your spirit energy as fuel, so I suggest stopping your reinforcement."
Stopping, I rub the dirt of the battlefield all across my body, and raise my head saying, "What was that for! You're the one who called me out here!"
Swaying her hair, she says, "The idea that I would ever risk whatever disease clearly infests your loins onto myself is tantamount to assault, and I do not take such things lightly."
"I WILL NEVER FORGIVE YOU!"
She quickly winks at me, forming an incredibly cute smile, and feeling it, my heart completely melts for a moment, enraptured by her beauty. "How easy you are, Captivant."
"WHY AM I HERE!"
"I would kick you in the neck for your tone, but you'd probably make a mess of your drawers," she says as she reaches into her clothes.
"HEY!"
Pulling out a book, she says, "It's your latest novel on our exploits, another tale of Fu's achievements. You very clearly have a favourite."
"He is a fouled mouthed twat, but when he drops on the battlefield, you can feel heaven cheer waiting for him to act."
"How cute, but I have different matters to discuss. As the resident Master of all things spiritual in Dá, I have noticed something about your books, something unnatural that I wasn't able to fully prove till today. The general we faced today was the head of one of the 12 Ordinance Families, presenting the monkey. The Hóu family, which came as representatives of Satripa. A family with incredible spiritual faith in the Lotus often produce children who never cower against anything, especially when it is seen as a defiance of the Lotus. Yet in this battlefield, I found fear and uncertainty despite their clear advantages, almost as if something had infected their minds."
She rips off my shirt, revealing my chest, causing me to say, "Right here you freaky bitc-."
Her fist plunges into my mouth, and looking at me, she says, "Your books, while written well, have always shown this weird compulsion over others, which didn't make sense to me. But now I understand what it is, your soul has found its true shape. Captivant, you've manifested a Regalia."
Some moments made me laugh.
Location: The Lotus Kingdom, Western Dá; Outside the Divine Lotus
Standing in front of us all on the stage set up by the soldiers, General Lei Chén looks down at all of us with the same glare he used to shoot at me and Jabari the first time I saw him, and, grabbing a Shatter Shell from his attendant, he starts to sing his heart out in front of us all.
"Ohhhh, how the winds blowa, how the storm strikes, yet my sorrow lives on!!!"
Despite his small and almost feminine appearance, his voice has the commanding presence of a stern 80-year-old man; the combined gap between his actions forces smiles on the faces of all the soldiers as they burst out in laughter, and slowly but surely, all the anxiety and frustration they all feel at the war that shall end in the next battle fades as their joy rises.
And even moments that shook me to my very soul.
Sitting with a gash taking out of my right leg as bodies surrounded me on every corner, I look forward to the figure in front of me, which stands between the thousands of soldiers and me gathered around, and shout, "GET OUT OF THE WAY FU! YOU CAN'T DIE PROTECTING ME!"
Beaten and battered, with blood covering him to such an intensity that he is dyed black, Fu sways from side to side, barely keeping a hold of the strange, bladed, armoured fist he wears on his left hand.
"All you ever do is whine, but here this and here it proud, a man who has saved us countless lives through his own sword will not fall here as long as I live, I swear to you that! I am every bit the swordman you put in those books, and I will show it to you right now!"
As the swarm of soldiers send their arrows and men towards him, Fu lunges forward with his blade gripped tight, prepared to risk everything he is for the sake of my life.
In that war, I learned of the strength of my words, the power of the wills of many, the glory that can truly lie within humanity, and the ability to overcome that which the world would deem impossible, and at the end of it all, I saw that sight
-Age 20-
Location: The Divine Lotus
Standing on top of the Lotus with his Behemoth flying over head, Wèilái holds the heads of the Guardians in his hands, and shouts onto the shoulders waring below, "On this day, the royal family of Dá takes back control of the Lotus as it's rightful owner, to all who hear my voice today, victory belongs to that of the only and true Dá Emperor!"
Cheers and screams erupt through the battlefield, and staring up at it as I carry Fu on my back, I feel the very heavens shine down, illuminating this moment in my life.