The Abandoned Princess: Promises Arc

Chapter 87

𝕾𝖔𝖓𝖌 𝖙𝖔 𝖑𝖎𝖘𝖙𝖊𝖓 𝖙𝖔: 𝕴 𝕶𝖓𝖔𝖜 𝕻𝖑𝖆𝖈𝖊𝖘 𝖇𝖞 𝕿𝖆𝖞𝖑𝖔𝖗 𝕾𝖜𝖎𝖋𝖙

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My mouth felt like a deserted land, with the only ashes from the sands coming out, and when the cold breeze touched my skin, all my hairs rose, until the vision of the symbol from what Jer had been talking about appeared.

In the middle of the center of the forest, where we battled hundreds of beast monsters within, a greenish glow with the symbol of an ancient carving appeared.

Right at that moment, my gaze couldn't look anywhere, as if I was being drawn by the seal, I didn't even realize, that my hands and feet were trying to reach the place until I felt this burning sensation from my shoulders and the moment I blinked, I felt as if the wind pushed me away to a mighty wall.

"Careful, Lady Vestia, we may never know what's in store for us in there," Jer's warm breath felt like a fire through my ears as if the moment I dig in deeper to the seal, the more flames I will come in contact with.

Some say that hell might be a place to burn the soul, but what if it was a place to freeze the souls?

Shaking my head, and exuding this breath that had been caused by both the chilly breezes and Jer's warm hands, I looked at the young man's soul only to find my mirror in it.

"Lady Vestia, do you even remember the papers that Key gave you?" Jer asked and right now, in a snap of his fingers, we were already far away from the seal, or the light glow that appeared in the middle of the forest.

"Yes, why?" I asked

I heard him sigh and shake his head but his hands made their way to both of my shoulders.

"I think it involves the seal that we just saw"

"That's what I'm talking about earlier, I think I remember something but it——"

"Yes, Lady Vestia, the seal we just saw might be the seal that we can conclude about"

"Is that—"

"If you're thinking what I'm thinking then I guess it's yes..."

"Then how do we even acquire it when it was... no way, did you just..." As I was about to ask Jer about the current movement, the corners of his mouth formed into a wider grin that made my eyes widen so that I couldn't even blink.

"Yes, I did, that's why I made us be in this far away place, because the moment that I snapped my fingers, the pacifier was already accumulating the seal and turning it into a wooden seal"

"But then, how do we even—"

"Is that a thing that a Secron would ask?" Then I began to narrow my gazes, the hands I was tightly holding on his clothes loosened their way and now, I was already clenching them hard with gritted teeth.

"You know that killing a hundred monsters would result in their seals accumulating and making us pass through the Belfore East's experimentation area..."

"I've read that on Key's papers, but that conclusion is already decades ago, maybe perhaps, everything changed and —"

"If Master Lexus would be here, he would have known immediately that we could use——"

"So you're saying that I am not as near as a Secron in your eyes?"

I heard him sigh but then put his hands over his face and when they landed on mine, I could see them narrow. But then shaking his head was another result of that kind of action.