Rage of a Ruined King: Zara [Chapter 12: Madness of Man]
Since this is one of the epic chapters, let me know what you guys think. I am always looking for a way to improve, but for this chapter in particular it's of utmost importance since there will only be three other chapters like this.
As a forewarning, this chapter is very suggestive in an explicit way. So viewer's discretion is advised. I know I haven't warned for my use of swearing, but this can be explicit in a jarring way, given that this is a chapter focusing on 
Evelynn's perspective.
[slayer-pantheon-rainbows]
"Hah... Hah..."
Dripping from the railings.
"Mmm, OH!"
Bodies filled with rigor.
"Ah! AH!"
She squirms spasmodically.
"Hel... m-"
Violently vacating her violation. Leaving her void hollow and barren. Gasping in exhilaration, a demon looms with a bloody spike. It leers at the corpse she made.
"Was it too much?" A superfluous sigh is uttered; as it seems ecstasy escapes once again. "I guess everyone has it rough on their first time."
It licks the salty juices off, from the blood-soaked spike. "Not like I'd ever know." As it leaves the body, with a hole gouged beyond intestines from her nether-regions.
"A genocide was worth it. I haven't felt this excited in decades, but..." Mimicking her form, she strides onto the guard rails, leaning on a dead man hanging over it. "That feeling, I haven't felt in centuries."
She brushes her fingers along her own nether-regions feeling... Nothing. "Tch, how disappointing." She leers down at the dispute down below, reaching out with her tendrils longingly.
"Although, Mr. Ghost, I couldn't let you hog all the fun, you made this trip worth it all. I wish I could have more fun with you." The succubus pouts as she reaches her hands to the tiny green flame down below. Clenching her fists she slams into the dead man's arm. "If it wasn't for that sly bitch."
"Seriously, trying to cheap shot me?" She hammers the man's arm.
"Damn pussy!" She batters through flesh.
"Ruined my fucking moment." His arm dangles as it hangs by a thread of skin.
"Next time I see her, I'll-" Her hand stops in its descent. Frustration fades. "Wha- What is this?"
It's something new, something that's never happened before. She rubs herself again. "I feel something."
Rubbing it harder, she convulses as she abruptly curls into a ball. "Hoh..."
She unclenches her fist as she reaches abreast. Rubbing more gently this time, she is roused into a state of vulnerability.
"Ah! Hah... This feeling." Writhing and moaning, she continues her escapade instead of making her escape. Anxiously thinking about the threats around her she states, "I know I shouldn't, but... But! I finally- AH!"
Dull thuds and moans resound through the morbid factory. "Oh! Please! Let me... Let me!" She rolls round as she reaches heights beyond her imagination.
"OH! This- It's happening! It's really happening!" She screams as she witnesses a despair she's never felt before. A complex web of chaos strides through her veins as she reaches the apex glory. "I'm- AHHHHHN!"
Thuds grow louder as she descends from the peak. "Hah... Hah. HAH. HAH! AH!" Yet her breaths hyperventilate further. "I- I can't-" She starts the engine again as painful emotions consume her being.
"I can't stop! Aiee- I can't!" Ravaged by her lust, the bestirred-body continues seeing craving as she satisfies carnal desires backed up for millennia. The factory rooftop shrouds itself further in darkness as thuds become stomps rising to the playful demon.
"I'm- It's happe-!" Cut off by ecstasy, she collapses on the metal ground, dazed in afterglow.
"Are you serious?"
The revenant glares at the horny harlot laid strewn on the metal floor.
"You get off to this?"
The broad blushes blazingly as her burning desire was caught. Tears well up in her eyes as she covers her flushed face with her whip lashers, and she continues, yet again.
"Wh- Are you fucking kidding me? You're at it again?!"
"I- I can't... help it. You make me feel... you make me FEEL-!" Evelynn halts mid-sentence, writhing in relief.
"What?" The ghost asks emphatically, stretching an open-palm outward. "What do I make you feel?"
Panting in exhaustion as droplets stream from her forehead to the helix of her ear, rivers gush down her closed eyes, flowing to her earlobes. Her breast heaves as beads of sweat also descend her bosom. The droplets rise and fall from her whip while wiping the sweat from her brow. Benevolently brushing her thighs, her insides gush as drops drip from her fingertips. Her body heat is cooled by the cold metal surface she resides on as liquid slips through the gaps between her body into the small holes, dotting the ground she lays, descending to the dark depths of the factory.
