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Trailer - Let the World Burn
(A Short Story Teaser)
The scent of old scrolls and sandalwood filled the air as the High Priest unfurled a parchment older than the pyramids themselves.
"Only one of royal blood may awaken the power. But to wield it..."
He looked up, eyes glinting in the torchlight. "...a sacrifice must be made."
Jungkook didn't flinch. Draped in black and gold, his crown glinted like flame under the desert sun. The curse of the old kings still lingered in his blood. He had come to end it. To rule everything-eternity, land, life itself.
He needed her.
The princess. A girl hidden behind silks and walls of guards. He took her in the dead of night, not with cruelty-but with purpose. She fought, cursed, wept. But her blood called to the power he craved.
They traveled across burning dunes, through ruined temples and buried tombs.
She hated him.
He never cared.
Until her eyes broke past his soul's armor.
"You're a monster," she spat once.
"Then pray I never fall for you," he whispered back.
But love is cruel.
The closer they came to the treasure, the deeper he fell into the darkness of her light. And when the moment came to spill her blood on the sacred altar...
Jungkook hesitated.
Across the sands, enemies closed in-rivals who had already killed other princesses in vain. The power rejected all of them. It waited. For him. For her. For them.
And when she lay dying in his arms, a dagger meant for the gods buried in her chest...
He screamed. And the world trembled.
"I'll burn the heavens. I'll burn the curse. I'll burn every kingdom-just give her back."
The power heard.
And for the first time in centuries... it chose.
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