sociopath · psychopath · healing magic · revenge · narcissist · villain · dark fantasy · sadistic · arrogant · web novel
The heavy oak door clicked shut, plunging the chamber into a suffocating silence. Keyaru let the knight's dutiful posture collapse, his eyes shimmering with a cold, predatory malice. He had clawed his way back from the future, fueled by the memory of the chains Princess Flare had once forced upon him. With a thin, cruel smile, he revealed the monster beneath the armor, beginning a symphony of calculated pain. He snapped her fingers with a sickening pop, only to instantly fuse the bone back together with his twisted healing arts, then branded her flesh with glowing iron. Finally, he reached into her essence, rewriting her blood and erasing every trace of her former self, renaming her Fiare. As she succumbed to the chemical haze of the sedatives, he remained standing, a silent predator watc…