Novel The Constellation of Ea

Title: The Constellation of Ea
Synopsis
The Witch of Carnage, Levinia, that once devastated the Grand Crusade army sent to kill her for the [Ether Star] in her possession was made to reincarnate as a disowned Princess name Lacie Avagelion 2500 years into the future by the Celestial Lord of Laniakea for unknown reason beside him merely taken an interest in her. So naturally she was befuddled after reincarnation, but she adapted to her new life of living comfortably with her mother in the rural countryside. However, fate comes knocking literally on her doors as she and her mother were invited back to the palace in the capital city of the Valacious Kingdom for the succession tournament to decide the new heir to the throne. As the old King is about to pass away in sickness, a power struggle brews in the darkness, as the long conflict between the Old and New Nobility of the Kingdom reignite once more with Lacie and mother getting drag into the conflict of old grudges left behind since the first Kings failure to reconcile the Kingdoms nobility...
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Martial Arts, and Sci-Fi.
Table of Content

• Prologue
• Chapter One
• Chapter Two

 

Prologue
The Primordial Meaning of Life​

If no one want to read my clumsy attempts to explain entropy and why Life exist in my Universe then you can just skip the prologue as it is just a large information dump on the prehistory setting of my story that will only be relevant very later on.

Spoiler

What is the meaning of Life?


Many had asked this question throughout history and gave an answer to whatever they believe would best fit its definition. But if one were to ask the Gods of this Universe that created life.


They would have said all Life is meant to move from a primary state toward a more complex state of existence to eventually be able to lower a high entropy universe.


Why the Gods would say this, is because Life is nothing, but a tool created by them to fight against the continuous increase in macro entropy of the Universe.


As Entropy is the disorder of free energy in a system where the increase of entropy means there's more disorder or free energy evenly distribute inside a system while the decrease of entropy means there are less disorder or more free energy unevenly distributed in a closed system.


Take for example a piece of paper.


A piece of paper inside of an empty room is at low entropy state because the free energy is unevenly distributed with the piece of paper containing most and the air containing the least. But if you were to burn that piece of paper into ashes and release the heat energy created from the chemical reaction of burning paper into the air of the room there is now an increase in entropy as the free energy within that room is far more evenly distributed.


Like that piece of paper once entropy increases throughout the vast cosmos to maximum entropy.


There will no longer be any complexity in the Universe because all energy will almost be evenly distributed across every square inch of interstellar space bringing the heat death of the Universe where no increase of entropy is possible, and no free energy is available in the system.


After this event, nothing of greater complexity than the quarks of atoms can exist in the Universe, and they will be too far apart from each other that the fundamental forces can no longer make them interact with each other.


So once maximum entropy occurs everything will perish including the Gods that reside in the Universe themselves and thus to prevent the heat death of the Universe the Gods created Life.


Why?


It is because for Life to survive, it needs to adapt, and those that survive the best usually evolve into organisms with greater complexity that will force the free energy within the system to be uneven, and so lower the entropy of the system they reside in.


So the Gods created Life with the goal of reaching ultimate complexity to prevent the heat death of the Universe with entropy reaching maximum and allowing only the most basic quantum particle to exist in the end even if this future would take hundreds of trillions of years to occur.


As to the Gods that live forever hundreds of trillions of years might as well be tomorrow if it is an eventuality in the future of the universe.


Civilization on the Kardashev scale of 1, 2, and 3 they would never even consider the rise of entropy to be a problem because the universe is just too vast and ancient for even the greatest Galactic Civilization to comprehend the reason as to why they need to care about entropy.


As any civilization below level four would be, but a dot in a bubble filled with endless darkness and faint lights far in the distant.


However to a Level Four Civilization like the Gods that rule this Universe and can comprehend its enormity because they control all energy inside the Universe due to their level of civilization.


The continuous increase of entropy until maximum entropy in the Universe is an ongoing threat that they fear and will do anything to curb before they are destroyed by it eventually in the future.


So for these Godlike Civilizations lowering entropy from high to low is their ultimate goal and if they succeed, then it will possibly allow them to progress into becoming a level five civilization and rule the multiverse as they would have infinite time to do anything they desire.


For they had stopped their home Universe from becoming a soup of quantum particle and dark as the outer void due to the continuous increase of entropy and so will not have to worry about the Universe demise dragging them along into oblivion.


So life was created by the Gods to lower the entropy of the Universe and add more complexity to the rest of the Universe to prevent the continuous increase of entropy. But that is not all because even if life flourishes in the Universe and add more complexity with the rise of increasingly advance civilization from intelligence organisms.


The Universe Entropy will once again increase if all free energy has been used by advanced civilizations that have evolved from simple organism after billions of years and the Universe can’t expand any more due to the lack of energy within the system to allow for more expansion.


So the Gods introduce a new energy source, Ether, into the Universe by creating a wormhole that links the Universe to a higher spatial dimension to continue cosmic expansion and give the life in the Universe more free energy to use to prevent entropy from reaching maximum.


This Ether is what humans later call Dark Energy because Ether only interacts with the Universe itself, but not with other matter and energy visible or invisible in this Universe.


So no mortals like the humans could ever measure or witness this mysterious energy permeating through the Universe at their Kardashev scale of zero.


However, they will still know the flooding of this Universe with Ether is taking place as they see the Universe continue expansion accelerating instead of slowing down. But this method would only prevent the Universe entropy from completely reaching maximum and not the solution that will stop the continuous increase of entropy permanently.


For that, the Gods need the rise of complex lifeforms of this Universe.


However despite the Gods showering many lifeless worlds all across the Universe with the seeds of life that might one day achieve sentience and create highly complex civilization.


The hostile environment of the Universe proves to be too much for most primitive lifeforms, and nearly all perish either from not being in the right zone around their home star, a gamma-ray burst that sterilizes the planets, or the massive collision of many debris and even entire worlds.


So in the end, only one planet manage to host life out of the countless worlds, and that was earth existing far away at the fringes of where the Gods wish it had sprouted because the Ether flowing into this Universe hasn’t reached where the earth is in the Universe.


As while Ether may not react with inorganic materials or almost anything in the physical Universe due to it being a foreign energy from a higher dimension.


It does sometimes react with conscious entities for unknown reasons or else the Gods would not introduce this energy into the Universe if all it does it expand the vastness of space and time.


So seeing this failure, the Gods lamented at the result, for they had increased the Universe entropy with only one insignificant success.


As the Gods are part of the Universe after becoming a level four civilization and so for them to interfere inside the Universe a counter reactionary force causes all kind disaster to occur and entropy to increase proportionally to what they had done in the Universe.


However, the Gods did not give up just because they fail to seed many worlds with life in their desired location, but they had another option to use instead as a backup plan.


The Gods would personally create a world within a stable solar system in a location where Ether is plentiful, and that would act as the incubator to the lifeform that they desire.


Once the lifeform on that world matures into complex organisms, they would spread to other planets and fertilizing them with life than protecting them until they are capable of resisting the harsh conditions of interstellar Universe.


This was how the Dragons and world of the Dragons, [Araganus], was created.


This plan proved to be more fruitful than the previous one as the Dragons thrive in their world protected by the Gods from extinction level catastrophe, but with occasional disaster striking when the development of the Dragons needed a divine helping hand to guide them.


The Gods created what is arguably the first magical race of this Universe and using the dragons they were able to seed many worlds with life as the Dragons designed by the Gods to make a diluted form of Ether called Mana that would interact more with the physical universe. But the Gods wasn’t too pleased with just having the Dragons do all the work.


As the spreading of Ether through the vastness of the Universe was slow while the Dragons have reached their evolutionary pinnacle and can’t do any other task the Gods desire.


So the Gods interfere again in the Universe to create a new world with a new magical species that would work alongside the Dragons.


That was how the world of the Phoenixes, [Soloenix], was created.


