Chapter164: The Hell of Memories and the Fragmentation of the Tyrant's Soul
Every atom of the crystal courtyard was boiling due to the infinite energy created between Rina and Diari. The Red Revenge had reached a stage where matter and soul merged; Rina, with that white light shining in her eyes, was no longer just a wounded girl, but had become a merciless judge who held all the commands of the universe under her fingers. The grandmother, with half of her body stuck within the crystal earth, was like a decayed tree that a hurricane was uprooting from its roots. The magics the grandmother had used for thousands of years to oppress the helpless were now coiling around her own neck like a chain of snakes.
Rina took another step forward, and with every vibration of the earth, a red light emerged from the grandmother's wounds. Rina spoke with a calm voice, yet heavier than a mountain: "Grandmother, you always said that memories are our weakness. You said memories must be used like a dagger to turn humans into slaves. Now, I am opening for you the door of that hell you created yourself." Rina raised her right hand and sent the "Hell of Memories" magic into the grandmother's mind. Suddenly, the grandmother felt her mind becoming a battlefield; thousands of images of those people killed by her hand, thousands of screams of those mothers from whom she had taken their children, flew toward her soul like arrows.
The grandmother began a mad scream, struck her wrinkled hands against the earth, and wanted to stop her own mind, but Diari's golden light did not allow the grandmother to fall unconscious. Diari, whose majesty was now like an ancient god, spoke with a voice full of authority: "You cannot flee, grandmother. Today, history shows you its face. Every drop of blood that spilled from my body will now become an ocean and drown you within it." Diari made all those insults the grandmother had inflicted upon him become a physical force and plunge into the grandmother's chest like a large knife. The grandmother's black blood was no longer just a liquid, but had become a black fire that burned her own skin.
Rina deepened the magic. She made the grandmother taste all those physical pains Rina had endured within unconsciousness. That internal burning Rina's soul previously felt was now circulating through the grandmother's veins like a boiling acid. The grandmother was becoming fragmented; the skin of her face was falling away like burnt paper, yet Rina's magic did not allow her to die. Rina said: "Death is a great gift for you, and I will not give that gift to you for free. You must live to know how that 'foolishness' you spoke of has become the light that destroys your entire existence."
In the middle of the courtyard, a red whirlwind was created, filled with sharp crystal pieces. With a gesture, Rina made those sharp pieces go toward the grandmother's body. Every piece that struck the grandmother's body bore a name; the name of one of the victims the grandmother had forgotten. The grandmother, with her trembling hand, wanted to beg, but her tongue had become a burnt stone. She could only watch those two lovers standing like two mountains within the blaze of revenge. Their love was no longer just a sentiment, but had become the new law of this world; a law in which the oppressor must kneel before the oppressed.
Diari took another step forward and placed his hand on his own heart. An extremely powerful golden light exploded from his chest and turned the courtyard into a white light without respite. This light caused all those black covenants the grandmother had made with demons to collapse one after another. The grandmother felt that the magical power which had stopped time for her for thousands of years was vanishing. In a single second, the grandmother aged thousands of years; her body was about to become dust, but Rina, with the "Bitter Life" light, did not allow her to become ash. Rina wanted the grandmother to taste all the pains within that aging and crippling state.
Rina screamed with a voice full of mercilessness: "Look! Look how that power you took pride in is now becoming a rope and choking you!" Rina shattered the "Mirror of Lies" magic. Those mirrors created in the previous parts had now become thousands of sharp fragments and stood in the air. With one movement of her finger, Rina sent all the mirror fragments into the grandmother's body. The grandmother let out a shriek like the sound of the tearing of the sky's veil. Every mirror fragment that entered her body reminded her of one of the lies she had told Rina and Diari.
The courtyard had become the arena of a sacred destruction. That palace which stood as a symbol of tyranny was now only a pile of burnt stones. Diari and Rina together raised their hands and brought the "Red Revenge" hymn to its peak. A red light from the sky struck the courtyard like lightning and caused all those toxic energies the grandmother had hidden within the earth to explode. The grandmother was in the heart of that explosion, but her body was held like steel only to taste the pain and not vanish. This was the greatest torture recorded in history; a torture in which the soul is burning yet death does not come.
The grandmother said with a raspy voice that could barely be heard: "I... I did everything for you... I wanted you to be strong..." But Rina immediately closed the grandmother's mouth with a light and said: "Be silent! Your lies no longer have a place here. You destroyed us only for your own interest. You wanted to kill a love that only God knows how sacred it is. Now, let that hatred you thought was power become your graveyard." Rina made all those red lights in the courtyard gather and settle as a single small point within the grandmother's heart. That point was like a magical atomic bomb that exploded every second within the grandmother's body.
Diari looked at Rina, and seeing that power and majesty in his lover's eyes made him feel peace. He knew Rina was no longer that fearful girl whom the grandmother could manipulate. Diari took Rina's hand and together they unleashed another light; the "Rain of Justice." The raindrops that were previously black had now become golden light, and every drop that struck the grandmother's body created a new wound within her. The grandmother had now become like a doll full of holes, from which red and black light emerged.
The Red Revenge continued, and the level of Rina and Diari's mercilessness reached its peak. They had decided that the grandmother must not only die, but must become a witness to how her entire empire becomes dust. With the "Time Stoppage" magic, Rina made the grandmother remain within a second of pain for thousands of years. Within the grandmother's mind, time did not move; she only felt those knives tearing her chest. This was the punishment the grandmother herself had invented for those who rebelled against her, and now she herself became the first victim of that law.
The courtyard had become filled with that terrifying silence that was only broken by the grandmother's moaning. The white and golden light were like a shield around Diari and Rina and did not allow any of those pieces of destruction to strike them. Rina looked at that destruction and said: "This is only the beginning. The Red Revenge still has much to go. All those rooms in which you plotted must become fire and burn you." Rina made the grandmother's body emerge from the earth and remain hanging in the air while hundreds of glowing chains cut the flesh of her hands and feet.
The grandmother watched the golden light coming from Diari's heart and understood that the "ugliness" she always mocked was now the greatest beauty of the universe that she could not withstand. Diari said: "True beauty lies in protecting the person you have sacrificed yourself for, not in that black power you thought would shake the world. Now, look who is on top and who is under our feet." Diari made the light intensify, and the grandmother's body was becoming small, small pieces, yet every piece tasted the pain separately.
In this part, the revenge reached a stage where the grandmother lost all hope. She knew Rina and Diari did not want to only see her death, but wanted to erase her existence as a magician. Rina made all those magical books of the grandmother, all those black writings that recorded a history full of oppression, burn within the rooms. The smoke of those books swirled in the sky like a black soul, and Rina, with one gesture, turned them all into pure light and sent them to the sky.
The Red Revenge still boils within Rina's veins, and Diari is ready to be with her until the end of this epic. The grandmother, with a wounded body and a fragmented soul, has remained in the air only as a statue of pain. The courtyard is becoming an arena of preparation for those great secrets hidden beneath the rubble of the palace. The silence has returned, but this time the silence is full of the majesty of the victory of two humans who, with their love, shook the throne of the shadows. Everything is ready for the coming parts, in which the revenge will become heavier and more merciless, until the time when no trace of the grandmother remains upon this earth.
Written by: Dlin_myth