Had an amazing life, and a powerful empire, what more would a person want? I had everything money, respect,
loyal subjects, or so I thought.
Darwin Alexway, ruler of the Eternal Dreamer Empire. After a war, due to being severely wounded was taken to the doctor.
In the medical room, the knight looked at me asking for my approval to leave as the doctor wished for him to. I simply nodded as I was unable to speak. "Because of your negligence and trust in the doctor chosen by your first borne, your actions of not making the first prince the crown prince can be counted as courting death as my master desires the throne very dearly." After the doctor said this, my brain was assaulted with some sort of power to which I couldn't show resistance and my vision slowly faded as my life was slowly drained away, but before dying I saw a symbol, of a star being pierced by a black line which looked like a comet's tail, on the doctor's arm.
My life flashed before my eyes.
Before dying, I was in a world where there was an abundance of a special type of Kinetic Energy that we could harness to run factories, mills, shops, powerhouses, light bulbs, etc., but, the interesting thing was that we could even use it to strengthen our bodies and make our attacks more powerful.
While we were able to harness this energy, the beasts were able to do the same so they gave our settlers trouble. To prevent this, some portion of the military was always on the enormous walls that stood tall as they protected us from the seemingly endless invasions of beasts ranging from the smallest poisonous bugs to the largest disaster-spelling death harbingers. While dealing with all this the kingdoms also had to deal with the attacks of other kingdoms. With all this happening how could an emperor of such a large empire as mine have time to rest?
With all of these conflicts outside I could barely concentrate on the empire's administration. This led to corrupted individuals joining the ranks of the empire. An example of this is the doctor who murdered me. He was most probably set into this position by one of my hairs for obtaining the throne. One would wonder why would I doubt my own child so easily, well these so-called children of mine were greedy for power. They were always fighting for the crown. With this, although I was worried about what would happen once I gave up my position as emperor, I could not give this matter time because of conflicts with my brother's empire, the largest empire.
My brother didn't like me since the beginning of our childhood, because I had more talent than him, father had made me the crown prince of the empire. I received all the affection, all the attention, and while this was happening my brother kept sinking into darkness. On a fateful night, he murdered our parents.
He had more supporters as he had been preparing for this scenario for a long time.
Due to the internal conflicts, the empire was divided into two. He got most of the empire and I got only about 20%.
Over the year I had managed to cover the losses and make my empire rise, now my empire is only second to my brother's.
Rion, my brother, seeing my progress, predicted that I would soon become a threat to his position, so, he decided to weed out the problem while it had not spread. He started attacking my empire. All those innocent lives massacred, all those crippled, all those in pain, were not able to do anything.
After this, I abandoned the thought that Rion could ever change, I attacked his empire, and won, but came back heavily injured.
When my consciousness started fading I noticed an energy, it was not Kinetic Energy, it was something else entirely. As for what it was? I don't know and as I think I would never know, the last bits of my consciousness and life were drained away.
I was in a place as dark as a night with no moon and stars, but suddenly I heard a soothing voice.
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