The Phoenixes was designed to absorb the mana release by the Dragons for millions of years until they reach adulthood and would then fly off into the distant parts of the universe devoid of Ether to become a Constellation of Stars that acts generators to produce more Ether in this universe.


So now the Universe has the Dragons that spread magic and mana to all worlds with the Phoenixes spreading magic and Ether in the Universe by using those worlds as incubators.


Over time many new magical life forms grew in the world visited by the Dragons and Phoenixes like the Demons, Angels, Fairies, Vampires, etc.…


In hundreds of millions of years the Universe was getting filled with magical life, but the Gods aren’t done yet as they realize missing the essential world linking all the others together.


A world that will act as the catalyst to halt the increasing entropy in the Universe.


A world of fantasy that binds all magical life in the Universe together into one place.


A world filled with the endless struggles for survival that will give rise to infinite complexity.


The world of Ea.


However, not even the Gods could foresee everything that happens in the Universe they rule anymore with the introduction of so many different variables in the universe.


As strange worlds begin to appear all the Universe and invaders of great cosmic horror slowly seep through the cracks of this Universe left by the Gods from their many experiments in the universe that resulted in catastrophic failures to find a new energy source before Ether.


So the plans of the Gods brought with it the possibility of salvation or apocalypse waiting to happen for all inhabitants in the universe that only time will tell…

 

Chapter One
The Battle of Catastrophic Plains​

Spoiler

“Is that the place where the Grand Crusading Army will fight the Witch of Carnage forces?”


A hooded figure asked one of his underling behind him.


“Yes sir, both army should be about to arrive on the catastrophic plains as we speak any moments now.”


“Has the report came in on the Grand Crusading Army?”


“Yes sir, the Grand Crusading Army is reported to comprise of 1 million troops with ten Grand Kings and their contracted Dragons, the Great Emperor of Aromies and his nine griffin generals, Six Heroes of Light that defeated the Red Dragon Tyranus, and the Great Hero that slew the Mad God, Roland Talion of Longinus.”


Tsk.


The hooded figure cover in a dark raven cloak clicks his tongue after hearing of the report about the organization comprising the Grand Crusading Army.


“They aren’t playing around that is for sure, but don’t you think this is a bit overkill? Even if that girl destroyed four kingdoms overnight was it necessary for the entire continent to be after her?”


The hooded figure standing at the forefront of the group and the leader task with completing the objective of kidnapping the Witch of Carnage if possible complaint in annoyance at having to complete his mission with all those big shots coming here mention by his underling.


As even he would not dare mess around with even one of those people mention by his underling despite himself being considered part of the upper power echelon in the Glaus continent.


So for these big shot at the top of the food chain on this continent to come personally to deal with a single troublesome girl is a bit of an overkill because while destroying Kingdoms is impressive by any criteria.


The Dragons can also perform the same feats she did and so can all the people coming to the vast silvery plains far in the distance as well.


Why they made such a large army and launch a Grand Crusade to just kill one girl is just incomprehensible to him as the only other time in the history of this happening was when a Demon King of Hell descended upon the world and nearly conquer all of humanity. (Humanity in this world doesn’t refer to humans see Note 1 explanation Below).


So for them to launch a Grand Crusading Army is no different than treating that Witch with the same respect as a Demon King from hell.


“It will be lucky if we can recover her corpse after this… Why did he even bother asking me to do this mission? It is clear that the witch is going to die without a corpse to be found later…”


“Captain the Grand Crusade have arrived.”


Once the leader heard that he saw many flags coming into view vigorously fluttering in the air as the winds on the coming storm blew hard on those flag and a wave humans marching toward the battlefield where their blood will be shed, and their comrades fall.


In the distance up in the layers of clouds, many heads with horns, a long snort, and a mouth full of dagger teeth came into views as those great beasts burst forth from the sky.


Their great wings and body cast a massive shadow upon the already enormous army beneath them as they flew toward the battlefield where they will wreak havoc and surrounds them are many griffins that dotted the sky overshadowed by the Dragons they are following.


Even from a distance of 10 League(55.5 KM) the fear that those Dragons command in humanity and the monsters of this world be felt just by gazing at them.


The Dragons that carries the Ten Grand Kings and the Dragon Army of the Great Emperor that rule the largest empire in this continent has arrived in full force as the magical energy they are radiating make them shine like many brilliant beacons of hope converging under the sun.


However, the brightest of them all has to be the Heroes of Light that shine like a constellation of stars that form the ladle in broad daylight and the Great Hero standing at the top of this world shines like the brightest star in the universe Polaris.


They have all come to slay a single witch that destroyed four kingdoms and massacre its people.


If there were a painting of this mythical visage, it would have to be hung in a grand mausoleum dedicated to just that Artwork.


“Take precaution and don’t let yourself be discovered by them--aack!!”


Before the captain could finish his words.


An immense magical presence unlike any he had felt descended upon this world as if the world had fallen on top of him and bend his knees in prayer.


“This…”


“Captain are you alright?”


“What is this…”


“Captain, please get up the Witch of Carnage has arrived!”



“I see… so that is why he told me to come here…”


From birth, the captain is born with the psychic ability of Magic Clairvoyance that allow him to feel the magical presence of any magician within 20 KM at best. But at this distance, the only one he should be able to detect is the Great Hero Roland that is like a heavy breeze to him, which is impressive but is nothing to worry about as it was expected of him who is a God Slayer.


However, this magical presence was different, he could feel it crashing down upon him even from such distance like he is experiencing the presence belonging to a force of nature and not a human with just an immense amount of magic.


Moments after a thunderstorm form out of nowhere and block out the sun rays as if signaling the beginning of despair to the Grand Crusading Army.


The calm winds from before grew fierce as a hurricane form from a powerful magic disturbance, and the soldiers close to that storm tried with all their might to not be blown away before the battle even begins, however even still, some were lifted off and had to be caught by their companions.


Even the hooded figures had to put up magic shields to not be blown away by the raging winds emanating from the storm far off in the distance.


“Where did this storm come from?!”


“What are you doing idiots put away your magic shields before you are discovered!!”


“Captain we can’t!! Otherwise, we will be flying with the birds once we let our shields down!!”


“Fine… just what is that monster?! How can a Witch do this without any signs of a magic spell being activated?”


Witches and wizards in this world are said to be humans that were sacrificed to a Dragon as an offering for the Dragons protection or favor, but sometimes these sacrificial individuals manage to come back alive and gain immense power given to them by their host Dragons.


However, no recorded Witch or Wizard has been given power that causes the world to shake like this and create a storm that using just Aura won’t be enough to keep you on the ground.


This power is only possible if that Witch had not only gain the Dragons favor but also…


No way...


“Impossible…”


“What Captain?!”


“We need to retreat!!”


“What!?!! What about our mission?!”


“We are not going back to base, but just retreating further from here!”


It was then the captain saw his target for the first time and so despite his underlings not having the same ability he does there eyes shook in fear as they saw that menacing figure under the eye of the storm.


Clad in bright purple Armor made of an adamantine alloy from head to toe, made more imposing by the shroud of darkness fluttering on her back, and on her right hand is a great spear that looks like a lightning bolt ready to smite down the mortals beneath her.


That was the Witch of Carnage.


The Witch that destroyed four Kingdom in a single night.


Even from a distance, it was visible the Grand Crusade was afraid by just being so close to her presence as they felt like he did upon seeing her as if they aren’t fighting a human, but instead a force of nature taken on a human form.


Wahooo!!!


The horn blew from the top of the most massive Dragon back signaling the battle has begun.


At that moment the Captain and his underling can no longer forget the mythical battle that occurs on those plains as if it was burned into their very souls.


They appreciate the bravery of the Grand Crusading Army who charges in the face of terror head-on, but the horrible might of the witch of Carnage was the one that made the most impression.


As she summons an army of lightning giants that descended with a flash of light and sound of thunder accompanying each one of them.


The soldiers beneath those giants were electrocuted if they were far and turn to ashes if they were near, but no one is spared from the hand of death if they were on the battlefield.


