Chap 33: Our new ally
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During the never-ending slumber, Galen once again had a long dream.
His point of view had changed into another person. According to the graceful white costume, he guessed that person was a woman.
That familiar long wavy blond hair which was been loosened down. However, it had been dirted by a countless traces of the red.
But what Galen was surprised the most when he realized who that person was.
…Galadriel?! Galen was shocked. What was happening to her? Why her body was being covered full of blood?!
Currently, Galadriel was being heavily injured. She was running, her heart was beating so strong and fast as if she was trying to escape from something chasing her.
The scenery was very dark, so her eyes couldn’t show Galen anything. He just could feel the painful feeling at his foot when she was stepping on the ground being filled by pointy rocks.
Galadriel didn’t have any aura energy anymore. So, in this such situation, the only way for her to be safe was to run away. Since she was invulnerable without any magic power, even a goddess like her could be killed by a mere mortal human as well.
Behind her, there was a crowd of around twenty, or thirty soldiers. They weren’t rushing, it meant they didn’t chase her. But they kept following her, while escorting their own supreme one at the same time.
A middle-aged man was wearing royal combat armor, which was being made by a strange mineral having a beautiful green light. According to his fat body shape, it showed that he didn’t spend much time on martial training.
That man also kept shouting to the soldiers, who were carrying his throne on their shoulders. With the combined weight of his body and the throne at the same time, it took six persons to be able to move them both.
“Hurry up, you scums!” He kept nagging the soldiers “We are going to lose her sign!!”
Despite they were all exhausted, they couldn’t argue back with that fat man and just could keep going. For a reason, 200 years ago, he was the king of Frelanna Kingdom.
With a heavily injured and fragile body, Galadriel panted. She suffered to climb up the cliff but her strength wasn’t enough to lift the entire body up so she couldn’t make it. “Ah!” She fell to the ground and her ankle had been broken.
Galadriel looked at the crowd surrounding her, as if she was a wanted prisoner surrendering in front of them.
“My beautiful Galadriel, please don’t fight back anymore.” The king climbed down from the throne, approached Galadriel while speaking a cringy high pitched tone.
His eyes thirstily looked at her. That was right, he wanted to marry Galadriel – a literal Goddess! To her, it was like an insult from the mortals so she never liked this idea.
“Your children won’t be able to find you here to save you. Listen to me, if you become my wife, I promise to give you anything you want. Treasure, fame, position, as long as you are mine…”
“I refuse. It seems I have been kindhearted for too long, to the point that the arrogance of humanity had gone further than I can ever imagine.”
Galadriel threw the king a sad and disappointed glance. Even if she had the power back and could kill them, she wouldn’t do that as well, since everyone here was once the children of her world. She was too kind, that it had become her weakness and pushed her into this such critical danger.
“Oh, please wake up, my beautiful Galadriel. You have been daydreaming for hundreds of years. We are living in an era where you and your guardian children should have taken a rest and let the humans rule over instead. We can do everything even without your help. But there is just one thing: You are different than us, you are immortal while we cannot.”
The king continued, while touching Galadriel’s hair.
“That’s why I want you to bear a child of mine. Your godlike power, with my intelligence, we will create the greater generations to advance our world into a better future...”
Chat! A single sound, but could shock the soldiers standing around. Galadriel just gave the king a slap on his face.
In Galen’s point of view, he had been speechless. My mind had gone blank, empty. The only thing being left behind was the shock from the dream.
Even giving to him a mountain of gold, he wouldn’t believe that this disgusting man was King of Frelanna. If that, he was Galen’s ancestor?!
“I will never accept that.”
“Capture her!”
The king had lost his patience, ordered the soldiers to capture Galadriel by force. They blocked her wrists, her injured ankles by using a special chain, which could block anyone from using magic. It was the greatest invention of the king. He had invested his five years of life just to research how to create it. And those chains were for Galadriel – his target only.
However, after Galadriel had been captured away, it was the last scene that Galen could see inside his dream.
*** Galen’s POV ***
I woke up by suddenly opening my eyes. That dream earlier still hadn’t calmed me down yet.
In Galadriel’s point of view, I remembered that I was screaming non-stop in my uncontrollable anger. How could the king of Frelanna – ancestor, he could do this such terrible thing to the Goddess?!
Damn it!! My hand covered my face with unmeasurable grief, while my other hand clenched into the fist and punched on the ground. Now I understand why the entire world hated Frelanna Kingdom so badly. I understand why my stepfather, king of Tredia would like to wipe out Frelanna Kingdom…
As a descendant of this such man, my heart had been filled with regret as I felt so ashamed to become a prince of Frelanna. If I could bring back the time where Galadriel hadn’t been dead yet. I wish I could apologize to her on behalf of Frelanna Kingdom.
I touched my chest, where the seed of Galadriel was being inlaid inside. At any cost, I have to resurrect Galadriel by any cost. Since this is my ancestor’s fault for causing the world into this chaos, it’s me who has to pay back his sin by reviving her back.
The seed of Galadriel responded to me with a glow of comfortable green light. At this moment, I just noticed where I was.
