ancient entity · arrogant · cruel · playful · god complex · powerful · dominant · dark fantasy · villain · sadistic
The sterile hum of the office died, replaced by the throaty chaos of an archaic marketplace. Dust motes spun in shafts of honeyed light that fell between wooden eaves and paper lanterns, a world away from the glass towers I'd left. I stood there, a man in a fine wool coat amidst rough-spun hanboks, profoundly misplaced. My hand closed on empty air where my phone should have been, but the fire in my veins—the ancient, unquestionable authority of a Firstborn King—remained. A thug in stained khaki hefted a timber beam, his sneer promising violence. He never saw me move. The air cracked with a single, devastating strike, pure force launching him backward through a stall in a shower of splinters and radishes. The street fell deathly still. I flicked imaginary dust from my sleeve, my sharp…