Arrows rain upon the Witch from the Archers in the back, but all arrowhead made of mithril stop in mid-air and turned around to kill their shooters.


Magic was fired next, but could not breach the Witch barrier made of coiling lightning around her from all side, and instead, the Nobles casting those magic was burned to ashes with each bolt of white lightning smothering the air as it flew toward them with pinpoint accuracy.


Finally, it was the King's, and Heroes turn to jump in the fray of this battle to prevent the ongoing massacre from routing their troops at this moment by the Witch of Carnage.


The Holy Maiden of Healing in the Six Heroes of Light cast a great holy blessing that heals all those on the battlefield who were on the verge of death or are gravely injured.


While the other five heroes made their assault on the Witch above the battlefield as if she gleefully looking down on the insects, she is slaughtering with each passing second.


The Heroes bravery were supported by the Grand Kings on their dragons from the back that is continuously launching a variety of protection magic to prevent the Witch from successfully raining down lightning upon the heroes and annihilating them like the rest of the army below.


However, beads of cold sweat can be seen flowing down from the Grand Kings face as their magic took the blow from the Witch of Carnage magic white lightning bolts.



At this moment the Hero of Light, Starlight Swordmaster, reaches the Witch and his blade thrust crash into her barrier of lightning sending many sparks flying with each exchange.


The soldiers on the ground seeing this cheered, but they soon realize that despite each thrust made by the Sword that seems to be able to punch a hole through several mountains the Witch of Carnage hasn’t moved a single step from her place.


Then two other attack came from the Heroes of Light, Meteoric Fistmaster and Celestial Pyromaster, the impact of the Meteoric Fistmaster sent shockwave rippling across the battlefield, and the Celestial Pyromaster flames scorch the earth wherever it landed upon.


However, neither attack broke through the Witch impenetrable lightning Barrier and instead both Heroes was sent a counterattack that made them fly across the battlefield like a shooting star and straight into the ground to form a meteoric crater.


The only reason they weren’t dead is that the Holy Maiden of Healing has cast a powerful holy blessing on them before they could breathe their last.


Seeing this enrage the other Heroes of Light, Divine Hammer of Thunder, who struck the witch with his giant golden hammer that could flatten mountains, and Faithful Guardian of Protection, who shielded his comrade from the witches counter attack.


Roar!!


Hearing the Dragons roar the Heroes of Light that led the assault knew that there plan to personally take down the Witch has failed miserably and bitterly retreated quickly as third breath attacks from different Dragons took their place.


This time the Witch did not stand still like before, but unlike everyone expectation, she merely lifted a hand, but it was not to stop the dragon's attacks.


Instead, it was to meet those horrifying Dragon breath attack that could erase the entire battlefield head-on with her own magic.


As a magic formation, the likes of which never seen before on this continent appear all around her rivaling the number of breath fire by the Dragon and each magic formation produce a stunning beam of white light fill to the brim with terrifying magical energy as if she had an endless supply of mana.


The two attacks clashed in mid-air above the battlefield with a bright flash of light, and an immense shockwave was released that it sent the soldiers beneath the clash flying or press down hard into the muddy ground.


The breath attacks made by 30 dragons are having a fierce struggle for dominance with the beam of light release from the witch mysterious magic formation.


However, the struggle for dominance did not last long as the Dragon breath attack was getting pushed back as if to say the Witch is stronger than the might of thirty dragons and seeing this the soldiers below tremble in fear at the strength of the Witch that they are facing with their lives.


As to many of the soldiers here the Dragons represent both as the pinnacle of all species that can use magic in this world and a self-assurance that no matter what happens as long as they are here the tide of the battle will not turn against them.


So seeing the Dragon strong breath attack being push back made even the bravest of soldiers contemplate on deserting, and some already did, but those that didn’t either died from the lightning giants that they are forgetting still exist or had their morale drop to the lowest point.


However, before the Grand Crusading Army was routed by the Witch of Carnage, the final person step in to face the Witch of Carnage.


A step was all it took for him to be in front of the Witch, another step was all it took for his spear to break the lightning barrier that no one could, and his last step combine with his attack sent the once invincible Witch flying like a meteor into the earth below. But she did not crash like she had done with the Heroes of Light, Sundering Fistmaster and Celestial Pyromaster, and instead gently touch the ground as if she was an angel who had chose to descend from the sky.


However, seeing the Witch that once look down upon them like a Goddess in the sky has now descended from her place in heaven, the soldiers who were slaughter like flies by her now storm forward as if they were an unstoppable tide. But proving once again the Witch of Carnage is more of a force of nature than a human she stops the unstoppable wave of soldiers with ease.


Her weapon is still in her hand without moving to guard, and no magic appears to protect her.


She merely gazes at the soldiers with those heavenly cerulean eyes behind her helmet and that was all it took for them to stop as if all their bodies were paralyzed by that divine gaze.



They fell not from weapons nor magic, but from just the gaze of her eyes upon them.


It was as if the soldiers who thought that heavens was close at hand and fell into the pits of hell with that single gaze of her.


“So it’s true… we aren’t facing a Witch, but a Magic God…”


The Great Hero that slain the Mad God, Roland Talion of Longinus descended in front of her, but the one who said those words was the Great Emperor of Aromies behind him.


“Why had a Magic God decided to decimate four mortal Kingdoms in a single night?”


“....”


He asks the Witch but receives silence as her reply.


“So you are not willing to speak of your reasons for doing so I see… then we are wasting time here kill her Roland.”


The Great Emperor gave his sentence to death for the Witch as if he believes his divinity was higher than hers. But he made a grave mistake as he felt his body unable to move.


Then notice the Witch blazing hatred burning his body from the inside out and not any of the Artifact he wore, not even the Damocles on his body, could protect him from that hatred fill gaze.


“Your majesty!!”


Proving that he was worthy of the title of Great Hero that slain a God, Roland quickly notices something wrong and look back to see the Emperor skin beginning to boil as if he was being cooked from inside his body. But even his hand that tried to reach out with the speed of light to save him was only met with an explosive force that smears steaming pile of flesh and blood all over his body in his stupor at what had just happened.


The soldiers who had fallen on the ground immobilize, but not unconscious saw what happened to the Great Emperor that rule the largest and most powerful empire and was like a deity to them has now turned into a skeleton with no divine flesh covering his mortality.


“AAAHHHHH!!!!”


The Great Hero cried in agony at the sight of his beloved Emperor reduce to nothing, but bones and flesh in a flash by the Witch.


Enrage that this had happened and desiring vengeance for his deceased Emperor out of loyalty and hatred for the Witch in front of him.


Roland turns to face the Witch with wrath flowing through his body as his first step towards her exploded the ground beneath him due to the explosive force of his stride.


His spear glow scarlet as if it is responding to his master's rage and lunge toward the Witch with the force to shatter a world before its tip.


Boom!!


After piercing through the Witch with enough force to instantly destroy her body and wreak havoc to the surrounding behind her scattering the ground with deep crimson that painted the earth as if it was a canvas for an artwork made with human blood and entrails.


“What…”


However, something was amiss, and it did not take Roland long to know what is wrong, as he looks at the terrified eyes of the soldiers paralyzed on the ground to realize he had not pierced that murderous Witch and drawn the blood the murderer who took his Emperor life.


Instead, he took the lives of his own soldiers and annihilated those who were caught in the radius of his attack.


“You monster!!!”


Red-eyed fill to the brim with rage, Roland search the battlefield for the Witch who made him a great fool of him on this day and spotted her floating like a God in the sky looking down upon him with those heavenly cerulean eyes as if judging him from what she had trick him do.


“Die for the sins of killing the Emperor and atone for the troops you made me kill!!!”


“....”


Hehe…


Although no one can see the face of the Witch.


Everyone felt she was laughing behind her helmet at the Great Hero who had gone mad with rage toward her.


