Chapter 280

Unknown POV

Exile teaches you two things. How to wait… And how to hate without wasting energy.

I learned both very well.

The demon realm stood endlessly before me with broken lands and hollow skies that most would call a prison but I call it preparation. Every shadow and creature here bends differently, every creature either hunts or hides. I did both… until I became something none of them could touch.

For centuries, I was forgotten. Or at least… that’s what my dear brother believed. He thought I was gone forever. Little did he know that I went back to make enough preparations.

A faint ripple cuts through the air behind me. I don’t turn immediately. I let it come closer, let it hesitate, let it remember who I am before it speaks.

“My lord…” the messeng