CHAPTER 210~3RD PERSON'S POV~Edith stood in a large, white kitchen with some other maids, cutting up some vegetables for dinner. The other maids cleaned up dishes, cut up spices and fruits, and cooked up other things in pots of different sizes, working together in perfect harmony. With the aroma that serenaded the entire house, one would think a feast was being prepared. Edith's eyes were focused on a carrot she was slicing. She seemed to be taking a lot more time than usual. Her face seemed bothered by something.“How did you come to work for the dragon family?” Mary's last question resounded in her head. Her chopping suddenly got faster and faster as different sounds filled her ears. Memories she didn't want to remember started to flood in, and as the knife cut through her left index finger, she was instantly snapped out of her reverie.She turned to the finger and watched the wound heal itself almost instantly, then she turned back to the carrot, which had now been stained by he
CHAPTER 211~3RD PERSON'S POV~“I am the Immortal; Sabbath,” Mary said with a doubled voice, her blackish-red aura rising from her body like a stream of smoke. “Our original plan was to extract the demon from your body and take him back to Firgatten, but now we'll just have to take you instead,” Ezekiel said, then raised his hood to cover his head. His eyes turned bright red, and the number of cloaked people in the alley multiplied. Mary still held Goliah to the alley wall. Her entire body had now become weak because Mary's aura constantly drained her energy. She could barely move or speak. Mary's brows furrowed. She curled her fingers, and multiple red spikes shot out of the ground, destroying the illusions one by one. Some of the illusions jumped at Mary, swinging large swords at her. Mary used her aura to form tentacles that helped her block each attack, cutting down the illusions until one was left. She caught him mid-air and slammed his back into the ground, and he completely
CHAPTER 212~3RD PERSON'S POV~~Many years ago~The sunset over Mystic Meadow was beautiful that evening. The sky had gone from bright blue to orange in only a few hours, and the sunlight on the horizon between the lake and the sky was nothing short of breathtaking. The sounds of nocturnal birds and insects chirping from the surrounding forest and the sound of the multiple streams channelled from the lake added to the serene nature of the environment.Lord Robert and his beta sat in a small boat on the lake. They had rowed far away from their mansion to witness the gorgeous sunset. It had always been a dream of Lord Robert’s to watch the sunset with a close friend.“This is amazing, isn't it?” Lord Robert spoke with a smile on his face. He had dark blue eyes, black hair, and dark leather clothing.“It definitely is, but we should head back soon. Your father is going to get really upset if he finds out I took you this far away from the mansion.” The beta answered with worry in his voic
CHAPTER 213~3RD PERSON'S POV~Cynthia walked through the passages of the Mortimer Mansion early in the morning. She held her clipboard in her left hand, and her eyes moved from door to door. She had created a system where all the maids had to check in for work every morning after the bell rang, so she could know which maid wasn't following her new rule. She made sure to wake up an hour before the bell sounded, so she could inspect the mansion thoroughly and know where work was needed, so the maids wouldn't cheat their way out of their chores. She marched through different passages, inspected different halls, and put down notes that would help her remember. After forty minutes of inspection, she marched back toward her room, staring at her clipboard with a smile on her face. Her eyes beamed with excitement, knowing she had all the power in the world. She could bend every maid in the mansion to her will, and no one could do anything about it. Her goal was to change how things worked
CHAPTER 214~3RD PERSON'S POV~“Wait, what?!” Marie exclaimed, sitting up straight.“Shush!! Lower your voice. I was attacked early this morning by someone,” Cynthia said, leaning forward.“Was it one of the maids?” Marie asked.“Well, I couldn't tell. The person was in his or her wolf form. Judging from the size of the beast, it's possible that it was a warrior wolf. But the maids have more motives," Cynthia said.“And what motive might that be?” Marie asked, hoping for a very reasonable answer. Cynthia leaned even closer, squinting her eyes. “To take my position as assistant headmaid from me. All these maids are jealous; I can see it in their eyes. I just can't figure out which one of them would go as far as committing murder to achieve that goal,” Cynthia whispered.Marie placed her right palm on her forehead and used her fingers to gently massage it, letting out a slow sigh. “Look, no one wants that position, okay? Firstly, it's too much work. Secondly, no one likes being hated
