Chapter 177 - XIV Other Side Of The Coin

"I understand now, so you cast this ultimate spell of yours to track find Old Elijah but you ended up appearing here."   

"Yes, but this body is not real, it is just a manifestation of energy of my physical form. Right now, my universe is being destroyed and I just used the little I had left. I don't have much time, so you need to see this first." Moving her hand, Three portraits, each portraying a different person. The first was an female with valiant looking face, short vermilion hair and a pair of bright eyes.

The second was a female with a beauty out of any mortal being, capable taking the souls of those who looked at her for too long, with a long black hair falling over her shoulder She watched the sunset with a lonely look. The third was the most ordinary woman possible, she could have been seen as pretty in the eyes of mortals but this is it. The only thing different about her was a distinction elegance that could be felt even if it was just a portrait.

"What is this?"

"I don't know. Like I can see images of things in my head, it is an innate ability of mine. I've been hiding my identity before my father as it could bring some trouble as he always believed I was dead. The only things I know is that the figures in these three portrait will have important roles in your story. I only know one of the three females that is my mother, the one in the third picture so you will have to find out who was the first two by yourself."

"I already know" Elijah replied. Of course he knew who the females in the first two portraits are. The first was different but he could easily tell it was Chloe or Eir, the goddess of healing. The second was Shadow or Yawen. It was obvious those two would have a deep fate with him, but what surprised him was that Aina was also among them. If it's so, then she should have the same amount of fate as the previous two. Also it was really difficult to believe someone who appeared out of nowhere, he could not blindly trust a person just because it is his daughter. 

"Claire, come closer. I want to try something." Calling Claire over, Elijah closed his eyes as he put his hand over her head.

"Tiem!" A ray of light surrounded the two as billions of images per second surfaced on his mind. From the moment of birth to time they lived together in that village, planting and harvesting together. Playing hide and seek in the woods while Aina prepared dinner. For many years, they led a simple life but it was full of warmth. Tears flowed down Elijah's face as he saw his daughter's growing until the day everything changed.

A group of black-robed man followed by strange looking monsters captured her and her brother while they played in the woods. The other kids and villagers were also taken away and replaced leaving only Elijah and Aina.

After that, Elijah didn't saw much but he already knew what happened latter. The person who taken his children was Aina's grandfather, the leader of Cosmos in his planet and a powerful Fallen Saint. Without knowing the destiny of her father, Claire who was discovered to have impressive talent and the unique Space-Time Spirit Body.

With the passage of time, people realized her talent was much scarier than what they first thought. With fifteen, she reached the peak of the Spiritual Foundation without any external help and one week before she turned sixteen, Claire advanced to the Spiritual Calling Realm and summoned her Spirit Beast for the first time. An Arcane Beast Space-time, a powerful beast that would grow to reach the apex of Divine Beasts. Space-time Arcane Beasts could have countless different forms, the one she summoned was the Space-time Arcane Eagle.

Since then, she was considered as the future of the organization but because of her origins and the fact they were responsible for the death of her parents, they had to hid this fact from her in the matter while facing the risk of being betrayed when the truth was revealed. One day, the other members of Cosmos voted to hold the ancestral baptism, a ritual that can only be held during an eclipse to erase all her memories of her parents and place a seed of loyalty in her soul.

Fortunately, she was smart enough to see that there was something wrong with her grandfather who never let her out of the palace while he seemed to hide something. Unlike her brother who was a simple person without much care about things like that as Cosmos let him live like he wanted as he didn't hold any value to them other than being Claire's brother, Claire always suspected those people had made something with her parents and stood alert at all times.

On the day of the ritual, Claire escorted her brother while everyone prepared the ritual outside the palace and then returned to her personal chambers where she took a jewelry box from under her bed and upon opening, a light-blue crystal with the size of a hand was revealed under a thin membrane of energy and a thin spatial ring.

"Sis, why did you bring me here? I thought grandpa was preparing a feast for you." The little boy behind her asked with a shy and uncertain voice. His sister's change really scared him. Right now, her body radiating with a ferocity he never felt before. 

"Henry, you shouldn't hear what that man says. Now listen, take it with you. I have prepared a teleport crystal with a range of over a hundred thousand miles and a space ring full of everything you might need. Break the crystal and you will be teleported to far away, go the one of the most distant islands and make sure no one discovers your identity."

"Wait sis, why are you telling me this now?" Tears flowed down his eyes as Henry realized that maybe this could be the very last time he would see his sister face.

"I also prepared one special life growing technique for you with enough potions and herbs to help you live for over five hundred years, so maybe we will have the chance to see each other again. I'm going now. You don't know how sorry I am to do this but no matter what happens, you must never return. You heard me, never!