meloreiexists

Hey loves! I'm back after one month, how generous of me ;) 
          
          Kidding of course, I feel bad every time I disappear, I legitimately write like a snail so um, sorry, I tend to leave you guys hanging for a month. To be honest, I don't even know who "you guys" are cause no one comments unfortunately and I doubt I even have a community. At this point, I assume my readers are people who clicked on my first chapter once and lost interest, so if I'm screaming into the internet void, OH WELL 
          
          Anywayyy, Chapter 7 is finally out! It's a little (or a lot, I can't tell) shorter than usual, but I feel like the individual moments in this chapter would be drowned out if there were too many to focus on, not to mention that I'm pretty proud of some of Elrios's narration that I was able to come up with, so I hope you guys can appreciate that too. I'd like to say that my writing has improved a lot since Chapter 1, but that's up to my lovely readers of course. 
          
          As usual, I'm gonna ask once again for some comments in case I do have some sort of a community that actually cares about Through The Flames of Truth because as I mention every time, comments HEAVILY motivate me to write so if you don't mind, feel free to just make a little note on certain pieces of dialogue you like, certain descriptions that intrigue you, some theories you might have or some foreshadowing you managed to catch, etc! I would absolutely love to get to know you guys, so literally every comment is appreciated <3
          
          That's all I really have to say for right now, I hope you guys can continue enjoying this project as I continue to update it once a millenia (sorry ), please enjoy Chapter 7 in all it's short gloryyyy :D
          
          Lots of love, 
          
          -meloreiexists

HEY EVERYONEEEEEE, ⚠ SPOILER TIME ⚠ CAUSE I'M WORKING ON CHAPTER 7 AND I LUV IT <333 
          
          (You've been warned, look away now if you don't want spoilers)
          
          Chapter 7: Present: Elrios (aka, right after the argument in Chapter 4, re-read it if you need a refresher!!)
          
          The more I tried to be furious, the more insane I felt. I wasn’t my father, my worst fear was to turn out just like him, but when Kailynd took my refusal to let myself appear weak as finding pleasure in violence, I couldn’t stop disappointment from intricately painting my face. I wasn’t a sadist. I’m not him, I’m not him. I’M NOT HIM, I’LL NEVER BE HIM. Kailynd didn’t understand. The ultimate revenge would be to be a better leader than my Father could ever be, and I would do that. No matter the cost. Maybe that made me cruel in his eyes. But I wasn’t. 
          
          My fist flew down at my desk in front of me, almost landing onto my journal entry from that day I stole gold. But I stopped it. I’d be hurting a part of me. Been there, done that. Hurting myself to feel something only made me feel more helpless. The ink of my pen bled onto the pages when my blood remained stubbornly trapped inside my body. The pages laid there, soaking up the liquid and forming long, descriptive sentences of the atrocities I faced, and the binding of the journal that held it together when I could feel myself falling apart. 
          
          “Not only are you a disappointment to me and all of Aerydiya, you’re sick in the head now too. You disgust me.” His voice was in my head. But it shouldn’t have been there. He isn’t a part of me, he would never be. I was not my father. I’m. Not. HIM.

HI EVERYONEEEEE! So glad to be back, Chapter 6 is officially uploaded! Great news, I'm on summer break so I'll be trying to keep uploads much more consistent <333
          
          As for why I disappeared, I saw Stray Kids in San Francisco 3 weeks ago and still haven't recovered *sigh*. Kidding, obviously. I mean, what I said was true, but that's not why I disappeared, I just wanted to mention it because I fucking love Stray Kids. What can I say, I'm just a girl~
          
          I was just lazy if I'm being honest, but I'm just so, so happy with how this chapter turned out. In full transparency, I started it back in early May maybe and then just didn't touch it because I let myself slack off for summer break. Honestly, getting a high reader count and comments really, really motivate me. Like literally, if I see any comment or I see that the number of readers went up, I'll run to my computer while giggling like an idiot and type at least a paragraph or two.. so maybe y'all should start talking more to motivate me~ 
          
          As I mentioned earlier, the flashbacks aren't just there to help you understand Elrios better, although it's the main purpose. They're also there so you guys know how Kailynd and Elrios met cause um.. their friendship (?) becomes REALLYYYYY important later. 
          
