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Unveiling my newfound strength I opened my eyes to release the tension that had been building up within my body.
Feeling reenergized I couldn't help but smirk.
I knew now that I wouldn't be dying today.
But the threat wasn't over which ant I still had to act.
My ordinarily crimson eyes ca to life as a bright red amber illuminated them seemingly causing a fla to appear.
My vision remained the sa but those who glimpsed into them froze over in fear.
Instantaneously the swarm of birds that were about to feed on stopped mid-air and fell to the ground unable to remain in the air.
Cowering on the floor the birds began to writhe in pain as they shook uncontrollably.
Yet this was just the beginning as a second later I felt a connection form that had been slowly developing all this ti.
Like a mana contract and Nightfall a new force put pressure on my mind as I felt a new entity reveal itself to .
Reeling in power I called upon that source and that's when a real change happened.
Rather than power being produced solely from my eyes, the red mist began to leak out of my body.
As if I was just a mold for containing the mist it quickly freed itself. Slipping out the cracks of my skin the force made itself known to the world.
The red mist continued to build up and resonate with my body until a large portion of it filled the forest.
All birds swept up in the mist dropped to the ground, while any of the few surviving monsters had their eyes dim before they too collapsed.
After a single minute, the hectic war ca to an end and the once calm and silent forest reerged.
The few thousand birds that passed continued to move down the hill but having more than third quarts of their numbers mowed down they began to disperse.
Those further away that had yet to react to and get in range of the mist realized how deadly it was and avoided it at all costs.
Together the remaining birds gathered in the air barely casting a small shadow before flying off leaving the mountain behind.
Once they were gone I looked around at the carnage and began to laugh.
"Ha, haha!"
I laughed and laughed wholeheartedly overwheld by emotion.
"That's it Nightfall, you really exceeded my expectations!"
Unable to control myself I threw my head back and laughed to the point that tears began to form in the corner of my eyes.
When I was finally done I dropped my head still having a terrifying smile on my face.
"Ah, how good it feels to turn past mistakes into fuel for future success."
All this while the red mist continued to layer throughout the forest as if it was an all-natural fog encompassing everything within it.
But from the mist, a shadow of a figure began to rise from under my feet.
I watched as the person ford while I raised my head to match its own.
[Are you ready to acknowledge ?]
In front of stood a mysterious person shrouded in red hiding all its features.
"Must I?"
The figure took a single step forward and closed the distance between us until its forehead was a re centiter from touching mine.
[Yes.]
I sighed.
"Go ahead, it's all in the past anyways."
After saying that the figure leaned forward and our heads touched connecting our two worlds together.
At this point, the veil that was bidding the futures of the figure broke away and the identity of the person was revealed to .
When it backed away and allowed to get a good look at it I wasn't surprised by what I saw. After all, deep inside my heart I already knew the truth of the matter.
Staring back at was none other than… myself. However, it was a much different vision of .
The boy who had red wrapped around his body was from my past life.
It had the sa body, the sa face, and the sa aura I gave off back when I wasn't in my novel.
The person standing before was the sa person I was before I transmigrated.
But there was a fact that couldn't be ignored.
"A copy?"
Questioning it I glanced into the eyes of the mimic.
[Yes and no.]
Confused by the answer I was about to ask for an explanation but the mist answered first.
[I am rely a fragnt of what remained from your body.]
"Does that an-"
[Yes, you really died that day.]
I frowned and lowered my head.
I had an inclination that there wouldn't be a way back but being told directly that my body was killed truly sealed any hope I had of getting back.
But I knew I had to get over it, my past life might be over but there was still much I needed to do in the new one.
Pushing aside my feelings I went back to trying to find out new information from the copy.
"You are the curse I made for Evelyn."
[I am, however my creation was much more complex than you can even begin to imagine.]
"What do you an?"
[I am sure you've noticed it already but this world, this novel, this work of yours, it is not so fantasy, it's real.]
I stayed silent.
[You can deny it as much as you want, but the truth of the matter is that this world is real, the people inside of it are real, and the experiences you've gone through are all real. There's nothing fake about it.]
I opened my mouth and closed it, but for so reason, I couldn't find a suitable response to give.
The mist saw that I was giving nothing away so it changed the course of our conversation.
[Enough about that isn't it about ti I explained myself?]
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