Revered Magi

Carefully Little Soul carved up the body of the drowners trying to match the size and shape of the pieces he was missing. The flesh smell like fish with blood gushing out everywhere but he continued to slice away at their bodies. When he had finished both the bodies were showing bone and their skin has been removed. He messed up a couple of times cutting the pieces too much which would have resulted in him having to use more of his soul to stitch the body together. but he got the hang of it after a while.

While carving up the drowner's bodies he found two more blue spiritual crystals inside their chest. they were a lot smaller than the plant monsters crystal but, still bigger than the one he had in his body. He tried touching the crystals with his soul like he did the other one and they burnt his spirit just the same. Not in the mood to inspect the crystals any longer little soul proceeded to reattach the body parts of the drowners onto himself starting with the smaller pieces.

reattaching the different pieces on himself took a little under an hour because he was already used to it. There were clear differences from the drowners flesh and his own human body but, that didn't matter much he didn't want to keep the drowners flesh on him any way he was thinking of switching it out with something else because while the drowners resemble humans its body is more closely related to a fish.

Reattaching the new flesh numbed all the pain little soul was experiencing. He thought about using that red potion to seal up gaps in his body so he'll appear more normal that's only when he found a more suitable creature. Fusing with the drowner's body would make him appear strange and might scare away the other humans.

"When I was fighting those drowners their names popped into my head even though I had never met them before the same thing happened with the river. Could it be that old man's soul? Have I assimilated it into my body that's why I know some things from this world? If that's true then I should be able to use his memory to find a human town or something".

Little Soul thought long and hard repeating what he wanted to know inside his head trying to draw something out when suddenly like an epiphany he got a vague idea of where he was "if this is drowning river then in the distance that must be the Gorgon mountain range. Gorgon isn't that Greek, no must just be a coincidence. The Gorgon mountain range is west and the drowning rivers in the south that means I've been heading in the wrong direction. I have to go Northeast to find a human town or something, that's about three days away or so from what I can tell from the memory fragments".

Now having a general idea of where he is and where to go Little Soul was ecstatic. He immediately rushed to the river to clean off all the blood on his body. When he knelt down he saw his reflection in the water again "oh my God, I'm drowning!!". Diving into the water to save himself, little soul, quickly sunk to the bottom and was getting whisk away by the water current. he had forgotten what the river could do in his excitement. He was beginning to hate that damn river.

***

A few days ago

In the middle of the day, the space above clover forest shattered creating a massive tear that sucked in all light around it emphasizing a grave foreboding to all who could witnesses it.

This event did not go unnoticed, whether it was the elusive being sitting in the highchair of the Morpheus Council, the creeping eyes in the depths of the inverted pits, the colossus beasts who rule the sea, the monarchs of the skies or the fallen draugr king in the frozen tundra. Many powerful beings who you would rather stay invisible to drew their gaze toward one single direction at the same time.

...

Eclipse Association, Delmar city

At the Eclipse Association's branch tower located at Delmar city in clover forest. Acting manager lord Nisus Bel a rank 3 magi suddenly froze. His office was a massive filled with all kinds of ancient-looking books and scrolls with new ones as well, marble pillars that reached up to the high ceiling there was exquisitely decorative flooring pattern, paintings depicting ancient battles as well as one of himself which hung behind him as he sat behind his desk. It depicted him as a middle aged man with short dark hair. His eyes were green and glowed as if there was a light inside them. He had the look of a scholar and looked exactly like the man currently sitting at the desk despite the painting being over 500 years old.

"What is this feeling I never felt anything like it, could it been an attacked by those accursed elves. no, even when I was surrounded by some of their strongest warriors I never had a feeling like this before".

Unnerved by this Nisus contacted Velar kadyn his second in command through the towers communication system establishing a psychic link. he was also a rank 3 magi and a trusted ally of his, as far as a mage would trust another person with their life that is.

"Velar you felt that didn't you, that terrible feeling it made me shiver all over. Very few things can do that to me these days. Do you think it could have been a rank 4 magi or magical creature?".

"Nisus, of course, I felt that dreaded aura, everyone in the tower could the rank 2 and below magi less so but, they could still feel something. Whether it was a rank 4 cataclysm I have no idea, I hope not if its a monster we might not be able to reason with it. If its a mage let's hope he or she is not planning to make this place their battle ground. The pantheon of valdora may be able to regulate such monsters but, their regulations mean nothing if one of them throws all care to the wind".

"I know all that but, it does not change the fact that something strange is happening in clover forest rank 4 creatures have not been spotted in this area in thousands of years and a rank 4 magi should have no reason to come here it's like a wasteland to them".

"How should we handle this then?"

"Assemble a group of magi to inspect clover forest for anything strange. We can't keep this hidden anyway everyone who isn't a regular mortal already knows and the other clans will be doing their own investigations as well."

"I'll be right on it"

After that, the mental connection severed Nisus walked toward his floor to ceiling window a bit worried for what's to come.