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The rise of a sovereign

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What make one a "good sovereign" ? Is it to treat you people with justice? or perhaps by protecting them in times of need? or by giving them a space to live? or ... there are many "or" Let's follow Belzebuth through his journey to being a sovereign. Thought being good or bad? we'll seefor ourselves
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Chapter 1 - Chapter 01 : calamity?

In the capital of the kingdom of Lunaris known as Aetheris, in the palace of the Alvarya, the queen of the Alaryan, Zyphora Alvarya, is giving birth to twins, her third and fourth children.

[Congratulation your majesty! They are a twin of healthy babies! And the condition of the Queen is really good] Congratulated the nurse, her eyes half closed to a beautiful crescent. To the king who was waiting at the door anxiously.

[Let me see them, hurry!] The king said happily. [Who is the elder?]

[Oh, I think it was the sister.]

[Then, you will be Azariel… Azariel Alvarya.] Said the king holding his daughter. A smile gracing his face. Then he turns to his son.

[As for you, your name shall be…. Belzebuth…. Belzebuth Alvarya.]

Just after the king, Lucifer Alvarya, their father, named the last child, something happened, he caught a glimpse of the future.

Clang clang clang

Crash crash BOOM

A village appeared in his field of vision. There is a heavy scent of iron, clang of sword colliding, and the sound of flesh being pierced and slashed, endless river of blood was coming out of the village.

[HELP, SOMEONE PLEASE HEL-AAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaa] A young Alvaryan man shouted before a solider clad in black armor cleaved trought his neck.

[Hahahahaha, since you dared to proclaim yourselve as the number one clan, how can you all be so weak!?] Mocked the solider before going to his next target.

[N-NO…. PLEASE STOP NOT MY CHILD!!!!] Now it was a young mother who appeared her eyes are red as she tried to stop the solider from harming a little boy who seems to be her child.

Again, the scene changed.

FUOSH an enormous amount of magical power surged toward some place forming what seemed to be an enormous spear conjured by six or seven people. It was aimed toward a single being, a being the like of wich were those in the myth of the Alvarya clan. And as the spear was some distance of the being, the scene changed again.

Now the scene depict a dilapidated throne room with the bloodied corpse combining into a little mountain and in the depth of the room, there was a being sitting in a shattered throne, with six deep and unfeeling cold red eyes. He is shrouded with a desolate and death like aura, even space-time was distorting in the surrounding, as if fearful of disturbing this being.

[Mother, Father, everyone, I wish you eternal peace in your rest. As I've avenged you all.] Said the being with a little seemed of humanity left within it. Then his eyes turned to glance at the king in the eyes as if he could see him directly. [Unfortunately, it seems that I'm unable to change the past.]

With that the vision stopped, after waking up from the vision, the king grasped for air, his face contorted. His wife has been surprised after seeing him like this so she asked worryedly.

[Are you alright dear?]

[I-I'm alright] He replied, his mouth dry, cold sweat driped his back, as he stared straight at his son, who seemed to emanate a desolated for a moment.

[It seems like the era of peace has come to an end.] He sighed; his eye lost some of their luster. But he still harbored some hope. Then he turned to his wife and began to describe what he saw.

[I…. I see. Then, what have you decided to do?]

[I…. I plan to send one of the twins to a village at the border to Ignavora.] Said Lucifer Alvarya. [At least to let one of our family members survive since no one know that they are twin apart from you and me and the nurse, what do you think?]

[I-I don't know, is he going to be alright?]

[Don't worry, I'll send my trust subordinate to protect him.]

After deciding so, he called one of his trusted subordinates and ask him to take his son to the village of Oakvale and so a man with almost no presence at all appear before him his name is Dagura he is an assassin under the king and the most cut to the protection of his son.

[Dagura, I hereby order you, take my son to the village of Oakvale, and find someone that you judge been able to take care of him and protect him at all cost]

[Understood, your majesty you can count on me. I, Dagura will protect the prince Belzebuth at the cost of my life it is needed]

So, after his order so his subordinate has taken his leave and have gone to the village of Oakvale. After he arrived at the village after a trip of only three days, he begins to search someone suitable to take care of the prince. He saw many families, but there was something that miss within them all, and that is that these families don't seems to be wanting another child; the cause of this is that they were already just having good life with at most two children, anymore and they wouldn't be able to sustain themselves. He then saw that there were some houses were couples with their families, who were mourning their lost child after being sick because of an unknown reason. Dagura then saw people dispatched from the capital to investigate the cause of this occurrence. He then found the leader of this expedition, and show him his insignia as a people of the king. He then disguised and assume to be someone who was being dispatched to investigate the cause of the death of some child in the village.

As it turns out, it was the Sepulchral Shade. The Sepulchral Shade is a rare and mysterious disease that primarily affects infants and young children. It is caused by a dark energy or an ancient curse, manifesting as a subtle, black mist that is invisible to the naked eye. This mist usually spreads at night around cursed areas or places where tragic events or forbidden rituals have taken place. After much investigation, they discovered that there was a cursed artifact sealed in the cemetery of the village. This cemetery is said to have been there since a long time already, and there were many tombstones there. The largest of these gravestones, presented a mechanism where it opens a hole in the middle of it. And inside lay a dark pearl that pulsate like a heart, and surrounded by a formation that is slowly fading away. It seems like as the time had passed, the power of the formation has been degrading, and it is now in the verge of completely dissipating. After discovering it, Dagura then decides to send a message to the palace about this artifact, so that they can send some people to cleanse the village of the Sepulchral Shade. After four days of waiting, the people of the palace arrived at the village of Oakvale, they moved the pulsating pearl to a box with a new sealing formation and took it away to the palace to be guarded and to find its purpose. The expedition's people also returned with them.

A week after that he then decide to leave the prince in the care of a couple, he saw some day after he arrived in the village. He placed then Belzebuth in a bunk on the foot of the door of the couple and tinkle at the door, after the man open the door, he didn't saw anyone and was going to close the door but at that time he saw a bunk in the ground and that there was a baby in there. He was in a daze for a moment before he took the baby in his arm and enter the house, as the baby start crying. His wife, seeing the baby crying in the hand of her husband, dashed to him to nurse the baby despite not knowing anything about him, maybe because of her material instinct being stimulated by the appearance of a baby after losing hers. So even knowing that this child isn't her own she would still treat him like her son. After some time, the man noticed an embroidery in the clothes of the baby, it was the name of the baby "Belzebuth". Thus, they decided to raise the baby as if he was theirs without restrain.

During the month after that, Dagura has protect Belzebuth in the shadow without being caught by anyone, after a month he decided to live in the village after buying a house and working as a guard, the mayor of the village being an acquaintance of the king and someone he can trust, Dagura has received the permission from his king to reveal to him his identity, thus Dagura can follow him when he goes outside the village to protect him.