'After my vision darkened, all the other senses followed suit. I couldn't see anything because there was nothing but pitch black and black and black. I couldn't hear any sound, everything was just pinned drop silence, and it was deafening. The same goes for taste and hearing, the air-I don't even know if there's air, but I still tried to put my tongue-what tongue I didn't know I could do that.'
'Who am I? What am I doing here?' She asked in agitation, but no words came out of her mouth. Only his brain remained to function.
After she thought that nothing would happen to her frantic questioning, her head suddenly throbbed, and she felt that she was experiencing severe vertigo due to the discomfort she was feeling.
A flood of memories rushed into her mind like a ferocious beast ready to devour its prey after playing for a long time. The memories of her past life where her father and brother assassinated her to take her company which she worked hard for, She remembers everything and not a single bit of information left hidden, but strange enough, the regret she had after she died is now completely replaced by contentment and fulfillment she felt nothing other than those emotions. She wasn't and isn't angry towards her father, who steals everything from her, one way or another, it's still the same, they're still the only people who could receive benefits from the work she made over the years, simply because they're her family and that company became a medium to let her free to such family that made her feared by others and out of the shackles of familial ties.
"Love is to give, and to give, is to love," she mumbled in her mind.
Calypso thought that she was finally out of burden and could take a rest, but she wasn't given a second even for rest when she once again wailed in pain. This time, it was much more physically painful. A foreign yet familiar memory and sensation play in her mind in a fast-forward version.
Calypso caught every little information, even the emotions of the owner of the memories she was watching. She saw it all and how those emotions play.
Calypso is not a snake person nor a hypocrite, on the contrary, those are the kinds of people that disgust her the most. Trickster and Scheeming may she be, her schemes is always below her familial love.
She felt disgusted and fed up when she finished the memories in her head. She felt sad about the owner of the memories and how tragic her ending was.
The memories that entered Calypso's mind were deeply immersive to the point that she felt that she was the one who she was watching and experiencing the tragic ending personally.
The content of the memories was about a girl name Calypso Allaire, she was a bright and cheerful child that found happiness in every little thing she saw. She's also a lovable child that is loved by everyone in her surroundings except for one person, and that person is her father, and also the one that cause her demise. As she was growing up, she noticed that her father was a strict person, so she did everything to the best of her abilities to make him proud, she learned all the manners a noblewoman should have, she learned dancing and singing to entertain the guest, and also ace her score in the academy, but at last her father, Duke Jax Allaire was indifferent by all of it.
Until one day, her father brought a woman home, and that woman became a duchess, and that duchess is the one that made her life more miserable. She asked her father all of her what's and whys and her father just dismissed her as a stranger.
The new duchess also has a child, which was also the reason why she became a duchess, a child out of wedlock with the duke.
At the age of 16, the once loveable and jolly child became a rotten woman who schemes and attacks people she wants, using her power in the wrong way, and that gains her nothing but hatred and loath from the people that once watched her with a smile plastered on their face.
At the birthday banquet she organized, she invited many nobles, and one of those was King Nicholas Hale. A man who became a King at the age of 19, and achieved the rank of Archmage , a prodigy that appeared once in a lifetime.
Archmage is only below the Emperor, A high Archmage. Calypso saw it as a chance to scheme against that king who happened to attend her banquet. She drugged him, and then boom, she got pregnant.
She was delighted at that time because she thought that her father would be happy about the news, but at last, when she was about to inform her father, a shocking news that made a huge disturbance came in the whole empire.
The man she was planning to use to make her father happy turned out to be a cursed child, his power regressed, and his reputation fell rock bottom, and Calypso despaired at that time, she planned to abort the child, but her deeply hidden conscience stopped her.
She continued her pregnancy, and when she gave birth to the child, a complication arose. She experienced a mana deficiency due to being unnurtured during the pregnancy stage, and the child she was giving birth to was abnormally sipping all the mana in her body, which led her to become comatose, after 5 years she died.
The memories she watched end at the part where Calypso B closed her eyes and became a comma.
'It seems were similar, if Im not me I would think that this body and yours were occupied by the same soul. What A tragic ending for someone who barely lived, and sees the world, but something is bugging me. Based on the knowledge I watched, it is indicated in the book that drugs such as stimulating one couldn't affect a mage more so an Archmage, did Calypso B think about this loophole?'
'The man doesn't look good at that time, aside from his suppressed anger during that time, there's more to his expression, like something he was suppressing, and he was pouring all his strength to suppress it.'
'huh? I feel something wet around my hand. Did I finally regain my senses?'
sobs!
sobs!
