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The Blood Drenched Rock has been waiting for this day ever since that foolish brat Cale Henituse had claimed his power then sealed him away. He has been waiting for the first time that the new user of this power would try to draw on it.
Originally, he had been planning on punishing Cale Henituse for rejecting his power. The plan had been to resist the brat when he tried to use this power, and were things otherwise that is exactly what he would have done.
Unfortunately, situation had changed and now that the day has finally arrived his previous plans had to be set aside.
That is because he has been paying attention all this time, he knows why the brat is finally calling on him.
Cale Henituse wants to use his power to fighting against the Usurper. The insolent brat is fighting against the fraud who had stolen his name.
Oh, how he had raged when he had first realize what that arrogant imposter was trying to do!
It was intolerable! It was unforgivable!
The man actually thought that, just because he managed to shed his mortality through cheap trickery, he is worthy to follow the path I laid out. He thinks that, even when his so called immortality is just a fluke exploited in the power of a higher being? It’s disgusting! The creature is a cursed existence, even death rejects him!
He isn’t worthy! Yet he still dares sully my legacy and usurp my name!
He dares to believed that he can stand on equal footing with me?
Me, who reigned for decades over all the lands under the sun. The one who’s will nature itself bowed down to and all living things trembled before! I was the one who ascended to heights no other man dared aspire to reach! And this vile usurper dares to chase after me?
It cannot be tolerated. He would make this so called ‘White Star’ rue the day that he first learned his name!
For this he will even lend the brat who had rejected his power aid.
Cale Henituse at least shares his hatred for the usurper.
Yes, that is the way! He will put this brat to work. Cale Henituse could pay for the sin of rejecting him by ridding the world of the Usurper.
He would pour out his power and use this fool to show them all! He will make this world run red once more!
This brat can see what true power tastes like! I will show him the power he turned away. Perhaps the experience might even spark something within the fool.
The brat may lack ambition but he can’t deny that Cale Henituse has potential. Even the dragon’s acknowledge him after all.
It’s laughable really. A thousand years of life and the usurper still struggles agains Cale Henituse.
This brat may be lacking but at least he knows better than to play right into the sealed god’s hand. Perhaps his mind has gotten scrambled from living so long under a god’s curse. Did the usurper not realize that it was best to just string the wretched creature along with offerings and empty promises of eventual freedom? He already has the power of the sky. Why bother to actually serve such a weak god? Even if is is planning to swallow up the sealed god in the end, what purpose would defeating a crippled god serve anyway.? What satisfaction could doing something like that bring?
Back when he was alive, he brought nature under his heel. He had climbed to the heights of the gods. He hadn’t needed to stoop down to hunting such a weak god to fight with. No, the gods had all sent there precious ones after him, such was his power. Those mighty existences had been driven to such lengths by his strength. He had frightened them! Made them worry!
It’s almost pitiful that the usurper not understand what dragging the sealed god down to the level of mortals and killing him at his weakest actually means. Such an achievement is little better than an admission that actually rising to the heights of the the heavens was beyond him.
Someone like this is not worthy of path of the True White Star! If it is a choice between these two people who have collected the powers of nature, than the brat is more worthy to be his successor. At least Cale Henituse would know better.
More importantly, the brat also has the knack for bending the world to his will. This so called White Star, a man who treats the world like some clever instrument that must be played, he will never understand true power no matter how strong he grows. The man is little better than a mimic! Hundreds of years to track down his old powers and the brat had still managed to get the most important things first. And that on top of subjugated the powers of my old enemies.
There is a sort of poetry in that fact when he thinks on it.
The brat had even managed to find the power of that wretched guardian of bolder. Yes, this person had collected the power of all his most frustrating opponents. It would be an entirely different matter if Cale Henituse were to succeed him…
Actually he likes the idea the more he thinks about it.
If Cale Henituse became the heir to his legacy he will have won that long ago battle at last. Those fools who had defied him would have died for nothing and his successor could use the very power that they had left behind to following his footsteps.
And this time He would be the long forgotten God whose power was borrowed!
Yes! If he lent Cale Henituse his strength. My power along with the others the brat has already gathered we can bring this world to its knees. They will have no choice but to revere him! It won’t even matter if the brat lacks ambition, especially if we destroy the usurper who stole my other powers!
Yes, that is the way! It like fate! He can practically see is it shining red just the way it had when seen with the power of wood he once possessed.
The world will bow down once more, but it won’t be to that narrow minded mimic. It will bow to the person of my choosing, just as it once bowed to me.
And how appropriate, that the first use of his power the world will see in ten thousand years will mark the defeat of the insolent usurper.
Happily, he pours out his power.
He can still remember his own first taste of this power, that had been the moment which had truly started him on the path to greatness.
He will give that same moment to Cale Henituse and he will stain the usurpers world red with blood and fear while doing so.
Cale Henituse will learn, it’s only a matter of time. Starting now he will make this brat his successor.