Episode 1

My concern is evident when questioning Zoe's decision. "Are you sure rejecting your soulmate was the right thing to do? Even if I don't like iGnar, he is your soulmate." Her gaunt face, a testament to the pain and tears shed, confirms the anguish of her choice. For us, the supernatural, finding our soulmate is the pinnacle of existence; losing them means a condemnation to perpetual loneliness.

A gasping breath preceded the words. "Yes, brother." She managed to say, although the tension in her jaw and the watery sheen clouding her eyes betray the emotional storm she is trying to contain. Each syllable seems to scratch her throat, barely holding back the imminent cry.

"I wanted to believe in iGnar, to give him the opportunity to prove that he was not like those warlocks devoured by darkness." Zoe's voice broke, and the impulse to hug her invaded me, a vain attempt to console the void left by the rejection of the soulmate, a wound that is incurable if fate binds you to someone who does not deserve you.

"But he... he turned out to be the worst nightmare among warlocks. His acts are aberrant, repulsive. I cannot conceive of my life tied to a despicable being who delights in the suffering of others, abusing young people, murdering..." My embrace intensified, and the air got stuck in my throat as I listened to my sister's words. Now I understand. Such a being does not deserve a soulmate. The mere thought of imagining her by his side makes my stomach churn. Why did the gods... why did they unite her destiny with such a monster? The pain she must have felt upon discovering the truth... is unbearable.

"I would give my last breath, sister, to tear you away from this suffering, to save you from this agony. I am so sorry." The words burn in my throat, insufficient, useless. A powerless rage engulfs me for not being able to erase her pain, for the cruel irony that her soulmate, the one she gave an opportunity to break the cycle of evil of his lineage, had chosen to be even worse, shattering her.

"I know, brother." Her voice trembles, fighting back tears.

"But you can't protect me from everything, and this... this I must face alone. I gave every last fiber of my being to make it work with iGnar, defying our lineages, ignoring the shadow that haunts his. I wanted to show him the light of a life based on love, respect, empathy... pure kindness. But my love was not enough. He chose the darkness. And although my soul recognized him as its other half, rejecting him was my only salvation so as not to end up getting lost in his darkness." Seeing her like that, defeated, with the light of her joy extinguished by a man who scorned her devotion, tears my soul apart.

The days slipped by one after another, and my attention remained fixed on my sister. Although I know of her effort to emerge from the shadow left by the loss of her soulmate, improvement refused to come into her life. Every sunrise I found her more dejected, her figure thinner with a palpable sadness, and the deep dark circles under her eyes are the silent testimony of sleepless nights and shed tears. However, I never imagined the dizzying fall that still awaited us, until that unexpected day arrived, the most painful that would mark my existence.

"Your Majesty... the princess has disappeared." The phrase from one of my sister's escort mages hit like a blow, stopping my heart. The air thickened in my lungs as my mind refused to process his words. It can't be, I repeated to myself, she is in the garden, enjoying her morning walk. This... this must be a terrible mistake.

"The princess... disappeared?" I managed to articulate, composure barely recovered after the whirlwind of words from the mage who burst into my office. A destructive fury ran through me instantly, the image of my sister in danger igniting a powerless rage for not being by her side to protect her.

"We were guarding the door to her room when a dull thud echoed from inside, followed immediately by her sister's heartbreaking scream. Upon bursting in, a thick dark smoke enveloped everything, suffocating the light and the air." My fists clenched with fury as I listened to the mage's explanation, the truth warming my blood: the damned one who called himself her soulmate... has taken her.

"Mobilize every mage in the kingdom." He ordered with a tense calm that barely contained the fury burning inside me.

"My sister will return, unharmed, no matter the cost." My voice cracked slightly before hardening again.

"And no one, absolutely no one, will inform my parents. That news... that burden is mine." A chill ran through the office as my dark gaze fixed on the mage in front of me.

iGnar... that despicable warlock who trampled on my sister's love, who did not accept her rejection and has now kidnapped her... has signed his own death warrant. I swear that there will be no corner of the world where he can hide from my revenge. He will pay with his blood.

After ordering an exhaustive search for my sister, stirring up every corner of the magical and non-magical kingdom, I was forced to face an even more painful task: communicating the news to my parents. Zoe's disappearance is a sharp blade stabbing to the soul, and witnessing my mother's crumbling, her tears a reflection of my own anguish, while my father, with his face deformed by pain and anguish, trying to hold her, is a vision that will haunt my memories forever. Knowing that their daughter, my sister, is in the hands of a creature of pure darkness is an unbearable weight, an open wound in the very fabric of our family.

Each clue was a spark of hope, followed by the heartbreaking emptiness of mockery. The warlock who took my sister subjected us to slow and cruel torture, playing with our longings and those of my parents. We felt how life escaped us with each deception, how the illusion of seeing her healthy again became an increasingly distant shadow, devoured by the cruelty of that damned one.

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I arrived again with a new story, this time that of the magician king 🪄🪄🪄. Where I will talk in more detail about what happened to his sister, the hunt for iGnar and the revenge when he had him in his hands.

In addition, characters from the first story The Rejected Moon and the Vampire King will also appear here.

The updates will be daily, if for some reason I do not publish one day I will reward it the next day.

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