[On 1000 M.E, at 6:29 PM on a darkened evening. An elven mother was in a labor, trying to give birth in the capital city of Arania of the Elven Dominion. The father stays beside his wife throughout the whole ordeal. At 7:00 PM, an elven baby girl was born. Delighted and happy, both of them saw their child for the first time and held her close to their heart. But, something is off with her beautiful baby girl. Her skin is paler than most elves and her hair is platinumed white, very unnatural compared to other white-haired elves in the country. The baby girl tried to open her eyes to see her surroundings and both of them were delighted to be the first people that she will see. Beautiful crimson eyes, glowing in the dark, stared at her parents. Both of the parents were shocked as there were no elves in the whole history of the elven culture that has such eyes as their daughter. Despite the uncommon features of her daughter, her mother hugs her baby girl and happily cries as her husband hugs both of them.]

[Bells ring around the capital city of Arania, signaling the safe birth of the crown princess of the Arania bloodline.]

[The Elders from the Isles of Ancient Elves were at the capital, waiting to see the historic birth of the crown princess who came from one of the many branches of the royal family in the Elven Dominion. The father comes to greet the Elders to deliver the news of his daughter. The Elders quickly want to see his daughter and appraise her.]

"Elders, could we do this another time? My wife is resting right now and my daughter is sleeping beside her. Maybe tomorrow morning?"

"No. We will do this now. Bring us to your home instead. We have received an unusual omen from one of ours and we do not want to waste any time."

[Hesitant but still compliant with the order. The father brings the Elders to his home. The Elders are comprised of 5 female elves who have lived for more than 1000 years, even before the start of the Magic Era. They look very youthful but their demeanor is like an old person.]

"My love, I have brought the Elders here as they requested to see our daughter."

[Waking up from her sleep, the mother rubs her eyes as her child still sleeps beside her.]

"Ah, welcome to our house, forgive me for my appearance and lack of service to our guests."

[One of The Elders waves her hand to signal there's no need for such things and formality.]

"We are here to appraise your daughter because one of ours received an unusual omen several days beforehand. It is regarding your daughter."

[Both husband and wife look at each other and fear for their daughter. Then, one of the Elders walks to the baby and brought her up.]

"Appraise!"

[Thundering sounds and rain started to fall on the outside.]

"Her class is a sorceress."

[The Elders clamoring and nodding with each other]

"Her stats are unusually high. As if she has been in combat."

"..."

[As the appraising still continues, the baby opens her eyes and stares deeply into the Elder's eyes.]

"Oh, Goddess. What is this gift? I have never encountered this throughout my life. Gift of the Night: Vampirism. The gift is what changes her appearance, the red eyes and the color of her hair."

[The Elders clamoring becoming silent. Gift of the Night. Never heard of such a gift in their whole lives.]

"I can see it. Undeath... Blood magic... Demonic..."

[The appraiser's eyes tear up as it is getting harder to maintain her focus as she sees something abnormal and visions of war. It is getting hard for her to appraise and she gives up.]

"Our guess becomes true then. Your child is tainted with demonic magic. We had hoped this would not come to this but..."

[The parents of the child are silent. They noticed how different is their child and their worst fears have come true.]

"she is not fit to become the crown princess because of the demonic magic that has defiled her bloodline. We think it is the best choice to maintain the purity of the bloodline of royalty. I am sorry for both of you."

[Despite that, both of the parents smile.]

"There must be a reason why she was born with this gift. There must be a plan from the Goddess herself to give the Gift of the Night for our child."

[All of the five Elders smile, hearing the former commander's gratitude even though his child will not be the crown princess of the country.]

"I have never cared for the crown position for my baby girl. I will raise her up with love and care regardless. She will be stronger than her father and more beautiful than her mother."

"Of course, you do not care because you cast away your position to marry this former commander."

[One of the Elders retorts back to the mother with a jest.]

"Remember when she abandoned her castle and ran straight through to the battlefield without any proper preparation because of this man? A young commander of the army who catches the eyes of a feisty princess."

[The mother replied back with a chuckle]

"But this feisty princess becomes one of the great commanders in the Dominion. Even better than the man she falls in love too."

[Then her eyes turn to her husband.]

[All of them laugh as they are remembering the young mother's story. The young mother blushes and shyly covers her face, remembering her dark past of her even though she did become one of the commanders in the Dominion despite being the princess. The Elder hands her baby back to the mother's arms.]

"I only hope that she will not become a demon king in the future."

[The mother shakes her head and firmly looks at the Elders.]

"No, she will be the one who will bring peace to this world. I am certain of it."

