Chapter 240 - ALI MINI THEATRER Side Story 13

Sometimes, even heaven couldn't escape the clutches of fate…

"The thousandth Immortal War had ended. Czernobog's minions had been successfully pushed back to the depths of hell by the mortals."

Perun, the King of Heaven raised a brow at the report. He sat on the throne in the great hall – had been sitting there for most of the day as he waited for the result of the battle in the mortal realm.

It had been a thousand years since he had personally sealed Czernobog in the abyss where he remained. Every fifty years when the seal he had placed weakened, the old coot still dared and tried to break free or cause chaos above by sending his minions instead.

Undead, dark elemental beasts, shadow lurkers and all other creatures of darkness were able to go through the seal and roam the ground above and cause pandemonium. However, only the second Immortal War, fifty years after the Black God was sealed by him, caused a lot of casualties, and the rest were mostly like policing unruly beasts.

Why?

Because Stribog had this wild idea that deities would descend from the celestial plane to mingle with humans to create demigods to protect the world. With celestial blood running through those people's veins, they were able to tap into their divine inheritance and use that power to suppress the forces of Czernobog themselves.

With this, the deities didn't have to descend anymore. The people from the mortal plane could protect themselves. The different gods descended and established kingdoms below with their offspring on the throne. Kres, Ovid, Dhaliah, Cilan, and many other countries – they were created and blessed by the deities.

However, despite all the other Gods creating offspring with humans below – even that uptight Kresnik at Stribog's insistence, Perun had never done so.

Why?

Because he already had a wife and children in the celestial plane – someone he married when he ascended the throne many centuries ago. Instead of having another child, Perun descended to the mortal plane bringing two of his children. His child became the first king of Ritz, the country of lightning, and the other, the king of Cilan, the country of Ice.

However, descending had made his marriage rocky. His deity wife was a very jealous woman, and so she had accused Perun of infidelity while in the mortal plane. Even if he had explained so many times that this was not the case, the woman only found another bone to contend with. She became jealous of her own children since he paid close attention to Ritz and Cilan.

Because of this, his wife did something unforgivable. She decided to destroy the mortal plane and plotted behind his back. She had sought the Black God and had colluded with him, even lending him her powers. As a result, this thousandth Immortal War was a lot fiercer than usual. It was as chaotic as the first Immortal War in which Perun himself had fought the Black God himself.

"And Fanya?"

Perun's face darkened as he mentioned his wife, and the soldier gulped before he continued with his report.

"The Queen's been caught and is now locked in her chamber."

With this, Perun exhaled sharply. He was beyond angry. The years of contention with his wife had taken its toll on his emotions. What little consideration he had for the woman who had borne his children was now depleted.

Perun stood up and wordlessly marched outside of the great hall towards the room where the guards had detained his wife. As soon as he reached it, the soldiers standing guard outside the door stepped aside to let him pass.

He pushed open the door and stepped into the chamber only to be welcomed by a flying goblet to his face which he caught before it hit.

"How dare you imprison me here!" the woman who looked wild like a banshee screeched at him. "How dare you drag me back in this place!"

Fanya was caught in the midst of the fight. She had rallied behind the dark beasts and was apprehended after her army was defeated. Gone was her beauty, replaced by a fierce look with wicked lines becoming permanent over the years. She was an evil woman and it showed.

"I dare because I am the king!" Perun snapped, making the woman stop and stare at him just as he stared at her: with hate.

"Oh?  So what is the king going to do with me?" she challenged.

Over the years of arguing with her husband, he had always been lenient with her – tolerated her. She now acted like he wouldn't dare do anything to her as he always had.

But she was wrong.

Fanya had committed treason. She not only betrayed him, but she had also betrayed all of heaven.

"Death," Perun informed her smoothly. "There is nothing that awaits you but death."

Hearing this, Fanya only broke into laughter. "Do you think the twins will let you kill their mother?"

The twins were their sons, the kings of Ritz and Cilan.

"You mean the mother who almost got them murdered?"Perun countered. "There is no love lost between your children and you, as I to you."

"YOU!"

It was the first time Perun had told her that he never loved her to her face and she was beyond shocked.

"Why are you surprised? I have tried my best to love you. But you are too vile to waste any emotions upon."

Perun's voice sliced through her one word after another, making her slide slowly on the floor. The thing that she was afraid the most, the thing that she was very paranoid about was her husband not loving her – and she was right.

"I knew it," she told him, the three words justifying all her misconduct in her head.

"You will be sentenced and put to death tomorrow. All your sins will be paid in full," Perun informed her before he turned to leave.

But before he could even reach the door, she called out to him.

"Do you think this is over? Do you think that your suffering will end with my death?" she asked mockingly before letting out a peal of crazed laughter. "You are wrong. I'm not finished with you yet. You haven't seen everything I had prepared for you."

Perun turned to her with a fierce glare. "No matter what you say, woman, you are finished."

"It doesn't matter if you believe me or not. You will see Perun. You will suffer. You will suffer for not loving me!"

Her voice came out as a shrill, menacing threat as she continued. "You will fall in love – and when you do, you will die a million times inside just as I did. No matter how much you struggle, it will never end, and your beloved mortal world will be crushed into pieces before you."

Perun stared at her coldly. "Rest in peace," he told her before turning his back on her and walking away from her life forever.

However, just as she had predicted, years after the Immortal War had ended, Perun had descended to the mortal plane to check his children and met Shitara, the wife whom he really fell in love with – the mother of Alencica, the child of catastrophe.