Shattered Essence

Perspective Shift: Soul's Past

"The revenant strikes at the eleventh hour"

"Deplorable" would be the word if I had to describe my past, which caused my sanity to be mutilated. As the successor of the cursed mage heirachy, I was chosen to be a sacrifice for the goddess. Born a human, yet treated as an object.

Through the ruins of time, multiple assassinations were attempted on me. Surviving them time and again, my power extended to a level where I could counter attack. However, in reality, I have always been brains over brawl, hence I conspired an assassination against the devils known as my parents, for they made my life living hell.

Raven, for that is my real name, was a prodigious mage. In a short span of time, I managed to learn a few of the confidential dark arts, and it was necessary to learn them, for they are what kept me alive.

I wasn't alone on this, I had a companion, Eris was her name. Born in a noble family, she was abandoned due to her being cursed. "We're similar", she said, and that's all I needed to believe that our fates are entwined. Her reasoning was alike, hence, we married.

My days were never happy, but they were led astray by a certain incident- mass assassination of mages. A maniac dragon, Kaneufdraak was his name, went on a rampage causing catastrophe everywhere he roared upon. Albeit I was serving my part on the frontlines, he attacked from behind. A huge explosion reverberated inside our ears, from the direction of where my family lived- my wife and my daughter.

I reached the destination as fast as I could, only to find ruins of what was once a lively city, and our place to start life anew. The dragon destroyed it all, and my family was caught up in the rubble. I managed to find the corpse of my wife, but my daughter was nowhere to be seen. Naturally, I assumed that she was dead.

"I have to become stronger to counteract such treacherous power", was my thought at that time. Henceforth, I decided to avenge my wife and my daughter, and it was the day I realised that my curse is my blessing.

I summoned one of the 28 devils of hell, and formed a pact with him. The sacrifice was my soul, but the power I gained was incomparable to any other mage. I received the Abyss Grimiore, the anthology of every deadly dark chants, and I was no longer limited as a human anymore. Yes, I became a monster. But even death itself requires fuel, and it was the soul of others. My ability to devour souls and use them as a catalyst in enhancing my powers made me known as "The psychopath- Soul."

The first faction war ended with the mysterious assassination of the Dragon Lord, and so was the new lord announced, it was Kaneufdraak. I knew at an instant that I had to be the reason for his demise in the most brutal way possible, hence I partake in the second faction war and sided with the Vampires against him.

We both were ready to fight till death, and yet both of us survived each onslaught. He was strong, he still is, and his powers are second to none, yet I had to avenge my family. But then, an unexpected event happened.

The sky shattered, and a dark light blinded our visage. Our eyes opened in an unfamiliar realm, the Human world. However, I did not realise it's presence, for I was intoxicated on my desire to avenge my family, and to murder the one responsible for their deaths, Kaneufdraak. We fought and annihilated all matter in our path, and that continued for nineteen Earth days.

Both of us, completely exhausted, and my powers on their last reserve. I was driven to a corner, and had to consume the souls of my own platoon to live, albeit, Kaneufdraak had an ace upon his sleeves. My powers were constraint by his spell, and that could be the end of me, but Ka had superior motives behind it.

I was asked to co-operate with him till the time we managed to reach back to our realm, and I readily accepted. I no longer had the ability to defeat Ka, so I decided to wait till the exact time to strike. Hence, this is where I am now, pretending to follow Ka's orders and conspirating against him at the same time.

Next chapter: Conspiracy