A/N: The name of Darkness and Lightning element is changed to keep it natural with the names of other elements.
Darkness → Umbra
Lightning → Electro
The changes are already implemented in the earlier chapters.
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"Who was that mysterious woman?" Vlad murmured, sitting alone on the rooftop. Strangely, despite how unfathomable her presence had been, he did not mind her company. Even though it was the first time he had met her, he felt the same familiar comfort in her presence as he had felt with his mother, Elaria.
He lay back on the rooftop, resting one hand behind his head while extending the other toward the bright moon in the sky. The cold stone pressed gently against his spine, and the night breeze whispered through his hair.
He slowly closed his hand, as if trying to cup the moon within his palm, and declared in a firm voice, "The play time is over. It is time for the endless grind."
