Chainslock

COMPLETED.

(WARNING: R18 on chapter 200+ onwards. This is a SLOW BURN ROMANCE. Read at your own risk.)

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On a secluded mountain situated upon a kingdom known as Feuersturm, resides a seemingly trifling cabin with an unlikely duo as its inhabitant—a witch, and her apprentice who presumably comes from a clan sought after by slave traders. 

Faustina is a sixteen-year-old girl who fled the slave market with the help of a sickly witch named Eula, who later on trained her as an apprentice for the span of seven years. 

Plagued with a mysterious disease for several years, Eula died despite the efforts Faustina had exerted to cure her; in her last breath, she left an odd request behind. 

"Sustain the king's life. This is your duty. Do not adhere to the prophecy."

To which the odd plea shadowed a bizarre series of events, a consequential sentence; similar to that of a premonition. The same night the phrase was muttered, the chain of events followed:

A warlock's intrusion to their home, with a peculiar yearning to resurrect Eula from the dead...

and the king himself, asking for Faustina’s aid.

Sustaining the King's Life

Faustina's eyes were glued into the entirety of the space. Inside the maid's chambers was a large dimension that is enclosed with gloom. It was disproportionate to the area outside. A maid's chamber shouldn't be THIS vast. But then again, they were in a space that is modified to be an exam ground.

Faustina shouldn't be surprised, but she was. By the end of the darkness shed light. In that light were a beautiful woman and a corpse. The corpse was lying on the lap of the woman, who was humming a lullaby softly. The language wasn't Mystisch—it sounded ancient, and none in the room understood.

"It's the old language of the forgotten country… I think."

Faustina paused. Why is she able to understand it, then? Faustina listened to the humming. The words the woman was singing were being converted to the common tongue in her head. Faustina was frozen on the spot.

Warlock's Staff (Part 1)