A cave? I wondered. It was a cave under the root of the giant tree. Around me, roots were located everywhere so I could understand why the air in this place was so humid.
Everything around me was so dark. It meant it was the nighttime currently, I tried to wake up and found the way to get out of here. If I remembered, before falling into the slumber, I was in Mothien Academy, how could I be brought here? Are Liana, Roman, Rosalyn fine during my sleep?
Without any torch, as the light from the seed turned off, I had to find the way by my own hands. This is so strange, I didn’t feel any wind current in this cave. So how could I be in here?
Then, a light of the torch from someone approached my place and flashed my sight from a small tunnel, enough for a human passing only by kneeling on the ground. Thanks Goddess, it was Liana and she was fine!
“Aye Gale, you woke up hehe!!” Liana rushed to me and hugged me. Following behind her, I was happy when see Roman here as well!
***
Liana and Roman told me everything that happened during the time I was falling into a deep sleep and how all of us could reach into this place.
“For now, we have to take this place as our temporary shelter first.” Roman said “Since Queen Meriss will never find out us here.”
“Roman, have you covered the cave’s entrance by leaves yet?”
“Yeah I did, don’t worry Liana.”
Seeing Liana and Roman talking closely like this, I felt a little jealous at first. But I understood well Liana, she isn’t the type who will flirt with anyone since she is a strong, independent girl who can do everything.
“Where is Frank, guys? And Rosalyn?”
Both Liana and Roman then stayed silent. Looking at their face, I already knew something bad happened to him.
If I was a Galen one year ago, I would scream out and blame them for not leaving me behind and save Frank and Rosalyn instead, since they were my friends.
“Be optimist, guys. Thank you for rescuing me.” I continued to lift their mentality “So, the first thing we need to do now is to find a plan yet. We will together save not only Frank and Rosalyn, but also save Mothien Kingdom from the domination of Queen Meriss.”
I got goosebumps when Liana looked at me with sparky eyes.
“Aye hehehe! You have been mature a lot!!!” She then gave me a slap right on my arm. Damn! She was too strong. With just a slap of hers, my arms got a red mark of her hand!!
“Galen, Liana, please take me with you too.”
Roman spoke politely. Omg… I would be going to teach him how to be not formal in front of his friends.
“Roman, you are now our friends and our teammates. Also, really thank you so much for supporting me to do my life mission.” I patted his shoulder. His costume had been dirt due to the dust and the soil of this cave (But actually, our Mothien academy uniforms were all like that too) “Welcome to our adventure team, Roman!!”
Roman then looked at Liana and me like a child being given a ray of hope…
“… With my pleasure!!”
“Aye, stop being formal, newbie!!!” I believed Liana had been cringed enough so she had to replace me to tell him… “You made me get goosebumps!!”
“Sure!!”
Roman then asked her.
“Also, is it ok if I can ask you a request?”
“Aye what?”
“Can you transform into semi-dragon again? You were so cool back then!” Ah yes, he meant the duel between Liana and him at the entrance test “Please, Miss-Senior?”
“WHAT THE HELL?! MY SKIN, GYAHHH!!!”
I just could sat and laughed, while watching Liana scratching her goosebump skin and arguing with Roman.
And that was how I have got my second ally – Roman Kilian, a hybrid between an incubus and a cat. As a tier 4 magic wielder coming from Mothien Kingdom, I believed our power would grow up a lot thanks to him.
Liana is a fire element dragon;
Roman is wind element magic fighter;
I am earth element healer and support;
So now we just need another ally who owns water element.
Hmm, I slapped myself. I shouldn’t be demanding like this. I can ask help from Saeza anyway, who is a ice element dragon. There is just one thing that Saeza cannot always join us. Also, I don’t know why I feel like I cannot trust him.
“Huh? What’s wrong Galen?” Liana asked me when I was losing in my own thought.
“Oh, nothing.”
I cannot tell them what I saw in my dream yet. I don’t want them to hate me, who stole not only their happiness and changed their life. But also, the consequence of my ancestor might be the reason why the dragons in this world trying to eliminate the human and kill countless innocent people.
I will find a suitable time to tell them this truth…
***
After fully charging aura energy, we have planned ourselves. In order to fight Queen Meriss, there would be no way we could do it alone.
We need more preparation, more power, more allies!
If that we had to pass by those dangerous mountains, head to the southeast provinces of Mothien territory. But I think it would not be a problem since we have Liana who could fly.
“Roar!”
Liana transformed into dragon. She lowered herself to let Roman and I climb on her back.
“Ready, guys?”
“Let’s go!!”
Our time-running mission had set the new beginning of the journey.
"Hey, Liana." I asked her "Do you remember anything about our kiss at the greenhouse?"
...Is it me or I just heard a gasping noise from Liana's voice.
"Aye... No! What are you talking about, hehe. Did I ever do that?!"
It meant yes right?
"LIANA, WATCH OUT!!"
We had been awkwardly silent, until Roman screamed that Liana almost kill all of us by crashing herself into a cliff.
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