Chapter 1: Unending Passing of Time

‘Is this the so called end of the world?’

Enveloped by the red light; everything around me seemed calm.

I can hear and feel the winds rampaging around me keeping me off the ground.

I can see the ground breaking, cracking.

“Argh,”

I heard a scream behind me.

I turned my head and saw an grandma with white hair, her skin and body had red lines around him as if her body is cracking like a piece of glass.

I looked at my hands and saw it’s also cracking.

 “Someone please save me!” she said, screaming until her sounded hoarse

when i turn to look at her i only saw...

‘Blood,’ a mist of blood that quickly dispersed.

Fear took hold of me but only for a moment.

Death is normal, my family is dead.

I don’t have a reason to continue on, it’s hopeless anyway.

How do you escape from the center of a giant tornado?

So i did the only thing i can do, sleep.

///

When i woke up, i smelled the scent of blood.

I opened my eyes and saw red balls of light everywhere.

 “Boy.”

‘What?’

“Can you hear me?”

I turned around and saw the grandma from before, but her hair is longer.

I tried to ask her something but no words came out of my mouth.

“Don’t try to speak, the air pressure here is too big.”

I heard grandma again but i didn’t see her mouth moving.

“Speak with your mind.”

‘Can i do that?’

“No, but i can hear your mind.”

‘Ok, how long was i sleeping?’

“A long time...i don’t know.”

‘How can you read my mind?’

Grandma’s hair is long but it’s not affected by the wind, as if she’s unaffected by the world of red around her.

“I just tried doing it...i don’t know, i have a lot of time.”

Not reliable grandma.

‘Then do you know what these balls of light are.’

“Oh they are the people who died in here and lost their sense of self...i think.”

‘All of them?’

All these people died because of me and Adam.

“By the way boy, can you help me get out of here?”

‘How can i do that?’

“You just have to get out of here and free me from the outside.”

‘Why not you do it from the inside?’

“Because I’m dumb and need help.”

‘You mean you don’t have enough power, so you need outside help.’

“Yes, now help me and I’ll help you.”

‘How can you help me?’

“By getting you outside or do you want to be trapped here forever?”

‘Why do i need to do?’ even though i don’t mind if i die, if i can live, I’m not going to turn that down.

“When outside you can do whatever you want, just release me when you can, i can wait.”

‘How do i get outside, if you can’t how can i?’

“Simple, I’m just going to kill you and you’ll be reborn here so you’ll not be restricted to this world of red anymore.”

‘Why don’t you just kill me in my sleep then old hag?’

“Trust me, i already gave birth to others, it won’t fail.”

‘Trust is gained through time and effort not by mere words.’

“Fine, I’ll explain the process.” 

I and grandma talked to each other about our past and she teaches me that mind reading magic but nothing else, not even that speaking into the mind thing.

I got to know her to some extent; she was born in a normal family, normal school, went to university majoring biology and worked as an obstetrician or a child birth doctor retiring at the age of 63.

We became friends fast because she talks so much.

Her plan was to plant my spirit into her womb and rebirth me as a baby in this world of red, so that she can cast weird magic on my body to make me bond or something with the red world.

And you guess it; you need a ‘seed’.

Fortunately she can make a ‘seed’ using her own DNA but...

“I can only make you female; otherwise there is a huge risk of birth defects.”

(A/N = i don’t know if this is true but...just think of it like parents with blood relation but instead of brother with sister, it’s myself and myself AKA cloning, sort of.)

Now i have to choose between doing my first time with an old timer, or be D-less.

I choose the later of course, besides being a female isn’t that bad and I’m curious what it feels like.

After a long time until we didn’t have anything more to do, i trusted her and let her do the deed.

She killed me by snapping my neck; thankfully it didn’t hurt too much thankfully.

Then my consciousness faded.

///

I woke up again, this time it’s warm, wet, cramped but comfortable.

Waiting was boring so i counted the days.

I also kicked every month to ensure Glinda, the grandma, that I’m healthy.

Finally after 2 months and 22 days, freedom is near.

I felt a change at the top of my head; i was pushed out of my prison, down into a tunnel.

After i went out of the tunnel i felt the fresh hard to breathe air once more.

‘I can’t breathe.’

“Don’t worry your body is strong enough to last 2 hours without breathing.

‘I still can’t breathe.’

“Let me send you out then, you should be able to cross the barrier.”

I felt one of the arms hugging me moved to my belly and pulled something.

It was so painful until i was crying like baby.

“There, it’s time for you to go.”

I felt my body descending and it felt bad, i was never good with planes.

“This is it; your sisters will take care of you from here.”

I wanted to glare at Glinda for just abandoning me as a baby to the wide world but alas i can’t open my eyes.

I felt the warm hands leaving me, and i felt the air around me suddenly calmer.

I fell, the ground and air is dry, making me uncomfortable.

I waited until i heard someone coming.

“Here she is the blood witch’s child,” a mature voice said.

I heard a man’s voice not a woman’s voice.

“What should we do, kill her?” another man said.

“But she’s just a baby,” a young man said

‘It’s just a newborn child, it’s wrong to just kill her’

I heard what the young man thought so i started to cry really hard to win his sympathy

‘All i can do is cry, i feel useless.’

“I feel sick, this place is really cursed.”

“Let’s meet up with the others and take her to the archpriest,” the young man said.

Someone picked me up from the ground and placed me inside what felt like a bag.

After a while i heard the young man said,

“Everyone let’s go, we have the child.”

‘A good thing there was no enemies.’

‘Thank god we’re okay.’

I heard the thoughts of a lot of people, which drained my mind

So i fell asleep, as my baby body is still weak.

///

When i woke up, i heard the sounds of wood creaking.

‘Perhaps I’m in a carriage.’

“Are you awake?”

It was the old man.

“I bet you’re hungry, here drink this.”

I felt something entering my mouth, i started sucking on it and it tasted very bland so i spat it out.

“Oh don’t like powdered milk huh?”

‘No, i don’t.’

“How about if i...here taste this.”

I felt something in my mouth again,

I sucked on it, it’s sweet and warm this time.

“Haha drink a lot, so that you grow up strong and healthy.”

‘Why is he so kind to me?’

“Ahh, how could i forgot, you need a name”

‘How about Alex.’

“Yes...Alex, your name will be Alex Magister.”

‘Did he read my mind or is it a coincidence?’

“Alex Magister, the proud daughter of me Arthur Magister.”

“Sir Pilgrim city was attacked by a big amount vampire commanded by Harkon and Turasan.”

“Send a message to the magic council through the Weave, this could be dangerous.”

“Then should we still go to Naive city.”

“Yes of course even though the city is chaotic, it’s still the best place to hide in the whole middle region in the Unity continent.”

“Now go to sleep darling we have a long road ahead of us.”

I immediately felt sleepy after he said that, as if i was under a spell.