Chapter 805 - 805: The Priestess's Secret
The priestess tilted her head with curiosity, watching Noah’s every move. “I have many questions.”
“How can someone like you, who I have never met in my life, create so many problems for my people?”
“How can you resist the power of our lord?”
“And…” her voice suddenly dropped below the point where even the sand on the ground would feel warm compared to it. “Why can you use the power that does not belong to this world?”
The air froze, and so did the wooden vines behind Aelua. A heavy pressure descended upon Noah, crushing even the biggest boulder around him into dust.
Boom!
The pressure continued to increase before it suddenly disappeared. Yet from start to the end, Noah did not utter a whimper, something the priestess took keen notice of.
The darkness in the eyes of the priestess vanished, and her voice returned to normal. “But it does not matter; what matters most is… your eradication!”
With a sweet smile, she clapped her hands once, and several wooden vines as thick as a human thigh tore through the air and pierced Noah.
“Cough—Splat!—cough!” Noah spat out a mouthful of blood on the wood that had impaled him through the chest. Not just that, he was stabbed in the stomach, legs, and every place below his heart. “You should…”
“Hmmm? What was that?” Hearing the faint whisper from Noah, the priestess asked calmly, her eyes blinking with curiosity. “You should… know that I had questions of my own.”
The priestess narrowed her eyes. Noah spat another mouthful of blood, his hands wrapped around the rods that slowly raised him in the air, his feet struggling to find footing.
“I wondered why you never used your soul sense to look for us when you could have done that any time of the day.” Noah spoke with every ounce of strength left in his dying body. The light in his eyes slowly faded, but the words kept flowing from his mouth. “When we disappeared, when we were in the forest.”
“You could have just located us and then sent your people after us.”
Aelua’s calm expression had turned cold once more; she no longer had a smile on her face, but she still did not kill Noah immediately.
“You said you had these questions.” She asked, “Should I assume you found the answer?”
The smile on Noah’s face widened, revealing a pair of bloody teeth.
“Of course, the answer is…” “Looking deep in her eyes,” Noah said. “You did not use your soul sense because you could not.”
“You do not have a soul after all…” The priestess did not give Noah the satisfaction of showing any response even after he paused for a theatrical suspense, so he continued anyway. “You are a clone.”
“Do you really think just because you can come up with some ridiculous theory, it would be true?” She asked coolly.
And Noah agreed with her wholeheartedly, “Of course not!”
He spread out his arms, allowing his body to dangle in the air, and continued, “In fact, I allowed your attack to land on me even when I could have reacted when you had not even launched it.”
Seeing his body suddenly start glowing with faint light, the priestess’s eyes finally narrowed dangerously; she waved her hands and launched another wooden pillar to pierce his head.
“Had you really been the real Aelua, you would have realized…” His voice started to lose strength moments before the attack even reached him, and just when the attack did land on him, his body suddenly burst into a flock of very beautiful-looking purple butterflies.”I was never here.”
The voice drifted into the air as the butterflies flew straight towards the priestess and brushed her body, flowing past her.
“You have been living here in the shadows, biding time while your real body is out there somewhere.”
The priestess no longer cared about Noah’s words and whispered to herself, “Butterflies of paradise…”
“Beautiful creatures, aren’t they?” The butterflies took a turn and started fluttering around the priestess, forming a dome like a cylinder, soaring above.
“Indeed, but they are beautiful. They represent the end of life and the beginning of a new one.” The priestess replied in a distant tone.
This time Noah’s voice did not come, and she continued to speak, watching the butterflies fluttering.
“But they are also sad creatures because those who are grieving or have lost something dear… they end up obsessing over them.” At her words, all butterflies stopped fluttering around and gathered before her.
“You came here to fight, and you will.” Noah’s voice came back as the butterflies rose into the air before flying away towards the forest behind the priestess once more. “But not just me…”
The woman turned around to follow the butterflies and then saw a creature with four legs and the torso of a human step out from the woods.
“The next time we meet, it will be on the battlefield. For now, I will let a warrior complete his wow.” With that, Noah’s voice had completely disappeared.
Under the moonlight, the Lord of the Night stepped forward, his eyes shining with brightness beyond its time.
“Did you do it?”
As soon as Noah stepped out from the shadows, he was greeted by the elves he had rescued, with the elven queen leading the front; they all stepped forward to meet him.
“It’s done. Where is Wuhan?”
Even though he had asked them, Noah also used his soul sense to cover the entire continent to search for them. It did not take him long before locking on to the man, as he and the group were already close to him, very close.
Noah turned his head to look at the edge of the entrance of the cave. The air twisted and created a gap before spitting out Wuhan and his group. He wanted to step forward and greet them when he noticed how shaken they all appeared.
Even Wuhan had a shocked and startled look in his eyes.
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