250 The Loyal Aephelia, The Reasons for Her Existence (1/2)

Day 37 – 7:52 PM – Mountain Base, Mount Malabito, General Nakar, Quezon

Mark stared at Miracle who was now being controlled by Aephelia.

”Stop with that address. I'm not Freodelius.”

”I apologize but that order is not something the lowly me can accept. I pledged myself to serve His Majesty, The Last King of Eriellis, King Freodelius Arishtalia. As the inheritor of the Late King, you were the rightful heir and our new King.”

Mark shook his head with a bitter smile. Aephelia was still as stubborn as before in Freed's memories.

Aephelia Miferiel, she was a maid in the royal palace and Freed's personal servant. At the attack that killed all of the royal family except for the second prince, Freodelius and the first princess, Elailia, along with a lot of servants and soldiers from the palace, Aephelia was one of those that managed to survive and became a Psychic after a bite at the same incident. After that, she continued to stay and serve the new king along with Keeper.

It was a mystery however that she was able to exist as a living consciousness. Furthermore, according to Freed, the others were already dead at that time when the crystals were created and as such, most of their consciousness should have snuffed out even if some of their memories remained. Another thing was that Miracle was only a year old baby, it was impossible for her to encounter the event six years ago and inherit the consciousness and abilities of Aephelia. One more mystery was that Mark was not able to detect Aephelia's consciousness at all even after he recovered a bit of his empathic ability.

Mark posed his questions to Aephelia.

”Your Majesty, at the final battle in our home planet, Eriellis, even if my body died, my consciousness would not be easily extinguished. If you would kindly remember my ability as a Psychic, Your Majesty.”

Hearing that, Mark dug Freed's memories and immediately found it. Her ability was to control the psychic zombies that lost their soul and consciousness. Although the number of zombies she could control was limited to three, the strength of the infected was not inhibited as long as her consciousness could handle it. Due to that, in order to be able to manipulate stronger zombies, she trained her mind and ability to the point of collapsing every day, all in order to be of service to her King.

As a result, the strength of her mind consciousness was strengthened and it was very likely that after dying physically, her consciousness only fell into a state of sleep and was preserved after their abilities and remaining consciousness were absorbed by the crystals. And since she was in a sleep state, Mark was not able to detect her similarly to how he was not able to detect Karla who was also asleep until she woke up and took over Karlene's body. With Aephelia waking up from her slumber, Miracle was also affected and woke up from her coma.

For the reason that she was in Miracle's body however, it also explained the loss of sanity of Melinda. Even though Aephelia was asleep until the other day, there were still things that she was aware of.

Six years ago when Melinda was in America for the check-ups of their genetic disorder, a marble sized crystal fell from the sky and entered her body. However, due to the fact that Aephelia's consciousness was intact and asleep, Melinda was not able to inherit her ability and Aephelia remained inside her body. Until five years later when she miraculously gave birth to Miracle. Aephelia's sleeping consciousness was transferred to the innocent baby due to her body being more compatible as bearer of Aephelia's ability than the mother.

Talking more with Aephelia, Mark learned that she had nothing to do with the sudden growth of Miracle but it was because her body needed to grow to cope up with the abilities she had. Fortunately, it would likely never happen once more unless there was a huge unnatural leap in the strength of her abilities. After all, her body was not a normal one but was created artificially using the unknown methods Melanie used and the [Physical Crystal] that accidentally absorbed by her. This was close to Mark's assumptions.

”It was really good that this servant was able to witness His Late Majesty's inheritor.”

Aephelia said with a sad smile.

”You sounded like you won't last long.”

”Unfortunately, yes. Even if this servant's consciousness was stronger than others, more than a thousand years was too much. At most, this servant's consciousness could only last a few months more.”

”Is that so?”

Mark sighed. As he inherited Freed's memories, Aephelia did not feel like some stranger to him. However, like Freed, she was a person that was supposed to be dead and was remaining as a consciousness near to being snuffed out.

He then froze, he had an idea.

”Aephelia, sit beside me.”

Aephelia was confused but followed without questioning anything.

After she sat on the bed, Mark then released a white glow on his hand and it was the same with his eyes. He then gently held his right hand of her head.

Aephelia's eyes dilated in shock and turned to Mark with reverence in her eyes. After several minutes that Mark also felt a little dizzy, he removed his hands and asked.

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However, Aephelia jumped down from the bed and kneeled ones more.

”This servant, thank Your Majesty for your grace! With this, this servant had no problem to exist even a year more!”

Her voice was a little waving. It was obvious that she was in tears. However, with her using Miracle's body, it looked more like a father that made his daughter cry and kneel on the floor.

”Get up. Miracle is still small so I will need your help to protect her.”

”Yes, Your Majesty.”

Mark nodded hearing her reply. As for Miracle calling him father, he decided to accept. It was not like he could make her go to others. He could not just abandon her either.

After the talk, Aephelia returned to sleep and Miracle came back. That night, he slept with every single [BloodChildren] around him and Miracle was the most clingy of them all.

As for Amihan, she was hiding all the duration of Mark's talk with Aephelia. After all, what happened with Miracle looked like some evil possession. She was afraid that she would also get possessed. Along with her fear of humans, she also had the fear of evil spirits which took her parent's lives.

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Day 38 – 8:03 AM – Mountain Base, Mount Malabito, General Nakar, Quezon

GRWARU

GRWAAA

Cute strange noises could be heard inside the base. Looking at it, it was the fox like wolf, Wargy, playing around Chaflar who was trying its hardest to ignore the annoying critter. After three days of feeding Wargy one crystal, which Mark decided to call [Beast Crystal], a day, it had grown a little bigger and its fur was shinier. However, it was still a cub. Its tendency to play was so high that it was not even afraid of Chaflar even though its size was even smaller than the dragon's feet.

GRAAA!