Book 3. Chapter 19.
"In Enemy Territory." Part 1
“Of course, boss," Kalysto replied looking at the violet window before closing it and tucking the sack with mana stones inside her shadow next to the bag of food, feeling the pressure in her shadow and realizing she had reached her limit. Then she looked at Aegir, "You and your people are coming with us?
“I cannot," the king whispered, impotence marking his face. “Our race, unlike the rest, did not have the participation of the goddess of light during our creation, so the power of her descendants hurts us. Mhiralla is the youngest of six children. It would be suicide to send my army there.”
“I'm sorry, I didn't know," she muttered uncomfortably as she thought it was a pity that the queen could not count on the help of a mage who exceeded the five hundredth level. Although it also meant being indebted to him, and according to what Hanna had told her about fairies, they always paid what they received and tried never to be indebted to anyone. “But thanks for the help. I'll pay you back later” before Aegir could say anything Alice stepped forward and ran to hug her friend while looking at her as if she were a soldier about to leave for the third world war, and who she doubts she can come back alive, or in one piece.
“Please promise me that you will come back safe and sound and stop working on such dangerous missions!”
“... I can't promise you that I will return intact but I will return. Besides if everything goes well in this mission the queen promised me that she would terminate my contract and I would be free to do with my life as I please” she assured her while she hugged her back. “Don't worry everything will be fine.”
“She wasn't supposed to choose an avatar, Kalysto. I don't understand why she chose one now when she didn't in the book," Alice murmured with tears in her eyes and fear blurring her beautiful, delicate face. “Please be very careful, I don't trust the fairy queen. I don't know what she is planning, but it must not be anything good," she murmured so low that Kalysto had to strain to hear her but the young saintess had no time to answer as the queen's summoning circle was drawn under her feet and she immediately hurried her friend away from her so that she would not be involved by accident as had happened with Koden and Edward.
“I'll see you soon," she assured her with a shy smile peeking through her lips. "Communication with the sacred beasts," she said.
Tsuki, stay alert! Keep the mental connection active and don't leave my shadow unless I order you to! She thought, preferring to leave her pet living in her shadow since she was able to learn the skill thanks to Aeguir.
“Yes, Master!" They Fenrir replied, sticking his head out through his master's shadow to answer and then disappearing back into it, as if he had never been there.
The world blurred in front of Kalysto, the golden barrier that she had just created surrounding the palace of the demon king disappeared under the violet light of the queen's summoning circle and the next second she was in front of another golden barrier which protected the entrance to a cave, and behind it was a whole army of fairies. But contrary to what she had thought at first, there were not as many as she had expected. Only about 300 fairies were there, and that was only a little more than half of those who had gone to train in Desmond's kingdom.
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What the hell is the queen thinking of sending so many home when a war could break out? She thought suspiciously as she frowned.
Hanna and Galatea were soon on their way to meet her.
“Good afternoon, champion," they greeted her. “We hope you can help us disable the Barrier. Once inside, Hanna, our best searcher, will accompany you to perform the rescue while the rest of us will create a distraction.”
“Good afternoon to you too," she replied, "Why are there so few fairies?”
“Mhiralla has just launched a new attack so we had to split up while our group attacks taking advantage of her absence," Galatea hastened to answer.
But Kalysto got the impression that for the first time since they met, the fairy was lying to her. So she just nodded her head, turned around and approached the protective barrier guarding the entrance to the cave that was half hidden among the moldy rock and lush bushes that surrounded it.
“Mana manipulation! Dispel! Dispel Ezhil!” She conjured several times, until the barrier began to fade and finally broke, creating a large hole that allowed them to enter.
“We'll go first," Galatea assured her. “Hanna, you know what to do!”
“Of course!" The pink-haired girl assured them, standing behind Kalysto, and allowing half of the fairy army to enter.
Almost a minute later it was the turn of both of them, followed by the rest of the group.
A silent blue portal awaited them at the end of the dark cave, but as soon as they stepped through it the intense light hurt their eyes, leaving them helpless for a few seconds as grunts, groans and the sound of swords cutting flesh and clashing claws reached their ears.
In front of them, in the midst of a beautiful natural dreamscape leading to the nearby palace entrance, more than ten thousand monsters were fighting.
“Remember the purification crystals!" Kalysto immediately pointed out, knowing that this would give them some advantage to avoid the contagion of the black plague while fighting the monsters of Mhiralla. But before she had finished speaking, Hanna antoned her through the air and they both flew over the battlefield, infiltrating the palace while Hanna activated her illusion skills.
“Stelth” said Kalysto, turning invisible.
Several minutes after entering the white palace, Hanna found the dungeons.
The smell of dirt and rot flooded her nose as Hanna had to set her back down on the floor due to the low ceiling. Both of them advanced on foot as Kalysto deactivated her skill, becoming visible again as they walked in silence, observing the empty, half-lit stone cells.
It was almost at the end of the only passageway that they found a beautiful blonde with violet eyes. Her haggard face was a sign of hunger, her parched lips, sunken eyes and multiple wounds along with the large collection of purples that decorated her weak body, were a sign of the torture she had been subjected to.
“Ezhil Ezhil Purification! Jhil Ezhil," Kalysto said quickly while Hanna gasped as she recognized the queen's eldest daughter as she hurried to conjure her wind and cut the bars into multiple pieces.
“Cousin! What have they done to you?” sobbed Hanna.
But just as Kalysto took a step to enter the cell, a masculine voice echoed in the dungeon.
“Persephone?” Kalysto lost all color in her face as she walked to the cell diagonal to the one they were in, following the male voice.
One she recognized.
There, in the middle of the filthy cell and dressed in rags, a green gaze reflected her silhouette.
The same shade of green she saw every day in the mirror.
“Dad?”