Chapter 19: Awakening Ceremony (2/2)
Suddenly, I feel something!
There is… something within me.
Is this the magic attribute?
I can… sense it.
If I expand my mind more and sense it deeper.
Come on…
Within the darkness of my inside, I see a lump of something.
Is this it?
It seems dormant.
I quickly begin to pour mana into it.
Come on, come out now and show yourself to the world!
And then…
It begins to move.
It…
Eh?
What is…
What is this?
The lump begins to move… like a slime.
It begins to move everywhere, expanding like vicious and moldy black veins.
It doesn't have eyes, but I feel as it glances right into my very soul.
W-What?
Is this…?
It… followed me to my second life?!
No…
Not this…
No… please… do not come out…!
NO!
”Nooooo! I do not wanna! Nooooooooo!”
I quickly try to suppress it from coming out, as I scream and fall over the snow, sudden exhaustion takes hold of my body as I spent all of my Mana without realizing it.
”Eh? What is happening?” asked the elders, as the old lady takes ahold of me and begins to conjure something into me.
”Oh my… this girl…” she muttered, as I heard mama and papa running towards me.
”Benladann!!!” cries my papa, as I hear his loud footsteps getting closer.
”My daughter!” cries my mama, as she approaches me slowly.
But before I can hear them get any closer, I fall unconscious…
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Within the Ice Giant Tribe, the elders begin to discuss what happened to the young Benladann, the promising and talented girl.
The old, blue-skinned ice giant elders surround a small bonfire, as they discuss the current events.
An old Ice Giant man speaks.
”Draugann… Speak. What did you see?”
Draugann, the old lady that did the awakening ceremony remained silent as she clenched her fists.
”Within that little girl's soul… I saw darkness… Pure and pitch-black darkness…” she said.
”Darkness? Then, was she Dark Attribute? It is rare, but not really something bad.” Said another elder.
”No… that's not it… She is not Dark Attribute… This darkness… It was like an abyss… When I took a glance at it… it glanced me back…” said the elder woman, as her hands began to tremble.
”What does this means? I don't understand.” Said another elder.
”She contains… within her… Darkness… no, something, an entity… The girl is weak and not strong enough to fight against it… She had managed to suppress it but… At any time… it could come out… We might have awakened something that we should have never bothered…”
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