When Suzannah finishes speaking, black chains descend from above and tie Kal's hands, suspending him on a black wall. The witch approaches with a sadistic look, extending the tip of her finger to touch Kal's chest, while the frightened young man screams:
"Don't touch me!!!"
The more Kal tries to free himself from the chains that held him, the tighter they became, it seemed that the whole place pulsated every time Suzannah got more excited and as someone impulsive and reckless the place became increasingly macabre and frightening and the measure that the witch approached the young man the walls pulsated more.
"Let me see!" - whispered the witch, her look increasingly sadistic and frightening.
When the Witch gets close enough, a small yellow light like a small thunder came out from inside Kal, making Suzannah stop immediately.
Kal, who before was trying to free himself at all costs, realizing it was no use forcing, simply stops trying and just closes his eyes waiting for nothing bad to happen. However, before Suzannah touches Kal, a great flash of light shines inside the place. She suddenly stops and withdraws her arm, the place that was once a grim and black stronghold with a distorted and macabre throne, became a beautiful flowering garden, with rare flowers of innumerable colors, illuminated by the light of two moons shining in the sky. With a small stone path leading to a cabin amid the trees and then. From a frightening Red Queen to a serene and childlike look, there was a child. Kal, now loose and amazed by what he was seeing, looks at the child who was now in the same place as Suzannah and says:
"What happened? Are you still the Red Queen?"
The little child, now looking with an innocent appearance, says:
"Come, let's have tea in my house."
Kal, not understanding what was happening, just followed her inside that illuminated cabin.
"Sit there," Suzannah says, pointing to a chair.
The little Suzannah goes to an old cabinet, rummages through some old books:
"Where is it... where is it..."
Suddenly she shouts:
"I found it!!"
She goes to the table where Kal is with an old box in her hands, puts the box on the table and opens it, revealing a small locket made of gold, decorated with ancient engravings and with a transparent stone in the center. Suzannah looks at Kal and says:
"Touch it!!"
Kal, still perplexed by the whole situation, just says:
"I'm not going to touch anything until you explain what all this is!"
Suzannah sighs, scratches her head and says:
"Alright, alright."
Then she begins:
"I'm not your enemy boy."
"Everything I said before was true, you are inside my spirit."
"This child form is a side effect of my unique magic, every time I use it I turn back into a child for a determined time."
"And this place we are now is my refuge, my true spirit."
"Because of my ability to bring others into my spirit, I had to create a protective barrier for my true refuge."
"So I had to see who you really were first before letting you enter my refuge."
"What do you mean, who I am?" Kal asks in the middle of Suzannah's explanation.
"You are more than you think boy," the witch completes.
"I traveled around the whole world, seeking artifacts and studying ancient magics to try to understand the world."
"In my journeys around the world, I ventured to the furthest place from our land, after the Dragon Kingdom there is an unnamed land, inhabited by various humanoid tribes."
"A place where they say it is the site of the earliest civilizations and kingdoms, a place where mana flows most primitively."
"And rummaging some ruins of the earliest kingdoms, I found an artifact that initially seemed harmless, anyway I brought it with me."
"Some decades later, when I was in Elaria, I found an ancient book containing the description of the artifact I had found before."
"The name of that artifact was Seed of God, it was used by the earliest kings to communicate with the gods."
"The book says it was possible for a god to live in a human body, as long as that human had a spirit adequate to withstand, even if just a part of that god's power."
"When I almost touched you earlier, I felt something that would prevent me from seeing the information of your spirit."
"There is something very powerful inside you boy, and I want to know what it is!" concludes the little Suzannah, taking Kal's right hand and placing the locket on it.
Kal takes the locket but no light or sound came from it, it seemed the artifact was not working. Kal then says:
"Does this mean I don't have any god inside me, right?"
Suzannah is trying to understand why the artifact is not working, she considers three possibilities: the first is that the artifact never actually worked since she never found someone with a divided soul; the second is that what she felt earlier when almost touching Kal was just her imagination; and the third and most frightening is that what inhabits the boy's soul is actually greater than the gods themselves. Suzannah immediately discards the third option since an entity of that magnitude would have totally destroyed her refuge just with its presence. So she begins to think that perhaps she was mistaken about this young man and that after all he is just someone with an extremely massive and strong spirit, but still human and nothing more than a human.
While Suzannah was thinking, the door to her cabin began to slowly open. The witch and young Kal quickly looked over to see another Suzannah coming through the door, it was the same older Suzannah that was there before. The little Suzannah frightened by this says:
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"What's happening here? Who are you?" asks the little Suzannah, scared.
The older Suzannah simply extends one of her hands and the locket on the table just flies towards her hands. When the locket touches the older Suzannah's hand, it rapidly begins to emit a black light with reddish tones and a macabre female voice echoes from the locket:
"How long I've had to wait to find you!"
Kal moves away scared, while Suzannah positions herself in front of him to defend:
"You shouldn't be able to enter my refuge!!" says the little Suzannah to the older one.
"Silence!!" sounds the voice with an even darker tone than before.
"He is not who we think, let's let him go my lady," says the little Suzannah.
"How small and weak you are, you didn't even realize he's been emitting a majestic aura since entering your refuge," says the voice.
"I can feel him, I can see him, I want him!!!!" says the voice escalating to even more macabre tones.
Then changing her face to a macabre face with a huge mouth full of sharp teeth, the older Suzannah flies towards Kal. She manages to pass over the little Suzannah and bites Kal's left arm, with absurd strength she rips off the boy's whole forearm, making Kal scream desperately while holding what's left of his forearm. At that moment, the little Suzannah says:
"Divine Magic of the 6th Circle: Celestial Purification"
Suddenly a sacred and bright white light illuminates the place, destroying the refuge cabin and affecting the older Suzannah, making her scream in pain and move away from the young Kal. The older Suzannah was so affected by the magic that the Suzannah mask she was wearing began to crack and fall away, revealing a black shadow with the silhouette of a woman and two red eyes, wearing black flowing clothes like black wings:
"When did you learn this 6th circle divine magic?" says the shadow.
