Date: Unspecified
Time: Unspecified
Location: Zhongguo (China), Liaodong Province, Shuntian Prefecture, Shenyang City, Imperial Palace, Inner Court
"You are just as beautiful as the first time I met you," the Emperor said with a low voice filled with strange satisfaction as he stood before Corey. "Though I didn't expect it would take me so long to finally make you mine."
For the first time since their battle began, he did not attack after he had finally stepped directly in front of Coryn as she stopped the explosions and showed no signs of retreating. To him, that looked like surrender.
After surviving the storm of detonations with nothing but his golden scale armor, his confidence had grown. The man who stood before the one once hailed as the strongest martial artist in the world no longer felt the need to guard himself, thinking, 'Regardless of her strength and means, she is still a woman.'
