277 Reliving the nightmare (1/2)
Don opened his eyes after struggling to see a familiar face looking at him with a smile.
”Sister...Elena...”
The woman in front of him was a half-elf. She appeared before him with the black armor identical to his. Her black hair was long and shinier swayed around her shoulder and her head held high, she waltzed on with an effortless saunter. She was a couple of inches taller than him and when her eyes met him, she smiled as she reached her hand out to help him up.
”How?”
Don's hand shivered as his eyes welled up. Even though his eyes were fixed on the woman before him, he could tell that he's lying in a vast desert.
”Come on, take my hand”
The woman swung her hand again while he slowly reached out to place his hand on hers.
”Why are you weeping like a little girl?”
She wiped away his tears and giggled.
”Look at you, all messed up, blood everywhere”
He looked down and saw his ripped armor as he felt a throbbing pain inside his head.
”AH!”
The memories of his ambush flooded his mind and made him clutch his head tightly to fight the pain he's feeling.
”Am...I...dead?”
Following the crushing pain in his head, the pain lessened as he looked up at the woman and asked.
Yet, instead of waiting for her answer, he quickly stepped forwards and hugged the woman with all his might and didn't move an inch away from her.
He felt her warm breath after thirteen years and didn't want this moment to pass away.
”You've grown up, I can't call you little anymore, can I?”
She ruffled his head and gently kissed him on the head.
”If this is a dream, I don't want to wake up”
”Wake with me, little Don”
She gently pushed him back as the scenery changed from a vast desert to a burning village.
”Do you remember this place?”
He tried to use the battle energy to rush forward towards the burning village but no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't even use the tiniest bit of battle energy.
The entire village burned in a sea of red, yellow, and orange and the cries of the people echoed around him. Don watched the scene as the flames ripped their way through the buildings surrounding him, tendrils of smoke reaching desperately into the sky as if trying to escape the blazing inferno below.
”It was...our home”
After failing to move his body, he croaked.
”So if you don't want to wake up, how are you going to avenge us?”
He didn't have an answer to give as she turned her gaze from the burning village to him.
”If those creatures could kill you, you won't survive what's coming, little Don. You're too weak!”
”I'm already dead, Sister Elena”
Elena smiled and waved her hand as the scenery changed. This time, a beautiful place appeared before him. He could see many elegant houses, various buildings, beautiful waterfalls, gorgeous paddy fields that looked like a golden blanket, and rivers.
”Everlight”
He immediately recognized the place where he's standing. He saw this place changing from vast grasslands and forests to a bustling kingdom.
Elena nodded and waved her hand again as Everlight faded away and another place appeared. This place was not as beautiful as Everlight but the small streams, fountains, huge mountains, and newly built marble and wooden buildings gave a unique charm to the place.
”Do you recognize this place?”
”Emir?”
The new small streams, fountains, and ponds constructed around the kingdom confused him as he wasn't there when they rooted the water spirit.
And then in a blink of an eye, the scenery changed again as he stood there in heavy rain.
”Agoria”
There was no drastic change in Agoria as in Emir except for the completed roads and more newly built houses.
”Do you know why I'm showing this to you?”
He shook his head slowly
”Because Farheaven is gone, little Don, but Everlight, Emir, Agoria isn't”
As she said, they appeared at Everlight again.
”Revenge is not the only thing you have to live for. What you've built is not a weapon, it's home, little Don, it's home”
He looked at the people roaming around the place with a wide grin on their faces.
”It doesn't matter now, I'm dead, it all depends on Knight. He will avenge us”
”If that's what you think, I failed as your teacher, little one”
He knitted his brows hearing her.
”You're not up against a rogue cultivator, if you want to avenge us, you have to face the superpower of the Avelon continent, little Don. It's not a feat that you or Knight could do alone”
”You talk like I'm alive, Sister Elena”
The moment he said this, he appeared inside of a room where he saw the familiar faces of Amaryll, Arwen, Stodemar, Knight, and every single one who lives in the castle.