CHAPTER 169

Even after its own flame exploded in Ormrker’s mouth, he was fine. And he was smiling assuredly, as he was fully sure that he would not die today.

“Don’t you two get it?” Ormrker said aloud. “The stars are on my side. I’m not going to die today. And you will die. Both of you will die. And then I’ll go straight to your families and kill them and hang their heads at your God’s altar and then sit on that altar and rule the entirety of Syslon! Once I gather all the systems and give them to my obedient followers, I’ll wage war on the whole world and bring everyone to submission. Anybody who raises their sword against me shall perish. And I shall be the sole sovereign of this world! And you should cry from hell!”

“You seem to say the same thing again and again,” Dylan said, “but you are not going to escape from us.”

“Escape?” Ormrker snorted. “What does that even mean?”

Dylan smirked. “Oh, did you forget already? It’s okay. You will remember it soon.”

“Hmph,” Ormrker snorted once more, rele