"Praise the God of Mars!"
The chorus of adulations echoed around, causing Xīmí to shake his head with unrestrained joy.
At last, his child had made something of himself!
Indra blinked, a faint smile forming on his face.
He looked upward.
Above the vast expanse of the starry sky, the sun, moon, and planets like gold, wood, fire, earth, Rahu, and Ketu all twinkled, orbiting in a perpetual ring. It seemed now only Mercury was missing.
No sooner had this thought crossed Indra's mind,
Than he blinked and suddenly felt a surge of Curse Power descending from the heavens, entangling him in an instant and bringing with it a wave of misfortune as if to doom him to bad luck.
But swiftly this power was suppressed by the auspicious force of Goddess Lakshmi within him.
What the hell?
"Hm?"
"Who cast this curse?"
Indra furrowed his brow, taking a step back and said.
