Long black hair cascading to the grass wriggled forward as its owner made her way through the beautiful garden filled with flowers and ornamental plants of various kinds. A pale hand reached forward to the twines of leaves that hung across the entrance leading deeper into the lovely garden.
Sitting within the innards of the garden was an angelic young-looking girl with white hair, tied up in a royal bun and decorated with the most beautiful rubies that complemented her unique eyes that glistened like the shine of a diamond when struck by the sun’s rays.
She sat there gracefully sipping tea along with another angel-like female whose short curls hung messily across her shoulders covering the slight peek of a golden rose on her nape. Her usually sharp amber eyes were as soft as snow as she beckoned over the male standing next to her to sip her cup.
Lucius politely rejected, although having been proposed to by this reckless Princess in front of her parents and nearly giving them a heart attack, their request for marriage was still on hold and until then he had to keep their dynamics as it was.
Except, the naughty princess would have nothing of that and always, even in front of royalty, did things that bypassed their dynamics. Especially after they moved over to the land gifted to her by her aunt, within the most agriculturally prosperous areas of the human region, where she had someone nurture a garden for her which would be her first step into floriculture.
The same garden in which she invited the guardian of the elves to have tea with her. If anyone had mentioned a few years ago that the guardian of elves would sit together with the human princess leisurely drinking tea, they probably would have been labeled a madman, but now it was happening.
After the incident of the portal, when the very first immortal had appeared suddenly in Styr with his unique purplish-gold hair and dazzling bright violet eyes that left all its competitors in the dust, holding in his arms the corpse of a beautiful young man with dark hair and pale skin; everything in Styr turned upside down.
The angel lord killed himself, the demon king was killed by the immortal and after the fight for succession, the lord of Babel took over the throne wiping off all the bloodline of Tempest clean without mercy. Carl was given so much respect not only by the demons but also by the other races.
Orinda unfortunately died within the portals and the whole of royalty was shaken up during his burial. Not long after that, the king, ahead of time, declared the final stage of the successor’s battle and soon chose his successor, the doll princess- Princess Pearl.
Her defeated siblings were each gifted a certain amount of inheritance according to their birth rites with Princess Zillah eventually setting off to fulfill her dreams of becoming a floriculturist, after proposing to her lover and knight, Lucius.
The angel realm although having been weakened greatly had recently announced to their worshippers the upcoming birth of a new saint. This could mean great things for them as a whole new change would take place as soon as the saint arrived, to outlay any erroneous rule within the angel realm.
Queen Pearl decided to keep the religion of angel worship due to the insane amount of resistance the annulment received and instead placed heavy restrictions that limited their activities greatly. Eventually, the worship of angels as a whole within the human race would be completely extinguished once and for all, but that'd probably take a while.
And the most scandalous occurrence was the recent friendship of the guardian of elves and Zillah. There was speculation that Princess Zillah had been a dear friend of the immortal and his dead lover, which was why the guardian who was also a dear friend had become her friend which wasn’t wrong but not the entire truth.
The truth behind the cooperation was that they were actively looking for Genad, who had long varnished with no traces. Zillah aimed to bring him back and tame his wounded heart, whilst the guardian only wanted to bury her dead friend and let him rest.
“Mrs. Josephine, welcome,” Zillah said softly with a smile as she motioned to a maid standing further away to serve them.
Josephine and Kian respectfully greeted Zillah and Paws before taking a seat to discuss the reason why they were there.
“Yes, he did come to us,” Josephine began sadly.
“What?!” a startled Paws exclaimed in awe with wide crimson eyes leaving Josephine speechless for a while before a voice interrupted her daze.
“Guardian? You knew about my son… my son… what happened? Why was he to that demon? Did that demon kill him?!” Kian asked agitatedly as tears fell down his face.