"You never change. Princess."

"I am not a princess anymore. I am a mother to this child."

[The Elder exchanges look with themselves and their mind was put at ease with the determination of the mother who they know since birth.]

"What name are you bestowing on the child?"

[The parents look at each other and smile.]

"Annerose Arania."

"Arania, using the name of the late princess I see."

"Yes, my husband always wanted to name our child Arania and I have chosen Annerose for her."

[The mother caresses her child's cheek.]

"So, she will grow up as a leader, courageous and has the goddess's favor by her side always."

[The baby girl laughs as her mother's finger tickles her pale skin.]

...

..

.

"Mommy, mommy!"

[A pale elven girl running around the house, trying to find her mother.]

"I'm in the kitchen, Annerose."

[The little girl's head can be seen near the kitchen door, peeking at her mother. Then she slowly and silently walks toward her mother's behind.]

*Gyuuu*

"I smell something good"

[The girl hugs her mother from behind tightly. Her mother was surprised by the sudden hug. She did not even notice her child's movement.]

"Oh Annerose, you surprise me."

[The mother pats her child and she smiles brightly. Her mother's hand rubs her beautiful, long hair.]

"I am hungry and look, my teeth have come out! There are four weirdly looking teeth at these spots"

[Annerose points at her tiny fangs that yet still buried in her gums.]

"Oh, those are fangs. I have them too. Same as your father."

"But mommy, these are weirdly sharp. I got cut when I checked them."

"Cut!? Where? Are you bleeding?"

"No, the cut immediately healed. Look!"

[The girl shows her finger to her mother. No cuts and no scars. Her mother has a mixed feelings of wonder and worry yet she put up a smile on her face for her daughter even if the phenomenon surrounding her daughter is unnatural.]

"That must be your natural power."

"Can you do that mommy?"

"I can but I need to use my magic. I cannot naturally heal like that. The food is ready. Can you call your father, Annerose?"

"Yes, mommy!... Daddy! Mommy said to come and eat!"

...

[On the night of Annerose's 6th birthday, memories come into her dreams. Memories of war, where she was fighting against an army, a horde of different races. The races seem not from this world and even the surrounding is different than what she saw in her world. Frightened yet confident, she against all odds won in the memories. She tells her parents about her 'dreams' but they think that it must be her imagination as she frequently listens to their stories of when they fought in wars. But these memories feel familiar. And year by year, she gets a new one.]

(I already told mommy about these memories but she didn't believe me. On every birthday, I got a new memory and the old ones, it seems like I can view them whenever I want when I am sleeping. I can also view myself from another perspective. I looked very beautiful and tall despite I am just a young girl right now. Am I going to look like that in the future? The armors I was wearing are different than most of the designs in the real world. But something is amiss for me. The people I were fighting, they are talking to each other even and sometimes they are laughing, insulting each other like there is no weight in the fight.)

Deep in thought, I revisit every memory I have gotten. The skills and movement that I used... that *she* used...

I can see and feel that a different person is using my body. So many questions but so few answers. One thing I can gain from these memories is that it helps me in real life as well. My skills, magic and power are all improving as I revisit these memories. I also can finish the memories faster and even better than before.

(But what is the reason behind this? My skills are on par with mother and father when we are practicing.)

I didn't get my answer until I am at the age of 16. On the day of my birthday as well. An angelic figure came to my room to greet me.

"Hello Annerose" She already knows my name.

I close my door behind me and slowly walk toward her.

"Who are you? I assume that you are no danger since I sense no hostility from you."

She chuckles while covering her mouth. She then takes off her hood and greets me formally.

"My name is Eternity, an angel who oversees this world. It has been some time since you got your memories so I think it's time for us to get acquainted."

An angel? Here? In my room?

"Angel? Are you not the goddess? Like in the elven religion?"

"Ah, but I never said that I am a goddess. I have seen the elves worship me as the goddess but I am a mere guardian."

The angel smiles. Her face is so beautiful and the aura radiating from her could be seen as a goddess.

Her shining black hair with beautiful glowing blue eyes. She looks like a human with her features.

"About my memories, can you explain? Who is the person who looks similar to me in the memories?"

Eternity holds my hand and I am transported into one of my memory.

"That person is you."

"I thought so but I have never been in a situation like this. Are these my memories from my previous life?"

Eternity scratches her head as she is trying to think about an answer. Is the situation complicated to explain?

"Yes and no. You see. There is a man who wishes for his video game character in an MMORPG to come to real life as he thought that his character is the most powerful in the game."

(Video game? A game?)

