Chapter 199: B2: C99: Grimrock Temptation
He stood on the precipice. Everywhere was darkness. All the noise of battle seemed distant and dull. He felt more alone than ever before.
He could feel the temptation of the fall.
The temptation was everything wonderful and horrible blended together. The temptation of Shadowfell made everything about Sinfeast look incompetent and cheap.
Luciana, his wife, awaited him in the abyss. In this place, her charm was magnetic and irresistible, more corrupting than the tears she could shed.
She was the perfect wife. An enabler of his most depraved and darkest desires, a gateway to his baser instincts and never rising above.
She truly was the incarnate of corruption.
Through her, tragedy would truly be wrought on others. And in that tragedy, there would be pure and utter ecstasy.
Yet Zarian didn’t give in.
“I alone am the Dreaded Outsider,” Zarian said, stilling the darkness and the corruption. “I do what I want.”