Chapter 165 - Spirit Buoyed (1/2)

Lady Devina recounted her life-journey to Chiji.

I was already ten years old when the elders realized my soul's color fit the Great King's requirement to become the Chief Guardian of the world called Chiji. My father didn't want to send me, but my mother, who was born from royalty, saw this as a chance to retain her royal status as a princess and they can return to Vethilles. So my brothers and sister can also receive the titles befitting our bloodline.

I left my world Zeirean accompanied by a lady tutor named Elfinlei from Vethilles to teach me about my powers and other things. We settled in a rich country of Vernaboles because my tutor said its lifestyle was almost the same as her country's culture in Vethilles.

My training started from the first month I set foot in Chiji. However, we were later to know that Lady Elfinlei only had limited knowledge of my clans's power combined with the new power from the Great King and Chiji's Kore.

Her knowledge was all from the Vethilles' teachings alone and deemed useless to me in Chiji. She tried her best to help me, but her body couldn't cope up with the changing seasons of Vernaboles and died six years after. I was left on my own thereafter.

I encountered another thing of which I'm not sure yet unless my successor will test this theory of mine. I believe if they brought me here when I was one-year-old, I might have absorbed more power from the Kore before I reached twenty.

This was because when I arrived here, I first experienced a potent power from the Kore permeating in my body. But as time passed, it slowed down. On my twentieth birthday, Lady Elfinlei handed to me the gifts given by the Great King. These were the ring, anklet, necklace, sceptre, and the crown. After I wore them, my power doubled and I could do what I couldn't do before, like pressing the hard-headed spirit guardians to bend on my will with ease.

Sadly, my power stagnated from thereon. My body stopped absorbing power from the Kore. From there, I realized that my power should be at its utmost when I reached twenty. With this experience, this theory came forth.

Somehow, it was all a theory. Looming over this idea won't help, but I hope my successor will grant my desire to prove this theory is right. With that set aside, I focused on studying on how to make this power of great use for the task given to me by the Great King.

I traveled alone, facing all kinds of opposition from other spirit guardians and from the greedy humans and Chiangdas. But through these fights, I've found the fighting art I needed.

I hope this book can help my future successors so they won't experience the hardsh.i.p.s I went through. I call the fighting technique, The Colorful Stone Power of the Chief Guardian.

While Xinyi was reading the technique's title, unexpectedly, she felt a vigorous power blended in her body, but the people around didn't notice.

Xinyi held her breath. ”What was that?” Xinyi muttered to herself. The Godingans heard her and looked her way with facial expressions, asking what she meant.

She forced a smile and reminded herself to not speak her thoughts out loud. ”Nothing. Just read something interesting. That's all.” And returned her attention to the book, as if she was reading, but her mind wasn't there.

She felt the life essence of another person from that power she received now. It was from the first Sorceress. She didn't guess it at random, but there was no doubt in her. She could also differentiate from the feeling she had with the second Sorceress' essence from the apparition.