I received some big news. The assassin I had sent after Arjun Singh was killed. The assassin was gold-category to his copper! It was uber-shocking and I fainted on the spot.

When I woke up, I remembered he had killed Ice, who was my friend. He had angered all six kings in some way. I guess the prophecy is coming true:

The outsider shall vanquish the kings

Ice, Fire, Water, Sky, Lightning, and Earth

Ice shall fall against the diamond

Fire shall be overcome by arrogance

Water shall be its own bane

Sky shall lose one versus one to The Outsider

Lightning shall doom oneself

Earth, the mighty one, shall doom itself, out of closeness to doom for the outsider

The six shall merge into one great, evil, godly whole

Death shall arise

The outsider shall doom death, and shall reach the hearth in doing so

The hearth shall shift

Death shall reach Death

The outsider will reach the brink of Death

Life shall be restored

The outsider shall be eternal

The man who walks between worlds shall absorb the door

The door shall save life eternally

Monstrous death shall remain

The man who walks between worlds shall annihilate the monster of diamond

Peace shall be restored

Corruption shall be removed after peace is restored

The outsider shall prosper, with eternal work

This is a pastiche

He’s an outsider. At least it calls me the mighty one.

One of my ambassadors came back from the Earth to Sea Embassy. He told me all the kings were having a meeting in the mountains where Ice’s palace is. I just had a piece of dirt pick me up and fly there. All the kings had something like that. When I reached it, I put it in the ice stable. I went into the meeting room. Me, Fire, Water, Sky, and Lightning were there. I pulled out the piece of the prophecy that was relevant to us:

The outsider shall vanquish the kings

Ice, Fire, Water, Sky, Lightning, and Earth

Ice shall fall against the diamond

Fire shall be overcome by arrogance

Water shall be its own bane

Sky shall lose one versus one to The Outsider

Lightning shall doom oneself

Earth, the mighty one, shall doom itself, out of closeness to doom for the outsider

I said, “We need to defeat Arjun Singh. No question about that. We also need to beat our banes. Fire, arrogance. Water, yourself. Sky, combat abilities. Lightning, less diamond-category lightning bolts being used as a weapon. Me, don’t get to doom for Singh being on low health. I have to do a thorough job quickly.” Fire said, “I have to get more humble.” Water said,”I have to not commit suicide.” Sky said, “I have to train more.” Lightning said,”I also can’t commit suicide.” Water said, ”For the last one to find out and arrive, you covered the prompt well.” Fire wrote what we had to do down and gave them to us. Lightning said, “I should hit him with a lightning bolt.” He did so, but it didn’t hit, as Singh was in his rainbow house. “Meeting dismissed,” Water said. We all got on our methods of transport and went back.

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