"What do you mean by a video game and MMORPG?"

*Eternity starts to explain video games and MMORPG to Annerose*

[Annerose's face starts to change as the truth has been revealed to her. She is now facing an existential crisis about her existence in the world.]

"So... You mean... I am not a real living being? I am just a video game character created by a player which is him and..."

Eternity bewildered and trying to diffuse my existential thoughts.

"No! Nononono... You are real. I cannot just make a video game character comes to real life. Not fully at least. I am not a creator! My abilities can only go so far."

Eternity takes a deep breath and holds both my shoulders.

"Look, I ask for help from this man to save this world from the Devil and the demon lords."

She shows a memory of when she and the man met in her domain. A man with messy long black hair and dark bags under his eyes. A mess of a man who doesn't seem to care about his appearance but was chosen by her for his help.

"I gave him three wishes and he asked for his MMORPG character to come to life. B-but like I said, a half-truth? I think... His character does come to life. It's you!"

Eternity sighs deeply and muttered something.

"That boy..."

"What?" I asked her.

"Ah, nothing. So, back to the topic. Right... So... You are... You are a real elf born in this world but I have given you the gifts of this man's wishes as I have chosen you for the role."

Both of us look at the man in the memory shown by Eternity before she sent him to reincarnate in this world.

"All of your gifts and memories are from his game so you are the 'Nameless Heroine' from Divine Eternal Conflict." Saying the name makes Eternity blushes in awkwardness.

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"What the... What type of name is that?"

"I don't know. You have to ask him yourself."

I contemplate the truth given by her. The gift, the abilities and the memories...

I ask her one simple question.

"Why me?"

Eternity, standing in front of me, walks closer and holds my face with both her hands. Then she puts her forehead on mine.

"I have chosen you because I know you will do the right thing. Your fate deems so too. To help others and save the world from the ones who wish to do harm."

"So is it my fate to be given this gift? If I am fated to die in the end wielding this gift. Am I just going to accept death just because it is my fate?" I replied with an angry tone because it seems that I was given no choice and the angel just says that it is my fate. Can I not change my fate if this is the way the world works?

"Fate is like a flow of water in my eyes. Living beings can change their fate if they wish. I have chosen you because, through this intervention of the wish, I can avoid some of the most horrible things that may happen in the future because of the Devil and his demon lords."

Eternity's eyes look sad as she told me that she has seen what may happen in the future. She only wishes for the best to avoid the Devil and his demon lords.

Overwhelmed with emotions by Eternity's words. A role was chosen for me and she has full confidence that I will do the right thing. I just nodded my head.

"Thank you... Know that I am forever grateful." She then holds my hand one more time before she disappears away.

Appreciation from the goddess- no, the angel. That is something an elf would die for.

...

"The son of your cousin has been crowned as the crown prince."

[The father is speaking to his wife. His face is worried because of the breaking news but his wife puts her head on his shoulder, telling him not to worry.]

"I have my differences with my cousin but in the end, we all want the same thing. Peace."

"Yes but his arrogance and ego. He puts our people at risk. His son is the same as him. I don't have the confidence for-"

"Do not worry, we are still here, protecting the people even though I am not royalty anymore. Officially, I think? I don't even know what is my current status." The mother jokes about her status as royalty as she married her husband.

[The father drops his face and his words cannot come out of his throat.]

"I am sorry. It's my fault that you have to abandon your-"

"We already talked about this. I am happy where I am right now. Our daughter has become a beautiful young woman and I need to teach her after this. To prepare her for school, remember?."

"Oh yes, is she in her room?"

"Yes, still asleep." The mother chuckles happily.

[Inside her room, Annerose is accessing her memories as she trains by herself. She then woke up from her mother's call for training]

"I'm coming, Mom."

I put on my training outfit and look in the mirror to check on my appearance.

(I have gained so much experience throughout the memories thanks to that man. Eternity said his name was Hiiragi Shinichi. I have to say thanks to him when I meet him in the future. His way of dodging every movement and attacking really helps me. I do not know much about his story but from the memories that are not just 'war simulation'. He is quite fond of these breasts. Every time he takes a shower, his eyes are all over my body and his hand is on his own breasts checking himself out. Thinking about it again, does he like elves?)

I check myself out in front of my mirror. It seems that I have grown beautifully as I saw myself in my memories.

"Seems like Mr. Shinichi creates his avatar based on what he likes."

I see myself smiling in the mirror as I said that. I go outside to train with my mother in the garden area.

We train for 1 hour and take a break as it is near lunchtime. We have lunch in the garden with father joining in.

