Chapter 153: The Nine Heavens Command, The Time of Reckoning

The silence in the grand hall of the Norrell estate stretched into an eternity, thick with the weight of a thousand years of solitude and a single, terrifying truth. Rylie Norrell stood before the man she had called her husband, his hand still outstretched, an invitation to a world of impossible power and cosmic loneliness. The image of him as the Divine Emperor Lord, a being of celestial might, warred violently with the memory of Reginald Lyson, the gentle man who endured endless mockery for...