Master of Souls!

Two and half months ago.

...

"How did you venture here?"

"Does it matter?"

"..."

"..."

"What are you offering then... stranger?"

"Time in the Aigas sun and sky. Surely, you'd want to stand on the bodies of the Deities you served for a change, would you not?"

"..."

"Even your soul, blessed by once playing host to Quintess against Fulgardt yearns to leave this place, doesn't it? I'm giving you the chance."

"...What do you get in return?"

There was a pause.

"Options."

***

Rayn remembered it clearly.

It hadn't taken a lot of convincing. There was no need. For a conscious soul like his, empowered when he was chosen as a host for the mighty Quintess back in the day, the lucidity he had, which allowed him to feel the passage of millennia unlike the other wandering souls...