"Now, I want you to get out of here, and I hope I would never see your faces again," Barbara pointed at the back door and urged us to go. I stopped right in front of the door after Edward left, waiting for me outside.
"Is it really alright to go like that? I can help. I know I can do it."
"You were the only one who was called traveller, you know. You may not know who you are, neither I do. However, you must be someone who had already seen enough and chose to experience the same thing all over again. Please stay out of it. This is our battle. Zadimus must have already knocked your friend. Take him and go. We will take care of these things. Since you exist, our battle will be successful."
She pushed me outside and closed the door behind us. I did not know what to do. Suddenly, an idea came to my mind. We can help them kill the demons that will emerge from the portal using Xavier and his pack. I looked at Edward briefly and ran to the hot spring. I was confident I
I woke up in the middle of nowhere, surrounded by flax plants. The sky was dark; it was already night. I was confused because I thought that I was going to die. I was sentenced to death, not because I wanted to, but I took the blame instead of my best friend. I was a soldier; I was a woman soldier. I sacrificed myself because I thought of the great cause. My best friend was planning for creating a rebellion; the empire of Satia is currently at a crisis because of the emperor. He isn’t good enough for the throne. I must help him in his cause, but what am I doing here? Laying down in the middle of nowhere.I get up and scan my surrounding; I am not satisfied with knowing nothing. I search for my clothes and find a letter in my pocket. I open it. I know this handwriting, it’s from him without any doubt, my best friend.«I hope that you are well, best friend. Thank you for sacrificing yoursel
I am tired; I’ll stop to catch my breath. Water is rarer these days; the rain doesn’t drop very often. I need to keep looking for a stable source of water. I want to drink so bad, but I’ll save it for later.Lost in my thoughts, I fell asleep.My dream, it feels so real. It seems I am in a forest; there are a lot of trees around me, they are so tall, they disappear in a long line into the sky, so old, I say that they are ancient like they express a time where things were free. The sun shows through its shining ray the old outer bark in a magnificent way; it’s so patterned, they stretch up, as if so proud to stand there under the sun in any weather.This greenwood seems just undisturbed. Suddenly I close my eyes and imagine the fallen leaves as from a dream, each one with a great past, if they could talk, they would narrate the stories of ancient civilisations, differe
I noticed another thing doing the second test; the infected can’t hear well; that’s why we usually don’t notice them in wildness. They have a short range of reacting when hearing others moving. That’s why we call them weak, a knock into their head will take them out.That’s all I could find near my living place. Damien chose a perfect place for me to live in. Really, I am glad that he thought of it before hand. I know that there are more out there, I remember that I was on a mission with Damien, apparently, there were some survivors from an expedition awaiting for help, they were attacked by a somewhat different creature than the madmen, they were completely different; they had claws, a body more violet than usual and stronger.«You are back, how about playing cards, it was in one of the boxes that you made.»«No, I don’
« Should I do like this or like this? » I asked swaying my sword in different directions.« No, you are still breathing chaotically, do you want to make me go insane? Listen go like this pouffe then do this paf, in the end, do a pouch. »« Your explanation cramps my conversation with you; you should take a formation in teaching. There are two possibilities here, you are joking, or you are trying to joke because I don’t see any other alternative. »«Hahahaha, you are funny. Alright, I don’t want to make you worse, first, try to control your breathing style. Breathe until you don’t have any place for the air then exhale everything. Do it while training, because I want you to be more endurant in a battle, you have great abilities for a human, you are like an unpolished gem that I am tryin
In the orphanage, they did some tests to you to see if you can become a worthy warrior to serve to protect the country. Being at the bottom, you see every worse suffering possible; Beggars, homeless ones, hard-working ones but fate didn't give them enough credit. In our case, there are even nobles who buy children as their toy slaves. Suffocating, I am suffocating. I was an empty shell.«if you do well, I will not make you sit near the fire.»I heard this every time they wanted me to read the ancient language. It’s a language that I knew how to read just like that. I’ve never learnt it. My mother always said to keep it a secret, not to show anyone that I can read the ancient languages. I didn’t listen to her warning and wanted to be praised like everyone, but I was wrong. Instead, they would make me work day and night to translate what they want.&nb