          As always, PLEASEEEE let me know what you think, literally every single comment makes me infinitely more motivated, and I'll try my absolute best to have Chapter 7 out soon :)
          
          Lots of love,
          
          meloreiexists <3

Sneak Peak for my lovely readers!! (I'll have Chapter 6 posted very soon) SPOILER ALERT (obviously), LOOK AWAY NOW IF YOU DON'T WANT IT ⚠️
          
          A harsh, infuriated slap landed against my cheek, causing me to stumble backwards. I barely stopped myself from falling, catching myself with my hands as Ruvaen’s dagger fell out of my sleeve, rolling onto the ground. “You thought you could just be fucking careless all of a sudden!? Run off while all the lowlifes still haven’t left the capital!? You just wanted to embarrass me and cause a scandal, didn’t you, you piece of shit-” Father cursed, stopping abruptly as his eyes fixated on the dagger as his body visually tensed. “And you had a knife on you too, fucking psychopath. Trying to finish the job for your brother and plunge it into my chest, of course, I should’ve known. You’re just as rotten and disgusting as he was.” He reaches down to grab it before throwing it against the wall with all of this strength. The sound of the dagger hitting the wall echoes for a few moments, encasing the throne room in silence minus Father’s heavy breathing. “That blade would have been through your heart right now if I didn’t care about the future of the kingdom.” 
          
          
          “I wasn’t going to use it on you.” I gripped the carpet beneath me, holding back the furious tears that were starting to well in my eyes as I watched his gaze darken. He knelt down beside me, a deranged grin spreading across his face as he gripped my throat, not yet squeezing, but firmly grasping it right enough to remind me that he could snuff the life out of my eyes in seconds. Maybe he would have gone through with it if I wasn’t the new heir, but now, I knew he was bluffing.
          
          
          “Then who was the knife meant for, my son?” His grip tightening, making it slightly harder to breathe.
          
          
          “Me.” I seethed, my tone sharp.
          
          
          
          

Hi everyone! My lazy ass finally got something done (relatively) on time. It's still April so my previous promise counts I guess?? ‍♀️
          
          Point is, I'm really glad to finally have all of Chapter 5 out there. Part of the reason I split it up is because all together, it's really long and I thought that I should release something at least sometime soon so I'm not starving you all of content and leaving you hanging. 
          
          From the feedback I've gotten from my lovely (and anonymous) beta readers, Chapter 5 was one of my best so??? I'll let you guys be the genuine judge of that since you'll be less biased. Safe to say I had a lot of fun writing as a different character, and although I said you'd have 2 Elrios chapters, I'm gonna split it into 3 since they'd both be hella long and I've been seeing a lot of people online complain about long chapters.
          
          Personally, I don't really mind them, but I don't want people to drop my book, so I'll do what's best for engagement unfortunately. As always, I'd love to hear your thoughts, feedback, theories, anything!! Just keep me entertained please, I love yapping :)
          
          Lots of love,
          
          meloreiexists <3

Yeah..
          
          So I'm never having faith in myself again to release shit on time, but here you go! As promised, you get a childhood flashback of Elrios. Just a little FYI, you'll find out what happened to Ruvaen in the next chapter, this isn't the end of the flashback, hence why it says "Part 1" in the title. 
          
          In reality, the flashback was supposed to be one long chapter, but because I was already so behind on the release date and it would have taken me an extra two weeks or so to finish the entire thing, I just decided to split it. Overall, I hope this part meets your expectations and that the wait wasn't for nothing. 
          
