Part 1

Neptis found herself in another bloody battle, hired by some Lord to fight some other Lord. The specifics were never important, just that people were willing to pay for the skills of a Divine Battle-mage. Turned out all those years of lessons with various weaponry were a benefit after all she thought, running through another combatant.

The fighting had lasted several hours so far, with no signs of letting up. Admittedly, since she got payment upfront, she usually killed everyone present at every battle, in order to have more opponents to fight, in spite of how infuriatingly easy they were to kill. As she beheaded 4 men with the swoop of her staff, she suddenly felt strange. She looked down at her hands, and saw they were glowing faintly, as was her staff. She tapped her staff on the ground and the thunderclap it unleashed deafened her, and flattened several nearby trees.

"What's going on?" Neptis asked out loud.