Chapter 135 - 128 (1/2)
The crafty Nightmare beast smiled at the silver haired young man that was looking at her. Ara had been the only companion of the ninth prince as they met during her straying to this place.
And as a Nightmare beast who was respected and terrified of, she was used to being alone because no one would dare to approach her unless it needed. They were scared to disturbed the peace of the guardian and inviting her wrath wasn't wanted. Which the dangerous beasts living in the Concave Forest were all behave when the Nightmare beast was in the forest, not daring to act foolish.
But under the pouring rain with darkened clouds as a storm would arrive. The cat beast was stuck under the uprooted trees in the backyard of the Snow Palace and coincidentally, the Feng Hunan saw the poor cat wanting to get out of it but due to the heavy downpour, it was hiding there. Despite knowing that he had no umbrella or raincoat to wear and he was a sickly kid because of his poor condition in the palace as no servants was sent yet, he still used his little hands to shield the cat. It made Ara stunned and amused. Those pair of little hands from a five years old couldn't even cover a his own head yet he was using it to cover her.
The Nightmare beast's eyes had a glint of laughter as she played with the child's game. Then they were able to cross from the uprooted tree to the back porch of the Snow Palace which Ara decided to stay in until the rain stops.
Children were truly cute and innocent.
And as the Nightmare beast couldn't remember why she kept coming back to that lone palace to visit that kid, and she was the one who directed that act of scaring off the people that would dare to go to the Snow Palace. Although the palace was said to be already haunted yet as the Nightmare beast added another effects, it made the place forbidden and terrifying. She just wanted to protect the kid.
Ara was the only one who accompanied the kid's growth, acting as a parent to the ninth prince and even revealed her human form when it was the ninth prince's eleventh birthday. That was the most anxious thing that she ever decided to do as she was scared that the kid wouldn't like her or worst abandon her but luckily, it might due to being too alone and no one to talk to, Feng Hunan took it with joy as he could finally speak to someone that would respond to him. He was that desperate for his seven years of living in solitary in this cold haven.
Now that the youth was nineteen, she decided to test him as she wanted to confirm if the other was truly a prince that had no Charm.
She might be the only one who doubted those hoax Charm Orbs as she sensed that the physique of the prince was special which made him to not be compatible to any elements and as a beast who had a longer life, they had two types that could confirm another's Charm, it would be through that Charm Orb or a test and as what she predicted the prince was special.
Because Ara was a guardian with a high level of 'charming' ability which enable her to transform into her human form as she willed it then it was not strange to normally see her out of the forest, playing truant. And they heard that, she had someone that she was interested in which made her to not ne usually present in the Concave Forest that made the beasts ran amok as they would start to lure helpless humans and play with them to their satisfaction.
Yet, suddenly a silver haired young man walked in the forest while looking for his cat. They thought that they had another person to victimized with but when they discovered that it was the target of their guardian, they immediately stayed away from the former. If the Nightmare beast said she would play, then she would play and they didn't need to intervene with it.
That's the reason why, Chun was able to sleep comfortably with no danger in that rumored to be dangerous place.
Although the Concave Forest was a forest that normal humans wouldn't want to go in but Charmers were another people that had an ability to explore it. As a human with elemental talent, they used the Concave Forest as their scavenging ground when it came to practicing and training to their limit.
The Charmer Excellence which was a school of elite Charmers would held their examinations in the Concave Forest and the tasks to complete depended to what their examiner needed them to do and it would be due to ability or luck if anyone could succeed. Over the years of conquering the said forest, only sixteen Charmers was the highest number count of the latest examination.
After the silver haired young man processed what the cat lady explained, she proceeded inside the palace as she would familiarize herself of the Snow Palace. Chun thought that as she ȧssumed the identity of the ninth prince, she would slowly regain the memory of the other but what the manual that the snobbish system had given her was what her only knowledge of this world, so far.