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“I overcome. I am indomitable.” Ritual of Strength, Bringer of Chaos series by Kayelle Allen – Performer Nik Nitsvetov @nitsvetov #Cosplay #Ritual #PietasFans #SciFi

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I vanquish every enemy.

In this scene from Origin of Pietas, as he's healing from catastrophic injuries, Pietas muses about pain.

Excerpt from Origin of Pietas

Pietas had taught himself, disciplined himself never to fear pain. To welcome it. Invite it. Embrace it. Make pain and death a regular part of his life. Whatever frightened him, he ran toward. Pain was joy. He conquered it. Made it his lover. Made it his own. Absorbed it into himself.

When you fear nothing, nothing is a threat.

Now? Did he fear pain now? Pietas mulled that. Well, he no longer had to wonder about pain that didn't end. He'd experienced it.

Conquered it.

Did he want to repeat it?

He finished his food and took a long, satisfying breath of clean air.

Not if he could avoid it. But dying every day for a year would be a good exercise for his immortal warriors. If you survived that kind of peril, you'd survive anything. And no threat the enemy brought would be worse than what he could do to them.

He'd have to give that some serious thought. Maybe train them that way, one soldier at a time. Teach them to embrace death the way he did.

An army of soldiers like that...the galaxy could not stop.

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This scene is from a bonus story found in Bringer of Chaos Bundle 1. In it, while Six has yet to claim a friendship with Pietas, he no longer sees the immortal king as an enemy. He might still face death at Pietas's hands once they're on the planet, but for now, he's merely accompanying the sealed lifepod inside which Pietas is trapped.

 

My whole life, I've tried to make my abuela proud. Would she believe what the church said? That I'd given up my soul when I became a ghost? I like to think my grandmother would tell me what she usually said when I asked for advice. "Is this the desire of your heart of hearts? Can you hold your head up and be proud doing it? If not, then don't do it. If you can, then why are you wasting time talking to me?"

When I joined the Corps I had two choices. One, I could stay dead. Or two, I could make my death count. Save humanity. But when I single-handedly accomplished the task of capturing humankind's greatest foe, what was my reward?

They locked me in a cell with him. Now he's suffering in that life pod, and I'm doomed to the same fate that awaits him at the other end. DnD, ghosts call it. Dead 'n' Done. What immortals refer to as perma-death. Put permanently out of everyone's misery.

We were days away from Sempervia, and it had been months since I'd picked up even a stray thought from Pietas. Without warning, I plunged into an endless black abyss, clawing my way through the dark, desperate for even a flicker of light. I dropped to the floor. Stayed there until my heart stopped thundering and my legs didn't shake.

The horror subsided, then ended as abruptly as it started. That's when I realized I had been one hundred percent awake. The nightmare I'd experienced was his.

My first thought: Pietas just perma-died. I'd endured his death throes.

I crawled over to my pack and fumbled through it for a wrapped morsel of candy I'd smuggled aboard. Normally, I'd take one tiny bite and chew slowly, savoring every bit on my tongue, knowing I'd never taste it again. Where I was going, no one made sweets. If they did, I'd be lucky to live long enough to find some.

This time, I crammed the whole thing in my mouth, chewed a couple of times and then chased it with ghost water. Anything to get a punch of energy so I could at least stand up.

The rest of the trip, I lived in dread of that nightmare happening again.

When we finally reached Sempervia, guards had taken me out of the cell to be processed. A tech gave me the quickest exam in history. He passed a scanner over me so fast I could have been perma-dead and it wouldn't have registered. Then he flashed a blinding light in my eyes and pronounced me "alive enough."

As I made my way back, arrival klaxons sounded and blue strobe lights flashed in every corridor. Over the din, Pietas screamed the name he'd given me. Six! The thought-word pierced my skull, ripe with panic. Right behind it, a punch of fear. Not for himself.

For me.

Pietas was bound, certain of a final death, yet he feared for me?

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#Ritual I vanquish every enemy. Ritual of Strength, Bringer of Chaos series by Kayelle Allen. Performer Nik Nitsvetov @nitsvetov #PietasFans #SciFi

I vanquish every enemy.

In this scene from Origin of Pietas, as he's healing from catastrophic injuries, Pietas muses about pain.

Excerpt from Origin of Pietas

Pietas had taught himself, disciplined himself never to fear pain. To welcome it. Invite it. Embrace it. Make pain and death a regular part of his life. Whatever frightened him, he ran toward. Pain was joy. He conquered it. Made it his lover. Made it his own. Absorbed it into himself.

When you fear nothing, nothing is a threat.

Now? Did he fear pain now? Pietas mulled that. Well, he no longer had to wonder about pain that didn't end. He'd experienced it.

Conquered it.

Did he want to repeat it?

He finished his food and took a long, satisfying breath of clean air.

Not if he could avoid it. But dying every day for a year would be a good exercise for his immortal warriors. If you survived that kind of peril, you'd survive anything. And no threat the enemy brought would be worse than what he could do to them.

He'd have to give that some serious thought. Maybe train them that way, one soldier at a time. Teach them to embrace death the way he did.

An army of soldiers like that...the galaxy could not stop.

