Invaders Chapter 36 Eliza

Chapter 36: Eliza

My name is Eliza.

I live in a world called Faraday, within the Kingdom of Volta.

And I live just outside of the village called Watt

I had two loving doting parents, and a little sister named Delilah. She always followed me anywhere I went. Annoyed me much but she still my cute little sister whom I cherish a lot. Trust me when I say, if anyone dares to touch a single hair on her body I will pierce you bottom-up and feed you to the snakes then burn you alive.

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We weren't rich but were still independent. My family runs a small business in town. We sold potions and make the cure for a variety of diseases.

Mama made them. Since we live in the forest just outside the village, it was easy to find resources. Mother is a mana user who can enhance the effectiveness of a herb to make potent potions.

Papa, however, is just an ordinary guy. But he is wise and intelligent. He knows his way around town and gets money from who knows where it comes from.

One day, I saw papa whispered to a guy and he just gave a sum of money to papa then left without a word. Papa gave me a tam tam and ask me to keep quiet about. But doesn't know that my favourite snack is bika, so mama ends up knowing anyway.

Papa would look at me with a sad face and sleep on the couch that day.

Enough with parents. Let's talk about Delilah, my annoying cute little sister. She's a bit special. Delilah can wield mana since she was a baby. I remember the day when she was born. Apart from her loud cry, we could hear screaming coming out from nowhere. While mama and papa were shocked I can't help but hold my little sister tiny hand who was still a baby. She was looking at me and it feels like she was looking inside my soul.

But I wasn't scared. Delilah was still my cute little sister. It's the same for papa and mama too...

Simply saying, we are just one happy family living a normal life. At least that what I always thought.

It wasn't the same case for others thought.

Before, we lived together with the villagers and papa doesn't have to do any shady business while selling mama's potions. People would knock our door in the middle of the night sometimes to ask for help.

While papa and mama were doing their work, I would go out to play with my friends.

Until... Delilah was born

It wasn't just us who heard the screaming. The whole village was alarmed with the whole situation. Everyone thought it would end in hours, but somehow from hours to days, and finally a week has passed since the screaming. People becoming anxious as they couldn't sleep at night. Sometimes, the screaming would sound like a person getting tortured.

It affected the whole village social system and made them unable to function properly as the screaming continues day in and day out. Children especially were having nightmares almost every single night. Even farms and livestock withered and dying. Everyone had to stop working and find the source as more people getting weak including guards. It's a relief that monsters also stopped attacking.

Papa and mama stayed home because Delilah keeps crying since she was born. I could feel something emanating out from her, but she's still my cute little sister so I stayed by her side.

The guild also sends mana users to work out on solving the whole situations but it backfired as some who get closer to the source of the screaming become crazy and start to attack the villagers. Eventually, many mana users left the village.

In the end, the villagers thought it was cursed so they seek help from the capital of Volta which they responded by sending a group of priests who are skilled at handling cursed created by mana.

The arrival of the priests was a blessing for the villagers... but for us, my family, for me...

was the beginning of a nightmare

They detected that the source of those screaming was due to my little sister high aptitude to necromancy and those were the voices of the dead. They say, Delilah already reach stage two of necromancy the power to interact with souls even though she's still a baby.

This mean, when she was born she could see wandering souls of the dead scattering around. Her necromancy also almost reach the peak of stage two that she could affect the souls around with her mana. Since she was born with huge mana capacity, the inability to manipulate those manas as a baby has made them spread around making the voice of the dead could be heard by villagers, haunted them to their sleep.

Luckily, the priest has a way to seal my little sister mana by blocking her mana from flowing out. The priests perform the sealing which stopped the screaming. They advised my parents from not letting my little sister getting close to learning necromancy. She could learn how to wield mana, but learning necromancy is a taboo. If somehow she reached stage three of manipulating the deads then she must be banned from taking a single step within the kingdom border.

The priests left after a feast held by the villagers.

From that day, we were asked to stay away from the village. We could still go in and out, but Delilah was banned from entering for eternity.

At first, everything was normal. As days went on, people start to act weird. Everyone would stare at us when I walk around with mama to buy groceries. They would whisper something behind our back.

People stop knocking our door for potions. Even my friends stop talking to me as well.

I wanted to play with them, but they always looked like they want to say something but keep quiet to themselves and just left without a word.

One day when I went to school, I sit at my desk as usual. But something was off... instead of the empty glares they were giggling. That's when I suddenly smelled something. Someone put faeces on my chair.