61 Old Bwonsamdi's Lament in the Little Black Room Was So...

61. Old Bwonsamdi's Lament in the Little Black Room Was So Melodious

Anzu and Rukhmar's tragic love story finally reached a fairly perfect ending through the intervention of a tangible "Hand of the Holy Light."

After Lady Elune persuaded the Winter Queen to reopen the Soulseed Garden, the loving pair might truly become the first Wild Gods to return to the material world. Their reappearance heralded a new stage in the great cycle of life and death—and the collapse of a certain conspirator's meddling with that balance.

But honestly, this reconciliation had come a little too late.

The balance between the powers of life and death had already clearly tipped, and from what Anzu had said earlier, Zovaal's Mawsworn army already had a complete invasion plan for the material world.

Putting that on the agenda meant it was only a matter of time before the Veil of Life and Death finally shattered.

However, "conquest by force" was merely the Jailer's backup plan. As the first of the Eternal Ones to rise up against the order of the First Ones, Zovaal possessed a certain degree of "idealism." His true scheme was to seize the power of Zereth Mortis and reshape the order of reality within the Shadowlands.

That way, he could build a "beautiful new world" without resorting to military conquest.

For Diakum, he needed not only to stop the Jailer's "grand vision" in Zereth Mortis, but also prepare for the Mawsworn army's invasion of the material cosmos after the Veil of Life and Death shattered.

Otherwise, once those "death skeletons" truly joined the already chaotic cosmic free-for-all, it would be hard to say what consequences they might bring.

It was still impossible to say who would win if the Mawsworn army fought the Burning Legion across the cosmos. But if