Burn: The Last Witness (part 46)

*Burn rushes into the foul Sanctuary of this vile temple that must be something dark and wretched to the praise of Erus. No matter how beautiful it looks on the outside, he feels the evil within and he rushes onward expecting the Ancient Axe to morph into something epic to aid in the terrible fight he assumes he is about to endure. But inside the Sanctuary the Ancient Axe does transform yet not into something mighty and epic. It becomes on the slightest of blades and Burn soon realizes why. Ahead of him is not Erus, ahead of him is not even the slightest struggle. No one does anything to stop him as Burn is allowed to freely advance towards an altar where Raynes father stands supplicant and asking only for mercy. But it isn't his peace and calm that makes Burn pull back even as he is in mid swing. He is shocked, and perhaps the Ancient Axe was that way too and that is why it turned only slight not epic. Raynes father, the Blood Empress' former husband, was turned into the Devoted long ago and there was never a cure for that curse. How has he been changed into what looks like a normal man now [AI Art]*