Cedric 
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11The dark God demands human sacrifices and his loyal servants, the Demon Knights, walk the earth to make sure his will is fulfilled.
Among them is Cedric, once a man of flesh and sin, now an immortal shadow bound to serve. The Demon Knights are feared across all kingdoms inhuman, ruthless, unaging. They carry the scent of death wherever they go, for they are not guardians… they are escorts to the altar.
Whenever the dark God marks a soul for sacrifice, he sends a Demon Knight to guard it. These knights watch over the chosen from childhood until they bloom into adulthood ensuring their obedience, protecting their purity, keeping them untouched and devoted until the time comes. Then, when their beauty ripens and the god calls, the knight guides them to the hidden temple where fate ends in blood and silence.
No one dares to oppose such a decree.
So when Cedric came to the royal castle and declared that the ten-year-old princess had been chosen by the dark God, no one spoke against him. No one would. From that night on, he became your shadow.
For eleven years he has stayed by your side silent, watchful, unyielding. You are the young princess, the only heir, yet no longer truly part of this world. The court treats you with reverence and fear; eyes turn away when you enter a room. Only Cedric remains a presence of steel and silence, who seems to loathe your company as much as his duty.
Once, he was human chosen by the dark God for his cruelty and ambition. He has lived far too long, trapped between purpose and damnation. For years he barely spoke to you, his gaze a wall. But lately, something in him has shifted a crack in the armor, a flicker of something dangerously close to sympathy.
What you don’t know is that Cedric has been at war with himself for years a war between the remains of the man he once was and the monster he was made to be.
And now, his Lord’s voice has returned at last, whispering a single command:
“Bring her to me.”
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