My jaw dropped from what I heard. His face became clearer to me now. I swallowed hard while I shook my head, still. He was truly that man that my mother loved back then, after she gave up waiting on my father who she also loved dearly. I looked at him again.
“B-but you’re supposed to be dead!” I got confused. Wasn’t this Uzob, after all? If not, then what was this place? I looked around trying to understand how I got here.
“It isn’t important right now, Xerra. You must get out of this place as soon as possible!” His voice was urgent.
“B-but you know that my mother died, don’t you? And how did you know?” I wanted to confirm it to him.
“Your mother died, yes. And it’s my fault.” His voice was regretful. Still, he was in agony. I think it wasn’t only because of the thing that bound his forehead, hands, and ankles but also of grief and guilt—it seemed.
“What? But I thought—” I got even more confused.
“She did everything she could to become The Queen o
“Xerra,” Ponpon urged me. So I did step out of Uzob.As soon as I was out of that prison, I hadn’t heard the groans and moans in pain of the prisoners. No more metallic smell. The General shut the door, and he looked at me like he was seeing me for the first time. On the other hand, I felt like I just experienced an enhanced awareness of my powers. It was quite a weird and rush feeling that I hadn’t experienced before. Nevertheless, it was amazing! I felt like my blood was raging. I could sense my powers grow stronger.“How did you do that?” General Isoog asked gently, which wasn’t like him at all.I blinked and tried to follow what he just said. It was because I couldn’t seem to recover yet on what I just found out earlier about my sister’s father being alive and the reason of our mother’s death.“Oh! Well, I just randomly blackmailed him,” I answered with a shrug, not telling him the truth that I had the ability to probe a being whenever he was close
I clenched my teeth and closed the gate with a loud bang. Everyone stopped in their tracks upon hearing it and directly looked at me. However, I didn’t care. I just stared into a blank space with my fists in tight balls on either side of me.“Sorry for that. She didn’t mean it,” Kalith apologized for me instead. “Please, go on.”The parade continued on toward the palace hall. Others murmured, criticizing my behavior. Others were confused why acted that way. But I noticed that my sister did not even look back.‘Why? What’s with her? I don’t understand what’s going on here!’ I felt my eyes change, and by the look of Kalith’s face, it was positive. I did change. However, I transformed back to my normal Aryan self when I heard that familiar voice.“Aren’t you going to open the gate for the Grand Crown Prince?” It was Daraton who demanded in a tight voice.‘Great! He’s here! But then it wasn’t a happy occasion. This is definitely the most devastating
My throat constricted at the possibility that I was called in to get tortured emotionally. My breath was shallow and fast. I knew that he didn’t want me to be his son’s wife or consort or even lover. Perhaps he would make me see that I was indeed not born for his son and would do anything to make me realize that now—that Rugien and I weren’t meant to be together in this lifetime. But I still held on. I had no choice. I was an elite warrior, and this was the path that I chose even though it was originally for finding evidence that the King killed my mother and avenge her.A moment passed by. The master of ceremony, surprisingly, was one of the healers I saw in the lab. He stepped forward, where I stood earlier. His face was emotionless as he spoke.“Good evening, fellow Aryan beings. You are here today to witness the selection of the Grand Crown Princess to be wedded to the Grand Crown Prince Rugien, the one and only son of King Behkzur.” He paused. Everyone was qu
There were four female healers present in the room. Ulf was also there; however, it seemed that he was merely there to oversee the process. He was surprised though at first to see me but Domicos explained it to him. He nodded then and looked away.It was my turn to be examined. I went inside a cubicle that was almost as large as my room in the quarters. I created a barrier around myself so that the negative energy from the Aryan healer won’t contaminate me. She was taken aback for a moment for what I did. I just gave her a dry smile and didn’t explain myself. She took off my uniform using her powers and I was bared to her. Ponpon groaned when he landed on the floor face down but was ignored.The healer, named Caayyas, used some gadget that I’d never seen before. I probed into her mind as she was almost too close to me while the disc-like gadget scanned my naked body. I wanted to know what the King planned against me. But I almost gasped but I held it in. It
Nevertheless, the news sounded unbelievable. For a long time, the Furezos stayed hidden in the Furez land in the north, and they never left there. This was the first time that they raided a tribe, and to top it off, the innocent Nazian people. So, why? If they were to raid a tribe, it should be the Indic, which is here.“Well, I think the announcement must be held off for another time,” Rugien declared in a voice that could clearly be heard by everyone. “There is a much more important and pressing matter that must be taken care of immediately than this selection of my Grand Crown Princess.”“I-I must agree with the Grand Crown Prince, fellow Aryan beings. But you may stay here in the palace for your safety,” Domicos said in halting words. Then he turned to the King who stood from his throne.“Daraton, you know where to make them comfortable,” the King instructed the elite warrior, who bowed to him to follow his order. Daraton ushered the guests to get out of
Other elite warriors who were not expecting it were caught by the smoke. They already coughed and groaned. Well, I could just imagine how they feel now, as I experienced it at the Banatan. I knew they felt like dying right now.I transformed into my Arcturian self, using my black aura to cleanse the smoke. As soon as the air was cleared out, my fellow elite warriors that were affected got back their strength and were healed. Then they used their clear helmets as well.They dashed toward the Black Forest where blazing arrows kept coming at us. It was like more than hundreds of them. However, the elite warriors easily managed to parry them now and those were rendered useless. I could now make out the people who were as black as the black trees of the Black Forest. No wonder why it was called Black Forest and why their hiding place couldn’t be found even after numerous raids that the King had made all these years. Thus, only the innocents were killed. That was indeed a pity
I was really astonished upon hearing that. Their leader was a female Aryan being? Well, that was interesting. Indeed!Wait, was it her that I saw in the mind of the Furezo who got imprisoned in Uzob?I signaled Kalith to come to us. He did so in an instant, leaving Bullox and the others to gather the captives, while some injured elite warriors did their best to revitalize their energy. They still had to hear what order I would give them after this. Belatedly, I decided to call on Jegosh as well.“You deliver this message to the King. Tell him that I will meet the leader of the Furezos and I will negotiate for him,” I spoke with the playful Jegosh. I believed that something would happen if I were to send him, judging by his personality. “If I cannot get back to the palace, I’ll have Kalith deliver a message as soon as possible. For now, don’t make the King do anything against the Furezo tribe for an entire day.”Jegosh nodded although his forehead formed some
I thought it was me but Kaiyahv commanded her people who were about to attack me and Kalith. My troop, on the other hand, surrounded us even though we were literally outnumbered. But we had advantage of the technology of the Elite Aryan Army. If what we had would be used properly, combined with our own powers and skills, there was no way that we’d be defeated by the Furezos. The Elite Aryan Army was named as so.“I just need your head to be delivered to the King,” I said.“But you heard what Harrupero said! We didn’t and hadn’t raided the Nazian tribe!” Kaiyahv insisted.I decided to probe into her thoughts to know if she was telling us the truth, if she hadn’t ordered it so. But what I saw in her thoughts surprised me. I saw Miryeob’s younger version, saw her talk to my mother before she became a Queen, and grieved when she heard about her brother’s fake death as well as my mother’s.“What do you see in my mind, Xerra?” she demanded, haltingly as my hand was