Elinna held her mother, who was already extremely weak, in disbelief as she looked at the group of clansmen before her. These people actually followed the orders of their clearly deranged father, all locking their murderous gazes onto her, without showing any concern for her mother. Even those brothers whom she once idolized seemed to be oblivious to the mother lying in a pool of blood, merely staring at her as if she were prey.

"Is this the family I've been willing to sacrifice everything for, the family I've borne the burden of sin to save? Are these my loved ones?" Watching her mother's breath gradually weaken and the clan members closing in on her step by step, Elinna's expression became somewhat trance-like, showing signs of collapse.

"Elinna," at this moment, her mother, Agnes Lor, called out as if exerting her last bit of strength, gently caressing Elinna's face with her hand. "Elinna, my good daughter. Don't blame your father. He only wants to pledge allegiance to the Light Elf tribe to his death. Mother can't accompany you to the end. Cough, cough, cough. My good daughter, Mother understands your difficulties. You, you should leave quickly. Leave here forever. Cough, cough, cough. Mother doesn't want to see you and your father fighting each other. I don't want to see anyone getting hurt."

"Mother! No! Mother!" Elinna held her mother's cooling hands, tears streaming uncontrollably.

Her mother's death left Elinna feeling desolate, and it made her question everything she had done before. Had she really made a mistake? If she hadn't been weak and agreed to Anselin's request, if she had continued to resist, would the outcome have been different? At the very least, she wouldn't have watched her mother die in this way. At the very least, she could have fought side by side with her father and her clan members, gloriously sacrificing herself in battle.

Had she really made a mistake? Elinna began to doubt her choices. She kissed her mother's gradually cooling cheeks again and sighed heavily. Her mother's death made her suddenly feel that everything she had done was futile and not worth it. Elinna even felt that the meaning of continuing to survive had completely disappeared.

Various emotions such as grief, anger, resentment, and regret intertwined, along with the guilt arising from her mother's death, causing Elinna to completely lose her belief and courage to continue living. If her death could atone for her mistakes. If her death could make up for the harm she had caused to her mother. Then let death come.

Thinking this way due to the blow of her mother's death, Elinna's mind was in turmoil. At the same time, a powerful energy began to surge within her body. Dark magical energy poured out of her pores and, upon contact with the surrounding air, formed a large amount of deep purple energy mixed with lightning out of thin air.

These deep purple energies immediately began to flow back and gathered around Elinna into a huge lightning energy ball. As the color of this lightning energy ball gradually changed from deep purple to red, the air and magnetic fields around Elinna began to throb like rhythmic notes, becoming extremely restless. There was always the possibility of a massive explosion due to energy overload.

Seeing this eerie scene before them, the approaching members of the Agua family felt a sense of imminent danger and immediately stopped in their tracks, no longer daring to advance recklessly. Only Palanode remained, still holding his sword against the surrounding energy field, gritting his teeth as he approached Elinna.

"Hmph! Elinna! Stop futile resistance! Accept the honorable execution from the Light Elf tribe!" Palanode glared with his red eyes, gritting his teeth.

"Hmph! Honor? Since you care so much about your honor, then I'll return all the glory that originally belonged to you! Similarly, you must return all the lives I fought for back to me!" Elinna said angrily.

With that, Elinna suddenly raised her head and began to howl towards the sky. At the same time, the lightning energy ball gathered around her quickly turned red and began to become more and more unstable, showing signs of an imminent explosion.

At this moment, someone nearby shouted, "Not good! It's going to explode! Run!"

Then, the Agua family members who were still guarding around Elinna instantly gave up their encirclement and turned to flee from the area where the lightning energy ball might explode.

Seeing the clan members fleeing in all directions, Elinna sneered and said harshly, "Run? Where are you going? Weren't you looking to reclaim the glory of the Agua family, weren't you looking to punish me? Fine! I'll grant you that wish now!"

As Elinna's voice fell, the energy gathered around her poured out wildly like an uncontrollable flood, rushing in all directions. These energies, after exploding, formed sharp energy beams that pierced through all the Agua family members who were escaping in all directions, centered on her.

Elinna poured out her energy recklessly until every last bit of it was exhausted from her body. After pouring out her energy crazily for a while, Elinna looked around at the corpses lying everywhere with satisfaction. Then, Elinna once again embraced her mother, Agnes Lor. She silently bid her final farewell to her mother, allowing her own body to gradually carbonize into black powder and finally disappear without a trace.

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The story ends here, and Elinna somewhat self-mockingly spread her hands and asked, "That's how my last life ended. How about it? My death sounds pretty cool, doesn't it?"

Hao Yun nodded mechanically. Honestly, after hearing Elinna's narration, his heart was also filled with complex emotions. Hao Yun had originally thought that the Light Elf tribe was the kind of high-minded and benevolent race of higher beings, but he never expected that they also harbored various internal struggles. Compared to the seemingly darker Dark Elf tribe, the Light Elf tribe, in terms of the extremity of their thoughts, might not be any better, or one could even say they were six of one, half a dozen of the other.

"Ah! I didn't expect your past life to be quite tragic. In the end, not only could you not save the fate of your family, but you also led your family to destruction. It's tragic, truly tragic," Hao Yun sighed.

