Chapter 1016: The Queen's Lament

Chapter 1016: The Queen's Lament



The darkness didn't last long for Jin-Sil, whose eyes fluttered open to the deafening roar of flames and the almost blistering heat they shed as a torrent of fire ate away at a nearby wall.

The roar of flames was only drowned out occasionally by the clap of thunder and explosions in the opposite direction.

It took Jin-Sil a second to adjust to this sudden cacophony, wincing as the sound threatened to blow her eardrums out with every thunderclap.

"I can't hold the wall much longer!" Ri-Chu's voice entered her ears.

"The cave isn't large enough for a brawl of this magnitude! Hold it as long as you can, Rì- Chū!" Kary replied to him.

Jin-Sil looked around, noticing Cory at her side but looking away from her and everyone on high alert.

She saw their front liners taking care of breaching kobolds, heard the loud thud of something smashing against the stone her lover was trying to maintain, and the noisy din of the rest of them trying to chip away at the cavern's walls.

No one even noticed she had sat up at the end of the cave, as they were too busy with the impending threat and their tasks to look behind themselves. Even Cory, who was closest to her, was too busy making sure nothing came to harm her, and no one came close to dying.

On the ground at her side, Jin-Sil saw the bow she'd been using had been laid there, awaiting her awakening. She reached out her hand to grab it, hoping to start helping her friends, when a voice spoke in her mind, almost making her yelp in surprise.

'Why would you use such an inferior weapon, mistress?'

The voice sounded slightly like the harpy queen's, only softer and clearer, almost as if it were younger and unhurt.

'Why am I still hearing her voice?' Jin-Sil thought, confused.

And apparently, the voice heard that because it replied.

"You can't hide forever, tiny humans. Now you feed the army of the great one," it grumbled in its hollow voice, which shook the walls themselves in its low tremble.

But before it could even move, a whistle flew by its face, resembling a tune of a few notes, before a gust of wind followed.

A single phrase escaped Jin-Sil's lips from the back of the cave, with no one aside from Cory hearing the words.

"Queen's Lament; Song of Pain."

As she unleashed a single arrow, which made the tune everyone heard, time seemed to freeze for Jin-Sil as the mana in her body surged forward, creating a gust of wind in proportions she had never seen, aside from Jonathan's magic.

Every enemy stood still in that gust of wind, as her mind felt like it was flowing outside her body, following the wind.

She felt herself flow forward, passing by each enemy, and instinctively lashing at them with her bow now in sword form before the wind split at the tunnel wall.

Her body went one way, and with every enemy she flew by, a single sword slash followed; Jin- Sil reconnecting the swords between each slash and firing an arrow made of pure wind in the other direction, clipping kobolds on the other side of the cavern entrance.

Everything happened too fast for her mind to process, her body moving on its own under the guidance of the weapon's mind, and before she knew it, she was past the horde of kobolds on the left, and her mind snapped back to her body.

The gust of wind howled for three seconds, and with it, a surge of mana that everyone in the cavern could retrace to behind them.

When the gust vanished, the tune disappearing along with it, wails of pain erupted, along with the unmistakable thud of bodies hitting the ground.

Jin-Sil hadn't been precise in her cuts since she lacked proper blade training. But her attack

had, without a doubt, killed a few enemies.

"Woah..." she said, looking down at the bow with shaking hands.

'This much power with a single skill...'