Chapter 322 The Fallen King

"NOOO!!!!" Tyler's scream echoed through the silence, across the endless craters and charred field that had once been Sapphire City's heart. He stood there in the central square—a god among ruins. Tyler's face, expressionless a moment ago in that first moment of shock, twisted slowly into something unrecognizable. His eyes became wide, and pupils dilated with horror that sank deeper with every moment until it reached the core of his soul. "Michelle... is gone," he murmured to himself. The woman whose love had freed him, and whose kingdom he had sworn to protect. He had betrayed his Queen by seeking a crown and throne that were now useless. Tracy, his sister, whom he rescued from abuse, only to let her burn in nuclear fire. Ruth and Hugh, his parents, who had endured so much for him and had finally begun to be happy again. Britta, the last of the Salvatore bloodline, was loyal to him to the end. Isabella. The Gilded Guard. The countless innocents who crowned him King of Petra and put th