"Accursed mad dragon" Evin cursed, idly looking at the horizon, feeling like the incoming army would appear at any mont now.
Suddenly, her focus shifted slightly and a vision of an elderly woman with white hair and silver eyes looming over her appeared inside her head. 'Veidrakar', 'an Authority of a World', 'fucking overpowered' Random strings of thoughts and words appeared along the image as well.
"Urgh" Evin groaned and fell to her knees with a stumble, trying her best to morize the words that appeared in her mind. She then pulled out sothing wrapped in paper and opened it up. Inside, was a caralized golden ball, covered with bits and pieces of nuts, stuck on a wooden stick.
Evin wrote the words down the paper like she always did, munched down on the candy, and began playing around with it inside her mouth. The candy helped her calm down, but she was a bit worried as it was one of the few she had left. No one seed to have the ti to make caralized honey after all.
"Another vision... one from the second world..." he muttered as he wrote.
Since she was born, Evin was able to see mysterious visions in her head sotis. As she aged, it beca increasingly frequent. While in the past, she would have had maybe two visions in an entire year, all of them extrely blurry and cryptic; just the previous month, she had two very clear ones, like the last one.
She divided them into two categories. The first category was a weird world, where no one could use magic, but where everyone instead utilized all kinds of weird and bizarre machinations. She hated these the most, because she would always feel extre loneliness and madness inside them. All the visions relating to this world were always followed by severe depressive episodes as well.
During these incidents, she would beco unbelievably clingy, going almost crazy when she was left alone, reacting in an awfully unreasonable manner if she thought that soone was ignoring her.
Most of her lovers were put away by this behavior after living with her for so ti. At the end, after almost a hundred years, Evin was left with no significant other, and no children to love and nag to.
'But sothing tells that even without these mories and episodes, I would still be alone Hmm...'
In any case, the other category was of a World where there was magic, but it was much too different from how the Magi and the Hexes cast magic. Instead of the Divine Essence, there were things called World energies, which could be derived from sothing called mana.
In those visions, Evin could tell that she was a young child, since every ti they happened, Evin would be looking upwards. Weirdly, she was very, very mature and knowledgeable for her age in these mories.
Thankfully, these mories didn't induce any extre reactions in her, but they were very confusing at tis. And as she grew older, Evin learned to ignore these most of the ti. She once tried to perform cast the magic that these mories showed, but quickly found that they were absolutely useless.
She then ntioned it to her master, but the other didn't really know much about it, only saying sothing superficial, like how so of the Hexes being born special and all. Well, he was a Mutant Magi, who specialized in strength and speed, so he really wasn't the best person to ask about strange mories and visions.
But there was one things that was very terrifying to Evin. She felt like her personality was most of the ti, very similar to the one inside the mories: experienced, cynical, rather selfish, and even cold sotis. This made her think that these mories were of her past life, or sothing along those lines... but weirdly, the things she did in her own life, here on Alvox, were... how should she call it... very different from her personality?
For example, when she was learning to be a Hex for the first ti, she would find herself making the sa stupid mistakes all the ti, even though she clearly understood how it worked in her brain. Like her body would almost automatically perform these mistakes for her, which gave her the feeling like she was almost out of control of her life.
Another example would be how she would act in a way she didn't an to at important parts of her life. The biggest example of this was when she noticed so young magi chasing after her. She clearly saw all his bad spots: his manipulative personality, his irresponsible conduct, his generally asshole like temperant... but when the man actually ca to propose her, instead of rejecting him, she imdiately agreed! Her tone even sounded excited to herself, even though her head was in complete disagreent with her words.
And for whatever reason, Evin was then forced to stay with soone she didn't have a smidgeon of feeling towards, constantly having to deal with his shit. Evin still felt disgust when she rembered these parts of her life.
These monts made her feel like she was just a spectator in her own life. Evin supposed that normally, thoughts like these would terrify soone to death. To think that every one of their life important life choices would be made automatically, like so kind of 'fate', or 'destiny' was imposed upon her. But Evin really didn't feel too overwheld with the idea.
'At least I'm alive,' she would think and try to forget about the matter. At tis, she would even feel glad that most of her important decisions would be made without her concern.
