The Crimson Magister Chapter 17: V1-C17: Temporal Storms

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Aqua slowly lifted Sheira’s unconscious body and carried her to a nearby table. Her body was bruised from heavy restraints, and many puncture wounds were also visible as points of blood extraction. The dark haze was thick enough to cut with a knife; Sheira’s entire body practically oozed it. The sheer thickness of the haze dwarfed Fang’s own by orders of magnitude. Aqua now knew that this haze was produced by fragments of time. She couldn't afford to dally; she needed to take the fragment before Sheira's mind was fully taken. With a deep breath, she placed her hands on Sheira’s body. Aqua’s blazing power surged through the elven princess, searching for a thread to unravel the fragment of time. And yet she could not find it. The fragment was so entangled in Sheira's mind that she couldn't even begin to search. With an exhale, she looked over at Sheira once again. I need to make a small cut. Aqua placed her hands back onto the princess, her power now channeling more and more destructive power, and yet precise enough to rival a surgical scalpel. She needed to be careful; one wrong cut would damage Sheira’s mind permanently. Alas, before she could even attempt to make an incision, a haze coalesced. Sheira's body absorbed the miasma fully before she awoke. With a powerful kick, she knocked Aqua through the wall, carving a large hole through the stone and sending the fiery angel tumbling across the floor. "It’s too late, goddess. Inquisitors know about you. And I am immortal. There is no escape. You can kill me, and yet I will return!" Sheira's voice was tinged with mockery, and her bruised body rapidly healed as power grew within her. "I know I cannot kill you, but what will you do now? Your friend is no more, do you have it in your heart to kill her?" Rolan said through Sheira's mouth, his mockery trying to cut into Aqua. Aqua slowly rose as the dust settled around her, her form not even scratched from her journey through the solid surface of a wall. "I won't need to do anything... Fool!" Aqua shouted before slowly approaching, her stride slow and steady. "Have you not noticed another influence in the body of Sheira?" she said mockingly, hoping to rile up the body snatcher. Rolan stopped for a moment, realization hitting him like a truck. Sheira's mind wasn't the only obstacle to his control of the holy vessel. No, there was something more, a primal heat that nested within Sheira's very body and soul. Something that even Rolan couldn't take over, and yet the heat was growing with each moment. "The moment you took over her body, she was considered dead. And I have placed a small blessing on the princess, you see." Aqua said as she approached. Sheira's body was slowly encased within the phoenix egg, yet still moving and breathing. "If she died, she would be reborn. And you? You are considered a foreign body." Step after step, Aqua approached now immobile Rolan. Sheira was indeed considered dead to the conditions of her spells, allowing her to not have to even lift a hand to hurt the princess. "No, you will not eject me," Rolan howled as he attempted to struggle against the egg, and yet it was unbreakable. In a mere three hours, Rolan would be eradicated, leaving resurrected Sheira. "You are too dangerous. I do not know your techniques. I will make sure you and that fragment are out of Sheira soon!" Aqua warned as she placed her hands on the newly created phoenix egg. Rolan was slippery. His true mind and soul were not inside the vessels he controlled. What remained in them was more like a seed. Aqua knew that this man could take control of any number of slaves, or who knows how many entities in this city alone had a fragment of time. He could take control of them, no matter how small, yet why was such a massive fragment needed for Sheira? Sheira was, by all means, weaker mentally than Laura, had no physical strength like Golden Fang, and wasn't chained to the divine either. In all senses, it was a waste to use such a massive fragmen