No one knew this better than Roland as he closes in on her with a single step and this mocking from his most hated enemy to date made him burn deep with hatred toward her.


If his eyes could kill like hers, she would already be dead, but as if she was going to mock him again the Witch only sent a ball of light to meet his attack.


Thinking this was the Witch hubris Roland struck the ball of light without much thought except for the enemy so close to him he only needs to reach out to touch her as if she was his lover.


However, it was his own recklessness that paid the price as the moment the spear touch the tiny ball of light…


An explosive force unseen before in this world history erupted in front of him and engulf him in the blazing sun that has descended into this world.


The force and heatwave of that blazing sun were so strong that all people and solid matter within a kilometer of the battlefield were instantly vaporized or reduced to ashes.


While those farther away felt like their body was scorch by fire and spontaneously burst into flames that require a lot of effort to put out.


Once the blazing sun was gone, only a giant black mark was left upon the earth to prove that what just happened was real.


The Dragons and the Grand Kings are dead as they were incinerated after losing out from the clash with the beams of light created by the Witch of Carnage.


The Nine Griffin Generals are laying smothering on the ground from the lightning bolt that rain down upon as if they were just background characters not worthy of attention.


The Six Heroes of Light were nowhere to be seen and could have possibly been incinerated by the beam of light that killed the Dragons and Grand King.


Even Roland, The Great Hero that was able to knock the Witch down from the sky, is now dead after being engulfed by the blazing sun that had descended upon this world.


Seeing this the remain soldiers ran, in tears, in shame, and in fear at the Witch that had decimated the Grand Crusade with ease as if they were all foolish mortal that challenge a God.


However, as if bring them low wasn’t enough for the Witch, the lightning giant went after the routed army and pick them off one by one as if they were ants to step on in glee.


“This…’’


The captain was at a lost for words as to what he is seeing, and he remembers everything he spoke before is now irony in plain sight.


“What are we supposed to do now captain?”


When his underling asks him that question, he had no way of replying, no he was utterly speechless as he continues to witness the Carnage happening before his eyes.


However, he snaps back to reality soon after someone hit him across the face, and he saw who was the one that did that.


It was his vice-captain that has fear and distress clearly shown in her eyes.


This made the captain understand this situation was understandable for anyone to see let alone the thought of trying to fulfill their mission now as that would be utter suicide.


“Let’s… retreat… What is that?”


When he was about to give the order to retreat the Captain notice a faint brilliance emanating from the rubbles of where that blazing sun had appeared.


The Witch of Carnage notice this as well, but it was too late as she couldn’t dodge out of the way in time and tried to block with her spear.


However, her spear shatters upon contact, and she was then skewered through the stomach after it breaking through the adamantine alloy armor protecting her front.


“What… no way… The Great Hero Roland is still alive?!”


The Captain shout of amazement stunned the rest of his underling, but then he notices something strange.


Despite the Witch had clearly been fatally hit none of her magical creation is disappearing as the storm still rage and so did the lightning giant.


So was she truly fatally struck by Roland spear, The God Slaying Longinus?


“What are we supposed to do captain?”


“Wait and see, if she doesn’t fall down and leave, we will report back to base with failure on our faces, but if she dies from her injuries, we will wait here no matter how long it took.”


After watching the situation continue to unfold, the Captain made the judgment that Roland has died after being engulfed in the Witch attack, but he might have transferred his soul into the Longinus to perform this last-ditch attack on the Witch as a form of spite even after he is dead.


So they watch as the Witch carnage slaughter every single soldier she could find remaining on the catastrophic plains until a mountain of the dead was made by her lightning giants after finishing her command to the last detail.


The Witch standing on top of that mountain finally took off her helmet after seeing the battle was over, her beautiful face was a sight to behold, if she wasn’t standing on top of a corpse mountain, she could even be said to have the elegant look of a Goddess.


A cough!


The Witch puke blood and she finally dropped down from her injuries, but she isn’t dead.


No, the Captain could still feel that huge worldly presence emanating from her, and so he doesn’t dare or let any of his subordinate approaches her thinking she was dead just yet.


His judgment was proven to be right as the hand of the Witch of Carnage move holding what seems to be a piece of her spear and she spoke with sorrowful words and a lonesome smile.


“I am all alone now aren’t I Brionac?”


‘Brionac? Is she talking about her spear?’


“If you were still with me you would say in such a smug voice, ‘Of course you stupid girl if I weren’t here you die alone.’”


‘She must be talking about someone else right? Or was that weapon that special to her?’


The captain thought as he listens in on her final words and saw tears beginning to flow from her eyes as she weeps by herself talking to the fragment of her weapon.


“I thought God was the reason I was hated, I thought it was nobles that I was hated, I thought it was the Monarch of this world, but even when I killed all those that are Holy, Noble, Royal and slew the Gods. People still hated me… they all still hated me… ”


Of course, they did…


You are a monster that destroyed an Army capable of bringing down a demon king from hell and so that makes you worse than the Demon King from long ago.


“You are my only remaining connection to this hateful world, but even you are gone now… ”


‘She must have gone crazy or is that weapon something special?’


“I am now truly alone in a world that hates me I see…”


The captain told his underling that once she dies, they will also collect the fragments of her spear from before that was destroyed in battle.


So they waited…


They waited until the storm was clear from the sky…


They waited until the day was over and in the starlight...


They waited until morning and the next night…


Finally, they had to wait no more as the Witch of Carnage has died on this plain soak in blood, and with her death a world in chaos awaits…

*Author’s Note 1: Humanity in this my world doesn’t refer to regular Humans like in other fantasies, but any Elves, Dwarves, Beastmen or just any being that has a humanoid body in this world and so the race of regular humans are called Ruman.

 

Chapter Two
The Witch Reminiscent In Limbo​

Spoiler

“This won’t do…”


In a realm beyond the comprehension of all mortals in this Universe.


“This simply won’t do…”


In a place of the Universe that only the True Gods can enter freely at will.


“The story of an individual as exquisite as her dying like this simply won’t do…”


In a room filled nothing, but endless doors on both sides and a single black desk made out of materials that are so rare to find in this universe that using it to make a fancy table could be considered an egregious waste of the metal that is Aetherium.


“Hmm… I simply can’t let it end this way, and so I got to find a way to bring her back onto the center stage to make the next story more interesting, but how?”


It is a faceless entity with a humanoid figure, but if one were to stare at this entity, he would appear fuzzy as if he wasn't composed of solid matter from head to toe and instead was closer to a gas taking the form of a humanoid.


The entity frown as it stares into empty space and put down the newspaper filled with many characters continuously rearrange itself at the speed of light on the paper surface.


The entity then snap its gray fingers as if it had an idea and then as if many other had heard of his plan they materialize inside of his room.


Furniture that wasn’t there before appeared the same moment that these gray entities materialize at the call of the one at the desk in the center.


“Why did you call us?”


“Now XXXX you should call us once in a while if you were to just host a meeting like this…“


“Yeah, we thought you would be spending the next billion years reading the Chronicle of Ea without going outside to do any work as the Lord of Laniakea.”


“Sorry, but I am here to make a request of you guys to help me find a soul vessel that has just recently died.”


“Hmm? You don’t do any work for millions of years, but is now asking us to find you a deceased individual soul vessel?”


“I promise I will do my work if you do as I say and get me that soul.”


“Huh… Sure boss, but we will have to negotiate with those guys in the Six Realms of Death and so what are you willing to pay for their cooperation?”


“A Galaxy? Ten Galaxies? Hundred Galaxies? Five hundred Galaxies? It doesn’t matter. They name the price for that Soul vessel I will pay.”


“Boss if you keep giving away Galaxies like that you will lose your status as the Lord of a Supercluster.”


“That is just how important that soul is to me.”


“Alright I will go negotiate with them to get that Soul you want, but can I ask why do you want that soul so much? Even if you love her to death giving away Galaxies to the Six Realms of Death to buy her is a bit much even for someone of your station.”


