SPELLBOUND

Chapter 617: Weapon

Klauz stared at her with a scrutinizing gaze. But eventually, he answered.

“It is all about will power. All you need to do to read the writing is to close your eyes. Concentrate and just focus your mind internally. Then wait until the writings appear in your mind. Concentrate as hard as you can until the foreign letters change into a language that you can understand. I believe this will only work for chosen individuals, but I guess you’re obviously one of them.”

Evie did as he said. She took a couple of deep breaths then close her eyes to concentrate. Her training with her dragons had made her get used to falling into a meditative and concentrated state easier.

With just one try, the writings on the golden writings on the walls began to move. Slowly, the foreign letters shifted and merged and twisted until they turned into something familiar. There were words now that she could read and understand.

Anticipation made her heartbeat hasten as she started to read. What kind of information was waiting for her? However, she took a deep breath and prepared her heart for whatever kind of news she would receive after reading.

The story began talking about the Crystal of Darkness. The most important and sacred landmark in the Under Lands, the source of the dark fae’s dark magic. Evie could only deduce that this Crystal of Darkness must be the counterpart to the Tree of Light in Crescia which was the source of light magic for the light faes.

One king of the dark faes was not satisfied with the amount of his powers and took an interest in the Crystal of Darkness. He wanted to find out if the source of the magic was truly the Crystal of Darkness. He then became obsessed over it, desiring all of its powers. He attempted to drain all the power that he could from it. However, when he failed, he gathered up all the most powerful of the dark faes and exhorted and manipulated them into destroying the crystal.

The Crystal of Darkness exploded, creating a small hole in the spot where the crystal once stood. The explosion had killed everyone including the King himself.

When the king did not come back, the queen sent out their only child, a princess to go and look for the king.

What the princess found instead was a desolate place, and the Crystal of Darkness was gone. In its place where it initially stood was a deep gaping hole. There were no signs of the King or anyone else who had set out on this journey. The only thing she managed to find which was out of the ordinary there was a small well. A well of dark magic.

And a man had come out from it. He was beautiful beyond words. As dark faes, there were no lack of beauty within the ranks of their nobilities. But even so, the princess had never seen a man as beautiful as this one was before.

And the princess fell in love with him at first sight, and he with her as well. They had spent some time together within the vicinity of the well that the man had emerged from and gotten to know each other even more.

Time passed and the princess and the man had become lovers. They then returned to the palace where the queen was to inform her of how there were no signs of the king and the others who had accompanied him. Also, the princess shared the good news with her mother that she was expecting a child with the man that she had brought back. For a while, they were happy preparing for and anticipating the arrival of their child being welcomed into the world. However…

The monsters began appearing not long after that. Weird, and unseen before monsters.

The dark faes began to blame their princess’ mysterious lover for the monster’s appearances. As it was only after his appearance that the monsters started emerging.

They believed that the man had been the one who had brought the monsters into the Under Lands. So they plotted an assassination, believing that once he was killed, the monsters too would stop appearing.

But they could not kill him. Nothing could, it seemed.

The Under Lands quickly fell into chaos. Without a king, the other lords took the reins and made the Princess to be a puppet ruler. The monsters invaded cities and wreaked havoc upon the whole nation. The dark faes were at their wits end and losing hope.

So they resorted to using the princess. They had imprisoned her and blackmailed the man using the princess’ life.

The man finally revealed to them a way for them to kill him due to the threat on his princess’ life. They must find a certain weapon that could kill him.

The dark faes stole the weapon – a golden bow and arrow – from the possession of the Light Faes. At this point, Evie’s still body jerked as she recognised the description of this particular golden bow and arrow. It seemed that the objects were the very same ones that she was familiar with.

The records continued by stating that they gave that bow and arrow to the princess as the man’s request.

Before he asked her to shoot him, he revealed to her that he came from the realm of beasts and monsters. The Crystal of Darkness was the ultimate lock, blocking the portal between the two realms. The man revealed that his realm had been trying to expand but they never had managed to break the wall blocking them from entering into this realm. The Crystal of Darkness could only be broken by someone from the realm it was protecting, never by others. But greed had made the dark faes create their own doom and destroyed the wall that was actually protecting them.

The man said that his death would be able to seal the portal again and block any more monsters from coming out. He told her that this was the only way for them to stop the invasion.

Heartbroken, the princess could only choose to kill him as a sacrifice to save everyone – her land, and… their baby who had been taken from her and now being held in the hands of the lords as hostage.

Once the princess’ arrow pierced his heart, he dissolved into a smoke of darkness, spreading out of the abyss, sealing it.