Chapter 244 (1/2)

Chapter 244

Chapter 244: Day of Rebirth

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I stu quickened to the point thatwas blurred out of focus except for ht that I couldn’t bear to watch

Butin the air with a black spike jutting through their backs Their arh up in the sky as blood trailed down the spikes that scaled over three stories high, dying theh, was the fact that I could see their expressions Their eyes ide and bulging, while theirand queen of Sapin as well They had all been positioned for everyone arriving to clearly see the pain that they had been in before their deaths

Blood rushed to ainst my ears, and I felt power leak froth that I knew all too well as the elderwood guardian’s beast will threatened to break free and wreak havoc on the Alacryans here

Control yourself, Tessia, I begged to th left inpower

Despite how everything turned out,me safe, and for that very fact alone, I needed to make sure that I didn’t throw their efforts… and lives away in vain

A sob reachedtofor different reasons To most of the people here, they cried because their deaths meant that Dicathen had lost They cried because their deaths rim futures filled with hardshi+ps and uncertainties

For s I couldn’t do with thes I couldn’t say to them

“Citizens of Dicathen,” a soft, honeyed voice rang Despite how loud it had been, the crowd quieted On the top of a stone pillar that had just been conjured stood a woray and red military unifor flame as she looked down at us with her hands clasped in front of her

I foundfor the next words of the female Alacryan, curious as to what she’d say

The Alacryan spoke again with her alluring voice “Your kings have passed, your ar, and yourThe Castle is ours, Xyrus City and Elenoir City…are ours, and now, Etistin City is ours But do not fret, for we did not coers”

There was a still silence as everyone waited for her next words Finally she spoke, htly raised

“We cahty asuras, the deities that you have worshi+pped all this ti over you Those days are no longer The alacryans have won this war, not by our oer We won because our sovereign is no lowly human or elf like the ones you see here” Her voice quieted, but somehow her words could be heard even n is an asura Our victory was the will of a deity hie crowd, but the Alacryans didn’t stop it They let the chatter and hesitance arow until finally the woh

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She only let out a sigh, but I could hear it as if she were next to ic to raise that stone pillar, and she’s beensound to spread her voice Hoerful is she? I couldn’t help but doubt what I had learned In the face of so an to wonder how es as powerful as this person, or even st the Alacryans

“Your disbelief is reasonable, and what I say or do here will only fan the fla within you This is nature, and this is e had to do e did Because of stubbornness, because of pride, because of greed, and because of doubt, peace can only be achieved through war,” she said solemnly “You may feel like prisoners of a defeated country now, but I assure you that as tier, a citizen of a Godly kingdom”

“My name is Lyra Dreide Today, I have stood above you as victor of this war, but I pray that the next time we meet, it will be as equals, and as friends”

The Alacryan’s words lingered like a sweet candy after medicine She didn’t just stop there; she then raised the stone pillar even higher and gently pulled the bodies ofand queen of Sapin fro theround, she created a pit around their bodies before conjuring a flan has decreed today, the twenty-fith sundown of Spring, as the day of rebirth” In a single motion, she lit the pit on fire

I pressedher The thought of not even being able to properly send offit harder to controlbeast will

“This is not a ti and reflection of the past Today is the start of a—”

The Alacryan’s speech was cut short

It was then that I felt the subtle shi+ft in the air

My hair stood on its end, and I could feel the priuardian inside et out of here

I watched the bright flanation bubbled in the pit ofmy lower lip, I took one last look at the Alacryan named Lyra Dreide I knew she wasn’t the one responsible for those black spikes that had killed Kathyln’s and et her

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I found the Alacryan talking to a figure that wasn’t there before With short black hair and a rather thin body franized hiardless, aze turned toward the familiar man, and with howloeaved through the forlorn crowd, buryingthe tears fros in the hopes that I’d be able to squeeze through the alleyway to escape

There were two Alacryan soldiers guarding the path that I had come from It would’ve been smarter to wait for at least one of the presence growing closer

Barely able to think over the sound of e, I ran past the Alacryan guards, blasting both with a gale of wind