CHAPTER 8: HER ANCESTRY

Her mother was the best person she had ever met in this life. So how could anyone, be it a person or a ghost speak ill against her like that?

She wouldn’t allow that.

But the voice was very stubborn and knew how to irk her.

‘Even if I scold her all day. What can you do? What can your pathetic self, do? Didn’t you cause all this yourself?’

Elowyn was so angry and her body was trembling with so much anger but she couldn’t even retort or refute that voice. After all, those words were very truthful. She couldn’t do anything at all. Otherwise, she wouldn’t be in this state.

‘Then, what do you want me to do? Just tell me what to do!’ she bellowed angrily at the voice in her head and the other laughed hysterically.

‘Hahaha, I love that determination. You shouldn’t have lived pathetically all these years like a licker when you are someone so special. Since you have come to your senses, then just let it go. I will take over!’

The voice was sarcastic as ever but Elowyn being the beggar in this case, could only gnash her teeth, cussing the voice and hoping that one day she would find whoever was hiding behind it and give that person a lesson.

Nonetheless, she closed her eyes and took several deep breaths.

‘Just let it go!’ she chanted in her mind as she let it go, releasing any thoughts from her mind as if she wanted to meditate.

She had meditated a lot of times before she met Hilary. So it wasn’t that difficult to empty her mind and let it go.

However, what she didn’t know was that once she started getting into the state, the surrounding space started distorting and a woman wearing a strange black robe, with scary makeup and bloody red hair appeared for a moment with a strange smile on her face before vanishing.

Once she vanished, a red lotus flower mark appeared on Elowyn’s forehead and a strange light enveloped her in a cocoon before she vanished from the cell as if she was never there. Except for the pool of blood where she was sitting earlier, there were no signs of her anywhere.

Where could she have gone to?

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‘Where am I?’ she anxiously wondered as she found herself in an unending prairie, and standing under a large tree with a large umbrella-shaped crown.

It was the kind of tree that she had never seen before. It was beautiful to look at and yet didn’t seem very real at all.

Moreover, she was all by herself. So how could she not panic?

She didn’t know how long she stood there. She was afraid to take a single step or even sit down. So, like an idiot, she stood there filled with anxiety and nervousness while asking herself a lot of questions she couldn’t even answer.

After god knows how long. The space in front of her seemed to start distorting, scaring the heck out of her. She stumbled backwards, only to press her back against the tree. She sighed with relief that she didn’t fall but didn’t even take into mind, that the tree was a bit further away from her. She wasn’t supposed to easily press against it.

Her mind was not in place at the moment. Moreover, how could she even think about the tree when what was happening in front of her was literally making her legs shake?

‘What kind of drama is this? Is this how I change my freaking fate by being toyed with?’ she wanted to cry but no tears were coming out.

She could only fearfully watch what was in front of her, while she scolded that voice that scammed her and sent her to such an eerie place.

Now see the illusions that she was seeing. Who was going to save her?

In front of her, a large water screen appeared out of the distorted space and started showing a movie of some sort.

From the screen, despite her fearfulness, Elowyn’s eyes seemed to be glued on the screen and she couldn’t force her eyes to close at all. So, she could only watch whatever was playing there.

The movie had a familiar voice narrating, and it made everything easier. Even the goosebumps on her skin seemed to be increasing as well but that voice didn’t care at all.

So, she could only succumb to her fate and listen attentively. Who knows if the movie might change her life?

“Once upon a time, there existed several kingdoms before technology corrupted a world which was beautiful with nature as its core.

These several kingdoms were ruled by supernatural beings – werewolves, vampires and witches. These three were superior to the supernatural.

Three major kingdoms were ruled by them and the world was very peaceful until a calamity descended forcing the three major forces to turn against each other. As a result, the wars between these three until this very day had never stopped.

As time passed, the world where supernatural beings ruled came to an end and humans took over. With time, supernatural became a myth that was talked about in books but they have never stopped existing. Their legend still continued.

Through fated mating, the supernatural beings were forced to let go of their hatred and learnt to live together although that only lessened the situation but didn’t exactly solve the matter.

Two centuries ago, there was a change or rather a new calamity descended on the supernatural one again. What we call the Nemeton, a supernatural beacon appeared from nowhere and gave power to the beings who were losing hope.

The appearance of the Nemeton caused a crazy bloodshed among species and only the appearance of a blessed and chosen one would stop that.

However, the chosen one didn’t come as everyone expected. It took decades until three decades after the appearance of the Nemeton, the king was born. He was born a tribid. Blessed with all three traits. The appearance of such a supernatural being brought peace on the land and the king settled in the land surrounding the Nemeton.

Ever since then, the few supernatural beings who survived after decades of wars became peaceful. At least on the surface, they never fought recklessly with each other like they did.

They started focusing on rebuilding their territories without interfering with others. Thanks to that, the bloodsheds became fewer. Of course, there were internal wars which occurred over time but it wasn’t as serious as the madness of centuries ago.

While the world was focusing on the three major supernatural, another species made an appearance but they were quite few. By the time they started causing waves, they had already spread their roots.

They called these new species, seers. They were very different from those three. They had the ability to see visions and what others couldn’t see. They didn’t have much fighting power but the knowledge that they possessed was powerful that everyone was willing to give anything to have at least one seer in their tribe, clan or kingdom.

By having a seer by their side, a lot of problems could be easily avoided since the seer might see that in advance. It was like having a golden finger, a cheat that would make one soar.”

Elowyn listening to that narration, found herself nodding her head as she looked at the seers appearing on the screen. All of them had several things in common.