His son who had just reached his coming of age varnished suddenly and although they searched everywhere for him, even risking leaving that island just to find him not a single trace of him was seen. But they hoped; they had hoped foolishly that somehow the merfolks hadn’t abducted him but that he had somehow left the island during his raging.
But after hoping, begging, and wishing to whomever would listen a demon came back with their son but delight was the last thing they felt because their son… their son…
“He was dead! His body was so pale, his body was cold, colder than the depths of the Blood Sea, and… he wasn’t alive. That thing killed my son. I know the rituals of the merfolks, he turned him to his slave, used him, and killed him in the end!” Kian exclaimed in pain as he beat his chest, sorrowful tears running down his cheeks.
Josephine, who had tried so hard to hold herself had also broken down while comforting Kian. She had never hated a person as much as she hated that demon bastard, even when her brother tried to poison her, she never once hated him, but that demon triggered that vicious emotion within her.
Not only did he kill her son, he adamantly refused to give over her child’s corpse to her. Even till the very end that selfish thing refused and those eyes of his… he claimed that he loved him but even within the depths of his so-called love she could see the blazing hatred in his eyes.
Even till death, her son’s spirit wasn’t allowed to rest in her bosom but in his killer’s?! What sin did her son commit… that simple child, what did he ever do!!
It took a while before Zillah could calm the couple down and looking at her ruined garden filled with thorns due to Josephine’s volatile mood, she felt that picking a garden probably was a very bad idea.
“Calm down. I also aspire to rescue Feral from the hands of Genad, as for Genad he… he claims to love him, but his love is so selfish it's evil, so much that even till the death of the one he claimed he loved he couldn’t let him go,” Paws said despondently, she didn't want to tell the already sorrowful couple that their child had killed himself as that would just break them more.
Besides, it wasn’t like he could find a reasonable explanation why Feral, who pronounced his love so dearly with such deep genuity that even he felt shaken would kill himself the next instant. Could it be because he wanted Genad to suffer for all he had been through? But why go to such lengths?
It also didn’t make sense why after his death the shard suddenly merged with Genad, and coupled with his constant words ‘It’s all my fault…’ Paws felt there was something deeper. That conversation Feral had with the dragon god, if only some contents of the conversation weren’t blocked off from him then maybe he could've gotten a hint…
‘I could have asked but I didn't want to seem nosy... If I can somehow connect with the dragon god then maybe he would know the answer, but the portal collapsed and… unless!’
“Mrs. Josephine I know this might sound disturbing and disheartening but there is a bigger mystery behind Feral’s death. I know because I was there when he died,” Paws suddenly said dropping the bombshell on everyone, even Zillah was surprised because Paws refused to say a single word on this!
“You were what?!”
“However before I reveal anything I need a guarantee that you will help me to the utmost to fulfill my agenda which is to find out the truth behind Feral’s death.”
“Huh?”
“I need you. Artalio has retired as king, so he has gone through the washing which prevents him from leaking any secrets and telling me what I want, I was planning to ravage the elf’s land and threaten them to spill everything they knew but after Zillah called me for tea and told me about your visit I remembered that you were once a royal.
“You know the entire secrets of the elves right? As a rogue royal, you couldn’t have gone through the cleansing right?” Paws concluded as his red eyes stared right into Josephine’s.
Both Kian and Zillah could only sit blankly in confusion with Zillah being relieved that she had obscured their conversation with magic because this wasn’t something just anyone should hear. Even the appearance of Josephine, a rogue royal of the elf was something that could be catastrophic if found out.
Luckily only the people she trusted were stationed in this area.
“I’ll tell you everything I know. From the day I chose Kian and lost Maya (her spirit animal) as a result, I had abandoned the elves and thus their oaths hold no bond over me. The mother tree doesn’t see me as her child anymore, so spilling their secrets will do me no harm,” Josephine said with a glint in her eyes, she had to know at least everything she could about the death of her child, the only one she and Kian ever had and possibly could ever have.