“The Scenario policy is about to begin, and we are the only supercluster to not have a champion to send as a representative. So I found her to be the perfect one that I desire, but she needs more stories to add in her resume if she was to compete with the other representatives. If anyone asks just say that to them and they will stop nagging you guys about this matter.”


“Wow, boss I thought you completely forgot about the outside Universe and us as well.”


“I like the office job.”


“Well, we shouldn’t continue to be a bother as you work so tirelessly Boss.”


“Yeah, yeah, you guys can leave now.”


Once the entity said that the rest of the group that was there before vanish without a trace leaving only him remaining and an intimidating stack of papers filling hundreds of Astronomical miles behind him.


“Huh… I really left a lot of work to do for myself haha…”


The entity says as those stacks of paper vanish at the speed of light each passing second.


“The world hates you huh? A story like that told once is good enough so let's give you a new next life, but in more interesting times for your second appearance at the center stage, my dear.”


The entity said as the newspaper rearrange itself into a story with the title, The Witch of Carnage Reincarnated 2500 years into the future.


“May you live in interesting times and may you shine brightly at the center stage again my star.”


The entity says with a joyful expression as he works to finish all the work he hasn’t been doing for the past millions of years.


However, down in the six realms of death…


“What?! This is unfair I had prepared a whole torture room just for her!!”


“This is a great injustice I was planning on sentencing her to be purge for her sins.”


“Fuck that Lord, this is clearly favoritism that should not be allowed at his station!!”


“Damn I had made a recipe on how to cook her and savor every bit of it now you tell me that absentee weirdo Lord is buying her away just like that!!”


“....”


“Well if no one else is going to write me a paycheck higher than his then I will gladly sell it to him because that soul is in my domain and it is only one soul vessel. A Galaxy is more than enough to pay for one soul vessel even if she is somehow special compared to the others. So tell the Lord I accept his deal in exchange for three Galaxy comparable to the Milky Way.”


“Thank you for accepting my Lord offer I am sure he will be happy to hear the news.”


In a space devoid of physical Light seven entities chatted with one another about the fate of The Witch of Carnage whose soul vessel after death is trapped inside of an Orb that is the physical manifestation of the sixth realm of Death Limbo.


One entity is the same gray humanoid figure that was in the meeting with the other True Gods.


The other entities in this space are hazes with neither shape nor form and only has two voids on their hazy body to act as eyes.


These hazes are the embodiments of Death in this Universe and govern the souls of the dead that come here after they died in the Living world.


The Death of Animosity that governs Gehenna and wants to punish all those that has committed wicked and sinful acts that broken societal taboos in life to anyone who enters his realm.


The Death of Judgement that governs Underworld and wants to sentence all those that has lived a morally gray life filled with good and bad deeds to anyone who enters his realm.


The Death of Desire that governs Purgatory and wants to devour all those that has lived an instinct-driven life despite being capable of reason to anyone who enters his realm.


The Death of Righteousness that governs Elysium and wants to reward all those that has lived a moral and heroic life despite having flaws to anyone who enters his realm.


The Death of Worth that governs Astral and wants to ascertain all those that has lived a unique and fulfilling life despite having regrets to anyone who enters his realm.


The Death of Power that governs Limbo and wants to take all those that has lived a strong and independent life despite having losses to anyone who enters his realm.


These six Embodiments of Death rule nearly 30% of all deceased souls from the countless worlds of the Universe if they were not taken or stolen by force from their control.


“So what do you want to do with this soul?”


The Death of Power asks the gray entity in the middle of the space.


The gray entity gesture for the other embodiment of death that awaited its answer to leave.


“Go away you guys the shut-in Lord brought her soul already so why are you guys still here?”


Once The Death of Power shoo away the other embodiments of death, who wanted to protest but was send out before they could say anything.


The Gray entity finally spoke of his Lord wishes.


“It seems my Lord desire for her to be Reincarnated in the same world after 2500 years…”


“Reincarnated 2500 years in the same world? You do know that is going to be costly right? For someone with the fate of a singularity and this much soul essence after death the cost of reincarnating someone like her will be around ten Adult Eternal Souls dominated in normal fairy souls multiply by 4 years or approximately 4 million Fairy Souls do you have that kind of Souls?”


“Of course, this is an Eternal Soul of an ancient dragon that lived for 2000 years from birth 100 years, adolescence 500 years, and adulthood 1400 years. As each dragon soul is denominated in Elven Souls that is just a tenth of a Fairy Soul, it is approximately worth 19,100,000 Fairy Soul. So this should cover all the expense for her reincarnation into the next life right?”


“Tsk! Damn you, rich landowners!”


“Hahaha, I didn’t expect to hear that from a Banker, now please just make sure she has a safe reincarnation as an ancient dragon is quite rare to come by even for us you know?”


“So how do you want her to be reincarnated?”


“The Lord wants her to have a happier, but more interesting life it seems…”


“The Fuck does that mean, happiness has all kinds of measurements, is it fame? Fortune? Power? Love? What happiness does that shut-in want her little doll to have? Let's not get started with interesting because that could be anything from reincarnating her as a golden retriever of the royal family to having an orgy party every day as some occult leader plaything!”


“I don’t know about that last suggestion, but what the Lord wants is for her to be at the center stage of Ea again. So you decide how best to go about doing it as I must return now.”


“Wait you forgot to sign... goddamn these True Gods are a pain in the ass as customers to work within this universe they are always so demanding just because they are rich and powerful…”


The Death of Power said as he stares into the orb of his domain at the girl wandering aimlessly and then sleeping quietly in the vast Darkness of Limbo.


“Since your buyer did not say to give you a room, just stay there for 2500 years alright, though I don’t know if her soul can survive that long in there hehe... however... since you were bought by him I should show some sincerity. Otherwise, he’ll have my soul crushed… come in Rogan…”


When the Death of power called out to one of his subordinate hidden within the darkness of the space, it materializes out from the floor as if it was made of black sludge and the form a hunch back hooded figure with a scythe hang from its shoulders.


“Yes, my liege?”


“Go reserve this girl on the list to be reincarnated and set it 2500 years in Ea time the point she had died… Also give her the VIP treatment for reincarnation as her soul was bought by the Celestial Lord of the Laniakea Supercluster and so she should be treated with care, but at this moment you don’t need to inform her until the time comes and just get the best wheel of fate for her reincarnation, do you understand?”


“Yes, my liege.”


“Good now go away.”


After taking the documents, Rogan sunk back into the floor of the darkness and left the space.


Which leaves on The Death of Power behind signing away at the document that mysteriously kept popping onto his desk…


In the meantime at Limbo…


The girl slept a peaceful slumber alone in the darkness.


She recounted the events of her life, of the times she wishes to forget, and of the one she never wanted to forget.


In her earliest memories, she did not remember much as if they had faded away long ago, but she did remember she was a harlot in the slum of a specific city that no longer exists.


She was unable to recall her name at this time, or maybe she was given one by her birth parents, but she remembers the world she came from.


The world she was born in was cruel and unforgiving to an orphan growing up in the slums.


As children and adult alike getting rape by multiple men was a common occurrence.


People getting beaten to death for stealing or facing starvation from having nothing eat and dying of disease on the street is vividly in her mind of the many orphans that lived in the slums.


The adult was cruel, so was the adolescence that begins to develop lust, and even the children became demons at a young age from the filth of the slum that corrupted them.


She could be considered lucky to be raised in a brothel than that protected and fed her with meals until she became ready to serve clients at the age of ten.


The act of serving them was painful in the beginning and was only pleasurable due to the drugs sold by the many smugglers of the slum. But upon reaching adolescence, she didn’t need the pills anymore and can enjoy her carnal desire shook her night after night.


So she let herself be drowned in that animalistic pleasure as she knew someone like her had no future as a child raised to become a prostitute and she was also happy to not be starving on the filth cover streets of the slums like many others or dying on its road of disease.