CHAPTER 215 ~3RD PERSON'S POV~ Mary groaned softly, her eyes opening up. She felt a warm gust of wind blowing over her face and through her hair, and as her vision cleared up, she found herself standing on the edge of a tall building that was surrounded by flames. She gasped in shock and quickly stepped back so she wouldn't fall off the edge. Breathing heavily, she looked around in confusion. “Where am I?” She asked, her voice echoing for a few seconds, then fading out after each word. She looked around the building she was on and found a billboard standing close to one edge. She walked toward it, raising her right palm—her red aura surrounded her entire hand, and she used telekinetic waves produced by her aura to rip the metal board off the ground. She turned it around and found her location, boldly written at the top: Mystic Meadow. Mary gasped again. She turned her gaze away from the billboard and looked down at the ground. Fire has caught the entire city, and dead bodies, b
CHAPTER 216 ~3RD PERSON’S POV~ Robbert struggled to break free from the tight grip of the rogue king. His eyes slowly turned red, and his skin went pale as he slowly lost his breath. His eyes glowed bright blue, and he growled loudly, pulling on the rogue's arm with all the strength he could muster. “Stop resisting my power, boy. Just give in and join the dark side. I assure you, you will not regret it,” the rogue king said with a smile, tightening his grip even more. A cold whisk of wind suddenly blew by, and the rogue king's arm instantly split in two. “Aghhh!!” He groaned in pain as he staggered backward, his arm bleeding profusely. Robbert fell to his knees, breathing heavily after he had pulled the hand off his throat. He threw the arm to the ground, and slowly turned to the rogue king, his eyes glowing bright blue. “What was that? That was not your power,” the rogue king asked, holding his right arm in an attempt to stop the bleeding. “No, it wasn't. But that i
CHAPTER 217~3RD PERSON'S POV~Robbert marched rapidly out of his father's meeting room, anger and anguish written all over his face. Edith followed him quickly until they were outside the house. It was late at night, and the moon was high. The breeze that blew through the gardens in front of the mansion was cold to the skin, and the sound of the leaves rustling almost completely shielded every other nightly sound.Robbert stopped in front of the entrance. He clenched his fists tightly and gritted his teeth, his eyes slowly becoming glassy and a lump forming in his throat.Edith walked to him and quickly wrapped her finger around his left fist. "Robbert, please calm down. I know you're really upset, but you have to understand that your father didn't mean all that. He’s just trying to get the best out of you. He's just really upset that you almost died,” Edith said with a soft tone. “Edith, my father doesn't care about me. All he cares about is this pack. All he wants is for me to be
CHAPTER 310~GABRIELLA'S POV~Just as Clarabelle warned, the entire world forgot that there was such a thing as the alpha-J drug, and every trace of it vanished from the face of the earth after she reversed the fate of everyone who consumed it and became an artificial. Things went back to normal so quickly that it almost seemed like nothing happened at all—like all the struggles my friends were put through by Episteme, Evelyn, and Agnes were just a dream. People forgot that a company like Higher Wellness Pharmaceuticals existed and that Governor Gerald was a criminal.Newspapers and written reports about the matter disappeared without a trace. Because of this, Steven’s company was unaffected by Evelyn’s actions, and the criminals involved were convicted secretly by the council. Questions were asked about Governor Gerald’s and Queen Elizabeth's disappearances, but people soon got distracted by other things and lost interest in the matter. Steven offered to hand over the position of h
CHAPTER 309~3RD PERSON’S POV~Maria and Clarabelle stood in front of the gates of the Dragnon mansion with umbrellas above their heads and worry on their faces. They had been waiting for Marie and the others to return for hours, but there was no sign of them returning at all.Clarabelle did well to protect everyone from the intense heat, and now that the sun had moved away from the earth, she was sure that Marie and her friends had won the battle. In fact, as the Immortal of Fate, she already knew they would win, and she already knew who would bring that victory, but she wasn't allowed to say a word to anyone. What she wasn't sure of was if they had survived or not, because she refused to look that far into the future.“Do you think they'll return safely?” Maria asked with worry in her voice. She has lost her husband before and was very afraid of losing him again.Clarabelle turned to her and saw the worry in her eyes, then turned away. “Let’s just be hopeful,” she said softly. A f
CHAPTER 308~3RD PERSON'S POV~~Earlier~“Huh?” Gabriella blinked repeatedly in confusion as she stared into Lunaris's eyes. They both sat in a pool of water in the black, empty void that was Gabriella's mind. “What’s going on? I thought I died already,” Gabriella asked softly.“You did—well, not exactly. I put you to sleep for over four months to get some things done in your world. Now that my plot is complete, I'd like you to return and continue living the life you've always wanted,” Lunaris said with a smile.“Oh, you mean I didn't have to die for you to take my body?” Gabriella asked.“Yes, Gabriella. If everyone knew that you were still alive, they would not have grown as much as they have now... especially Marie. I had to make everyone believe that your death was necessary for me to come to this world, so that the plot I couldn't finish years ago would finally be completed,” Lunaris responded.“Oh, I can't believe it's been four months already. How's Marie and the others doing?