“Very well then, it’ll be wicked of me to hide this one thing from you any longer,” Paws said taking a deep breath as if in preparation, “Feral…”
She stopped as she glanced at the anxious faces urging her to speak. After taking a deep breath, she finally spoke,
“Feral killed himself not Genad, I’m sure of it because at that moment Genad was bleeding to his death when Feral was holding unto him… c-c-co-onf-e-esing his ehem, his love for Genad…” Paws said with difficulty, maybe she should have left out the confession.
“WHAT?!”
***
Calm dark hair, cold pale cheeks, and a pair of pretty lashes that ceased fluttering years ago. Even after so long, Genad couldn’t get enough of such a sight. He had admired his elf so much that his image burned itself into his very soul. Even till death, he was as beautiful as ever.
After his tenth sigh, Genad looked back unto the book he was studying, on it was the drawing of a huge dragon with large wings which seemed to be writhing in pain. It was the autobiography of the dragon god, everything ever known about him was there.
It took years but he finally found it, hidden within the depths of the gnome’s ruin was the biography which had somehow withstood the complete collapse and destruction of the gnome ruins. He found something odd about the book. It was attracted to him, to his new powers to be specific, and he could smell the attraction between the two.
For years, he had been researching, slinking from race to race to snatch up any clue of what had truly happened at that time. And if there was something he divulged from his research it was that his elf… had never been who he posed to be.
The words his elf said, ‘It’s all my fault’, ‘it shouldn’t be like this’, ‘I’m so sorry’, ‘he only wanted revenge…’, those words were the clues that drove him to dig into the true reality of his elf’s death.
He died by poisoning, but it was too sudden, no matter how powerful the poison was it couldn’t have been so discreet as to escape his sight while his elf was with him. which meant the poison was injected around the time he was attacked and bleeding to his death.
But his elf couldn’t have done such a thing without Paws noticing, and Paws had no reason to lie. Not to mention, although he was out of it during that moment he was very positive his elf didn’t have a chance to inject the poison, then who did?
He also tried to intercept into the karmic cycle of his elf, as that could at least give a hint to where his spirit had flown to but to his shock, it was disconnected. Everything about his elf’s spirituality was cut off as if someone purposely cut all string that could lead to his elf.
No. Someone definitely did, and he had to find that someone. Somehow, somewhere, starting from the dragon god.
“I could help you.”
A voice spoke within the space sending chills down Genad’s spine. How could someone bypass the layers of security that he had placed? Even more, how did he find this place? And worse of all, how did he do all this without once leaking his presence?
“You are?” Genad asked calmly hiding the deep turmoil within his heart.
“No need to find the dragon god, he’ll just tell you something you already know. You think even he has access to that place?” the mysterious voice continued, it was slack and extremely leisurely like he hadn’t just barged in but was rather chatting with a friend he had known for years.
“Which place?”
“Hm? You didn’t know? That corpse is nothing but a puppet, once done with she ditches it.”
“She?”
“Or maybe they?”
“What are you saying?!” Genad asked, his voice sharpening towards the end.
It chuckled deeply, “I’m saying, the person you seek is someone you never knew about. Trust me Genad, she did it to me too, she’s done it to all of us and she’ll do it again, but she’s not doing it on purpose, she’s such a clueless cute fool who needs saving. So I need your help, let’s save her and she can be all yours.”
“That’s a blatant lie,” Genad responded flatly, “You’re not planning on giving him… her up are you?”
Its smile could practically be felt within the darkness on being called out and soon he burst out into a deep laughter.
“No, of course not, but you’re still gonna help me because that’s the best decision and that’s the type of person you are.”
“Since you seem to know me so much…. Who are you?”
“Me? You can call me, Zero.”
A/N:
And at last, we meet the end of the second world! Who is this mysterious figure who calls himself Zero? How does he know about the Bureau and Dina? What problems is he formulating for the future? Will Paws, Zillah, and Feral’s parents find out the truth about Feral’s death from the dragon god or will the Bureau stop them? These are mysteries to be found out as you go on!
