The Child Of Asclepia

It all began in a world I didn’t even know.Inside filthy sewers, I woke, surrounded by street urchins clinging to me.Cheat ability? Not a chance.All I had were vague memories of a boy named Dietrich Becker—and the power he wielded as Asclepia’s priest.To survive, I had to make that power mine.◇◆The two hands of Asclepia. One heals, one takes away.She is forever One.Even divided into many, she returns to a whole.In the One, see the Many.Feel the Many as if it were One.There lies both beginning and end.And then…–O’ candle flickering in the wind: die in one breath!–All things born of Mother drift to death!–O’ searing blood: vanish, then rejoice!–Death is delight—the release from suffering.–O’ heart, scatter your burning blood into the sky!–Fall with grace!A woman with pale lips. Her true form, a serpent.The merciless goddess who oversees both vengeance and healing.Asclepia.May she be forever blessed…Or cursed!