I might be used to darkness, but this darkness is different.
“Large one incoming!!!” shouted prince charming, with the others already racing away from our opponent. The next moment his foot connected with my stomach, sending me flying straight into a boulder a few hundred meters behind my previous position.
Can I even call this darkness? It's more like a void.
“Violent much?” sighed the blond elf standing by said boulder, while a mushroom cloud rose in the direction where I flew here from just moments ago. “Do you want to kill our ticket to sealing the Collateral Queen?”
No light. No people. No monsters. No space. No time. No god.
“Our monster of a leader would take a meteor to the face without batting an eye,” quipped my prince back. Isn't he just handsome with those pointy brown ears? “That lunatic's fire magic could have actually killed her.”
Do I even exist? Is my consciousness doing this at the moment I die?
I continued casting the sealing magic while waiting for the wind to clear up the area of the dust and smoke left behind by the previous explosion.
That can't be. Death doesn't feel like this. It can actually be felt. I can't feel anything here.
What we could see afterwards was a single girl floating over a crater with a radius of over a kilometer, blocking fireballs rapid-fired from her right.
How would I know what death feels like? I'm pretty experienced when it comes to death, and by that I mean my own. First time hurt like hell. That's also exactly where it got me.
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Isn't it funny how that explosion was the same spell? Seriously, how can someone take a spell like fireball and turn it into a ritual-magic class weapon of mass-destruction?
The second time? Well, you get used to it. Maybe you'll wish it'll land you right back in hell. I, at least, would have preferred that.
While casting those overpowered fireballs took time, our opponent could still throw a bunch of normalish ones out without even chanting. Why do I call them normalish, not normal? Because she only needed two of them to get rid of our fire mage. First shattered her barrier, second one evaporated her. Not even ashes were left for us to collect. Poor girl. We'll never forget you.
Actually hell was a pretty decent place. Lucifer treated me like an idol. There was also the handsome prince-with-horns. Horns aside, he stayed with me right until I got here.
At long last I finished chanting, however there was already a mid-sized fireball on its way arcing towards me. Please let the seal activate before it lands... Not like that would save me.
This void? It took everything from me. My body. My senses. My companions. My sister. My prince.
Who would have thought that the seal would actually catch that walking disaster? Not only that, but it did a pretty great job at weakening her, as the next moment I could see an arrow's head sticking out of her chest below the incoming fireball. That lucky cat must have got her heart.
If only I could go back... But the void is a cruel, emotionless place. Can't even think of a way of escaping, when all I have here is my consciousness.
That seal took all I had in me, so there was nothing I could do about her last spell. Sure, the two bickering elves DID cast barriers around me, but those would never be able to stop my sister's fire magic. Confirming this, I could hear the barriers shattering. One... Two... Three?
For how long was I here? Seconds? Days? Years? Does it even matter? Maybe god could get me out of here, but who am I kidding? The old man would not care about me, and I know perfectly well that he's no longer there anyways.
With that third shattering sound I could feel the world becoming distant. My sight became blurry. The elves' shouts shifted into silence. The coldness of the boulder at my back and the saltiness of my own blood disappeared.
Right, in the end we never found the one who murdered god.
The pain of death, burned into my soul multiple times already... Never came. Instead came an absolute darkness. A place where neither light, matter, or time existed.