Iswas Willbe - Part 1

Part 1

It had taken me a long time to complete my research of how to become a lich, and since I had destroyed liches in the past I had decided to be more careful with what I chose to make my phylactery, it had taken a long time, but I managed to find out how to make time itself into my phylactery, I had gathered all my artifacts and tomes around me in my underground laboratory, as I knew the final ritual would consume them and my physical body, their power will be added to my own and I already memorized all the tomes, so nobody is going to get them. I perform the ritual and see the huge weave of psionic, arcane and divine magic swirl around each other, an empty spot waiting in the middle for me to walk into it, sacrificing my own life and soul, binding them into time itself, my phylactery... I feel a combination of extreme fear and exhilaration, I am a very old man, I don't have much to lose from this even if it fails, but I am almost sure it will not, I step into the spell form. I feel my body being ripped apart, my soul getting sucked out and my vision shifts, I see the huge dark spherical wave blast outwards consuming my laboratory, and then I fall away seeing how it keeps going, consuming the entire world before me, I feel the rush of energy from all the lives I am destroying, as the sphere of the world vanishes the wave explodes outwards, I see the mood vanish, the other worlds and the sun itself winks out then the stars all go out, I never intended that to happen, I just wanted to destroy my laboratory. I drift there for a long moment or is it an eternity...

I feel my ability to manifest myself wherever, and whenever I want, I use the part of the spell that lets me scry time and space, at first I just try to find any place that might have survived, but I destroyed everything, the future is gone, nothing exists, I even look into the other planes, nothing, I feel extreme despair and horror over what I have done, part of it my usual selfishness, I do not want to float forever in nothingness, that is not a good way to spend eternity, but I feel regret over destroying the few friends I had, even my favourite merchants, and that bounty hunter I used to utilize to take care of my enemies or capture special beings I needed for my experiments.

Then I remember I can scry in time for a spot to appear, and I slowly scry backwards in time, I see myself performing the ritual, I think, maybe I should stop myself, but I decide not to, instead I travel slowly back looking at my life, I also out of curiosity follow other people, and what I find is that my life has caused a lot of suffering, to a lot of people, finally I look upon the scene of my birth, my mother dies giving birth to me, and I scream for hours, laying next to her corpse, until dad gets home, he falls to his knees in despair and we both cry, he then takes me to the orphanage where I suffered through my early life. Even as a baby I caused suffering... I decide that this is not acceptable, so I scry back in time, finding the moment I was conceived, it feels weird to watch my mother and father making love, and I watch them cuddle for several hours before falling asleep, and then I manifest myself in their room.

I look at myself in the mirror a skeletal form, made from pitch black skeleton, my eyes hollow, casting darkness around the room, with their anti glow, I walk silently up to the bed and place a skeletal finger on my mother's belly, I feel the tiny new life within her, my life, and I consume it. Then I look around surprised, nothing seems to have happened, I decide to leave and before I do I cast silence and invisibility on myself. I spend the next year watching my parents, it takes another month before mother gets pregnant again, and this time she survives childbirth, she has a girl this time, and I see that they are happy. I am surprised at how good that felt to do. Yet I feel unsure of what to do now, what happened to the 70 years of my life, and why am I still here, it is so strange to me.

I wander the land unseen and unheard, though at times felt by people, paladins and clerics all seem to feel really uncomfortable when I am near them, yet none of them manage to find me, until one day when I see a large cart barrelling down the cobbled road, down towards the market square that is packed with people, I raise my skeletal hand and unleash a black bolt that hits the wagon making it disintegrate into a cloud of white powder, my silence and invisibility spells fail and I appear right at the edge of the market square, most people scream and most had not noticed what I did at all, a few did, but they too look scared and confused. That is when a cleric and paladin who were shopping at a stall a short distance away run toward me, I just stand there looking at them as they start attacking my physical form, it takes them half an hour to finally destroy me, it is ridiculous, I was not doing anything, and they still attacked me, but I kind of wanted that anyway...

I find myself drifting in time and I decide to scry along the path I would have taken, and all the people I can remember from my life, and I see that most people are happier, and the people I saved in the market, they too have a chance at happiness, though I see that the net effect of that particular act is not all good, one of the people that would have died there becomes a murderer who kills young boys with black hair, strange, but overall killing myself before I was born, that created a huge ripple of happiness in the world, despite leaving many evil creatures alive, like the liches I destroyed, but I had killed a lot more nice people than bad ones, so that might be why.

I decide to manifest myself shortly after being destroyed in the market, only this time I also create a disguise that is more believable, weaving several spells to create an actual different physical form and to hide my true nature, not fragile easy spells like silence and invisibility. I even create a nice merchant garb for myself and then I walk to the market, I find the person who would become the murderer and as he exits the market down an alleyway I snuff his life out, oh the wonderful sensation of sucking the life out of someone, intoxicating, I feel a strong desire to go into the market and consume everyone there, but I manage to calm that desire down and instead I wander into the merchant district and I see that my timing was a little bit off as the cleric and paladin are just finishing killing me, curious, I decide to walk right up to them and I say "We are so lucky to have brave champions of law and order and good to destroy evil things, here I feel you have earned a reward." and I put my fingers into my pocket and weaving a little magic inside the pocket I create two platinum pieces and pull them out and give the cleric and paladin one platinum each and smile warmly at them.

"I can't accept this from you" the paladin says and I answer "if you don't want it for yourself give it to a street urchin or your church or whatever, I am not taking it back." and with that I walk off, whistling a merry tune as obviously the cleric and paladin did not notice me, to further test my disguise I visit every temple in the city, and I find that nobody feels uncomfortable around me, the disguise is holding. Good...

