☀️ Arselia and Akonia

Keliandra finds a diary and begins to write in it with enthusiasm. **\*Victor! Don't kill me!** **Where did it all begin?** I don't know who my teacher really is. But as long as I can remember, he has strived to make me a powerful Sorceress, and he also revered Anush and despised Arselia. I don't know why. Aren't they the same deity? Anyway, I can't write anything interesting about those times. We lived in a cave. A well-equipped one, but still a cave. I didn't leave it for a very long time. And then the teacher decided that it was time to send me to the capital, and that's when this strange letter from Princess Naria appeared. How convenient everything turned out! I was happy and eagerly set off for Margel. If only I had known that Victor Loss would be waiting for me here... **Arrival** The first thing was the crowd. A crowd of annoying people. They all wanted to get to the capital, each for their own reasons. A flood, if you will. All of this is so unpleasant... Even Carneol seems too crowded to me now. But is this crowd enough to defeat Victor? Oh, I doubt it! Anyway, I got through the crowd and met Strauss, who sent me to the magic bureau. And the magic bureau gave me a ring, may it end up in their rear, and directions to the Academy. I was really going to study at the Academy of Margel, but something went wrong... **Carneol** Perhaps the princess is still watching me with one eye, because that person could teleport around the city, and that is clearly not a skill for ordinary mortals. Whoever I met, she sent me to Carneol, where I immediately fell at the feet of my future leader. From fatigue... That's how we met Aiko, and soon I became part of a small and very nice squad from Carneol. However, it didn't take a couple of days before it ceased to be small and very nice. **Beata and her painting** Everything was going well until Guyon came to us with his problem. Then I took it all as just a small favor, but Beata turned out to be a member of Carneol, and soon she was arrested on suspicion of murders, which were often happening throughout the capital. Beata, Beata, what are you getting into, may I ask? Yes, that was the first drop. **Arrest** Soon, all of Carneol was arrested. And quite quickly released, but I almost went crazy during that short time! First, they arrest without explanation, then they release just as suddenly... Now only Beata is serving time in the dungeon. But she was partly lucky... She won't have to fight Victor. I wouldn't be surprised if we all outlive him. I never managed to find out all the details of the story with the painting. For example, how exactly Beata got rid of its influence. But that's not so important. Because, judging by her behavior and arrogance, the curse from the painting would have preferred to disappear from such a carrier. And how is the goddess Rynze involved in all of this? Or is she involved at all... **Victor and the hunt for him** First, they arrested him on suspicion of murder, and then they send us to hunt the real killer... Great! Amazing! It is we, and not the hapless guards, who must defeat the possessed man who cuts down his colleagues with one blow. There was hope that we would simply not find him... But then the princess and her strange ward suddenly intervened! Here is a direct pointer! Do you have no killers in your palace, or guards, to easily get rid of Victor? Why us? What are you even trying to achieve, Naria? You'd think there aren't any other mercenaries here! I don't want to fight Victor! It's suicide! But there is nowhere to run... Unless the other members of Carneol run from the battlefield... By the way, Garrett is unlikely to want to die ingloriously in an unequal battle. It is worth staying close to him and, if anything, joining him in a "tactical retreat." **The battle will begin soon...** Teacher, have you forgotten about me yet? My life path may soon end... Will you take my body and bury it where you found me? Right? Teacher... I don't want to die... I don't want to... I don't want to...**\*** Keliandra stops. Pale and sad.