Unable to express this experience in words, Evelynn responds with a gentle smile. "You make me feel."
She stretches her limbs, refreshed by this feeling of envigoration. "You're a special someone, you know. What's your name again, Mr. Ghost?"
"Zara," he answers while he strides forward. "Zara is the name."
"Well then Zara," Evelynn prances upright and struts towards the revenant proclaiming. "I've been looking for you for a long time now."
The dull thuds of metal resounds as Zara steadily progresses.
"I'm still skeptical, really. I can't feel a thing normally, because it's 'normal.' Yet, you've come and ignited my senses." She shivers in the afterglow. "To think someone like you even existed. Where were you all my life?"
"Dead." The revenant stands an arms length away from the demon, amongst other fellow deceased. "Is that all?"
Evelynn blinks in bewilderment, grimacing as she gripes, "Is that all? Don't be so cold now Mr. Ghost. Weren't you the one who wanted to chat with me?" She stares at his fire at length, only receiving the crackling flames as a response. "Okay fine, I'm sorry if you're mad, but this was necessary. I just, well I can't feel anything if it's not pain."
The ghost scans the hollow husk-humans that lied around the perimeter of the operator box. Men and women hollowed out from their pelvis inward. A hollowing process, hallowed by the spears she shown.
"When you said you were coming here, I couldn't let you have all the fun now. I waited for an opportunity like this for a long time see." She curls her tendrils around him with an earnest smile. "But now all of that is over my dear! Yo- hah... You make me feel something without the pain."
"You can't believe how hard it was trying to exist in a peaceful world. Crafting the greatest hardship just to feel a bit of anything at all." Evelynn tears a up a bit as she slowly succumbs to ecstasy from contact with Zara. "I don't want to lose myself. Fading from this world as if I never even existed, I just can't. Hah... you said it yourself love. My identity is the most important thing to me, and it's something I can't change."
Although the seductress tries to inch her way closer, "Hnnh!" Zara pushes her face away.
"Back off bitch."
The demon is shoved three yards away, knocking a hollowed carcass into the furious flames below.
"Grr, you want to play rough, huh?" Evelynn growls as she is denied her feast.
"Evelynn," She lightens up, taken aback by how boldy Zara addressed her. "Do you think you can kill me?"
The mood died with his question of death. Yet even so, she was riled up and could not think straight.
"Come on now, this isn't a matter of life and death..." Evelynn paused as Zara lends an arm to her.
"I am willing to forgive you for your transgressions." The man beckons her. "Come. I will make you mine."
These were the words Evelynn so desperately wanted to hear. She couldn't hold back any longer, she needed to satisfy the primal need. Yet when she took his hand, she struck her soul.
Evelynn lunged backwards instinctually, panting out of breath, panicking out of depth. She looked at Zara's outstretched hand, the one she took. Nothing was strange about it, yet it was as if something took a bite out of her soul, amidst the shadows.
"So that's how it is going to be." Zara sighs in grevious disappointment. "I was willing to forget this ever happened, but you will not give me this luxury."
"B- But I can't help it!" Evelynn yelled in her defense. "It's who I am!"
"Don't compare yourself to me." The ghost grounds her down. "There is a fundamental difference between you and I. A difference that makes you useless to me."
Zara begins emitting a dark shroud as a black mist fills the factory. "You've never died."
"You've reminded me of something I tried so hard to forget." He hollers as he strides towards her.
"You think I came without the pain? HAH! I've got all the despair in the world to spare. Do you want to know why Widowmaker?" Zara stomps on metal, two feet in front of the demon. He glows iridescently with an arcane force. "I'm a widower. I am the man who ruined the nation when love was lost. I am The Ruined King."
"So, I'll ask you one more time." Zara reiterates as the shadows of the mist hound her down. "Do you think you can kill me?"
As the mist consumes her soul. Evelynn realizes that not even the darkness is her ally anymore. This was the first time Evelynn feared for her life. "GRRAH!" She lashed out at him ferociously and disappeared from the factory.
"Ahh... How uncharacteristic of me." Zara grabs at his chest, a pain welling within, not by any physical injury. "I must be going berserk yet again."
Memories of morbid moments flooded his mind. There were no bodies on the ground, only her. Her lively self, seared in a sticky glistening red sheen. She was there, she was everywhere. A hundred forms, a hundred pleads, a hundred moments. All of her asked but only one thing, "Kill me."
