Chapter 116 - The Half Soul

"What is this aura? It is completely different from earlier! She isn't even a mage but, how can she draw out so much power?" Cecelia was left stunned and frightened under the pressure Helvi created.

"I said I was thankful for everything you did for me, I truly was, but don't misunderstand I did everything to be saved by someone, everything I did so far was to protect Melvi, and if anybody wants to take her away from me, I won't reconsider to kill anyone who will stand in my way." 

As she spoke Helvi walked to Cecelia and In mere seconds she disappeared from her sight and stood in front of Cecelia with her index finger on her forehead.

'How did she-

I lost her sight in a flash…

I want to move my body but I have this feeling, 

One wrong move and I am dead…' Cecelia was trembling with her mind in turmoil, she wasn't even batting her eyes, in fear once she blinked it all would be over.

"Enough you both!" Appearing out of nowhere, Lele grabbed Helvi's wrist, 

Both Cecelia and Helvi were too shocked to see her this close, without even noticing her presence.

Helvi jerked her wrist and took a step back, 

"Grandma Lele, please-"

"Don't talk now, your ridiculous aura already gave out your location, villagers are coming after you, they don't know about the situation so hide for now." She threw a concealing orb at her, and Helvi realized that the villagers were close by, 

There wasn't any escape, either it was fight or hide.

She galloped on the tree-high branches and concealed her presence there.

The villagers arrived after a short while, it was only the guard group of the village, fully armed and filled with blood lust, but as they saw Ceceli and Lele they calmed down.

"Grandma Lele, Cecelia, what are you doing here?" The guard chief walked up to Lele withdrawing his dagger.

Lele put a piece of cloth off Cecelia's face and wiped it, she was covered in sweat and sighed, 

"We were just doing some training, it was a fluke of the Cecelia spell I was teaching her, don't worry. " 

"I see, I apologize for the disturbance. Actually, it was quite different from the aura Cecelia emits when she uses her mana, not just her, it was completely different from everyone in our village, so we were just being cautious."

"Didn't you feel that? it clearly belonged to a dark elf!"

"Yes! You are right it was a dark elf, guess it changed with the spell you were teaching her?" 

"Bingo! Now I know why they call you the supreme guardian of the village!" Lele clapped with an impressed look.

"Hmmm! I didn't know they called me by such a name! But I don't think they are wrong, well I am all for my people you know! Hahaha!" Chief started blushing and laughing proudly with a wide grin.

"Yes! Yes! I wish I had a grandson as strong as you!" Lele chucked,

"Well then! Let's go for the hunt! The supreme guardian will catch the 16 horned deer for the village! And grandma Lele, I'll especially save the liver for you!" The chief rubbed his nose in pride, all the members in his group looked at him while holding their laugh in.

"Get me it's antler if you find one." Lele waved at them and leaped back into the forest and Helvi waited until their mana completely disappeared.

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"So, people call me the Supreme Guardian! Hehe, I can't stop smiling!"  Chief was all smug,

"Nobody calls you that! If that was true you would've lost your virginity by now." A female of their team couldn't bear any more of his cringe smile.

"Shut up!"

"By the way, chief-" a guy on his left spoke,

"Yeah I know, she is hiding something, she knows too that we know, but it is also one of the rules of the village, we don't question our elders, moreover a big that supreme guardian thing, I am so happy because it was the grandma Lele who lied!" 

Chief chuckled and they dove deeper into the forest.

"Come out, Helvi, they are gone!" Lele shouted and Helvi jumped down from the tree, 

"Why are you helping us?" Helvi couldn't draw out her hostility toward her, she took her step back with tear-filled eyes.

"Save talk for later! That kid, she is still sick, looking at her mana essence, she is currently going through soul fission!" Lele pointed at Melvi, 

Helvi panicked and checked her temperature again, Melvi was burning up, her face and neck completely turned red and she carried impatience in her breathing.

"Melvi! Get hold of yourself! Melvi, open your eyes." Helvi suddenly broke into anxiety and was terrified, she started pouring out water on the cloth and putting it on her head.

"Calm down Helvi! She isn't going to die yet! Take her to the house, I'll treat her." Lele touched her forehead and gazed at Helvi's anxious face.

"What are you saying, grandma! Why are you offering help to her! She has the blood of those filthy humans running through her veins! Why are you-"

"Enough! Don't you dare speak ill for them! You-

No, all of us are the biggest reason for their such miserable state! If you want to help me and them, then only call me grandma if not, don't make me feel any more guilty."

Lele turned her back to Cecelia and Helvi just stared at her thinking what did she mean by that they were the reason for their condition.

"Hurry up, Helvi! I told you it is not that serious but it will be after a few hours." 

Helvi flinched and looked at Cecelia who was crying, biting her lips and clenching her fist. Cecelia suddenly marched at Helvi and carried her on her back.

"Don't get me wrong, I am doing this only because of grandma!" She gently put her on her back and felt a strange feeling of intimacy with her.

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Shortly after they reached Lele's house, Cecelia laid Melvi to bed, she took some books out of her shelf, she started going through page to page until she found what she was seeking for.

"That's it! But I guess it will be a bit tough!"

Lele walked to Melvi, she lay on the table while Helvi was changing her cold strip continuously, while Cecelia was standing beside her, she looked at her and felt a bit anxious for her.

"Alright, both of you get away from her, let me start the sealing ritual!"

"Sealing ritual? Why?" 

"It is the only way, currently her body is too frail and weak, to handle and infuse two different mana souls."

"Two different mana souls? What do you mean?"

"Every creature on this earth is born with a soul. When a capable and strong soul starts vibrating and infusing with the mana around the Earth, it starts resonating mana in the body creating a strong loop of mana which results in energy radiation which is called mana circulation.

Each race on earth has a construction of soul that resembles their respective race, humans, elves, beastmen, demons, dwarfs, all have different constructions.

Just like what you call that in the language of Science, DNA."

Helvi and Cecelia listen to her with keen interest, and Lele opened and showed a book page to them, 

"Look here, if the soul and mana radiation of one race soul resonate opposite to another race soul's, then a mixed-race or what we call a hybrid is impossible to create."

Helvi and Cecilia gasped, it was nothing like they heard, the complexity behind soul and magic.

"Even if you create an offspring, it will be either completely dominated by the soul construction of the strongest parent, but if the difference between their power or somehow the child soul forcibly starts infusing both powers, it will result in soul decomposition, complete evaluation of the whole soul before birth.

That's why there are not many hybrids of strong races, like beastkin and Elves, both of them have completely opposite constructions."

Cecelia was stunned to speak, she realized what Lele was saying,

"So, Grandma what you are saying is that Melvi is half-"

"Yes! Melvi is the first Demi human with Dark elf blood in her."

Cecelia looked at Helvi, with disbelief.

"How is this possible?"

"We'll get to it later! Now if you don't mind, if you don't help this kid, her soul will tear apart leaving a shredded body behind, I need to seal her dominant soul fraction now."

"It's impossible! Soul manipulation is legendary magic! Nobody in the history of the earth has been to use it, it is just an inspiring lure for mages to death, who have spent thousands of years for naught! And you say you'll be able to do it?"

"Not me girl! A few years ago, there came an interesting girl to be searching for Elven blood she sneaked to our village and into my house as it was her playground, she wanted something from me, some information about the legend only known to us Dark elves, 

She gave me this book, she just threw it on the table as the price, she said she wrote it and now she doesn't have any use of it, in that book it was there the fraction soul sealing ritual,

It was no ordinary girl. When I asked her name I felt the shiver down my spine, she was the witch nobody believed who really existed, The Ralkier!"