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Chapter 24: KLARTIS

Chapter 24: KLARTIS

Arthur saw Hernand who just landed in his room, the man himself looks like he too need a healer.

"What’s wrong with your face?" Arthur asked him as he looks like a dead person even his hair looks like it wasn’t touch by any hair brush.

Hernand looks at him and he glared, " Says the man who calls me in the middle of the night," He said as he was fixing his glasses. " What happened this time?" He asked as he looks at him .

"We were attacked," Arthur said as he put his face on his palm as he was feeling helpless with his daughter’s situation.

"Attacked by ?" Hernand asked him again and this he was now sitting to the chair that was inside the room.

"Can we skip the talk first?" Arthur said as he was really getting worried.

"I needed to know what happened to your daughter," Hernand said at him.

Arthur sighed as he told him about what happened, how the monsters from Tenebrisaya attacked them, and what happened to Acantha.

"What?!" Hernand exclaimed as he was surprised to what he told him, " Are you sure it was Acantha?" Hernand said he too can’t believe what he just learned from him.

"Yes, How would you even think that I couldn’t recognized my own daughter?" Arthur said as he stood up to go to Acantha’s room, Hernand also followed him.

"J-just I can’t believe what you said, All I know from the Klartis was their the keeper of the magical forest where the divine beasts sleep," Hernand said to him.

Arthur knew that it was hard to believe what he said, his wife was also the former keeper of this place, where the beasts was still sleeping and no one could wake it up, Not even Catanya who was hailed as one of the strongest keeper of the Klartis can wake it.

Klartis was a descendant of the old kingdom who worshipped the Sun Goddess Solaia. They were blessed by goddess herself before she dies.

From what they had known Solaia fell in love with a dragon prince who stays in a mountain here in Klartis.

The dragon and the people here lives together in peace with Solaia’s looking at them, but something came there were chaos that came on this land which made Solaia came down from this land.

She blessed the dragons, and people to fight the darkness. Dromonos, the prince of the dragon saw the beautiful and kind goddess and fell for her at first.

She was kind, she helped those who were in need, she healed those who needs to be healed , that’s what make him fall for him more.

Dromonos wanted to pursue Solai, but he was ashamed of himself, how can a lowly dragon like him love someone as high as her.

He went to the battle field fighting all those monsters that was released by Abanoon who was the goddess of destruction,.

While on the battle field based on the book which was owned by Klartis.

Dromonos saw how most the dragons in their empire were defeated and were killed in the war. The was lasts long and Dromonos fought and fought for his life until he was defeated.

Solaia trying to help the other didn’t got the chance to know about what the dragon felt for her, she saw him died on that day, she went to him and mourn for the love she lost, and for the love she didn’t got to tell , and know about.

She fought Abanoon and later on killed her while sacrificing her own life, the people who was grace and blessed by her kindness mourn for the goddess who they all love.

That’s the end of the book, and this place were the very same place as in the book, the divine beasts that was sleeping in the magical forest was her divine pet, and the magical forest used to be Solaia’s place here whenever she goes on this land.

The Klartis was the one who was blessed with divine power by Solaia and was tasked by the goddess herself to guard this place until the time came.

Which the Klartis family was waiting even though they didn’t know what it meant.

The book was confusing as it has been so old and some parts of it were missing, and Catanya did even said that one of her ancestors left the book in the fire which made it unreadable that you can just see some of pages, and the rest can’t be read.

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Arthur knew that Hernand also knew about this story as he too came from here. They opened the door of his daughter’s room as soon as they reached the place.

There she was, Acantha was still unconscious and what worse is her heart was not beating that much.

"What is this?" Hernand said as he looked at Acantha’s hand and the duke himself was also surprised that there are some patterns on her daughter’s hand which he didn’t saw awhile ago as he was afraid of losing her.

"I didn’t saw that awhile ago," He explained as he was worried that it might be something to do with her daughter’s power or her being in this state.