"You are becoming better and better despite how little training you did with me." Mother said as she hands me the packed lunch that she made beforehand.

"I am a genius after all," I said proudly and jokingly as I have been training in the simulation, in my mind.

We all laugh then a loud roaring and explosion can be heard near the gates of the capital.

Bell sounds of an emergency. An army of the Kingdom has attacked without any warning. It is happening outside the gate. Mother and father get up and start putting on their armor.

"How can they be in front of our capital gates without any warning? Is there no news of a sighting of the Kingdom's army in our borders?" Mother ask angrily as she finished putting her armor in a minute. She then grabs her spear and father's long sword from the armory.

"Our scouts have seen nothing from the past few days. This is a very dangerous situation as we are blind to any information at this current time."

My parents are preparing for battle. I also pick up a spear inside the armory to go with them.

"No Annerose. Just wait here." Mother said to me sternly. She is in her commander mode.

"But mother, I can-"

"I know but I felt more secure if you protect this house and yourself. Even though you are becoming better than me... But a real war experience is different."

Both of them have gone out and they started running with magic helping them to get there fast.

The kingdom and monsters attacked the capital, how can they go straight to the capital without alerting our defenses?

(Did they go over the mountain on the western side? The mountainous terrain has dragons and very dangerous monsters that even S rank adventurers have a time killing them.)

[Worriness befalls Annerose as she thinks that someone could have used the monsters from the mountainous terrain to attack the capital. Her parents are there and she is getting restless.]

I was kept in the house but...

(I have the experiences from that man and my skills are max out. If I do not)

I go to the armory and pick up a spear and a sword. Despite I have no armor and only wearing my training outfit, I do not have much time. But suddenly, Eternity shows up in front of my door.

"Are you here to prevent me from going out?"

Eternity shakes her head, "No, I'm here to help. You have a void storage which is shared with Shinichi. In it, there are full of costumes, armors and weapons."

I open up the void storage and there are a lot of armor sets, weapons and costumes. All of them are from the memories that I have experienced.

I look at Eternity again and she was gone.

"I don't have time, I will just pick these 'guns' as I know that there are very powerful."

"One of the armors which boosted my agility, let's use that and run straight to the gate."

Nearing the gate, some of the flying monsters were already inside the capital. I quickly shot them down and keep moving forward. I run as fast as I could while I shoot them down on my way to the gate. There are hundreds of monsters flying coming in as I keep shooting them down.

On the way, I saw the elven soldiers didn't have time to regroup and coordinate as they have not prepared for a surprise attack like this. Each one of the soldiers is getting killed while the monsters are already wreaking havoc in the city. The inner walls have not been breached so I could contain the monsters before they could reach into the inner city and do more damage. The soldiers are trying their best to kill the monsters as several commanders have arrived a few minutes late to regroup and coordinate the defense.

Thunderous lightning can be heard from my guns as I pull the trigger nonstop and reload the mags of these railguns. But the monsters did not stop as I feel like for every 100 monsters I killed, there are 100 more keep coming. I hope mother and father are okay as I keep mowing them down.

*click* "Huh? Empty?"

I reach out to get more mag but there are no more. Only a limited amount of ammunition for these guns. One of the flying monsters catches me with its claw and tries to bite me. I use the lightning from my hands and turn it into ashes.

"I have to maintain my magic pool and not use them for these mob monsters."

Another one comes to swoop me with fast acceleration.

"Oh no, you don't!" I pull out a greatsword from my void storage before it could interrupt me.

I stand my ground as the velocity of the monsters comes increasingly fast.

As the mouth of the monster opens, I sliced the monster in half with the greatsword.

"I think this greatsword has a feature. What is it?"

Trying to remember the greatsword's feature while cutting down the monsters that are coming at me.

The soldiers nearby are also trying hard to protect the people around and fighting them but they getting overwhelmed.

(Oh yeah, it has an Enmity feature where monsters will only focus on you.)

I turn on the feature and all of the monsters turn their face onto me.

"Hey, monsters! Come and get me!"

I run as fast as I could to get outside of the capital while all of the monsters are chasing me down.

I cut them down as I run and managing not to lose my focus as I learned from my memories.

"I hope your guys are still there! Mother... Father..."

...

All of the monsters chasing me are out of the capital now and I see my parents are at a standoff with two people. They are a few meters away so I need to kill these monsters before getting to them.

Seeing all of the remaining monsters are outside, I can now annihilate them without damaging the properties and accidentally killing someone.

"Chain Volt!" A simple lightning spell that Shinichi always uses to annihilate mob monsters as the spell can go through all of the monsters. But one spell is not enough as the horde is big.

