Thunder Shadow had originally been a rising star among the Divine Clan. In terms of strength, he was renowned throughout the clan, with a vast future ahead of him.
Yet such a promising member of the Divine Clan had ultimately chosen to sever his own future, following the clan's sacrificial priest in betraying their people. He fought and killed all the way, protecting many rebel gods. Because of his formidable combat strength, he had constantly faced powerful foes and paid a heavy price.
He had survived several brushes with death, carving out a patch of relative peace for the entire Rebel Divine Clan. There was no need to speak of his merits and hardships; rarer still was that beneath the iron man's exterior lay a tender heart—Thunder Shadow had fallen in love with a woman of the Rebel Divine Clan.
Perhaps it was to protect that woman, perhaps to prove his own strength, or perhaps he was simply dissatisfied with the Divine Clan's actions. In any case, Thunder Shadow's rebellion might have been mixed with much personal emotion and desire, but the bloodshed and struggle along the way were real, beyond denial or erasure.
Yet all of it had been erased.
The reason was an outsider—a human of another race—whom the sacrificial priest had brought into the clan. He had established not a single merit, yet used Thunder Shadow's love for that woman to force him out of the Rebel Divine Clan.
Afterward, without the protection of their foremost expert, the Rebel Divine Clan was shattered in a subsequent encirclement and extermination campaign. Even Pan Lang, who had once boasted so shamelessly, was captured. Seeing the peace they had fought so long and so hard to win destroyed overnight, how could Thunder Shadow possibly remain calm? How could he