Ironically, whatever she was trying to do here, awaiting the army of undead, knowing full well what they were capable of, this also felt like sothing she wouldn't do normally.
Evin sighed and shook her head while shrugging, with an almost unnoticeable half-smile on her face. At so point, this had beco her go-to gesture as of lately.
From what she understood, her latest lover really liked this particular way she shook her head. He even told her that he first fell for her when she was shaking her head like this at so ball, going so far to call it his first case of love at first sight.
'And weirdly, he was the best of the bunch by far Too bad he died in the war...' Evin thought with so regret. She really felt like she would grow old and have children with him... But unfortunately, the magi was conscripted as part of the Hexmagi Alliance in the first major battle that sparked the Age of False Champions, one that happened between the Alliance and the Geger Theocracy.
The Alliance won, but the Geger Theocracy's Hero, the Child of the Stars, perford his most deadly sacrificial art, teor, to deal a heavy blow to the army of the Alliance. Evin's lover had been caught in this attack and was killed in action.
Hearing the news, Evin expected herself to be heartbroken, but for whatever reason, she was extrely calm. It wasn't like she was completely emotionless, but it was almost like she was used to such deaths happening to her, even though she never experienced the death of soone close to her before that point. The only person she could call herself close to was her master, but the old man was still alive and kicking, no sign of getting a day older. As for her parents, she had never seen them since she was raised in one of the Alliance's special orphanages for young mages.
Thankfully, that was before the Hexmagi Alliance were able to create the Oaths (also before they were mad enough to actually use them), or else Evin would've beco one of the Alliance's loyal dogs, or even worse, one of the Slave Hexes and would have no choice but to die in the final clash between the Hexmagi Alliance and the Princess of Denial.
Evin was positive that said clash would happen sooner or later. She rembered how the Princess' army of undead had begun to relentlessly invade the other countries without even bothering to stabilize its control.
'Well, she really didn't leave anyone alive to rule over, so...' Evin thought cynically.
Evin rembered how two of the Nosk Empire's three heroes tried to perform a sudden attack on the Von, but no one would have guessed that the Princess would actually co out on top. Not only that, she reanimated the two dead Heroes to do her bidding and invade the Nosk Empire, turning all the able Hex and Magi into undead.
After the Princess absorbed Nosk, she had decided to invade outwards, her first target being the Holy Land of Sun. Her army destroyed everything in her path, thodically killing every single person and then razing the cities, every undead hellbent on hunting down every single living being and then turning them into one of their own. Everywhere they went, only the dead remained.
The first ti Evin 'witnessed' this 'conversion', she couldn't stop herself from vomiting. The undead dug up every little place that soone could have hidden in and killed everyone in the most brutal way possible.
Probably the fastest and easiest to die were the children and the newborns. The Divine Essence users would either simply blast them into smithereens with their powerful magic. But the others did not get to feel such luxuries.
n were thrown towards sharp tal spikes that were pulled out of the ground, all of them hoping to hit their heads on the spikes and join the children as quickly as possible. If they sohow survived, they would be left on stakes with the occasional vultures and ravens feeding on their flesh, all whimpering from the unbearable pain.
Slowly dying from the blood loss and shock, they were forced to watch as the won were slowly and ticulously skinned by the undead... The cause of death for the won could be anything from blood loss, hypothermia, or infection, but the ti of their death would always exceed an hour at the least.
But they didn't have it the worst. The worst that Evin saw through her ability were the elderly. They would be put inside a box with agitated rats, bound and gagged, as they could only make muffled grunts, as the rats would have their way with their insides.
As these atrocities happened, Evin would look at the faces of the undead, expecting to see revelry and sadism, but she instead only saw acceptance and grim resolve.
Shuddering from fear, Evin's determination began to waver at the thought that the sa army that was committing these atrocities were about to appear on the horizon. But she had no other choice.
Evin was sure that the Princess planned to wipe out life on Alvox. She didn't know why, but she was convinced she was right. Evin had fled from the Nosk's borders all the way to Khemon here, and every place she left a piece of her soul, she only saw the relentless destruction and death.
'But there were exceptions. There were definitely exceptions. And I fall into those exceptions,' Evin thought resolutely.
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