Dimensional Descent

Chapter 766 - Armageddon

Even long after he had left Leonel, Elthor still felt his heart pounding. For the first time, even as a Prince, he felt as though he should bow down to a knee before a man.

He had never felt such emotion before, not even before his own father. Somewhere deep inside, he had already admitted to himself that if the Oryx and The General were to fight, even if they gained small advantages in the beginning, even if it seemed that The General might lose, in the end, it would be they who ultimately suffered.

Elthor clenched his fists.

He had never really wanted to be Prince in his life, this was why he had always been happy to be born third. He was content to allow his elder brothers to take the reins. All he wanted to be was a powerful warrior… The most powerful.

However, the day his Third Eye was awakened, it all changed. The looks his father gave him shifted from love and a doting adoration to looked of expectation, hope, and pride.

It was the kind of look Elthor had always wanted to see, but he had wanted to see them for the sake of support toward him chasing his own dreams. He wanted to be the spearhead that finally unified their world under one banner… He didn't want to be the Ruler that did so.

Unfortunately, his father didn't see things this way. To the King of the Oryx, there was no greater strength than to be King.

This sort of philosophy thrust Elthor to the forefront and created a tension between him as his eldest brothers. The favoritism his father showed couldn't have been more obvious. It didn't matter how much he said he only wanted to be a Knight under their charge, it didn't seem to change anything.

It was then he began to hear stories of The General.

At first, it was just a small blip on their Kingdom's radar. This wasn't the first time the people of the Human Kingdom had rebelled.

But, this time turned out to be different. Two years later, it seemed that they might really fall…

finally learned of why his father placed so much hope in him, of why he was willing to risk ripping their family apart for the sake of pushing him to ascend the throne… of the fear that had gripped his

heart for so long only showed Elthor more of why he didn't want

hope for so many, being

didn't want

heart's content, to let his strength quake the earth, shake the skies and sunder the

Elthor learned something that could make his eyes lock with

of being that warrior,

deity of the battlefield, that existence who could make an opposing army quake with nothing more than a roar… He needed a banner to fly under, a might to grow beneath, a King to

to pass on his burdens. His brothers weren't that King either, they had already allowed

almost perfect in

by following a man who was so close to his ideal, he just might

months… I can

…

an incomparably calm expression on his

He felt as though he was even calmer than he had been

following him for the longest of the

it was slowly awakening as though a slumbering

…

to tick by. And, soon, a

conversation with Elthor to his lieutenants. Rather, they

seemed to constrict the once