When The Demons Amidst Her

Chapter 1 My Last Hope

As early as 1250 BC, the king of the Shang dynasty, King Wu Ding was the crowned head of China. He has black hair and wears an all-white dress. Among the people of China, the king was the most beautiful and looked majestic with his sword. He was known for his love for his wife 'Fu hao'. They both are known for their deep affection towards each other.

But one day, the monarch met an enchanter in the middle of the woods.

The enchanter was very old and wrinkly. People of that village believed that the enchanter has been seen in that place for more than 100 years. The enchanter was sitting beside a tree when he saw king Wu passing by with his white horse. The enchanter told the highness that his future was dark and was in danger from a demon in a very cracking voice. "The demon's name is Azazel," the enchanter said in a shrill voice.

At first, the king didn't believe him. He was about to leave when the enchanter told him to stop. The King turned back to take a look at him. But the moment he turned around, he saw the enchanter has been disappeared. He could sense that danger is near him.

He looked everywhere in search of the enchanter, the King started to get worried and took out his sword to protect himself. He had a silver sword, which was very shiny like blinding and sharp, with just looking at its severity, one can lose their eyes. He was stuck to one position while holding his sword and was looking everywhere from the corner of his eye and the king had a really good hearing ability. He could even hear a feather falling from the sky too.

The king looked up and found the enchanter flying. His eyes widened. He was not believing in his eyes, because he has only heard of a powerful enchanter and enchantress in the story. The enchanter told the king that he has to believe him or else he is going to lose his life and the kingdoms.

"Are you threatening me?! Don't you know who am I? I think that your life is not precious to you. Wanna die from my sword!" king wu said with aggressiveness and power in his voice while holding the sword firmly in his hand, getting ready to attack the enchanter any minute.

The enchanter snapped his finger and the sword in king Wu's hand was turned into dust in just a fraction of a second.

The king was befuddled by knowing the power of the enchanter and believed that he was telling the truth, so he asked the enchanter to assist him, but the enchanter told him that the demon is immortal and will never die from the hands of a mortal like humans.

King Wu felt like a bundle of nerves in his head are tied together because he didn't want to die and as the crowned head of China, the one who has killed the monarch will be the next successor and he didn't want a demon to rule the country and take his love Fu hao, so he asked the enchanter "how can the demon be killed? There must be some way but why is he after my life?". The enchanter replied, "It's because he has been sent by someone by forming a contract and there is only one way out from this if God helps us".

The king's last hope was the Gods so without thinking anything he agreed.

One decade passed, the king dedicated his life to worship God and make them happy to ask for his life to be saved. But he didn't know who sent that demon to kill him? For the next 3 decades, he was away from his wife and she was at the Palace of the King still waiting for him to come back

After 3 decades the gods were happy with the king's dedication and were agreed to grant his wish, during this period time as the King was devoted to God, so Azazel couldn't kill him so he hides in the woods.

The three gods showed off to the king, happily asking him for his wish. The king couldn't believe his eyes that, after 3 decades the gods showed off while he was losing his hope that the gods will ever come.

("the god gains more power when the mortals devote their life to them, so god in return grants their wishes". It's just a theory, no hate to gods )

[There were three gods during the shan dynasty. The gods were called Shangdi. The altar would have three tiers: the highest for Shangdi and the Son of Heaven; the second-highest for the sun and moon; and the lowest for the natural gods such as the stars, clouds, rain, wind, and thunder. It is important to note that Shangdi is never represented with either images or idols.]

The king asked the three gods to save him from the demon. God said that "it's your destiny, and you can't change it".

"but you are Gods, of course, you can !" the king said with a bit of disappointment in his voice but confidence in his face.

"We can just grant your possible wish yet we can't change your destiny," the Gods said in a calm voice.

King Wu thinks for a while and then comes up with an idea.

"if it is so then I want you to give me an angel, who would have the power of all the gods and will be able to protect me no matter what, even it's a demon who wants to kill me," the King said in confidence with a smug look.

The Gods were shocked by the intelligence of the King and unwillingly, they have to fulfill his wish anyways.

" but no matter what, your faith will never be changed. you are gonna die, if not now then later". The Gods said in disappointment.

"It's fine to die with aging rather than dying from the hands of a fallen angel," king Wu's said with confidence in his eyes and strength in his voice.

The three Gods looked at each other in a sigh and nodded their heads.

All the three Gods came together to form a triangle and raise their hands to their chest and chanted something. The king was standing in a corner, watching them. The king noticed that there is a height difference among all the Gods and they all look so different. The tallest among them all had the brightest pink eyes. The second God who is smaller than the first God but taller than the third God had white like pearl-colored hair with pink highlights. And the third Gods, the smallest among the all were dressed in all white whereas others were dressed in gold and had the palest skin ever. All of them had something different but they looked so beautiful and majestic, that no one could ever believe they're real.

All of a sudden, a blinding light falls on the king's eyes for a fraction of seconds and then disappears. When he opened his eyes, struggling to see he found that, there is a small ball of light in each of God's hands.

All the light balls are of one color - white.

The first God in the row- the son of heaven gave some of his blessings and said "I gave you the power of light and all good deeds. All the majestic animals in this world would be your friends. You will be a kind-hearted person. Your soul will be the purest among all".

The second in the row-the God of sun and moon gave his blessings and said," I gave you the immense power of day and night. You will be beautiful like the moon and will shine like the sun and will take away all the darkness".

The third God in the row- the God of nature gave his blessing and said," I gave you the power of all the stars, clouds, rain, wind, and thunder. You will have the power of controlling the weather and also control the feelings of the human just like the weather and you can change yourself too into a human to hide in the environment ".

And then they all put those white glowy blessed spears into a glass jar and handed it to the king.

The God of heaven said, "place this jar in front of a dead human to make them an angel. But remember, as this is the power of God then the angel will be a God too. A God that is created by the Gods".

The second God- the God of sun and moon said "remember that it is made with all the god's power, but she will not be the superior god".

King Wu then asked, " then what kind of god she will be?" The God of heaven replied- "THE GOD OF GOODNESS AND NATURE".

King Wu bowed before them (saying thank you) and the moment he lifted his head he found that they were already gone. He looked at the jar in his hand and said to himself with a hope of getting out of this trouble alive, "you are my last hope, help me when I will be needing you".

-To be continued

When The Demons Amidst Her

[WARNING:]

It's all just a story, nothing is related to the real Shang dynasty. It's a dystopian story. NO HATE FOR CHINESE HISTORY. Thank you for reading

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