"Oh, cruel heavens! I have lived a dishonorable life since the dawn of time. Billions of years have pa.s.sed since the curse that made me more demon than deva. Yet, I have never suffered for any of my misdeeds!
For eons my wrongs went unpunished but today I must die framed of crimes I didn't commit? How laughable! What a twisted irony! Heaven, I won't accept this!"
Chandra bellowed in a surge of righteous indignation while his eyes rose to stare at the Celestial World's endless sky! They then lowered onto Surya, and he aimed his wobbling right index at that long-time friend!
"Mean and shameless villain! In the past, you schemed against your father to coerce him into pa.s.sing down his cultivation, laws, and bloodline to you, and in my foolishness, considering you a friend and the old Sacra a thorn, I helped you achieve it!
Only now do I realize that you're more serpent than I will ever be! Millions of years of friends.h.i.+p, yet you frame me and usher my doom to foster your growth and satisfy that insatiable hunger for power! Surya, I curse you!"
Stabbed with that accusation, Surya sneered. Having already a.s.sessed the Truth of those events, he clearly saw all of Chandra's misdeeds. If the scope stopped at a few offended Divine Lords, he would undoubtedly mediate. But offending their fellow Cardinal Lords, and a Brihaspati whose concealed strength had surpa.s.sed previous estimations? How could he a.s.sist him?
The best option was to use Chandra's fall to seize the Moon Refining Palace's disciples and resources! Konrad didn't doubt Surya would behave in such a manner. And therefore predicted the events' turn.
"Loads of rubbish. How did I frame you? Clearly, it was you who couldn't control yourself and endeavor to crush our Celestial Realm's harmony time and time again! For so long I have considered our eons of friends.h.i.+p and sheltered you. Now, I even have the generosity to defend your descendants, but you still have the gals to s.h.i.+ft the blame on me? Chandra, how despicable!"
Surya snapped in "outrage." Sorrow filled his eyes, and a sigh of lamentation left his lips.
"But don't worry, brother! Though today you abjure and curse me, I will still protect your kin! And ensure their survival!"
Surya exclaimed with brash pa.s.sion, causing his peers to feel a surge of puking needs. In their eyes, that performance only gave validity to Chandra's words. Undoubtedly, Surya pushed him from behind to ensure his fall, and absorb his resources. But how could they allow him to?
But as he witnessed his c.u.m-drenched wife lying naked among the pile of abducted women, the scene within Tara's cave flashed in Brihaspati's eyes and he could no longer restrain himself.
"RADIANT JUDGMENT!"
Brihaspati bellowed, causing his Towers of Reckoning to release a humongous, blinding spear of white light onto Chandra! Locked by the combined might of Fate and Light, and crushed by the weight of karma, Chandra couldn't move an inch and stared, helpless, as the spear of judgment descended upon him.
