My Substitute CEO Bride (Nash Calcraft)

Chapter 2018

In the palace ruins of Yerusia, the pope was staring incredulously at Sven, who was holding the staff. He gritted his teeth, not yet realizing the severity of the situation. "How is this possible? Why can't I reclaim my staff? Who are you?!" the pope roared as he unleashed a bolt of lightning toward Sven.

Sven raised the staff, and the lightning obeyed his command, striking the pope instead.

"This is impossible!"

The pope tried desperately to dodge while also defending against Torah's attacks. He was starting to feel overwhelmed.

Seeing this, Sven immediately rushed toward the pope and returned the favor, plunging the staff into his body. Then, Sven summoned otherworldly fire to attack the pope. The pope was shocked.

"You! You're a Shura!"

Sven smirked triumphantly.

"Yes, thanks to you, I've regained my clan's divine artifact-the Shura Divine Staff!"

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leadership of two particular figures, Shuras rose up in rebellion. They managed to reclaim two divine artifacts, but at the same time, one of the leaders was suddenly overwhelmed by the artifact's backlash and went berserk. His crazed actions quickly shattered the unity of their forces, and he was captured for experimentation. That person was Ace. The gods were interested in the bodies of Shuras because their anatomy was vastly different from that of gods or

gods' most favored tool. He was left with nothing but the desire to kill, which burned in

opportunity to escape the Divine Territory. He fled to the East and

curse of

affect

beloved and the passing of his descendants. Realizing he could never fully integrate into human society he retreated to the peak of

including his soul and memories, into another person and then remained dormant within that person's body. This way, he could achieve the death that he longed for. The old man waited for s years

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me! Against the injustices of this world, I shall bring down punishment!"

seethed. "Insignificant ants!" His body began to compress and

The orb flew into the sky with wind and clouds swirling

the clouds, a massive hand formed from storm clouds appeared before descending toward

exerted all their strength to halt the hand's descent. Despite their efforts, they could

palace turned

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