Due to the ongoing war in the country and the underlying resentment against her own family from allied families, it was difficult for Hao Yun to judge whether Elinor's actions in the previous life were correct. Therefore, he could only choose his words carefully to express his understanding of Elinor's past experiences and encounters.

However, shortly after, Hao Yun seemed to recall something and changed his tone, saying, "Hmm? Wait a minute. Didn't Lady Elinor mention that your mother is still alive? Why did you say she had—"

In response to this, Elinor replied, "Because my soul joined the Underworld in the same state as the previous life and, while retaining as many memories of the previous life as possible, ascended to become a Holy Spirit. This allowed me to retain the dual talent of black and white magic from the previous life, as well as a deeper understanding of my past experiences and the beings I encountered."

Dao Lao nodded as he stroked his white beard, indicating that such a situation could indeed occur without the use of the Revival Elixir.

Elinor continued, "So, among the beings I focused on, my mother, Agnes Law of the Adagua family, naturally became the focus of my attention. Therefore, after I became familiar with the Underworld, I asked Lord God's Hand to help check where my mother had been reincarnated. Did she reincarnate into a distant, happy family away from the war?"

"But what I didn't expect was that Lord God's Hand did not find any records of my mother's reincarnation. In fact, from the time before and after my death until now, there has never been a record of a Light Elven female named Agnes Law Adagua from the SU-052 timeline of the Elven planet being extradited to the Underworld."

At this point, Elinor slowly stood up, holding a glass of wine, and said thoughtfully by the window, "Since there is no data in the Underworld about my mother's extradition or reincarnation, there are generally only two possibilities: one is that my mother's soul has been imprisoned, so she was not extradited by the Soul Guides after her death; the second is that my mother did not die, she is still alive."

"Wait a minute, if the soul is imprisoned after death, why wouldn't the Soul Guides go to extradite it? Are there really beings in the mortal realm capable of imprisoning souls? Wouldn't that be illegal and disrupt the order of the spiritual realm?" Hao Yun politely interrupted Elinor again, looking surprised.

So, Dao Lao took over and explained, "When a being dies, they no longer have direct contact with the mortal realm, and their life is considered terminated in the mortal realm. However, there are certain races in certain timelines of the mortal realm that have a deeper understanding of souls and can preserve them through special means."

"Therefore, when they use their abilities to detain the soul, regardless of whether their intentions are good or bad, the Soul Guides will abide by the principle of not interfering with the free development of beings in the mortal realm and avoid affecting the stability of the timeline, allowing them to detain those souls or use them for other activities."

"But aren't you afraid that those beings in the mortal realm will destroy the souls?" Hao Yun asked again.

"Of course not. Remember, souls can ascend to become beings. So the strength of the soul itself is not something that the ordinary beings in the mortal realm can easily defeat. Moreover, to learn the mysteries of the soul, you must first become a Holy Spirit. As long as this natural gap exists, even if beings in the mortal realm rack their brains, they can only grasp some superficial knowledge within the soul and cannot truly understand its mysteries," Dao Lao explained.

At the same time, Dao Lao cursed Hao Yun again in the system channel and prohibited him from asking any more questions. Because the questions Hao Yun raised were basic knowledge that a Soul Guide must master. Hao Yun always seemed to ask questions about anything he encountered, which could easily arouse Elinor's suspicion of his true identity.

Seeing Dao Lao's dissatisfaction with Hao Yun's frequent questions, Elinor shrugged and spoke up for Hao Yun, saying, "Hmm, it's quite normal for newcomers to not fully understand the affairs of the Underworld. After all, there are too many rules and regulations in the Underworld. I remember when I became a priest of the Underworld, it took me a long time to study and remember all those complicated knowledge! Anyway, it's just some rote memorization. After encountering it several times in the future, you'll remember it all! Hmph."

"However, as Dao Lao said," Elinor's tone changed, "Because many talented elves in the Dark Elven tribe began to delve deeper into the study of necromancy at that time. So, I'm worried that my mother's soul may have been imprisoned by them."

"So, I joined the work of extraditing souls from the SU-052 timeline of the Elven planet and hoped to investigate my mother's whereabouts during my spare time. The good news is that after my investigation, I found that my mother's soul was not imprisoned. My mother is still alive. But the bad news is that my mother is living in great pain, even more so than when she was cursed by dark magic years ago."

Elinor frowned, paused for a moment, and then continued with a very displeased tone, "It turns out that when I exhausted all my energy to perish with everyone present at the time, my mother, who had fallen to the ground and was unable to get up, fortunately survived the energy I released. At that time, although my mother was severely injured and on the brink of death, thanks to the rich white magic energy rooted in her body from practicing white magic, she was able to survive for a long time with very low consumption."

"It was precisely because of this that my mother persisted until Ashilin arrived and killed me. According to the information I have obtained from various sources, it was Ashilin who found my mother, who was on the brink of death, and used a unique dark healing technique to heal her wounds, allowing her to survive. After that, my mother, relying on her strong willpower and the powerful spiritual power she originally possessed as a senior white magician, recovered from that fatal sword wound." Elinor said.