9 The Priestess (1/2)

Once the ceremony was over, the people slowly began to disperse from the sanctum. However, before some left, they came over and paid respect to my Mother and some to my Father even. But most were for my Mother in the end.

Since she'd been the one to conquer the Dungeon Tower for this city, she was technically the Governess of this whole town. She was the law, once one clears a Dungeon Tower, they basically obtain complete control of it.

However, completing and conquering a Dungeon Tower was an amazing feat, something that very few people end up doing. It was easier for Vampire because they have an almost infinite lifespan.

But when one conquers the Dungeon Tower, they gain the right over the tower. Now these rights can be transferable, or you can add another person, which is basically like adding someone as a co-signer.

Few ever completely give up control to a Dungeon Tower, they are something like a cash cow. Because guilds love to use old Dungeon Tower as training ground for their new recruits, plus it still spawns monsters.

Meaning that you can still get the dropped materials from killing a monster. A lot of people would set up shop on a safe dungeon floor or at the bottom of the towers. My father was one of those people that opened up stores in Dungeon Towers, but the most lucrative of his business dealings was the fact that he's open up a store in a Dungeon Gate.

We also have a store that's located on the fifteenth level of the World Dungeon. We owned Astley Trading, that was the company that my father had created after retiring from being an Adventurer. There are very few people in this world that aren't an Adventurer at some point in their life.

Slowly the flood of people had trickled out from the room, and the few that lingered quickly got the message it was time to leave by the look that my Mother shot them. It was a mixture of a glare and a warning; it was conveyed easily without any words being spoken.

With a quick bow the few people that were left talking to my Mother quickly left.

I left out a small sigh.

Clap!

Clap!

”Well I see your still as popular as ever Emberlynn,” the voice of the Priestess sounds behind us.

Indeed, behind us stood the Priestess that had done my ceremony of five. Her golden eye was looking at my Mother with a bemused expression in it. This woman was quite odd, she'd referred to me as Princess earlier, which I didn't quite understand at the time.

Now she'd gone and refereed to my Mother with her first name. Was that maybe something that Priestess and Priest did?

A sly smile was on the woman's lips, her dress was like an inky pool around her feet. She was in a few words, simply an ethereal beauty; she gave me the faintest of reminders of death. Looking at her it was as if I was looking at death itself.

The next thing that happened threw me for a loop.

A giggle left my mother's mouth. I felt my brain go numb.

”Goddess, my dearest Sorina!” My mother asks taking a step forward to draw this woman into a hug.

I felt like the last of my sanity was cracking, just who in the world was this woman that my Mother was currently embracing in a very warm hug.

My mother lets go of her after a second and the woman turns to my Father.

”Horace, Dearest Brother, I've missed you,” She laughs softly as my Father moves to give her a hug as well.