Chanting in unison as all were the same. Yet all were insane. No one here but Zara to blame. It was all so clear. The illusion of his was the cause of fear. The Black Mist pours like steam from the kettle. Pressure spews out of a man filled with mettle.
He could not forget, that was a given. The mistake he made cannot be forgiven. For as long as he lived this life thus far, never had rage come up to par. Yet when he bore witness to dying love. He could see himself, and his beloved.
Beams of light from the windows up above shine down on Zara amidst the sheen of bloody corpses. "It's a beautiful day outside." Zara reaches towards the light and with an arcane pulse a vortex appears, revealing Evelynn in her escape. "It would be a shame to snuff it out. Yet..."
Zara clenches his fist as the mist converges upon him and the portal. "Nothing will stop me from reaching you." Darkness, engulfing the factory in midnight, spews forth in a search for shadows that beckon. "Now, where the hell do you think you're going?"
Zaun Falls Down https://youtu.be/E2JaYu3oZoM I feel my heart racing. Don't know if he's chasing. Can't stop now. Keep running. Tattooed leg is showing. Need to hide with something. Is he even coming? I think I have lost him. Slow my pace, to rest...
0:14 Darkness is encroaching. Death is surely coming. Daylight dwarfed to nothing. Gate to Void is opened.
0:21 Can't stop for a moment. With this monster trailing. Must escape their clutches. I won't let her take me.
0:27 Passing through the ridges, of Zaun's greatest bridges. Mankind casually strolling. Demons are patrolling. Daylight has arisen, from this shadow prison. I'll try to mislead him, as I reach toward freedom.
0:40 I rise (Broken through, the darkness.) beyond crisis. (Light of day upon us.) To towns (Dusty town enlightened.) they reside in. (Over slums, a haven.) Skyscrapers, (Human form is taken.) your highness. (Dashing over houses.) Perfect place (Upon the crafts of air.) to hide in. (I see Piltover there.)
0:54 So, I climb up bridges. Stairway towards heaven. Fleeing from this madness. To reach my safe haven. I reach out to the heights. I reach out to the sun. I reach out to the light. Then I was overrun.
1:07 Tattoo started glowing. As my mark was burning. Searing through my garments. Tattooed leg is showing. Ultraviolet light. Burning out the dark. Can't see anything. Shrouded by the spark.
1:21 When did I get marked? I don't even know. There's no time to think. Stunned by dazzling glow.
1:27 (His attempts were scorned.) Hand launched from the light. I evaded it. "Is that all you got?" Oh no, it was not. T'was then, I was taught. Onslaught will not stop. (Mankind's wrath is born.) Momentous strength was shown. As my ground was blown.
1:40 I can't handle this. That man's fist is a bomb. I pass by shattered lands. Broken by his pound.
1:47 Rising from the ashes of his melted ground. Zara takes his sword, dashing with great resound. Crashing corridors. Busting buildings down. Laying waste to all, as he reached the hall. That I sidled in, to stymie his resolve. Tactics wearing thin. Plans of mine dissolve.
2:07 As Zara barrels through, catching up to me. I don't know what to do. I can't seem to break free.
2:13 He rose corrupted sword. Above his burning crown. Chanting in accord, with darkness coming down. The fire of his life, brushing past his blade. I am filled with strife. Phenomena was made.
2:26 Engulfed inside the light. His sword became his crown. Shining with his life. Booming with his sound.
2:33 Darkness kept surrounding. Juxtaposing light. Outlines start to fade. Contrasting the night.
2:40 (Zara's) Sword of light divine. Piercing through the dark. Kept on glowing bright. Kept on growing large.
2:47 (Anger.) Monumental size. Zara drawing near. There's no time for tactics. Time to brace for impact.
2:52 (Do you fear me now?)
(Where's that guile now?)
3:06 Barely escaped crisis. Soul was seared while vaulting. O'er the blade of judgement. All my power wasted. Must go somewhere safer. Citizens are browsing. I blend in with humans. At the Bridgewaltz station.
3:19 (evelynn...) Rays of light well scattered. Shining through the bridges. Made by mankind's greatest. Intricate design. (Evelynn...) Flourishing with shoppers: Zaunite, Piltovian.
Cultivars are brimming. In this gentle light. (Evelynn.) Rays of light are dimming. Shadows blot the bridges. Darkness fills the land. Like a parasite. (EVELYNN!) I hear someone screaming. As the dot from heaven. Roars my name aloud. How far is he willing?!
