The sorceress arrived without a crown at the plain solar of the Murdgen Palace. She knew something was wrong when the units of the Redgess were also invited to the high table.

A dinner of silence as they fixed their agitated eyes on Larreis sitting next to the queen and opposite the lord of the Redgess.

The queen spoke to Larreis, saying, "As the new prophecy has revealed itself quite clearly enough this evening, as we all know here, including you, the queen of your Sorcist..." The queen revealed Larreis's crown on her head from an invisible spell, and everybody hid their impressions of seeing it. "You're here to state which one of your units, a woman to be precise, is responsible for it. Life matters to you, does it not?"

Larreis eyed everyone as her crown disappeared, then faced the queen and responded, saying, "It's me, Your Majesty."

"You? That's a risky confession."

"It's me for whatever this is. And as your friend, you never told me you're a member of these redgesses." Then she looked at their furious eyes fixed on her.

"I rule the Redgess, Larreis. If you wouldn't give a name after I asked you this again, I'll burn each one of them to confess, and you'll be the last one, Larreis. So, who is this woman we know dwells in your rebellious house?"

"If not you, it's me, Your Majesty," Larreis said as she was looking into her food.

The queen was dismayed that she stopped cutting the meat with a knife and drank up a goblet of wine before she let the sorceress leave the feast, saying, "You leave the palace now and let the world know what we've discussed about to be prepared this evening."

Larreis stood up as the redgesses muttered, and one asked the queen, "You're letting her go?"

"She must be the first one to burn in hell," the other one muttered.

As the sorceress just stepped out of the Murdgen Palace, the redgesses raided the world once more as they roamed across the world and sucked blood out of some live humans she hadn't saved on her way.

Larreis rushedly appeared in the Sorcist Fortress, released from its blue flame protection. Inside, she found the gruesome death of her units, depleted of blood. Then she appeared at her interdimensional house, in a room, and found her daughter there alive under her little bed, scarily sobbing behind her wooden doll wrapped in her arms.

"Hey, Adyna..." She called her daughter with black hair.

When Adyna saw her mother, she quickly got out and embraced her tightly, dropping her doll on the floor.

"Stay here until I'm back, okay?" Larreis said.

"But I want to fight them too," Adyna replied with her face pressed on Larreis's stomach.

Adyna's golden eyes gazed up at her mother, then Larreis just tightened her arms around her daughter.

Through magic teleportation, the sorceress gathered and teleported millions of people she could save, all at once, to the massacred Helterak Kingdom of a continent beneath the stars, and she watched everyone as her souled body invisibly levitated over them.

She closed her eyes and blue-flamed all of them, giving them the ability to use magic that could only be possessed and wielded by their physical bodies. She watched how they glowed in the dark.

When the continent was darkened back as flames were gone, she channelled a one-foot etheric core through her hands. She used spirit magic to cast and dispersed the orb to each one of them, attaching one-inch orbs to their palms.

A boy carried by his father accidentally crushed his orb with his fingers, and the boy was dispersed along with the orb. Similar to other people who suddenly dispersed, which caused mass confusion.

"You're neither here to fight nor to run," the sorceress said, which reverberated across the continent and silenced them to listen. "If you crush those orbs, it will disperse, including you, and that's the safest place for all of us, a place away from them."

"A god..." A girl with other kids mumbled.

"I'm not a god," Larreis responded. "I'm not taking your will to choose your life over death. You see that fortress channelling fire and blood?" Pointing out the Redgess Fortress on the mountaintop, blazing a burning fire as the redgesses sucked magmas and blood. "The only powerful thing that can counter their dark magic is dark magic itself, no matter how deadly and evil it is. I'm going to fight them even if it means dying and going to hell, and you don't have to do it with me."

She waited as they made their own decisions until she watched millions of people, including the children, dispersed.

The world has darkened and veiled with thick shadows as the orbs turned into ashes in their hands.

When millions of redgesses appeared from the broken veil, that was the start of the first dark Magical War in the presence of both good and evil spirit entities. There happened stealing souls, sucking blood, and undead multiplication, dominating the souled living ones.

On the other side of the planet, the six-year-old prince with his air body, an invisible dense air-based body, sneaked into the Murdgen Palace, where its queen was in a warded chamber, standing with her face up, channelling stolen souls from the war and merging them into her.

When the prince vanished after watching outside her chamber, the queen stopped and looked into where he was through me.

He headed straight to the hidden library in the palace and burned every book with his hands emitting fire. Before the fire swallowed the entire room, he vanished, and the queen was late as she just watched it from the corridor, and a witchess ran to her to watch.

"Find him," The queen ordered the witchess.

When Larreis was the only one left on the battlefield, she appeared in the Murdgen Palace and faced its queen, standing beside the lord of the Redgess and other redgesses in the great hall. They were suddenly quiet in stance.

"You lost the battle?" The queen asked in a concerned expression, standing meters away from Larreis.

Larreis pointed her eyes at the lord's glaring eyes, and then he dropped dead next to the queen.

"Oh," the queen was surprised as she looked at the dead lord at the sorceress. "You're showing off?"

The queen faced up with her closed eyes, and glowed black and red light as her soul was intensified, paralyzing Larreis and killing all the redgesses around them as she sucked their souls in seconds.

As the sorceress tried to move her paralyzed body as her soul struggled to activate, she rolled her eyes to the right, where I was watching them without the prince in the scene.