I literally can’t wait to begin the third word considering how am done plotting it and I promise, unlike the first two worlds, world three will be short with a maximum of twenty-something chapters!
I apologize for the hazardous publishing, school has been tough and due to my recent upcoming exams it’s become difficult handling self-study, assignments, and updates at the same time but I promise to do my very best and avoid disappointments.
Also, my discord group (which was momentarily shut off due to a lack of moderators and me the admin being too busy) will be held up for a while until am done with my exams (which will be quite far), so I can properly manage it and introduce you all into a wonderful, thriving community!
Anyway, I haven’t been up to much except studying (ugh!) and trying to keep my sanity with BL manwhas whenever I have the time. And while browsing around I’ve seen quite a good number of manwhas including, Define The Relationship, Smyrna and Capri, Dawn of the Dragon, and She is still cute today.
Define the Relationship is one the greenest (yk like red flags and green flags) manhwas I’ve ever read, it’s an omegaverse with the alpha x alpha ship. The MC is raised in a strict-as-hell family where his horrible grandfather keeps on reminding him about how inferior of an alpha he was for reasons even I don’t know.
The family is strict on keeping their blood untainted so they’re only ever allowed to marry noble omegas and until then sex is more of an obligation to avoid impregnating an unworthy person. Raised in such an atmosphere it isn’t shocking that MC stops feeling pleasured during sex and under the advice of the doctor he decides to momentarily switch to a bottom to ‘fix’ his issues which is where ML comes in.
To find out more you’d have to go read the manhwa, it’s so lovely and you’ll practically be smothered by their romance. There is angst mind you but it ain’t that much and the MC is literally the cutest you’d ever come across while the ML according to a reader, ‘breaths romance’ xd.
Smyrna and Capri is set to a royalty setting where the ML and MC are at war with MC severely weakening the ML’s troops and capturing ML. A ritual where one from the family of the MC swallows something that allows them to give birth despite being an alpha is done and somehow an escaping ML is lured in which ends up with MC getting pregnant with his child and having to keep him instead of the planned execution.
It’s a well-plotted and great manhwa which you won’t regret reading.
And lastly, Dawn of the Dragon is somewhat more convoluted, MC who happens to be a CEO (I think?) is called home because apparently, the deity, a dragon that had guided their family for years making them very prosperous suddenly declared that his bride was within the family.
Feeling sorry for his little sister who adamantly refused to be married off to some dragon, he decided to take her place mostly because he thought his parents were capping or the dragon was capping idk. Eventually, he finds out no one was capping and both his parents and the dragon were very real which leads to their strange romance. This is my second best manhwa after Define the Relationship so do check it out, guys.
Lastly, is a girls’ love book, She is still cute today, for those into that. The popular grade-topper of class 10 A who happened to be a beauty with brains is unhappy when her classmates claim that she was in a relationship with the school’s flower, her rival, a cute guy always coming in second position after her.
After trying to explain that nothing was going on between them with no luck she decides to say she was in love with the first name that came to her mind who happened to be a girl from 10 G who got the very last position in all her grade, with 4 marks for Mathematics (am also bad at Maths but damn, the girl’s creating new records y’all).
She had been so shocked by her low score that she ended up memorizing the whole thing including her name and claiming she was in love with her. The problem was that the girl heard everything and after approaching MC with a sad backstory of no one loving her (even her parents and herself, poor thing) MC couldn’t break the news and decided to be her friend instead.
Like I said it’s all fluff, only light lesbian undertones and there’s also a gay side couple in it. If you love GL, fluff, and touching relationships, this is definitely for you!
That’s it guys, I have a lot more to recommend but I’ll probably be announcing them from time to time, although if you want a direct recc from me just ask in the comment section. Thanks for all your support and don’t forget to have a great Christmas!
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