'OH! I can hear something! child, a child is crying!' she excitedly thought inwardly.
She opened her eye, or at least she tried to, but her eyelid felt heavy, it took her a whole one minute to open her eyes, and there she saw an incredible thing that she never would've thought would happen.
She already had a hunch, but she still didn't think about it further because of her absurd idea and the abysmal chance for it to happen, lest she might feel disappointed.
'I didn't think such impossible things would happen to me, but I can't lie to myself, everything is true, my senses are back albeit not like in the past, still, feeling something is already good, I smell a parch of wood, and it's so strong making me feel like to sneeze'
But before she could finish her marvel, another thing came into her view, a transparent screen hovering in front of her and showing a particular message she barely understood.
"Congratulation host for successful transmigration. You received: a welcoming gifts pack"
"x1 Activation of System (Random)
x10 Revitalizing Potion
x1 Rank up token
x1 Aeron Geography
x1000 GCoins"
'What are these?' she confusedly asked, but the message on the screen only change.
"Roll.....
Roll....
Congratulation! you received: Business System, A system that will assist you in your lifetime to get rich, become crazy rich Aunt, become a money tree, and sugar mommy"
"Business System Activating"
"Ding! System Activated"
"Mission: Find a location to build a business
Reward: x1 Random Auto Manufacturing Machine
1 Month free material charges
Time Limit: 1 Week
Penalty: your soul will be vanquished
Calypso chooses to ignore the message in front of her for a while after figuring out that the screen will vanish if you swipe it out.
Sobs!
"Mom, they said that you are dying, are you really leaving me? mom, please don't leave m-me promise I won't be naughty, and I will be very strong and protect you, and we will leave here" The kid's voice pulled Calypso out of her amazement
"Mom! I don't know if you are really my mom, but I feel it. If you l-leave me, you will regret not having a chance to take care of such a prodigy like me. I'm also handsome and will make money for us when I get old!" He blatantly said while his face buried in his mother's arm without realizing Calypso was already wide awake and smiling ear to ear.
Sobs!
Sobs!
'I don't know what this whole event implies or where it will lead me, but no woman could resist such an adorable child like this, I will take care of your cute son, Calypso B don't be thankful and forgiving because I will be taking your body and child starting today.'
"fufufu, do you know that a man's word is his honor?" Calypso weakly teased her newfound son.
'System, is this some kind of freebies? cause it's damn worth it' she thought inwardly
The boy's sobbing stopped when he heard a weak feminine voice, she slowly got up from his current location and look at the woman wide-eyed, while his mouth turned O.
Seeing his surprised expression, she felt nervous and excited, but she also thought about her malnourish body that couldn't support her to do easy functions.
"Hey kid, what's your name?" She asked her newfound son. She didn't figure out the kid was her son by motherly instinct cause in the first place, she don't have those yet, but to the child's face. He is almost the replica of his father, and it's his silver-white hair that makes him stand out.
"Mo-Mom, are you my mo-mom? can you be my m-mom?" She asked.
"hmmm.. you just look like your dad, wearing a facial expression of suppressing emotion, cutie." She said with a slight smirk on her lips.
Hearing her words, he excitedly jumped at her and hugged her softly to avoid hurting his mother's body "are you really my mom?" he asked.
"It seems you don't want to. You can go now and find yourself a new mom." she teased, which made the boy feel fearful, and that caused him to tightly grip his mother's almost torn off clothes.
"No way! make sure not to take back your word, I'm your son now, and you can't sleep that long again," he said
"Why? If I want to sleep, I will sleep."
"That's a thing for a single woman, but now you have a son, you must take care of me." he naughtily said, but Calypso's gaze turned cold when she saw something very distasteful.
The boy's body is full of bruises, and he is very skinny, which is a sign that he is receiving ill-treatment here.
"Right, I must take care of you. What is the cause of those bruises? NO LYING." she asked.
The boy was suddenly taken aback by Calypso's question. He didn't expect that his plea would fire back at him.
He lowered his head and mumbled, "From Aunt Michelle.." he nervously replied.
How can Calypso not think about why the kid is hesitant to tell her it's for her sake, and her body is not in the best condition to fight, nor does she have any means even if it is.
Ding! Revitalizing Potion: A potion that is highly compressed of vital energy that can restore the body to the peak it has ever achieved or bring the body to the normal condition of a human.
Calypso suppressed her anger for the time being when she saw another notification pop out. When she read it, she felt surprised and glad at this good news.
The kid felt worried about her new mother that she might become agitated and trigger the illness that might put her in a long sleep again.
"What's your name?"