Chapter 54

I took courage and turned around. The creature in front of me was made of nothing but light. Light and a mantle. There was no face. There was no name. It was a maid who was not made of flesh and blood, but of light and knowledge. I felt trembling, affected by the emotion of being in front of a millennia-old being. I felt like smiling, screaming, all at the same time. I smelled magic, in the same way I felt it when I was attacked for the first time by a creature similar to this, but the other was made of darkness and pain. This creature was good. Could it be the God of the Sun?

“I managed to call for you, or did you feel pity and want to show yourself?” I asked in a shocked tone.

The creature took a moment.

“The darkness resides here. What is that? An offense to what I represent? Am I a joke to you, human?”

The creature said the word “human” with such contempt that I stepped back a step. I was scared, but since I had managed to summon her, I would be able to t