Ash_Monarch

The Apocalypse is in full swing. 

Defiled - powerful creatures corrupted by the Great Collision - prowled the lands in search of prey. Unfortunately for them, the human race had long since retreated behind the secure walls of the Sanctuary of Everlast. 

During one of his regular excursions outside the Sanctuary, Alden is separated from Celeste. - his childhood friend and crush. In that moment, he came to regret never summoning the courage to confess. 

Somehow managing to survive thanks to some trickery, Alden awakens as a mage. 

Instead of receiving a normal power, he gains the ability to decay. What's more, during his ascension, he received a vision from his future self advising him not to trust the Asterons - celestial beings who had saved his race from inescapable doom.  

Normally... such a revelation wouldn’t faze Alden. 

However, there was only one major problem with the declaration, though. 

Celeste was bound with an Asteron. 

And not just any normal Asteron... 

She had made a pact with a Divine Sovereign.
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The Inner Odyssey

Alden looked down at his trembling hands, and hoped that what he had just heard was not a cruel figment of his own imagination.

Surely, there was just no way it was possible?

'How could Maeve be the Matriarch?'

Age aside, one was a Transcendent, and the other, a child.

The only explanation Alden could think of was that it was an illusion - a very elaborate, incredibly life-like illusion. The young man recalled the soft sensation of the little girl's hair as he patted her, her smooth skin which was a far cry from Alden's rough and calloused own, her polished eyes reminiscent of a green sapphire, all of it was so real.

He struggled to believe it could be fake.

Berserk