          Since I've technically already started on Part 2 and I have an alright flow right now, I'd say the next time you could expect an update is mid April, but knowing how bad I am at keeping my promises, expect the worst :)
          
          In the meantime, I'll still be active on Wattpad so if anyone has any questions or theories that they'd like to share, I will happily respond while giggling like an idiot because I love yapping about Through The Flames of Truth. 
          
          See you soon hopefully!
          
          -meloreiexists

Hey! How's it going? 
          
          Looks like the first week of March is here and well.. Chapter 5 is still under development unfortunately just because school has been annoying and stuff, but I'd like to clarify that I'm not too far from finishing. I've actually been adding stuff into this chapter that I originally wasn't going to, so that might also be a reason as to why it's not entirely finished yet, and I could gladly clarify what those things are once it's published! 
          
          I must say, this is probably one of my favorites, right after Chapter 2! This *new* POV that I'm writing in feels a lot different, and while it's fun, it's definitely a bit of a challenge, and to be honest, I feel like a bad person because of everything I'm making this character go through, especially at their age. (Spoiler alert, they're 11!) 
          
          And another thing I wanted to mention, you'll meet plenty of new characters in this chapter, one of which being very important to the main character of this chapter. Make sure to grab your tissues if you're an empath! 
          
          Anyway, enough of my dumb yapping, I'm probably gonna go back back to writing. If I were to give a new estimate on when this could possibly come out, my guess would either be next week at the earliest, and the middle of March the latest!
          
          Thanks for reading (if anyone is), and I'll hopefully see you soon with tons of new content! <3

Hi everyone! Chapter 4 is a bit late, but hopefully it's not too long of a delay. In all honesty, I know no one reads these things so I don't think anyone cares too much lmao. Anyways! I hope you guys enjoyed, the last bits of dialogue between Kailynd and Elrios was probably the most challenging part, and a little TMI, but I rewrote it like 4 times because I wanted to get it just right, so I really hope it meets everyone's expectations. One little spoiler I can give that I'm SUPER SUPER excited to share is that 2 chapters in a row will be from a different character's point of view, I'll let you guys use context clues to figure out who it might be~
          
          You'll get this *character's* backstory with a nice, lengthy flashback and how it relates to our lovely MC, Kailynd and my goal with those two chapters is to add more depth into the story and explain everyone's motivations a bit more. I've already started on Chapter 5, and if we're talking deadlines, my goal, which is probably unrealistic, is to get this done by the first week of March, but knowing me, it could vary because I suck at staying consistent. Please enjoy Chapter 4 of Through The Flames of Truth for now and I'll hopefully see you all soon, thank you so much! <3

Well shit- it's certainly been a little more than a while. My bad for not being active. Chapter 4 is currently close to being half-way done and it's a more calmer one compared to the previous ones, and it's a bit of a breather. One little spoiler I can give is that you'll learn a little bit more about Aerydiya and the people there, but I'll let you interpret that how you will! :)
          
          I know it's been a really long time since I've added a chapter and I'd like to apologize for how long it's taking, but I'll admit it, I've been really lazy and I haven't been working as diligently as before. Thank god it's not writer's block though, since it's always more difficult for me to bounce back when I'm out of ideas. Safe to say that there's so much more story to come, and that there's just so, so much that I'm incredibly excited to share with you (if anyone even reads these things).
          
          I hope that you all will continue supporting Through The Flames of Truth and stay tuned for updates and upcoming chapters! My estimate on when Chapter 4 will be released is (hopefully) no later than January 31st, with a goal of 65 readers minimum. If the reader count is way higher, I might even release it earlier, who knows~?
          
          Anyways! Thanks for stopping by!- meloreiexists

Hey everyone! Chapter 3 has been released early, even though we unfortunately didn't reach our goal. I was just so excited to get this out to everybody since I absolutely love how it turned out and I hope you end up feeling the same way! There was lots of trial and error behind the scenes when trying to blend action as well as emotional realization smoothly, but please let me know how I did, since feedback really helps me improve. For now, please continue supporting Through The Flames of Truth on Wattpad and continue staying tuned for upcoming chapters, thank you so much!