"But do you know what was this?" He asked Hernand who was still checking the pattern on Acantha’s hand to her shoulder.

"I have never seen this before, Ancient texts in the kingdom also didn’t have this kind of symbols or patterns in them," Hernand said as he was still looking at the pattern while he was still in awe.

"We should bring her to the forests where the magical beasts is, Every Klartis was born with frail body but after they met and see the divine beasts they will be okay," Hernand told him as he looks unsure of what he just said.

"That’s all?" Arthur asked as his wife never mentioned this to him, she just told her that she will seal their daughter’s power as Klartis blood was powerful and many people might try to get their daughter and some might will kill her to because having a divine power in this time was a curse rather than a blessing.

"I- Didn’t your wife told you anything?" He said as he looked at him.

"No, " He shook his head.

Hernand sighed as he looks at him in disbelief.

"HUHHAAH" They heard a gasp and when they look where it came from they saw Acantha who was gasping from her breathe.

Hernand tried to use some healing magic on her but it gets worse, Arthur uses his power to transport them to the magical forest but they were block by some barriers around the forest and they ended up running their way there.

Acantha’s gasped was getting worst and both Arthur and Hernand were running between life and death, and when they reach the center of the magical forest they didn’t saw anything.

Arthur looked at his daughter and he paled when he saw that she wasn’t breathing anymore.

"Hernand do something!" He shouted at Hernand who was just looking at him helplessly.

"I-I can’t" He said which made Arthur’s heart clenched in pain.

He gripped at her daughter who was still warm and his tears fell down from his eyes...

"Ahhhh" He shouted as he was letting the pain in his heart out.

"If you this place were so magical the why didn’t it healed my daughter?" He shouted at the whole place as he was blaming the place itself. " You already took my wife from me, why do you want to take my daughter too?" He shouted but this time he was looking at the sky where he can see the moon shines.

Hernand who was just looking at his friend as he can feel the pain in his voice and this is the very first time he saw Arthur cried, as he was not there when he got married and lost his wife.

Arthur was still holding his daughter with him when they heard some noise,

"What was that?" Hernand said as he look around and see nothing.

"Why are there humans here?!" They heard some small voice said.

"I don’t know," Said the other voice.

Arthur who was still mourning also looked around him, as he too can hear some small voices.

"Look! That’s the girl!" They heard again but still they didn’t see who it was.

"Who are you?" Arthur said as he look at the air.

"Who are we?" Said by the voice and this time, they saw some tiny thing that was flying around them, and Arthur came to face to face with that small thing.

"We are the protectors of this place," The tiny thing said and he was even crossing his arms while he was grimacing at him.

"Yeah, if you have any bad intentions on this place, then you must leave, Hmpp" Said by another one but this time it was a girl who was making faces at them.

"Am I seeing things?" Hernand was the one to broke the silence between him and Arthur who was also in shocked to what they were seeing.

"Eraya, Enui, " They heard some old voice said as and the two thing which they assume were fairies flies to where it is.

"Elder Elida" The two greeted politely as Arthur and Hernand can hear from them.

"Catanya’s daughter is here again," They heard someone said and when they looked they saw an old fairy who was flying above his head.

"You know my wife?" Arthur asked as he looked at the old fairy.

"Catanya was also same as us in same sense, only she was a human that was blessed by our goddess," The Elder fairy said and she went near Acantha.

"She has no heart-beat, but she is still not yet dead, quick bring her here," The Elder fairy said as she fly .

Arthur and Hernand followed her while, Arthur was carrying Acantha who was still not breathing.

They walk and walked until they reached something, there they saw a lake, and there was a cave near the lake.

The elder fairy entered at the cave and there they reached the center of the forest, and Arthur and Hernand can’t believe that what they are seeing right now was real.

"Put her. here" The Elder fairy said as she pointed where the beast where lying and sleeping.

Arthur saw how the Elder fairy took a knife and was about to slice his daughter’s palm when-