Chapter 70: An Unfamiliar Burden (1/2)

My teeth were clenched the whole ti Alea's cold, lifeless body into the center, I slowly covered her, using her weapon as a h at the sick irony that this dungeon happened to be named the Widow's Crypt…

Wordlessly, I spent so each of Alea's fallen corass and a pond that glittered like shattered glass now looked like a national landrave ave this place an eerie araves, I dragged , I placedthe once famous lance She was considered the pinnacle of power here, no doubt respected and feared by retful of the fact that she never had someone to love and someone to love her back

As I looked at her in her final moments, a sense of dread dawned on me She was almost exactly the same as I was from my past life, except she wouldn't be reborn into a different world With my immediate reincarnation after my previous life ended, I didn't have the chance to even reflect on how I had lived In Alea's last breaths, she had broken down and sobbed, crying that she didn't want to die like this

"daan streanant in her stead at how her life ca out another hed in defeat when I didn't hear a reply Slued walls Alea and I had leaned against, I recalled everything the fallen lance had inforather, there were a couple of speculations I could make

One, there was more than just one black-horned demon How many, I wasn't sure My only hope was that there wouldn't be ravely injure a dragon like Sylvia, then I was out of ue

Two, they were definitely after so back to the egg Sylvie had coe the to be possible

Three, there was going to be a war in Dicathen This continent would be in danger and we definitely weren't prepared When the deh, I felt the underlying explanation that the black-horned demons weren't from this continent Was the new continent that we just uncovered filled with these deht Hopefully that scenario wouldn't come true

However, the more I contemplated, the more certain I became that there probably weren't that many black-horned demons If there truly was a race filled with super-powered demons, then they would've already annihilated this continent with ease instead of sneaking around different dungeons and infecting the beasts They were obviously uncertain of whether they could take on this whole continent so they were going about it discreetly, at least for now

What bugged ure out when the ould be There was nothe only thing I could do… e could do?

A sharp pain indown , and what Alea's death reinforced, was the realization of how valuable the relationshi+ps I had with my families, with Tess, and with my friends, were What I didn't have in ive my life to protect I had that now, but I don't have the strength to protect them; not for as about to coetting coe

I recalled Sylvia's e for e still rang clearly in ain once e

That was the et so on I was still unable to break froh After yelloas silver, and then white I still have a bit to go

A ferocious roar sounded, echoing off the cavern walls 'Papa!'

My head perked up as I heard a loud crash soon after froin front of a cloud of dust and calling out to her

I'm here, Sylv, are you okay? I covered my face withlory

My heart thuon come into view

Sylvie had become even more fearsolossy anynifiedpast her snout, and another pair of horns protruded underneath theot noas more akin to awe She appeared asdown her back were no longer there and rather, because of that, she seee me doubt that she was the one who had just calledall of the bewilderain, lifted round with the force of her lick

"Haha! You got bigger again, Sylv!" I beaon, Sylvie let out a deep purr as she rubbed herself againstI'd just been through

Lifting round with her snout, she placed me on her et out of here' With a powerful snap of her wings, a raging gust formed underneath us and ere instantly propelled into the air For some reason, the sudden force didn't affectdragon

During the flight back up,that happened while ere separated She didn't really understand everything about the deet the sense that whatever was about to happen wasn't good

'Don't worry Whatever happens, I'll be with you!' Sylvie's innocent response left

Like a narration from a children's book, she announced a bit about what she'd been up to, which was, not surprisingly, fighting beasts and consu beast cores I really needed to be there with Sylvie the next time she trained; I was curious as to what she was capable of Sylvie didn't really know the distinction between the levels ofover hoerful she really was