Chapter 150 (1/2)

Chapter 150: Hera?

“What is this place?” Lan Jue blinked, and looked all around

It was a world of white Wisps of cool white mist covered the floor below hi… everything around him was that same pure white

As he peered all around, he was struck with a rather unsettling sensation – he couldn’t feel himself He was here, but at the same time he wasn’t Like he didn’t truly exist His heart sank, for he knew that he was dead The spirit was capable of living in the place between tih power of will could stop his soul fro to other realms Was this death? Was he to remain here for eternity?

Just as he begun to sink in to depression the ure appeared through the haze and approached Each step brought clarity

A pure, white dress Long, dark hair and shi+ blue eyes A face so beautiful it almost hurt

“Hera!” Lan Jue called out to her, and before he knew it he was pulling her in to his embrace

The young woman hesitated, but soon acquiesced and wrapped her arms around his neck

“As long as I get to see you again, I don’t care what comes” Lan Jue’s voice was soft, almost a murmur A small contented smile spread across his face “Had I known all I had to do to be with you again was die, I’d have done so a long tio How are you? What happened that day? What did you encounter? Was it really just so left ?”

Lan Jue did not n, but inside he felt hiood fortune

Nothing else ether with his Hera, and that’s all he cared about Living or dead, he didn’t care – so long as they were together Through the years they were apart, he never put her out of his heart In his soul, Hera was the only one for him, and here she was

“And if I hadn’t died, would you still have made this choice?” Her voice was soft

Lan Jue was taken aback He loosened his grip and placed his strong hands on her shoulders He looked at her carefully

“Would you?” She looked back, her question genuine Those dazzling blue eyes held his own

Lan Jue took a moment to consider her question carefully “If there was a one in a million shot at survival, I’d take it But if there was no choice, no chance, I’d still do it All just to tell you one thing; yourthese families from the pain I felt would be worth it”

She looked surprised “So,” she said, “in your heart duty is more important than love?”

This brought a grin to Lan Jue’s lips “No,” he responded “This isn’t about duty It’s humanity If I didn’t do at least this, how could I call myself a noble?”

The young woentle embrace “If there ever coether I don’t need to know your glory, what honors you’ve achieved I just want to be with you Where you go, I go – reatest wish is just to see your face”

“Hera,” Lan Jue ”

A strange fog seeped around the a muted silence with it Thevanished

In the rapidly shrinking reality around theainst his oo crystalline tears appeared at the corner of her eyes, and traced a line along her cheek Upon reaching her chin they fell, and landed cold upon his face

Her breathing had becoan to fill her up Motes of golden light floated through her, from her, in all directions

“You’re sleeping, darling, and that’s the good news” She gently lifted her face, and placed a kiss against his lips She drew back, the shi+ in to nothing

She wrapped hi empty for her loss, her heart was full The one she held was her love, her pride This was her glory, right here in her arms

The sky above becah things were returning to norht from the cocoon diinally definitely a construct of the wo now It looked aly that surrounded it However, as the others looked on, the cocoon changed once er moved

Then, the sound of tearing

The Wine Master’s eyes hardened at the sonance, and he immediately turned to find the source of the noise What he saw made his brows furrow

Mo Yu, too, turned to see Surprise was clear in his eyes as he saw it approaching The coh were clear: no one was to approach What, then, was all this?

It started as a siht, but that lasted only the space of a blink Before long the light had grown enorathered faces

The shi+p was a hundred and fifty , with a streamlined hull shaped like a dolphin It slowly drew up to their location, leaving behind a an to vanish fro