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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West saw them as cost-free research material and repeatedly tormented them. Until one day, under the 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 demons. Just like humans and their experiments, the

most favored tool. He was left with nothing but the desire

seized the chaos as an opportunity to escape the Divine Territory. He fled

curse

to affect him.

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

person and then remained dormant within that person's body. This way, he could achieve the death that he

...

staff answers to me! Against the injustices of this world, I shall bring

His body began to compress and expand violently. "I

red orb of light. The orb flew into the sky with wind and clouds swirling around it. Everything in its wake was swept up before it

hand formed from storm clouds appeared before descending toward

exerted all their strength to halt the

entire palace

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