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Chapter 1

Nothing else mattered except how much power he could command. They scoffed at his genius? He would prove it to them. That was how he found himself confined to a distorted part of space for what seemed like a millennium. He tried to take over the Godr- Eyed Tier by summoning fire magic beyond his control.

In response, the Godr-Eyed Tier activated its own consumption magic. In the end, he was alone, fighting Marg’s destructive powers. He defeated Marg. But there was a cost, Lord Red had aged, and he was trapped inside a bubble of spacetime. There was no way of knowing how much time passed before he felt another living being.

He huffed at the irony as he glanced over at her again. She was a witch from the same world he had lived in. Following his breadcrumb trail, she got closer and closer approaching his prison. He worried that the same force that trapped him might ensnare and her if she entered where he existed.

She was merely curious and didn’t deserve his fate. To save the witch and himself, he destroyed his Godr Sphera. The explosion dissolved the bubble of spacetime and swept them both away. They were in another world that was similar but also strangely different from their own.

Lord Red now had black energy swirling within him. It spoke to him. Pushing him to leave the witch and get stronger, whatever that meant. He ignored the voice, realizing it couldn’t do much. The energy was weak. It buzzed in his ear like an annoying fly while he waited for the witch to regain consciousness. He wouldn’t abandon her. She might know a way home, and it was his fault she was here.

The witch shifted in her sleep, which meant hopefully she would wake soon. The black energy was swirling in her too. He wondered how she would handle it. Studying her as she slept, he noted a large golden tattoo around her eyes and over her nose that looked like a butterfly-shaped masquerade mask. The butterfly tattoo itself meant that she was of the Labreve School. However, color was the most important thing. She was not merely some student of Labreve. Only one person would have gold, and that would be Deneve herself.

He gasped at the ramifications. Deneve invented teleportation techniques and discovered how to commune with the primal elements of Gorr and Tett. She created the Aad Sphera, an offshoot of his own work of creating the Godr sphera. Deneve wrote papers on the existence of other worlds. He had even used her papers as a reference. She never stopped her research. Her probing had brought her to him.
They were most likely, the only two people from their world to travel inter-dimensionally. This realization made him want to learn more about the witch he saved. Perhaps she had knowledge he had yet to learn.