The metallic smell of blood clouded the senses of the crown prince as he entered the Kingdom of Xilan. It brought him ecstasy, amusement and profound pleasure.

The sounds of screams, cries and sounds of bind were like music to his ears.

As he got off his horse and stood on the mushy grounds with deep red pools of blood, the corners of his lips crinkled into a smirk.

He walked with his sword clanking on the ground and spoke in a husky, deep voice laced with malice,

" Where is their King......?"

He raised his eyebrows in fake amusement and turned his face above his shoulder to look at the defeated warriors of Xilan.

"In the Fortress childe, their King hasn't surrendered just yet" a tall blonde man spoke as he motioned towards the fortress, a mile away from them.

"Oh...... " The crown prince made a cold yet firm expression. He went silent, the silence before the storm.

"GET ALL OF THEIR WOMEN AND CHILDREN, GATHER THEM HERE!" his voice thundered in the battlefield as the whole place became dead silent.

" But childe-" the man from earlier tried to speak when the crown prince harshly grabbed him by the jaw.

"How dare you general.....?" His eyes turning a light shade of red as he spoke to the general in his cold bone chilling voice.

General Min looked down in humiliation and disgust as the crown prince pushed him and moved towards his horse
Sieg.

General min looked up at the prince only to see his eyes now glowing crimson red.

He gulped and immediately looked down. Exhaling a shaky breath he looked forth.

"Do as the childe ordered!!" General Min ordered the soldiers of Pedishah.

"YOUR WISH IS OUR COMMAND "the firm voices of the pedishan soldiers echoed in the battlefield.

The soldiers dragged the wailing women and children to the bloody grounds of the fortress. The children flailing in the arms of the pedishan warriors, unknown to their fates.

"HOW DARE YOU?! YOU BLOOD THIRSTY DEMON" a Xilanese Soldier said as he broke free from the ropes tied to his wrists.

He rushed towards the crown prince and drew a bloody sword from the body of a dead soldier.
"DIE!" he siad as he jumped towards the prince sitting in his horse.

The prince jumped from his horse and drew his sword, a black smoke emitting from his sword, Muerte.... Was an ancient sword made of the blood and bones of fire dragon for the first Pedishah Emperor.

Muerte chooses its own master after its original master dies and it chose Him.

It was Said that Anyone whom the sword touched other than its master, turned into ashes without any traces left.
It devours the soul after corrupting their divinity.

Just as the warrior thrashed his sword on the shoulder blade of the prince.... Muerte pierced his neck and in a moment of time as if he was dust, he disappeared into a black mist.

As if he never existed.

The already scared people gasped and started wailing.

The prince sighed as he put his sword back into its scabbard.
Blood gushed down on his metallic armour from the slit on his shoulder. His wound making him hiss.

"Now Now.....What shall we do...?
Your only savior is dead. Who will save you people now?" He spoke as his eyes landed on the trembling figures of mothers hugging their children.

"You are a monster...! Heavens will punish you..!!" A ten year old girl spoke as she stood up from her mothers lap who tried to shush her with her shivering hands.

The prince neared the kid as he bent down on his knees while looking at the little girl with his crimson eyes.

The girl did'nt budge. She stood there not getting intimidated by the man covered in blood.

"I like brave people like you....! " The prince spoke in his sadistic tune while smirking.

"Lets see how long your bravery will last , shall we..?" He said as he eyed her mother who screamed when two soldiers dragged her away from the girl. She tried to run towards her mother.

However, He held her wrist and smiled.

" No you must wait....! I am just getting started little girl" the Pedishan prince said as he motioned his soldiers to whip the said mother.

The soldiers mercilessly whipped the lady as she fell limp to the ground while screaming in pain.

The little girl trembled and looked at him with a look of horror and tears in her brown orbs.

The prince looked in the eyes of the girl and got up on his feet.

Surely a tyrant and a sadist he had become.....

The girl rushed up to her mother and hugged her mother. While looking at the blood dripping from her mother's wounds.

He sadistically laughed and everyone there gulped in horror while the children started crying in fear.

"You see, my patience is not unlimited, ask the king of yours to come here or else-" he raised his sword and completed his sentence.

"I will make sure THIS KINGDOM TURNS INTO A GRAVEYARD." There wasn't an ounce of doubt in those dangerous words, he could do that.

After all he is the rumoured devil prince.... The blade of The Pedishan Emperor.

"I...am here" The king of shilan said as the gates of the Fortress opened.

Revealing a handsome man in his mid fourties, wearing a crown made of sapphires and a red silk robe with a phoenix pattern.

The crown prince laughed in madness upon seeing the said king.

"This was easy .....i thought i really had to burn this land to get you out of your burrow...?" He said as he walked towards the King in a slow deadly manner.

" I surrender......"the king said as he laid his crown on the ground.

"And i accept that....!!" The crown prince kicked the Crown and the sapphires of the crown fell in all directions.

He drew out Muerte and held it up... He walked in circles while his sword was deadly close enough to pierce the neck of The King of The Holy land of Xilan...... The land conquered by none other than the lineage of 'kims'.

He was toying with the king just like a predator does to its prey before finally finishing it off.

"Stop! Don't kill father please..!" A melodious deep voice halted the ruthless prince of pedishah in his tracks.

He was fascinated to hear this voice again in his life.

He turned around to see the owner of the voice.... And he was dumbstruck to see the ethereal, heavenly and angelic looks of the boy.

The king fell to the knees of the prince and pleaded.. "You can kill me!! But please spare him...!! He is naive...!"

The prince looked at the king and then at the boy and a dark laugh left his lips.

"I will kill you as you wish your majesty....but i am not sure that i will fulfill your other plead." He drew Muerte yet again and turned the king to ashes.

The prince of Xilan.... Kim taehyung.... Just stood there as a drop of tear escaped his green eyes.

"Look his body also disappeared, you do not even have to go through the hassle of doing burial rituals. Come here young prince..... Or should i rather say tae-hyeong....? " Jeon jeongguk said and pointed his sword towards him while glaring with his red piercing eyes.

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*Sieg means victory
**Muerte means death.

Welcome to the first chapter of 'Reign'....!

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