CHAPTER 265~3RD PERSON'S POV~~Mystic Meadow~A large portal opened in front of the gates of a mansion somewhere on the outskirts of the city. The mansion was painted completely white, and its gates were made of solid gold. Each gate had a large “D” written boldly on it. It was a very popular initial that the Dragnon family used to represent themselves. The portal glowed for a couple of seconds, and Marie suddenly jumped through, landing on the dark gray marble road. Her shoes made a clicking sound as she landed, and she raised her head to look at the surrounding area. Her eyes scanned past the light gray walls until they finally fell on a person standing in front of the gates.It was a lady with snow white hair, wearing a black and white maid uniform, just like Edith. Marie couldn't see her face, but the aura that surrounded her was strange—familiar and yet so unrecognizable. It was neither like a werewolf’s nor a witch’s. “Hmmm.” Marie squinted her eyes, then walked toward the wo
CHAPTER 266~3RD PERSON'S POV~“Anima, is something wrong?” Marie asked.Anima lifted her head from the ground. “I greatly apologize for not realizing that you three were the Heralds of the Moongoddess. If I had known you were the ones Edith. was sending my way, I would have prepared a special room for you and a feast to welcome you. Please punish me however you wish.” “Punish you? Why would we do that? You've been nothing but nice to us,” Marie asked, sounding very puzzled.“Yeah, you should get up and calm down. We're not the Heralds you knew over a thousand years ago; we're the nice Heralds,” Valerie added with a soft smile.Anima slowly rose to her feet, put her palms together, and forced a nervous smile. “I’m so sorry. I've feared the Heralds ever since I heard about their encounter with the Immortals, who betrayed the moongoddess’s rules. They made Solis—the most powerful one among us—vanish from reality forever. We Immortals may be powerful, but we are far below the Heralds.”
CHAPTER 267~3RD PERSON'S POV~“Hello, hello,” Christine repeated, speaking into the phone, but there was no reply. She sat on her bed with the telephone console on her thighs. Her eyes had dark circles and had become a little pinkish, as she had been crying for a very long time. She wore a white sleeping gown and tied her hair in a large bun sitting above her head. She placed the phone back on the console, used her palms to cover her face, and continued crying.The door to her room suddenly clicked open, and Evelyn walked in with a tray carrying a bowl of hot soup. “Are you still crying? You'll hurt yourself if you keep this up,” Evelyn said, rushing to her side. She placed the tray on a table beside her bed and sat beside Christine, placing her palms on her shoulders.“Why me, Evelyn? Every time I fall in love, something terrible just comes out of nowhere and takes it away from me. Am I cursed? Was I not born to be happy?” Christine asked between sobs. “Don’t say such things, dea
CHAPTER 268 ~3RD PERSON'S POV~ “So, cosmic power is used the same way among divine beings. Different Immortals might use it to produce different forms of energy and all there is to matter, but the process of production is the same—the flow of energy through your blood vessels and around your body—it's all the same, and I'm guessing it's the same with you, heralds,” Anima explained with a blank expression on her face. She and the three Heralds stood in a large, empty room that was big enough for them to release their full powers without causing damage to the main building. “From what you told me, you three have already begun using your abilities at their most basic levels. Marie is able to steal and return magical energy to whoever and whatever she pleases; Valerie is able to create matter out of thin air; and Angela is able to bend energy to her will,” Anima continued. “Wait, I can do that? I always thought I was just the smart one among them,” Angela asked with surprise on her
CHAPTER 269~3RD PERSON POV~Mary and Cortana arrived at Yajurveda on a speedboat. The island was very large and was covered in nothing but grass. There were no trees or significantly large bushes, just knee-level grass. Mary scanned through the landscape with her eyes, looking to see if she would find anything moving on the land, but they were still too far away from it for her to be able to see anything clearly.Cortana, on the other hand, just sat quietly in the boat, awaiting the moment where she would meet her ancestor, Yuna Teragon. She wondered about her significance to the mission and what it would mean for her to meet Yuna. “So, what do you think Yuna Teragon is going to be like?” Mary asked, turning in Cortana’s direction.“I don't know. Teragon history makes her out to be a cheater, a traitor, and a liar, but these people call her a queen and a warrior. So right now, I'm conflicted. I don't know what to believe anymore. Let's just wait until we meet her,” Cortana replied.
CHAPTER 270~3RD PERSON’S POV~Rubble and pieces of burnt wood were spread around the area where the large architectural artwork that was the Mortimer mansion once stood. The bars of the metal gates and the large fence that surrounded the house were in pieces, and the smell of ash and burned leaves from the rose gardens filled the air. Yellow caution tape ran around the remains of the building like it was a crime scene, but there was no one in sight.A black car pulled over in front of the remains of the Mortimer mansion. The car’s windows were tinted so the driver couldn't be seen by anyone outside, but the name of the car’s owner was clearly written on its license plate: Evelyn. Evelyn stared at the rubble through the windshield, tightly gripping her steering wheel. “The house is destroyed—that’s obvious. Did people die here? The glaring smell of flesh and blood says so, but there’s no way to know for sure. Where the hell did Marie call from, though?” Evelyn asked, her brows furrow
CHAPTER 271~3RD PERSON'S POV~Anima pulled her massive morning star across the marble floor, dragging a line through it as she ran toward Velarie. Stone and sand flew off the ground along the path the weapon created, and Anima carried a terrifying look on her face, her teeth clenched tightly and her brows tightly furrowed in rage. She pulled her right hand upward, dragging the heavy metal ball up toward Valerie’s face. Valerie was quick enough to step backwards and avoid the sharp spikes of the ball by only an inch. The ball rose higher into the air, extending the chain that connected it to its handle a far distance above the ground. When it was high enough, Anima turned around and pulled it toward the ground again, this time toward Marie, who was running toward her. Marie quickly hopped out of the way, and the ball crashed into the ground, digging through it and following her as she ran toward the right. Valerie swung her broad sword toward Anima's head, and Anima quickly used t
CHAPTER 272~3RD PERSON’S POV~“Marie?” Valerie called softly, with worry in her voice.“Im... sorry, sisters,” Marie replied, turning to the two girls. She turned back to the former Heralds and began walking toward them.“Marie! What do you think you're doing?” Valerie yelled as she watched Marie walk away.“Valerie, this has to be done if I'm to reach my true potential. I thought I could keep my emotions and also gain all of my abilities, but now I'm presented with a choice between the two, and I have to choose what's right—I have to choose what’s good for us—power,” Marie replied, stopping before the former Heralds. “Marie, if you give up your emotions, then ours will be gone as well. Since when did you become so power-hungry that you forgot about everything you've been through to get here? You're willing to turn your back on everything to be some divine being who doesn't give a shit about the lives of people?” Valerie yelled.Marie remained silent, a light whisk of wind blowing t