SPELLBOUND

Even King Belial was shocked at what Evie had said.

All the lords' eyes were stretched wide in disbelief. How could that be? Was that even remotely possible? That clan was long gone! And not just in the last few years… they had not been heard of for generations!

"My dear daughter-in-law, Queen Evielyn," the king finally spoke, "this information about this survivor… did you also find this out from your vision?"

Evie could not respond again due to the restriction, so she stared back at the king in meaningful silence. Her amber eyes were gleaming so strongly as she looked intently at him. Evie knew King Belial was as perceptive as Gavriel. She had a strong feeling that he would understand what she was trying to say.

The king nodded as though he had already received an answer from her.

"This is… very shocking…" King Belial uttered in disbelief.

"Pardon me, Your Majesty," Cadmus stood, "but do you really believe this? How do we even prove that she can really see the future? It's true that she gave us such valuable information about killing the monsters but that in itself is still not enough. She could have gained that information from something or somewhere else."

"Queen Evielyn belongs to the clan of the fire dragon keepers as well, Cadmus." King Belial answered with calmness, revealing another shocking fact of Evie. "If you want proof, she can very easily summon her dragons right now if she wanted to. The fact that she's a master of the dragons should be enough for you to believe that she really can see the future. In fact, I have summoned everyone here because I want you all to know about that the vision which she had seen regarding this war we are preparing for."

"She… has a vision about this war?" the lords looked at each other, not knowing whether to believe it or not.

"Yes," Evie answered the lords' question instead. Her eyes remained extremely firm.

"Then tell us. What did you see Queen Evielyn?" the animosity in Cadmus' eyes were dramatically subsiding now. He knew that he needed to look at the bigger picture and for the good of the whole. He could not continue being stubborn just due to his own personal biases.

There was a quiet and heavy silence before Evie's voice broke it. "The dark faes will lose the war against the monsters." Her voice was solemn and carried a weighty sorrow to it.

Everyone could not speak for a while, and the lords even stood from their seats. Their eyes were shocked at first then their expressions slowly darkened as they frowned at her.

"That's… preposterous." One of them said. "There is no way –"

"I saw the monsters reaching all the way to the surface and caused destruction there as well." Evie cut the lord off with an unfazed tone. Her gaze became a little fierce as she met his gaze head on, without fear or doubt. "The fact that the monsters managed to reach the surface is enough proof that the dark faes lost the war."

The lords shook their heads in denial. They were still unable to accept that they would lose so miserably against these monsters to the point of being suppressed until even the surface was affected.

"Queen Evielyn," King Belial pulled her attention this time, "do you have an idea on what could be the reason behind our possible loss against the monsters?"

"I believe that the dark faes had underestimated the power within the Abyss of Darkness." Evie answered without reservation. "I saw the destruction with my own two eyes. The monsters were just too many… no, 'too many' is even an understatement. Their sheer numbers were just unprecedented… endless, in fact. So I believe the dark faes didn't see that coming. The dark faes thought that they could kill each and every monster that came out of the abyss. They had no idea that the monsters were just an endless stream and that the fighting will never stop until…" Evie swallowed as her voice was unable to come out again.

She quickly regained her composure. "The dark faes are such a great force, obviously the most powerful force in the entire Lirea right now. But even the greatest and most powerful would fall if they're caught unprepared. I believe that the dark faes' fall is due to their miscalculations on the real numbers and sheer power of their enemies."

Another long bout of silence reigned. Everyone wanted to not believe but every time they meet the light fae queen's eyes, for some reason, they could only hold back their tongue. Why? What was with those amber eyes of hers? It was like there was something in her that was forcing them to believe in everything she says.

"So you're saying, Queen Evielyn, that as long as we don't underestimate our enemy, we'll win the war?" Lord Kione was the one who spoke this time.

Evie stared back at Kione. What she was revealing to them were the things she had seen in her dream. She had been replaying the scenes she saw and realized that that the monsters had just left the Under Lands. She recognized that they had reached the human realm first. She saw how the monsters had rampaged in a city in the Eastern empire. She was able to recognize the place because that was the city where Vera had lived in. It was the closest human city from the Middle land. Evie also realized that the monsters had yet to reach Crescia as well in that dream.

And her biggest dilemma was the fact that everything that she had seen in her dreams so far always come true. She had already tried to stop her dreams from happening, but time and time again, no matter what she did, there was nothing she could do to stop it. That was why she had a thought that perhaps, they could only be able to change anything after the scene in her dreams had happened. But that would mean they would not be able to save the Under Lands. However, she could not just say that directly to them, right? And what if she was wrong?

"I believe, that's still not enough, Lord Kione." Evie replied and everyone's face turned darker and more sour again.

"And why? You just said the reason of our downfall is because we underestimated our enemy." One of the lords said in an annoyed tone. "Your words are contradict –"

"Did I ever promised that you would win if you don't underestimate them?" Evie cut him off, causing the lord's jaw to work. "I am not done with what I'm trying to tell everyone yet, so please listen." She put a force in her gaze as she looked at that lord wearing the most lavish clothing inside the tent. "The reason why I believe not underestimating them was never enough, because our problem is not just the monsters alone. It's the Abyss itself…" Evie then met the king's gaze.

What she was about to say was something she had not told the king in her letter before, nor had she told the queen as well. Because before her vision, she had not quite understood the wall of darkness that she had seen in her dream. But now she knew that darkness was actually the abyss expanding and swallowing everything.

"I saw the abyss expanding and reaching out to as far as the surface."