The Count of Void

Prologue

    [1887 A.D.] At that night where I felt so lonely, I glimpsed at the scenery of that town. It was a beautiful scenery yet dreadful. I was living at this bizzare castle for a thousand years without noticing other lives.  I didn't  really remember how I turned into a vengeful creature like this.

   Before, I was a mere human who lived in a small yet peaceful town. It happened almost a thousand years ago. It was the same town as I saw at this moment.
  
    I smiled as the moonlight bathed my castle. This castle levitated in another world right on the top of my hometown. It was the only thing that pleasured my heart in this eternity.

    The darkness was not the only one which accompanied me. When the full moon came in October, a fantastic view out of the night to amuse everyone who saw it. It covered everyone sadness, anger, resentment, and wound.
    
     I would like to describe it for you. The wall of castle became shining and glowing as some parts of my castle decorated with diamond and emerald, like the pillar, door, rooftop, and balcony. When the moonlight reflected along with the diamond and emerald, rainbow might showing up covered up with a million stars at the sky. It was the same stars that I believed as a million dream and wish of people. It was more like aurora in pole, but the smaller version.

This scenery could be seen in human realm either and perhaps this was the only moment human saw my castle. I also heard that they made a festival every October to celebrate this moment. Honours the souls of the dead.
  
   This scenery was the reason I didn't slumber in my coffin. I woke up every October to do this thing.

    I was able to do a "little trick" through magic, a real magic through chanting. As my castle levitated, I used my magic to keep it flying. You might see some orbs that flied under the castle which kept the castle flying. It also worked as a projectile missile to shoot intruder... Well, with consequence the force to make the castle flying became less. But that was not the only protector, I had seal which coped my castle from low level creature and any mystical beast.  They might feel something bad through their instincts and left my territory.
       
       When I was a mere human, I was an ordinary human who felt empty. Thus I didn't feel anything changing. But I was an honest and pure man. I didn't know if the world was full of evil. My fate was changing because of this.
   
     I became this shape of vengeful and dreadful creature because of fate. I thought it because of karma. It was the karma which made myself turning arrogant, dark, and atrocious...

Cover art by     : Fuiki
Illustration by : Reas