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Countless bodies lay around, united together by a common name: death. There weren't even enough of the living left to bury the dead! In one fleeting moment, their most valued children were destroyed.
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Because of their misguided casting of spells and drug use, they didn't believe until it was too late. As a result, all their oldest males were destroyed. It was only then that they acknowledged your people to be your children.
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It was then, while everything was wrapped in a gentle silence, and half a night had already passed,
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that your all-powerful word had leaped down from heaven, the royal throne. Like a fierce warrior, he had entered the land that was marked for destruction.
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He carried with him your unchanging declaration like a sharp sword. He stood up and filled everything with death; he reached the sky while still standing on the ground.