As Kessia was sitting in the room, she could not help her anxiety. She was about to meet her mother for the first time after finding out that she had betrayed her and even hired an assassin to kill her. Such a thing was unforgivable, let alone from her own mother.
More than anything, she was afraid. Afraid that someone else would betray her. Afraid that she would never be safe again.
In the corners of the room were multiple people who had all reached near the peak or at the peak of the spirit realm, the same as the king. After all, no matter how strong Will was, he could only stop her alone, and maybe kill her. They were here to guarantee that they would succeed.
They had obviously told that Kessia was still alive, but they were the most trusted people in the kingdom and Old Man Dai had specifically selected them for their loyalty. There were a total of four of them.
Everyone in the room was currently concealing their aura so as to not alert the queen of their presence.
Suddenly, they heard footsteps outside of the room. All of them took a deep breath.
*CREAK* the door slowly opened. Behind it, Old Man Dai stood with a solemn look on his face. Beside him stood Xenia and beside her stood Will, with his cloak already being silently taken off.
At this moment, Kessia managed to summon all her courage and say the words which they had agreed on. However, she could not hide the slight tremble of fear in her voice when she spoke. However, despite the trembling and her fear, she spoke in a cold voice full of hatred.
"Hello mother," these two words displayed her deep hatred that she harbored towards her along with the deep betrayal that she felt from her.
In a moment of shock, Xenia momentarily lost focus and let down her guard. However short this moment was, it was the perfect oppertunity that Will was looking for. With a slash seemingly quicker than lightning, his wing slashed out towards her full force and without restraint.
Xenia was still momentarily frozen in shock seeing her daughter's cold face, but she quickly recovered when she felt a sense of crisis even greater than the time when she faced the king. There was a sense of primal fear that she felt which seemed to come from the bottom of her soul. Even facing such danger before and even greater danger even, she had never felt such a fear that was so deeply rooted in her.
She just managed to get out of the way quick enough to not get killed by the slash, but she still got a cut on her neck going down to her chest and across her belly. This cut did not bleed but instead started crystallizing. Although it did not cause her any pain or limit her movement in the slightest as she thought it would, that cut seemed to root that same fear which she felt down into her soul and into her very being.
With every ounce of her being, she used all the inner breath that was in her body to merely move herself away from the blind boy which she had underestimated deeply. It was at this moment that she finally noticed the crystal wings growing out of his back. It was these wings which had created the giant gash going down her neck and belly.
Without hesitation, she turned around to flee, but that was when she saw that there were four people at the peak of the spirit realm coming at her from the corners of the room where they had been hidden. Every one of these people instantly unleashed an attack towards her, each of them being an onslaught of flames.
It seemed as if an entire sea of flames was approaching her at this moment. However, none of these attacks could compare to her own, of course. After all, she was the queen of the kingdom and the second strongest in the kingdom.
Shifting the inner breath in her body, she quickly formed her own flames to fend off the others. These flames quickly turned a ghastly black. It seemed as if the flames themselves were made of ghosts. As these ghostly flames came in contact with the normal flames produced by the others, those flames were simply annihilated. She had mastered this technique on her way back to the kingdom. It was the reward of killing the king, and it was meant to help her achieve her goal and reap the rewards which she so desperately sought.
Not even waiting to see the result of her attack, she shifted around the people at the peak of the spirit realm and tried to flee towards the window. She used the black flames and created a ghastly explosion of flames which flung her towards the window.
However, it was at this moment that Will moved. He flapped his wings harder than he ever had before and flung himself towards her at a speed which was at least twice as fast as hers.
He caught up to her in an instant, once again swinging his wings towards her.
Seeing these slashes from her wings, Xenia once again felt the fear which had already buried itself deep in her heart, like an anchor in the ocean, immovable and solid.
Knowing that she could not escape, she only had one choice, which was to put into play her hidden cards. Reaching into her pocket in a split second, before Will's wings hit her, she pulled out a small bell. This was her second and now only life-saving measure that she had. She had chanced upon it years ago on a journey outside the kingdom.
After taking out the bell, she quickly put her inner breath into it, after which it expanded and blocked Will's attack without flinching. It quickly covered her and turned transparent.
"You forced me to do this!! Be prepared for the consequences of pushing me too far!!!" She yelled with an insane look in her eyes.
Will could feel her unprecedented craziness at this moment and that she was very dangerous. Without hesitation, he quickly slashed with his wings again while starting to summon his dangerous red qi.
At the same time, all four of the peak spirit realms in the room also launched their strongest attacks towards her. However, no matter how strong the attacks were or how many there were, they did absolutely nothing to the transparent bell. Seeing this, all of the people in the room could not help but get an eerie feeling.
Without hesitation, all of them continued to release their strongest attacks, but it was all in vain.
Suddenly, everyone felt a burning sensation rising, only to see the air start to turn red. As this happened, Old Man Dai could not help but cheer in his heart because he knew very clearly how strong this qi was, and he was sure that it would be able to break through the bell very quickly. At this moment, instead of running, Xenia dashed into the group and past them, instead heading towards Kessia, who was currently scared out of her mind.
She could only see craziness and greed in her mother's eyes at this time, none of the love that she used to have for her in the past. This scared her more than anything at all, just how much her mother had changed in a matter of seconds after getting a single opportunity.
At this moment, Xenia was charging at her faster than ever before and was too quick for even Will to catch her. He could only hope that his qi could stop her in time.
At this moment, the qi had already formed into a torrent of blood, which was gushing towards Xenia faster than a speeding bullet. With it was the feeling of hope which was so intense that it could destroy someone's mind.
Suddenly, the torrent of qi slammed heavily into the transparent bell. Inside the bell, Xenia had no clue what was happening, but when she saw the bell dim, she could tell that it would be quickly broken within a matter of moments and knew that she had to act quickly if she ever wanted to achieve her goal and receive the opportunity offered to her.
With one last burst of speed, Xenia finally reached Kessia, who was currently running in terror. However, being only at the peak of the foundational realm, she could not run away fast enough. Suddenly, there was a burst of ghastly and ghostly flames, which seemed to come straight from hell.
The next moment, there was a bloodcurdling scream.
All fell silent...
Author's note: I am now starting to rewrite the first chapters and the first chapter is officially rewritten!!!! Don't worry, I won't change any of the story. I am just going to improve the writing now that I have more experience writing and can make it a higher quality to get more views!!!!!! I would really appreciate if you would reread the first chapter and give me your opinions on it!!!!
Second author's note: there is a new updated cover but it will be changed in the future. I just read somewhere that if I update the cover, I'll get more views in the novel because the algorithm will show it to others or something. I'm a 3D modeler and am working on something better than that by several times