Epilogue 1:
Call me Eurostar.
I have been known by other names... Edulcore Cicciotto, the Raptor, the Eternal Champion... but Eurostar is the only one of whom I am fond.
it's the name I was known by in simpler times... when there was the fun and the joy to live.
Now I am tired... tired of the battles, of the endless fights, of blood and cries, of tears and sorrow.
But that doesn't matter... there is another battle to fight, another war to win. ladnikia, the damned sword, whose curse over me seems never to end, gleams in my hand.
The wizard, Ghaleon, has sent me in the Land of the dead, to call back the souls so that they could claim control over Godbolt's zombie.
Problem is, there are no souls around.
In fact, there is nothing.
Just a grey mist.
I hear the flaps of wings.
It's just Nip, my raven, that land over my right shoulder.
"What have you done!" he exclaims. And then the raven hops from my shoulder down over the ground. And there, he begins to change. Growing, morphing. At first I believe he is changing back into the leprechaun, but he keeps growing.
In front of me, shaking his head, stands a being that I have seen so many times in my dreams, the one I call the “dark dwarf”.
“Who are you?” I ask. “I have been given different explanation by many, always different and always stranger. Who are you?”
I expect the being to talk backwards, like he always do. This time not.
“I am just a product of your mind. The part of your mind… wiser… smarter. The one that form the current events is able to foreshadow the events to come. The one that needed to be freed from chains. Instead, you… you that were freed by your friends… you have chosen the chains again!”
He points at Ladnikia.
“You have given credit to an evil warlock, without any though… without asking for advice to your leader, at your friend… The lust for power… the lust for blood has damned you!”
“I… have to free the souls!” I yell, looking around desperate.
“There are no souls here. Not the souls you are looking for, Eurostar. Just one. Yours!”
And with that words, the man changed back into the raven, and fled away.
I start to run, and to scream. Finally I give up, and begin to cry, kneeling over the featureless ground.
And then a laugh began, loud and wicked.
It’s the sword.
It’s Ladnikia.
“Welcome in Hell, Eternal Failure!”
The very same day, on Earth, from the Vanguard Complex, Edulcore Cicciotto’s son disappeared. Nobody did search for him, as the memories of him and Edulcore Cicciotto were completely erased from the minds of everybody.
