Chapter 57: The Awakening

Helena heard that voice that shouted in rage that she should stop.

She knew that this was Jennifer's mom.

However, she damned the consequences of whatever might happen as a result of her action and placed the leg she lifted on Jennifer's head.

All of a sudden, a powerful magical attack that would definitely reduce Helena to hundreds of bit suddenly shot from somewhere in the air towards her.

But before the attack could get to her and destroy her, someone suddenly appeared at her front and used a staff that she wielded to smash at the beam of magical energy that was fired at Helena.

Bang!

Immediately the staff which glowed and pulsed with tremendous power collided with the beam, a deafening bang sound rang out and the beam shattered into pieces.

The woman who had appeared before Helena wasn't even shaken by the tyrannical waves that were suddenly released from the explosion of the magical energy beam at a very close range, likewise the powerful thick barrier she abruptly generated to protect Helena from the slaughtering kinetic waves that had surfaced and seemingly swept out with a boundless burning rage.

"Anissa, what's the meaning of this?" The senior spell instructor, Amber, questioned with anger in her tone.

"Amber, I believe you saw what she did? How dare she place her foot on my daughter's head. I even told her with a booming voice to stop, but she disobeyed my order and went ahead to do what she did. This girl you people call the Chosen One deserves to be punished by having her legs cut off. Or better, killed. We can't produce a defiant in here that would cause a rebellion. As I am looking at her, I can see that the future of this place is dark and gloomy. We need to eradicate her very quickly, or there would be an uprising that would shake all of us in the future." Anissa unexpectedly said.

Helena looked at her in great shock.

Then she looked from her at Jennifer who had the print of the sole of her boot plastered on her face.

It was now she that identified her true enemies in this place.

"If I didn't appear on time to block the instant-killing attack that you sent at Helena and was eventually killed by it, what do you think Olivia, the Master of the Great Sisterhood would do to you?" Amber asked.

"Nothing of course. I would explain the terrible thing that she did and be pardoned. This girl deserves nothing but death. She is someone that would drag many of us to our miserable death. I see nothing but an unbounded sorrowful aura emitting from her body which she would encompass our very bodies and souls with." Anissa said, not cautioning the way that she talked.

Amber looked at Anissa and couldn't understand where all the hate for Helena was coming from?

"What did this girl do to you that you don't want her existence? I don't understand. You mind explaining to me why you want her death?" Amber asked.

"Amber, didn't you see what this girl did. She tried to kill my daughter. How dare she unleash a killing attack at my daughter. If she can raise her hands to produce deadly magical attacks at her opponents in a friendly battle, then she is not someone that her existence should be tolerated. She must be killed without pity" Anissa said.

"Bullshit!" Amber said out loud.

"Everything you just told me is bullshit. You said Helena raised her hand to generate a powerful magical attack that would kill your daughter. But who started it first? It was your daughter, Jennifer, that initiated the whole killing magical spell attack thing. So, what your daughter did, to take another person's life in a simple duel, is okay in your eyes right?" Amber asked.

"Of course it's okay. She wasn't going to harm this demonic girl. It was this demonic girl that instead wanted to kill my beautiful daughter for me. Ask her why she unleashed a powerful, annihilating magical strike at my daughter. She simply wanted to kill her" Anissa said.

Amber shook her head.

"Anissa, I don't need to demand for any answer from Helena. You of all people should be able to understand why she did that. Therefore, I would ask you the question you told to me ask Helena. If an opponent sent out a killing magical attack at you, what do you respond with? A full-powered normal magical attack, or a high-level killing magical attack?" She asked, gazing chillingly at Anissa.

Mtcheew!

Anissa gave a mtcheew.

Then she picked up Jennifer's badly damaged body from the ground and flew away to her residence.

When she flew away, Amber turned to looked at Helena with a beautiful, heart-warming smile in her face.

"That was an enjoyable battle you had back there. And I loved it that you were ruthless. You didn't hold back. You immediately dished out a stronger killing attack when you noticed the killing power of Jennifer's magical attack. I simply loved it." She said.

However, her gaze turned serious in the next instant.

"Although you have successfully kept your ninety-ninth room for yourself, you have made two new enemies in this place. You should always be on the look out. Never go anywhere isolated and silent alone. If you must do, go with someone or a group of people. However, I would also keep an eye out on every of their actions. I would be monitoring them so they wouldn't harm you." Amber said.

