《Broken Emperor》Chapter 53
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"What? Wh-at do you?" Starred at him Diana in a daze.
"In my past life. 15 to 20 years before the envasion of gods. Human realm. Third world war. I, a 5 year old born with perfect memory, the son of prince Aknan and princess Ari, saw my father being tortured, my mother being rapped, unable to commit suicide no matter how much they tried, in front of me over the course of 2 years, all stuck in the same room, until their bodies gave up, their eyes slowly losing the last dim of light. My parents drew their last breath 37 seconds between each other."
"The last time they spoke a word or fought back, was a year and 9 months before that. I was then sold as a slave, to rich people who loved the taste of children. I saw the kids I met on the way be used as sex slaves until they were thrown in the cell next to us, until their bodies rotted, and the wall of corpses grew as our numbers lessened."
"That was the first time I met a real angel. Out of everyone he was only visible to my eyes. But he was only there to watch my choices, not to help."
"I acted like a good boy, like a good merchandise, until i found the chance to bit the flesh out of the man's dick, the man who bought me. And as much I could do as a kid I helped other kids to flee. They were all, so small, so fragile. I don't know what took me that i took care of them, went head and leaps to hunt in the jungle we found ourselves in to get them food, help them train so they can hunt themselves. But soon we met the machinary of the armies."
"To that we were still but kids. We were sold off once again, as mercenaries and assassins. roaming the world killing and obeying under a leader we didn't know.. We were lucky to find out much later he was my grandfather, the king of the country we served."
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"The treatement didn't change even when he knew my real identity, rather he still pressed me to kill more people, as they were those who killed and tortured his son, my father. Slowly raising up the ranks as we trained desperatly under him, he was still a good king who wished to protect his people from the war."
"And I naturally took his will. Taking over when he died. I was 17 when the throne was placed on my head. Again watching the rotting dead body, of my family member, the last one. I finally managed to stop the world war in my twenties, uniting the world under my rule. I thought I finaly won. That I would finally be liberated."
"But soon enough came the so called dieties, who treated us like food and mere entertainements for their pleasure. It was also at a time where the six strongest beings in the universe and realms declared war on each other. I fought the lesser dieties, to middle ones. While some joined my ranks and my will."
"Reaching the higher realm humanity became the focus of those six, of the entire cannibal high dieties left. I fought, and I won. Then ruled all of that cosmic universe and parallel world to this one.
"I died five years after that, after guiding each one of my people, of the kings and queens I appointed. I did my best as an emperor. Then I thought I had no reason to live anymore as my duty was over."
"The strong will I built for so many years and throught those hardships, with those thoughts, took my life away. I even felt my death slowly approaching. I prepared for it. Then it came. It was, peaceful."
"I opened my eyes in front of two doors, each guarded by two angels. And there was God, whom I kneeled to as soon as I saw his heavenly majesty. The one who gave life to me."
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"I was grateful, and I never approached him for his creations' mistakes, as they had their free will."
"I asked to become a soldier. And so I became one at the order of my creator. Slowly building strenght as I grew alongside the angels. Until I finally found myself, and it was that destruction."
"I fought for millenias, in so many different universes and parallel worlds. Time is different over there. Time in that realm flows very different to this one. I could hear and see all those universes under him. I am tasked by destroying everything. For creation to start a new cycle."
"And I saw other universes. With other Gods ruling over them."
"God that created me and this world with you, stands as one of strongest 3 creators. Under him, me and my rival could actually fight all those who were under the rank 5 of those beings."
"I know it may be weird that I chose to follow him when, with the power i achieved, I could become a creator myself, chose to act under him when it is not like my character. But, he was just, like me. And I wanted to find a purpose to my life."
"He told me once that he saw a prophecy where I fought him and killed him. But he said it was because he became a tyrant. His prophecies always came true. It was one of his strenghts, one of the reasons he could sit in the three top ranks."
"He already seemed to accept his death, but he s still doing his best to not become a tyrant under the curse of the prophecy rather than kill me before I became stronger."
