Chapter 317. You Called That Rat a God

ZACK

Another night was beginning to unfold, another night in which I would not be able to sleep. I smiled, looking up at the stars. It was perhaps the most beautiful place in the world, any place where you could look up at the sky. I felt alive, I felt alive every minute that passed.

Only someone who has been dead once can live like this, with such intensity.

“I pray that you will answer me, great Tachje, your silence is wearing me down,” I murmured, looking at the stars.

I did not lack faith, but I did lack patience. This uncertainty was taking its toll on the kingdom, because everyone was going to start feeling that power no longer lay with me, that Tachje was going to the other side, to where my brother was.

Jacob. Thinking about Jacob was always confusing for me. The image of him driving his sword through me, killing me, was the last thing my eyes remembered from my previous life. His betrayal, his murderous look.

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