Zone C -- Megacity One

[Gildarts]

The skyscrapers towered high above the mage, like sails in a ship, they caught the gales that carried the fog above into its current settle and dissipated into the sky like long lost arrows missing their target. The plume of mist had covered over the town like sheets on a bed, however, the size of the buildings had grown. There was a basic downtown area, a main street, which Gildarts found himself wandering through.

You should check that… Thing Karl Jak left you, I think it will aid in the operation that the participants of this event are trying to attain and conquest. Come now, you’ve hidden that part of you for so long, why not let it run free and rampant? She tempted him, like the snake she was. Why do you nearly never respond to me?

“Because you’re not real,” Gildarts spoke audibly. “I’m looking at fog, I feel it, but I can’t even be sure it’s there. I know sure as anything that you’re not there, you’re imagined, somehow I showed enough weakness to allow a weed like you to take hold, however, I’ll never let you poison the soil of my mind.”

Look at you, constantly fighting for control, when you can’t even control your own mind, your own magic! You’re a failure of a man and mage. You’ve lost your wife, and I have some news for you, buuut I think I’ll wait to tell you that news to crush you later. For now, I’ll leave you with this, if you’re so reluctant to listen to me. The battle is not light and darkness, but it is the battle you’ve waged on yourself. She ended it at that. Her voice disappeared in the mist. It was hard to say if she’d ever come back, but it was more accurate and more nerve-wracking for Gildarts to ponder “when” and he did so with dread.

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