"It was you who spread the rumors about the dark lord and the goddess," Belisarius uttered. This would make the most sense now. "It was you who played the humans, letting them fight the beasts and call you the dark lord. You wanted to create the villain to glorify the goddess, you wanted to make everyone believe that she… she sacrificed herself for everyone else when you… when you were the one who ended her life."
And Belisarius believed him.
Oh, he believed everything. However, Belisarius felt that he must not be blamed for believing in him. After all, the Goddess was indeed someone who wanted to sacrifice herself for the humans.
She was a woman who sacrificed her own emotions to achieve power that could defeat an archduke. Belisarius had already prepared himself to sacrifice his own life just to help her out.
