"I have only one request. In exchange for my life and the information that I passed on to you, bring justice to the Fate Weaver of Time, Wiregia Luciana," he spoke as he bent his head down for me to cut down.
"What did you say?" I asked as I looked at him, questioning if I heard what I just heard.
"The Fate Weaver of Time, Wiregia Luciana. Please bring justice to that damned Fate Weaver," he spoke with pure hatred as he looked at me kneeling down on the ground.
My eyes narrowed. I observed him.
'Holy fucking shit?!! To think I would really hear the name of another fate weaver here!! Jackpot!' I almost screamed, but kept that excitement inside.
Wiregia Luciana. Finally, I have a lead on another fate weaver. I wonder what kind of person she is.
"I will allow you to explain in detail. Speak and maybe I shall let you live as well," I spoke as I looked down at him with a serious expression. I couldn't care about Aisha or Geralt as of this moment right now.
"Then I shall speak," he said as he began telling the tale of the time back when he was first turned into a vampire.
A certain village in the Nation of Fire, Agnatha. It was a small village holding about 60 to 70 people about the south of the nation. Being small, the village was mostly peaceful, with the entire village folk knowing each other.
The village functioned as a whole system with the trade and cash flow. All the problems, whether small or big, were discussed weekly, and each person had to take part in these discussions at least once every 4 weeks.
One day, on one of the days of the discussion when about 90% of the village took part, a certain incident occurred. It involved the appearance of a woman in her early 20s wearing a black witch-like outfit and a long cane in her hands.
That woman had green eyes, and wore two green bracelets and a necklace matching the color of her eyes, while her entire outfit had a strange green hue to it.
But the strangest thing about that girl was… it's as if the time around her had stopped. Her entire existence sent chills down the last spines of all the villagers.
The head of the village mustered up courage and walked towards that girl and asked," young lady. Are you an adventurer? I am the head of this village. Is there anything I can assist you with?"
"This should be enough for now," she spoke by herself, ignoring the words of the head as she looked at the number of people around her. Her eyes were calculative, and she looked at all those people as if she were looking at objects.
"What are-" as the head was about to ask again, the girl chanted a spell.
"[Absorb!]"
And before anyone can even realize, everyone present in that discussion had vanished. All those present there turned to dust as she just stood there for a moment before mumbling to herself,
"Hopefully this time things will work out."
And then she started walking away from there without wasting even a single moment.
"You… You monster!!!!"
Among the 10% of the people who didn't participate, there were some who were returning after visiting the nearby city and they just happened to witness the entire thing from a distance.
They weren't exactly full-fledged adventurers but for self protection; they had learned a couple of moves on their own.
So, taking up the weapon in their hands, they pointed towards that girl who was in front of them.
"And I was one of them," spoke the vampire in front of me, as the nerves on his body turned darker while he recalled the bits of that fight.
"It wasn't a fight. It wasn't even close to that. We… couldn't even move," that vampire was shaking a little as he continued," it wasn't fear. Yes, we were scared, but it wasn't to where we lost our will to fight. But more like we just couldn't move."
"Our bodies froze in place as she walked. She walked past three of our members, touching on their cheeks as their hairs turned white. Their body first aged rapidly and then disintegrated into dust, leaving only their clothes behind."
"I was on the side. Not in her way, and she didn't bother going to anyone who wasn't in her path. So, I was spared. Just because I was a little on the side."
He turned silent as he stared at the ground. His breaths were heavy as his anger fumed while I observed this guy.
"Later, when she left, we could finally move. While the fear was still over us, we didn't waste time and looked for everyone who was not dead and informed them of what had happened. Whatever was left of the village, we mourned all night as we filled the cemetery with the dust of the people that once used to live there."
"While others decided to leave the village and head to the city for refuge, some of us, including me, moved in the direction where that girl went. Yeah, we were crazy, but we had our pride."
"But what was in our path led us to a disaster that changed our entire perspective on how dangerous this world we were living in was. Villages.. no, there were dozens of towns and cities… that went through the same thing that our village did."
"Someone was able to figure out her name from an old history textbook. It was a rather crude book in the library of the main hall that had a single page mentioning that girl's existence."
"Wiregia Luciana, the girl that the time favors. She was from a time prehistoric to the Gods and Titans."
"I couldn't get the complete information on her as a human. Hence, I sacrificed my soul to the demons, becoming a vampire to live immortally and find more about that person. And perhaps by fate, I was able to get an audience with the queen once. The Hell Guardian, the Vampire Queen."
"I almost sacrificed my life trying to protect something precious to her. And in return, she asked me if I wanted anything. So, I asked about Wiregia Luciana and asked the queen to kill her."
"Did you know what she said? She replied to me, 'That Fate Weaver of TIme, huh? I apologize to the young one, but she is stronger than me. I am not capable enough to fulfill your request.' "
"It was beyond shocking. The being in front of me was capable of turning the entire hell upside down. If she were to come up to the mortal realms, all the Gods combined wouldn't be able to even scratch her… and she… couldn't defeat that girl?"
"But all hope was not lost. The Vampire Queen provided me a way to get my wish. It was to find the Heaven's Guardian who walks the mortal realm. Unlike the Hell Guardian and normal Heaven's Guardian, this Heaven's Guardian wasn't bound by the rules of heaven and hell. He was the last straw I could hope for… and if you, the Heaven's Guardian, can't help me…"
That vampire turned solemn as he looked down. While I just stood there dumbfounded, wondering if I should really meet this fate, weaver or not…