Chapter 5 How It Came to Be

Queenie sighed again and looked at Nox. "Fine. You're hot, so I'll finish what I started. No matter what happens, I'm taking you back to town, and then it's straight to the hospital.

"See if we can get your memory back. And please explain everything to my family if you do," Queenie said.

"I'm going to pack my stuff and make preparations to return to the city. You watch some TV or whatever. Don't run around, and don't touch my stuff." Queenie turned on the TV for Nox.

Nox nodded dumbly and turned to the TV. It was airing the Battle of the Ten Nations, specifically the part where the Ocean of Death was concerned.

Black smoke billowed from the fleet of battleships, and countless aircraft were swirling around overhead.

Amidst the smoke and screams of war, the warriors of Faeast were fending off the invaders from the ten nations.

The moment Nox saw that, his mind went blank, and then pain shot up once more, only to be followed by a stream of memories.

'Lord Nox. That's me, Nox Greenshade. I'm Faeast's god of war. The ten nations started a war because I became the unparalleled Legend, and I'm not even thirty years old.

'I'm the bane of their existence. I'm the ten nations' nightmare. To kill me, they sent a million powerful warriors and thirteen of their best guardians—top Legends."

Nox continued to recall, 'I fought their whole army alone and took down seven Gods in battle, but I was defeated. All because of Aphrodite Mousse, the woman I loved the most.'

'No one expected her to poison me on the night before the end of the war, and she went all out. She used the Kirin Firepoison, the strongest poison in the world.

'The firepoison attacked my heart, and the ten nations' warriors attacked me. It was on the Ocean of Death I was defeated, and I was thrown into the waters. It was from that moment on, Faeast’s god of war fell.'

The memories finally stopped coming, but hatred and rage filled Nox up. He was like a volcano, almost erupting into disaster. Nox finally knew who he was.

'Why did you betray me, Aphrodite? Why did you poison me?' The memory of Aphrodite tore Nox's heart asunder, the flames of fury almost engulfing him like a beast.

Still, his sanity took hold in the end. The Mousse family was the biggest family in Faeast, and they were the top of Faeast's Ancient Four.

They had enough wealth to run a country, but more than that, their family had an army of powerful warriors.

Just then, another surge of pain washed over Nox. This time, it came from his heart, and the pain felt searing, like flames licking his insides.

"Shit. The Kirin Firepoison."

Feeling the poison erupting in his body, Nox quickly circulated his inner energy across his entire body to keep the poison down.

About a minute later, he finally suppressed it, though only barely. "It seems that the poison is not going away anytime soon. I'll have to lay low for now. Before I'm cured from the poison, I cannot expose myself."

Suddenly, Nox remembered the lady who saved him from the ocean. "Amnesiac, huh? It's a decent plan. Since she thinks I've lost my memories, I'll tag along for now. Besides, her family thinks she slept with a total stranger because of me."

Nox made up his mind. Faeast's god of war would be an amnesiac from this moment on.