"Chain Volt! Chain Volt! Chain Volt!" I keep spamming the spell as the amount of mana required is not that demanding.

After a few seconds, only ashes remain flying in the air.

Feeling proud, I felt like I have won but then I see my father on the ground while my mother is screaming. She backed off from her fight and hold him while pointing her spear at the two figures. Both of them wore a white outfits which I have never seen before. Their heads are coved by the hood of their outfits and I can see their faces. They are humans from the Kingdom.

Father is bleeding out and I scream out loud to attract their attention.

"NO! FATHER!!"

"Oh ho? Who is it?" One of them opens his mouth while another one goes inside a summoning circle nearby.

Mother sees me and she yells, "I tell you to stay inside! Why are you coming out here?"

"I can handle myself, mother. Can you heal father? I will distract them both so you guys get to safety."

"No Annerose, you-"

"Just go, mother. I can handle myself."

Mother nods and said, "Promise me that if you cannot fight, run to me."

"Yes, I promise."

Mother retreated behind the gate as she wanted to keep an eye on me while healing father.

"Oh, despite having us in front of you, you still have time to chat huh?"

"Knights from the Kingdom? An attack like this... Truly despicable..."

The two guys sneered and one of them loudly tell me, "As long as we win, no matter despicable or cowardly tactics. Ambush, sneak attack or full frontal war. We will use anything as long as we achieve our goals."

The guy in the summoning circle opens his mouth as he pauses his summoning, "And we not just knights. We are the high knights of the Kingdom, the Tamer-Summoner duo!"

Pausing his summoning. Talking as if they are sure of their win. These guys are way over their heads. Why mother and father are having a hard time with these idiots?

(Tamer? Summoner?)

I look around the field, a bunch of bones and monster parts but no casualties.

(They overwhelm my parents with the number of monsters based on these parts. They focus on saving the people on the outside.)

"So I guess you in the magic summoning circle is the summoner?"

Clapping while still not continuing his summoning, he belittles me by saying, "Great thinking little elf!"

Both of them laugh. Then the tamer suggests something to his partner.

"Hey, this elf may fetch a high price. Let's say we make her a slave and-"

The tamer turns his head to his partner and he screams as he falls to the ground.

Only his legs remained as I unleashed my chantless magic, Great Volt.

"You guys talk too much you know. This is a battlefield, a war. Not a game."

I walk slowly to the tamer who is in shock and peed himself.

"Wait! WAIT! WAIT! PLEASE WAIT!"

I point my hand and the lightning surrounding my hand is ready to discharge.

"My parents are kind-hearted so they focus on getting the people away from harm's way."

I sliced his right hand off with my lightning, revealing a hidden crossbow under his arm which he shot my father.

He screams in excruciating pain.

(Father's attention might be on me when I ran outside the gate. He must have seen me killing the monsters that's why he got shot. They must be tired from killing all the monsters outside while saving the people.)

"Please wai-"

I turn him into ash as I released a bolt of red lightning onto him without hearing a single word that comes out of his mouth.

"Good riddance."

I go back to my mother who waits near the gate.

"Annerose! Are you okay? I heard lightning and..."

"They are dead."

"Oh..." Mother is now worried about me.

"Are you okay? I know that the first time taking a life might be difficult."

'I'm okay. Never felt better."

Mother sigh a relief as she heard me doing okay.

"How is father? Is he going to be okay?"

"Yes, he's going to be okay. The arrow didn't hit any artery but only his stomach. It's not that deep too but the blood spewing out of his guts worries me at first. We could have defeated them but the monsters are-"

I hug both of them and whispered to mother silently.

"I know, I saw the dead monsters around. You tried to save the people on the outside. But some of the monsters already fled into the city and there are some casualties."

"Oh no..." Mother hoped that she can avoid any casualties. She had ordered the soldiers to protect the people inside of the capital while she and father tried to defeat those two who are now ashes.

"No, it's not our fault. We tried our best. Even the soldiers inside the capital tried their best but of course, there are still casualties. Other commanders arrived to help as I shoot all of the down while I am on my way out."

Despite she being a commander of the Elven army and war veteran, her kindness never fades.

"That is great..." Mother's eyes keep closing as her near-empty mana pool makes her consciousness fade.

I put mother's head on my shoulder as I sit beside her. Father is now sleeping on her lap.

"Just take a nap mother, I am here."

"Errmmm hermm okay..." Mother falls asleep as she heard me.

As the sun sets, I put my back against the wall while holding her head on my shoulder. Waiting for people to come.