Chapter 1:
"On the winter night I was shivering on a cold floor stained with warm blood, steel was red, holding it was a man with a gaze colder than the cold floor .....
-3 years ago-
I am Lisa Galdr, a daughter of a duke in the kingdom of Reinstern,
since my father was the duke, I was spoiled rotten, my arrogance knew no bounds,
my attitude was Trashy, harassing my maids and servants, and treating my siblings with arrogance and harshness since I thought that it would be this way forever but one day everything changed
the day of the gathering.
The day of Gathering: the day in which. the 12 king and pope gather in one place to discuss and to find a solution to problems that will effect the continent and the world. church of volcis which worshipped the god of kindness Derga. This church was as influential as the king. The church had a massive influence in politics and had control over the economy just as much if not more than the kings.
On the day of the gathering, my father Duke Alcium Galdr was chosen to be the escort of the king during this important day
High influential figures from all around the continent were sitting in one room
Suddenly a man stood up from his seat,
he was the king of the Silla kingdom breaking the dead silence he said
" Today we have gathered here around this table because of the prophesy that was granted to the pope by the god Derga"
Everyone were listening with interest, and the man spoke again
"according to this prophesy The demon king is gonna appear'
everyone were shocked, they had been making a ruckus since the demon king's appearance either meant world domination or world destruction and upon seeing this the pope said
"You needn't worry everyone,
everything will be fine the god Derga said to start preparations for the war with the demons
"But how pope??"
someone asked, the pope replied
"The Derga suggests that we increase our war resources, as the demon king could appear at any time, so we must prepare."
after hearing this the king of Reinstern Clayde reinstern thought
"It is suspicious that the 12 kingdoms are not investing their money and assets. Because With just their assets, the preparations for war would become much smoother. The Pope is aware of this, so why is he not asking for money? If not, then what is his intention?"
The pope said
" no need to worry everyone the great Derga doesn't ask for you to sacrifice your assets "
everyone were speechless, the pope said again
" The derga doesn't want the women and children of the great kings who will be fighting the demons to get hurt in the war so he wants to give sanctuary to them where they will learn how to fight against the demon king "
everyone cheered to derga, and the king clayde realized something
" oh, I see so the great church need test subjects that's why they are trying to get women and children and they are royals as well and they can't refuse since you'll be put on the rough spot,
wait I can save my daughter heh"
After discussing for some time, the kings decided to agree with the church and send their daughters to the sanctuary. To learn about the demon king
Sanctuary: An educational facility owned by the volcis church everyone wants to go to the sanctuary but only those who are chosen by the church can get in, actually the sanctuary is an educational facility only at the front but it is an experimental facility that performs various type of terrifying experiments,
they do not care for what's right and when they feel like that someone is of no use to them,they either kill them or sell them to the black market as a slave,
now back to the story, King Clayde came back to his kingdom after concluding with the other kings and was talking with his escort
Alcium Galdr
" alcium do u know that nobody will actually send their daughter to the sanctuary "
hearing this alcium spoke, "Do u mean to say they will go against the sanctuary ?"
Clayde said
"of course not they will send women but it's just not their daughter "
alcium was shocked and spoke
" but won't they find out if we send any women since royal blood has more mana and they have distinctive features
"King said "
do u remember when we were writing the contract we were also supposed to write the name of the person we would send to the sanctuary ...
alcium bring your daughter to the royal palace tomorrow the church will be sending people "
alcium was shocked he couldn't believe that the king wrote the alcium daughter's name and other kings must have done the the same,they wrote some other noblewoman names.
Alcium said
"Your Highness how could you "
king smiled eerily and said
"It's not a problem alcium since I wrote your second daughter's name the trash of your family is just being recycled "
This event was later known as a great sacrifice by the high nobles since all of the noble woman were attacked on the way by bandits, these bandits were just as strong if not more than the knights order
(What bullshit)
and just like that, I was sent off to the
Church
After a few experiments, they realized I was talentless and so they extracted every bit of my mana and sold me to the black market
where I was a lowly servant since i was a child they couldn't do anything more than hit me because of law it was this way for 3 years
Whats the point of this law in such a kingdom which is okay with child slave, pathetic
I decided to survive no matter what and get revenge on the church and 3 years in alone I trained anything I could since i had no mana and learned everything I could
but when it was winter I was sold to a noble in the countryside who worked me to the bone, and hit me to vent his anger, it was like this for days
one day for some reason he was very angry and came to my cell
he punched me in the face
then gut
"it hurts, it hurts"
Even my voice couldn't come out properly because of weakness and hunger
" SHUT UP! YOU SLAVE"
then he started to choke me, it was then that I realized
he had gone crazy my vision got blurry
my eyes were teary my ears were ringing
"I -ii dd-don't want to d-die"
suddenly I was dropped to the cold floor
As I gasped for air blood was spreading
throughout the floor but it was not mine
it was the nobleman's blood
his dead body was lying on the floor
and behind it was
A man holding a sword that was stained red with blood
when I looked up to see his face
I saw his eyes which were glaring at me
as if it was piercing me and when I gazed back into his eyes
it felt colder than the winter's chill.