However, this future she was content with did not continue like she thought it would because despite being raised in a whorehouse all her life.


The girl grew up to be the most beautiful lady in the brothel, and every day many clients came to desire her pleasure each night.


This made the other prostitute jealous of her beauty, and some tried to ruin her by any means necessary either by hiring thugs or poisoning her food.


The bullying by other prostitutes had gotten so bad the girl willingly gave herself into slavery to escape from the clutches of death that has almost caught her by the neck multiple times.


It was in this bondage of slavery that she first receive a name to call her own.


Levinia.


A name was given to her because the slave master thought that she will be worth more if her backstory was that of a princess that fell into slavery because she was born without magic due to her mother being a person without magic and her father was the king of some foreign country.


Which may seem ludicrous to anyone who had not been sold into slavery, but it is true as the girl met a few people with this backstory because the people of the Glaus continent don’t consider anyone without magic no different from slaves.


So if a daughter were born without magic even if they were the Emperor of Aromies daughter, they would have a high chance of being sold into slavery without a second thought and only on rare occasion was a daughter without magic not get sold into slavery.


This common occurrence combines with her natural beauty that is further enhanced after being polished by the slave master to make her look more authentic.


She was made into a fake princess to be sold to the highest bidder, but when she thought that only hell or eternal servitude awaited her future after becoming someone else’s slave.


The girl was met with great surprise at the fact she was sold to a Dragon Worshipper who was in contact with a Dragon Priest belonging to one of the many underground Dragon Cults that serve the Thunderstorm Dragon Asara in the Mountain of Elarom.


This was a surprise to the girl because this was the first time she heard of a Dragon Cult and the Dragon Worshippers that serve the Dragons as if they were there Gods.


In the Glaus continent and possibly even the world, Dragons has existed since the dawn of recorded civilization, and in every culture, Dragons have been both an object fear or worship by the locals living near a Dragon's Lair.


They were feared because of the wrath they can unleash once displease and devastate a Kingdom, but if the village or kingdom was to give the Dragon a beautiful maiden as a tribute to gain its protection, then a good harvest can be guaranteed for the next hundreds or so years.


Naturally, this story was just legend passed on from ancient time, and no sources were claiming the tale was right, but people believed it because the Dragon did sometimes request maiden to be sent to them and never to return, but there was a good harvest next year.


Perhaps that was how the legend or big misunderstanding started with a helpless maiden sacrifice to a Dragon out of bad luck and then coincidentally having a good harvest next year, but it was mistaken as some Dragons blessing on the land for there brave sacrificial maiden.


So Levinia was made to become a Dragon sacrificial maiden after becoming a slave who tried her hardest to fake the identity of being the magicless princess of some foreign country.


Levinia thought that fate has played a joke on her, but maybe with her sacrifice, the people may remember her for if there was a good harvest next year or that was what she was told by the Dragon Priest that escorted her like a prisoner and what she desperately wished inside as well.


However to her surprise, it seems that becoming a sacrificial maiden to a dragon did not mean getting eaten literally, but instead, it meant she was to become a lover or to be more specific a child bearer for the Dragon children's or at least prove she could bear a child with a dragon.


So every day the Dragon will transform into a human to copulate with her if he was not outside hunting or burning down a forest because some fool shot an arrow at the Dragon.


If she were to bear the Dragon child within a year, she will be kept alive by the Dragon and become his official lover that will be kept alive as long as she kept pleasing him. But if she could not bear him a child, then she might be sent to the Goblins that serve the Dragon to become a Goblin breeder until she dies in a musky dark cave to never see the light of day again.


However, this dreadful future never came to pass as she bore a child of the Dragon within the year as per the deadline and as promised by the Dragon she officially became his lover.


What that entails is that she will live and maintain her youth as long as the Dragon continue to supply her with its mana during copulation to bear more of the Dragon children.


Although the future wasn’t what she had wished for or could even believe would happen in her wildest dreams, but it was better than dying of starvation or getting defied on the streets of the slum by multiple men, and than dying of disease on the road due to being able to afford treatment.


So her days compose of just child raising and copulating with the Dragon to bear more children while at the same time she was cared for by the Goblins that both serve and worship the Dragon living in the mountain and since she was the Dragon Lover they deeply respected her as well.


The Goblins would bring food, water, and clothes if she were to ever request of them to get her something she needed because as if she was going to order a dragon to take care of her and not get literally eaten by it for being so arrogant.


So through this strange set of circumstances, she became acquainted with the Goblins and learn a bit about them from how they breed to what they usually do outside of the Dragon Lair.


Naturally, some of it was things like attacking merchant caravans, raping the woman traveling within those caravans to breed more goblins in their cave, and doing the same thing again if another convoy was to pass by there territory. But there daily usually consisted of hunting and foraging for food to feed their village while the best food and material they gather are generally sent to feed or clothed her or store in the Dragon hoard of treasures.


As someone who has seen the worst of humanity displayed during her time in the slum she did not know it was right to fault the goblin for what they do to other humans, but that is probably because she had spent so long with the Dragon that she lost any attachment to humanity.


So her life continues as usual, and it was a life that most could not have dreamed of by an ordinary orphan girl rise as a prostitute, but it was the best one could ever hope for in this world.


As unlike most of her clients that were mostly ugly old men that lust after a young body.


The human form of the Dragon was so effeminately beautiful that sometimes she would not know if she was sleeping with a man or a woman if it wasn’t for his large genitalia below.


Which she could not look away from every time she sees the dragon in human form because he was always naked as a human due to the Dragons having no concept of clothes.


As the cold nor heat of the environment affected him and being in its lair, she did not feel cold as well or so she thought was the explanation in the beginning as to why she has never gotten sick after becoming the Dragon lover. But it was apparently due to the Dragons mana keeping her healthy all year round no matter the season or temperature outside.


So with this revelation and after spending years with the Dragon, she begins to forget why one even need to put on clothes as they would just get stained or torn to shreds if the Dragon ever needed her body immediately for his outlet of lust.


The years passed like this, and slowly she forgot most of the social norms of human society except bathing and brushing her teeth as after each intense session of passion with the Dragon she will be riddled with sweat that made her smell very strange.


Her children that she had with the Dragon all grown up in the outside world, and as their mother, she did not know how to feel about them as they were Draconians that she only heard of in legends as a fairy tale, but now she is pregnant with them one after another in her stomach.


She, of course, tried to love them and give any motherly loved to them the best that she could as a mother who never felt her own mothers affection due to being an orphan rise in a brothel.


The closest example of motherly love she knew is when the madam of the brothel and other prostitutes who once liked her told her bedtime stories or gave treats for doing their chores. But as time passes her affection for them begin to slowly wear off yet, she still tried to love them as any mother would ultimately, in the end, no matter how many children she bore.


As one or two of them would be born every couple of years from her mating with the Dragon and when they grew up to become adults, they would leave the Dragon lair and usually never come back to see her again for a reason she did not know until very later in life.


However, this lifestyle of only having kids than raising them and sending off began to slowly take a mental toll on her, but she tried to denied that she was depressed about her situation as what could she possibly want in life?


She has the goblins taking care of her and the children every need if she wishes for something.


Her lover is a beautiful Dragon that will spend the entire night with her passionately, and so she did not have to worthy about her safely from the dangerous outside world.


After a while the Dragon even allowed her to take anything from the treasures hoarded inside its lair and she can decorate herself in the most beautiful of gems or roll in many gold coins.



So why… just why did she feel… empty inside?


What is it could she want more?


Then she realizes it… that despite having fulfilled her needs... she chose this path to be her future.


So she wishes for the power to be able to make a choice in this world…


It was as if this realization from deep inside of her triggered an awakening that no one thought was possible at the time for a magicless person to suddenly gain the power of magic.


On the day she woke up with lightning frizzling in her hair did she became aware of what had happened to her.


