Evil Reincarnated

Lilith's Deathspeaker

Mazavir POV

"Let me show you something, no one ever believes me." The old woman says, slowly getting up from her seat. "We have to travel, far. Before we go, I have but one question." She looks up at me, as if asking for approval. I give her a nod. "Why are you here, talking to the crazy old Railis?"

"A man visited you. Tall, dark haired. Do you remember him?" Railis smiles.

"I do. He was pleasant, but there was something odd about him. Almost a cloud of darkness that followed him. He asked about the missing prime too." I raise an eyebrow.

"I came to you hoping to find answers, but I'm curious about this missing prime." Railis nods eagerly.

"Than follow." She says, scurrying out of her home.

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"In here." Railis says, walking to large doors that lead into a temple. I pause at the door.

"The Temple of Primes?" I ask. "What are we doing here?"

"You wanted to see proof. This is the best I've got." She says, grabbing one of the doors. She was struggling to open it so I helped her. We both step inside the Temple of Primes.

"This place gives me the creeps." I state, following her further into the temple. I looked around the temple, statues of the prime evils were placed throughout the halls. Each hall was named after one of them, destruction, hatred and terror.

Railis stops walking, starting at a wall. "It seems out of place. There's nothing here, but there are statues of the primes over there, in the other empty places." She says, pointing to the prime statues that decorated the halls. She was right, it did seem oddly empty.

"Perhaps it was a mistake, someone forgot to bring another statue in. It could've happened." Railis shakes her head.

"They don't make mistakes. Nothing in this temple was a mistake. I believe another statue went there." She stares at the spot for a moment longer. "I have something else to show you." She says, leading me deeper into the temple.

"This prime evil, what do you know about him?"

"I will tell you what I told Vexel. He is the prime evil of torture. All roads lead back to him. However, we don't know who he is." We find our way to the deepest part of the temple. It was a large room with one statue of each prime evil positioned by the walls. Again, there was an empty space.

Railis walks to the empty space. There were stones on the ground. She picks a large one up and hands it to me. "What do you see?"

I hold the rock up. I was about to say something, but as I looked at the rock, I saw what she wanted me to see. "An arm." I state. She nods.

"I believe this statue was of him. Whoever took it down didn't finish removing it." I had the piece of the statue back to her.

"The arm is too small to be a prime evils." I glance to the other statues. "Perhaps it was something he resembled that was a part of his image."

"Torture." She states. "It would all lead back to torture."

"What do you mean by that?"

"What she means is irrelevant." A woman says, stepping into the light. "What are you doing here?" She directs the question at me. The first thing I noticed was her pale skin and red eyes.

"I could ask the same thing of you." I say, looking towards Railis. She just shrugs.

"This temple doesn't belong to anyone but the prime evils. You can't question why we're here." Railis responds.