Twilight of Shepherd and Calamity

Ch28.5 Side story2-(Un)accomplishment

Eleanor POV

As a dry wind blow gently, dry withered leaf lightly fluttered down, landed on my palm. Being colored with crimson leaves fallen, the lifeless tranquil place is ignited with energy. The crimson land stays its color as its time when it was the transient place the forbidden heroes called home, the place once the birthplace of the first Lord of Calamity, the place obliterated in the mighty torrent of time.

Everlasting Autumn view, I was here before I noticed and there is only one place I knew like this.

Wondering the day we meet again, I counted time and walked over the hill. On the top, a shrine is there, appeared like an endless hole, connecting to the core of the earth, sealed off the untold history in the tranquility.

Things all happened in sudden, time passed fast as if it was yesterday you wiped out everything like a storm and then disappeared like breeze.

You and me, similar but opposite, near but far, fleeting but eternal.

You are here, sleeping peacefully.

As told by Laphicet, my friend is dreaming sweet dreams now, traveling with her brother happily. I am here to ensure that she would not be wakened by the external malevolence, which is the only thing I could do. Time is rich but not a single moment allows me to be in the anxiety of the unseen future. He told me to believe in hope, so do I, we both believe that one day we will get the chance or reunion.

Her request still stays in my mind.

There are numerous of promises I made, but none of them are accomplished. Still, I keep trying to keep my promises, and that is the last thing I can do for my friend.

"I am sorry, Velvet. I can't keep my vow to you this time."

Though I doubt if she could ever hear me, I will still talk like I am talking with a friend.

"The world is gradually filled with malevolence again. Maotelus.......Laphicet was on the edge of tainted and I can barely do a thing this time, but at least we managed to defeat the Lord of Calamity." I described the situation I know, once again the world is on the edge of doom.

"However the malevolence isn't going to disappear without purification, like back in your time, the Lord of Calamity was not responsible for all the malevolence...........He was just another victim. Defeating him is not going to solve things." To the cruel fact, I felt powerless to change that there is always victim rise. The speed of the growth of malevolence was too fast that our purifying speed was not enough to cover, the worst case is that Maotelus may be tainted. We need a Shepherd to burden the hope of many people.

"I tried to offer myself to protect Laphicet from malevolence, but he refused. He believed that there will be someone to sure him if that really happened and he wants me to keep you safe.............as stubborn as you........." But I guess Laphicet was right, I can't do much when I am a seraph now, I may soon be tainted and turned into a dragon at any rate even if I try to protect him from the malevolence.

"I guess we have plenty of time to pass....Let me tell the long version of the story instead." It is the long version that there are more things I felt sorry about.

A red leaf falling down onto the bottomless pit when I start telling the tale.

It is a tale as old as time, to say the least, an untold legend in an Age without Shepherd.

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When I decided to travel with Lailah, I didn't know that another parting would happen that fast.