Prologue
When the old woman’s blood began trickling down my hands, I knew it was time to act. All the energy I had gathered surged around me in brilliant sparks of flame. Yet the witch standing before me continued to wear her predatory grin.
“You killed everyone I ever cared about… So tell me, do you really deserve to live?”
The witch’s face twisted at my words, and the bloody smile that spread across her lips erased the last trace of humanity from her appearance.
“That’s what I thought…”
A blinding flash of light consumed the old woman entirely, but the wave of energy did not stop there. A veil of pure white engulfed me, swallowing everything in its path. Along with the witch, all the magic of this world was being destroyed.
Or so I believed at the time.
