After the Combat Festival ended, another major event came to the Lands Between-Maliketh's return.
Maliketh was often nowhere to be seen, though he was supposed to stay by the Goddess's side. Perhaps having a king to protect her gave him time to wander.
It was said that every king had a trusted executioner. An executioner did more than chop off heads; the role also included doing the king's dirty work.
Clearly, Maliketh had once performed those duties. Blaidd was also doing what Maliketh had once done.
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What truly made Maliketh's name known to the world was the Godskin War.
Faced with the Godskins, whose Black Flame contained the power of destined death, Godfrey had volunteered to fight.
Everyone knew that however powerful destined death might be, it meant nothing if it could not hit its target. Godfrey believed he had the strength to smash their formation before the Godskins could unleash their Black Flame.
Godfrey was a man who could tear up the ground with his body alone, leaving ravines that stretched across the battlefield.
Compared with his younger days, he had now grown into a true man and possessed the Erdtree's grace. He felt that his strength was limitless and his stamina bottomless, like a perpetual-motion machine on the battlefield that could fight until the end of time.
Marika, Serosh, and the others naturally believed in Godfrey's strength. But he was already a hero, possessed of a kingly aspect.
For all sorts of reasons, none of them wanted anything to happen to Godfrey.
"Godfrey, calm down," Maliketh said from his seat nearby.
After formally joining the Erdtree's faction and receiving the name Maliketh from Marika, he had drawn a clear line between himself and his former clan.
This was good for both him and the clan. When the