I switched to the left, and her eyes followed me. She peered at me. Her eyes turned back to the queen, glaring back at her with black eyes, tearing black blood.

Larreis's white luminescent soul came out of her body, then her body fell dead on the floor. As a soul, she vanished and vanished in the air as she attacked the queen, who also struck her back. They were destroying the palace until Larreis struck the queen's black soul out of her body, which also dropped dead.

"Look what you've done to your soul, Esofere," Larreis said to the queen as they both hovered in circles facing each other. "Do you really believe I'm capable of ceasing life?"

"Huh! Suspecting someone?" The queen replied. "Who else do you know who's going to end us? Oh! Your daughter, isn't she..."

"Nobody's responsible for it. How can you be so certain it's a woman? It's just a light. And that's nature. The Core is never eternal. If we are all to die, we die."

The queen vanished and appeared, and battered Larreis.

When the sorceress retaliated with the queen, as they both teleported with each strike, the prince's twenty-one-year-old soul appeared next to me. And once he caught Larreis's eyes, the queen sucked Larreis's soul and merged their souls.

The prince vanished before the queen's eyes.

When Larreis lost herself, the spell that protected millions of people was also gone, unveiling them back into the world, captured by the queen of Murdgen through casting magic nullification, a black stone granule embedded in the bregma of their skulls. As the kingdom and its continent were restored, they were enslaved within her kingdom to intensify her soul, except for Larreis's daughter, who used her inherited magic to ward herself with a dead air spell, surrounding her body before she left their house with her doll on her bed, as the sunrays rising from the horizon lit the sky.

For twenty years, the harpy eagle roamed across the world with two abandoned continents that were deprived of humans, the planet solely ruled by the Murdgen Kingdom.

As the sun was at noon, the eagle visited the Murdgen Palace in a celebration for the newborn prince until it landed on the chamber's window, where the magically preserved dead body of the sorceress lay on the bed.

The bird was watching her until a chambermaid entered the chamber, and it flew instantly away.

As the bird roamed around the palace, it was shot with a glowing arrow by an archer, a young man standing near the wall, and then it vanished before it fell, leaving fallen feathers. The archer looked up at the sky as he looked for it.

A wounded lady appeared in a dark interdimensional field, standing as she held the arrow shaft buried in her waist, and it disappeared into dust and was blown by the wind. She held tight her wound under the fabric drenched with blood to heal it as she coughed up blood, then changed her dress as she walked barefoot on the grass.

She stopped when the archer pointed an arrow meters away from her. She just stood as she stared into his dim head, wearing a helm.

As he could feel his chest breathing, he lowered the bow, and once he saw a flash of light streak in her eyes when a meteor passed by the night sky, he fainted, sedated by magic.

She first walked towards him, checking him with her eyes, before she ran and stood close to him. She kneeled slowly next to his shoulder and thoroughly removed the helm from his head to glance at his dimmed face with his closed eyes. Then she buried her fingers in his hair, and she frowned when she didn't touch anything on top of his skull.

She stood up and used her hands to gather particles in the air, then generated an empty, lustrous hut that enclosed them.

She squatted down, and her brown eyes sparkled over his fine, handsome face as her palm pressed his cheek. With magic flaming purple in her palm, she changed his face many times until he had another fine face in her eyes. The lady smiled at him with her eyes that blinked, then she transformed into a robin bird with yellow streaks in its feathers, which flew out to the physical world.

And she tranformed once more into a white raven, roamed across the ocean, to where the moon was outshined above a horde of croomns, a group of soulless magicians forging magical weapons and artilleries in different stations, led by the last stray redgess, an enchantress sitting on a throne built from human spines outside the wrecked old Redgess Fortress on top of the mountain, where there she impassively watched over her army. 

As the raven invisibly fluttered towards the throne, the enchantress saw it as a speck of light like a flying star. She watched it with heavy breaths in her chest until it flew around her head and stayed in front of her face. Then it popped and was gone, and her chest twitched when she was startled. She glared far beyond, then she blasted the open gatehouse of the Murdgen Palace that threw away the magicians and nullified humans on her way to the royal court, where Queen Esofere and her new family were, a newborn prince in her arms, and by her sides were a prince consort and a nineteen-year-old adopted princess.

"This is sudden and unmagical," the queen said to the enchantress as she and her family were still. "Do we have to start your war here and now?"

"You released her!" The enchantress shouted. "You didn't send her back to hell, you evil witchess!"

"I do not understand..."

"You sent her to what, to threaten me?"

The queen whispered a phrase, "Hide a word." Then her family and whoever was in the court vanished. She stood up and walked closer to the enchantress.

"You don't want to do this fair, do you?" The enchantress continued.

"You're confusing me, Terff. I sent who?"

"Your damned little friend," she said with her mouth near the queen's cheek.

"Larreis?"

"Yes. Lar. Reis."

"But how? I had sent her away."

"Where exactly?"

"Down to hell..."

"Who was the light then if you definitely cast her soul away?"

"The light?"

"My eyes are not reversed that I wouldn't plainly see it hovering over me, then poof!" With her face closer to the queen's once more.

"Her daughter."

The enchantress frowned in silence, and the queen briskly walked away, saying, "She was erased from memories for years. I'm not going to war you yet, Terff. Save yourself."

The queen opened the chamber's door where the dead body of Larreis was. She breathed out with an intimidated smirk when the body was gone.