Chapter 80: Malakor's Ultimatum
The mechanical voice of the City System ceased echoing through the heavy stone walls of the obsidian throne room. Lord Silas was gone. The veteran sea god was stripped of his divinity and banished to the blighted lands. Malakor sat behind his massive diamond desk and stared at his master ledger. The red numbers of his treasury remained stable but his political capital was plummeting. The Ashguard Syndicate had not just defeated a mercenary proxy. Leo had weaponized the divine economy to orchestrate a public execution in the center of the marketplace.
Malakor stood up and picked up a heavy silver wine goblet. He did not throw it in a blind rage. He gripped the metal until his gauntlet crushed the cup into a jagged sphere. He dropped the ruined silver onto t
