For a year, Adyna and Athan spent some of their days lengthening the thirteen lines, like sunrays, that invisibly connected the circle to Queen Esofere's throne in the Murdgen Palace. 

The Murdgen Queen was celebrating the day she first held Larreis's soul, sitting on the throne in the center of her commemorating kingdom in daylight.

Adyna, who was five-months-pregnant, was with Athan. They were out alone in the middle of a quiet desert lit by the moonlight. They were holding hands a meter apart, facing each other. And they were standing inside the drawn circle on the sand, surrounded by thirteen lines drawn and connected to the circle's edge like sunrays.

"You ready?" Athan asked her.

She smiled at him as she began to weep, then she closed her eyes. He closed his eyes right after her, then their bodies released yellow and green flames upward. The circle lit a white light that streamed through the lines, running across the planet.

Across the seas, islands, and three continents that would end right at the Murdgen Palace.

But before it could reach the throne where the Murdgen Queen was currently sitting, a witch man distantly appeared behind Adyna, who fired his hands as he glared at the couple.

The witch just casted the fire when Adyna opened her eyes and immediately turned around, letting go of Athan's hands, to hold the fire through her mind before it could reach her. A finger away from her chest. Then the fire turned into ash.

The light that ran through the thirteen lines vanished. The witch instantly recast the fire from his hands, but Adyna just turned it into ash as she twisted the witch's body to death.

As she turned to Athan, a sword that came from an old mage pierced his heart from behind. The mage laughed as he stood among thousands of magicians, who surrounded the circle kilometers away.

Adyna caught Athan as he fell, bleeding from his mouth and his chest. She groaned when her tummy hurt with her legs on the sand and Athan in her arms. He tried to speak to her, but he couldn't until he stopped breathing, which made her begin to cry as she looked and looked at them.

She touched his chest with her fingers around the sword. "Come on! Come on, please! Come on..."

She couldn't heal him.

"She doesn't attack us," a sorcerer said, standing in the front row of magicians. "Why would she not?"

"Should we kill her now instead?" The young witch said behind him.

"She's losing her power," the mage said in front of them.

"Her baby?" The other mage asked. "Is it her baby?"

"Now she's weakened," a sorceress said as she confidently walked forward away. And she turned to them to say, "and the queen couldn't wait, I'll kill her first t-" She suddenly exploded.

They were all shocked, which also caught Adyna's attention by the sound created by the flesh explosion.

"Who did that?" A witchess anxiously asked, then a mage dropped dead as his soul was sipped out of his body and vanished.

It was followed by an instant, continuous death of every magician and deafening screeches that Adyna feared as she tightly wrapped Athan's body. She couldn't make them both disappear to leave the place.

When they were all dead on the sand, the enchantress who rules the croomns gradually appeared as she finished sucking the souls into her heart as she was walking towards Adyna. 

As Adyna glared at her, she squatted down in her crystallized dress and touched Adyna's face. Adyna moved it away as she kept quiet, and the enchantress put her hand down.

"It's you..." the enchantress said. "You look just like her. But I'm going to take you from the queen. And, your baby, of course. You know, to be fair."

"Your majesty!" A witchess screamed as she crashed through the throne room's doors in the Murdgen Palace, which interrupted Queen Esofere from releasing the souls from her possession one by one. A supposed trade with a winged devil for her immortality, who was standing behind her. "We've lost thousands! Terff took them all, including Larreis's daughter."

The queen and the devil just looked into the witchess's eyes without a blink.

The sun just rose above the horizon behind the Redgess Fortress, and there the enchantress watched over her new croomn subjects joining her army in every station. Behind her, there was the condemned unconscious Adyna, imprisoned in a magic nullification cell crystallized with lonsdaleite minerals.

The sky was suddenly covered by black and red flames that stopped the croomns, and all looked up.

The enchantress stood up and walked to the edge, where she yelled at her army, "Prepare!" Then everybody frantically prepared themselves and everything they have worked for.

She briskly went to the cell and held a rail that melted the crystallized cell down.

A sudden piercing sound that stopped the enchantress for seconds, then silence. When she turned around, the croomns' bodies were shrunk on the ground.

"A week is enough." The queen said, standing next to Adyna.

The enchantress turned around, and the queen continued, "You still believe you can beat me?"

"Well, can I?" The enchantress asked.

The queen shook her head in disapproval with her sad mouth, then she sucked the souls of Adyna and her baby.

The enchantress suddenly fell on her knees for the queen.

"Oh, please spare my-" the enchantress begged before her soul was also sipped by the queen.

The queen stepped out straightaway, then vanished along with the flames in the sky.