“Tiaris has made her move…” the girl sitting before me said with monotonous voice, and drank from the mug that she was holding in both of her small hands.

“You don’t mean the…”

“I mean it.” she replied quickly, interrupting my voice.

Tiaris - the goddess of madness, pain, and hatred has finally called for her hero. It can’t be possible. She doesn’t care about the human world, nor does she care about the lord of darkness. What is her objective? What does she want to do?

“But why? Why now?” I asked, and the girl looked at me with bored eyes.

“Who knows… Does it really matter?”

“What are you talking about?! Of course it matters!” I shouted a little, and hit the table with my hands, making the people in the inn that we were sitting in, look at us. When I noticed it, I quickly sat normally, not to make a scene.

“When I say it doesn’t matter, then it doesn’t matter. Or do you not believe me?” the girl said, without any expression whatsoever.

Annie - chosen by the god of wisdom Givton. Just like me she died, and was resurrected back to life in another world, and just like me she doesn’t remember anything. Or does she? I can’t really tell, if she’s lying, or telling the truth, and the gift she has received from her god is simple - knowledge.

Who knows how much she knows?

“The more interesting thing to me is how you received this information. Does Yuna still wants you to pray to her all the time? I can’t really understand your relationship with your god.” Annie started speaking, while playing with her short, black hair.

She looked very young, especially for a mage. A short girl, maybe one and a half meters tall, with girly face, and emotionless face. It was understandable that in her circles, she wasn’t really respected.

She still looked like a child, even if she was older than me. I don’t know if it was because of her large, green eyes, or because of her small lips.

“I don’t think it’s weird at all, and don’t change the subject. Tiaris has made her move. Who knows what she is planning.”

“Yeah, who knows…” Annie just replied, with an enigmatic voice.

She must know something.

“Do you think that I am joking?! This is a serious matter. Another hero has appeared, and this time this “goddess” has sent him here. Who knows what does it mean.” I said, and looked at her, but her face didn’t even flinch.

She just grabbed the mug that was before her one more time, and after that she drank from it. She did it slowly, maybe to irritate me, or maybe because she was thinking. I didn’t know, but when she was done, she started speaking.

“So you are saying that you have seen a young boy, standing among the rows of severed heads. There were no traces of any decapitated bodies, so he probably hid them, or buried them. He was thin, and looked weak, so he wouldn’t have been able to kill them with any normal means. Also, his hair was white, and eyes dead, as those of a fish…” she repeated everything I had told her.

“Yeah, that what I was saying, and then you told me that he is the chosen one, just like us.”

“It wasn’t deduction of any kind, I just know it. As I said before, my relationship with my god, is simpler than yours.” Annie replied, and looked at her mug, that was probably empty right now “Every god is has his own personality, and each one of them treats their heroes differently. When I first met Mark he told me, that Zothar has reincarnated him in the middle of the battle, with a sword in his right hand.” she then said, and wiped her hands into her robes.

They were really high quality, green robes, with many bows, and cute accessories, so it made me cringe a little.

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“Zothar? God of War? But what do you mean by this?” I asked, and she looked at me with her green eyes.

“How would Tiaris, goddess of madness treat her hero, if she got one?”

How would Tiaris treat her hero? I never thought about this. Yuna gave me powerful weapon, and armor, and with her blessing I can defeat almost anyone that has evil intentions. What would Tiaris give her hero?

“Anyway, I don’t know why he did it, and if he is going to do this again. He must have worked a lot, to create this little scene you have seen. Decapitating dozens of people, and then hiding their bodies, only to take their heads, and arrange them in lines…” this girl before me was speaking calmly, as if she didn’t care about those people that died at all “He must be an interesting person. After meeting heroes of weak gods that gave them boring abilities, it would be refreshing to meet someone who was called by Tiaris herself.”

“How can you even talk like this?! He’s sick, and he must be stopped!” I shouted, once again attracting the attention of the people from the inn.

“Oh.. Yes… Yes, of course…” she only responded weakly, not even looking at my face, as if she was ashamed.

I met Annie about two years ago, when I still didn’t know what I should do. At this time I thought, that I was the only one that was reborn into another world, but she proved me wrong. She showed me, that there are dozens of us, and all of them are fighting for greater cause.

I thought that it was great, and I wanted to help, but once I did, I realised that many of those people were a lot weaker than me.

That’s when Annie told me, that I was chosen by a powerful god, one that can give me unimaginable amounts of power.

“Yeah… I say that we should stop him, but I don’t even know where he is. This place looked like any other village covered in snow, and there wasn’t anything that I caught my attention, apart from this “scene”” I said, and sighed a little.

Something is happening. I don’t know what, but Yuna showed me this vision for a reason. Something must be done, I can’t just sit, and do nothing.

“What do you plan on doing, when you find him?” Annie asked me, while still not looking at my face.

What would I do?

I looked at the window. It was dark outside, and the snow was falling strongly. We were now in one of the inns in the Ebine.

“I don’t know… This is a hard question. I just know that I need to stop him…” I replied, and sighed once more.

“If you had only two options, one of them was killing him, and the other one would be letting him go, then what would you do?” Annie asked, and this time she pierced me with her gaze.

What is she even talking about?

“What is this question!? I don’t know!” once again I attracted a lot of attention from the people.

The place wasn’t too packed, but many people just went here only to hid from the cold outside, and warm themselves near the fireplace.

“Sorry… I just don’t understand why you would ask my that… Well, if I had to do choose, then I would choose neither of those options.” I said, and looked at the girl before me “I would try to talk to him, and if I decided that he is a dangerous, and evil person, then I would capture him, and bring him to the justice. That is what I would do…”

I have seen him. I have seen his eyes, and the things he has done. The vision was simple, and I knew what it meant, but after talking to Annie, I understood that not everyone had it the same as me. I had Yuna, but others?

“Your answers are the most boring ones…” the girl before me replied to my words, irritating me a little “But I don’t dislike them. I don’t dislike them at all.”she said, and I could have sworn that she smiled for a short amount of time.

“What do you mean by that? Anyway, I want you to help me. I don’t think that I will be able to do this alone. Finding him might prove difficult, and I might have to fight with him. Who knows, I might even need help from other heroes, who knows how powerful he is.” as I said those things, Annie looked outside the window.

“Even before you came here, I had my animal servants scout the kingdom. If he is near us, we will find him in no time.”

“Wait, why didn’t you tell me before?”

“Why should I? Would it change anything?” Annie just said, and grabbed her mug, as if she forgot that it was empty. After that she sighed, and put it on the table “I just want you to remember one thing. The most important thing is defeating the lord of darkness. If it means getting the help from “him”, then I will gladly accept it.”

“What are you talking about? Do you want to receive help from a murderer?!” I asked, but she just looked at the mug in her small hands.

“If you would know, what I know, then you wouldn’t say things like this. As I said before, my relationship with Givton is different than yours with Yuna. He didn’t just give me a large amount of raw power, and then gave me instructions on how to use it. Instead he gave me knowledge, and let me draw conclusions from it.”

“And what conclusions tell you, that it would be a good idea to get help from the murderers?” I asked, and the girl looked me into eyes.

“If you fight with him, you will die.” she just said, and her face didn’t flinch even one bit.