"I've been with you for 100 years since we made the pact, I've been with you at every moment."
"I have unrestricted access to your spirit, how did you learn to use a divine magic without me realizing?" continues the shadow.
"For almost 80 years I created another refuge inside my refuge, a place that even you would have no access to!!" says Suzannah.
"There I learned that magic and learned how to defeat you too!!"
"I know who you really are, Salacia," Suzannah completes.
"Actually, this shadow's name is Servant of Witchcraft, a kind of will-less avatar that I control," says Salacia with a slightly cheerful voice.
"And in truth, even learning divine magic, you still aren't a match for me," Salacia finishes.
Then the shadow opens its arms and a fireball appears between the shadow's arms. Immediately Suzannah extends her right hand to Kal, who was writhing in pain, and says:
"Divine Magic of the 5th Circle: Divine Protection."
Immediately a pure, purifying white light envelops the young Kal, who falls asleep wrapped in the light. When the fireball the shadow was controlling grew large, Salacia's voice echoes through the locket:
"Elemental Fire Magic of the 5th Circle: Flaming Explosion"
The giant fireball is unleashed and a huge explosion occurs in the refuge, burning the beautiful plants and devastating the entire area. In the midst of the smoke, the little Suzannah appears with half her body charred while Kal was protected asleep inside the divine protection Suzannah conjured.
"I never imagined you would be like this with a mere 5th circle magic," says Salacia.
The little Suzannah rises with her right side's skin raw flesh, extends her left hand toward the shadow and says:
"Divine Magic of the 6th Circle: Celestial Purification"
Once again a strong light covers the entire area, affecting the shadow again which moves away even further. But with great pain and almost without magic, Suzannah kneels on the ground, paralyzed, as the Shadow rises again almost intact and opens its two arms for the little Suzannah. Salacia says:
"You were a good horse for me girl, but today you will die!!"
"Profane Magic of the 3rd Circle: Black Death"
A black light with a beam unleashes toward the little paralyzed and weak Suzannah, who slowly closes her eyes and only laments over her life:
"I've had a cursed life," Suzannah remembers.
And her memories come in flashes, in the first she sees herself younger, approximately 23 years old, embraced to a man smiling sitting in front of a fireplace in a small humble house. In the second she appears about 28 years old, lying in a dirty tavern, with a fat old man arranging her clothes and leaving while throwing some coins on the floor for her. In the third and last, she appears about 37 years old sitting in front of a broken mirror while cutting her own wrists and repeating some words in the dark tongue until Salacia's voice surfaces, inviting her to make a blood pact.
"I am the weakest and most miserable person in this world!!" Suzannah whispers, thinking it would be her last time.
The black light beam was about to pass through the little Suzannah when it hits something and is contained. It was Kal, who held that magic by just stretching out his right finger, the same hand that had been torn off by Salacia before. Suzannah just slowly opens her eyes and sees Kal in front of her, with a weak voice she says:
"How?"
Kal turns to her and his eyes shone like the light of the sun again, now Suzannah could see a warm aura like the sun's rays that filled the entire refuge. The shadow immediately moves as far away as possible while Salacia orders it to remain. The Witch Priestess did not understand how the Servant of Witchcraft shadow was no longer obeying her commands. Then Kal walks toward Suzannah and says:
"I saw you when you were born, I saw you as a crying girl, I saw when you found love and when you lost hope. In my view, you are the strongest person in the world," says Kal touching Suzannah's head.
At that moment Suzannah felt a peace she had never felt in her life, she felt she could forgive and love again, she felt she was being forgiven for all the evil she had done. Then the little Suzannah begins to cry desperately. And as a miracle, the burns on the little Suzannah's body began to dry up. Then looking up she hears Kal say:
"Young Kal will face infinite challenges throughout his life because of me. I healed you so that you may guide him to become the best man who has ever walked this earth" says Kal smiling.
From very far away, Salacia's voice echoes throughout the entire place saying:
"You will be mine, you will be mine!!!!"
While the little Suzannah rises, Kal says:
"I trust you!"
Then Kal falls asleep again, while Suzannah rises with a look of determination. Now that Kal's entity's presence is gone, the shadow again obeys Salacia's commands and furiously attacks Suzannah, who says:
"While studying these almost 80 years, I discovered a way to break our pact Salacia."
"It's just a matter of gathering a gigantic amount of divine energy and combining it with a portion of the mana of the person being freed from the pact."
Salacia retorts:
"You could never have gathered that amount of divine energy without me realizing, and even your mana I would know."
Then Suzannah replies:
"They say that all things in nature have a little divine energy in them, even the stars, the sun and..."
Suzannah points to the two moons inside her refuge, while Salacia says:
"No, the moons."
Suzannah joins her hands and concentrates the remaining mana she had left, and begins to say:
"For a long time I cultivated these energies under your nose, the larger Moon is the source of the divine energy I stored, while the smaller is my own manifestation of mana."
"Today our contract ends Salacia."
"Thank you for the time we spent together, but now I'm going to live my own life."
And with an angelic smile on her face, the little Suzannah with her hands still joined says:
"Divine Magic of the 8th Circle: Living Light"
The moons in the sky illuminate themselves and mix in a way that fills the entire refuge, thus eliminating Salacia's shadow once and for all. When everything ended, the place was left in great darkness and conjuring a small candle, Suzannah walks over to Kal and kisses him on the forehead, saying:
"Thank you."