CHAPTER 307~3RD PERSON’S POV~Marie and her sisters, Cortana and Yuna, sat inside a large metal dome created by Angela. Angla had created multiple domes like this to accommodate the entire army of Vedantya, and this was because the temperature of the atmosphere has risen to an unbearable level. Daniella used her manipulation of heat to cool down the domes so the occupants wouldn't die of heat stroke.The air around the domes looked like it had been stained with gasoline fumes, and rocks around them had begun melting.Valerie tried again and again to open a portal but failed every single time. The spell that blocked her ability to use spatial magic wasn't very powerful but was somehow too complex for her to undo. It was like the spell reformed itself at light speed every time she broke it, and there was no way of stopping it.“This is bad. If we stay here longer than this, the whole world is going to melt down,” Angela said with worry on her face.“No, we can't give up yet; I'm sure I
CHAPTER 306~3RD PERSON’S POV~“What have you done to me?!!” Agnes yelled with a gory voice.“I poisoned you, Agnes. Ordinarily, poison wouldn't be enough to kill a witch like you, but depending on how powerful the poison is, it would be enough to weaken you. The souls of the fallen Immortals despise you, Agnes. But as much as they want to escape, as souls, they're not nearly strong enough to go against the spell you put on them. It's just like Sabbath and Mary; without Mary's body, Sabbath can't use his power. So, without Agnes's body, the immortals are weak to her spells. But spells require serious mental concentration and physical reinforcement to hold together, and once those two things weaken, the spell comes apart and the souls of the Immortals have their chance to escape.” Agnes gripped her stomach tightly as she felt an agonizing pain coming up. She bled from her nose and mouth as the souls of all the Immortals began seeping out of her body and flying off. “After the Immor
CHAPTER 305~3RD PERSON'S POV~~years ago~“You idiot, don’t go playing with sharp objects if you’re going to lose your mind like that; you know how dangerous that power of yours is,” Agnes queried.“I’m so sorry, I was only trying to get over my fear of blood; it’s really hard,” Mary replied nervously, stroking the back of her head slowly.“Don’t do that anymore. You’ll end up hurting everyone around you,” Agnes said. “But I’ll have you to slap me back to my senses before that happens, right?” Mary said.Agnes smiled. “Yeah, but next time I’ll make sure to slap you even harder so you get knocked out before coming back to your senses.” Both she and Mary laughed together, and the four teachers just stared at them with confused expressions on their faces.~•••~“I lied to you the other day, Mary. I’m not friends with you because you’re a good person or make life interesting for me. I mean, you do, but that’s not the reason.”“Then what is?” Mary asked.“It’s because I feel very ashamed
CHAPTER 304~3RD PERSON’S POV~Mary was accompanied into the building by a group of four people. Two of them were maids, and the other two were Agnes’s soldiers. All four of them still had that eerie smile on their faces, and their eyes still glowed bright red, making them look like their minds were being controlled. They walked into the glass building and led Mary to a magical elevator that didn’t require electricity to work. Mary had her guard up, prepared to launch an attack at anyone who tried to annoy her. At this moment, she was already very pissed off, and anyone who tried to attack her now would be walking into their grave.The elevator door closed and started to rise up the building. Everyone was unusually quiet, and none of Mary’s escorts wanted to make eye contact with her. Mary watched them through the glass wall in front of her—they looked like dolls, stiff and lifeless, like they had been programmed to only move when they were given orders.The elevator rose for over tw
CHAPTER 303~3RD PERSON’S POV~The team of eight continued to fight against the Asuras, cutting through and destroying their forces with as much speed, strength, and precision as they could. They all fought with rage in their hearts, determined to end the battle as quickly as possible, but the Asuras were just too many. It didn't matter what the team did or what amount of power they used; the Asuras just kept coming like an endless sea of stars.The Asuras armor-like skin had become so strong that Edith's blade and Anima Morning Star both broke on impact. The two Immortals had to summon their weapons again and again during the fight just to avoid getting killed. They had to look for a new way to kill these Immortals, and that way was to attack them at points where their armour didn't cover—the gaps in the skin that revealed their glowing orange flesh. Targeting these parts was especially difficult for the werewolves because they didn't have long-range weapons, and getting too close t
CHAPTER 302~3RD PERSON'S POV~Nicole and Melody moved swiftly through the forest, toward the area where the forcefield was located. Nicole hovered using a glowing, orange, magical disc, and Melody just flew around, dodging the trees and large rocks in the way. They both had already seen the helicopter fly off, so they knew Mary was already going against her parents. Their only problem was getting to the forcefield, as the distance it was from where they opened their portal was too much. “Hey, couldn't you just use spacial magic to take us there? It's starting to look like this forest is playing tricks on us,” Melody asked, turning to Nicole.Nicole looked around, her eyes scanning past each tree, shrub, and rock. “I can't use spacial magic or any other kind of magic. Something is blocking me from doing it. This is bad; it means we can't teleport home unless we can find a place where I will be able to use spatial magic,” she responded. “But you're right,” she continued, then stopped