My head spun for a moment, then got better. This situation happened more frequently lately. My body got paralysed, and my head hurt. I felt like my heart was going to stop. Am I sick? I don’t want to. I am not allowed to; if I fell sick, I’d die because I don’t know anything about medicine. I want to stay healthy until I die.«What are you going to do now?» he asked.«I thought of lazying around.»« Then shall we play cards? »«There is no question, because of your cheats, I lost all my belongings to you. I don’t have anything else to put at stake.»«You have your life.»« Are you kidding me? I already feel bad enough about the things that I lost. I don’t want to become
I don’t think that we’re going to arrive soon. The sun is already going down. I need to go back to the capital fast, who knows that greedy mother-in-law would do. Trying to get rid of me by sending me to the mountain to check on the human territory and sending assassins to my back to kill me, I wasn’t expecting her to be so lame.I am never going to follow her commands anymore; shereally bewitched my father to put me in a rough position. That bastard, I am never going to forgive him. To follow her leads to condemning me to the outside world. To me, his son, who was born to his true mate.« Alpha, what are you thinking about? We need to install a camping site, » said Rasha.«I agree. We’ll stay the night here. Maya cast a protective barrier here.»Listening to the crunches of the dead leaves under my boots, I rush
I had the habit of doing things that I didn’t want to, until I got used to it.Instead of cheating death, I’d chosen to comply with my father’s decision and go for the outside world. We’ve been living in isolation for more than a century now. The latter proved more dangerous than I imagined. I’ve admired those walls that kept us from being harmed by the infected for a long time. Growing up made me realize that we’re not building them to protect us; we were creating a living tomb.The ledger stone of my mother translated the irony of fate. Life was short, and we were creating tombs before our death. The world was in such a sorry state, and no one had the courage to find out what happened. As if the world itself was waging war against the livings. What happened exactly to make it so angry at us. The peaceful life was now only a fairy tale that we told children about before sleep.
"Now, I want you to get out of here, and I hope I would never see your faces again," Barbara pointed at the back door and urged us to go. I stopped right in front of the door after Edward left, waiting for me outside."Is it really alright to go like that? I can help. I know I can do it.""You were the only one who was called traveller, you know. You may not know who you are, neither I do. However, you must be someone who had already seen enough and chose to experience the same thing all over again. Please stay out of it. This is our battle. Zadimus must have already knocked your friend. Take him and go. We will take care of these things. Since you exist, our battle will be successful."She pushed me outside and closed the door behind us. I did not know what to do. Suddenly, an idea came to my mind. We can help them kill the demons that will emerge from the portal using Xavier and his pack. I looked at Edward briefly and ran to the hot spring. I was confident I
"We also have a legend about your deeds... more like it was about the portal. No one knew it existed beside a few nobles and the Rayginaz family," I explained."This is strange! I do not dare show off. The portal indeed exists, and I am keeping it at bay. However, it was a matter that I had to do in exchange for debt. We do not dare to blend with people, and also, we do not dare to take a human bride. It is already odd for me that you exist. From your words, that means I took a human as a friend and another human as a bride. It will shorten our lives if we do so.""In every generation of the Carmander royal family, there was a human bride. As to strengthen the bond between humans and vampires.""Then that means you are dhampirs. Vampires have a long lifespan, we like living in isolation, and we cannot stand humans. I am already doing my best to coexist with them.""As I thought. I found it already strange that the royals do not live as normal vampires," s
"I was wondering for a while, young man. Why can't I read your thoughts?"It was a question that made me panic. I did not want to say who I was exactly, and at the same time, I admired the man in front of me. He was sitting elegantly, showing signs of wisdom and a lifelong experience. I never imagined that I would be meeting the ancestor that everyone admired."He is your great-grandson or great-great-grandson, I do not know exactly," Bonine held my hand and smiled at me. Thinking it was fine to tell him."That is surprising," Zadimus laughed, and his laugh was contagious. I laughed at my turn. I did not expect him to believe us. I truly wanted the wisdom of such a great man, "from the way the young man looks at me, I guess I must be someone you really look up to. You see, young man. I am no great man. I wander these lands keeping the door in the dungeon under us in control. I do not know exactly how to seal it. How is it, the life in the future?"