3:46 Night falls, (Darkness fills the heavens.)(As all of creation,) o'er the nations. (Overshadowed nation.)(By the ancient power.) As the (King of kings devour.)(Blimps and buildings falling.) Skyward Sword, (Scattered by explosion.)(Barons try to stop it,)
3:59 Crash through (with corrosive rockets.)(Chaos reigns supreme as,) grandiose bridges. (rubble keeps descending,)(Speeding up the comet.) Zaun falls... (Nothing shall impede.)(Heaven's plunge toward hell.) Down. (Destiny immortal.)(Slay the infidel.)
4:12 Descend, (Skyscrapers have fallen.)(Pillars are collapsing.) Ark of Terror. (Everything converging.)(Toward the demonspawn.) Fueled by (Evelynn escaping?)(That's not gonna happen.) tragedy. (Where can Evelynn hide?)(There's no place in hell.)
4:25 Bow down, (She must face her fear.)(The cruise ship Zara steers.) Before Power. (She can't disappear.)(Zara's drawing near.) I have... (She stares at death in length.)("This is gonna sting.") Lost. ("So this is the strength,)(of The Ruined King.")
Storyboard 0:00 Evelynn dashes through empty streets in panic. A near escape from her clutches. 0:14 The Black Mist pours in like a tidal wave, stretching beyond Evelynn. 0:21 Evelynn transforms into her demon form to blitz past the darkness. 0:27 She eventually reaches the complex bridges of Zaun with Zaunites casually strolling far below. 0:40 Evelynn breaks past the Black Mist into the light of the crowd and disguises herself in the likeness of a rowdy thief. She weaves past the large bystanders elegantly. 0:54 Evelynn begins scaling up the bridges, towards Piltovian heights. 1:07 Her tattoo starts glowing. 1:21 The number of people around her dwindle to nothing as her surroundings become darker. 1:27 The tattoo reaches apex brightness as the Black Mist bursts with an explosion of light, stunning her. She recovers barely in time to avoid Zara's arm to clutch her in an Undying Grasp. 1:37 Though Evelynn takes glee in the fact she evaded Zara, his hand slowly crashes into the ground with enormous force that sends her packing with its shockwave. 1:47 Evelynn immediately sprints in fear as Zara slowly rises from the crater that is smoldering from radioactive decay. Zara takes his stances as he grabs his sword. Low thuds can be heard as Zara barrels towards Evelynn with tremendous momentum. 2:07 Zara comes into view of Evelynn as he gains on her with profuse pressure that shatters the windows he passes by. 2:13 Zara raises his moldy ornate sword with it's blade wrapping behind his flame as he charges in the likeness of a ninja. 2:26 Zara's sword begins glowing from the flames of his life that engulfs his sword as he dashes in the night. 2:33 The juxtaposition of his sword and the world becomes much greater as his sword reaches ultraviolet levels with pitch black surroundings. 2:40 His sword grows in size as a brief flash of light reveals he is closing in 10 yards away from Evelynn. 2:47 Another flash of light reveals that he is a mere 5 yards away from her. Yet, his visage is muddied in total darkness with the exception of jagged lines to delineate his malevolent force of will. The size of his sword begins stretching beyond the 5 yard disparity that divides them, and it shows no signs of stopping. 2:52 The monumental claymore reaches full capacity, as it even clatters on the shingles of the roof opposite of his arm. Zara cleaves through the entire left wall of structures that topple upon the apocalypse that befalls the demon before him. Evelynn barely hurdles over the grandiose cleaver as she scalds herself from the blistering blight of pure light. She even topples, despite the blade missing her, as the blade comes crashing into the right wall again, forcing rooftops to crumble down upon her. 2:59 The behemoth blade rises upon the shattered rooftops into the sky, as the blade sunders through the scenic household at the edge of Bridgewaltz and at the end of the line. 3:06 Evelynn makes her miraculous escape as she is forced to take to the shadows to escape the claws of death once again. 3:19 Evelynn strides out of the darkness, into the sunlight that beams upon the great market of Bridgewaltz through the intricate shadows that scatter upon the bazaar from the great bridges above. 3:30 Just when Evelynn thinks she is finally safe within the midsts of the crowd, she notices the shadows spotting the stones becoming more numerous. 