"He even helped me attain those heights in fear he would hurt his creations becoming what he loathed the most."
"That is also why i still chose to follow him. He was, like me, when I asked Malik to kill me if I ever became a tyrant..."
"Anyway, He told me that I will find a purpose here. Rather than that. I will find my heart, here. And so I did. And it was being your side, mother's, and my siblings'. My heart is at ease now. I will fulfill my job. And it is always, taking care of my closed ones."
"So now in this life I only have one obligation. And that is to return the favor of being reborn to the primordial god in this world, help him fight the evil god, and the being he brought from another world. Which since I was sent here, means it's a being from a world not overseen or created by our God. Another one of lower if not same status. And like me he feels like his death is approaching."
"That curse in his prophecy, must be a work done by those other creator Gods who wish him harm. It may also be related to the being summoned here."
"Ha, not as my creator, but as a ruler like him, as a man like him, I don't want him to lose that spark and love that I don't have and can't show for my people, rather than die to the plot of others. We're like two sides of the same coin. And I am hoping to change that prophecy. No, I will."
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I mean, if you are Mozart or even Eminem, your jam session is good enough to sell, but for an amateur beginner like myself, haha, no. If I want to publish something, I feel like I need to go the proper route of practice and rehearsals, which might be more similar to a classical concert performance. With SSA, I work from worldbuilding notes and a loose outline, but what you are essentially getting is the first draft with lots of so-called pantsing. Pushing out a web novel like this also means it is very difficult to go back and improve things without breaking everything else downstream. I wanted to try this "jamming" approach, as it was a good way to teach me about another aspect of writing, but to move forward, I think I need to hone my "classical" techniques, which emphasize rewriting, or at least, revising outlines. 3) While I intend to try to make $$$, my actual current goal is to "get gud". I've spent a lot of time recently trying to understand the self-publishing industry, and I'm pretty sure I can make some money by using short-term strategies with my current amateur skill level. But I've seen too many authors come and go/burnout, and really, the only way that I think I can enjoy writing and still make money on a long-term basis is to become a better writer. And the next step for me, which I haven't done much before, is to spend more time on rewriting and outlines. That is pretty much antithetical to the way SSA is developing. I've always been kind of 20/80 plotting/pantsing, but I want to spend a lot more time outlining before I even start writing. SSA jam sessions don't really fit my goal anymore. If you're curious about what's next, read on... Among other regrets, I regret not finishing SSA. It's the first story I've dropped, but then again, it's the first web novel I've attempted, so I suppose that's not a surprise. I don't think traditional web novel formats suit me that well. The whole SSA story I had loosely planned (beyond a first book or major arc) is way too large as well. Big story = good for neverending webnovel with Patreons, bad for penniless and fickle writer like me. I am currently outlining a complete trilogy to another story in great detail. I want the story to end concisely, and I also want the chance to really spend a lot of time on the full outline to spot pacing problems, character issues, lost themes, and so on. I'll still share this story on RR. What I intend to do is finish book 1, flash-publish the whole thing here for a few weeks, then publish on the big Zon. Repeat for books 2 and 3. The upcoming story will be about crafting heroes. The backdrop is an isekai-like setting, where elves will summon humans to their world as heroes, but the whole hero crafting business is still in its infancy. The elven mage researchers are figuring out how to imbue heroes with power, while the heroes are trying to figure out how to use the powers that they gain. Humans are the best hero templates because they are blank and have no intrinsic magic. Or at least that what the elves thought. The human MC has his own secrets... There will be some similarities with litrpgs, but I would call it more a progression fantasy or gamelit story. For example, the stats are very low, at least initially. Say we have a stat called Str. Going from Str = 1 to Str = 2 is a huge deal. Also, going from Dex = 0 to Dex = 1 is an even bigger deal. I guess you could call it a "low-stat litrpg", haha. Also, the heroes won't be gaining stats simply by killing things or leveling up. You can't increase stats arbitrarily, either. There will be rules to how stats can increase, and how they work with each other. The elven mages will be figuring out these rules in order to craft stronger and stronger heroes. 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