Wren who had been sleeping for hours, opened his eyes slowly.
But he closed them again, tilting his head slightly. The mattress beneath his head—soft and plump—made him want to get more sleep.
It was then Wren realised something...
'Soft and Plump?
Someone gently pushed him back just as he wanted to raise his head. He opened his eyes and stared at the person whose thighs he was resting his head on.
"Soft enough?" It was Selina, who was playing with his hair, moving her fingers through and fro trying to find locks that needed to be separated.
Wren blinked.
And then he blinked again.
This action continued until he could completely contemplate what was happening to him, and the moment he realised, his expression turned to horror.
He had done a great crime.
'Morgan will dice me up.' He trembled in fear as he visualised her carrying a sword, ready to slice his head off.
But then his trembling suddenly stopped.
'Wait...who's going tell her? I ain't. Damnation, I was worrying for no reason.' He moved his head away from the soft thighs of Selina.
"You..." He looked back at her and sighed. "Don't do something like that again." He wanted to say more but couldn't, how could he when he saw her face—cute and...
Wren's eyes widened slightly.
'What the fuck am I thinking?'
He couldn't understand what was going on with him, but there was one thing clear to him, his mind was clear not muddled by the thoughts of killing.
It was quite a surprise to him.
Selina who was sitting behind him, looked confused.
'Did this bastard lose some more screws?' She truly wondered, being with him for months had made her adapt to his murderous nature, but seeing him act normal after ripping someone's arm was quite devastating.
'Well...it is for the better, I guess Nephis's persistent will, push him back to the right path, however, if he does something crazy or goes mad again, then this weapon of mine will work quite well.'
Selina looked at her weapon, her hand and imagined smacking the back of Wren's head with full force.
It was quite refreshing for her.
But she wasn't here for this, after his actions, consequences were bound to appear, and they did.
She was not thinking about the war or anything, there was no one here who had the confidence to go against Wren, what she was worried about was...fate.
What Wren had done went against the plans of fate, his existence was a flaw in fate's plan, now or maybe in the future, something dangerous will come after him.
Those who were supposed to be dead are alive, those who should have died later had lost their lives by now.
It was a mess.
"Hey...what do you plan to do now?" She finally asked him.
Wren turned his whole body, facing her directly. He scratched his chin as if trying to think hard and then he finally replied.
"Nothing. Just going to chill and maybe help these people." He said with a smile.
Selina tilted her head and looked at him as if she didn't believe him. Noticing her expression, Wren raised his brows and smirked.
"What, is my Apostle not going to believe in me?" He said with a haughty expression, then he suddenly chuckled.
These changes in him were too sudden, making her more confused. Selina wondered if he was the same person who had made waves in the previous battle.
"Maybe." She replied to his question, and her answer left him dumbfounded. How could she not believe in him? Surely, he was a mad person before but he has changed now.
'Hmm...am I still mad? Well, time will surely tell.' He thought.
"It is not a surprise, that you are not enjoying after setting someone after Nephis's blood." Selina said.
At her words, Wren's expression faltered. Indeed, in one way or another, his worthless revenge doomed a person.
"Well, I could stop them from killing each other. Since the battle of Crimson Spire would be exhausting, Sunny might take the chance of killing Nephis at her weakest." He said with a serious expression.
But then his expression changed, and he grinned.
"But the problem is... Nephis is never at her weakest, that will of hers is just too crazy, it wouldn't be a surprise if she challenges a second nightmare as a sleeper and comes out alive."
At his words, Selina hesitated a little.
What he had said, was what was supposed to happen during the end of the Forgotten Shore arc in the novel, if only he hadn't caused such drastic changes, the reality of this world would have taken the path of the novel.
'Wait...this could work.'
Selina had an idea, a little absurd but it might work.
"How about we make a bet?" She asked him.
Wren who was visibly intrigued, smirked.
"You have my interest."
***
In the outer settlement, people were going through various emotions—dread, fear, anger, fury and worst of all worry.
They were all waiting, waiting for their lady to arrive and relieve the tensions rising in their weak hearts. Nephis had been unconscious after the battle, the preparator behind this, Wren...had run away.
The followers of Nephis were burning with silent rage, no one had the confidence to go and fight Wren. After witnessing the horror of his strength and might, everyone else started to call him by one name.
Cataclysm.
His every action had led to chaos and destruction, the fear was so worst that they shuddered just by hearing his name.
Subordinates of Wren—Harus, Selina and Sunny were a disaster themselves, although Sunny was the only person who had stayed neutral during this whole battle.