3:40 With a roar and concerned looks of the Zaunites around, Evelynn gazes up in terror and awe as a tiny dot in the sky begins to blot out the entire sun. 3:46 People around begin to panic and she stumbles upon realizing that the tiny dot ended up being his sword. Yet now, boasting the colossal size of an entire cruise ship. A cruise ship comet crashing down upon the bridges as Zara roars her name. 3:59 Darkness engulfs the sky as the highest bridge comes toppling down from the weight of devastation, dragging down buildings that were supported by the bridge's structure. Evelynn falls into her demon form as she makes her descent into the depths of Zaun in hopes to avoid the metric ton rubble that is sure to come. 4:12 Zara's descent from the heavens accelerates as Chem-Barons attempt to blow up the cruise ship comet with rockets and bombs that only serve to shroud the entirety of Zaun in rubble as even more bridges, buildings, monuments, and Zara come crashing down to hell. Evelynn can do little to evade the numerous projectiles, descending from the skies. 4:19 Evelynn is struck by a corpse heaved by a misfired rocket. She is knocked back into the remains of a bridge jutting into her back. 4:25 She is forced to gaze right up at the gleaming sword of judgement that is too close for comfort. 4:32 The sword begins spiraling down to reach her as she resigns to her demise, falling into the deepest crystal caverns of Zaun. 4:38 The comet explodes upon impact, leaving behind no trace of the enormous blade that came crashing into Zaun. Leaving behind a canyon in the catastrophe. A geological disaster that remains shrouded in mystery as it brings to the splendorous magic that will give rise to the fallen nation.
Thanks for reading chapter 12, Madness of Man. Well hot diggity damn, it's the first epic theme song I am going to make for this story. [sg-kiko] Honestly, I didn't feel like voicing it since I know this kind of stuff removes all the freedom of self-interpretation. Yet I had observations that the lyrics were hard to follow, so I decided to voice it to make it easier. I have four epic themes songs planned for this story, there's gonna be more action to come!
This right here is my version of how exactly the "geological disaster" at Zaun occured. Zara pulled no punches this time. Hell, he bored a canyon into Zaun. This event right here reveals the fullest extent of Zara's offensive strength in lore. A cataclysm capable of destroying an entire city merely by dropping into it.
Zara may sound like a justice freak thus far, but this shows that Zara is fully capable of being unreasonably violent. People died. Many people died. He was fully aware of the costs, yet he went for it anyways. It's not a product of him becoming a ghost or anything like that. Chaos is natural to Zara, even in life.
Evelynn may sound a bit... Innocent? No, that can't be right. She couldn't possibly be innocent, right? Well, the thing is, Evelynn is the embodiment of finding a purpose for existence. Before she felt the immense despair of the Rune Wars, it was as if she never existed at all. Yet, once she found her place in the world, that place started fading away. She is in a struggle to maintain her existence. Thus, when she found someone that gave her life meaning effortlessly, naturally she would be elated.
The tattoo teleportation stunt Zara pulls is exactly what Runic Redux is in Zara's kit. The two strikes Zara makes towards Evelynn represents the second and first strike of Blade of the Reborn King. As for the cruise ship comet... [zombie-nunu-hearts] Sorry, that's not in the kit. [zombie-nunu-bummed]
I'm going to make a change to the table of contents to make it easier for me to update. Since I need to create links on each chapter, the effort needed to update links has been exponentially longer. So, to mitigate the excessiveness of this, I'm only going to link every chapter of the current arc while linking at least the first chapter of separate arks. It requires an extra click, from the readers, but it makes it a hell of a lot easier on me.
So uh. I gotta say it. Say what? Well obviously spoiler warning. Avoid spoiling future chapters. Do not talk about this chapter in previous chapters. Discussion of this chapter belongs in this chapter or future chapters. This isn't so much anything I personally care about, but rather as a courtesy for readers who do care about spoilers.
Zara, the Cryptic King is a custom champion I made to represent my vision of The Ruined King, as clearly shown in the title currently. I haven't said this before, but keep in mind that Zara is my very first custom champion. As in, I had no practice at all with any other custom champions, so keep this in mind for scrutiny.
When mankind falls, watch the Worries of Women in the next chapter.
Arc 1: Our King Returns
Arc 2: Method to the Madness 9. Dawn upon Zaun 10. Good Morning Ghost 11. Knight of the Full Noon 12. ** Madness of Man** 13. Worries of Women 19. Echoes in the Deep
. It's been years now. This guy needs his story published, no matter what the order. As of now, I have added the final chapter to Zara's journey in his new life, aptly named FINAL. Let me know what you think.