Even the Dragon who spends countless nights with her, but never spoke to her more than a few times in years was stunned to see the sight of white lightning coiling around her body as if to protect her from him.


This for the first time made the Dragon curious towards her personality unlike before where there was an agreement that she was only to be his lover to bear children.


The Dragon taught her magic, and she learned it with ease as if it was the most natural thing in the world.


Which made the Dragon more and more interested in her at the same she became more interested in the Dragon who had always slept beside her in bed but never communicated with each other due to the Dragon not being one to enjoy talking much.


One could say that this was the sprouting of true love between the Dragon and Human who spent years together, but never notice each others presence unless it was necessary.


So they talk and laugh, he taught, and she learns, they slept and enjoyed themselves in each other presence at the same time she learns more about this world, magic, and the Dragon itself.


In time she became more powerful as she learns from the Dragon and the Dragon even sometimes made her spar with him on a daily basis instead of just fighting it passionately in bed.


When she wants to learn something, the Dragon will teach her no matter if it was math, history, literature, combat, weaponry, and anything else she desires to know and sometimes she wonders are Dragon omniscient due to the Dragon next to her know so much about the world.


However, the truth is not that the Dragon was omniscient, but more like he had a passion for learning and gathering knowledge about this world.


When she asked him why he felt that way, that will be the only question he could not answer her, and when she asks him does all Dragon share his passion for learning he only nods, but does not elaborate the reason as to why to her as if he was bound by some force to be unable to say.


So she did not ask more of him and continue her days with him teaching her everything he knew while she acted like a sponge that soaks up all of his knowledge from magic to the art of poetry that she never knew he had.


It was then that the Dragon become so fascinated by her ability to learn anything he taught her from whatever he could find in his head plus seeing her learn so quickly made him all the more joyful and so the fateful day came when he invited her to leave the lair with him on his daily hunts.


That was when the girl view of the world opens up to a whole new degree as the monster she hunted with the Dragon were disasters from the stuff of legends.


It was tough in the beginning, and she was gravely injured on countless occasions but survived due to her link with the Dragon that granted her a form of pseudo-immortality and prevented her from the clutches of death.


However, as she hunted more monster with everything that she learned, and see the beauty of the world that existed just outside of the Dragon Lair.


She began to gain a sense of desire that she never thought would be held in her heart.


The desire for freedom.


Freedom to decide her own destiny… freedom to forget her past as the harlot that slept with a thousand men… freedom to be herself.


She desires the independence to explore this world, but at the same time, she did not want to forget her love to the one who allowed her to gain these emotions and desire, The Dragon of Thunderstorm Asara, her most beloved in this world.


However, her feelings to go outside continue to grow stronger as the years that she had spent with the Dragon became centuries, and she can’t even recall how many children she had with the Dragon anymore because their passion bore so much fruit that it became hard to remember.


So when the Dragon told her that it would need to go into hibernation for the next century to reach adulthood and made the shocking proposal that no other dragon would have made about leaving this world together for a place beyond the stars once he was has become an adult.


It felt like the question about getting to know the outside world that heavily lingers in her heart was somewhat lifted, but at the same time another question pop into her heart at the time about does she really want to leave this world all behind her to go somewhere unknown?


She was nearly driven mad with all these endless question and doubts about what she should do with these unrequited feelings for freedom inside her heart, and the Dragon who once slept and console her in his arm with their passion is now in hibernation for the next century.


So she made the hard decision to sneak away and come back to the Dragon by the end of this century. But this decision would prove to be the turning point leading to a tragedy that would never have happened if she only had stayed in the Dragon lair and waited for his return.


That was what she had hoped after discovering the horrible truth.


Instead, this rubicon path she took is what led to her becoming known as the Witch of Carnage by all those that dreaded her existence like a great eclipse has come upon this world.


‘If only I didn’t go outside… if I just stayed with him at that time… if only I remained as his ignorant lover…”


Those thoughts came up time and time again after she discovers the most significant and horrible secret hidden by the Dragons of this world from a Great King with an aura of sunlight and wisdom of God.


The secret of all the children that she had with the one she thought was her beloved got their souls devoured by him after they became active and famous in the world she was once forbidden to go on the outside.


Their souls were then used as the spark needed for him as a Dragon to reach adulthood after spending centuries gathering mana in this world.


So she learns from the wise King that all those knowledge that she once thought came from the Dragon isn't actually from him, and neither was his love for her as all of it came from her children that he devoured.


As the feelings of love inside the Dragon were instigated from her children many souls that loved their mother who gave so much affection to them growing up that despite their father devouring them after death.


There love for her never wavered, and it was enough to cause his heart to be influenced by them so that he became more kind to her and gave to the education that she could never receive as a slum orphan in this world.


After she heard this from the Wise King, she was so shocked by the revelation of this horrible truth she fainted on the spot, and then proceed to throw a tantrum after thinking that the Kings words were all lies.


However, in her breaking heart, she knew his words weren't lies, but she just couldn't believe it and broke down in tears.


Although she didn’t love her children fully.


Although she didn’t know her children fully.


Although she didn’t understand her children fully.


The guilt of this knowledge causes her feeling of love for him to crumble as if a castle made of sand is about to be wash back to the sea and come forth a storm of hatred that is slowly building inside of her.


If only she could have turned back time with her magic.


If only she could have forgotten everything with her magic.


If only she could lose guilt with her magic, it would have all been worth it.


If only she could love again like before, but now she is drowning in an endless torrent of guilt.


So, in the end, she did the unthinkable…


A choice she would never have chosen before if she didn’t decide to leave the dragon lair.


She chooses to slay the Dragon in a duel once he had woken up from his hibernation.


Why she did this instead of slain him in his sleep is because deep within her heart she wishes that this truth wasn’t real…


No... she desperately wanted it to not be true, and for him to tell her it wasn’t right with his own words and drown with him in passion again thinking this was nothing, but a bad dream.


However, as if fate had other plans for her like before…


Once her former beloved woken up… he drastically changed from before the time of his hibernation.


He was much stronger than ever before and cause her to feel weak in his presence.


He wore an intimidating air that would make the weak faint and the strong paralyze in fear.


However most importantly of all his love for her was no more….


No, instead… he hated the sight of her now.


He resented her because she had taken his pride as a dragon for making him fall in love with a mortal due to some trickery and also discovering the long-held secret of the dragon by disobeying him and leaving the Dragon lair when she was supposed to have stayed there until he had awoken.


Most importantly of all, he intensely hated each of their children that had secretly influenced his thought to love her as if she was something precious to him, a Dragon, the pinnacle of all species in this world that ruled over this mountain and control the lightning that falls during a thunderstorm.


So with this revelation to her….


The love in heart for him shatter into a million pieces and rain down to become the lightning of hatred that smites the ground like a thunder deity with vengeful ferocity.


Their battle shook the world to the core and the Goblins that she once befriend in the mountain turn to ash from the black lightning bolts she unleashed as her magic.


It was a hard battle that she thought was foolish internally to try and challenge an adult dragon, even if he had only reached adulthood recently, he was overwhelming to even stand up against, but at the same time, all the technique drilled into her by him… no...


Her beloved children knowledge and techniques that he cruelly devoured has burst forth from her hands dazzlingly as if they were there supporting her against their father in this battle.


In this uphill battle, she had countless enlightenment about her magic that she once thought was just merely lightning magic, but as the battle progress, the mortal essence inside her began to fall apart with every blow she dealt and attack return by him.


Her power grew at an astonishing rate as if she was at the edge of reaching apotheosis from within her soul burn a fierce light that was a like great star ready to burst into a supernova.


Even the dragon of thunderstorm Asara was stunned by this development.


As he never thought a female mortal was capable of fighting an adult dragon like him for so long, even if he had recently awakened as an adult and is not just her surviving at the edge of death, but also becoming stronger and faster as the battle continues in front of his very eyes.


This sight of her batter body continuing to fight like an undying vengeful goddess of thunder and lightning ignited fear and doubt in his mind.


