Chapter 260 - The Death of Amy (1/2)

When Ray started hearing the beginning of Van's story, he had a hunch. Only he was hoping it wasn't true. The person Van was talking about was Gary's sister. The same Amy Ray had met back in the village.

The first person to have treated him like everyone else, and in a way, it was Ray's first friend. When Ray heard the name come out of Van's mouth he didn't know how to feel.

When he first found out about Amy's death from Gary, he always thought if he had met that person, he would immediately get his revenge.

And apparently, here he was talking to that very same person. Right now, though Ray just felt confused and conflicted. He had promised the Queen he would protect Van and at the same time, he had promised Gary to help get his revenge.

Either way, it was too soon to decide what to do and he would just have to listen to Van's words and hear him out.

”Hey Nes, what's wrong,” Max asked as he could see Ray just staring at the ground. ”Did you know her?”

”No, I thought I might have done but I don't.”

”Anyway things are starting to make sense,” Said Max. ”I remembered an incident involving Amy, but when things happened everyone was told to keep their mouth shut. To not let word get out about it outside Roland. In the end, it was quite lucky that it happened to a family with no backing.”

”Lucky.” Van croaked out with tears in his eyes. ”What was so lucky, she was unlucky by the fact she had met me.”

Max felt bad about what he had just said, he had forgotten that this Amy person had meant a lot to Van he had loved her. The crying was awkward and Max looked at Ray for help but when he looked at Ray even he seemed to be acting strange.

A few moments later and Van manged to recompose himself to continue the story.

”The incident, everything had happened in the practical assessment. For the practical assessment, groups were formed up in teams of five. The assessment was only for the lower-class students so Blake would be unable to protect us and before we had left on our journey, he had wished the two of us good luck. The assessment teleported you to a hunting ground that at most was meant to contain intermediate beasts but we were unlucky that day and somehow an advanced tier beast had appeared. Amy was skilful in magic, she was the strongest one out of all of us there, she had managed to do a lot of damage but the beast was still too strong and in the end, I had decided to help and step in, and that was when I had made the biggest mistake ever.”

Max looked slightly confused, he had no clue where this story was going to go.

”I cast magic and destroyed the beast when I shouldn't have, we should have just run away and waited for the teachers. After the beast had died that's when they had come, another three of the same advanced tier beasts. In the end, Amy cast a protection spell and encased us in a gold bubble, it trapped the four of us inside. The bubble was practically unbreakable but she remained outside. I had to watch her getting ripped to shreds with my own eyes while we remained safe in the magic she had cast. Eventually, the teachers came and dealt with everything.”

”Wait you can't say it's your fault then.” Max blurted out, ”The beasts killed her not you, I understand why Blake would be upset with you because you promised to protect her and maybe you blame yourself but accidents happen.”