Then she produced something which she gave to Helena.

"Here's a beaded magical distress bracelet. If you ever feel that you are in danger, just crush one of the beads of the bracelet. I would be magically alerted wherever I am that you are in danger. I invented it myself to give to my favorite students with the intention of immediately going to their rescue if their life's were ever endangered." Amber said with a smile.

Helena's eyes glittered beautifully.

She knew that meant.

She quickly accepted the bracelet from Amber and said in a polite and grateful tone" Thank you ma'am"

Amber laughed.

"It's okay, Helena. Just try to keep yourself safe. And make sure to act on my advice." She said and teleported away in an instant.

Helena nodded her head.

"I will try my best to keep myself safe ma'am" she said.

Then she wore the bracelet and went to her room.

Immediately after arriving at her room, she lied in her bed and deeply exhaled.

"What a battle. It was very fulfilling. That's my first time fighting a battle without my super-powering Hrithika form. I need more fulfilling battles like that so I can quickly grow strong. Just this battle that I fought and I can feel my battle prowess increasing by leaps." Helena said.

Then her eyes shone sharply.

Instantly, she got off her large bed and began to do squats.

And after doing squats ten times, she counted it as 'One'

Helena really meant business now.

The battle she fought some moments ago had awakened an extremely rare spirit in her that would make her thirst for more strength, glory, honor and ultimately, the power to dominate all.

She had awakened a 'Spirit of Universal Conquest', or as referred to by the Elite-rank Spellcasters, the 'True Cosmic Domination Spirit'.

This was a higher dimension of power for Helena which would increase her entire abilities; physical, mental and magical abilities, to shocking, unimaginable levels.

However, this spirit that had emerged within her was only at the nascent stage (birth stage).

But still, Helena who didn't know what she had awakened could feel some mysterious power moving in her body.

It coursed through her veins and kept pushing her to do things even if she wanted to give up on those things that she was doing.

After surprisingly doing up to forty squats which she counted as four. She decided to stop due to the weakness and fatigue that had embraced her two legs.

However, a voice which was both compelling and persuasive at the same time suddenly surfaced in her head and told her not to give up.

'You can do it. Just keep going' The sweet otherworldly voice gently whispered in her head.

While Helena who couldn't resist the intoxicating and wonderful voice that invoked a good sensation in her body anytime it spoke, found herself lowering her body into a squat again, before raising her body to stand straight.

So, just like that, she resumed her squats.

But she felt pain,

A burning pain,

An intense burning pain that flooded the entirety of her legs.

But under the influence of that sweet and gentle, irresistible persuasive voice, she couldn't stop.

She continued to do her squats until she blanked out and collapsed to the ground.

***

"Daughter, how do you feel now?" Jennifer's mother, Anissa, asked Jennifer who was on her bed.

"Mother, I am fine." Jennifer said.

At the moment, all her broken bones had healed.

They had been healed by her mother who used magical healing spells on her.

Jennifer then remembered what happened in the next instant.

"Mom, what about that little bitch? Did I beat her? Is she now missing a leg and a hand, and probably part of her face?" She asked many questions all at once with arrogance and pride in her tone.

"Daughter, you did very well. But you actually lost. Anyways, let's not discuss about that. What I want to tell you is that, she who loses a fight and never returns to it to bring down the opponent that shoved her to the ground is a coward. Now, what I mean is that, you would totally segregate yourself to study, comprehend and master many powerful battle magics in seclusion. And after you have reached a level of grand perfection and mastery, a stage where you can now unleash dozens of powerful magical attacks by just thinking about it, you would go out there to meet that girl that is referred to as the 'Unfortunate One' and bring her to bow before you as her master. You would ridicule that thing and prove to the whole world why she is truly an 'Unfortunate One'." Jennifer's mother, Anissa, said.

Jennifer who became sad, empty and morose when her mother said that she had actually lost the battle she had with Helena, had her eyes which was previously filled with unbounded happiness, begin to burn brightly once again with a fathomlessly unyielding resolve to cut down every obstacles in her path and crush them to bits.

"Helena, I hope that you are preparing for me. For I am coming at you once again. And this time, you would surely bow before me and praise me as your Master. You would lick my feet happily and beg with endless tears that I use your head as my stood. Bitch!"