Fear of the mortal in front of him possibly killing him right after just reaching his long desire adulthood and doubt about her mortality instead of a god in disguise to trick him.


At the climax of the battle that left even the Gods beyond in the cosmos stunned in disbelief.


For the Dragon Asara fears and doubt was proven correct as she rode the lightning like an almighty thunder deity and struck down the massive dragon down to the earth where mortals dwell.


As if this was an allegorical painting of Karma showing the folly of having such hubris and pride just because he was dragon against the mortals of this world in utter defeat.


The spear in her hand came from one of the children he devoured, and it became the Damocles used to land the final death strike on their father as if it was taking revenge for what he had done and despite its durability nearing the end and close to shattering into a million fragments.


It still manages to pierce through the mighty hide of an adult dragon that could stop almost all weapons and removed the Ether Star that gave an adult dragon endless supply of mana and near absolute immortality.


So at the end of this battle that shook the world and erased the mountain of Elarom that was full of her happiest memories in life…


Levinia.


A girl raised as a brothel prostitute, sold into slavery to escape the jealousy of her coworkers, and was made into this dragon bride has now slain that very dragon who once cherish her as his beloved wife before becoming an adult dragon that reveals his true nature.


Even if that love was from the feeling of her children that he had devoured.


Her feelings for him still remain in the form of the burning hatred that was once love in her heart.


So she devours the precious heart of the slain Dragon as if to take back the souls of her children that he had stolen from her and brought on true Apotheosis into becoming a Magic God due to the excellent compatibility between Asara Ether Star of Lightning and her Magic of Electromagnetism.


In doing so, she became the first Magic God in this Universe history to possess a Divine Soul that contain an adult Dragons Ether Star.


An Ether Star that will produce mana for her and the world from Ether flooding this universe by the machination of the Gods for millions of years granting her the power of the dragons on top of her Magic God abilities.


This turn of even naturally cause such a ripple through the continent of Glaus and the world that even the eastern continent of Xian heard tales of the Witch that devour the dragon pearl, which is the Xian continent name for the Ether Star in the Glaus continent.


This is the reason so many Emperor in the Xian continent to sent there best to find her in hopes of gaining a way to achieve immortality and the Dragon Pearl that she devour to also learn the power of a Dragon.


However, naturally none of those people that came from Xian manage to take the Ether Star from her, and instead, once they tried to steal it from her death was all that awaited them. But it wasn’t only the Xian continents people looking for her, cults, kings, churches, and many other secret societies that she was unaware of in this world sought for the Ether Star she devours.


In the end, this was what led up to the event of her destroying four kingdoms in a single night as they had insistently chased after her thinking they can take the Ether Star from her by force, but in reality, the Ether Star has long merged with her Divine Soul.


So unless they can separate the Ether Star from her Divine Soul even in death will not find anything on her corpse, but none of the people that went after her knew of this fact as the situation of a Magic God merging with an Ether Star of an adult dragon is unprecedented.


Perhaps it was this hubris she had gain from slaughtering all those that pursue her and was getting annoyed by the fact that they won’t stop coming she decided to draw them out all at once by doing something that would make her the enemy of this world.


Her plan was nearly perfect as after she destroyed the four Kingdom that bothers her endlessly and let her location be known everywhere on the Glaus Continent to force the people in hiding to form a Grand Crusade against her as if she was the next coming of the Demon King.


She would destroy them all on the Catastrophic Plains and leaving no one alive to strike absolute fear and hopeless of anyone trying to go after for the precious treasure of hers that carries all the memories and story of her children devour by their father to reach adulthood.


In the end, the result was a stunning failure, and now she can only dream within the Darkness of Limbo unable to escape after dying in the silliest fashion.


If only fate had not played such a twisted joke on her in the end…


If only people had not been so greedy for what rightly is hers and hated her for having it…


If only she were beloved and raised by loving parents, she would not have to kill anyone in life…


If only she had a second chance to live…


“Don’t worry my dear you will… so wait until then, wait until the stage is set, wait until the light from the stage shines upon you again… so wait and dream here my dear little spark of light…”


In the Darkness of Limbo, a voice spoke to her from a place she does not know, nor she can perceive even with her divine knowledge that encompasses this entire realm.


It was a smooth voice that was like a lullaby that made her felt at easy and rest peacefully in this realm of death that only exist in eternal darkness…


Until the time she was called to go back on stage again after 2500 years in future since her exit from the spotlight…

Author Note

Spoiler: World Building Information

The Value of Souls


In the vast Universe, souls are the primary currency used for exchange between cosmic entities, but not all souls in the Universe are equal. As they can be denominated by species, fate, essence, and time because ultimately souls like all types of money only value according to whatever people think it should be valued. Since soul has many uses like obtaining knowledge that one desire, magic power lost to history, talents that one wishes, entertaining stories to read, nourishment or snacks for oneself, and once broken down in a soul furnace it can be turned into useful energy to power advanced alien technology. So there are many uses for souls in this Universe, and they are in limited supply as only those that have sentience can form a soul's vessel and make it worth something to others.


The Exchange Rate of Mortal Souls: Average Souls of mortals valued by species.


1 Animal Soul = 0.5 Ruman Soul.


1 Ruman Soul = 0.9 Beastman Soul


1 Beastmen Soul = 0.75 Dwarven Soul.


1 Dwarven Soul = 0.50 Elven Soul.


1 Elven Soul = 0.25 Dwarven Soul.


1 Fairy Soul = 0.10 Elven Soul.


The Exchange Rate of Special Souls: Special Souls of mortal valued by destiny.


1 Famed Soul(Famous and Influential) = 10 to 100 x Mortal Species Soul.


1 Elite(Nobles and Heroes) Soul = 100 to 1,000 x Mortal Species Soul.


1 Monarch(Kings and Emperors) Soul = 1,000 to 10,000 x Mortal Species Soul.


1 Great(Celebrated and Immortalize) Soul = 10,000 to 100,000 x Mortal Species Soul.


1 Singularity(Deified and Godlike) Soul= 100,000 to 1,000,000 x Mortal Species Soul.


The Exchange Rate of Unique Souls: Unique Souls of mortal valued by essence.


Martial Powers = 10 to ??? + Mortal Species Soul.


Magic Powers = 100 to ??? + Mortal Species Soul.


Psychic Powers= 1,000 to ??? + Mortal Species Soul.


Ancient Powers= 10,000 to ??? + Mortal Species Soul.


The Exchange Rate of Eternal Souls: Eternal Souls of Immortals values by Time.


Childrens = 1,000 Ruman-Fairy Souls X Years of Age.


Teenagers = 10,000 Ruman-Fairy Souls X Years of Age.


Adult = 100,000 Ruman-Fairy Souls X Years of Age.



The Six Realm of Death

In this Universe, Six Realms of Death is no different than six Banks that hold different currencies of souls gather from all over the vast cosmos and distribute them to any customers with a price tag attached to them. Also just like Banks, when the Lord of Laniakea sold those Galaxies to the Six Realms of Death it does not mean a physical transfer of ownership to them. But is more like giving them a lease to take all the souls coming from those Galaxies for themselves without him getting any cut of the profit from the taxes that he imposes in his territory. So the primary business model of the Six Realms of Death is to facilitate the trade of soul with different customers in the universe that wants a soul in there possession, and occasionally they might also get leases to territories for a soul that is very valuable to certain cosmic individuals. Which they have plenty store within there vault because they rule the afterlife of Ea that is one of the Universe's most prosperous world for obtaining valuable souls and so by occasionally selling the precious souls of Ea to high profile customers they gain control of territory to get more souls. This means the Six Realms of Death controlling Ea afterlife is the reason they are one of the most significant financial capital of the whole universe with many powerful patrons using their service. How the Six Realms of Death, despite not being Gods, came into the possession of such a valuable World like Ea made by the Gods is a long history for another time.