Academy of Legends 3: A LitRPG Fantasy by Vic Void

Author:Vic Void [Void, Vic]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2026-03-03T00:00:00+00:00

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They scattered to process.

Alice disappeared to the training field — she didn't spar, she flew. Loops and dives and impossible turns, burning off fear through velocity. I watched her from the courtyard, a streak of pink and white against the darkening sky, and thought about how she'd been the first person to believe in me. The girl who'd flown a confused orphan across the kingdom on a staff and said I think you might be Marked.

Iris found me an hour later and put a practice sword in my hand without a word. We fought in the torchlight — no magic, no bonds, just two people and two sticks. She beat me six times. The seventh was almost a draw.

"You're distracted," she said.

"I'm contemplating the dissolution of my identity into a demon god's consciousness. Tends to affect the footwork."

"Excuses." But she sat beside me on the field and leaned her shoulder against mine. "For what it's worth — I meant what I said. About fighting the Source for you."

"I know you did."

"I'm terrified, En."

"I know that too."

"Good. As long as we're clear." She rested her head on my shoulder. "Don't tell anyone I said that. I have a reputation."

Eva found me next — in the command center, where she'd already begun drafting contingency plans. Fourteen pages of precise handwriting, covering scenarios from "merge succeeds, bonds intact" to "merge fails, Source partially transformed" to "catastrophic identity dissolution, emergency containment protocols."

"You've been planning for twenty minutes and you already have fourteen pages."

"Twenty-three minutes. And I had templates prepared." She looked up from her desk. Her pale eyes were red-rimmed but steady. "En. I need to say something, not as the headmistress, but as Eva."

"Go ahead."

"I spent thirty years behind a brand that punished me for feeling. Thirty years of isolation. And then you purified me, and I felt everything — and it was so much that I thought I'd break." She set down her pen. "If the merge changes you — if the person who comes back is different from the person who goes in — I will find a way to love whoever you become. Because I know what it's like to be changed beyond recognition and still need to be loved."

"Eva—"

"Don't argue. Just hear me." She stood and crossed to me. Took my face in her hands — the same hands that had trembled when she'd first let me see her without the headmistress mask. "You gave me back my life. Whatever the merge costs, I will spend the rest of mine making sure you don't pay it alone."

She kissed me — soft, brief, certain — and went back to her planning.

Cynthia ambushed me in the corridor.

"I'm not crying," she announced, her hair a deep, telltale pink that said otherwise.

"I didn't say you were."

"Good. Because I'm not. I'm just — my eyes are doing a thing and it's unrelated to any emotional content whatsoever." She jabbed a finger at my chest. "You. Me. Tower chamber. Twenty minutes."

"Cynthia, I don't think—"

"I don't want to have sex, you idiot.

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