Intro.

He lay on the ground, the wound perforating his body bleeding profusely through the gash in his chest and back, though the little worm inside his body was already growing at an extraordinary rate, spreading throughout his innards and working its healing magic on his injury. But the worm wasn’t Lanfear. It was Avenir. His body would not respond to it as well, challenging the creature to heal him in time or at the least secure the bleeding.

His was not the only life that hung in the balance.

He had pushed too hard, drawn upon too much of his Remnant’s power and lost control of it.

In so doing he had wounded a girl, piercing through her chest with a blade that could cut a fleet battleship to shreds.

And then someone had spared him from killing her in his deranged, deluded state.

Someone had lanced through his body with a long forked spear, catching him unawares a moment before he could land an outright fatal blow on an innocent girl whose only mistake was to accept his challenge to duel with her.

As his hearing faded, he heard the sounds of the medics calling for more blood and a woman’s voice blare into the cavern, demanding they get the wounded to the infirmary before all hope was lost.

With the last of his vision, he looked up at the girl kneeling over him, her long beautiful blonde hair draping her head as she caressed his face and prayed for him while tears fell in rivulets down her cheeks and landed on his lips.

He tasted the salty tears, then closed his eyes as his consciousness slipped.

Yet before he passed out, he was certain he heard another woman’s voice in his ears, promising she wouldn’t let him die for there was much they had yet to achieve together….