I spend a year or so to set up a store, I pick a name for myself, a new name that I found amusing because of its truth 'Iswas Willbe' because I am or is, I was, and I will be. I sell various healing supplies there, and become a popular stop, especially because I am always open, of course I change disguise three times per day, so that it does not seem strange that a person is awake always, Issi and Wassi Willbe being my other gestalts. For those people who do not afford my already cheap prices I offer a special deal, if they agree to stay with me for a day, they can get healed, cured, and have curses removed, and although I don't say it clearly, I drain a week of life from them to cover my energy needs, some of them are so sick that without my healing they would not have lasted long anyway, I also feed them as part of that deal, and to make it believable that I would do this I have them tell me stories and recipes and any rumours and such they know.

This was how I met Nivi well indirectly, she entered into my store during the daytime "Mister Willbe?" she asks.

"Yes, that is me, what can I get for you?" I ask and look her over, she is an elf, with long black hair, warm complexion, and silvery grey eyes, she is wearing a robe I recognize, some sort of nature sect that try to help poor people, feeding, clothing, and healing them and if possible get them to join them outside the city in their tree huts, most of them provide only mundane healing, through herbs and such, not magical healing, and as such they are not as great at it as magical healers, still it is better than nothing.

She smiles at me "my name is Nivi, I have heard you provide healing for free to people, is that correct?"

I smile "not for free exactly, they have to tell me their stories and things they know and stay with me for a day, while I see to their ailments."

Nivi raises an eyebrow "and you don't consider that free?"

I shake my head "I have learned a lot of interesting things from them, so no, I think it is a fair exchange, sometimes I send them on errands too, why do you ask?"

Nivi smiles warmly at me "well, you see, I need your help, a plague has broken out among those staying with us in the forest, and I don't want to risk sending them here to you, and nothing we can do helps, do you think you could come with me there and see if you can help them, we don't have a lot of money though."

My expression becomes grave as I really don't like the idea of a plague "plague? Yes I can try to help against that, you will have to help with some supplies perhaps, like herbs and such that I can use in my shop later, and tell me your stories and such, as will the people I help, does that sound agreeable?"

Nivi reaches a hand out to me "deal." she says and smiles.

I take her hand and say "deal." too and then I say "give me a few to pack... And close the store... I never close my store, I hope nobody needs help while I am gone..." I pack some things into a bag of holding and toss it over my back and then take a piece of paper and write 'Closed, away on house call, be back as soon as possible' and place it on the door as I lock it.

Nivi leads me towards her people, it is a long walk, but she entertains me by telling me many stories and on the way pointing out various herbs and spices and other plants, explaining the myriad of uses for them, how to grow them in captivity and such, I learn quite a bit and I ask her follow up questions about various things and she seems happy to tell me anything I ask.

As night falls I start to understand that their home must be far away and I ask "how far away is your homes anyway?"

"I am sorry, I just assumed you knew, they are seven days from here, and we are going to leave the road shortly and head right into the deeper forest." she says and blushes about not telling me sooner.

"Yeah that would have been good to know, so I could have been clearer in my note..." I say but I am not really that annoyed, it is not like I have to have my store open. "I did not pack a tent or anything though, no sleeping roll or such." not that I need those things, but if I am to mimic a human that needs sleep... I need to do those things.

Nivi looks sad about being dumb and forgetting to give me all the information I needed "you... you can share mine if you want, with me or alone if you prefer, I will make this up to you I promise, whatever it takes." she blushes a little bit more and bats her eyelashes at me trying to use her feminine viles to make me not be angry.

I look her over again, in my first life, I never had a shot with a woman as beautiful as her, though I can't truly tell how her body looks under that silly baggy robe of hers, I also don't feel such urges as a lich, I consider a little bit and I adjust my disguise to be even more real and now I feel how her scent arouses my physical form, and I actually slightly blush and I feel my cock get filled with some more blood as I think about her that way "are... are you offering what I think you are offering? I tend to sleep nude" a lie, but I want to see what she says as I now desire her that way again.

Nivi blushes a bit more fiercely and she looks down at my bulging pants "yes, me too, and we can have sex too, if you want, you never took advantage of any of the poor people before, but if you desire me I feel you deserve some reward for all you have already done."

"I do, but I want to get as far as our legs will take us before we set up camp, and you will have to help with food, as I don't have any with me." I also enable my body to digest food and to like it, a bit of a waste of food really, turning it into magical energy, but it needs to be done to keep up the ruse, as I do like my current life.

Nivi nods at that "alright, I like that plan, will elven rations be alright tonight? I can hunt something meaty for you tomorrow if you like, but this part of the woods don't have that much, most animals stay way clear of the human roads, for several miles."

"I will partake of your elven rations with much curiosity, and then we will see if I need anything else, like meat, tomorrow." I say with a warm smile.

Nivi giggles and gives me a quick hug and then continues to lead the way, I get a new appreciation for her movements and slowly build a picture in my head of what her body will look like, I realize it is probably not accurate, but I am curious to see how close I get. Nivi seems to be getting worn out and tired but since I am not showing any signs of fatigue at all, just getting a little sweaty from some of the harder climbs, she pushes herself finally though she says "we will make camp at the waterfall and pool up at the ridge ahead, it is the best camp site I know of near here, even gives us a roof over our heads and a nice view, and the pool is nice to bathe in, and I really do need a bath and so do you." she says and pokes her tongue out at me and giggles.

I look at the sweat stains on my fine merchant clothes and there is also a wet spot from my precum on my pants and I laugh "I guess you are right about that."

Continued in Part 2