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In this scene, Pietas and his guide, whom he calls Dark Hair, approach a restaurant in Ruh City, near the starport. The all-powerful king has spent most of the story learning to humble himself, and the lesson has not yet been learned.

 

Dark Hair stopped in front of a building with small windows set high off the ground, and a wide wooden door painted green. "You see mark on door, nahee?"

"This?" He ran his fingers across it. A horizontal line carved into the wood followed by a space and then a dot. Likely the result of damage. "What is it?"

"Is sign for our kind. Gay. Here, no one kick us out. Here, we can eat."

Only a handful of people occupied the restaurant. Two sets of Kin males in the back. A few tables with female couples. Pietas and Dark Hair took a booth at the front and slid into it. Deep, dark, padded with lush leather and surrounded by ebony wood, it offered one step from daytime to night.

Unlike the bar in Old Ruh City, no one paid them attention. Like all other shops, the windows were high up on the wall.

"What's with the windows on this world?"

Dark Hair glanced upward. "Ah fay?"

"All the windows I've seen are too high up for anyone inside to see out."

"Why look out? Windows make light."

"Yes, but you can't see out them."

She laid back one ear and angled the other toward him. Curious. "And make nobody see in, either."

"How do you sell things in a store without windows?"

Both those pointy ears went back. "Silly nahee." With two fingers, she mimicked walking. "You go inside."

Pietas sat back in the booth. "You guys have so much to learn."

She lowered both eyebrows. "You not make sense."

The first Kin business that offered true competition by letting people see what they were getting stood to make a fortune. But that was not why he was here, was it?

He needed a horse. And right now, they both needed food. No wait staff, android or otherwise, in sight.

Pietas made a slight nod toward the back. "Those guys have no female with them. Is that allowed in all restaurants or just this one?"

She pushed back her hood and glanced their direction. "They sahnimay," she said, using Felis for homosexual. "Female sit other table."

A Kin male in a green apron came up to the table and bowed to Dark Hair. He spoke so rapidly in Felis Pietas couldn't understand him. Dark Hair said something back, just as fast. Without speaking to Pietas, he turned and left.

Pietas leaned toward her across the table. "What was that about?"

"I tell him bring food."

He drew back. "Humans ask each other what they want to eat."

"We eat same as bar. Yes? Good food."

The male returned with a pitcher of water and two glasses. He set them down, stole a glance at Pietas and then bowed to Dark Hair before scurrying away.

She motioned to him. "You do water."

"Because I'm male?"

She gave him that same look she'd offered every other time he'd asked that question.

He sighed. "Never mind. I'll pour."

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For millennia, they fight side by side. Now one king faces a lonely quest.

As Light and Shadow, King Pietas and General Cyken share every battle, as well as a fierce and passionate love.

But, torn apart by the king's rage, Cyken ends their stormy relationship.

When General Cyken falls in love with another man, Pietas undertakes a perilous quest on the dangerous world of Felidae to prove he is the better choice for Cyken.

If he succeeds in his quest, it will either bring Cyken back, or drive him even closer to his new love.

Pietas must try, for he cannot walk into eternity alone.

He must have a shadow to balance his light...

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“I face every foe.” Ritual of Strength, Bringer of Chaos series by Kayelle Allen – Performer Nik Nitsvetov @nitsvetov #Cosplay #PietasFans #SciFi

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I face every foe.

Pietas performs the Ritual of Strength before battle, whether it be a physical or emotional one. In it, as a sign of humility, he cuts his hair with a dagger. If he has a partner, they cut it. But where did the ritual originate?

Pietas and a group of his followers served as mercenaries in the Gedarin Republic, a cluster of inhabited planets on the outskirts of the Terran Crescent. On the planet Kaffir, an influential warlord hired them to assist in taking over a neighboring country. Once they had, the warlord hosted a party and invited them to enjoy themselves. The warlord's youngest son flirted with Pietas, but Pietas rebuffed him. The young man kept coming back, always polite no matter how irritated Pietas got with him. One day, Pietas asked why he didn't give up, and the young man said that his father was always cruel also, even though he professed to love him. It broke Pietas's heart, having a father similar. He began spending time with the younger man, and discovered his name was Til.

For several months, he and Til enjoyed a casual relationship, which developed into a sexual one. Til taught him how to perform the ritual, insisting Pietas was worthy of the honor. Head over heels in love, Pietas involved himself less and less in the pursuit of war.

The warlord of Northern Kaffir asked Pietas to again attack a neighboring country, but the country was poor and had little of value to offer. When Pietas refused, the warlord killed Til to spite Pietas. In a rage, Pietas gathered every member of the warlord's bloodline and forced him to watch as every last one was killed. Finally, Pietas drove a dagger through the man's heart. From that time on, Pietas carried the name Slayer of Innocents.

He performs the ritual to remind himself that war has a price, and to honor Til. However, he never speaks Til's name aloud, keeping it only to himself. Because of Til, Pietas refused to have a friendship or love relationship with any mortal, because the pain of loss was so great. He only broke that rule for himself after coming to know Six.

Tiklaus, Pietas's panther, carries a name in the language of Kaffir. Tiklaus means loyal warrior.

The ritual concludes in three more steps.

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