Chapter 812 - The River Of Death (2/2)

It was obviously because of her

"Father…"

"If you truly insist on being with your wife, Raphael I willof Cretea's voice echoed across the temple "I will strip immortality and banish the two of you from Cretea"

Rowena's eyes widened and she immediately backed away She looked up the thousands of steps that led up to the King of Cretea and ran away She eak-kneed, faint fro across her ears like a death sentence

She didn't care about herself No No If she was going to be hu for Rowena to be huain or be banished from this place

However, could she do that to Raphael?

"No, he doesn't deserve it" Rowena darted across the streets of Cretea and ran as far as she could She didn't knohere she was going, she just knew that she needed to be away As far away as possible

The air around her was so suffocating that she longed for a chance to… breathe? Recollect her thoughts? No Roas already guilty and terrified of the King of Cretea's ultimatum She would never want Raphael to suffer

"He can't accept that I'll refuse it" Rowena said to herself "But… as long as I'm here, it will looht from the start, but for someone like Raphael? No She couldn't take that away fro here The hideous witch that appeared at their house was right, Roas Raphael's downfall

"I…I can still prevent this" Rowenaher eyes She knew that Raphael was going to hate her for it, but she was going to do it to prevent hi harmed

There was no way that she'd see the love of her life suffer

Rowena left the utopia of Cretea and ended up in the wilderness that didn't seem to end at all She traveled as fast as she could to the place that Raphael once took her before when she first arrived in Cretea

It was a place that took her breath away and it hat created the paradise of this God realm Mountains and hills that reached the sky, a dense forest that one could get lost into, and a wonderful valley filled with flowers of countless varieties

Rowena ran past all of them until she reached what could have been the end of the place It was the most important part of Cretea's nature She saw the multitude of rivers that ran across the land and eventually disappeared into a thick fog

She heard that if you kept swi, you'd be able to leave Cretea and end up in a multitude of destinations Rivers that allowed one to arrive in other realms

"River of Life River of Death" Rowena recounted two of the most important rivers she could think of They were the main rivers that kept the cycle of life in a constant flow and with Cretea being the land above the cycle

Raphael once told her that and her own father taught her that before Rowena didn't think that there would be any use for her, but she took the step towards the rivers and tried to identify them by how they flowed

"The River of Life is like a bubbling brook, it's continually leaping and bursting forth with energy" Rowena eyed the river on the right and saw the golden streaht

Finally, Rowena glanced at her left and realized it was too easy to distinguish between the two of them "The River of Death is still and has no need toeventually comes to this place, and so it is far deeper than one assumes"

The river was pure black and there was no ripple whatsoever in the water It here one's life ended

Rowena gulped slightly and glanced at the other rivers farther away fro There were a lot of them and she couldn't even describe all of the blue like a normal river, others shi+mmered like rainbows and there was even a river of flames which shocked her… but she couldn't take her eyes away from the River of Death

It beckoned to her

She just needed to step in