The other two were worse, Harus already had the reputation of Grim Reaper, while Selina had not done much but got the name of Smiling Witch.
Rumours had also spread that Selina was immortal, many people strongly rejected it but many didn't.
"What are you saying, how could she survive if her head is cut off? She is no god."
"I saw it with my own two eyes, her decapitated body bent down and picked up her own head, heck I was one of them who pierced her heart with a weapon memory."
"What? How could this be possible? Is this her aspect?"
"Truly she is a witch, you wouldn't believe she hanged Lady Cassia on a cross."
Murmurings from the crowd reached to the ears of the people inside the meeting room, the wall which was previously broken during the start of the fight was covered with a long sheet of stitched cloth.
Inside the meeting room were prominent figures—Kai, Cassie, Effie, Seishan, Sunny and Nephis. The whole room was silent, everyone except Sunny was waiting for Nephis to say something, but it was not her who was going to break the silence.
It was Sunny.
"Wren sends his regards, he has declared his defeat and the one to take the role of the leader is none other than Nephis. Also, he has said that if anyone will harm or have any sort of ill intent towards his subordinates...then they will die."
Sunny said with a clear and calm voice, however, the others except for Nephis, who were listening to his words were in a state of shock.
"What?" Effie blurted out, she was frustrated.
Sunny shrugged his shoulders.
"It is just as you heard." He replied while looking at Nephis. There was no expression on her face, it was as if she was an emotionless monster and not a human.
The vivid image of her arm getting ripped out was still fresh in his mind, Sunny unconsciously compared the new arm and the bloody stump he had seen before.
"So you are saying after all this mess, he is declaring that he has lost?" Kai asked Sunny, wanting to confirm it one more time.
"Indeed. If you want to, why not go and ask him yourself?" Sunny replied with a question that ran a shiver down his spine.
Going to Wren was the same as going inside the maw of a dragon.
"So princess, what do you plan to do now, your butler has fled away from the battlefield, surely you don't plan to cry?" Effie taunted her.
Nephis who was wearing the black battlesuit of the Starlight Legion armour, her cold eyes looked at everyone and then waited for a moment.
"We will move forward with the original plan, now if you can please leave this room except for Sunny, we have something to discuss." Her voice was cold and emotionless, it was monotone.
It was a little unexpected for everyone, but they chose to comply with her request.
Everyone left, leaving only those two behind—alone.
"You...wanted to discuss something with me?" He asked.
But Nephis didn't reply and left her seat, she walked around the table and reached the spot Sunny was sitting on.
She climbed over the table, sitting comfortably on it and stared down at him. In her grey eyes—cold and emotionless—something flickered.
It was a white flame...of desire.
...
Wren suddenly trembled.
'Strange why am getting this feeling of nervousness?' He thought.
Selina who was looking at runes, noticed the sudden change of expression on Wren's face. He looked a little nervous.
"What happened?" She casually asked him.
Wren raised his hand, signifying that there was no need to worry. He also didn't dwell further on this strange feeling and started to cook something for him.
'Wait...is he cooking?' Selina's expression turned that of horror, Wren and cooking weren't a good combination.
If she didn't want to suffer from food poisoning...if she could, then Selina needed to take this matter into her own hands.
'Absolutely no, I am willing to die but not his cooking.' She immediately walked towards him and pushed Wren aside.
And he happily let himself get pushed aside, cooking was not his area after all.
But...
He was still thinking about that strange feeling.
Although he didn't know it, Sunny was feeling it too. Staring at those two eyes made him gulp for some reason.
It was as if he was a prey, and Nephis was the hunter. Only this time, it was not about killing but something else.
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Wow, I have written something very degenerate and freaky I guess. My mind was in a gutter maybe, to use these divine hands to write something such unholy but then again Sun God was more of a freak than me, so I guess it's no problem.
Freaky Nephis fr fr.
Freaky Selina fr fr.
Hehe~
I wondering if I should just skip it, or maybe you know > <...tell me some freaky ideas, and I will write them in the next chapter if you want to. If you don't I will skip the whole fight and make a chapter of the end, because I still don't have an idea how to make the fight between Sunny and Nephis end.
I am not entirely clueless of what to write but still, there are consequences of pulling ideas out of your ass and this is one of them. Help me(┬┬﹏┬┬)(┬┬﹏┬┬).
Ideas are welcomed.
Just write them in the comment section, if you don't I won't be able to make out a good chapter, so please[criticism is also welcomed].
Bye Bye~~