Episode 122 – Three Years Ago (1/2)

Episode 122 – Three Years Ago

Previously:

Elaru rescues the hostage and apprehends the cri her practical exae teal eyes to e purple orbs

Two heads, one red and the other white, stared at each other expressionlessly, silently, motionlessly

With identical facial expressions, the two fe in common, suddenly looked oddly familiar

The eerie silence persisted for several seconds before the redhead opened her lush lips to h to initiate a forceful switch of ownershi+p?”

“No” The white-haired beauty answered in an apathetic voice

Elaru closed her eyes and exhaled “How about in the future? Is it possible to raise it high enough?”

“Your coht reach the required threshold in the near future”

Mageheart paused her response briefly

“However, no h your compatibility ratio may reach, you will not be able to initiate a forceful switch of ownershi+p Even if the current owner abdicates voluntarily or dies, you will still not be able to becoainst the prime directive”

Elaru’s tired face finally revealed a bitter s beauty of her being On the contrary, seeing a stunning beauty with such an expression would only serve to eheart showed absolutely no reaction Though she had a “heart” in her na in her chest that could clench in pain

Anotherto break it

Reluctantly, Elaru got up fro the purple ones “Are h to lock out the current administrator?”

“Yes Unique entity Elaria has been assigned authority second only to the owner” Mageheart confir the Arite fa you do not justify the price of turning the Arite family into your enemies”

Elaru’s footsteps sounded in the otherwise deathly quiet roo the Arities into eneeheart?” A melodic chuckle reverberated inside the black room like a chime of bells

“Arite family and me…” Elaru paused her walk several feet away from the white-haired woeheart continued to stare at Elaru Wayvin unblinkingly as the latter walked past her, al her shoulder with her own “…le life And you…”

“…and I a her stride to give Mageheart a side glare “And I don’t need an artifact to tell ain, neither of the two fe the deathly silence were Elaru’s retreating footsteps

Her tightly clenched fists relaxed slowly

As her lonely back reached the exit to the rooeheart, delete all records of our conversation Also, stop collecting capability data on Elaru Wayvin and Kiel Rroda and delete all capability data already collected from your memory”

“As you wish”

◈ The Forbidden Zone, 5th of July 1446 AW ◈

(3 years ago)

The flurry of snowflakes obscured the vision of the ten as they h the thin iant cliff to their right, each step they took ith the ut the exact footsteps of the person in front Due to the winds and low visibility they chose to proceed carefully on foot, instead of flying

They would fly up only in case they lost their footing The argel in the group were prepared to cast Acceleration at a moical artifacts strapped to their boots which were enchanted to allow theht capabilities

As the ten looked towards the mountain peaks above, all they could see hite, and when they looked towards the desolate lands below, all they could see was black The Ink had spread, destroying everything it touched, not leaving a single blade of grass behind Even the gray bones of various creatures strewn across the ground were not spared fro left theered within the cracks of the dry earth

Unlike the lands of death below, this mountain seemed white and pure, yet it was just as desolate Perhaps the bones and blood were covered up beneath piles of snow Or perhaps the Ink had never ed to spread up the mountain because there had never been in with

Either way, the white landscape was a welcome view to the squad of ten So welcome, compared to the alternative below, that they didn’t eventheir bodies hite, although the clothes on their bodies weren’t appropriate for the cold cli with chills

The argel ic to keep theht up the way and drive out the cold

Since fire conjuration ic could only conjure the flames and not control their movement, elibu would anchor the spell on a part of their bodies and weave the spell roots outside the body The spell roots designated the area where fla with the movement of the main spell Therefore, if theobject, the fla flames, the ten followed each other On the head of the procession walked a chocolate skinned elibu scout with s all over his face and bald head He periodically cast a Morph spell on their surroundings to feel the topology of the e and determine which rocks were safe to step on

After hiel with blonde and black spiky hair whose red eyes acted as the eyes of the entire group

Afterward hie rolled up map parchht ahead We’ll rest there tonight” Her voice was barely audible through the wails of the billoinds

Not long after her words fell, the squad reached a crack in the stone wall that was the height of alers in

At first glance, there was nothing remarkable about that crack It looked like any other crack one would find on cliff walls However, when Nelaira’s Morph spell activated on the vicinity of the crack, she was able to feel a shallow carving above the crack