Prologue

I crawled on the ground, desperately trying to reach them. I swear, it’s not my fault. They are important to me..they are family to me. I want to be with them, but not in this way. It won’t end here that easily.

I see them lying on the ground..the three of them. It’s her fault, the one who wields a fiery sword. The burnt cut on their wounds, it matches the smell of the blood on her blade. That’s right, it was this girl behind me, approaching me closely.

No one should dictate me on what I do, but myself. It is my life. I am done on others writing my own destiny. I grabbed my blade, and I finally faced her. I’ll never forget those eyes, and the sight of those barbarians.

If I’m able to return to the past… the first thing I want to see is the ceiling of my room. I crawled deeper into the void, and hear those familiar noises.

(Seven Months Earlier)

I woke up as I banged my head to the ground. I just fell from my bed. I’ve heard a knock, “Asvra, get up already! You’ll be late! We have work to do!”. Then I get up, and fixed myself as I heard that old man’s voice.

“Yes, Master Maleck! I’ll meet you there!”. After I heard his footsteps leaving, I quickly hid my flute. It takes a few moments. Then I grabbed my backpack and opened the doors. I will be meeting Master Maleck at his lab.

I am his apprentice, Asvra Valgrad, living in seventeen years inside this bloody tower in an island of death. I ran all way down to get to the lab. “There you are! My apprentice! Come help me with these books”, master Maleck said.

This is what I do on my days as the grand master’s apprentice. I Arrange some books, creating new life forms and wielding the power of advance necrotic magics on daily basis. I also clean the table full of dead creatures that was experimented by Master Maleck.

A sixteen years old, so young to dissolve a dead creature’s body as a routine. Seriously, what is everyone’s problem? Have any of them are in their right mind? The whole court expect me to do some horrible things. And how about the feeling of living on their expectations?

I can take that, but not on something like this. Those unfamiliar skulls on my Master’s deck, and those beating hearts in the glass. And I don’t even know how it’s possible. But I do know one thing, it has something to do with the power of our Goddess.

This power is what the island people cares about. After my time in my Master’s lab, I go to my class and all I experience is necromancy. But thanks to that, I’m able to join the choir when a ceremony is held.

I wrote songs for the goddess. Keisar and Reisha, they are the only ones that can understand who I am. Even I write songs for the goddess, to please her, the court cannot recognize me if I don’t value necromancy and be a devoted servant of the tower.

They are planning to feed me to the sharks if I don’t do my responsibility as a necro student. But I will survive this. I just need to act and do what they say. But I’ll never succumb to the dark temptation of dark arts, and let them plant a stronghold on me.

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