sonovelo Chapter 50: The Frenzied Vortex
Chapter 50: The Frenzied Vortex
Chapter 50: The Frenzied Vortex
To an elemental, a pure aura was like warm sunlight to a plant. But what about the opposite?
Sobs echoed through the foul-smelling sewers. Sounds of weeping, foreign to this place.
An elemental gazed at her transformed reflection in a mirror.
“Hurrk—!”
She had expected this. Upon deciding to offer herself to the black mages, she knew it would be a terrible experience; even the faintest contact with their aura had made her nauseous.
How would it feel to fully embrace it? She couldn’t even imagine.
She guessed it would surely be unbearable.
“It hurts! It hurts!!!”
But little did she know it would be this excruciating. After all, the very concept of physical pain didn’t exist for elementals.
Then what was this suffering? What was she?
She was surely an elemental, yet why could she feel the pain so acutely?
The voices of her kin echoed in her mind.
-You are different from us.
They were right. She was different. This sharp, agonizing pain was proof of it.
“Yes...”
A tear rolled down her cheek.
Only one of her once-vibrant green eyes remained—the other lost, replaced by a wound that oozed blood and pus. Her mouth was shut, yet her teeth were bared. Her skin seemed to slide off like mud after rain.
The mirror reflected a monstrosity.
“I am different from you all...”
A strangled laugh escaped her lips. She told herself it was liberation she felt. At the very least, she would no longer be haunted by delusions.
Everything was clear now.
“Because I’m a mutant...”
***“Lady Lafita, we have a message from Draffon.”
“What does he say?”
“He found no trace of the elemental, despite
Of all her questions, this one was the most pressing.
“Risir. Right now you’re...”
The progenitor looked as if she’d seen a ghost.
Just a few days ago, Fienne had stood above Risir as a 5th-rank expert, easily able to gauge his magic power due to the vast difference between them.
But now...everything was just a blur. Even when she concentrated fully, she couldn’t get a clear reading.