After a good bath, I met Bonine sitting on a bench right outside in the street torturing the bird."I was wondering for a while but, aren't you an odd fellow? You have the intelligence of a regular person. Who is that master of yours?""He is the mighty Diego. How about you become my master's bride instead of staying with that good for nothing? My master is a good man. He will give you the life you dream of. I feel like you desire a normal rich life where you have everything you want, with many servants and girls... I mean boys, handsome ones..." I flinched. I wonder what she will answer?She grimaced. "You deserve another beating. Do you know who he is? The one you are badmouthing.""Whatever he is, my master is better. It is not like he is a king.""He is a king."The bird screamed and flew away. "Excuse me. I do not want my feathers taken away. I guess there is no future for you and my mater. Goodbye! I hope you will have all the ha
We travelled as soon as we finished Bonine's ideas. She got depressed when her castle was not complete. However, great concepts must take time to flourish. There were approximately twenty members in Xavier's pack without counting children since they stayed back in the mountain. We were going for a war. Therefore, taking weak people with us is considered a hindrance.Westineof is a little far from here. We had to walk a great distance before arriving at a weird village. It was crowded with pacifist people, and a peaceful atmosphere crowned the air wherever you went on that land. The first option we had is to relax in a hot spring that was available in the village. It was surprising that it still existed and was not infected by the disease's virus. It was a blessing for us since we did not relax for a long time. Bonine rejoiced with the idea and disappeared immediately, searching for the items that we will use.Our whole gang threw himself into the spring, splashin
"Good morning, Guardian deity Grazar; I hope that I did not disturb you," I looked around me and caught a glimpse of Edward and Davina sleeping, "I did not want to create a disturbance. However, I need your assistance.""You are a Grande, yet you need help from a guardian like me. I do not find anything to help you with."I looked at my bare hands then clenched them. There was something that had to be done. I stared at him with confidence. It was better to keep this a secret from the others. "I do not want to fake anything. I am not Adelia. I do not know what I need to do to fix all this mess, even if it was not my fault or hers to begin with. What I intend to do will be good for us as well as for you.""You got my interest. What can I do to help a worrisome soul like you? I already knew who you were. Words travel with the wind, and my friend told me about it. In fact, the future Adelia must have connected the two eras. That is why you ended up here.""Sh
I was thinking for a while now. Wouldn't it be fine if we left something for ourselves for the future? Something to prove that one day we walked by here and contributed to a great cause. If we were to fix everything, the results would be attributed to our respective roles, not our true selves. This idea kept ringing in my head for a while now. I could not accept that our success would be given to someone else.I mean, since the future we know of is a fine one. We live in a society where we do not know even about these dark times. That means we will succeed; it is just that we have to make our decisions according to our judgements following the great cause. It means that Grande was only following history since if she did not send us, the future we know of would not exist.My head started to hurt. It isn't obvious. How did she know we were in this time? Does it mean we are already sharing the same body, and I am the one dominating it? It is really confusing.
As I described my relationship with Edward, of course, I left our real identity out. There was a jolt of numbing cold in my back. I did not cry in pain, but Edward darted to my side, pulling me under a tree. As he turned his eyes searching for the culprit, a cloaked man barely visible in the light since he was hiding in the shadows, jumped forward followed by other clocked men. They had daggers, and one of them had a wand.The one with the one was pointing his hand towards me and holding the wand with the other. I understood immediately who they were, assassins. They came out when we sent our three companions. Even Alisha was not with us since she stayed behind studying the werewolf silver pack condition members.Xavier unsheathed his sword and charged towards the cloaked man with a wand. The first thing you had to do in a battle was to eliminate the healers, supporters and offensive magicians. As I slumped back against the ground, pushing Edward forward, t
"Indeed, they must have touched it in its sleep. Some creatures lived since ancient times and have established their own domain in this world."It was authentic of them to do it. If no one harmed them or trespassed their own personal space, they would show generosity and kindness. If you happen to meet them one of those days, they would only stare at you and move away. Some could be dangerous. However, they did not harm weak creatures since they consider themselves above all of them.We found a village in a normal state, there were only some nasty smells here and there, but it was normal since food could rotten. We looked around each on their own; I went to one of the houses; it was completely normal besides the unusual scene of people taking their mean; they were all stones. I pitied them; they could turn back to their usual form. However, the magic had to be dispelled. There are two options; whether to talk to the guardian deity or leave it alone, it will wear