( Princess POV )
It's been more than 2 years since my father the king sent me on a quest to get some very rear ingredients that the royal mage will use to create a cure for my stepmothers illness. Through this years I have been to many places around the continent, And even other continents.
I have also visited many other kingdoms, both those that are in friendly relations with my kingdom. And those that are not on friendly terms with use. Through my entire journey. I have leaned very much from many people that I have meet on the way. Both good knowledge and bad knowledge.
I have also lost some of the people I stated this journey with. Three members of my most trusted unit died, one of them died by sacrificing herself so we could get out safe from a very high level dungeon, it was one of the most saddest moment in our journey. I considered abandoning the quest. Because if you look at it from my perspective, protecting the ones I love is more impotent than trying to save someone who is constantly trying to kill me.
But through the words of encouragement from one of my trusted gauds we continued the quest with a happy hart praying that the one who sacrificed herself for use is in a far more better place. But our happiness did not last for long. During one of our raids on a bandit hideout deep in the mountains one of my gauds was poisoned by the bandit leader with a devil poison.
This kind of poison can only be made from the devil plants found deep inside the demon continent with no known cure for it. I had to watch as she melted down and died right in front of me. It use one of the most terrifying moment of my life.
That day I came to realize two things. One, no matter how strong you are, no power is strong enough to save every one you value. Two, never hesitate to kill a evil person, or you will regret it later on.
But this was nothing compared to the fact that just 6 months after the death of my comrade by that dreadful poison, one of my most trusted gauds betrayed us. And almost killed me in my sleep. I had to use my own hands to take her life.
I almost went crazy, I killed one of the people I have absolute trust in, that I love even more than my own family. I was completely broken. I could not move, eat or even take care of myself. At the end my last two gauds left me in a small wooden house in the forest, And went away. One of them being my right hand gaud.
It was really not a surprised. Because i would have lost my mind all those years staying in the royal castle when I was little. If it was not for the presence on my five personal gauds. So after I got into this state of mind, were I am on the verge of losing my mind, it was not a surprise that they would leave me and find a better life for themselves .