The massacre had claimed the lives of all in the village and supposedly even Yorun until he sprang back to life though he wishes he died with them evident by the grieving screams of anguish that if anyone else were nearby would hear. Despite his magical recovery he is still injured with large burns across his body and face yet it matters not to him as he has lost everything.

"FUCK, FUCK, FUCK! THOSE BASTARDS!" Yorun screamed into the dead streets

In his rage Yorun slammed his hands into the ground but in that moment little bits of green flame sprung out from his hands and upon contact with the ground a green wave of energy shot out. Yorun either did not care or notice until he heard a faint exhale. He looked over to his families bodies and his eyes widened as he saw the burned body of Lina slightly moving, he moved over to her as fast as his injured body allowed and checked her pulse to make sure she was alive but he felt no pulse even though he could clearly see her moving slightly.

"Lina!? Please by the gods tell me you are alive and this is not some cruel trick" Yorun pleaded while he examined her

All he got back was silence and he saw the same magical green sparkling in her eyes, it did not take much for Yorun to realise what happened.

"My magic brought me back to life, maybe if I find out more I could come back and bring everyone back to life" Yorun said to himself as he began to stand with pained groans

"I will be back for you, all of you, I promise" Yorun said before beginning to limp his way to the nearest village to Kurinet named Orakin, all the while he was unknowingly being watched

Despite his injuries he made his way to Orakin in just a day, determination carrying his body there until he step foot into the village and he collapsed unconscious. The villages guards and people quickly flocked to him before one woman made his way through the crowd.

"Everyone give him space, he is clearly injured and I need to help him, one of you guards help carry him to my place" The woman said before she and a guard picked up Yorun and took him into a building

Hours pass before Yorun regains consciousness and when he does he can feel some injuries are gone or more accurately healed though the burns remain, he looks around slightly and sees the woman who quickly notices he's awake.

"Awake now friend? Tell me how do you feel?" The woman asked

"I feel better well physically at least" Yorun stated

"Could you enlighten me as to where you come from and what happened?" The woman asked

"Kurinet, we didn't have enough for the collectors due to the recent increase so they slaughtered everyone" Yorun said with sorrow in his voice

"By the gods, we knew something happened to Kurinet but we had thought it was bandits or maybe even another empires soldiers. I am sorry for all you've lost" The woman said

Yorun sat up and put his back to the headrest of the bed before looking at the woman.

"Who are you?" Yorun asked

"My name is Gira, I am the one who healed you at least to the best of my abilities" Gira states

"Thank you, I am Yorun" Yorun said

"You're lucky you came here due to this village having a healer like me with magic, the damage to your neck alone I don't know how you got here never mind everything else" Gira said as she began to stand up and turn away to get something

"I can only guess my own magic helped in that regard" Yorun said though in his head flashbacks of his neck snapping come to him

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Hearing that Gira immediately turned back to him looking at him.

"You have magic of your own?" Gira asked with genuine shock

"Untrained magic, usually only ever used for tricks to entertain my kids when they were younger" Yorun said before looking down

"Yet you think this magic helped you?" Gira asked now confused

"Well the mages who killed everyone alongside the guards definitely thought so and it seemed about right" Yorun said

"Interesting, seems you may be stronger with magic than you thought, while your here I could help you train it so that you can use it more affectively plus I have several books on the subject" Gira said

"That would be appreciated, I have nothing else to do right now and my mind needs the focus" Yorun said although in his mind all he is thinking of is bringing his family and friends back by using this training

"Give yourself time to grieve Yorun, it will eat you up if you don't" Gira said

Yorun ignores that piece of advice knowing he will bring them back but he nods and Gira left Yorun to rest after giving him some books on magic. Yorun began to look through the books reading on all the different kinds of magic until he found a single page as opposed to a full chapter on the magical art of necromancy. The book revealed to him that necromancy is something of an unknown other than legends as far as the author is concerned so there is no actual information.

"Shit not as easy as I'd have hoped, mastering the basics of magic should help in making me able to try it easier rather than randomly" Yorun said to himself as he looked at his right hand a green flame appearing in his palm

He spends the next few hours reading up on magical basics, they were easier to master than he thought and he wishes he had spent money back when taxes were lower for books like this thinking maybe he could have done something. Eventually Gira comes back in and sees Yorun with a green fireball in his hand.

"Huh haven't seen that before" Gira said causing Yorun to notice her

"What?" Yorun said a little confused

"Well the fireball in your hand is green not a colour I've seen before for it, usually its either the typical fire colour or blue if its hotter than typical much like normal fire but green is unique to say the least. Anyway let me check your injuries to see how they're doing" Gira said as she approached

Yorun got rid of the green fireball as she approached. Gira examined Yoruns injuries and used some more healing magic on the burns they do not heal however making her sigh.

"Unless you get better than healing magic than me I think you're going to live with those burns unfortunately" Gira said

"Damn, hopefully I can one day do something about them" Yorun said

A knock is heard on the door, Gira goes over to the door and opens it, there is a child with a heavily injured bird Gira takes the bird and the child runs off. Gira looks at the bird examining its injuries now and as she tries to heal it the bird dies, Yorun feels something as if he felt the bird die.

"I feel bad for that child she always tries to find animals and bring them to me if they are hurt, she'll feel terrible when she hears the bird passed" Gira said with a sigh as she put the birds body on a table before walking into another room

Yorun looks at the birds body he stands up with a groan of pain following standing up. He walks over to the birds body and makes the green flame in his hand before sending it to the body of the bird, the path the flame goes to becomes a beam of thin green magic smoke light in appearance. Gira senses the odd magic use in the previous room and makes her way back in seeing whats going on.

"Yorun its dead what are yo-" Gira quickly got cut off as she saw his eyes turn green and some thin green smoke come from his eye so she just watches

Yorun continues to do this for a while and its clearly straining his very soul until the bird begins to move much to the shock of Gira, the bird gets up standing as if nothing had happened to it except it now had green eyes. Gira used her magic to scan the soul of the bird but found it had none.

"What did you do?" Gira said in amazement but with a hint of fear

"Something I had hoped to do, bring it to life" Yorun said happily

"It's not got a soul though its just alive but nothing else about it is the way it once was" Gira said as she looked at the bird standing before her even with the still injured body

"What? Seriously!? FUCK!" Yorun shouted angrily

"You should quickly leave Yorun, I have no doubt that mages far further from here and far more powerful felt this happening. They will come and investigate so leave now and get ahead of them" Gira said with a sense of urgency

Gira quickly leaves the room and comes back with fresh clothes for Yorun before leaving again. Yorun quickly puts the clothes on and even with his injuries he walks out of the building leaving even the bird. Gira comes to the door.

"Goodbye Yorun and good luck in life" Gira said

"Goodbye Gira and Thank you" Yorun said as he began to leave the village back in the direction of Kurinet

"I have to try, I can only get better and maybe get their souls back if I try to bring more things back, animals slaughtered in Kurinet would be a good start" Yorun thought to himself

Gira closed the door of her house after watching him leave and she looks to where the bird was but she sees it gone, she opens the door once more and sees it flying after Yorun. She wonders what will happen in the near future.