Chapter 867 - 867 81
Indeed, it was a surreal experience in watching my own life replay before my eyes. I particularly rewound those special moments i spent with my family.
I stood there, motionless and barely breathing, as i watched the happy memories of my past. Time seemed inconsequential and before i knew it, more than a month had passed me by.
There was a struggle battling within me. Whether to relive this again today or shall i reveal my true self to them in this timeline.
But as the moments ticked to seconds and created minutes without my notice, i knew that it was a lost cause once again.
"I guess it was time to hide behind a mask once more." I sighed.
"BANG!" a revolution of ice and matter appeared out of nowhere. They started off in chaotic forms as if unmolded yet by the hands of its maker.
But as breaths were given and forgotten, a number of shapes took form. Hair, brows, eyes, nose, and their distinctive physiques stilled under my close inspection.
And a full minute of their inception, the majority opened their eyes for the first time.
"Hmmm... Did you miss me, my darling conqueror?" a woman asked me. No words could justify her beauty as that alone would be a blatant offense to her incomparable persona.
Even as she was now, powerless and a mortal worm, this daughter of heaven still acted like a queen in the confines of her throne.
She walked towards me while the rest was content on keeping their silence as they neither moved nor uttered a word out in the same breath as this woman.
"It's been a while, Alwyn." i smiled at the most exotic prize amongst my women.
"Yes, indeed." she had a smile of her own before she did what i expected of her.
"PA!"
"PA!"
Two stinging slaps resounded and I did nothing but grinned at her actions. The queen was back it seemed and I would take her back to the top and beyond to what this world could offer her.
* * *
The targets that she had hit were unfazed. Their cheeks hadn't even reddened by the trivial touch. It would funny indeed if that would happen because Alwyn was a mere mortal at this moment.
No amount of physical force could damage the hardened visage of my captured Immortal Saints. I looked at her as she did the same to me.
My queen was aware enough that as she was now, i won't accept her caress. Not in the slightest bit. I abhorred weakness more than anything else.
And i had made sure that everyone around me knew of that unassailable truth from the very start of their service.
"Why the sour mood? All of you." i ranged my eyes to the rest of my bitches and smiled openly at their hesitation.
Though every single one of them were mortal ants right now, where no one had the scales tipped towards their favor, yet each of these cunts were mindful enough to give way to their past queen.
The time that Alwyn had stepped upon their heads was both hard and long. An experience that cannot be forgotten just with a mere wish and an ambitious thought.
"Come." I said and proceeded to walk deeper inside this ephemeral domain. The bitches followed me save Lucia and Lorelei.
They stilled there as guardians to the four that has yet to awaken in their dreamless slumber. We arrived at a larger expanse of the building where there were men and women stored like animals.
They were living inside cages and though they appeared pleasing to the eyes, but they looked at us akin to soulless creatures. Emptied out of hope and sorrow.
They existed and that was the only fact of the matter. I reckoned that these were the ones who were abused to sate the lust of the recent inhabitants of this hellhole.
* * *
They wore no visible scars but what hid beneath the facade of perfection was a retched sight that would churn the bellies of any sane person.
It made me smile once more at the creativity and cruelty of humanity.
"Can you see them?" i asked. And no one uttered a word back. I turned around to examine my priceless pieces.
Mellisa.
Faith.
Amber.
Anastasia.
Daisy.
Beatrice.
Candice.
And the lady at their front, Alwyn.
Of course there were millions more of them along the eons but resurrecting the whole lot of them would be boring.
After all, they were nothing but lines and circles programmed inside the data of computers. It was much more fun to search and play with new ones.
But this 8 were the best among them all and seven of them had shared the first meaningful century of my life. Alwyn may have been the odd one out but she was also the toughest amongst them all.
I took pride in my select picks for a few breaths before i continued.
"How long have you waited within those boxes of reality?"
"Too long, darling." Alwyn whispered. I was happy by her performance. With the eons that flashed by after i left, this one was unflinching even at the heartless passage of time.
She held the reins of power and slaughtered all the dissidents against my name. Alwyn did not forget that i may be gone for a time but that may be only temporary.
She had believed that possibility to the end. That I might return in victorious conquest even if the tides were against me. And she was right in her trust. A worthy queen indeed.
"Come to me. Alwyn." i offered a hand out and she hesitated not this time around. She reached for it until our palms clasped. With my eyes unto her, i gently raised her chin up.
Her face was divine but more than that, it was her firm dao heart that moved me. An inch later and our lips touched. It was a chaste one.. A prelude for more.