Prologue

"I CAN'T STOP THE BLEEDING!" Yelled  Silvana

as she frantically looked around waiting for one of her comrades to come to her aid. She was trying her best to put pressure on her Grand Priest's wound but it was no use, the life was draining from his eyes, while laying in the sand soaked from his own blood he held up his hand to Silvana's cheek and began wiping away her tears. In one last desperate attempt Silvana screamed once again."LUCIEN! ZARANAH! CAN ANYONE HEAR ME?!"

"Stop yelling Silvana...save your energy"

Her Grand Priest started coughing up blood and his body began to get colder. He took her blood soaked hands off his chest and held them with his own and in one final attempt in a trembling voice he looked into her eyes, smiled and with his last breath he said

"Don't worry...my death is not the end of everything...You still have time...keep growing...and make it count for something, I believe in you Silvana and remember, first there has to be darkness...for light to truly shine...you have to be that light"

He then looked up at the shining stars in the night sky knowing that soon he shall be joining them.

"Draken...Grand Priest Draken!"

Silvana's voice was wavering through the air as she cried out the name of her fallen mentor, friend and above all...her hero.

He was dead, Grand Priest of the Imperial Guardians had perished...

In the distance the faint sound of Lucien's voice can be heard

"Silvana! Silvana! I'm comi- LOOK OUT!"

Lucien pointed to the rear of Silvana indicating that danger is on its way.

"Silvana BEHIND YOU!"

In that moment Silvana swiftly turned her head and vaguely saw the outline of what was rushing towards her.

The moonlight was barely enough to clearly see the silhouette of what appeared to be a creature rushing her on all fours, regardless in one smooth motion she got up from her knees and took a stance facing towards the creature.

She calmed her breathing and eventually uttered...

"Astramance"

"Cardinal Creation"

Silvana held out her right arm to the side of her body and opened her hand.

"Seraphs Staff"

Seemingly out of nowhere a weapon started to manifest in her hand. The Astramancers seraphs staff, an Artifact only attainable through those who have been blessed by a holy apostle and mastered their mancer type to a certain degree but little is known about the exact history of the weapon.

Silvana held the staff up high and with all her strength she had left she thrust it into the ground, breaking it with ease. The air around her became dense, the wind turned from calm into haste and the Staff began to glow...

On the other side of the battlefield slumped under a pile of bodies Lucien, unable to move witnessed the events unfold through his one working eye.

"Why the hell is that woman always so extra" he thought.

Despite his dire situation he couldn't help but smile as he watched his comrade cast her attack.

From his view it was as if a small supernova was about to occur and Silvana was in the centre of it, all he could see was a massive ball of light forming until it eventually burst and scattered light through the air in all directions disintegrating everything within a small radius.

"Well...I definitely didn't teach her that"

He remarked

Lucien's vision began to fade till he eventually...lost consciousness.