Chapter 238 (1/2)
Chapter 238: A Reunion after 2 years 4
After a while, Reina calmed herself down and apologized to Luke, “Sorry. You’re always in danger because of me.”
“You’re sorry? Huh, are you thinking of putting an end to all of this with just a sorry?”
Luke looked away, pretending to be angry. No, actually he was a little angry.
“Did you really have no faith in me? Was that why you decided to jump the moment the high elf said something to you? What would you do if something really bad had happened?” Asked Luke.
“I just wanted you to be safe…”
Reina still couldn’t speak and that made Luke once again embrace her in his arms.
“Don’t ever do that again. I have no intention of losing you again!”
For Luke, Reina was a special woman.
He deeply understood what had led to his past life into a mess, and he fully embraced all those feelings.
That was why he thought of her to be the incarnation of his old lover—Katarina.
“But… What even happened? Why does the Holy Empire think of you as an angel sent by God?”
“Ah, that? That is because…”
Reina told Luke about everything—from the World Tree to entering the Spirit World and meeting the Spirit King Sylphid, and how she got Aether from him.
“Aether, which is every living thing’s source of power since the beginning of the world, has great spiritual power. It is a power that no human should be able to deal with, so Sylphid gave me all the information about the world from the moment of its creation.”
The information allowed her to deal with the Aether, but it was like poison for Reina during that time.
It was because she had taken in huge amounts of it in an unreasonably short time.
“As the Aether moved, a drastic change happened to my body. The same thing happened to my mind. I thought I would go crazy or that I would die, so because of that, I decided to seal my thoughts, ego, and memories.”
Seal herself.
It was actually impossible, but it was possible for Reina as the power of Aether split her body into two—her body and her spirit.
“But that indeed was an adventure. I am not entirely at a stage where I can fully control the Aether yet.”
“Oh my!”
Luke was shocked.
If the seal wasn’t successful, then Reina would have permanently lost her memories and stayed having a kid-like brain.
“Anyway, the seal was successful, and my body was able to transform itself into something new. It changed into something that was as clean as a white sheet of paper. I came back to the world, like a child learning to walk. Step by step, I was able to handle the Aether.”
It was a part of her practice, so she could deal with her power that gave life to the stone statue in the palace or the wings of light.
After hearing her stories, Luke just sighed.
He was just glad to know that Reina didn’t do anything wrong.
“It is easy to learn anything when we start clean. It was great that you had fallen into the capital of the Holy Empire. What would you have done if you fell into the evil den of Veritas Magic Tower?”
The people there would definitely do experiments on Reina. She might get brainwashed, or they could turn her into an evil warlock.
“The idea of sealing yourself is really dangerous. What would have happened if you couldn’t get back?” Asked Luke.
“That could have been, but… I left clues here and there.”
“Clues?” Asked Luke.
“Yeah. There were many things, but the most obvious one was you.”
Although sealed, the Aether had the will of Reina. That was why Veronica III dreamed about Luke so many times.
“Maybe it was because of that will that I was pushed to the Holy Empire. Someone to help you, I wanted to be someone you could rely on,” Answered Reina.
“So, the Aether opened up in response to your will?”
“Yes, it was the same Aether that saved you and the others from the explosion that happened a while ago.”
At the words of Reina, Luke recalled what had happened.
The completed Suicide Magic of the assassin was powerful enough to take down all of Luke’s defenses.
If it went according to plan, Reina, Luke and all the soldiers around the two of them would die.