A ray of light shone on the lifeless pair of eyes before slowly disappearing. How scary and cold it must’ve been? How much they must’ve despised me? My child’s eyes looked at me. My wife’s eyes slowly closed as she held onto our child. I can still see their eyes the moment the embers of their lives had been snuffed out.

The palace collapsed and the ground caved in. Many died a horrible death and their mangled corpses littered the floor. Their blood formed a stream that flowed into the abyss.

Amid this chaos no different from hell was the princess covered in blood and flesh. My lady that I swore to protect with my life…

I gave up everything to save her. I abandoned my wife and child, crushed by debris, to save the princess…

***

Lancaster stared at the single ray of light shining into his dark room. It made him reminisce about the painful past.

“Begone, light.”

The light disappeared with his command and the surroundings returned to darkness again.

His consciousness drifted and he could feel the long-awaited day growing closer. Everyone who died would come back to life and he would right the awful tragedy that happened. He would smash the cogwheels of fate that ran askew and replace them with new ones.

Lancaster was prepared to sacrifice his life for the greater good. The knight untainted...