Chapter 130: The Silent Death
"I saw a new prophecy."
Upon hearing this, Thandria’s angry expression immediately turned serious, and she looked at Elena with concern.
"A prophecy! This is your second prophecy this year. What did you see?" Thandria asked in a worried voice.
Elena had never seen a prophecy before that did not come true. Thandria could do nothing but pray that what Elena had seen would be something good, or that the consequences would be mild!
"I saw a black coffin, with the face of a blind demon carved onto its lid, two long, sharp red horns protruding from its eye sockets, and beneath it was a gigantic lake of blood, with millions of corpses floating upon it." Elena then paused for a moment, and her body trembled. "Those corpses belonged to all the races of the continent except the Phoenix Race!"
Thandria’s eyes widened upon hearing this. "Were the Elves among them too?!"
"Yes!" Elena answered firmly.
"Were there any people you knew among them?" Thandria asked suspiciously, and her body trembled involuntarily.
Elena looked at Thandria for some time. If Thandria had focused carefully on Elena’s eyes, she would have seen mountains of sorrow within them at this moment.
But Elena eventually shook her head and said, "No."
Hooof!
"That’s reassuring." Thandria sighed in relief, then looked at Elena again. "Then did you see anything else?"
"Yes." Elena nodded firmly. "I saw an angry soul emerge from that coffin and shatter the demon’s face on its lid, and then the dream ended!"
Thandria narrowed her eyes in confusion at this strange prophecy, then asked again, "Did you tell Rios anything?"
"No, I only saw it a few hours ago, even before Rios came back from outside." Elena shook her head, then said sarcastically, "And it seems someone took advantage of my absence to take her chance!"
Tsk!
"Don’t remind me." Thandria waved her hands, then prepared to leave and waved again. "Alright then, it seems we won’t be enjoying this night as we planned." She then looked at Elena and bid her farewell with a smile. "Don’t exhaust yourself too much thinking about it. In the morning, we’ll begin reclaiming our homeland!"
Mhm!
Elena nodded at her with a smile, and the moment Thandria left, two new trails of tears began running down Elena’s cheeks as she looked toward the door Thandria had closed!
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Early in the morning, Rios sat on the throne, resting his cheek against his fist while listening to the assistant, Jasmine, read the army reports before their departure.
"There are ten thousand Level Two soldiers ready for battle, my lord. There are also three hundred Level Three warriors who will accompany you on this campaign, while another three hundred Level Three warriors will remain in this city to protect it during your absence." Assistant Jasmine read the reports in a nervous voice, her face red from embarrassment!
Rios listened to her attentively while supporting his face with one hand, while his other hand was busy exploring the valleys and rugged terrain of Jasmine’s rear!
"Godfather, Godfather, what do you think of my armor now?" Little Imris ran at an incredible speed from the gate to the throne in just a few moments, and stood directly before Rios with bright and excited eyes.
Before Imris could reach them, Jasmine immediately stepped back in alarm, while Rios quickly withdrew his hands from where they had been. smiled, and patted Imris on the head, praising him enthusiastically without holding back on his compliments. "Good job, boy. Great work. You look just like a real hero now."
Rios’s eyes lit up as he examined Imris, and his smile grew wider on its own.
Not only was he quick to understand, but behind those innocent eyes, this little child was hiding a monster that no one had expected him to possess!
Throughout the past two weeks of training, Imris’s rate of development in combat had been terrifyingly exaggerated!
In his free time, you would find him lively and innocent, but when the time for battle came, his temperament transformed into a deadly killing machine that a ten-year-old child should never have possessed!
A few days ago, Rios captured five Level Three monsters from the nearby forests and forced Imris to fight them.
The boy did not become frightened or retreat. No signs of the anxiety that should have appeared on the face of a ten-year-old child could be seen on his features.
Instead, he descended into the testing arena with complete calmness, and the moment he entered, the monsters could no longer even see a trace of him!
Several minutes later, Imris had finished off all five monsters.
And during his days of training, he had earned a title among the training grounds, and that title was...
The Silent Death!
When Rios asked him about the terrifying calmness he displayed during battle, he answered...
"I always wished to become a Light Elf and be a brave knight like my father, but fate destined me to become a Dark Elf... My father always told me that no matter what kind of Elf I became, if I wanted to become as strong as him and protect the Elves, I had to take on the nature of the law I awakened, and I awakened the Dark Elf Bloodline.
And darkness makes no sound or whisper, and you can see nothing from it except tranquility and silence."
Rios was shocked by the ten-year-old’s logic at the time, and even more shocked by the extent of his dedication to carrying out his father’s final words... A command that most adults could not carry out with such dedication and precision.
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At present.
"Tell me, what percentage have you reached in your understanding of the cosmic Formation Law now?" Rios asked with genuine curiosity. Two weeks ago, he had given them the first degree of the cosmic Formation Law, and when Rios checked on him a few days ago, he found that his understanding had reached thirty percent!
In response to Rios’s question, Imris happily smiled and immediately began activating his power.
The darkness in the throne room began moving toward Imris, wrapping around his white armor and shining short sword, completely covering them!
In an instant, Imris transformed from the appearance of a noble knight wearing shining white armor into the appearance of a Death Knight clad in dark black armor, which revealed nothing of his body except his eyes.
"I have understood fifty percent of the cosmic Formation Law so far, and I think that within three weeks, I will have completely understood it, one hundred percent!"