Book 3. Chapter 15.
“Secrets.” Part 1
[The skill Dispel Ezhil has leveled up to level 32!]
[The skill Ezhil Purification has leveled up to level 47!]
[The skill Jhil Ezhil has leveled up to level 30!]
[The Blessing skill has leveled up to level 25!]
Kalysto closed the notification windows and, with Hanna’s help, finished purifying the surrounding forest at 1 o’clock in the morning.
“Finally!” The saintess sighed with relief as she wiped the sweat from her forehead.
“Champion, give me a moment and I’ll take a revitalizing potion and a mana potion and take us back,” assured Hanna, who could barely stand and whose mana had almost dried up.
“I thought that instead of taking mana potions you would absorb the mana stones, since you have so many.”
“Absorbing a small mana stone would take me at least a week, trying to do it with one of the ones I normally give you would take me forever,” Hanna replied as she drank the first potion. Yet her words took Kalysto by surprise.
“A week? Isn’t that too long?”
It only takes me a few seconds. She thought, and suddenly remembered Caranthir, who assured her that he had developed a method that reduced the absorption process to four days. It’s still too long in comparison.
“That’s right, it’s a slow process. But there are those, like for example my cousin Artemis, who have the skill to absorb them faster, but that is sometimes painful for her so even she is careful,” That immediately caught Kalysto’s attention.
“Like a skill?”
“That’s right,” she said, trying to hide a half-smile. “I guess the champion has it too, and that’s why you are so curious?” Kalysto’s face turned red, revealing herself unintentionally. “It already seemed strange to me that the champion would ask for so many mana stones in such a short time.”
“I like to collect them,” she excused herself.
“I thought that’s what the slime cores were for. But if the champion also possesses the absorption skill, surely you acquired the regeneration skill in the same way my late cousin Athenea did.”
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“The champion doesn’t have to worry about that. It happened a long time ago, and it wasn’t your fault.”
“I thought fairies had very long lives, like hundreds of years.”
“That’s right. The more powerful they are, like my aunt, the more centuries they can live. But Athenea was killed by Seth-Mainyu,” her voice cracked with sadness at the memory, at the same time Kalysto was surprised by how communicative the fairy was being.
“... So that’s why it’s the war and why the fairies leave this continent at the end of the book.”
“Leaving? Has my aunt said anything to the champion about the possibility of moving back?”
“No, but it is written in the book I exchanged with Aegir Donovhar, the demon king.”
“Could the champion tell me more about this book?”
“Could you tell me more about this god and how he is the enemy of the fairies?”
“... That’s a long story.”
“After sunrise I will go to King Donovhar’s territory, so we have a few hours,” she murmured as the light of both full moons filtered into the small clearing where they both sat down to rest, sitting on a huge rock. The rays of the moons illuminated the features of both, drawing the shadows away from the silent forest.
Kalysto took advantage of the silence to drink a health potion while she waited patiently for Hanna to decide to tell her story.
“This is not our world,” the fairy began. “My father told me that a little over a century ago, the fairies who survived the great massacre committed by the mad son of the god of darkness. My cousin Athenea had just given birth to her child at that time but Seth-Mainyu killed her and we escaped to this world thanks to the great power of my aunt. But despite our efforts to continue to prosper peacefully, he is still looking for us. And now one of his warlords is invading and destroying this continent. Even though the one who bothers us most now is the goddess Mhiralla, our enemy is still the same, Seth-Mainyu.”
“It must be horrible to have to live on the run all your life,” she commented, understanding why the queen’s urgency to create a second protective barrier. “But I don’t understand why he started attacking you for no reason.”
“I don’t know if they have told you that when the god of ether was in a sentimental relationship with aunt, she was not a goddess, just a powerful and beautiful fairy. It was after a long time that the goddess of light seduced him, making him believe that her marriage with the god of darkness was over and she became pregnant with twins. After that as a parting gift the god of ether gave my aunt, who is his avatar, divinity as a parting gift, but shortly after that they had another daughter, and being pregnant with her, Arharella went to visit her ex who was with two of her children at the time. There are many conflicting versions of what happened during that night, but both Sejmet, the daughter of the god of darkness and her brother, Seth-Mainyu, opposed the betrayal of the gods who sealed the god Ygaerae. But the rest of the gods wasted almost all their power in that and since then they live hidden in another dimension while they sleep to replenish their power. My aunt, being the avatar of the god of ether, Fieal, was summoned and had no choice but to confront Seth-Mainyu and prevent him from killing the god Fieal during the battle in which the dark god was sealed. I think that’s why he hates her, even when she was the one who created the island where the body of the dark god rests and she herself sacrificed her skills to keep the fairies hidden in exchange for making sure that the rest of the gods could never find Ygaerae and finish killing him...” she commented sadly. “But champion, it is unfair that he blamed my aunt, since no avatar can disobey a direct order from the god they serve. Even if she had died, the god of the ether need only summon her avatar again and she would revive immediately,” then her gaze ceased to be lost and focused on Kalysto. “Just as it would happen to you, champion,” she said, looking at her. “Even if my aunt won’t allow you to heal yourself because of that shadow inside you that is connected to Seth-Mainyu and because of that my aunt will never fully trust you, in case you die my aunt only needs to summon you again, and both the soul and the body of the champion will come back to life.”